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It's not me pretending to be hip with the kids.
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How ‘sexiest’ label has backfired on soccer player Ana Maria Markovic
Although soccer pro Ana Maria Markovic is grateful for the positive press she’s received, there’s one adjective she isn’t exactly fond of.
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Rural America Reels From Violent Crime. ‘People Lost Their Ever-Lovin’ Minds.’
Murder rates didn’t soar only in cities during the pandemic. Homicide rates in rural America rose 25% in 2020, the largest rural increase since the CDC began tracking such data in 1999. Small-town sheriffs and prosecutors are overwhelmed with homicide cases.
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Not that ‘good’ of an article, but you lot were arguing about this topic recently:
time.com
Juneteenth Is Now a National Holiday. Are Reparations Next?
The drumbeat for reparations for Black Americans is sounding again, perhaps louder than ever before
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The New York Post is a not my usual source of news and this article is 2017. But it reckons that most if the dancers on the famous American TV dance competition show, both the girls and the boys, were gay and that it had to be a well-kept secret. An interesting story I think.
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Was it though?
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According to the NYP yes. Dick Clark knew but American parents didn't.
Btw, the video clip there shows a mixed race audience but black dancers came a bit later.
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I don't know. I think that's one of those willfully ignorant things. Everyone knew a lot of Hollywood people at the time were gay too but pretended they weren't, like Anthony Perkins and such.
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Possibly, yes.
But that aside, I find these Bandstand YouTube videos fascinating. The prizes and the ads and the method of voting. And Dick Clark was a star.
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I don’t think there are many male dancers who are straight in this culture. And I imagine the stigma would only have been worse back then.
I keep encouraging my 12yo some to take some dance classes, because women appreciate someone who can dance and some day he will value the fact he is surrounded by fit girls. But, of course, he won’t step out of his martial arts and fencing lane.
I keep encouraging my 12yo some to take some dance classes, because women appreciate someone who can dance and some day he will value the fact he is surrounded by fit girls. But, of course, he won’t step out of his martial arts and fencing lane.
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Aged 11 at school a weekly lesson was ballroom dancing. As it was an all boys school that meant dancing the waltz with another boy.
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Same at my all boys school, but aged 14 we had to do either table etiquette or dancing. We all left knowing our teaspoons and soup spoons apart, with two left feet!
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We had etiquette, too. But it was compulsory as was ballroom dancing.
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Wow. You blokes must have gone to some hoity toity schools.
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right? table etiquette? these damn british satrapies creating fancy little lads.
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Yes. And trousers had to be properly ironed and creased and shoes had to be shined. I think a Shooman genie must have been somewhere behind the scenes.
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For sure. I went to school with Stuart McGill, Heath Ledger and Tim Minchin. I sold drugs to them all.
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Hope they credited their success to you.
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Take your son to see a really good hiphop performance, the athleticism is amazing. I encouraged my son to take up drums, fencing and hiphop, it was a virtuous circle of timing and physicality. He was always one of the few boys who danced, surrounded by girls.
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A Serious Gas Leak Happens Every 40 Hours in the U.S.
More than 120 Americans have died from gas explosions in recent years, a new report finds.
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the chinese, once again leading the way.
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Mad Dog got hitched by Elvis. Thill a fucking legend!
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‘I said, Don, it’s time for you to reveal’: 50 years later, the truth behind American Pie
In an expansive new documentary, Don McLean talks about the much-discussed meaning of his enduring hit song
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Teenage Girls Serving in British Army Report Record Levels of Sexual Assault
VICE World News can reveal that a record number of teenagers have reported harassment – which are dismissed as “just banter” – even as the military tries to recruit more women.
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bunch of good lads
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America: the rot goes on
It’s been a while since I looked at one of the major reasons for the pervasive sense of rot about the US: the low level of investment—investment in real things, that is, not crypto. It’s barely kee…
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Get a hobby, they said …
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How to Befriend Crows and Turn Them Against Your Enemies
Revenge is a dish best served by a murder of crows.
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Candyland: The Secret Life of a Tokyo Coke Baron
As the Yakuza lose influence, foreign criminals are seizing the reins of the Japanese drug market. One of them spent a year telling us how he does it.
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Leading the whey: the synthetic milk startups shaking up the dairy industry
Lab-grown dairy products, touted as the environmentally friendly option, have the potential to become major disruptors
www.theguardian.com
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Among the Reality Entrepreneurs | The Point Magazine
If you wanted to know what was really going on, you had to get on Urbit.
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The workers leaving their dream jobs
It’s great to have a job you’re passionate about. But some workers are walking away from dream roles, in search of stability and security.
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Doing what you love for work is overrated. There is no shame in working to get paid and hopefully you get some of what you want on the side.
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Tour Amazon’s dream home, where every appliance is also a spy
Here’s everything Amazon learns about your family, your home and you
very interesting piece on all the spying amazon does on you via their devices.
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Wasn't Alexa used once in a criminal trial because the police were sure Amazon recorded incriminating conversations without the consent of the actual people?
I'm rather glad I gave away that Google device that some gave me as a gift. I do have a very old Kindle with a keyboard but I mainly use it to split a newspaper subscription with my father. Otherwise Amazon can always hit me up for more Victorian and Edwardian fiction that I might load from time to time.
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Black Death 700 years ago affects your health now
Mutations that saved lives from the plague are causing auto-immune diseases today.
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"The standout finding, published in the journal Nature, surrounded mutations in a gene called ERAP2.
If you had the right mutations you were 40% more likely to survive the plague.
The gene comes in different versions - those that work well and those that do nothing - and you get a copy from each parent.
So the lucky ones, who were most likely to survive, inherited a high-functioning version from mum and dad.
And the survivors had children and so passed those helpful mutations on so they suddenly became much more common."
Hurray Darwin!
"The problem is they have been linked to auto-immune diseases such as the inflammatory bowel disease Crohn's - what helped keep your ancestors alive 700 years ago but could be damaging your health today."
Bugger...
"The Covid pandemic will not leave a similar legacy though.
Evolution works through your ability to reproduce and pass on your genes. Covid largely kills the elderly who have already passed the point of having children."
Don't tell that to the long Covid people.
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Your Gas Stove Is Likely Leaking Cancer-Causing Benzene Into Your Home
Researchers found benzene levels comparable to those in secondhand smoke leaking from stoves in California.
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Yikes … but also: I’d hate to go back to an electric stove top.Your Gas Stove Is Likely Leaking Cancer-Causing Benzene Into Your Home
Researchers found benzene levels comparable to those in secondhand smoke leaking from stoves in California.
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Induction top. Gets just as hot as gas. California is banning gas stoves. Other states will soon follow.
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I have always cooked on electric or induction but I can't use the flame to roast eggplants or flambee.
I get enough benzene from the disinfectant products related to the virus.
I get enough benzene from the disinfectant products related to the virus.