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I have to think that access to a swimming pool plays a big factor. In big cities it’s difficult to impossible to find a public pool, especially in poor neighborhoods, whereas suburban kids like me had a number of options: the neighborhood community center, the local high school, and a public parks pool were low- or no-cost options. And if you’re a rich kid, you either have a pool in your backyard or plenty of your friends do.

When I was in Louisville for a night, I had to sample a bourbon drink for a bit of local flavor, so I ordered an old fashioned. Eek! It was the most awful drink I had ever tasted in my life!! Either I had a terrible bartender (it was a really touristy spot, probably my first mistake), or their well bourbon was rot-gut stuff. That was more than a decade ago, enough time for the trauma to pass. As soon as I get back to the US, I plan on trying Woodford Reserve, unless someone swears by a better bourbon.

Just googled it, in the US ~100 people per year die because of rip current drowning. Even strong swimmers drown in rip currents because they panic and try to swim against the current, which exhausts them so much they can’t swim back to shore. Panic plays a major factor in many drowning deaths, rip current or not. I learned how to swim in many summers of Red Cross swimming classes, but they never taught us how to stay calm and avoid panic. I learned how to deal with water emergencies only in a Boy Scout lifesaving merit badge course.

My mom got quite annoyed and felt very self-conscious when her feet and ankles started swelling. The doctor explained that it comes with age, there’s no cure, and treatment for the symptoms is limited — all of which she was quite unhappy to hear. For the longest time, she spent hours a day with her feet elevated and slept with her feet propped up, only to get disappointed to see her feet & ankles swell back up once she resumed a normal sitting or standing position. After 6 months or so, she finally accepted what the doctor had told her. So she’s still unhappy about it but acknowledges it’s hardly the end of the world.

I think the rule of thumb is that if you’re making an olive oil cake with a milder flavor, like orange or lemon, better to use EVOO because its fruity, slightly bitter flavor will complement the citrus note. But if you’re making a chocolate version, might as well use less expensive regular olive oil because the chocolate will overpower whatever subtle flavors of EVOO.

I don’t understand the mentality of “I like something, so I’m going to force other people to pay for it.” If you enjoy PBS and NPR, knock yourself out! watch and listen to your heart’s content! But you’ll have to pay for it yourself because it’s wrong to force other people who don’t like PBS and NPR to foot the bill.

Have to disagree … neither the government nor anyone else is silencing PBS & NPR. Both can continue broadcasting but will simply have to do so by switching to ad-based funding or by raising more private funding. Both options are viable. I doubt either PBS or NPR will disappear any time soon because both have a core of die-hard (and well-to-do) fans.

I checked the show’s ratings. After a dip a couple of years ago, ratings have rebounded and were actually improving slightly, no mean feat given that overall TV ratings continue to sink. I’m not familiar with CBS/Paramount’s recent actions. What’s been happening such that this move comes as no surprise?

I haven’t tried this recipe yet, mostly because I didn’t want to buy a huge bag of rolled oats, but it sounds amazing: King Arthur Baking’s crunchy granola

Well, I certainly hope it was just water, better that than the alternatives. After the lights came back up, I was looking all over for nozzles but couldn’t find one anywhere … ??

Thanks for that. It was almost worth sitting through that shitshow of a movie to be able to appreciate this “Recrap” review, funny stuff.

Wow, did I get a bargain. I also saw it in 4DX 3D, not because I wanted to see the movie (thanks to the reviews in this thread, I expected crap, and it was) but because I wanted the experience. Since I went on a half-price day, my ticket came out to just about $8! But movie tickets in general are cheaper in Buenos Aires. First, the movie itself: the script comes off like it was written by a 12yo, and not a particularly bright or creative one. Just as the plots of musicals are nothing but a premise to string together song & dance numbers, the Jurassic Rebirth script is simply a means to connect the action sequences. That might be enough for some viewers, but not for me. The CGI looked decent enough, not cheap but not exactly amazing either. I did like the 3 principal actors: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, and Mahershala Ali. They definitely deserve a movie more worthy of their talent. My crush on Jonathan Bailey burns brighter than ever. Even fully clothed, he’s still sexier than 99.9% of men in a jockstrap. With a body like that, it’s downright criminal that Ed Skrein didn’t shuck some clothing. When did big-budget Hollywood productions get so prudish? As for the 4D experience, it was all a bit gimmicky. I did appreciate the 3D, which looked a lot better than my only other 3D viewing experience, Thor back in 2011. I was a bit freaked out by the squirting water, since I didn’t see nozzles anywhere and certainly didn’t expect it. I thought the chair could have moved & shaken even more than it did, but perhaps they didn’t want to distract too much from the on-screen action. After a while, I kind of forgot about the chair-shaking. But at least my seat was comfy as hell. I can’t imagine paying $35 for the same experience, with a borderline painful seat to boot. 4D was fun to do once, but I doubt I’ll bother again. One thing for certain, I will never watch Jurassic Rebirth again, total dreck.

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Apparently it is still a thing, or rather it first started happening ~9 years ago, went away, and has recently reared its ugly head again …

Swiatek lost a grand total of 2 games in the semifinal and final combined, gotta be a record, but not one that anyone wants to watch.

I think people are surprised when they find out they’re mother-daughter because of the contrast between blonde bombshell Mansfield and dark brunette Hargitay. But if you focus on just their faces, the similarity is uncanny.

The biggest tournament of the tennis calendar deserves its own thread, don’tcha think? Second only to betting on the sun rising in the east, one could comfortably predict that Sinner, Alcaraz, and Djokovic would reach the semifinals, with the fourth spot fill-in-the-blank. Jannik might have been saved by the skin of his teeth, or rather by a tear in Dimitrov’s pectoral muscle, given that he was down 2 sets to love when Grigor had to retire with a heartbreaking injury. Both Carlos and Novak have lost sets along the way, but neither has ever been in serious risk of elimination. As a die-hard Novak fan, I would love to see him pull a rabbit out of a hat by upsetting the world #1 then the defending champion to win his 8th Wimbledon (tying Federer’s record) and 25th Slam (breaking his tie with Margaret Court), but that 1-2 combo is more like pulling a Volkswagen out of a hat. I'm predicting a hard-fought win for Sinner over Djoker, an easy win for Alcaraz over Taylor Fritz (who has improved a lot but not nearly enough to beat Carlos, especially on grass), then Carlos notching his 6th straight win over Jannik for his 3rd straight Wimbledon. But hey, to borrow from the immortal wisdom of Joaquín Andújar, you can sum up tennis in one word: “you never know”

Wow, you too?! I thought it was just me, from having watched too many Alien movies.

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LOL, spot on! I was so focused on their imitations of Americans that I didn’t notice how hot some, edit that, most of the guys are. Does Mr. Israel have an OnlyFans?

Uh mah gawd, like, do we really talk like this?

Better yet, go to Trader Joe’s, buy their 6-pack of hash browns, and toss them in the air fryer. They come out tasting just as good as McDonald’s but at 1/5 the price.

How much of our own spending can be criticized in the same vein? What I spent on escorts in the Philippines could have bought food for hundreds of hungry Filipinos. If anyone on this board criticized my escort splurge, I’d have a few choice words for that person. Leave Jeff Bezos alone. If all the attention he apparently seeks bothers you, ignore him. But just as I — and you and everyone else — have the right to spend our hard-earned money however we please, free of criticism, Jeff Bezos and the billionaire class do too.