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Not on my tablet. My desktop, yes, but I rarely post from there.

Touche. (I know there's supposed to be an accent mark, but an accented e is not an option my keyboard offers me.)

Now you're just getting ridiculous, Mr. Smith.

Methinks Thelma needs more help than a light. Glasses, maybe?

I assume the stock market crash to which you refer is the one that occurred in 1929. If I am right about that, the subtext here is that some of these standards are stuck in the long ago past. Names like "dress circle" are historical artifacts we don't have to live up to if we don't want. Live and let live, I say. Quite a pleasant voice. Sometimes his vibrato seemed a little wobbly, and he seemed to be holding back, but that makes sense for a dress rehearsal. He is super hunky, though!

Without perusing everything posted here in the last couple of days, though I've read some of it, may I add a plea for forbearance and tolerance? (Which it feels like I've done a lot of lately.) It's great to dress up for the opera and treat it as a special occasion! But it's also great to like opera and go there regularly straight from work, or stretch one's budget to buy tickets, or want to be comfortable while enjoying opera. At the end of the day, it's about enjoying opera, not what one wears to attend a performance. (Or at least it should be.) Otherwise one risks suggesting that there's only one right way to enjoy opera, which risks turning off any new or younger attendees who are going to think, with some justification, that operagoers are a bunch of out-of-touch fuddy-duddies.

*pouts* So why didn't you say this of me? Just kidding, but there is a serious point underneath it all about how men's sexual adventuresomeness (is that a word?) has fewer social costs but is praised more.

My problem is the use of the word "into." Into Clinton where?

I'm not sure it's a contronym, but there's something wrong with that sentence.

Family scuttlebutt as I heard it said my grandmother was married to the son of the last ruler of Korea, which would make him the father of the aunt who ran off with another man, leaving her husband and sons behind. What little research I've done doesn't back this up, but it seems pretty clear that before she and her baby daughter landed in San Francisco, she had been part of the privileged class in Seoul and had been permanently scarred psychologically by the Japanese annexation of her country. Coming here and marrying an irascible, perfectionistic vegetable farmer from Busan must have been a disorienting experience, but it was one she endured with grace, from all I heard. She died before I was born from complications of surgery as a result of undiagnosed diabetes. The family did not tell my father, who was in Europe with the Army Air Force, about his mother's death until he was discharged. He was not pleased about that. I won't go into the Infant of Prague figure my mother's sister (the one who had a child out of wedlock) had, but while there was an obvious rivalry between her and my mother (my aunt was prettier and more delicate-looking, but my mom had the standout figure), I later discovered that my aunt, while neurotic, was not as ditzy as I'd always thought she was. I always wondered why she never had another child, what her relationship with her husband (not the guy who impregnated her) was like, and why they married in the first place.

Entirely understandable.

*points upward to tight pants photos* which I found on threads started by women. We are less different than people think (other than women uniformly don't want unsolicited dick pics). You are all as free to dream about Suga's tongue technology sending you to Hong Kong (colloquial Korean for "a damn fine orgasm") as I am to dream about the same thing. Some evidence suggests he may be equally amenable to either and even if not, he's fine with people engaging with his music however they want, as long as they don't stalk him.

It's fine. I come from the "speak your mind effectively" wing of Korean thinking. My favorite aunt (my dad was the only boy in a large family, even I feel a little sorry for him) was very political and left-wing, used to work in art gallery and was an interior decorator back in the day when she was still married. I also come by my sexual rebellion/subversiveness honestly. One aunt left her husband and sons for another man. One aunt who was divorced probably had an affair w/her married co-worker, known to me as "Uncle Who?" (Name was actually John.) Another aunt had an affair w/co-worker while still married, wound up in mental institution due to breakdown. That's the Korean/paternal side of the family. My mother gave my father Playboy calendars, bought and displayed a non-explicit pastel of a nude woman in the living room. Her sister had a child out of wedlock whose father was a student at local college. Her parents adopted him; for the longest time I didn't realize he was a blood relative. Legally my uncle, biologically my cousin. He was the one who suggested my name. I have a weird and confusing family tree.

So did the Filipinos (at least four I can think of) with whom my daughter went to school, three of them starting in kindergarten. One of them was part of the school group with which my daughter went to China at end of her junior year of high school, although I think the Chinese students weren't sure what to make of her.

You're welcome! Will it weird you out if I say part of the attraction is he reminds me of my aunts, all of whom had round faces like him and all of whom are equally as allergic to BS? (He also reminds me of me a lot personality-wise.) He combines androgynous, almost pretty looks with swag, fierceness, and a unique but also spitfire form of rap that is the antithesis of feminine. As he says, male or female, he'll turn his listeners on with his tongue technology. "Turn on" is actually a euphemism for making someone come hard. Suga got tired of continually having to dye his hair to keep the roots from showing, so he may stick with his original color for awhile after cycling through red, orange, pink, mint green, blond and silver. As he put it when fans asked why he dyed his hair black again, "Do I really have to explain?" (He didn't.)

B.D. Wong used to show up for casting calls for all-American types. Mexico is part of North America, and if this guy's Mexican-American, he can be both. I admire his chutzpah and redefining things to shake people up (if that's the reason), but as I say, he also looks like he could use a good meal. Otherwise his skinny physique doesn't phase me.

Realized that when switching from my tablet to my desktop, I skipped some important photos. Suga on the right; V (Kim Taehyung) on the left. http://68.media.tumblr.com/caef6f33fec8e85488e5df03eae0abcc/tumblr_inline_o79lhyfB0J1spasvi_500.jpg #SugaBulge He also admitted -- on camera -- to stealing and wearing another group member's underwear (the victim's comment: "You know I hate sharing clothes") and that he didn't return them because they had holes in them (the implication being that he stretched them out). Umm. Yeah, okay, Yoongi. Whatever you say.

Suga (birthname Min Yoongi, also known as Agust D) of Kpop group BTS: http://i.imgur.com/rsb5ucC.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/q9B9GMg.jpg?1 (The cat ears and choker with bell were a gift from the fan in the photo.) http://images.newseveryday.com/data/images/full/43238/bts-suga.jpg http://img08.deviantart.net/7c2b/i/2016/122/d/0/bts___fire_suga_render_by_exotic_deer-da11cf9.png Yes, I am, as they say, Suga trash! He is also hugely talented as a rapper, lyricist, composer, producer and instrumentalist (piano/keyboards) and is the most openly defiant of authority of anyone in the group. He's also the second oldest at age 23 (birthday March 9, 1993).

Hmm. I prefer more open-ended definitions of such things myslf and have no quarrel with androgyny, but that one photo makes him look anorexic.

Asians and Pacific Islanders generally consider themselves the same interest group in the US. (We can argue over the correct classification of Filipinos, but the ones I know consider themselves Asian, not Pacific Islanders.) When I went to law school, I was a member of the [name of school] Asian-American Law Students Association; it is now the [name of school] Asian-American and Pacific Islander Law Students Association.

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There was no public knowledge of her illness. I don't watch PBS News Hour, so my main exposure to her has been election night reporting, but there was an outcry from Twitter friends who watch. As one of them said, she departed at a time when we need voices and reporters like her.

No, he doesn't have to. *sighs* I even said so. You told him it didn't matter because the commuter tax had been repealed. It hasn't, but it's still irrelevant.

If you don't work in NYC, NYC tax irrelevant. Sorry, @Zman, the NYC commuter tax lives. https://www.tax.ny.gov/pit/file/nonresidents.htm Point of applying it to non-residents who work in the city is that they use city services and it's unfair to apply it to city residents only. Plus it would be a huge revenue loss. Every state taxes non-residents on income earned in the state. Believe that is the case w/all cities with income tax too. It's a basic principle of tax law/policy.