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Brian and Tracey will be able to give lessons in how to run a multinational force...

This just confirms how very very much I want to see him in a black costume sometimes... pretty please???

To quote one of my TV character heroes (from an old TV series, who actually dresses worse than Yuzu)... "All knowledge is valuable"

I love how subtle they're not about making sure where you look first..... is it being filmed? Will we be able to get a download? Am I fretting madly?

We seek him here we seek him there, the fanyus seek him everywhere....

I'm fairly new, but from my reading, Yuzu actually was in the vanguard of the quad charge because it was a way to beat skaters than had no quads but at that time higher other marks? It's one of the things he's good at, taking what looks like minuses and turning them into winning points. I can't help thinking that he and his team are brilliant enough - both at skating and thinking it out - to work out precisely how to max out the benefits and minimise the drawbacks. Of course, no matter how they try and score the 4A he is going to do it, but it occurred to me that if doing it not-so-well is downgraded pointwise, maybe he'll be a tad more cautious and practice more before he tries it out on us (Maybe. This is Yuzu.) which would be good for his health and our sanity....

Sour grapes, can you taste them?

That doesn't surprise me (but at least I don't have to worry what my subconscous is thinking this time!!)

Mind you, had she googled, her breathless description of his beauty (which, as I mentioned before, I don't disagree with) might have been shaded by Memeface and Murderface... Don't mind me.

Can I ask something? I have this mental image (maybe I dreamed it, which is a worry) of a photo where Jason and Yuzuru had switched gala costumes - Jason in the pale blue flowered top is burned into my brain. Does anyone remember or have a copy of such a thing?

It does occur to me with the bonus question... if Yuzu did borrow Nathan's clothes, he'd also insist on blinging them up a (very large) trifle.... {my eyes!!!}

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I am now mentally picturing the dear boy's face if he was faced with weetbox and vegemite on toast first thing in the morning (or indeed anytime)

You could be right, my memory is somewhat dodgy at the best of times. Maybe someone else knows.

Another suggestion, given his penchant for swans.... Wild Swans by Australian composer Elena kats-Chernin. The most famous part of it, Eliza's Aria, mightn't fit for skating, but the opening (I hope you can see this on youtube) might be fabulous...

That brekkie makes my vegemite on toast and 2 cups of nescafe look sad.....

We have our priorities, we do. And after seeing what Shoma (or whoever clothes him) has just come up with, I am sort of on tenterhooks here. I like most of Yuzu's (so okay, I have a soft spot for sparkly bling) but there's no getting away from it, he has a gift for OTT-to-the-max when he tries...

I read somewhere (can someone confirm?) that when Johnny Weir was designing the Romeo&Juliet2(?) costumes for him, Johnny proposed what he thought was plenty of sparkly... and Yuzu insisted on more/bigger/shinier

Classically handsome is probably not the right term IMO (keeping in mind that it's wildly subjective - one of the skaters currently called 'one of the most handsome' I find absolutely repellent, and no I am not saying who!). Classically handsome is Javi or Guillaume Cizeron. Yuzu is definitely good-looking, and me, I do think he can be called bloody gorgeous (of course, large eyes in a triangular, almost kittenish face tends to do it for me anyway), but he has such a mobile face that he can look adorably cute, stunningly fierce, childishly fragile, dorkily goofy, nearly every adjective you can think of... and then utterly, breathtaking beautiful. And all in a flash of time, it seems sometimes. Certainly he is visually magnetic, the first time I saw a video with him in, there were at least 10-12 skaters in the frame and who did I stare right at? Yep. (Sorry for blathering, I was just harvesting some of the breathtaking ones and it inspired me...)

Was just listening to Jake Shimabukuro's While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Can I have that in my dreams? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puSkP3uym5k

And he so, so did....

Definitely. Actually, something by Einaudi would be sparkly enough...