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Let's not forget though, that he doesn't like pickles. Of course Pooh-san may.

I was so glad Donovan Carrillo was invited to skate at last 4CC gala, though he finished 15th. Indeed I found his gala program better than his SP and FS. I hope he can take a good summer camp. At 2015 GPF I think there were local skaters who were not competitors? And sometimes there are local synchro skaters.

About the 6) you may be right? But really I don't think one could be sure. 7) must really be a soup with cuttlefish or squid ink. I didn't find this one with sesame seed but there are plenty photos available without, such as the first one; if it is Japanese it may be more likely black curry, such as on the second photo? (Sorry I forgot to keep the sources, I can suppress the photos anytime.) For the 1), here is vitelotte potato : raw, boiled, and mashed. Boiled : ­©potatohouse.co.uk, mashed : ©unepalestinienneaparis.wordpress.com I don't pretend Satomi Ito used vitelotte potatoes to dye Origin costume; or comparing Yuzuru Hanyu to soups is a happy idea. Just a bit of happy nonsense for the drought, in my opinion.

She had three in her previous programs, though Solveig was but a sketch — not really her character.

A mushroom soup for "baby Yuzuru", what a great idea! And we know he loves tomato. Oh!

1) seems to be a vitelotte (purple) potato mash, so probably quite edible. 2) looks like a betroot velouté, betroot + whatever you want like (white) potato or rice flour or cream (for a cold soup) etc. I really don't think it is a bortsch, where part of the betroot is fermented (and even when I didn't like betroot, I loved a real bortsch). 3) appears to be red cabbage + fresh cheese (like cottage cheese), maybe something else white too. 4) I really really wonder. White dumplings or mozzarella? In what sort of "broth"? Not curação I hope? "The Sendai boy" said he was allergic to alcohol. 5) Radish, something white? For the decor, rapeseed oil and maybe beluga lentils? 6) resembles tzatziki. 7) maybe a soup coloured with cuttlefish ink? decored with sesame seeds. The only really suspicious to me is 4).

Healthcare is not the same in Japan and in Russia, and I am really sorry they cannot get care for instance in Germany like Aliyia Mustafina. Yet it seems they have been much better followed recently.

As I could not get it directly, here are the poem and the copyright mentions : Jabber-Whacky Or On Dreaming, After Falling Asleep Watching TV Isabelle Di Caprio 'Twas Brillo, and the G.E. Stoves, Did Procter-Gamble in the Glade; All Pillsbury were the Taystee loaves And in a Minute Maid. "Beware the Station-Break, my son, The voice that lulls, the ads that vex! Beware the Doctors Claim, and shun That horror called Brand-X!" He took his Q-Tip'd swab in hand; Long time the Tension Headache fought-- So Dristan he by a Mercury, And Bayer-break'd in thought. And as in Bufferin Gulf he stood The Station-Break, with Rise of Tame, Came Wisking through the Pride-hazed wood, And Creme-Rinsed as it came! Buy one! Buy two! We're almost through! The Q-Tip'd Dash went Spic and Span! He Tide Air-Wick, and with Bisquick Went Aero-Waxing Ban. "And hast thou Dreft the Station-Break? Ajax the Breck, Excedrin boy! Oh, Fab wash day, Cashmere Bouquet!" He Handi-Wrapped in Joy. 'Twas Brillo, and the G.E. Stoves Did Procter-Gamble in the Glade; All Pillsbury were the Taystee loaves, And in a Minute Maid. Published in the MAD Magazine paperback Good and MAD. © Copyright 1963, 1969 by E.C. Publications, Inc. The parody refers to a lot of products and brands advertised heavily at the time. Some of them aren't around anymore.

Sure he has less hair on his legs than a man I know, but given he doesn't seem to have any facial hair, I found his legs hair rather abundant. Edit : of course there is no hair where the boots rub.

For me too, though I never had any other "issue" than the stars (green on the messages, multicoloured on the head) which were more funny than problematic. Thank you for the update anyway!

I just had a stupid idea, but as I find it funny... Rika being, in Western countries, a nickname for Erika, she could "rename" herself Erika, so we could have the "three Es" competing against the "three As" (now maybe Alina, Alena and Anna, as Alexandra left the team, though certainly not the competition)?

I don't think Rika Kihira has been "pushed to the side". She was injured last year and had to avoid several jumps. I was really sorry not to see her, once recovered, at Worlds.

Yet Tracy Wilson will certainly teach her different things. I don't mean getting a better quality, I mean getting more variety.

For the linguistic aspect of the novels, you are right. But for the story... and I think Tolkien is "less untranslatable" than Jane Austen with her tight-knitted, made-to-measure-for-English-language-particularities, sentences. In Japanese I don't know, but I find Tolkien quite enjoyable in French (we have a very good translation, recognisable by the translation into French of some people's and places names). And I understand Yuzuru Hanyu has a very good mastery of the language. While I cannot see how to translate Jane Austen (repelled by available translations, I tried to translate a few paragraphs and really, I don't see how to tell all that in French, without long notes for most sentences). @Glory I bet he would be just as understanding of horses as of cats. And just as loved by them. Plus, sometimes when horses see some very special people, they can come to them spontaneously without knowing them. I wouldn't be surprised if Yuzuru Hanyu was one of them. Edit : I was quite long but I just noticed the symbol of the bow and arrows for him. ;-)

She may go there for Ghislain Briand's "biomechanics of the quadruple jump" but she may also go there to enrich her body language and skating skills with Tracy Wilson. Who, by the way, being better at PR than Brian Orser (how I like this "fail" in him though), may speak first? But I don't think they will give a special interview for Rika Kihira's move.

Showing he is a real elf prince. I wonder if he's read The Lord of the Rings, or Bilbo, or both? Even in Japanese.

Oh, thank you! My poor English again.

I suppose "half decently" is an understatement? His quad salchows are such a beauty. Even better than his quad toeloops. Only his triple axels are even more beautiful (and varied) but this is because he is the Axel king by his own right.

Just to try... Now it works!

Even... Well, maybe I'm lacking imagination. Jun Hwan Cha, yes of course (at his size...) but Nathan Chen?

Wow! That's news! And great news too. This is why she said so insistently she was working on her English, in her last confinement video. She may have had "private" information that English was a requisite to train at TCC... It will certainly be very good for Evgenia Medvedeva and Ekaterina Kurakova too, I agree. We may have three female swans in formation at some championships... (not 4CC or EC though, of course).

But just under a high voltage power line...

I really don't think Sweden will be a problem next March. Now, they did fail, because they didn't test massively and quarantine and cure people tested positively. Plus, they didn't have enough social distancing. Yet, in real numbers (official ones are b...sh.. for France), they had quite less dead than France where confinement was ridiculously arbitrary — and where government flatly refused the massive tests needed. And I really don't think France will be riskier than other countries, even in November for IdF. This disease is becoming an endemic nearly everywhere and the past and present differences between countries will be quite evened (Brasil apart, where they depend on a political fight going on to free or not the general social security system to cure people, and are still in a worrying situation), except for countries where virtually all cases could be controlled at some time, such as China, and these countries will have to choose between isolation and some risk (except that you can test people who enter the country, not only by PCR as there is a delay, but also for T-cells, vitamins C, D and maybe K so that they are unlikely to be sick even if they were in contact with the virus). I didn't know Canada had done the same with their Japanese citizens. On a brighter note, Japanese community in Brasil was quite strong and rather nationalistic (of course, never doing anything wrong in their adoptive country), they had their newspapers and after the 1945 defeat, these newspapers pretended it was fake news. And in 1983 a shiatsu therapist went to Japan to "reteach" some techniques that had disappeared in time. Yet when, still in the 80's and Brasil being in crisis and Japan in full boom, "Japanese Brazilians", still speaking Japanese and having kept the culture, were recruited by Japanese companies but most couldn't adapt and had to return to Brasil, as they were real Brazilians, not Japanese. Brasil have a wonderful power of absorption of immigrants, while welcoming their culture. And I do like the R&J 2.0 costume, but I don't think it suits the program. There was initially a concept, but this concept was not well applied into a costume. Ah, and Nathan Chen in a Ballade costume... I didn't think your detestation of this music was to that point (or is it me who am too sensitive about Chopin?)

Well, this may not be the right thread, because, even if the article is about nationalistic bias in figure skating judging (pre-2018 by the way) this is not my point today. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johntemplon/the-edge My point is in ISU's answer : https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4367530-ISU-Statement.html “Judges who make mistakes and/or are over marking skaters receive a warning and can be penalized by the ISU.” Where can we send proofs of misjudging, for instance at last GPF? (Or the (in-)famous fake call on LGC at Worlds 2017, which is a bit old.) And this was rather collective misjudging...

They used to be a sensationalist but interesting newspaper but I don't know what happened in the very last years (though it is true that now I can't buy the paper version anymore, I just can go to the online one) there seem to be nothing more left. I wonder if it is not lower than The Sunday Times now (but I haven't read The Sunday TImes since decades, while I totally stopped watching The Daily Mail site only a year or two ago). THAT's the problem. They are already publicising their all-event tickets, I wonder if I won't write them directly to tell them I would have been very interested in it, should it include a proper gala, on the whole rink and with at the very least all medallists. Most Swedes read very well English.