Love it.

I don't know if I gave your post a star for you having the talent to make that or if it is for my admiration of red velveteen.

Sitting down also looks difficult. I grew up in a rural area where everyone had a pick-up, and just getting into one in a pencil skirt was hard. I can't imagine trying to do that in a mermaid dress.

The second I reincarnate as somebody with smaller hips you can make me one! You look fab.

This is a travesty.

But what if the celebrity offered you... a million dollars?

This! I am a fair skinned and freckled gal who uses lightening products not for my freckles - but rather - my upper lip melasma (that I lovingly refer to as my “sunstache”). These products are widely available in Canada and I can tell you that the marketing materials speak more to hyper-pigmentation issues than…

Good god! I had never heard of fair and lovely. I’m appalled. I tend to see myself as a pessimist and cynical, but sometimes I wonder how much do you get to live your life if you’re constantly looking at everyday stuff through PC-colored glasses. Especially things that are relatively harmless in relation to bigger…

I agree - my point was that Watson isn’t the only celebrity whose pale-skinned image has been used to promote these products, and to my knowledge Watson hasn’t actively endorsed the use of these products for keeping your skin a preferable shade of pale. As other people have pointed out, these ads are harmful to people…

So would this be satisfactory? or does it have to be a real car?

Yes to all of this. I’m in my 30s so the physical damage is definitely making itself known, but the lessons I learned both participating and then coaching carry into everything I do. I honestly don’t know where I would be without it. It gave purpose to a very lost and unhappy child.

I agree completely! My parent’s were vehemently against it (as they were most things), and when they refused to give rides I ran away and walked my damn self to see the ponies (which was a hell of a walk). They finally gave in, and as long as I continued to get straight A’s they continued to drive me -although they…

This! My punishment for bad grades or bad behavior is that I wasn’t allowed to go to gymnastics class. It was my life and I chose for it to be. My parents did not love it AT ALL.

Said something similar downthread. I didn’t end up as an Olympian but I value that time a ton.

For a lot of us, it was what we wanted to do. Gymnastics was my life. It was the only thing in my childhood that I committed to and followed through with with every fiber of my being. It taught me discipline, hard work, and breaking things into smaller pieces to learn them (all of which have come in handy in every…

You say that - but if it’s what the girls love and enjoy then it IS their “rest”.

It’s the tiny high-five from young Hadrien that gets me.

Earlier someone explained that this trick was taught to him by his own father. It warms the cockles of my cold dead heart.

I assure you I’m not judging — especially because a lot of Canadians don’t seem to be aware of this — but Jean Chrétien had Bell’s Palsy as a child, which explains a lot regarding the set of his face.

There was just no dealing with me, sentimentality-wise, the day Justin Trudeau revealed that baby-balancing is a “party trick” he learned from dear old dad.