I'm a Canuck, we're in the same boat.

I think you'll find that statistically-significant parts of the human population who don't live in N.America probably find the idea that some soft paper tissue gets your ass clean kind of laughable. c.f. the bidet, the daily "ablutions" of the Muslim world, etc.

but will the professional ballet culture accept these "big" girls in their schools, companies, performances? or are these big girls being set up to fail in that arena?

Broadly, I agree. I'm usually one generation behind with tech, when I buy it, and I use it until it's dead.

Put this Dad in the same category as the Mom who passive-aggressively demanded that her son's female friends stop posting selfies in various states of ready for bed.

Ah! Thanks for the pointer!

Reminds me of a t-shirt I saw back in 80s:

Cinemax, AKA "Skinemax" amirite?

A-yup.

I know more than a few people who were let down by at least one of the three films in LotR. YMMV.

Ermagherd!

Ermagherd!

Apparently Miley didn't "get" that Abigail Breslin's "Superfreak" performance in Little Miss Sunshine was actually a big "fuck you," from Grandpa...

It's getting weird in heah! :)

the surface texture makes me think of a Cigar Store Indian figure...all those lines, like it was carved out of wood.

I wasn't dissing their hardware or categorizing it as necessarily failure-prone.

when you paid 50% more for your Mac (or, in your case, MP3 player) than a comparably-spec'd non-Mac computer (or, MP3 player), and so did a few thousand more poeple, and only a handful of you need screen replacements, then the extra profit margin gained by Apple paid for a few screen replacements, and you all…

six seconds of Vine footage gives soooooooooo much context to comment on, eh?

the price of your replacement screen was built into the price you paid for the Mac when you bought it and the Applecare

right up there with Emergency Broadcast Network's brilliant "We Will Rock You" featuring George HW Bush and Bill Clinton.