that's why there are screens or netting.Rubber pucks rule. But even a rubber puck can "rise and go among spectators to their discomfort."
that's why there are screens or netting.Rubber pucks rule. But even a rubber puck can "rise and go among spectators to their discomfort."
At PyeongChang, the last Gala program opened with a beautiful circle (which reminded me how French Primary School teachers would pride in their perfect chalk circles on the black board :Why is it still called figure skating in the Olympics?
And they changed the name of Artistic Gymnastics to Gymnastics.Why not? They changed the name of synchronized swimming to artistic swimming.
No one in Australia calls anything football - it's footy.I understand that football can be Canadian rules or Australian rules in those countries, and therefore American football is used to distinguish the type of football, but it is still football.
Should I deduce from this answer that you're a woman? (French say : women are always right. Of course it would be the corollary in all stricture.)I am always right
No one in Australia calls anything football - it's footy.
And now I (a total footy unenthusiast who has never been to a game I wasn't dragged to by family ties) think on it, we have at least four different popular (or pretty popular) games that involve grown men or women running all over a muddy or bone-dead field chasing a round thing so it's a good thing they all have different names: soccer, Aussie Rules, rugby league, rugby union. Your brand is probably just "that funny American thing" on the odd occasion any footy lover comes across it. It's just too different from what they love here.
I thought that was Australian Rules football.... the only rule was get it down to your opponent's end of the field by any means at all.
Nonono, there are proper rules! It just looks like a complete scrimmage on the fieldI thought that was Australian Rules football.
4. Except for people kindly supplying me with songs, I couldn't name a Taylor Swift tune to save my soul. If you played one for me, I could not say "That's Taylor Swift". But I know who she is. That alone means she is a big star, to dent my little world.
a friend of Swift's ex-boyfriend walked into the recording studio and spoke of rumors he heard that Swift and her former flame were reuniting. After the friend left, Martin and Shellback asked Swift to elaborate on the details of the relationship, which she described as "break up, get back together, break up, get back together, just, ugh, the worst". When Martin suggested that they write about the incident, Swift began playing the guitar and singing, "We are never ever......", and the song flowed rapidly afterwards. She described the process as one of the most humorous experiences she had while recording,
We know that he likes beautiful girls but is he free?oh, El, you have missed something. !!! I hadn't really noticed Taylor Swift until, it must have been 2012, I happened to switch on The View, and I saw her sing her new song, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." She was wearing a red dress, red lipstick, and this fabulous attitude. I instantly knew that any girl or woman who'd ever been in an on-again-off-again relationship was laughing and cheering her. It was just her wonderful response to ... (see below). Shows how universal her experiences are that her audience relates to. here's a bit from wiki about how the song happened:
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Now let's get us back on topic here! LOL. I like the suggestion of Brandon Frazier. He has such a calm, gentle and happy demeanor!
oh, El, you have missed something. !!! I hadn't really noticed Taylor Swift until, it must have been 2012, I happened to switch on The View, and I saw her sing her new song, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." She was wearing a red dress, red lipstick, and this fabulous attitude. I instantly knew that any girl or woman who'd ever been in an on-again-off-again relationship was laughing and cheering her. It was just her wonderful response to ... (see below). Shows how universal her experiences are that her audience relates to. here's a bit from wiki about how the song happened:
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Now let's get us back on topic here! LOL. I like the suggestion of Brandon Frazier. He has such a calm, gentle and happy demeanor!
We know that he likes beautiful girls but is he free?
Many have been kindly supplying me with songs. They are pleasant, but I must admit, I am not falling immediately in love. Which says *nothing* about Taylor or her music, but just about my particular taste.
But woman's football (soccer) is actually an interesting study. In the 1970s it became official U.S. government policy to provide girls with equal opportunities as boys to participate in sports. Soccer became the go-to girls sport for school systems that wanted to be in compliance. A couple of sports generations later this movement produced wolrd championship teams.
As for American football, it's big contribution is the forward pass. By the first decade of the twentieth century football as played in high schools and colleges in the United States had become increasingly violent,resul;ting in on-field deaths (18 in 1905), fractured skulls, gouged out eyes, etc. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, whose son was a footballer at Harvard, gave out an edict that football would be banned if they didn’t come up with a way to make the sport safer. The forward pass had been thrown a time or two by enterprising footballers, but it was disparaged as a sissy play in this manly man’s sport.
The forward pass was popularized by the legendary “Pop” Warner, coach of the Carlisle (Pa.) Indian Industrial School, which was part of the U.S. effort in those days to turn Indian boys into white men. Warner’s student-athletes tended to be smaller and faster than the boys on the Ivy League teams, so he relied on trick plays. He passed opponents silly, In 1907 the Carlisle Indians outscored their opponents 148-11 through their first six games, then squared off against the mighty powerhouse the University of Pennsylvania, unbeaten and unscored on.
Carlisle completed 8 of 16 passes, including one thrown by the soon-to-be Olympic track-and-field phenomenon Jim Thorpe, and won 26 to 6. (Our boy Travis Kelce is eternally thankful )
oh, El, you have missed something. !!! I hadn't really noticed Taylor Swift until, it must have been 2012, I happened to switch on The View, and I saw her sing her new song, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." She was wearing a red dress, red lipstick, and this fabulous attitude. I instantly knew that any girl or woman who'd ever been in an on-again-off-again relationship was laughing and cheering her. It was just her wonderful response to ... (see below). Shows how universal her experiences are that her audience relates to. here's a bit from wiki about how the song happened:
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Now let's get us back on topic here! LOL. I like the suggestion of Brandon Frazier. He has such a calm, gentle and happy demeanor!
I can't stand "never ever...", I also hated her when "trouble" was played here all the time, over and over, I found those songs so annoying. But my opinion has changed very much since she has written/made a lot of songs I really like, like Style, Delicate, Lover, The Man, Cardigan, Anti-Hero... I definitely like her "nastier" songs (like the man, or look what you made me do) and her folk/ballads better than the very up-beat stuff which tends to have very annoying choruses imo. (But apparently those choruses work, since these songs have become very successful). If she actually writes all these songs herself like she officially does, that's definitely impressive and shows great talent. I have to admit that, although I'm not a famous singer, I can also often relate to her lyrics - there are always some nuances and details in there, there always seems to be a personality with actual views and feelings in those songs, not just generic pop lines.
That was my Taylor Swift appreciation post, since nobody I personally know likes her songs!
It's hard to be 100% certain when it comes to ghostwriters, studio writers, etc., but I think that Taylor Swift did write most of the songs that she is credited with, Her few covers and collaborations are openly acknowledged.If she actually writes all these songs herself like she officially does, that's definitely impressive and shows great talent.