Lycra is an absolute level-upper from sweat-clothing IMO. Unless maybe you’re pursuing the ‘sauna’ effect?

They breath very well, and I wear them as much as possible. They even layer very efficiently with other clothing, and are perfect for something like sailing, where the weather-effect can shift from balmy to hostile in a mere couple minutes.

Tonight I trekked out in freezing weather to hit the grocery store for some ingredients. I was wearing light Lycra / Spandex, with light trousers and a Baja jacket on top. That’s all the insulation I needed, even though each individual layer was pretty dang thin. If that was a sweatsuit, I’d indeed have been sweating a lot just from a couple blocks walk, but no…

Wouldn’t need to be repeated if more knuckleheads good folk understood & accepted it the first time around.

From some quick lookups, it seems that you can commonly do so after some months of guided preparation. No need to memorise a bunch of shizzle, but being baptised is more of a 'participation award" in such cases, if I understand rightly.

Of course, YMMV when it comes to various Eastern Catholic churches, or even sect-like groups.

Pretty cool!
Kind of a Philippe Druillet feel.

Using a team-up of animals (or even young human twins) to play a single role is definitely a recurring theme across film. “Lassie” and “Flipper” famously come to mind.

Also, I don’t doubt that cats were hard to train in early film due to the novelty of the situation, but I don’t think it’s nearly as much of a factor as formerly. For example, not only have training methods continually been improved, but anticipating the need ahead of time, cats can be trained from kittenhood to help portray a variety of roles. That’s an enormous help, right there. Something-something Green-Screen I guess, as well…

Dang, that’s clever.

You’re a good poster, but a poor “beeper.”

Keep it up. :D

“Oh my.”
–Hikaru Sulu

After mostly snoozing through The English Patient, I somehow managed to get intrigued by the idea of washing my hair with olive oil, like one of the characters did onscreen.

Tried it the next day, and wound up having olive oil in my eye sockets for the next couple days. For me, it was much worse than going to the optometrist’s office and getting the eye-drops that kept one from focusing for the next ~4hrs.

So yeah, that was the first & last time I tried that. :S

Haha, he’s still rockin’ that style of hair / facial-hair, too!
https://www.google.com/search?q=Gene+Shalit+2026&udm=2

But I can’t remember if I liked him as a reviewer. A little before my time, or something like that. Every once in a while I do like watching Siskel & Ebert on YT, though. Two smart, passionate guys who clashed well.

That was exactly my theory for the longest time. That the H2O content of the breath would be murder on connectors, over time. I must also yield to the reality that many people seemingly practiced such for many years, without issue. It’s strange.

Possibly other components of saliva tended to offset the moisture content somehow? This needs some research…

Damn. For some reason I’d not thought of those examples. oO Yeah, Grant would have been fascinating as a full-on Bond, with the gadgets, the girls, the showdowns and all that.

On a side note, my sense is that a part of why Hitch used older leading men so often is because they were also avatars of himself as an older director-- often hugely attracted to his leading ladies, but not very successful on that front, far as I know.

Some good observations. HM went through such distinct phases, with one of the recent ones (after Eastman sold out, so ~2020’s) one of the most awful from every viewpoint imaginable.

As a late-bloomer to relationships, I gotta say I was as titillated as anyone else by the T&A stuff in the 80’s and 90’s, but just as an incidental. It could also be annoying and a signal that the story was lacking. Where it went over the line for me was in stuff like Druuna, where abuse & borderline-slavery was involved. (I posted a couple times about that here)

Too bad the economy wasn’t there to make it work all the way.

Truly. HM was such a great gateway to fairly serious and creative BD. As I see it, that’s something critically needed in the States.

Oof, sorry. Was falling asleep at the time.

I was planning on poaching the following from Reddit, with an attribution of course. You can take an early look here: https://www.reddit.com/r/aliceinwonderland/comments/1soy3r3/down_the_rabbit_hole_illustrations/

So then, I’ll correct the title of this one, then finish the post another day.

Sorry about that. Just…

Anyway, sometimes there’s a thing? (I’ve read through “Edelweiss…?”)

America has never been “good” or moral.

Super-important major realisation.

Damn, that’s perfectly correct, but… I was anticipating a bit of white-washing??

Natives, always… please leave us alone?

Fuck. Every time I read the news, it’s just worse. Like-- the primacy point of humanity is to COOPERATE, right?

But… NOOOOOOOO…!

Holy hell.
I would absolutely skip many a ‘medium-end,’ ‘high-end’ joint if I could munch nicely on that shizzle. oO

Reminds me a bit of that nice “Jap Che,” which I had on my phone a couple months ago, but still can’t figure out how the FLUFF to now transfer my images over to my PC, since some Android change, or whatever it was. Foof, bloody hell.

Frankly, when I was younger, I thought this one was… maybe an interesting topic, but not actually a great story, as a teevee-watcher?

Well, I was a !@(*)&$ idiot.
IME yes, this one is sort of workman-like in a sense, but it also hits back at the idea of what utterly spectacular idiots we naked apes (all dressed up in our StarFleet / authority uniforms, or not) have been about leaving native species and cultures alone… As in, non-interference upon healthy eco-systems, and all that?

Btw, there’s a pretty-funny story about how Shatner absolutely PRANKED Nimoy on this ep, after they’d already become really-good friends.