Reasons to be cheerful!

[jumbojak]

Not strange at all. Brazil is a big place and what an American may associate with the country won't
necessarily correspond with the individual experience of specific Brazilians.

[xSilverPhinx]

Not strange at all. Brazil is a big place and what an American may associate with the country won't
necessarily correspond with the individual experience of specific Brazilians.

[jumbojak]

What are the common dances in your region?

[xSilverPhinx]

What are the common dances in your region?

Fandango Gaúcho would be one of the more traditional dances in the south.

[jumbojak]

What are the common dances in your region?

Fandango Gaúcho would be one of the more traditional dances in the south.

I'll have to check it out.

[Icarus]

JJ I heartily recommend that you involve yourself in the ballroom dance scene.  Ballroom includes several different dances such as Fox Trot, Rhumba, Salsa, Tango, Cha Cha, Waltz, Pasa Doble, and some times Quick Step, or Jive if you have an energetic partner.  Partner is the operative term. Most dance classes will have more women than men. That means that you will be in demand as a male.....unless you are a club footed klutz, which you are not. The Martial arts stuff is helpful in terms of rhythm and balance 

If you become pretty good at those dance steps you will be overwhelmed with opportunities to choose a regular partner.  Ask me how I know all that.  Been there done that.  If that is not enough, it is great fun as well.   

[hermes2015]

JJ I heartily recommend that you involve yourself in the ballroom dance scene.  Ballroom includes several different dances such as Fox Trot, Rhumba, Salsa, Tango, Cha Cha, Waltz, Pasa Doble, and some times Quick Step, or Jive if you have an energetic partner.  Partner is the operative term. Most dance classes will have more women than men. That means that you will be in demand as a male.....unless you are a club footed klutz, which you are not. The Martial arts stuff is helpful in terms of rhythm and balance 

If you become pretty good at those dance steps you will be overwhelmed with opportunities to choose a regular partner.  Ask me how I know all that.  Been there done that.  If that is not enough, it is great fun as well.

Icarus, are you a Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly guy? I prefer Gene Kelly's style and persona any day.

[Tank]

I have a nice new Dell laptop with 1/2G SSD and i5 10th gen processor. And it has  sweet keyboard!

[xSilverPhinx]

I have a nice new Dell laptop with 1/2G SSD and i5 10th gen processor. And it has  sweet keyboard!

Now now Tank, don't go chewing the keyboard! 

[Icarus]

Hermes, I have no particular preference.  Kelly was a more acrobatic dancer that did a lot of solo stuff.  Astaire was more of a ballroom dancer and his partner had to "dance backward while wearing heels".   I am not at all sure that either of Ke;;y or Astaire would qualify as a classic dancer of this era.  Times and tastes change. 

Meanwhile JJ might do well to explore the possibilities.  Of course that depends on ones needs. The only caveat is that the dance studio people are much too often promoting wannabe dancers who have little or no talent for that exercise.  The studios are after all in business to make money. 

[hermes2015]

Hermes, I have no particular preference.  Kelly was a more acrobatic dancer that did a lot of solo stuff.  Astaire was more of a ballroom dancer and his partner had to "dance backward while wearing heels".   I am not at all sure that either of Ke;;y or Astaire would qualify as a classic dancer of this era.  Times and tastes change. 

Meanwhile JJ might do well to explore the possibilities.  Of course that depends on ones needs. The only caveat is that the dance studio people are much too often promoting wannabe dancers who have little or no talent for that exercise.  The studios are after all in business to make money.

Fred always looked old before his time. Kelly was youthful and had the better smile.


Burt Lancaster was another actor with an incredible smile.

[Sandra Craft]

Bad news: Thomas Cook Germany is now officially declared dead
Good news: I've got a new job contract that starts on 1st January (better pay and less commute).

Wonderful!

[billy rubin]

i have just managed to up my data speed by some 100 percent.

out in the sticks, we've been using a slow satellite service, a decrepit little wireless router that is held together with rubber bands because the corroding battery has forced the case open, and data on our telephones. in its day it was better than the dial up we were using.

but we've got a new satellite dish and a service that's faster than what he had at no more money than the old dish and the wireless router cost us. so i'll be cancelling those.

it's odd to see videos load immediately instead of waiting five minutes or more.

[Dark Lightning]

I remember when we first got internet and had a DSL. I wasn't even going to try using a dial up modem. My wife complained about speed, and my eldest son told her about how slow his girl friend's internet speed was, which was on a modem. It reminds me of when I worked for an insurance agency back in '72. I had a Comptometer to make all the calculations on. It quit working one day, and the boss handed me a hand crank to turn the shaft that the motor used to turn. Now, that was slow. He finally broke down and bought a Canon digital 10-key adder, which was something like $300, back in '72. I was in the US Navy in the early to mid '70s, and we used slide rules for all of our calculations in Nuclear Power School!

[No one]

Perhaps the best thing about this forum is that I can't recall any religitards spewing their destructive excrement across this pristine landscape.