They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" - Kerouac
Nastia’s pak salto is actually loose, too archy and overflung most of the time. She never really catches at the right angle because her core is loose and her hips are often too far over her head and the bar. She almost always ends up slightly too close to the low bar.
As a huge Nastia fan her pak always scared me.
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Gymnastics Skill Guide: The Gienger (piked)
Event: Uneven Bars
Skill Type: Same-bar release
Skill Description: The Gienger, which is executed from a backward giant, is a backward salto in a piked position with a half twist before regrasp. When the gymnast catches the high bar, she is facing the opposite direction in which she originally released the bar. Often confused with the similar Deltchev, the Gienger’s half twist occurs after the (back) salto, instead of before the (front) salto in the Deltchev.
Skill Value: D
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It was a deltchev! *hair flip*
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I speak 2 and a half lingua francas. Oooooooh. I could totally learn Portuguese too pffffffft. I really want to learn Russian but I have no faith in my capability to do so.
I did not know that there were places in Africa where Portuguese had official status. :o
Yea because Portugal started the slave trade.
| Aurora: | Story of your first kiss |
| Rapunzel: | 5 things from your bucket list |
| Dory: | Something someone has told you that you can't forget (two good things and one bad) |
| Pocahontas: | Something new you taught someone. |
| Mulan: | Do you trust your gut feeling? What happened. |
| Jasmine: | The story of when you had to really trust someone. Was it easy? |
| Belle: | Is there someone you are close to who no one else likes? What's the story? |
| Ariel: | Where do you think you belong, and why? |
| Flounder: | Something that surprised you and frightened you. |
| Eric: | Have you ever helped a stranger? What happened. |
| Aladdin: | A sacrifice you made for someone. |
| Tiana: | A time you tried the hardest for something. |
| Boo: | A childhood hero. |
| Cruella: | Something you really want but you aren't allowed to have. |
| Seven Dwarfs: | 7 things you like in the people around you. |
| Kronk: | What you are best at in the kitchen? |
| Simba: | Something a parent has taught you. |
| Cinderella: | "A dream is a wish your heart makes" What's that for you? |
| Nemo: | Your bravest moment. |
| Terk: | Are you a big brother/sister figure to anyone? |
| Buzz: | Your favourite fantasy world (aka Harry Potter, Star Wars), if any. |
| Alice: | Done drugs? |
| Peter Pan: | Something from your childhood that you still love. |
| Merida: | What are you most passionate about? |
- Ravenclaw is the most commonly picked ‘secondary House affiliation’ across the board. 34% of Hufflepuffs, 35% of Gryffindors, and 47% of Slytherins consider Ravenclaw their secondary House.
- 42% of Ravenclaws pick Slytherin as their secondary House. Hufflepuff came in second at…
Hahaha that’s exactly what one of my cousins said!
At least now I know it’s possible for me to quit cheese!
Don’t make me quit frozen yogurt and pound cake though. :’(
After succumbing to a fever of some sort in 1705, Irish woman Margorie McCall was hastily buried to prevent the spread of whatever had done her in. Margorie was buried with a valuable ring, which her husband had been unable to remove due to swelling. This made her an even better target for body snatchers, who could cash in on both the corpse and the ring.
The evening after Margorie was buried, before the soil had even settled, the grave-robbers showed up and started digging. Unable to pry the ring off the finger, they decided to cut the finger off. As soon as blood was drawn, Margorie awoke from her coma, sat straight up and screamed.
The fate of the grave-robbers remains unknown. One story says the men dropped dead on the spot, while another claims they fled and never returned to their chosen profession.
Margorie climbed out of the hole and made her way back to her home.
Her husband John, a doctor, was at home with the children when he heard a knock at the door. He told the children, “If your mother were still alive, I’d swear that was her knock.”
When he opened the door to find his wife standing there, dressed in her burial clothes, blood dripping from her finger but very much alive, he dropped dead to the floor. He was buried in the plot Margorie had vacated.
Margorie went on to re-marry and have several children. When she did finally die, she was returned to Shankill Cemetery in Lurgan, Ireland, where her gravestone still stands. It bears the inscription “Lived Once, Buried Twice.”
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I’ve actually come to almost prefer watching the watered down routines of NCAA just because I don’t feel like they’re gonna die and because they just look so much more confident. Besides sometimes you get crazy original stuff or crazy pretty stuff or just plain crazy. It’s a win win win.
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Kind of sad how we’re already rooting for her to lose, no matter how atrocious her behavior is
She’s becoming the new Shayla.
Okay, but really this needs to stop. What are you trying to prove by acting this way towards her (and Shayla, tbh)? Because your behavior is just as “atrocious.”
I agree. People need to stop. She’s just a child and she hasn’t done anything more, that I know of, than be another annoying teen on the internet.
