I didn’t find it tough (unlike the steak I had the other night!) The combo made it easy. I could go vegetarian if need be (and have on occasion in my life for periods of time) but I refuse to ever even consider being vegan. I’m an arrogant asshole already. 
ditto.
Re bras, I wear sports bras that clasp in the back. I put them on backwards and turn them around.
I had a friend from Wisconsin (who complained endlessly about how we talk wrong out West) who was raised on a hearty flesh-based diet. She decided to become a vegetarian just to see if she could do it. She said that she would buy a Big Mac, feed the patties to her dog, and it tasted no different than if she had left them in.
I’ve been a vegetarian for over 30 years now (aside from giving in to a weird craving for tuna I get maybe twice a year), but although I’ve considered going vegan, I would find it too restrictive. Yes, they have something called “vegan cheese,” but it’s generally a disgusting mess. It also keeps me from getting holier-than-thou with meat eaters, because I’m fully aware that supporting the dairy and egg industries is essentially the same as supporting the beef and chicken ones.
I usually pull my shirt up from the bottom until I get to about the level of my bra, then kind of roll my arms into the bottom of it an pull it up over my head that way. I’m not having my shirt end up inside out and I’m not pulling the neck out of shape.
I retract my arms into the shirt and push the front of the neck hole over my face and off. I think I started doing it this way so I could take off my shirt without having to take off my eyeglasses.
The “Phantom” poll doesn’t have an option for “I think ALW is the AntiChrist and refuse to see/hear/encounter in any way anything he has written.”
My exposure to the story is through Lon Cheney, Jr, Terry Pratchett and Brian De Palma (bonus points if you know why).
Damn. I’ve seen six different versions of Phantom (including two films that predate the ALW musical) and read the novel, and I don’t even like it! (I’m the victim of arm-twisting by various people and entities that actually wanted to see it.)
I pull the shirt up from the bottom until it’s up over my head, then pull each of the sleeves off by taking the cuff in my other hand, then take the neck and pull it off the rest of the way. Shirt winds up rightside out.
I don’t think it ever occured to me to just take it by the neck and heave. Just tried that, and it does work, but if I want the sleeves right side out I still have to pull them off separately from the cuffs.
In movies and videos, women often reach downward with their arms crossed and grab the bottom of their pullover, uncrossing their arms as they pull up to reveal their upper torso. This is supposed to be sexy. Does anyone actually do that outside of a movie set?
Ditto.
Not sure what you mean. I do grab the bottom of the shirt with my arms crossed, and my arms eventually wind up uncrossed; but I don’t understand how anyone can pull a shirt over their head, arms crossed or not, without revealing either the upper torso or whatever other clothing is under the piece being pulled off. So I don’t see what the crossed arms have to do with it.
– does anybody pull their shirt over their head from the bottom of the shirt without crossing their arms? My shoulder joints don’t want to do that.
I routinely do this. Isn’t that how everyone who pulls their shirt up from the bottom does it? I don’t understand why it would be any sexier than removing a shirt any other way, though.
I occasionally pull my arms into the body of a shirt (or more often, a night gown) and then pull up from the bottom. I might do this if I’m changing with other people in the room, and want to put on the new shirt before I take off the old one. I suppose that’s less sexy, what with never being naked and all, but it’s hardly my normal method of disrobing.
Gawd, yes. Someone tried to tell me it was just like “real” cheese. It’s not.
I saw the big Broadway-style production of Phantom, but I saw it in L.A. at the Ahmanson. I won the tickets in a raffle. It was funny, because around the time I won the tix, Michael Crawford was leaving the L.A. production to do something else. My friends who’d seen it were commiserating with me that I wouldn’t see him. But because my performance date was months away (like, six IIRC), he announced a while later that he was coming back to the production. And that his first performance after the break was only a couple of days before I was going to see it. That was kinda neat.
I’d seen the old Lon Chaney/Mary Philbin movie. In fact, I “binge watched” it at the silent movie theater on Main Street in Disneyland one time I was there and needed a break.
Not a fan of the story or the music. In fact, I rather don’t like it. But I positively hate when figure skaters use it (and I’ve seen some fairly recent skaters who did use it).
I’ve read the novel.
I’ve seen a traveling stage production, but not Andrew Lloyd Weber’s version. Might have been Ken Hill’s version, but I’m not sure.
I’ve seen pieces of the Lon Chaney film, the Claude Rains film, and the Herbert Lom film on TV. I’m not sure if I have ever watched an entire film in one viewing.
I watched the Robert Englund film in the theater.
Re: letting microwaved food sit for a minute. I used to work at a company where we did product development for food companies, including optimizing the directions for microwaving those clients’ products. A food scientist with whom I worked there taught me that the “let stand for 60 seconds” was important, as it helped the cooked food better reach a temperature equilibrium throughout its mass.
Re: wedding location. I’ve only been married once, and my then-fiancee (now wife) wanted to get married outdoors. We found a venue for the reception that was located on a golf course, and which had a spot for hosting outdoor weddings, on a hill overlooking the fairway for the ninth hole – so, I picked “some other place” in that poll.
Re: Phantom of the Opera. I saw a live production by a touring company, here in Chicago, sometime in the early '90s. I don’t think I ever saw a film or TV production of it, and definitely have not read the book.
I saw Phantom of the Opera on TV. It wasn’t really an adaptation, because they filmed it in front of a live audience at a live performance. Probably in NYC? Not sure. I watched it during the pandemic, “with” a group of friends who all watched at the same time, and then chatted about it during and after, on Discord.
I’m okay with the music, but didn’t like the show. I think it wasn’t a great performance, but I may not have loved it even if it had been. I watched a lot of other broadway shows that way during the pandemic (we had a group) and some of them were great, so it wasn’t the way I watched it that turned me off.
I let microwaved food stand for 1 minute while i warm the dinner
plates in the microwave for 1 minute.
I was in disbelief when I learned years ago that not only was putting your bra on backwards and then turning it around possible, it’s also common, like 40% of women in a lot of polls do it. How can anyone do that without the bra being so loose that it doesn’t support anything as intended?? But then I had an ah-ha moment: it must be loose and that must contribute to why so many women also complain about them being so uncomfortable even when wire-free.
The only thing I’ve ever found uncomfortable is having narrow shoulders eventually makes the straps creep down, but I solved that with happy straps. So not only do I do up the clasp while it’s on my back as intended, I put the bra on over my head.
it’s not loose at all. It’s quite snug and the fabric doesn’t really stretch much. It’s the breasts that are soft and can deform to get into the cups. Also, there’s more space before sliding the straps over the shoulders.