2026 is almost here! WHAT will be your 2025 'core' memory?

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  1. ETC(SS)

    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    So much to choose from!

    6-7?
    Kiss Cam?
    Kati Perry and company cosplaying a cosmonaut?
    Sweeney's jeans?
    All things P47?
    Trav-Tay?
    Media Mergers?

    Anything??

    Put me down for TDS 2.0.
    I liked seeing smoking holes in the Iranian desert and I'm here for the fact that perpetually outraged gen-Z types aren't screeching as much about Gaza.

    I get a MUCH LOWER tax bill this year......
     
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    Zeitgeist-wise... Kpop Demon Hunters is high on the list, imo. Here for Asians -- and Asian female expat, to boot -- shattering another global ceiling.

    F*** 6-7. So bored seeing that everywhere and no one knowing what it means, including the Alphas who claim it. Next... :p

    For myself, awareness Inoue 'Kaibutsu' (怪物 - 'monster') Naoya's been tearing up opponents' cervical columns 11 yrs. Not a boxing fan... but interested in a Japanese one undisputed in 4 weight classes... watching him work, is just jawdrop...

    There was no one like him growing up, for sure... but seems since the last 2 Summer Olympics, became aware Japanese GenZs have been rising in global athletics a while now (like judo gold medalists Tsunoda Natsumi, Abe Hifumi (m) & Uta (f); skater Hanyu Yuzuru; their men's gymnastic and fencing teams, etc. etc. in Paris -- 20 golds in all, and in Tokyo netted 27; US won 40). In my generation at the '92 and '96 games, they won 3... to the US' 37 and 44. How about that... (y)

    And the less air I waste talking about P***y Neck, the better (n):coffee:
     
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    2025 was meh, hoping for better, happy new year!
     
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    bwilson4web BMW i3 and Model 3

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    Her, my second wife, deciding we should try to live together again. Other than death and taxes, there are few guarantees but it is better to try to live with someone than alone.

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    can't with with them, can't live without them. i'm sure they feel the same way
     
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    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    One of the things we completely agree about!!!

    ALL THE BEST!
     
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    cyberpriusII Maybe it was the roses

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    I want to know "nothing" about pero whatever it is.

    And I just as soon would rather forget 2025 as so much of it was negative -- including the first time ever losing a job (myself and thousands of other DOGE victims)

    Unfortunately, I have -- despite trying to stay upbeat -- been more than a little gobsmacked in the way the country is going.

    The following does not help, but I refuse to believe ignorance is bliss.

    Not saying agree or disagree with any of the following -- just better to be informed (and depressed, I suppose). Politico does try to stay "fair and balanced," at least in my view.

    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/01/02/black-swan-events-2026-00708074

    Maybe my core memory is "how did so many voters get fooled again?" I mean, I guess there is a quote, and I may have it wrong and do not know where it might have come from, but something like "nobody ever went broke underestimating the American voter." Such a cynical attitude, but..

    Well, maybe I will feel better if the Seahawks win this weekend. But then that gets me into thinking about how college football has turned into the NFL...:cry:

    Black swan theory - Wikipedia
    kris
     
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