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Freddie Woo says: What has made you smile and made your day better recently? We need cheering up.

(, Thu 23 Jan 2014, 14:02)
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Yaqui dancing inspiration
Not recent, but still fun. When I lived in Tucson, Arizona, I used to like to jog through the open spaces of an automobile air pollution inspection station, which also happened to be adjacent to a Yaqui Native American village. The Yaquis had fled Sonora, Mexico, as war refugees during the Mexican Revolution and built their village on the edge of town. As Tucson grew in the 20th Century, the village had been incorporated into the city, but it still retained a separate identity.

I was jogging past during a holiday - Easter, I think - when I saw a group of Yaqui men doing a gentler jog of their own: a tribal dance, in full regalia. They saw me, and nodded to each other. They sped up and drew up next to me, and in a kind of mocking tribute, we jogged side by side for a time.
(, Sun 26 Jan 2014, 18:00, 5 replies)
So your story is "I went for a run and some other people did too"?

(, Sun 26 Jan 2014, 18:33, closed)
Yeah. But they were ethnics so the imaginary bond makes him feel less uncomfortable about his innate racism and fear of The Other.

(, Sun 26 Jan 2014, 19:35, closed)
They gave you and Indian name
'Runs like a girl'
(, Sun 26 Jan 2014, 19:02, closed)
This reply will be funnier than any actual answers this week.

(, Sun 26 Jan 2014, 19:34, closed)
Don't worry, you'd still be a twat if that hadn't happened.

(, Sun 26 Jan 2014, 19:22, closed)

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