Ballerinas practicing for the last act of swan lake.

[Baitball Blogger]

[mr_lebowski]

1. Must be nice, being that flexible ...

They probably have no issues tying their shoes, wiping their behinds, etc ...

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Looks like...

they've been hung up to dry. Amazing flexibility.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. That was the original meme.

"Ballerinas being hung up to dry."

But, it looked to me like they looked flaccid enough to pass for defunct swans.

[Iggo]

4. I know it's just me...

...but I look at that pic, shake my head and think, "The things we put our little girls through..."

EDIT: Both them jokes are funny, though...lol.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Some basic training is good.

Helps poise and keeps bodies flexible.

It's the long term that is damaging.

[drray23]

6. I had a girlfriiend who was a balerina.

She could have me stand on her feet and lift me up just wiith the strength of her feets flexing up.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. I took ballet lessons for awhile as a kid.

Fortunately I sucked at it. My mom thought it would help me develop coordination and poise (I was so clumsy I could knock things over without actually even touching them) but the lessons were fruitless, I did not enjoy them, and I have remained a hopeless klutz to this day. But at least I didn't ruin my feet.

[UTUSN]

8. After the horror of "Black Swan" I wince at the beauty of that art.

ON EDIT: By "horror" my meaning is "horror film" not that it was a poor movie. It is one of my favorite movies, in widely spaced intervals of years by the time I can work myself up to seeing it again.

[Laffy Kat]

9. You should see the osteoarthritis at 35 for former ballet dancers.

It's brutal on their bodies.