If you want to get around on wheels for $30, buy roller-skates...

A good bicycle hits 20+mph on flats and 50+ on downhills, not something to entrust with cheap components.

Of course, with some ingenuity, one can find nice used bikes and get them in working shape for not much more than $30.

General safety nannies and helmet Nazis:
Are more interested in the illusion of safety than real safety numbers. Check out Netherlands fatality and injury while biking numbers.

Realize that the dutch do not wear helmets.

Then get a life.

The leading cause of death of American children is car accidents.

"Heheh, snort, hehehe! When Cindy opens the 'empty' jar she will discover that I farted in it! Snort! heheh"

"But I don't want to go find Aunt Louise's necklace in the sewers!!!"

-How about the rest of Latin America - is it “frijol” or “judías”?-

"habichuela" is pretty common among the cuban/puerto rican/dominican set.

as in:
"que tu quire papi? Lah habichuelah rojah o negrah?"
*s's replaced with h sound to imitate accent

"I hate to correct the second spanish-based entry in a row… but refrito does indeed mean refried, or fried twice."

If this were the correct definition in the circumstances, how come the recipe only calls for a single frying?

"It’s too bad it’s based on being anti-religion and anti-God, although these themes are suppressed for the movie."
What's wrong with anti-religion or anti-"God"?

ROTA
TARO
ORAT
TORA
ATOR

Rota taro orat torah hathor.... the wheel of Tarot proclaims the law of love....

And he doesn't look a day over 55... what's that? He's 27?!? oh....

If every one of your female family members died of breast cancer, you might have a different perspective.

In high risk patients, it can reduce the risk by 90%
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Therapy/preventive-mastectomy

It also leads to reduced anxiety in high-risk women
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_2_1x_Women_Who_Chose_Preventive_Mastectomy_Report_No_Regrets.asp

It's a reasonable and valid decision on her part.

These are actually bad for real shoe leather. They can dry it out and lead to cracks.

If you do a proper job polishing every now and then, which includes applying a bunch of layers of polish, then you can just do a 30-second buff to get rid of scuffs and bring the shine back.

Yeah, real smart... every time you fall off (it's not as easy as riding a bicycle) you have to deal with gas powered rotating blades...

Matsumaeda didn't have the heart to tell him that he was not a Sumo wrestler at all, but rather a 12-year-old boy with an unusual case of sugar-induced, delusional amnesia.