Jamal

Crows vs cats, a war as old as time. I wonder if those back-yard crows of yours keep out wandering cats. Your monstrous bird-ape chimera is a insult t...

I’ve been feeding some of those hoodies over the winter, leaving food on the window ledge for them. Within a week they got used to it, and now when I ...

That’s pretty much how I feel. Some off the cuff thoughts… New Atheism feels like jumping the shark. My reaction is always something like, do we reall...

Fair enough. I should probably respond to the OP instead of just badgering Benj… If your question matters, then there is something that matters, a spe...

“If we’re just insignificant specks in the universe, what is the point in doing anything?” So your answer is: to leave a legacy, if you’re the kind of...

Not a magpie though. It’s a hooded crow. I’m the bird boy.

No no, you are like a breath of fresh air, with your fecal chat.

Like our legacies. But the longer and bigger the better, is that it? If I were @"niki wonoto", I don’t think I’d be reassured.

Why?

Highlight of my day!

It hadn’t occurred to me to exploit this market until now.

I feel manipulated.

My favourite part: Otherwise I greatly objected to the cultural stereotypes but still smiled a couple of times, until the end, when I frowned in light...

Squeeze the myth so hard that the truth pops out.

Actually though, Google's dictionary, provided by Oxford Languages, gives me the following as an example: "he hurled a dried cow chip further than any...

Now I feel foolish. I should never have gone down that cow dung rabbit hole. We call them cow pats.

I can definitely hear the influence.

I love that album. Despite the perceived corniness, they seem to have remained cool ever since the eighties. An affection for Hats by The Blue Nile si...

:yum: I’d try them, no matter the nature of balls. I googled “cow chips” because I had a vague suspicion that Americans use this term to refer to depo...

Once again :grin:, I’ll butt in to correct you on this. They have been referred to as beings in philosophy since the Ancient Greeks.

I want to see iconoclastic flavours, like cat and coriander or something.

Prawns are bourgeois now? :roll:

Like these? https://www.worldwideholland.com/images/productimages/big/lays-chips-frietje-satesaus.jpg

I’m sceptical.

I have heard of these exotic creatures. Probably from you. I got a huge crab one Christmas Eve at the Boqueria market in Barcelona, ate it for Christm...

Comin’ straight from the underground. :cool:

Yes. Vacuum cleaners are “Hoovers” where I’m from.

Oh really? I knew the tails were comfortably edible, but not the whole shell and legs.

But yeah, I remember expecting more spice when I had jolof rice. I seem to recall it was a soft, warm kind of spiciness.

Nice. I am happy for you and also for the Senegalese people. That is a skill that I made sure to learn, because when I’m eating fish I like big chunks...

I have the utmost respect for Netherlandians.

We call that sellotape.

Saying “Scotch” in reference to anything except whisky, pies, eggs, broth, and bonnets is a big no-no around Scotch people, but I’m trying to normaliz...

As a Scotchm’n, I’ve always had trouble with a word that crops up often in political philosophy: polis. It refers to a Greek city-state or more genera...

:party:

Then foodiest it shall be.

By the way, in my post above I think I failed to address a few of your points. Sorry about that. I’ll save it for the next round.

How about this: most artistically and spiritually enlightened?

Yikes! I’m going to have to do some work here. Great post. :up: First, capitalism. In capitalism, many important relationships between people reduce—b...

It’s just one damned thing after another after all.

Ok, but no more excuses next time. Do or not do. I’m badgering you because you asked me to, and I will continue until you die (or get the jolof rice, ...

I’d definitely watch Hanks vs McDowell.

Yeah I’ve tried getting my head around that history. It’s rather complicated. I went to Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan. I give it and its people 5/5.

This gives me warm feeling.

Here’s a fact you might not know. I certainly didn’t know it till quite recently. There are ten autonomous Turkic republics within Russia itself: Tata...

Saying there’s a significant Turkic population in Azerbaijan is putting it mildly. Azerbaijanis are Turkic; their language and Turkish are mutually in...

@"universeness" ucarr is now at 562 posts, indicating that your imagination cooked up the whole thing.

There are better Uzbek restaurants here, so, swings and roundabouts. Swings and roundabouts is a British phrase that you can Google if you’re interest...

“It’s much better than North Korea” isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement.

Authorities on the issue can’t agree: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H#Name_in_English