Jamal

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The mention box doesn't like spaces in names.

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Yes, that’s where I went to get my food until I moved to another part of town and started going to Lidl, where I could get really good Greek yoghurt :...

It took me 10 seconds to get it but I did actually chuckle when it hit home. I pronounce both words the same way. I associate "awnt" with some America...

:up: I make it a lot. Good Greek style yoghurt, garlic but not too much, grated cucumber, dill, salt and pepper. A little lemon juice is good too. I d...

It is. As far as I can tell, Xtrix avoided, or tried to avoid, modding in that thread for this exact reason, but there were no other mods around at th...

Just on the subject of colour... I've been reading Color Realism and Color Science and Color Properties and Color Ascriptions: A Relationalist Manifes...

You're very welcome to carry on commenting on the stories, but we're not going to put them on the main page. I took you to be concerned that the autho...

That's a lot of work for a single nut.

And if people make sure to mention the author (@"Amity"), they'll be alerted and will thus gain the benefit of your inspiring comments.

Plus it was in France and I probably gave him the impression I was an ignorant barbarian Brit. Or to be fair, he may have been smiling in innocent del...

I wouldn't try doing it myself. It was a Michelin star restaurant and I asked the waiter "what's this?" because I didn't recognize it without the pape...

That's what I'm talking about too. When you peel it off, the walnut is white-ish and looks like a brain.

I suppose they'd blanched them and then peeled them. It was a fancy restaurant, the one I have in mind.

Specializing in leaves.

Yes, I've seen walnuts peeled in some restaurants, no doubt because of this bitterness you speak of.

Don't dismiss or denigrate a food just because it's cheap and ubiquitous.

This is the job?

Both are in my top 5, along with hazelnut, walnut, and pine nut. To pedants and smart-arses: I'm using the word "nut" in its culinary, not its botanic...

That's the weight of a Brazil nut. Impressive.

Just because your bathroom scale said zero grams when you tried to weigh an ant recently, doesn't mean the ant weighed zero grams.

Created merely to support a pun. I don't normally go in for puns. They are to humour what allegory is to literature.

When I write short stories I hunt for words, trying to catch the most allusive prey.

Okay, but I don’t quite see how it follows that it is less susceptible to supremacism than Christianity or Islam. Christianity at least has an anti-su...

In the early twentieth century and right up to the 1940s, Shinto apparently did no better than Christianity or Islam in opposing supremacism, ultranat...

@"ssu" attempted to mention @"Christoffer" but got the wrong username. I wouldn't get involved in this discussion if I were you!

I don't know, the Lounge seems like the right place for it.

Coming from someone I'm with, just about any kind of request to refrain from smoking would work on me. Coming from a stranger in public, it would depe...

Coronation chicken sandwich and Bundaberg ginger beer for breakfast. Coronation chicken seems like a very English, very old-fashioned thing, so I was ...

I do not live in the UK, it's raining, and it'll reach only 19? today. The heatwave here ended about a week ago, and maybe there will be another, but ...

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Yeah it's amazing how much better it seems to leap off the page and grab the attention. I didn't know the difference would be so great. Good to know. ...

I think you can retain the breathless atmosphere even with paragraph breaks. It's not all happening in the same instant, so you can introduce a few br...

I moved this to where it might elicit more responses. Feel free to move it back to the Lounge if you prefer.

Yes, I strongly object. Don’t do it.

:cry:

That comment sent my mind on a journey in which I explored the role of storytelling in relationships and noted the difficulty in creating satisfying e...

I just realised that this is very Lynchian. The intensity of mood and sense of mystery. And the blue hair, like the woman at Club Silencio, in one of ...

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Yeah, like I said in my comment, for me it was too much of an undeveloped idea for it to work as a story. I found that disappointing, because what the...

All your stories involve getting stressed out in railway stations, so I knew it was you :grin:

Authors have already begun to reveal themselves so I guess you can confirm or deny if you want.

The Frame: Baden The Good Samaritan: Hanover Small Gods: Benkei A Sort of Duel: Noble Dust A Place Called Radcastle Station: Jack Cummins Not sure abo...

I had a large banana. Otherwise, well done to the author of “Dream of the Flood”. It was probably my favourite.

About anything in particular?

Is there a list of the authors somewhere?

The characters live on in my imagination so I would actually like to read through to the end. Now I think about it, there was a point when I just stop...

It’s an odd thing what happened. I loved it, was totally into it, totally involved and swept up, but with around a hundred pages to go I don’t know wh...