Jamal

It's a better story than mine.

That was bad.

I looked at one today, but I approach literature as I do film, knowing as little about it beforehand as possible and certainly avoiding plot spoilers,...

I now have an image of people literally drooling on Michael's muscles.

This is always quoted, but the thing is: the whole book is like that.

Titus Groan is ponderous, if you can imagine that as a positive, but Gormenghast I found somewhat lighter and more comedic, in a Dickensian kind of wa...

Sure, but surely not during working hours. I may work from home, but I'm not that decadent.

Same here :grin:

Elbow pads for software development seems like overkill.

Thanks, I always knew my occasional condition as bursitis and hadn't heard the term "Popeye's elbow" until today. EDIT: But yes, I see that self-drain...

Thank you for sharing your experience. I appreciate it. There was a time when I went for big difficult books in the way that young men do: to prove to...

I did lance and drain mine, but the fluid built up again very quickly after an hour of inconvenient oozing.

That's happened to me a couple of times. The first time, I was freaked out. I think I read at the time that it can be caused by pressure on the elbow,...

:cool: I was into the Corum and Von Bek stories back in the day. Later on Colonel Pyat. :up: :up: :up:

I definitely recommend the second one, Gormenghast, but the third is non-essential and really not of a piece with the first two. But it's fascinatingl...

I just read 1Q84 and after the first book of the three, which was compelling and fascinating, it seemed to just fall flat, dominated by (a) mundane ac...

Jesus said it best: My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

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On a desktop computer you can see your uploads under "Uploads" in the left-hand menu, and you can get your images under "Images" in the same menu. Fro...

@"Waarzin" was one of Prishon's many reincarnations, by the way.

Note that @"Hanover" did send him a message to ask him to change his ways, but the response was a bad one.

Something philosophical for the first time in ages: Amartya Sen, Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny Kwame Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitanism:...

Welcome to TPF, Hel :smile:

:roll: My advice is to find better sources of information and advice than this forum.

Dave Stewart the producer is the Dave Stewart formerly of the Eurythmics, I think, but this is the keyboardist.

Yep! Probably Dave Stewart, not to be confused with Dave Stewart.

That Motohiko Hamase is rather nice.

*Starling ravages your crops and incorporates your cries of despair into its song*

@"hope" was banned for low quality.

Welcome theRiddler :grin:

I think there was a real life meetup somewhere, back in the day, probably in America. I can't remember who went. Anyway, if there's to be another one ...

Reminds me of this: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ballmer_peak.png

Listening to music when I should be applying myself entirely to work seems appropriate for a Friday. A selection from today's list, ranging from new o...

I banned @"Trey" for low quality. His admiration of Hitler probably didn't help.

I actually didn't notice the trending page and wasn't aware I'd turned it off. I guess as you say it's connected with the reputation system.

It probably won't happen.

Each page of comments in your profile shows 40 comments. Any programmer should find it easy to write a script to go through the pages and scrape the c...

I intend to write one for the next competition.

To put differently what has already been said by others: the part of Wittgenstein's philosophy that you're looking at is built on a rejection of the s...

With this software it can't be done. Yet another reason we should move to something better. It's possible that PlushForums will send me the posts of a...

I think you need to recalibrate your notion of flamboyancy.

Good times

@"Noble Dust" It turns out there's a handy playlist on Spotify called "Georgian restaurant playlist". I guess it's mostly pop music but because it's a...

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Welcome :smile: However, we do have guidelines and we do sometimes moderate comments and members according to what they say, not only how they say it....

I may have to turn off the reputation system soon. That's how the majority voted, and more importantly, Hanover is catching up with me.

I got vaccinated with Sputnik V. Side-effects so far: Temperature of around 39 Celsius for a few hours, beginning 12 hours after the injection Indiges...

Yikes. Another new one on me.

Well I guess they got settled in first. But what is the converse of "deplane"? To get on a plane is not to "plane". It's all too confusing.