Jamal

You've persuaded me to read it now. Like many, I've been ignorantly dismissing it for years.

I see what you're saying, but it looks like a big mistake to me.

This is the most important point. I neither know nor care if Trump's actions are grounds for impeachment. What seems clear though is that there's a lo...

This historical background is really interesting: http://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/short-history-enclosure-britain I think it counts as an a...

Indeed. And can it be a coincidence that the idea, the tragedy of the commons, originated in the early 19th century, at the culmination of the enclosu...

Come on you two, you're embarrassing yourselves.

Possible plot for a new Adam Curtis documentary?

I agree

Not much philosophy over the past few months, mainly research before and after my move to Moscow. These are the highlights: Mikhail Bulgakov, The Hear...

I think the idea is more radical and interesting than that, namely that one intentionally takes on a different sexual orientation by sheer political w...

Fair enough. Although I don't think their rude dismissiveness was a reaction to the idea that women choose to "withhold sex" from men, but to the arre...

I know. :confused: You already said that, and I can't see much evidence of it, as I've already said.

None or very few of the responses assume that she's proposing that, as far as I can tell. I for one did notice that bit, and it doesn't make any diffe...

Homework perhaps. But she might be back to discuss things and is just waiting to see the responses. In any case the topics are quite interesting.

Well put.

But you have to hear a song in its entirety before you can dance to it.

I'm sure Melville talked about Moby Dick (the novel) before it was finished. If that's a misunderstanding, then you haven't been clear enough. What do...

Precisely. A rather Victorian attitude. I have two problems with the OP's argument. Considering that most women want to continue having heterosexual r...

This is why I deleted a lot of his posts.

Scary

Sounds like my kind of place.

So you're wondering specifically what percentage of amateur philosophers have this gene? Tastes great to me. I use it a lot. I call it cilantro these ...

Gone.

You've said this several times, and each time I've asked you what you meant, but you never explain. As Amity pointed out, we have categories here.

Nope.

Like love and family. And telekinesis.

Yeah I love train journeys, though I've never been on a very long one. West Highland line in Scotland is a good one, though it's just a few hours. Sov...

There's so much of that Soviet junk around. It's become popular again here (along with such things as authentic Soviet ice cream) so most of it's not ...

I've been told I don't have the "deep Russian soul", so Orthodox monasticism and Russian-countryside-wandering are probably not for me. On the other h...

To be honest though I've had this probably foolish notion that seeing the real Russia means seeing the stuff that's not Petrograd I mean Leningrad I m...

Want to go before the weather turns completely evil.

Hey don't worry. The great thing about horseradish vodka is it's super delicious, super cheap, and takes the pain away on super lonely nights.

By the way, congratulations on being nearly thirty, and happy birthday in advance. Thirty is a good age. You stop being embarrassed about tripping ove...

Missed that. Too busy stroking my Capuchin.

Whose face? Roy Wood's?

Yep, before I even existed. Less than a month before, it's true.

Before my time sorry

Elaborate!

Almost as old as Bitter Crank

I think we've had a thread about this already Jimmy, so you get a big fat zero for originality so far. :wink: I don't think I've revealed my age on th...

When Russia annexed the Crimea in 2014, I didn't have a firm position on the issue. But now, after moving to Moscow, I find that in retaliation for EU...

I'm not going to defend neoliberalism or the right wing Brexit ultras, but I'll note that Brexit did arguably represent the chance to escape from the ...

Depends how you look at it I guess. The conditions are unfavourable for building a new skyscraper on the site of the Empire State Building, but pretty...

I guess it's possible that life could be appearing quite often, and immediately being eaten by bacteria.

Note that the conditions of the Earth at the beginning of life were different from the present conditions.

Do you think the following example of hate speech cultivates the conditions for war between Britain and the US? If not, is there any circumstance in w...

I haven't read much of this discussion, but... Do any serious commentators argue that ordering murder etc. ought to be defended on the basis of the pr...

I don't see the appeal of all these craft beers that taste of grapefruit.

Ah. Now I know I was taking you too seriously.

At the risk of taking your rant too seriously... As I understand the view of linguists, English English, and more widely British English, are just as ...