Jamal

I changed it back to "Favourite". I was too eager to please Hanover.

You've convinced me. And I must admit to being impressed. But if I'm interpreting your story correctly, alcohol for you was a risk too big to take, or...

Oh that's fine, I'm pursuing Agustino and Tiff's mother-in-law anyway.

I know. I think I'll leave it like that because the inconsistency is a bit annoying, like a grain of sand in an oyster.

You're too fast. See my edit.

No. But I've left "Favourite quotations" in the interests of fairness.

It's not creepy coming from Tiff though.

Done.

I take it back.

You're on fire today Gus.

Okay, that's fair enough. And I guess the white chocolate works for presentation.

With such a perfectly executed fondant (goo wrapped in chocolate sponge), isn't the chocolate cream and white chocolate over-egging the pudding?

On a magnetic model, good would attract bad and repel good.

Harsh.

Well, despite your obnoxiousness there's definitely something alluring about you, some magnetic quality.

Yes, there's something gentle and nurturing about him.

>:) Jamal's turning on the charm today. Resistance is futile.

Tread carefully TL. I think he's got a thing going on with Baden. I like the look of your cupcakes though.

Seems reasonable.

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I have to admit I stole that joke from some comedian I saw at the Fringe Festival years ago. One of the people I was with walked out at that point.

Well, I broke up with my girlfriend of ten years a while back*, so I'm always alert to romantic possibilities. *Some people said that was too young

Is she hot?

Certainly one has to be careful over the long term.

Kill me now

What's the world coming to?

It was exchanged frequently at school when I was a child, before we discovered swearing. There were no Asians at my school.

This is actually quite common in the UK.

>:O Perfect.

Or, "Are we all black and in the closet?"

Inebriation is real. Anything we do "by a special method" (to quote myself) is artificial, and to be artificial is not to be unreal. It is artificial ...

Sounds like a good topic for the Unmoderated forum.

I agree that if I put Rob Zombie in the cupboard and close the door, Rob Zombie remains in the cupboard. That still doesn't tell us anything about his...

Ah, of course. Incidentally, did you know he's not actually a zombie?

This is an odd way to phrase a threat. As it turns out, you are alive now, in what was the future when he made the threat. So maybe he meant, "at some...

No point at all, Gus! :)

So straight to the murder without the threat? Most unfair.

I think I'm more of a vampire, or maybe a wight.

Although drinking may not involve acting, like the waiter play-acting the role of waiter, it could be seen to involve the avoidance of freedom and res...

I'm aware that the experiences are different, but they are comparable, in exactly the way I compared them. You suggested that becoming temporarily at ...

Why do that if I can just have a bottle of wine? I regard the anxiety we are able to leave behind when drinking to be part of the human condition, or ...

Contender for the first clause of the first line of your autobiography?

I commonly experience both, and no I don't consider them to be the same experience. That would be foolish. As I said in the OP, I consider them both t...

Everyone says this kind of thing, including me. Whisky makes me depressed for days, wine is fine, and so on. But they say (and they would know) that t...

No more than, say, playing a musical instrument in a band. Do you think it's always foolish to, by a special method, become temporarily at ease with l...

It is not obvious. That is precisely why the books are being written. It takes an effort to look beyond the doxa, which has it that things are getting...

I don't know, what do you think?

A hearteningly non-boring, non-judgmental response. I award you the title of honorary drunkard.

How come I never get death threats? You'd think I was a nobody!

I guess it can be like that, but mostly what I observe in myself and others is (and the article goes into this) shame the following day, the shame of ...