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Just hanging around outside?

Yes indeed. My father passed his interest in birds down to his sons. Apparently my very first words were "great spotted woodpecker".

Talking of birds, I recently watched a very good documentary about extreme birdwatching: https://youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo?si=IKbVJJTOYpbvx87D

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Apart from using the copious resources of the internet (SEP, IEP, Wikipedia, ChatGPT etc), you can just post a question as a new discussion, so long a...

I don't know if it will help but it might be worthwhile to look at the alternative translation online, which is often easier to understand: https://si...

I'm very sceptical of the approach outlined in the article. But...it's a thing.

They intersect in the field of social ontology, which SEP says can be considered as a branch of metaphysics and which is, I suppose, a philosophy of s...

The Shoutbox hosts a squash discussion approximately every two years, with little progress. I'd like to see more effort in future please.

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Or both.

Yes, I had some today. :yum:

For whisky, the fermentation doesn't take long. The ageing is a process of maturation and enrichment taking place in barrels after fermentation.

Be careful, for the unsanitary conditions and potential for contamination during pruno production can lead to serious health risks, including botulism...

Sounds like sour grapes!

Understandably, they didn't have the patience for that and worked out they could bring the fermentation period down to under a month.

:yum: I sometimes eat mine with a poached egg.

Medovukha is quite popular in Russia, but in a self-consciously olde worlde kind of way, particularly in the medieval Golden Ring. In any case, I like...

In Scotland eating smoked haddock that I poached in buttered milk.

A lot on my plate right now, so it might be a few weeks before I get back to the reading. Carry on without me and I'll catch up.

@"Banno" @"Moliere" It was at Antalya airport so you can't judge on that basis. The meat was good quality lamb but it was served without sauce or much...

Yes, I think so.

I'm kinda disappointed that I had a doner kebab in Turkey a few days ago and it was mediocre, then when I got to my home town in Scotland and had a do...

Javi is pronounced more like ????.

Okay, that's quite interesting.

Principle.

Thank you for your thoughtful response. I'll respond when I have fulfilled all of my personal and social duties.

Good stuff, particularly the last paragraph. I think the unfettered is what he has variously described as speculation, play, the irrational within the...

Brilliant. More evidence that satire is now impossible.

You're more than half-right. What is wrong is to say that he delights in conflict or sees it as the point of the exercise. He wants to avoid reconcili...

Very good and difficult questions, and I don't know the answers yet. Adorno would say if you're asking how his philosophy can be used, as in a tool, t...

Yes, my interpretation was too reductive and it looks like you're right that the retreat is not just cancelled out as I kind of implied. But "unregime...

I recommend this podcast episode in which Peter E. Gordon talks about his recent book about Adorno, arguing against the common understanding that his ...

Lupine dialectics In I used concepts from Wilfrid Sellars to describe geistige Erfahrung as consisting of, or emerging out of, the dialectic between t...

Before I went to Granada I read a scholarly book about the Alhambra. I didn't absorb or remember much of it, except one point: whereas traditional Eur...

Thank you, I'm here all night.

Hot dogs are the Wurst.

I didn't go to Jaén but it was super-hot throughout our time in Andalusia. We were in Seville; some beautiful hotels and villages in the mountains; Ro...

My wife isn't really an oligarch.

Yep! The honeymoon consisted of driving around Andalusia for three weeks at the end of September 2018. It was great, even aside from the Burger King a...

Did you know that many Brits called them "beefburgers", because they're under the mistaken impression that the "ham" refers to ham, and since they're ...

Indeed, certainly not. I had a Whopper last month in Kostroma. The Whopper at its best is quite a good burger, in structure, composition, and dimensio...

We're both right. In that passage Adorno describes the retreat into the subject as a danger or temptation faced by thinking, one that can be resisted ...

I am glad I have finally gained your approval after all these years. :wink:

In I described the role of intellectual experience, and the motivation behind it, but I didn't define it. I'll attempt that now (with all the relevant...

Yes, I see it now, and I agree. I discovered that the most traditional paella in Valencia is made not with seafood but with rabbit and chicken. That's...

To be fair though, your post was ambiguous.

OK, good point. I misunderstood, not totally but slightly and crucially.

This sentence evinces a deep misunderstanding. You seem to think that a traditional meal for working-class people is inherently not a good meal, but t...