Jamal

https://www.ebag.bg/products/images/105128/800 50%. Impressive. Edit: just noticed it’s Bulgarian.

I noticed that, but maybe you can get different thicknesses in the US, so I’m not convinced. Smetana here is usually 15 or 20% fat (25-30 is available...

Just realized it was actually 22 flights of stairs, cos it’s two per floor and I’m on floor 11. But wait. The annoying Russian system, same as the Ame...

Well, my possibly Slavic friend, I only used smetana out of habit because I’m in Russia, plus I prefer the word over sour cream. Probably the folk her...

The story is too long and involved. Another time, perhaps. The answer might be disappointingly boring. There's a public channel for this apartment bui...

Yes! I read it years ago. It’s a good one.

Isn’t there a book or a film or something about someone whose thoughts or emotions are so strong that they’re manifested in the world around them? In ...

Lunch: burrito with turkey, leftover spicy red beans (the real star of the show), lettuce, cilantro, onions, chilies, lime juice, smetana. But it was ...

My first hamster, Skipperton the Second, started hanging around with a bunch of rats from the wrong side of the tracks and descended into a life of dr...

This is an acceptable outcome. It is probable that any friends and family members you may have are quite pleased that you survived. :up:

I was thinking of starting with Junky or Naked Lunch. I yawn at the thought of drugs in literature though, so that's been holding me back.

Great stuff. Subscribed :up:

Breakfast: banana and coffee Lunch: steamed zander and broccoli with Lao Gan Ma black bean chilli sauce and a leftover potato Dinner: mackerel wraps I...

Learning From Le Guin | Kim Stanley Robinson https://youtu.be/cvSnKmJ7SZA

:cool:

Sounds a lot like Adorno's Hegelianism.

I was the same. Glad I went for it.

The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System by Milovan Djilas, a 1950s critique of the Soviet system by a Yugoslav communist, showing that the ...

Thanks, I may listen later, when I find a window in my currently occupied ears.

A car-centric infrastructure is stupid and evil in cities, but maybe not for transport between cities. Put another way, public transport, especially t...

Have you read his short stories "MS. Found in a Bottle," and "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall," written a few years before the novel? I'...

I shall speak with an air of authority here despite possessing a mere smattering of knowledge on the subject, although I am a jazz fan... Indeed, the ...

You can't go wrong with ice cream, whatever the flavour. I was sceptical about gorgonzola flavour but it's now my second favourite after vanilla. But ...

From my outsider perspective, Texans spring to mind.

Ah, I thought there was some special Portuguese way of preparing coffee, like Turkish coffee or whatever. :grin:

Ha! You don’t know the half of it. We didn’t even have cookies. I’m not doing the Yorkshiremen sketch here—we really didn’t have those delectable Amer...

My favourite species of cookie. Please describe.

That’s pretty cold. Was only a few degrees colder than that here today. I imagine your goats have no trouble with such temperatures.

That’s the umbilical cord.

Its ambiguity is part of its charm. Is it a very small pie that belongs to Rosemary, or is it a pie with a filling made of Rosemary’s infant child, or...

It was sunny and cold today, a good day for a walk. I got the metro to Turgenevskaya, walked through the city centre, around the kremlin and over the ...

:up: I notice you didn’t use the term “Rosemary’s Baby Pie.”

Have I wandered into fucking Facebook?

Do not feed the troll, people.

I like you Javi, I just disagree with everything you say :grin: It's actually Italian: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Damiano_cross According to ...

There was one memorable guy from New Zealand who got banned on this site's predecessor, and then got banned again here. I think there are or have been...

So TPF has two known members in Madrid. I wonder if there are more. I wonder if any of the members of the Spanish Toyota Celica Club are also members ...

I know the hospital you’re talking about because I’ve been to that embassy a few times to get visas. No no, you had a lucky escape. Falling in love wi...

Finished. Jamal scores it 11/10. Now reading Passing for Human by Jody Scott.

Truth! :clap:

I guess it's like saying you love Italian food and your favourite restaurant is--what's the one that Americans joke about--Olive Garden?

Thanks. So I was right. Love it when that happens. :strong:

What’s the joke? Is it that Sbarro is just a regular chain rather than a real authentic New York pizza place? Or something like that.

And yet you have not said no. :chin:

Or sockpuppet.

IP060903’s version seems to be from the video game Assassin’s Creed. They have returned to the nether depths, never to resurface.

:up: Btw I would never describe myself as being “offended” by such inaccurate rumours, and wouldn’t want to give that impression.

No problem. A relation of yours?

Cool. Let me know if you work it out. :victory:

No idea what you're talking about but thanks! :grin: