Jamal

Whether or not you’re joking, I’ll point out the obvious anyway: you’re including pinned discussions, which are not relevant to the points you’re tryi...

Thank you for your concern, but what do you mean by "militarizing"? Conscription of foreigners is a rumour that has been spread before on this site an...

:lol:

As far as I know, plátano can mean banana, but can also mean plantain. In Mercadona, they always had a pile of "bananas" and a pile of more expensive ...

My father used to listen to that song often. The lyrics annoyed me back then but now I get it. Interesting that he wrote it no later than 1964, which ...

@"Hanover" is your mole, I suppose.

Also, Count Tim was only made a mod about 20 minutes ago so it's surprising that you discovered it so soon.

We do hold a secret ceremony, but it takes place behind closed doors at an undisclosed location, and the participants are sworn to secrecy, especially...

No, you're right, not "necessarily". There may be times when the sensitive response and the sentimental response coincide, and a person can be sentime...

I post from a phone sometimes. It’s horrible, but—in my experience—no more horrible than posting anything on a phone. Relative to other sites and apps...

I probably got it from Uncle Roger.

This happened to me when making a curry. I had been taking the generally great advice to use “the right amount, not the white amount” with several kin...

I read it a few years ago. Very good.

Cumin is a necessity. I also add paprika. Never tried beer.

@"universeness" One or two people including myself quite recently defined stupidity as the refusal to learn when given the chance. It seems not to hav...

I agree. The sentimentalists, while thinking they care, actually don’t care about real people, and weep for their own images (e.g., stereotypes or arc...

Sensitivity isn’t shallow, thoughtless, and facile. The sentimental person sees a cute cat and stares at it, walks towards it, makes stupid noises (“a...

I think it’s about superficiality. The Nabokov quote that I posted above is preceded with this: And Hitler loved animals. It’s a familiar critique, as...

You’ve gone deep there, but I don’t think you’ve nailed it. That’s not sentimentality. That’s the recognition of lost time. Moments gone forever, that...

He cries in a way I have cried, and I think I recognize it as sincere but misguided, or delusional. It is sentimentality—which lines up with his favou...

It’s a pretty minimal requirement to read a philosopher’s work before judging it. If you’re honest with yourself I think you’ll admit that. You join a...

Yep, what she said. A nice line:

It’s a barrier in the same way that the musical skills among musicians are a barrier to non-musicians.

They also ease communication within the group.

@"universeness" It’s been bothering me so I’d like to correct myself. It’s not really about what you’ve read so much as what you're interested in. On ...

That is a foolish thing to say.

I didn’t like it.

As a former winner, I would be happy next time round to award medals or shiny cups to winners, and to name and shame the most egregious losers.

That’s what Uncle Jamal is here for. :up:

To be honest, my response to you was probably too pedantic. I’m used to disagreeing with everything you say about language, so it was automatic. :grin...

Your argument is comically absurd, and there is likely no substantial disagreement between us, so I’ll leave it there.

Well Javi, what you say does not seem to be addressing what I said in a specific-enough way. For example, I said there might not be a single cause for...

Merry (Orthodox) Christmas!

I think either you misunderstood me, or else you're obsessed. I come from my grandparents via my parents. Spirit comes from Latin via French. BTW I do...

Here is an interesting question: could it be the case that your question is not actually an interesting question? Maybe it just happened that way, for...

I don't think so. It's analogous to saying that someone is descended from Arthur, Ethel, William, and Margaret rather than Edith, Timur, Mathilda and ...

Good answer.

I don’t think you were incorrect. Several definitions have it as fine or okay. It’s groovy man. Perhaps. I had a look at the titles and thought that F...

This word, which I’m not very familiar with (I had to look it up), kept popping into my head today, for no reason I can think of, and now I read this....

Discussions in the categories of Politics and Current Affairs, Humanities and Social Science, and Science and Technology, all live on the home page, b...

@"boagie" has been banned for low quality and toxicity.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.

Penalty box, you say? Sure, why not? Consider it done.

Did I just dream it?

As discussed, they won't be adding new functionality and we'll have to move to another platform.

Is nothing to do with this website.

I very much doubt you’ve read Plato, or really any philosophy at all, which again makes me wonder what the hell you're doing here, aside from evangeli...

Never mind racism: I'm surprised you haven't brought theism into this debate. I like dark chocolate, but Bournville is IMHO the old over-sweet sickly ...

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On January 1 (yesterday?) I cooked a shin of veal for myself and three others. The previous night we went out at 01:30 to see some fireworks and get s...