Jamal

I use a vape but I don’t want to be a “vape guy”. Vape guys are into vaping like it’s a hobby, and for some reason endeavour to produce as much vapour...

I have never knowingly owned a vape shop, but I have set foot in many. I can’t comment on the contents of your acid trips or whatever it is.

Yep. There is a small distance between “I hate it when people do X” and “I hate people who do X”. I was personally injured by the comments about vapin...

Speculation forthcoming… I put it to you that you are quite happy with many illogicalities of grammar (and spelling, which is especially illogical in ...

Maybe the trouble is expecting grammar to be logical in the first place, when mostly what matters is what’s conventional, i.e., standard. I only respo...

Exactly, it reminds me of that kind of thing too. @"Amity" that is why it belongs in the Lounge, and also because it’s not just like any old wine-soak...

That’s entirely arbitrary. It only seems to be relevant because it is in fact quite common to use try to. I recommend reading the whole article if you...

:up: But just to be clear, technically I’m one of three administrators.

I disagree. It’s mainly a long-term social area for three or four people talking informally and sometimes intelligently about many different topics, a...

I moved it to the Lounge because it’s more of a chat than a focused philosophical discussion.

I agree with you about “John and I”, but not about “try and”. In my opinion, “try and” is much smoother and more stylish. And it’s totally standard, i...

Yep, I felt the same and actually gave up in the first few pages. Then I went back to it a week or two later. It was worth it.

I dream of doing a cycle tour around the region over a period of weeks. You must be right about the reasons it isn’t a popular travel destination. The...

I was curious so I googled it. It looks incredible. I don’t know how I managed to live in Spain and not know anything about the region. I must go some...

Thatcher helped to destroy the labour movement and accelerate the decline and disappearance of socialism as a credible challenge, and oversaw the move...

https://youtu.be/Q4OuWtqmGLI?feature=shared

No, my contrarianism has limits.

That was on TV for a while, but I didn’t get it. All I remember is that the animation wasn’t very good. I’ve taken note of your assessment and shall r...

Those were the days when you were young, that’s all.

Very sixties.

While I’m being nostalgic, let me share this genuinely fantastic theme song from Ulysses 31, which I remember much more than the episodes themselves. ...

Never heard of them. Although Shaggy was a good character, I didn't much like Scooby Doo until the appearance of Scrappy, who I decided to be fond of ...

We had Bewitched, Batman, and the Flintstones, but not the others. Scooby-Doo was on all the time as well. We also had the classic cartoons from the g...

Personally I’m ok with “limey”, but Baden won’t be, since it applies only to Brits.

I’m sure I’ve heard worse.

The most convenient term is the people of the Anglo-Celtic North Atlantic Archipelago.

Fun fact: imitating Dick Van Dyke badly results in perfect cockney.

Yes, British attempts at American accents are usually embarrassing. I’ve tried it myself but I find it immensely difficult. It’s odd, since we Brits a...

Ha! Probably an easy mistake to make if you’re not attuned to the various British accents. The Newcastle accent, known as the Geordie accent, can inde...

The only way to achieve this would be to get me to set up a special category that those certain people do not have permission to see, and then to post...

In my middle age I have begun to positively enjoy shop and restaurant music. When it’s good I enjoy it because it’s good, and when it’s bad it amuses ...

A quite interesting question, which I will answer on the basis of very little technical knowledge but heaps of wisdom… Probably the most convincing ac...

Possibly. It’s working normally for me.

Because of the unusual concentration of bellends no doubt.

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Difficult for foreigners to understand, certainly. As you might be implying, he’s reporting the facts honestly and plainly. I have a feeling I’ve seen...

I noticed that bad spot in Southwest South Dakota and wondered, what’s going on there? Turns out it’s the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, of the Lakota...

Yeh it’s good to have an -ism for it, to oppose to pacifism, but most often the more common bellicosity is probably better.

Wasn’t me, but it looks interesting, so I’ve added it to the list :up:

I guess you mean pizza. My guess is not enough salt, either in the sauce or in the bread. Since you have experience making pizzas, it’s probably not t...

The author does not say that synthetic a priori knowledge makes experience possible, but that it pertains to the formal cognitive structures that make...

:up: Note: I wrote it some time around 2010, not 2020 as it says there.

I look forward to that!

And it’s probably about time that I responded to your monster post.

Thanks for reading. Yes, I let the articles site lapse since nobody ever sent in a suitable article; there was only that one by me. Maybe I'll just re...

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They shouldn't. In the first sentence here, you imply that this has happened a lot. Is this true, or did it just happen in the one instance you then d...

I'm enjoying it a lot. It's more New Wave than Golden Age, but it has a lot of the classic SF stuff like FTL travel and galactic empires.

No, it's my first, and I intend to read more of his work. I'll probably avoid Hogg though.

Nova by Samuel R. "Chip" Delany.