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Gins and tonic, passersby, etc. This is barely even linguistics, and I'm not sure why it's been put in philosophy of language. Can anyone tell me why ...

Who was it who said...

Pfft

https://youtu.be/mrhEqS-dwU0

https://youtu.be/8ToK9VLJcxU

https://youtu.be/OI4dKpcAyB8

https://youtu.be/UGiQ_-Ktpvc

The Histories by Herodotus.

I refer you to the post above from , because I don’t remember that one very well, though I think I did read it. I have a feeling it’s a less substanti...

I share your intense annoyance at being interrupted or talked over, but the others don't bother me much. To be sure, I'm annoyed at how addictive reac...

Pfft.

That's right. It would be an odd thing to invent.

Yesterday in a WhatsApp conversation I was reaching for a reference. The reference was to Alvin and the Chipmunks but I couldn't remember it. I knew i...

Hey, you didn’t tell me that when you were asking for an invitation! :angry: Only kidding. Welcome aboard.

From a certain perspective, maybe he was, since he was influential in the New Wave SF of the sixties, when authors were reacting against the Utopianis...

Dystopian fiction goes back to the nineteenth century and there are several famous examples from the early twentieth century, so I don’t think so. Oth...

Yeah, I haven’t read as much PKD as you. Maybe I’ll change my mind. Sounds interesting.

Here’s where I’m coming from. So-called depressing stories and novels, though they might be about the pointlessness of existence and the stupidity of ...

I'm responding just to say that Philip K. Dick is not depressing to me. On the contrary, I find his writing delightful and stimulating, the opposite o...

You have nothing to lose but your anchovies. :chin:

You're my oily fish brother.

Thanks. Big difference between different kinds of mackerel, or where the mackerel is from. Now I just need to find out where my canned mackerel is fro...

:up: That’s the fancy version. I eat mackerel a lot. How much is too much, with regard to mercury, I wonder? What does TripAdvisor have to say about i...

Harrumph x 1060 I shall address your post in detail later. Prepare to be destroyed.

I’ve never spoken with Noam Chomsky and have never claimed I have. TPF’s Chomsky contact is @"Mikie". Pasta with canned mackerel and ketchup is my new...

On this occasion @"T Clark" and his brother seem like better sources than the stuff you found with your light Googling, and they fit with my experienc...

I've also heard that tipping in Australia can even offend, as it can do in Europe.

North American problems. Upon alighting from my train at Montreal or Toronto or somewhere like that, I was overwhelmed first by porters and then by ta...

In Scotland people say "facecloth". A flannel is a pie filled with organ meat, chips, and gravy. I don't use a facecloth. Using just the hands, one ca...

My favourite temperature for an appendectomy is 21 Celsius, dry air.

When I read this I was listening to a Welsh voice, the voice of a Welsh person. They definitely exist.

Plays havoc with one's identity what.

Let’s just say I’ve been around.

Well, I used to live nearby and I was forced to go a couple of times every year in lieu of holidays. Bring back trains I say.

Ha! Knew it. I’m very fond of Caerlaverock Castle.

Stab ye first.

Parking lot.

Now that the radge Glaswegian bawbag has departed, I have nobody to fight. On my birthday! There’s no respect for tradition any more.

Seriously though, “sport peppers”? I love it to be honest. I wish we had sport peppers.

You know very well that I cannot deny you that. A pathetic move, but I concede.

If I’m haughty in the manner of the English nobility, it is only to oppose the barbaric idiocy of some of my compatriots.

So let me get this. You think it’s okay to abuse a chap who says in no uncertain terms that he loves this single malt, just because you don’t like his...

I was kinda hoping you would run with it.

Finally we agree on something.

From the Canadian lady’s point of view, I came between the Persian and a variety of Americans.

I dated a Canadian woman who had briefly dated a Persian man.

:angry:

I accept most of that, but the fact remains that you cannot describe the Picts as the “true Scots” unanachronistically.

Touché. Round 5 to you.

Well no, because the Scoti were an Irish tribe that went over to Scotland and partly displaced or assimilated the Picts. “Here’s an even wetter, colde...