Jamal

Well, it seemed relevant to your debate with unenlightened, and I agree with it. Of course, maybe you can come up with reasons if you think about it, ...

Agreed. What is “feeling yourself” anyway? Seems like an appeal to the “real you,” which is suspect. I suspect it’s shorthand for a gratifying feeling...

Nearest I got was seeing Dweezil’s band. :100:

You mean “goodnight, see you in the Shoutbox tomorrow” I trust.

Yes, after I commented I checked online, hoping that it was maple trees that were burning, but found out that unfortunately it probably wasn’t.

High off the smoke of a million burning maple trees.

Sorry, the unalloyed masculinity of the Shoutbox causes me to be obnoxious.

This is yours: https://geneticliteracyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/scientists-test-the-effects-of-psychedelic-drugs-on-lab-grown-br...

What you’re saying finally clicked and it’s possible I felt something similar without knowing it.

This amuses me. It’s probably true though: I don’t think I’ve ever bought a lone banana. When I’m out and about and need some fruit on the go, I buy a...

Yes, and I can sympathise. Almaty has extremely bad air pollution but if I were to move to Kazakhstan, that’s where I’d live. It wasn’t noticeably bad...

I ran the fish counter of a supermarket a long time ago. What made it bearable was that I was free to arrange the fish in any way I wanted. Customers ...

Many would give an arm and a leg to live in such a magnificent metropolis, even in the times of bad air. So quit grumbling and enjoy your apocalypse. ...

The best man at my wedding graduated from Disney University and confirms what you say. He worked at the UK pavilion at Epcot—which should be called En...

Yes, I think so. Talking of colour, I saw some pictures of the New York sky a few minutes ago. Yikes.

This is quite profound and I might use it in my everyday life. Work ought to be an expression of the self, not a hardship that means you only really f...

I think it’s related. I also think it can have something to do with depression, but maybe not exactly the same as you describe it. For me it was more ...

I don’t always laugh at your jokes, but this is one is comedy gold.

I think you’ve misunderstood me. Edit: also I wasn’t saying anything about right and left.

Its not getting old. I’m enjoying the updates. I hope it clears soon and that you’re not at risk. The Great Smog of London in 1952 lasted four days an...

So when I, in almost a parody of a Hegelian leftist, said that capitalists are not greedy enough, I probably meant to extol the pleasure of life—fine ...

A fuller response… I don’t exactly disagree, but my point is that it is essential to capitalism to instil an ethic in which money is put to good use, ...

I’ve been a big Zappa fan since I was twelve, but I’d never given much thought to the lyrics of Montana. I just interpreted it as joyous nonsense, and...

:cool:

Hunker down wisely :up:

I won’t address the anachronism of projecting capitalism back so far into the past, but yes, you’re right about the unprecedentedly dynamic character ...

An interesting thought. However, those who oppose capitalism and “capitalist politics” and who are not moralizing bores or morons do not think it’s ab...

Sounds smoky alright. I didn’t know about them fires.

I think a post-apocalyptic vibe would make me start again.

It’s crop, not flop.

Tina Turner and the Ikettes did the backing vocals, including in the very difficult (and excellent) middle section that comes after Frank’s solo. The ...

As far as I’m aware it’s only when you go to Montana that you become a dental floss tycoon.

Thanks. So a bit like Kraft cheese slices, but sold in a block as alluring as a bar of gold.

I see. Well, I can confirm that ceviche is delicious, when done right. The problem is it’s rarely done right, which is why the trip to Peru would be w...

It still looks like shouting to me, even if it’s single words. I suspect others feel the same, but I could be wrong.

You know you can use italics instead of shouting with capital letters?

:up: :chin:

I don’t think I need to quote you, since I estimate that most others reading this exchange will see exactly what I mean. I’m not trying to convince yo...

This was my favourite bit.

Absolutely. I would go mainly for the ceviche.

I would like to do a tour of all the places that the British controlled, exploited, owned, or destroyed. More impressive than your short list of littl...

Which part would you especially like to go to, and why?

I am not, and never have been, and would one day quite like to be, at least for a couple of weeks.

This was in response to @"Hanover" but it struck me as especially deluded, so I’m butting in. You give the impression of someone who has waded into a ...

Jam doughnuts! I used to eat jam doughnuts in my high school lunchbreak, after either a chip roll or Scotch pie and beans. I guess this answers @"T Cl...

This will be a superficial response… On the face of it, Ellul’s concept of technique, rather than providing a motive or force where the Will fails to ...

But you evolved mostly in Africa, making you basically an old world primate who likes to travel.

I liked it. It’s a short apocalyptic science fiction novel that subverts the escapism and nostalgia of cosy catastrophe by reducing the protagonists t...

For what it’s worth, my own meagre experience writing stories aligns with what you’re saying, Tom. To a surprising extent, I don’t know what I wrote u...