Jamal

I tried it a couple of times and thought it was okay, despite or maybe because it was so weird.

The famous chocolate from Kazakhstan tasted a bit like Hershey’s to me. https://files.kazakhstan.travel/files/public/201911/11/ad77340b83844138964b2b2...

Not monkey. I found this nice phylogenetic tree, which I’m sharing as a contribution to the Shoutbox knowledge fund: https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2...

I still don't know what it is.

Sure, but not all restaurant businesses are the same, and it’s up to owner how to run it. Since you appealed to rights, the important thing here is th...

You could say that my restaurant is more properly American—liberal in the traditional sense—since it insists on the rights of the private owner of the...

If I get the time I think I’ll make a new discussion about it. There are a few ways art can be truthful. Making connections, cognitive estrangement th...

A friend of mine pours rivers of ketchup on his British cooked breakfast. All over the fried eggs and everything. I tell him the eggs have their own s...

I’d tolerate that.

Hold on, that’s not the same thing at all. I’m on the chef’s side on that one. The difference is that salt is an essential element of a savoury dish, ...

Does it follow from this that the creator is created too? Anyway, as you might expect, I’d go a bit further and say that the creator is also a fiction...

I read this and thought yeah, what’s the deal with waiters grinding pepper onto your food? It turns out I’m not the first to ask this question: What’s...

Parking lot.

:up: The reduction of truth to facts and information is characteristic of our age, with its “strong fact/value distinction” (quoting the OP). It’s kin...

That must be it, yes. The place is known for selling flavoured vodkas, especially the Ukrainian ones. :blush:

You used my perfect sandwich as a mere springboard for your own fantasy, but that’s the Shoutbox way, so it’s cool.

I think you successfully interpreted my cryptic comments, which I didn’t realize were cryptic. I was mostly just summarizing the Frankfurt School and ...

I don’t think they’re competing explanations. I’d say that the power/money ideologies build upon the fact/value separation, because the reduction of v...

But it’s more delicious than it looks. In the photo it looks quite nice but nothing amazing. In real life, it’s something else. I enjoyed reading the ...

I said klezmer, not classic rock!

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Yeah, I don’t know who this guy Simon Tov is, but I like the song. I relate this to the dour Calvinist vs Happy Clappy traditions in Protestant Christ...

You’re welcome. I didn’t know you could get klezmer music in places of worship.

I realize it’s a fine distinction and I’m just trying it out. No, that’s still just hope. The way I’m using the terms right now, optimism is when you ...

Well, although I said I wasn’t an optimist, I want to say that I’m not a pessimist either. Typically of me, I reject that polarity. I like the stuff a...

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A minor achievement of mine will be when I casually crush your puny skull in the parking lot, now.

Your post is mostly misguided, but I will say that the point of “hope without optimism” is that optimism in effect dismisses the horrors that people h...

I would like to join with your associates in berating you. But wait. As it happens, I tolerate the gastronomic peccadillos of my friends, so it’s ok. ...

I had an Odessa sandwich and a pile of small fried fish for dinner. This time I ate all heads, bones, and tails, because I like to leave a clean plate...

:shade:

This is beneath your dignity.

Now that you’ve clarified radical optimism, I partially regret approving of it in that other thread. When you boil it down, it’s hard to distinguish y...

Sounds all right. It’s the triumphal rhetorical banalities I don’t like.

You ask me this because I attempted to confront the reality of the twentieth century? Why should I be an optimist? Seriously, why? This is a venue for...

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." So yeah, in some ways it hasn't gone very well so far, despite N's optimism.

@"universeness" On the atheism of the Nazis, there seem to be roughly two positions from the capital "A" Atheists here: (a) National Socialism was a r...

Good luck in your new headspace!

The Genocides by Thomas M. Disch.

Huckleberry Hound, from the golden age of Hanna-Barbera. Despite Huck Hound and Huck Finn, it never occurred to me that there was an actual berry.

Bullcrap! You make some good points though. In other news, Sparks are on tour at the moment, playing Barcelona tonight at the Primavera Sound music fe...

Balderdash! A couple of my examples are intensely sweet. Very subtle my arse. Savoury and sweet together? Like bacon, marshmallows and syrup for break...

Similarly, they say turnips are good for you, but—get this—I would honestly rather have a pizza or a burger, even if it were less healthy.

I prefer savoury too. I’ll always go a for a starter and main rather than main and dessert. However, sweetness is in my opinion an essential element i...

I’ve enjoyed the sourer kinds, but I like the sweet ones too. I don’t feel I need to come down firmly on one side.

My own preference for lingonberry preserves has a Nordic connection. My wife was so sad that IKEA was leaving Russia last year that she went and got t...

:100: https://youtu.be/AfA4FphZHbc

This is Protestantism in general, not just fundamentalism. It’s why there are thousands of Protestant denominations.

Not sure. For some reason it seemed to go out of fashion after the 1920s. George Orwell in the 1920s: https://preview.redd.it/6plqasywhpey.jpg?auto=we...

That’s my third favourite toothbrush moustache, after Ron Mael and Oliver Hardy.