Jamal

I don’t think the differences are as significant as you’re making out. The fact is that deregulation, privatization, and globalization continued apace...

You’re only saying that because you’re a lamb evangelist. A lambvangelist.

Yes, I did the lamb wrong for sure. However, I object to your blanket declaration that “lamb is far preferable to steak.”

I expected such an attack, and I had my doubts about using quality beef in a wrap. I could justify it at length, but fuck it: it was great.

I prefer things “in the bag” anyway.

Not exactly. One is a rhythmic descriptor and the other is phenomenological, otherwise known as flow. Dude.

My question is, can you get in the pocket when you’re not in the zone?

Wagyu chuck steak wrap was my main meal yesterday. This was the second wrap of the week and was much more successful than the lamb one. The steak, fri...

Define “pocket”.

I’ll see you all in the parking lot.

My beard is only 50% grey, so I’m guessing it’s not actually me. Also, where’s my handbag?

It seems that I am much more the self-sufficient bourgeois than you then, with your sensitive shoulders and pack animal wife.

Yep, exactly what I was getting at.

I found this outrageous piece of invective from 2011, written by a Russian woman, oddly enough:

Fascinating as always NOS. I may say more tomorrow.

We seem to be in agreement. :scream:

Sometimes a camera too, and a cute little pink Glock 42 pistol.

Dapper with good teeth and luxuriant hair :up: You remind me of a young George Hamilton.

Wallet, glasses, phone, passport, vape and vape juice, keys … hairbrush.

I wear my wedding ring Russian style, on the right hand.

It's a curious fact to me that, since I've become an international citizen, it's only in English speaking countries that men don't carry such bags. I'...

That's probably why I wanted to define it: I found myself using it a lot and it occurred to me that I might not know what I was saying.

I have no idea, but it wouldn’t surprise me, because the word is used sometimes as a loose term of abuse—a mere “polemical tool”—everywhere as far as ...

Cool, but it doesn’t show that there’s a difference between American and European uses, which is all that I objected about in your first post.

I'm happy to be persuaded, just don't see it so far.

:cry:

In a massive break from tradition, here is a recent photo of the full Jamal, wishing he had a hat. /uploads/resized/files/g3/19ha6rqchm6734ss.jpeg

Totally agree, although your sweet smile is not very rock n roll.

I think it’s the same here. The difference is more likely between popular and academic uses.

I’m not surprised those walls enrapture you so, given your fondness for beige.

Interesting post, but none of it goes against neoliberalism as understood in Europe, as you imply. I don’t think there’s much of a difference between ...

Interesting, thanks. On the other hand there’s a difference between neoliberals, who want to reduce taxes, and libertarians, who might be against tax ...

Right on comrade.

A gentleman never wears his hat indoors.

Biting satire from @"Hanover" there.

But my decadent aristocrat persona is safe.

I like it. It doesn't have the out-of-control anger that I had in mind, but it's funny all the same. It's interesting that they could get humour out o...

Car park.

What do you think happens when thoughts come upon you unbidden? How does that happen? Mainly I just wanted to use the word "unbidden". In other news, ...

That's fighting talk @"Hanover"

I know it's annoying when I go all meta, but I do like this kind of humour. I've always wanted to create a comedy character who, whenever he hears bir...

Yes, I love it. The original comedy double-act. (before anyone points it out, I know it's much more than just a comedy romp)

Totally oxymoronic. I suspected you spelt flair wrong so I looked it up. Yep, it's flair. The Shoutbox, a mine of useful knowledge. Unless you were re...

I believe he may have been an admirer of Spain's Islamic history, but apart from that I don't know. He did have a few things to say about Don Quixote....

You really gotta be in the mood for that kind of meal, I find. I've never had gefilte fish though. I didn't know it was a beige mash.

He was a big fan of Southern Europe and lived in Italy and the South of France while writing some of his big works, but I don't know if he made it ove...

From now on I’ll be deleting discussions like this rather than moving them to the Lounge, whether or not they’ve received replies by the time I see th...

Good luck getting through the strangeness ND.

Well, if it’s good it’s good, so that’s good.

I like the way you went so quickly from romantic declarations to legal formalities and the gargling of sexual fluids. It’s ego, superego, and id, perf...