Jamal

In the month of April the male philosopher comes out of hibernation and immediately begins to challenge its competitors. Its belligerence is caused by...

:rage: Parking lot.

I can forgive you for everything except putting this bloody awful song in my head. If it didn’t make it over stateside, be thankful.

This reminded me of one of your stories.

The natural question to ask here is, how well do you really know someone if you’ve never heard them say “raspberry”?

That’s a very dangerous habit. I wish him luck. See this is more my level. I like porridge too, and blueberries, but never together. Unlikely. Current...

Is he paying you to indiscriminately advertise his channel? I have no knowledge of gambling and my interest in it, if quantified, would be well into m...

Breakfast was scrambled eggs of course. Lunch was three small packs of instant noodles (ramen), all different brands and flavours, cooked and mixed up...

@"javi2541997" There’s a Japanese novella called ????, translated as The Flowers of Buffoonery. The key word here seems to have the alternative transl...

I'm done here!

I thought I'd done that already :cry:

Yes, that was totally intentional. :smirk:

Interestingly, being a buffoon is acting the buffoon. Being a fool is, sometimes, acting the fool. Jesters were not always or often mere idiots, but h...

:lol: But seriously that is how I sometimes behave, heroically bringing light where there is darkness. "Buffoon" is in fact used in the sense of "clow...

And the key thing here is that this cannot be done if the words simply switched to positives like “nerd” or whatever. EDIT: sorry about the multiple p...

And if I manage to pull the same thing off with buffoon—I’m working on it—then I can say, you’re right, I am a buffoon, because I don’t accept this so...

All good stuff, but. I meant something a bit different. Maybe amateur, which I was talking about in my last post, is a better example. To use it to me...

Yep, as a practical matter all of that’s no doubt accurate. I just find the exceptions more interesting, like amateur and (I want to say) buffoon. It ...

Ok I have more to say. It seems like some words, such as “nerd”, “queer”, and the N-word (not against the rules to mention this word explicitly in quo...

@"Janus" I want to say that the most interesting and famous philosophers have radically undermined or rejected the premises of their predecessors. If ...

That's a great example. In these cases it’s not always just a “switch”; it’s because the word is negative, signifying for example an outsider status, ...

@"javi2541997" So, the interesting question for me is: can a word find positive connotations through its negative connotations?

Well, I regard Dénia as a town rather than a city. There's Valencia though.

I didn't really make that claim and it's not something I would make a point of in this case. I think we all know that it's usually derogatory.

I think this is because in our significantly Protestant Anglo culture*, being silly is frowned upon, regarded as frivolous and trivial. I believe the ...

It's more than just Italy! Nice, Cannes, Split, Antalya, Haifa... OK I realize I've begun to leave Europe now. I was thinking about the Mediterranean ...

Hm, it seems for you that Southern Europe consists entirely of Spain and Greece. :wink:

Here is the original exchange: I was playing with the ambiguous character of the word. I was pretending to be affronted that Javi was claiming the cov...

You missed some.

I’d like to point out that I’m being taken here to have some kind of position on this issue, but I don’t recognize it as alluded to in these comments;...

Wait, so who won?

I like how you give examples so the reader knows what you mean by “city”, but I don’t think it’s necessary. Well, duh. You imply that smaller cities a...

No. What makes scrambled eggs scrambled eggs and not other preparations of eggs is that they’re scrambled. You actually assume this when you say all t...

And spring onions or chives, cheese, chilis and curry powder, sour cream. Not all together though. I’m egg-conservative.

Listen bawbag, I’ll put salt and pepper in my eggs if I like.

Mostly I like silence, natural sounds, and the occasional human utterance. I prefer—it feels like I absolutely need—silence when I’m reading. I get st...

Good scrambled eggs should glisten. I don’t like matt eggs with too fine a scramble. Even worse is when they’ve had water added and they’re lying in a...

The clue is in the etymology. “Excellent” is the modern spelling of “eggcellent”. Cellent is Latin for very good, so it literally means very good eggs...

That’s how I make them, and they’re excellent. I’m sorry about the misunderstanding, and I meant “buffoon” in the noble sense. I’m done here.

So, Hypatia was originally @"Moliere"’s idea :up:

You may view the original discussion here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/49/icon-for-the-site/p1

Effectively the butter is mixed with the eggs in the pan, but I suppose you mean actually beaten up together.

I understand what a French omelette is you buffoon. What I don’t know is this supposed “trendy” form of scrambled eggs. I suspect it’s what I already ...

Progressing from beige one step at a time :up:

Homemade? Good colour!

I wouldn’t be going for that if I saw it on a menu. So said the loud and silent monkey.

I don’t know about the trend but mine are soft, lumpy, and moist. If you mean the totally homogeneous probably French liquidized style, I’m not into t...

But just because “buffoon” is often now derogatory doesn’t mean we can’t use it differently to make a point, as I’ve seen people do with the word “ama...

If anyone here does have a good scrambled egg recipe I’d be grateful. How do you even open those incubatory ovoids?

The philosopher and mathematician Hypatia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia The image we’re using might not be what she looked like. I have a f...