Jamal

It’s mainly for SEO, to get high up in the search results. They will be aware that 99% of visitors just want the recipes and they’re fine with that, w...

I wouldn’t go that far.

I always return shopping trolleys. I’d genuinely rather steal it than leave it somewhere without putting it back where it’s meant to go.

Jesus that stuff is execrable. You’re desperate for breakfast so you google “scrambled eggs recipe,” and you’re confronted with “Ah scrambled eggs, ho...

Yep, this time of year you can pick them off the trees like free berries.

Chicken and potatoes.

Did some strolling this afternoon, then later on some ambling and one short saunter. Successful day. Tomorrow it’s all go though, as I’m mountain-boun...

Douche Touché.

On the other hand, it might make an interesting OP.

I made a good-natured joke. I don’t want to carry on this dispute. What I’ve said already has apparently made no impact, and your perspective seems to...

Define “personalize”.

Good to see our cultures have this practice in common. One often hears in the ale houses of old Albion, “come on, car park, now!” Anyway thanks.

I’m not sure what to say about this but I like it.

Or maybe a tumour of indeterminate malignancy.

Oddly though, the common distinction between artisans and artists is that the things the artisan makes are functional. But art in magic ritual is func...

:up: I don't know. Sometimes it works. A couple of things. One is just that you can probably imagine a better example (unless you mean that this sort ...

Interesting to look at these together: I think the latter is not a metaphor so much as, like the former itself (as you pointed out), an exaggeration. ...

Ah, I thought you meant Zizek. Don’t know if it’s accurate.

Makes me think of Adorno's one: "only exaggeration is true".

Well, I agree dammit. But what I don’t think I’ve seen from you (could be wrong) is when in philosophy you think definitions are good. Is it possible ...

I realized you thought so and was worried it would come up, because I thought it wasn’t relevant, that I could conflate them without anyone noticing t...

I think so, but maybe sometimes less for the primary interlocutors than for bystanders. Reading discussions over the years I’ve been happily struck by...

This is not true. If you’d been paying attention to my posts (and that’s another thing) you’d see that I’m quite open to the idea that definitions are...

That’s a good idea.

No, it was you. You first personalized things when you started talking about my approach to philosophy, implying that it was tied down to particular p...

That’s the beauty of the word. It’s both. If it were socially acceptable to be a buffoon, buffoonery would not be so effective.

Zizek is famously critical of postmodernism, which is why modernists such as Marx and Freud are important reference points for him (despite what you s...

I like the word and use it often against my brother. Another is "bozo". Not quite as good, because a buffoon is a clown, a jester, a subversive comedi...

So what? I don't think it means that because it's personal to you, the very fact that it's personal to you is all you need to talk about. There are th...

I wish you good morning but I resent your claim to be the preeminent Shoutbox buffoon.

On the other hand, what if someone wants to explore the meaning of Dasein and a hostile party butts in with, say, Adorno's excoriating analysis of Hei...

Whereas definitions, if respected, would shut them out from the start. So... But with the definitions and assumptions in place and an expectation that...

Excuse me for butting in folks... It might be inconsiderate, but it is not necessarily unphilosophical. Classically in philosophy, there is questionin...

Wow, signature pancakes. Heaven on Earth. I’ve probably told my pancake story here already so I won’t bother telling it now.

Kazakhstan has Bukharan Jews (a native Central Asian sub-group of Jews), and Mountain Jews. I don't know if they eat lox though. We're a long way from...

You’re only saying that because you weren’t involved, being tucked up in bed or partying the night away. I’m done here.

I’m in Almaty I’m glad to say, the former capital and biggest city. Almaty is a hotbed of a Mexican activity, yes. A breakaway tribe of Mexicans migra...

I prefer the food :yum: I do seriously like to see what people are eating. Some folks think it’s trivial, others like me do not.

I meant @"Streetlight" actually. I didn’t know Sheps was into Zizek. Whatever happened to Sheps eh. Never made it over here I don’t think.

Let me get this straight: in your American hotels they prepare a selection of food every single morning for the guests? And you can just pick whatever...

Baden is a cheeky chimp and you are free to ignore his anti-foodie mischief.

Try this: https://iep.utm.edu/zizek/ I have not yet read any of his hardcore philosophy books, but as far as I can tell his interest is in subjectivit...

Proudly declaring your ignorance. Not a good look.

Beliefs are truth-functional though, and art in the service of false beliefs is thereby a lie.

Ooh, sick burn.

Nonsense!

I had jambalaya followed by jelly and Jaffa cakes for lunch today. J is the Tuesday of the alphabet. Thoughts.

That was hasty of me. Does this kill my point? Not really. Adjourning a meeting was never the means by which the favour of benign spirits and the prot...

But: Adjourning a meeting is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. This doesn’t work. Adjourning a meeting was never involved in spiritual prac...

Very well, Socrates, I’ll play along. I’m not saying it has sharper boundaries than the notion of a game, so I’m not saying that Adorno’s definition o...