Jamal

They’re both nothing-but-isms. And since idealism is the original nothing-but-ism, and the physical is a concept, physicalism might also be described ...

I’ll go along with that. Yesterday for lunch I had just bread and wine and it was a great combination. The Christian symbolism was entirely coincident...

Turns out that horse meat is not kosher, but it is technically halal, though some Islamic scholars regard it as makruh, meaning frowned upon but not f...

Hey, I love bread. Its flavour, texture, aroma, you name it. I’m just saying it doesn’t have a strong flavour. I know it was boring, over-serious and ...

No tofu?! :gasp:

But you don’t have to eat it on its own do you? Bread is not known for its flavourfulness. You could make a spicy brisket wrap or horse kebab.

Ok I confess: I myself have had only four or five in my life, all made by family members. Aside from that, British tea shop and cake-bun culture is no...

Mix coffee and cold water in a small pot and boil. What could be simpler? I somehow imagined that Turkish coffee was an elaborate process involving lo...

I have never had a dry and tasteless hot cross bun. If you are correct, I must have somehow managed throughout my life only to eat extraordinary ones....

He has a thing for Ukrainian policewomen?

Do you know how many varieties of green there are? They’re so diverse that some of them aren’t even green. Fun fact: for Russians, dark blue and light...

:up: That’s the kind of response I like.

Different words.

That’s just what Clarky wants you to think.

I didn’t say that either. I don’t think you’ve actually asked me what my favourite colour is.

First, I don’t accept the notion of “green in general”. Second, I didn’t say it wasn’t my favourite colour.

I didn’t say that you—oh forget it! I told you already:

I appreciate that.

I love his films because they give you space to just think and look. The long takes, the slowness: it feels to me that he respects the viewer as a rea...

I didn’t say that.

No worries, I see where you’re coming from better now :cool: You raise interesting questions that revolve around nationalism. I think there is definit...

I had an urgent urge to do it, that’s all. I have learned to listen to my urgent urges. The green is just a colour I hit upon that I thought was good.

Yes indeed, and this is an example of the relativism of conservatism. Conservatisms in different places and different times don’t share much beyond th...

I see you’ve changed yours too. The change is less remarkable than mine because you do it more often than I do, but I’m remarking on it anyway. I like...

Hope not, couldn’t deal with that again.

I really find this attitude needlessly combative. I wrote what I though about, pretty much off the top of my head, in response to your questions, and ...

You’re welcome, but the bit that came after that is crucial.

But it’s another member of the starling family, in roughly the same stance, facing the same direction, and just like the previous image it’s on a whit...

They represented a departure from conservatism, and some conservatives doubt that they were conservative at all. Thatcher was a radical. She rocked th...

Yes, I understand. So that’s at least two people. I guess I’ll need to have a look!

Sounds nefarious and shrouded in mystery.

I was surprised to find a Scottish pub in Almaty. It’s not like Irish pubs, which are everywhere from Nunavut to Nizhny Novgorod. @"T Clark"’s mythica...

I hadn’t read Javi’s sad story when I posted that. Now I’m angry at the Germans too.

I read that. It was great!

The problem with that theory is that we do eat lamb, rabbit, chicken, duck, horse and hedgehog.

Well I don’t know why you’ve had problems receiving email notifications. If someone else confirms they’re having the same problem I’ll look into it an...

The one about Angus Podgorny who plays tennis with a blancmange? I always liked that one but don’t often see it mentioned.

Great post, but you could have said eggcentricities here for the full Easter effect.

Yes, the exodus of the haggises from Kazakhstan and the ensuing epic journey to Scotland is celebrated in our culture.

Neither the word blancmange nor the food it refers to has been seen on Earth since 1981. I was nine years old then. You do the math!

I made bolognese and I have a feeling the meat was horse.

The International Phonetic Alphabet exists for a reason. You can’t demonstrate pronunciation using vowels that you pronounce differently from me. You ...

The phlegm’s the best bit. I like your can-do attitude. We need more of that around here, and less whining.

I’m with you on that. I say eggplant. But “filay” is as revolting as the former colour of TPF. Don’t know what this means but I’m offended.

Ah oui, filet de poisson au fromage. Uncle Peter, a McDonald, invented that dish before he decided to focus on meatballs. It's weird to me that Americ...

And the food you prepare. Sushi shouldn’t be cooked well done. Thank you for your invaluable contribution. If you had never joined, we almost certainl...

My whippet smoked 40 Lambert & Butler every day.

Well, I did know that Central Asian nomads were among the first to structure their lives around the annual migration of the banana between the Altai m...

I had one of those things yesterday. It was actually pretty good.