Jamal

I should point out that what I’ve said shouldn’t be taken to imply necessarily that when I don’t respond to someone, it’s because I think it’s a bad o...

Some of the worst discussions are bad because people feel they have to respond to every single post, leading to fruitless squabbles and misunderstandi...

On the other hand, if you’re posting in the Shoutbox because you couldn’t resist complaining about what you thought was a confused and shallow post, b...

I do it myself. It can be the best, most honest, least troublemaking way. It shows you’re not interested but nothing else is implied by it.

I’m curious about the original crime.

I’m upset about this because they gave my posts several approving replies and thumbs-up. Looks like the original @"Hoo" was banned seven years ago, in...

The juveniles lunged at me aggressively if I disturbed them when they were eating the corn that I had put down for the geese, ducks, and swans, and th...

Me too! Spooky. I also have more problems with my teeth and gums than I had expected, after many decades of strong healthy teeth. It's just disappoint...

There's a grain of tooth in that stereotype, but Americans seem to have a thing about teeth. Europeans are mocked throughout American culture for havi...

When I first moved to France I got a new bike. It was summer, and it was a full moon, so I thought it would be nice to ride around the countryside in ...

At the aforementioned water mill, I was given a 0.22 rifle and a huge amount of ammunition and was asked to deal with the coypus, otherwise known as n...

I have encountered Spanish hunters. All I wanted to do was climb up the mountain, but there were these two guys shooting sparrows or whatever, and it ...

Here the significant dimension is concept/object, where the struggle is to get hold of objects without conceptualizing them. This is impossible to do ...

That sounds like a good soup. Ham and leek is a good combination. Laurel/bay leaf can be pretty strong but I use it a lot. And you can't go wrong with...

Yes, I agree unreservedly.

As I said to Wayfarer, despite appearances what I was referring to was not so much ontology as such, or the problem of universals, degrees of reality ...

I'm not sure, but I think it's possible to create a golem that will identify and destroy them, so long as you know the secret spell and you're close t...

Two might not be enough but it's better than one, so I made a 2D ontology chart, without much thought as to how pointless or wrongheaded it might be. ...

This thread has an identity crisis. May I suggest... "An example of how supply and demand, capitalism and greed corrupt eco ventures, plus what is God...

Even "Jammy" would be preferable.

All I know is that I know nothing (about wrestling).

Did you know that wrestling was an import part of Kazakh culture?

The heaviest, plumpest, sweetest kind.

Ah, it just means “thing”. I thought it was a mild term of abuse like our “twat”.

Dingus.

Now work your magic!

Does anyone use the term “dingus”?

Tutankhamen, Johnnie Walker, Gottlieb Pabst, Arthur Doghouse!

That’s the spirit!

I don’t like that much, but I guess if we can call TC Clarky I can’t complain.

Thanks!

TC seems to think you should call me mommy. As Adorno said in one of his lectures…

Sure, but I was mostly referring to the focus on “exists”.

Any comment directed at me that begins like this will be regarded as offensive.

On the other hand, I do see a tension between your proletarian class-consciousness and your desperate attempts to become a man of the people.

You are both artists of the Shoutbox whose comments contain more than any analysis can describe. Great art always escapes the boxes we try to put it i...

I apologize. I did not intend to impugn your class-conscious credentials and I ask for my comment to be strucken from the record. This gives me overwh...

I find that agreeable, but mathematical Platonism is rampant around here. Are numbers and other abstract objects universals, and are universals real? ...

I’m guessing mutton chops are fashionable in New York right now. On Friday I’m heading for the land of (relative) freedom known as Kazakhstan. A month...

Was it boutique bacon?

I see signs of left-wing radicalization. :up: The bourgeoisie and their lickspittle lawyers better watch out.

Always thought it was Saturday.

You quoted me before I corrected it. I can’t type good on this iPad.

I’m wondering what’s special about the weekend that you need more sustenance than at other times.

Ideas, meanings, and thoughts are just not very thingy, are they? The static ontology of medium-size dry goods doesn’t feel right. (Some would say tha...

I was thinking of starting a discussion on Freud. Nothing to do with daddy issues though.

In the Shoutbox, “Daddy” has connotations I’d like to avoid, especially in connection with Clarky.

Sorry Papa.

Cool. Problems that fix themselves are my favourite kind.

Just sent you a private message. Look out for an email.