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Benefits: It won't go down regularly. It won't disappear. There's a built-in voice chat option (I don't know if this needs to be turned on by Jamal th...

Welcome!

Here's five bucks. Now shut your trap, please.

Oh, cool, thanks. :smile:

Speaking of porkies: sorry @"Shawn", I was just kidding about those being TZ episodes. I made 'em up myself. Forgive me, pig lover.

You're very welcome! I have to admit it's not really a TZ episode. I was pranking Shawn on that bit (as with the two follow-ups in the Shoutbox). I ma...

Anyhow, my advice is stop rotting your brain with Twitter pol. You will become just another victim of psychological entropy.

All of this personal marketing stuff is calculated and generally works. It's unlikely Harris has anything to do with it.

Mods are still involved in decisions about guidelines. But only admins can create new categories or edit acoounts etc.

Of course, @"Jamal" is the owner, so he has to be an admin, despite the fact he spends most of his days filling out colouring books and watching Peppa...

Note that if you look at my content, most of it is non-philosophical. A lot of it is my own idea of art (or just messing around) in the Shoutbox. That...

Sorry, I missed the second bit. For the first bit, I think @"Jamal" explained the general approach well. We both value art and creativity highly (e.g....

If that's how he looks on the toilet, no wonder he got famous. Anyhow, I'll tell you the plot of the TZ episode about the pigs later. I don't think th...

Hm, I can't recall that one. Looks like Kirk needs a toilet break. Can you remember what it was called? I remember the one about the worm though. Some...

And don't tell me this is another Tom Hank's movie, please.

It also reminds me of this other Twilight Zone episode (maybe you've seen this one @"Shawn") where a guy (it was the sixties--it's almost always a guy...

Don't think I've read that one but to me it sounds like a hazardous combo of vortices and vacuums, which I usually like to avoid.

I appreciate your effort, Ned, but my advice for future compliments would be to avoid the word "suck" as it makes it almost seem like you're not reall...

It's always been so. They are in a vicious competition for power in a two-party system. It's just there used to be agreed-on conventions that are now ...

Modern version would definitely grapple ChatGPT / Big Brother rather than tape recorders / hidden "friends". Edit: I've never seen "Cast Away", so I d...

Isolating because of COVID sounds like a realtively short stint. You'll be fine. And here is as good a place as any to find (virtual) human company. D...

Yes and but so the INTERESTING thing I did today was inspire someone on a philosophy forum to new literary heights. The end. So perfect and complete.

Some people piss on you and tell you it's raining. @"Hanover" hands you fancy bird shit and tells you he's Willy Wonka. Better than your average post....

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Thank, Bruv. My subconscious postmodernist feels validated. I am also kind of aping a David Foster Wallace style.

OK, so clearly I was just joshin' you guys, haha, you know me, full of laughs. in actual truth of the fact of the matter, my day was really interestin...

Therein lay the secret of life, young Jedi. Or a bunch of BS.

Speaking of boredom, one really boring thing that happened to me today was that I was sitting at my desk at home (which desk I bought because I wanted...

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Life imitates art. This mirrors a fictional scenario in David Foster Wallace's (unfinished novel) "The Pale King" where a worker is found dead at his ...

Oasis Shmoasis. It's not the 90s. Don't feed Liam more money. We all know what he'll spend it on. Dastardly.

That difficulty is the trade-off. 58 pages of continued effort to discuss the issue suggest, that while the context is not ideal, the results have not...

Yes.

I don't vociferously disagree with it actually. Depending on how "it" is presented. E.g. If someone said to me, "I don't want to have children because...

Because there were too many.

Er, let's stay on topic. You are both entitled to your opinions on this, but it doesn't really matter.

Please don't bring religion into threads that are not directly about religion. No one needs to be lectured about your religious beliefs. Future commen...

Nice!

"I'm Irish but I'm not a leprechaun" House of Pain.

Benny Hill. I remember him. He did a lot of very fast running around. It was funny. Most people can't run that way. Watching football, nah. I would pr...

I'm not very good at deciphering seemingly random strings of vowel sounds. Call me tone deaf. What is that?

Each to his own. I can enjoy movies but they kind of overstimulate me and leave me feeling flat afterwards. And I also feel that I've watched enough t...

Considering the extreme statistical unlikelihood that asking someone out or having sex will land a well-meaning commonsensical person in trouble, this...

Much I agree with but Here there's the possibility of a descent into a kind of degenerative recursiveness, the artist viewing their relationship with ...

Got it. Well, polymarket has flipped Dem again, so I guess the RFK bump has been fleeting.

Yes, there was just the right combination of mystery, joy, wonder, and menace in Wilder. Depp didn't have a hope. It's like trying to repaint the Mona...

(My bolding). Back to sexism again. (My bolding) But according to your own story, you advocate running away rather than risking anything. That's the w...

I don't agree that a pure medium can provide coherency where none comes from the artist's connection with their subject matter. Incoherency in that re...

Really?

Ah wait, I think I got it. The Georgia Tech football team played in Dublin and won too, right? Well done, lads. :cheer: Anyhow, tell them and the fans...