Baden

What makes you believe I really believe it was unbelievable, kind lady? I think we really need to take this step by step.

That was the only part I believed. :D

No, but if it's presented as science, it should be scientific not purely speculative. But I'm not going to debate it any further in the Shout box. All...

It's not the topic but the specific approach that matters, but if you want to debate whether it was scientific or not, you can open a feedback discuss...

Narcissistic personality disorder is a recognized psychological condition, which is what I was referring to.

(I might mention we don't have a casual philosophyesque area as they did in the old PF, so there is no where else to put it if it's not actually scien...

No. Although I have no objection to the decision. @"Michael" deleted it. Feel free to PM him about it. I'm sure he'll be able to give you an explanati...

Well, I'm not sure what more you expect from Shout box chat but I will try to up my game, sir, scout's honour. :)

No, but I expect he will try to keep the spotlight on himself because he appears to be a classic narcissist (rather like Trump in this respect). I'm j...

Broccolli? Weirdo.

It will be interesting when and if something suitably awful befalls him. The fact that he sent out a tweet to say he's doing fine and he's playing kis...

Naturally enough, a minority group, particularly a very misunderstood one will seek to push things as far as they can in order to get a foothold in so...

My original comment was "That's hardly news" = I don't think it's a big deal. She's either a laughing stock or not worth thinking about. Both amount t...

Ah OK, missed that.

Is this based on some kind of evidence or is it just what sounds plausible to you?

My comment actually was meant as a joke.

No, it's not meant to refer to every situation. And I agree they can.

But I won't flood this place with my own limericks as T Clark has set down strict guidelines on what can be considered a joke here and I think we shou...

Not bad at all but the rhythm is off. Maybe: "There once was a forum phil'sophical Where member would troll things fantastical It happened one day In ...

That was your first funny one. (Y)

Whereas now it goes in the opposite direction. Amen. (By the way, you're allowed to trash talk Trump here. Go on, be creative. ;) )

Sentences>abbreviations.

Agreed. But I have a feeling we will soon be accused of making them the victim of leftist tactics and the actual victims will be again obscured.

You sure about Elon Musk? That surprises me a bit. Got a source?

And Sam Harris. Although to a lesser extent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7ynJ5S9c58

(For money, of course. It's not like they're doing it for fun or anything immoral like that.)

I was watching a documentary the other day about the widespread prescribing of opiate pain killers in the US and the ensuing addiction problems leadin...

I just hope my biting satire is not lost on the children.

Deal!!!

Depends how many zeroes on the cheque, my man.

Drugs, drugs, drugs, Buy 'em, smoke 'em, snort 'em, eat 'em Drugs, drugs, drugs When you're down, pop a pill When you're up, drink a spill Drugs, drug...

O:) :D

I would have said that but Russian prostitutes.

(Apologies to the comedy gods for not bringing Russian prostitutes into that reply. )

@"Agustino" There's a grain of sense in what you're saying but you're not going to be able to make a loaf out of it. Rand's more or less unanimous rej...

What the fuzzball?

A common reaction to an @"Agustino" post. Fortunately, the verdict is not unanimous so it's much more likely to be justified. (Y)

Who is this left? I mean I consider myself to be on the left (on most issues). So do most university professors traditionally. Why are the anti-intell...

This doesn't seem a very good example of something that needs interpretation by the way. There doesn't seem to be any ambiguity here.

Request denied. :D

I have no problem with that. It's just up to the mod, the situation and how much time they think they should put into it. I don't want to see @"Jeremi...

There are hundreds (thousands?) of billionaires out there. You've given one example. Give me ten more and the comment might be justified. But yes, bei...

Trump does piss me off, but I'll try not to piss over him, like those Russian prostitues. Ah, wait...

Mark Cuban? Don't know much about him to be honest. Well done on the billionaire thing but reading list needs work.

I know, but it's a volunteer job and mods have lives outside TPF, so the onus is on posters to be responsible for that.

There's no way to know for certain who has read the guidelines, but they are pinned and don't take long to read, so it's not unreasonable to expect po...

(Y) (Y) It's "philosophy" for stupid selfish people who wish to justify their character failings and usually don't know anything about actual philosop...

From the guidelines: Starting new discussions: Don't start a new discussion unless you are: a) Genuinely interested in the topic you've begun and are ...

What's couth is relative to context. Used to be that the office of President called for higher standards of dignity than the office of random football...