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That's a relief. :P

Well, because it seemed apparent you didn't have any intention of discussing the OP directly and the trajectory of your comments led to the ensuing il...

We don't have a "chief moderator". Or if we do, it's jamalgod.

Yes, as in this case, the fact that the conversation took a different turn wasn't the primary reason for the deletions, but the nature and tone of tha...

For the record, I've now excised @"Agustino" from the discussion. That also meant excising other's in-discussion complaints about him valid as they ma...

Ok, we've established that @"andrewk" worships Aleister Crowley and is possibly on a mission to spread Satanism across the globe. Good for him. What e...

There's probably a half-way house between Marcus Aurelius's iron self control and Bitter's permissiveness (if I can call it that - BC has been fairly ...

Choice is really only an issue due to religious objections, which are undermined by the acceptance that people are born that way and that homosexualit...

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I think there may have been some crossed wires there. Your idea sounds interesting. Just lay it out and we may be able to implement it.

I'm not an expert on this so I don't fully understand the changes you're talking about, but we can change the categories in which discussions are plac...

If this is just half a joke and you really sent a donation (from wherever), thanks (I don't know as I don't have direct access to the TPF kitty, i.e. ...

Well, we can request new features but there's no guarantee our requests will be granted by the software designers.

Can we discuss our corrupt arrangements by PM in future? Cheers :-*

Thanks @"jute" and @"Hanover" 8-)

Those and five bucks will buy me a second-hand copy of Das Kapital. Ah well...

Strangely enough, it's 10:37 at night, and I am actually working on preparing a class in between quips here. It's odd I know. Eventually, I hope to ad...

Funny how the lefties are doing most all the sarcasm/humour here. Step up to the plate, @"Thorongil"! Jollify us! Show us you're not creepy and humour...

You really have professors like that? Cool. Eurolefties are so much boringer. :(

RAAAH!!! Let's break shit!!! Thorongil is nuts!!! Now write a 1500 word essay on postmodern feminist porn. That will be all, class.

Indeed, it's amazing how many conservatives can be found dancing on the head of a pin.

But who are the audience for the multitude of wittily sarcastic conservative comedians then??

Me too. But Thorongil's absolutely right, we leftists never do humour/sarcasm. .

Yes, the most powerful country in the world is now being run by a frantic rodent, and there's no point trying to stop him - which was kind of my point...

Yeah, she only won by two (and I got her percentage on the nose, incidentally). Donald got about 2 more than I bargained for (a gift from the FBI), wh...

Progressives hardly need resist the Trump clown show. It's doing a better job of destroying itself than any of its opponents could. Sometimes the only...

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Each forum has its own standards and they're welcome to 'em. I've seen nothing from you here that would warrant you being put on our ban radar.

My two cents: It's perfectly legitimate to give blunt advice to someone who starts a discussion based on their personal life. It's up to them to decid...

Yeah, I found it very interesting looking at movies through his theoretical lens. Also, helped me understand some things about my own writing in gener...

I was down under on a secret mission that involved carousing and being admired by beautiful antipodeans. I am now up over again and ready to read more...

It's funny how the word "retarded" is almost exclusively used in humour by those who are too stupid to make a joke work.

Robert McKee - Story What makes a Hollywood baby more than its bathwater? Roll up, roll up...

Welcome dc. Good to see another former PF reg row ashore. (Y) And a bit late, but welcome too @"TimeLine".

More germane for me would be to ditch the idea that we are unified individuals and take the analysis from there. There is a part of us, at least, that...

I'm familiar with the story. I thought it a bit unfair that suicide victims were trapped in trees and scourged by winged demons with not even a stick ...

That's fair enough. The points you raised do apply to many. It may be that I'm too keen not to be seen as a commie. By side-effects, I meant more spec...

I guess that's the climax. So, if this was a Hollywood movie, everyone would do hugs now. Right?

I was being somewhat hyperbolic. I'm quite looking forward to the summer blockbuster, Virgil vs. Baden, for example.

Yes. No. Yes.

My pointing out the negative effects of the push towards consumerism doesn't mean I don't recognize the positives. What I'm looking for is education r...

Indian medicine. They make you feel bad first and good later. Unlike Hollywood medicine, which does the opposite.

Glad you brought that up. Where that's done well, a movie can work and be a healthy engagement. It rarely is. Maybe Cronenberg.

I don't get your point, but there's no need to explain, just point me in the direction of the corresponding Hollywood movie. I don't get your point, a...

I agree with this. And I'm actually quite open to being shown to be exaggerating here. But a significant amount of what's been thrown in my direction ...

It doesn't have to be that complicated or even about what people "deeply" want. Advertising has never been an emotional hypodermic needle. The conditi...

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Interesting one. The verbs "to land" and "to connect" in their non-typical transitive and intransitive versions respectively can be used with jab/punc...

Thanks for the quote. Going out now, so I will read it later to discover whether I really should be thanking you or not. :P