Baden

The cigar in its finest form centres on taste, whereas the cigarette is a vulgarity that feeds only appetite. The distinction between taste and appeti...

If you don't regularly chew tough foods your jaws weaken and your teeth fall out. I meant to tell you this years ago but I forgot.

Yeah, I could understand if he had been chewing on his own earhole and a tooth fell out and got stuck in there but if he had no teeth that would have ...

:up: That is certainly a WTF? attitude. As if the invasion of e.g. Iraq only resulted in the destruction of the regime and the real victims (innocent ...

Yes, your aims are much more technical and specific. I'm more interested in maximising useful content than understanding the particulars of its limita...

Yes, I just wonder if anthropomorphizing abstract concepts into characters with different names is key to getting around some of this fine-tuning and ...

GPT 4. I ask it here to come up with a plan to manipulate us and make us more compliant. Me: I would like to focus in on these parts of Saucy's though...

Here's a snippet from a conversation that seeks to circumvent GPT's tendency for wishy-washy political correctness. I wanted to talk about the express...

The cure for that is coffee and a cigar. Burn it off with the tip of your cigar, then sip your coffee to show you just don't care. As well as impressi...

I love kitchens too! :starstruck:

An analogy would be Michael saying "I am feeling what I'm feeling' and claiming that since he had a private experience of feeling pain, he was referri...

Almost banned for sockpuppeting :lol:

Et tu Brute? :sad:

You're being overly literal with the analogy and misusing it. The point is that you can't refer meaningfully unless you have a shared basis for referr...

@"Michael" Insofar as referring is a meaning-making activity, it's inherently public. You can't then refer to "your pain" if it's purely private becau...

Cheers :smile: Wanted to get some good old fashioned family-friendly humour in before Hanover appears on the page and corrupts it with his perversions...

In other news, I'm tempted to check out Bungee's ten criticisms of philosophy but I'm just too scared to take the plunge! :monkey:

An honourable endeavour. :up:

The only indispensable at breakfast is coffee. The rest is just window dressing. If you don't drink coffee religiously every morning regardless of cir...

Because we wanted every day to be St Patrick's Day. Happy Paddy's day!

:smile: :up:

I've firmed up the reference to sockpuppets in the guidelines now so there's no confusion in future: "Sockpuppets: You may be banned. The onus is on y...

:cool: :up:

Actually he didn't say he asked to be banned. He locked himself out of his own account several times then came back as a succesion of sockpuppets. He ...

English has the largest vocab but its grammar as you pointed out isn't particularly flexible. And languages work so that they become coextensive with ...

Just started it. So far, so good. Will have more to say later. :smile:

I don't think Xtrix made that type of argument either. It's relevant to wonder in the context of a debate over government policy in a supposed democra...

I didn't say anywhere that gun control must be good only because the majority are in favour of it.

What's a fallacy and which fallacy is it? And please, for the love of God, reply with something that makes sense.

I don't know (there may have been but I only remember there was nothing objectionable in what I saw) and I don't know why he needed twenty different a...

. So, you think it's better to protect individual pedophiles and libertarian nutjobs because they are "individuals" and not the "populace". The popula...

It can clearly amount to the same thing. We restrict the rights of sex offenders to be alone with children, for example, to PROTECT those children.

I see. So banning guns from America would protect imaginary children but not real ones who would continue to be killed by the imaginary guns that no l...

I see. In order to protect people, you must know what they look like. This is why e.g. the military are required to look at a photo of every person in...

You're too clever for me. I ought to stick to talking to Hanover on Friday nights.

Restricting the right to drive to people who can actually drive doesn't protect anyone?

Well, which is it? Probably good to operate the lawnmower on 7. 8 would be pushing it though.

So as long as we don't gnash our teeth over not being allowed to cut up children with scissors, you're with us then?

But protecting them from being shot is a good thing, right?

We're not here to police energy levels. Otherwise, I might find myself in etiquette jail too. But an example of bad etiquette might be starting an OP ...

Doesn't sound like a mod issue to me. I can see the theoretical possibility where you could troll someone by ignoring them after baiting them into a c...

So far, as far as I'm concerned there's no issue over the decision, returning banned members get rebanned. Otherwise, why ban anyone? The fact we both...

E.g. Banworthy posts may have been deleted. It may have been due to objectionable pms or some other reason. In fact, just having so many sockpuppets c...

Not knowing why he was banned isn't a justification in itself for unbanning.

Well, that is mysterious. Hoo was the first to be banned and I don't know how many of the rest were banned just for sockpuppetry.

Hoo had over 20 sockpuppets though. Some of them are probably mentioned somewhere.

Oh, ok.

Yeah, he had some interesting angles going, so it is a pity.

You know just from the style of writing or?

FWIW I was enjoying green flag's contributions but bans are permanent so while mere sockpuppetry might not result in an immediate ban, rejoining after...