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They probably built a balloon just for him. I suggest your next little story be about Jamal and his balloon. I'm sure you can work some disgusting sex...

Would it even things up if I attacked @"Noble Dust" for using the verb "keep" without an adverbial or preposition as a synonym for "maintain" in his c...

Was it an attack? My background is in linguistics so that's why I chimed in. Your attitude is nothing unusual.

:up: I wonder how close Scottish Gaelic and Irish are to each other. Never really looked into it.

They may be intercepting YouTube vids through some kind of censorship funnel. Just a guess, but makes sense to me. Never really thought it was. Makes ...

There's no correct use of any language minus context. "Standard" Spanish is just the dominant dialect of Spanish; posing it as a yardstick against whi...

No, fine here. Never been a problem.

I once worked at a Chinese restaurant in West Cork. They didn't have any Chinese food but no one seemed to notice. I only realized myself years later ...

Just give me a sec. My blood Wasabi level still too low.

Dunno, I may have to sniff a peanut on that one.

. Actually, following Clarky's radical Shoutbox scepticism, he now knows he's not sure that we know we're not sure of what he may or may not have know...

:cool: :up: Going the nose route takes the flavor straight to the brain though it may also be fatal so I cannot fully recommend it to be fair.

I stick these in a coffee grinder and then sniff them to cure blocked sinuses. /uploads/resized/files/1o/mppt892ljezssf1c.jpg

Yes, e.g. from the link above the terms are used interchangeably: "In more nuance, it means that which concerns particular, individuated beings rather...

Philosophically speaking, they are. Seeing as you sourced ChatGPT, I asked it for the philosophical definition of "being": "Being is a philosophical t...

Um, wait, unless I'm modding, of course. :victory:

Just saw the edit. Now you're conflating progressivism and Marxism. I'm not going to explain the difference this time.

:100:

That sounds more like Communism. Progressives are represented by the Democrat party in the states. You don't get much more capitalist than that. As fo...

Wokism is not one thing; it's a spectrum of attitudes, some of which are more justifiable than others. And progressives are not only under no obligati...

So, suddenly, in one generation, progressives turned into their opposites because... (enter bogeyman) wokism! Quick, update the dictionaries!

Yes, and oranges are fruit. So, all fruit are orange, right? Wow! You went from saying woke is progressive to condemning progressives in general "thes...

I said you "conflated" the two. Which you did. The type of thing Fox News does daily. Zero analysis, just grievances against wokism clumsily pasted on...

I believe I do understand what you're trying to do. There's where with some odd jumps of logic, unsupported assertion, and random colourful rhetoric, ...

Roald Dahl characters not being allowed to have black cloaks may be an example. But conflating the mad fringes of wokeness with progressives in genera...

My understanding is that the original idea of being "woke" was a reaction to the general historical and cultural ignorance in the U.S. of racial and o...

You're on a roll. I haven't read anything except the bit about your shit tattoo but I commend you on the word count. :up:

Frank can argue any kind of nonsense and then claim that because you come from a different country (or whatever) you are wrong and he is right. It's a...

What? The "period" was in response to frank's claims the statements weren't racist and was limited to that. It had nothing to do with @"Tzeentch"'s ta...

Clarky's not going to like that. *Runs and ducks*

No one's saying we can't talk about that. I don't understand the defensiveness here. Obviously, establishing he is racist comes before talking about w...

OK, thanks for the clarification on that.

Same old from you, frank. You lose the argument and then come up with some weird personal comment of no relevance whatsoever. You have no special stat...

Get a grip. He did nothing of the sort. You're embarrassing yourself.

I agree but it's not a requirement. You're not going to be banned for being dismissive of religion.

I can't remember if I had. I read the comic years ago, so maybe. What's the relevance of whether I had heard of him to whether what he said was racist...

I didn't answer that because I don't see the relevance. You're welcome. :up:

No one is required to take religion seriously here but there's no need to be a dick about it either. Anyhow, the Shoutbox is not really the place for ...

And tolerant of racism, which is why the likes of Adams ought to be called out instead of being painted as some kind of a misunderstood victim. He's n...

:yawn: It's a standard dictionary definition, not mine. You, on the other hand, are just making things up. If that helps you in some way, great. Reali...

I know you're black. That's not relevant to the argument about the definition.

Your questions appeared rhetorical. His statements were racist. I don't know why he's a racist or what you're driving at. Just spit it out if you want...

The OP was about people making excuses for Adam's comments. If you want to expand the conversation, feel free.

So, if someone were to say black people are stupid and then come up with some fatuous data point to support that, that wouldn't be racist either? That...

No, at face value describing black people as a "hate group" that whites should "get the hell away from" is racist. He made racist statements. Period. ...

You told me those were tattoos. :angry:

https://youtu.be/f3YzD7pWUxs

We're still around. Humanity just drove us underground. :wink:

I don't know. Are we?

:100: This just shows an ignorance of what social facts are. As above, if people in society self-identity in a particular way socially and mutually re...