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I edited my post, mooting your objection.

Gentlemen, I give you the rarest berry of them all: The cloudberry, harvested from the heavens. I am told it tastes somewhere between a huckleberry an...

An olive spread salad is put on muffuletta sandwiches. Goes well with a bag of voodoo Zapps and zydeco. https://youtu.be/mWpVmlqJ-nw?si=Li-Qss5JJeCzgO...

I had a peanut butter and Kalamata jam sandwich for lunch today with a side of calamari cacciatore.

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A therapist once told me he hadn't met a true alcoholic that didn't suffer from some other underlying mental condition.

Well, even if I was under utilized, I did my share in having made myself a cheap vice for the ladies.

That you have quit so often suggests it's easy to quit. My only addiction, albeit it subdued and minimally socially limiting, is a propensity toward t...

There are a good number of lab tests that that are abnormal in smokers, so if one has these results but doesn't smoke, one should begin to smoke, so t...

Both.

I quit drinking when I stopped caring what people thought if I didn't drink. I never liked drinking. It made me tired and gave me a headache. My addic...

This identifies the Principle of Sufficient Reason problem. We look for an explanation for everything in existence, and if we make an assertion that t...

I think that crystalizes the position well, but problems remain: It doesn't remedy your problem of wanting control over your life because that would r...

Yeah, but you don't ask how we got upon the ship. It's a reasonable question with no reasonable answer. Either it's not just an ancient ship, but an e...

Your preference then is that you have a preference, which is no more or less difficult to acheive whether you accept a teleological model or a causal ...

I don't think that fully captures the meaning of "corny." A corny joke is usually a silly pun, usually not very clever, but never offensive, often tol...

Ah yes, that describes that aroma I couldn't put my finger on when you entered the room until now. It's the potpourri of Britishness.

As you should. You must work harder for atonement than simply asking for forgiveness. I think you're likely right that a blind person would not know t...

You're ridiculous. The reason I said that the beauty of a sunset and a legal ruling are different is because they are. You think that's because I hate...

Me neither. Years ago I did see his show "The Man Show" that always ended with girls in skirts bouncing on a trampoline.

Coulda also been the hot dogs I wolfed down at the sports bar watching some team lose to another. Barely got home to get my drawers down before the de...

Not "have to." Get to.

Is yours just the clap of justice or is it because you actually watched him and missed his show?

I ate a lobster roll at the fall festival and come an hour or so later I bout puked my guts out. Turns out lobster spread hanging out in the Georgia s...

Nope, you're now a right winger. Be more careful with what you say next time. It's like saying "I do. " It's the danger of the performative statement.

I know you wanted just wanted to talk about ejaculation, but in so doing, you have placed yourself squarely in the pro-life camp, arguing that life be...

I disagree. Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo The trick is to ride and make it to the bell But there is a place, sweet as you will ever know In m...

If you make faces too long, your face gets stuck that way, so, yes, that now how I speak. One day, likely in the next two or three, I will forget this...

I thought you Welsh.

Fine. You'll be Sir.

I might not have read what you wrote and then we came upon the same conclusions independently just like that time when Newton and Leibniz both came up...

I'm sort of wondering why you're discussing qualia about right now, with it not having to do with anything we were talking about. I don't have a probl...

Possibly, but in this instance, you knocked it out of the park with your decisiveness. Killed it!

What I mean is that all language is a form of poetry to the extent it is an abstraction of reality highly influenced by perspective and comparitive ev...

Sure, and you could say "is this not different about what my opponent had said?" and it it would be fully understood, particularly if you knew the spe...

I don't see how you derived that from what I said. The blind can have feelings of beauty, but obviously not from what they see. The question was what ...

@"BC" I see that an official Shoutbox Usage Conundrum has arisen for consideration, specifically related to "different from" versus "different than" u...

As if all you have to say is "but seriously" and that will somehow keep me on task? But seriously, I think you're using the term "beautiful" here in a...

So, yeah, I don't mean to sound overly sensitive or to be overreading something here, but this sounds kind of lecturey, like maybe you're saying just ...

Squash as a metaphor for life.

I just got back from the gym and I happened upon 2 dogs playing squash with a squash and both had squash related names. Prolly just a synchronicity co...

And those are American cucumbers. The Brits eat something that is narrow and looks like a zucchini. Imagine thinking you bought zucchini and it's a cu...

Your answer was almost right. Where you said no, yes was the correct response. Summer squashes and winter squashes are the same thing. You just pick w...

Alas, this was spoken of recently in my well told tale: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/1014071

I am troubled by my mastery of squash and feel now I could have better spent my time here, like maybe arguing about the news cycle.

The biology of squash, alas again. Zucchini and yellow are eaten immature, but even pumpkin can be as well, as in Indian dishes.

Alas, I feel @"Jamal" is correct. We will forever debate squash with no progress.

We've so been over this. All squash is planted at the same time. The time of harvest distinguishes types, but you could let your yellow squash mature ...

Yes, but I get it browned with a less soggy texture and let's not pretend our schedules so demanding the extra time needed. Brilliant double use of th...

So here's a fairly comprehensive article on the issue, drawing the distinction between market restrictions on free speech and governmental ones. The l...