Hanover

So great to see you again! It's been forever. Hope you're doing well!

You can't take me out of my Matrix talk regardless of how you try to simplify the meaning of your request to just be how to write in subscript.

I've taken dozens of those course over the years. They are substantive and similar to college level lectures. I only download the audio-only compatibl...

I like this thread because it went from asking whether a 50 year old transsexual MtF should swim with young women to whether men dressed as women as a...

This entire website is a footnote to reality, where everyone turns to locate the underlying support for why things are as they are. You are at the inf...

Funny: Will Ferrell (consistently funny), Chris Rock (although his movies are stupid), Larry David (edgier than Seinfeld), Kevin Hart, Zach Galifianak...

Adam Sandler. Completely not funny.

The coldest place I've been was to Anchorage in the winter. It was -26 F. In the summer in Atlanta, everyone just runs from air conditioned building t...

I've been listening to a 24 lecture course from the Great Courses on the Philosopy of Humor. I'm on lecture 9 or so. Since there is no discussion grou...

I think I see. It's like this: "Your entire immediate family was burned alive in a fire, but it feels like your entire immediate family and your cousi...

Here's my evaluation of that joke. First, we draw a distinction between a joke and funny, where the former makes reference to an objective intent and ...

This brings up a quesiton of linguistic change over time. Americans use the term "ironic" just to mean an unexpected result. Like, I was trying to get...

Random thoughts from Hanoveria, today dealing with types of humor: Satire would be humor that mimics the format of one's opponents to criticize their ...

Speaking of Steinbeck, I think he's underrated. East of Eden (Timshel), Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, to name a few.

How do you propose it be done? Is it a moral argument, as in, the greater good comes from being negative in perspective? That would be odd, considerin...

Pessimism is a choice, and I think, for you, the right one. You are exactly as you should be, right where you're needed. That is what optimism sounds ...

What's good about three US higher education system is that no matter how much you fuck up, you can always pretty much keep trying until you get a degr...

Here it's a 4 year undergraduate degree and then a JD is a separate 3 year degree.

In the US, all college degrees have core coursework and then you take classes in your major. The core for BAs usually allows for some electives, which...

I was just about to post the following Robert Burns' poem, and here I see you too are posting Burns in an amazing instance of synchronicity. Robert Bu...

I watched those cartoons on UHF. You had to get the antenna just right.

I'm now in a ragtime phase, reveling in the sounds of the 1890s to 1910s. https://youtu.be/EBc964IQlj0?si=NTy8AYHAQbAs2TVm

I looked up my alma mater to check its requirements, and you can receive a BA in philosophy without taking a sociology course. You'd have to choose ca...

Challenge accepted. Not only will I write such an amazing song, I will sing it and upload it for all to hear. I might even strum an instrument that I ...

An unoriginal cliche vomit, forever memorializing HW Bush's temporary and barely relevant campaign slogan.

The problem with Neil Young is that he a caricature of mopiness, an unoriginal whine, crying about crying. I generally respect that genre of musician ...

https://www.scienceforums.net/topic/116346-warp-mechanics-down-gradedunconfirmed/#comment-1072725

I don't even know. This is so confusing. I told a joke about you being right about me not remembering by asking what we were talking about and then yo...

Right about what? See what I did there?

I feel like you've got some bugs in your outdated program, but it's too big a hassle to change it over, so you're gaslighting me into thinking I'm not...

How come sometimes it shows in gray on the main Forums screen like I've recently read this thread when I haven't?

This is given as an example of German humor in Wiki: Example: The United Nations initiated a poll with the request, "Please tell us your honest opinio...

There are all types of humor within the great state of America. One type is Jewish humor, which is: "Jewish humor is diverse, though it most often fav...

To those with a sense of humor, life is a comedy. To those without, a tragedy. I got that in a fortune cookie once. I have no idea how that is a fortu...

The interesting thing about humor is that its truth value does not lie within the context of the joke, but outside the context of the joke within the ...

Yessir dat abada powna shrimp right dare.

Take you some shrimp and sprinkle a goodly amount of cajun spices on it and then throw her in the pan with some poppin angry oil and let her sit just ...

Pan fried cajun shrimp, collards, and a can of corn. /uploads/resized/files/42/o8pm5qrf2pa6505a.jpg

The story was actually true. I do think though that if you're going to write a story about sociopathy, the word "bleach" has to appear somewhere. Like...

I enjoy stories where drug use is central, not so much recreational drugs, but more the prescription sort. Like if someone is having an inflammatory r...

One Christmas (no, this story does not lead to a severed testicle), I built my kids a complex series of tunnels with these plastic tubes that were des...

During my hipster stage, I listened only to vinyl, having had to strap a turntable to my chest to listen to Sinatra while on the treadmill. It was wor...

I hadn't heard of mice until you became one.

I liked the account of Terry in On the Road. It's where I picked up the word "lackadaddy," which he said after he left her knowing that he woudn't see...

I went through a beatnick stage here a year or so ago. I reread some Kerouac. I said daddy-o a few times and was pretty convincing. I left that beat s...

In Georgia, we have a thing about counties, as in, which county you're from says a lot about you. We have 159 counties, second only to Texas, meaning ...

I was in Madison (cool town btw) and the Uber drivers, the hotel people, the guys I met up with, all loved telling about how they're forever Wisconsin...

I actually am the average American in every category, dead center on the bell curve everywhere. If you disagree with me, you disagree with America, an...

Wisconsin people seem to be the proudest of their state of all I've met. Have you noticed that? They also really like beer and fried cheese.

In the US, we have interstates, and every few exits the world repeats with a Walmart, Home Depot, a McDonald's, a Circle K, and maybe a Chipotle or a ...