Noble Dust

As @"Jamal" mentioned, you work here now; you're certainly not fired, and we can't have you quit. The workload for the rest of us would be too great; ...

I don't disagree, but I'm not convinced that you aren't saying one is better than the other. And I'm not convinced that to be constrained is inherentl...

I don't mean you should shut up in any way; that sounds rather harsh. And I was not trying to highlight a lack of grammatical ability in you, because ...

And you use English syntactically wrong. :joke:

I think you've missed the whole point of my correction of your grammar. It was probably lost in translation. I was correcting your English grammar to ...

Nope. Completely acceptable in American English to forgo the "This".

Works for me.

Ok.

At risk of offending you, it would be very easy to demonstrate where your English doesn't quite match a native speaker's English. Your English is very...

That's a thing? I was riffing, but maybe we should start a thread. I'm unfamiliar with Lakoff; will look into it.

From what I know about you, I take this at face value, yes? Sorry, there are so many sarcastic posters here, myself very much included, that I have to...

Feel free to come back to the center at any time.

The juvenile part of my brain is trying to figure out what the proper Spanish word for "shit" is here. :zip:

The word doesn't come from their fiber; of course not. but the concept is indeed in their fiber. Pedantry gone wrong in your case.

Thanks for the clarification. Well, of course this is a huge topic, and I don't want to derail the thread. I'll try to respond succinctly. I probably ...

Ok, cool. I don't know how that affects the discussion. The word used to mean that, now it means what it means now. There's no special mojo that makes...

Or rather, the question seems out of left field to me, so I'm at a loss. If you could elaborate it would be helpful.

Hay un montón de mierda para saber en el shoutbox. The answer is always rye.

Ah, the age of enlightenment; your favorite.

I'm unsure of what you mean by

*Sigh* I have no idea what you're talking about, but I'll pretend I didn't say that and pat you violently on the back while chugging a bud light. Welc...

I don't accuse you of fence-sitting, although I do it a bit myself; however, while I agree with what you say here, and I agree that it's fair for athe...

And Czechia wins. They were favored, but on the other hand, this is their fist appearance in the World Baseball Classic. But this is only the 5th Worl...

In a thrilling turn of events, China took the lead 5 to 4, but in the top of the 9th, down to their last, with two outs, The Czech Republic has scored...

@"T Clark" and I will start calling you Adorableno.

Btw, Japan and I believe Puerto Rico are rated by some analysts as number 1, over the US. Puerto Rico in particular is a hotbed of baseball talent.

Godammit it's the shoutbox. But really, my beef is with MLB and this narrative they're pushing to try to make baseball this worldwide phenomenon. They...

My intuition agrees, but what's a concrete example? Without pulling out the straw man of scientism, there does seem to sometimes be an unthinking trus...

I like this.

I'm watching The Czech Republic vs. China in the World Baseball Classic. In a lot of ways, it's a sad attempt by MLB to be the World Cup. Not to sound...

Yes, I'm not saying they do. but Allah is certainly the ultimate religious authority. The ulama is to be respected. Again, the word Islam means "Submi...

Essentially, yes. I just sometimes do so in a way that might be knowingly provocative, i.e. describing secular views with religious terms. I do this n...

These are some very good thoughts, to which I don't have much of an in depth response. I'm just thinking out loud, and I know it can be annoying to br...

Great discussion points which I'll address tomorrow. :party: Edit: hopefully. :zip:

Pretty sure the sandwich guy at that spot is Dominican, but otherwise yeah. NYC is complicated.

:lol: "Gimme a club sandwich" would be unequivocally understood as rude anywhere in America. The "lemme get" is somehow ok. That's not to say there ar...

I'm not sure what culture that refers to, but I did notice that every time I eat out with my brother, he says "let me get X". My parents, who are good...

I do agree with you in the sense that I'm not a religious believer in the sense I've been describing. I do relate to the heuristic approach; it's an a...

I don't think that's right either. A faithful muslim obeys and honors their religious authorities. The word "islam" means "submission". What they have...

:party:

I like the verb "take" in regards to eating. In America I would say "I had tomato toast for breakfast". But saying I "took tomato toast for breakfast"...

Regular turkey (meaning plane roasted turkey cold cuts), provolone, lettuce tomato, banana peppers, and mayo, and the classic lack of mustard that I r...

@"T Clark" I'll just add that I was motivated by the both of you to re-read the Yeats poem, and the hair stood up on my neck. Hasn't happened in awhil...

In Mexico, and so in the US, it's a sandwich. I had one once; it was good but it didn't blow me away. I need to reassess.

That's a great point. We're progressing (verb form), but whether or not it indicates progress (noun form) is what is in question.

Mostly sugar? Is it a dessert item? It looks unleavened. At the risk of sounding painfully American, I love the European attitude towards food. I aspi...

Technology is another important factor in this discussion. Not to get esoteric, but there's a sense in which technology could almost be thought of as ...

Ha! I think of a torta as a sandwich in itself. What does it mean regionally in Spain? Yeah, I think you need the vegetal freshness. Tomato provides a...

Ha, it's not, unfortunately. They do toast it a bit, so there's some crunch, but bodega bread is not great. We eat it anyway, though, and we sort of l...

One of my favorite sayings.