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Yes, although it's easier to say it than to do it, at least for me.

Yes, I was being ironic. Yes.

I believe Rowdy Roddy Piper won the Oscar for best performance by a professional wrestler that year.

I'm not a formal meditator and I think my understanding is different from @"praxis". I went looking for an Alan Watts quote I think is relevant, but I...

And speaking of cucumbers - I didn't know people in the UK even ate vegetables. I thought it was all bangers and mash and blancmange.

Thanks for the correction. The title said "magpie" but I wasn't sure. I looked on the web to verify. I guess I didn't verify very well. I wonder if al...

I predict this will be the winner for best short subject at the Oscars this year. The magpie is a shoe-in for best supporting avian. Admittedly, the c...

At the very least he should have put gravy on the brussels sprouts too.

I understand this is not your position, only the one you are questioning. I think it was @"Possibility" here on the forum who recommended a book - "Ho...

I would agree with you except that no one in the history of the world would ever serve chicken fried steak with brussels sprouts.

Ok, ND. Send us a picture, better, a video, of you eating a shrimp with shell on.

I love good Chesapeake Bay crab, but I have no patience breaking the shells and picking out the meat. Voila! Crab cakes. Lump crab cakes with no fille...

In the US, Scotch Tape is a band name that's become a generic name like kleenex, xerox, saltines, and donald j trump jr.

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That's not engineer humor, it's pseudo-philosopher humor. High quality pseudo-philosopher humor. Somethingism is a quantized property, which means the...

I speak in my capacity as the Voice of the Spirit of Philosophy. I appointed myself to that position by my authority as the Voice of the Spirit of Phi...

There is no doubt that you are the somethingist poster here. We're just not sure of what something right now.

That shouldn't be a problem. I happen to know for a fact that the funniest poster here is white, or as we like to be called "Amurican-American."

Given my education, it's hard to remember that stuff happened before the past 2,000 years and outside of Europe. East, central, and south Asia had emp...

It was great. Inspiring. I'm surprised they haven't made a movie yet with Tom Hanks as Arthur T. Demoulas. Arthur T was the good guy. His cousin Arthu...

Yes. I was surprised to find out that much of what is now Russia was run by central Asian Khanates - both Mongolian and Turkic - up until the 1300s.

There is a regional grocery chain in New England, Market Basket, that treats their workers well. You can see the difference when you go there. They ar...

I didn't know that.

My guess is that most people of color, as they are often now referred to, don't want to hear much about us white folk's struggles with what to call th...

Good phrase. Almost self-explanatory.

A lot of those people in central Asia are Turkic - Kazakhstanis, Kyrgyzstanis, Uzbekistanis, Turkmen, and Uyghurs. There are significant Turkic popula...

Agreed, but, like it or not, racial differences make a difference - politically and socially. It's low-rent irony to argue that none of us are black o...

I haven't, but everyone I know who's been there loved it. Lots of good food - which is what I care most about places I go. TV shows always show people...

It's true, there are a lot more choices in the city. When I lived in Cambridge, MA in the 1970s, there were decent inexpensive Indian, Thai, Chinese, ...

In the cities we visited, there were Turkish, Northern African, and Middle Eastern restaurants. And then, again, that Mexican one. Does French food co...

I visited France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium with my family in the late 1980s. My brother and I visited France, the Netherlands, Luxembo...

Sure, but you haven't encountered any black people either.

No.

One of the things I like best about Europe is the amount of good food around, including ethnic and local food. There were plenty of other choices. Any...

My brother and I went to a really bad Mexican restaurant in Frieberg, Germany when we were over there. I wonder what made us think that was a good ide...

Too late. I suggest a new user name for you - @"That Guy".

Someone should tell Jamal that Rudy Giuliani has stolen his forum password. It's possible @"Hanover" sent it to him.

I thought that was a song by Muppet character Albino Kermit.

I didn't mean to denigrate cardamom, only to point out that there was none in the Rice Krispies, milk, and Mike & Ike's I ate. I just checked the ingr...

For lunch today, I had a bowl of Rice Krispies with milk and a package of Mike & Ikes. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Mike-and-Ik...

Now you just have to walk 8 km. In English units, that's 145 miles.

No. I don't see how government or politics, at least in the US, is making significant "intrusions into aesthetics." Do you really object to public edu...

These come to mind. I'd forgotten this was written by Laura Nero. B,S,&T was a great band.

I learned something new.

American comedy shows never use laugh tracks. They are only added to shows being shipped off to the southern hemisphere. They asked us not to tell you...

Don't get me wrong, I think those Farnarkling sketches are almost as funny as baseball. Let's watch this instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdMe...

I'm 71. I'm not ready to die, I'm having a pretty good time, but I'm not afraid. I'm not the only person like that. Here are some statistics from the ...

This is not true. You're talking to the wrong people.

It was the goat/schlong conjunction. I did a quick calculation and determined that the odds against monkeys, or anyone other than @"Hanover" for that ...