Michael

Never heard of anyone using bollocks in that way, only in the same way as "damn!" or "rubbish".

Dunno, not Australian. Just heard it used in a friendly manner. Perhaps "numpty" is a better example. It might mean "a stupid or ineffectual person", ...

I wonder if part of the problem here is that calling someone a "lemon" has different connotations in Britain than it does elsewhere. Here in the UK, i...

Reversing Brexit would boost economy, says OECD Right, someone give me the wheel. Time to turn around and go home.

Yes, it happens. If you find a post that you believe to be highly offensive dreck, whether by a mod or by a non-mod, then flag it. If another moderato...

I didn't intend to call you a crappy person. I intended to make a pun. You're taking it far too personally. I would have said the same thing even if y...

I understood the double entendre. That's why I said it. It was a joke, said in response to your claim that the moderators in that discussion were purp...

They weren't bitter sarcasm. They were facetious. Much like my joke about bitter lemons. I would hazard a guess as to assume all of them were. Which, ...

I haven't. None of my comments were purple-prosed, hyperbolic, or ill-tempered. Neither was andrewk's. jamalrob and Hanover didn't post. So, again, at...

As far as I can see, I made two "terse, biting little comments": Note, incidentally, that neither were actually in response to someone arguing against...

I've just gone through all my posts in that discussion. I can't find any of mine that are "purple prose-laden, hyperbolic, and ill-tempered". Also, Ha...

The thing about the gun-control discussion is that I don't even see it as a left vs right issue at all. Conservatives in the UK seem to be as much in ...

Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations.

We were only bitter because we had to deal with so many lemons.

This is really confused. It's not at all how these things work. I'm applying the principle of charity. Sure, and he could also decide to just break hi...

You just strengthen the initial premise to "Pinocchio's nose grows if and only if he tells a falsehood". You just strengthen Socrates' reply to "you w...

So the issue is that only an actual contradiction can satisfy the imperative. It's the same issue that arises with Buridan's bridge and the Pinocchio ...

Perhaps, but that's not relevant in this case as the OP isn't really arguing in favour of prescriptivism over cognitivism but is asking if the imperat...

That's debatable. A prescriptivist will argue that ethical sentences, which might appear to be truth-apt propositions, are actually imperatives, so "o...

As I said, I don't know anything about your case, but in the case of Thanatos I didn't think it deserving of deletion. It had nothing to do with him b...

Actually, sorry, I may have been confusing Thanatos with John Harris. Thought you were talking about this discussion.

I don't know anything about your post that was deleted, but I remember Thanatos' and I didn't think it warranted that they should be deleted. You said...

Willow? She's awesome. Actually, they all are. It's just a great show.

It ain't.

Buffy is one of the best TV shows ever. Just a few months ago I went back and watched it all (and Angel).

Wesley Wyndam-Pryce. He was in both, although it wasn't until Angel that he called himself a rogue demon hunter. He became quite the bad-ass.

Aha. Proof that Hachem ain't had no education.

Well, we have a ban-gun.

It's not even that (@"jamalrob" excepted). We're just volunteer security guards.

I think both parents deserve credit, not just one of them. I think the notion of "natural" rights isn't a very clear one. What sort of thing is entitl...

This seems like nonsense. Attraction is just due to brain chemistry. A physiological response to certain types of visual (or other) stimulation. In mo...

Correlation does not imply causation. It could be that those with promiscuous desires just aren't as suited to long-term monogamous relationships as t...

Same thing. Is that controversial?

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Some of them aren't even science.

Congress. The Congressional Budget Office and The Department of the Treasury. The Department of Justice.

Trump walked into a bar. "I invented bars, you know. Mine are the best." he said, before getting his bribe from Putin and leaving. Better?

The problem with that is that all discussions appear on the main page, irrespective of category (unless you manually turn them off here). So moving ba...

I agree with you @"SophistiCat", but I'm not sure if you do. ;)

Why shouldn't moderators be allowed to vote? We're posters as well.

Not strict enough.

More like an old man, an owl, and whatever I am (a disembodied suit?).

The bit where I said "I don't think has anything to do with metaphysics" and you responded with the rhetorical "Oh and I said it is? :s", despite the ...

You said "I think the phenomenon of transexualism involves such a degree of infatuation of desire with its object that the object is transformed from ...

The nature of the self is. Someone born with the male genitals and wanting to be a woman isn't.

I don't think it has anything to do with metaphysics.

Well, body-rejection. Not everybody equates their self with their body.

Clearly not everybody accepts the claim that the right body is the one you're born with.

I forgot it. @"Baden": come on, this has got to be as good as @"Sapientia"'s piranha snack joke?