If you mean romantic love, then yes, lots of them.
Are erotic and spiritual love really different aspects of the same thing?
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If you mean romantic love, then yes, lots of them.
Are erotic and spiritual love really different aspects of the same thing?
Hopefully.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
re: new music, hardcore noise. That's what my hipster friends like, anyways.
what kind of bagel do you like?
How religious! ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
Raisin cinnamon
Same question
hmm, I bet that's archived somewhere---I like the hunt, maybe i'll take that up...
ive enjoyed benedict cumberbatch as holmes...and grudgingly enough, even Robert downey jr.
larry millet, who was a journalist for the st paul pioneer press, brings Sherlock holmes over to Minnesota for a number of adventures in a handful of books. and laurie king (spoiler alert!) does a really far out thing and marries holmes to a teenage girl named mary Russell, and they subsequently find themselves involved in a number of adventures. its interesting to consider the question of fidelity to canonicity as compared to artistic license (maybe that can be a question sometime soon---i have one in mind actually!)
i don't know enough to say definitively about Oswald, so i think my answer might be disappointing from a content perspective...but from what i can tell, id lean towards not alone. the whole "there had to have been a second spitter" Seinfeld episode you know.
one of my very favorite books is tom brown's schooldays, a 19th century English children's literature book. in that book, there's a villainous character named flashman. many decades later in our lifetime, an author named George macdonald fraser resurrected flashman and wrote a handful of books about his adventures.
i like the vince Flynn novels, and ive developed a small literary crush on one of the characters, Irene kennedy. vince Flynn's deceased now but i find myself wondering is Irene kennedy would have been worthy of her own books. i think tom Clancy did a similar thing when he found out how popular john clark was becoming.
have you ever read something that had a character in it that you wish would appear in his own book? or in fact that some later author did indeed do just that?
oh man i am sooooooo slow!
i love all bagels, they are my friends. but im partial to the everything bagels, or the onion ones.
Yes, I've read a few of the Flashman novels; in fact, I was just thinking about the character. ;-)
Maybe Mycroft Holmes. I always wished he had a bigger role in the Doyle stories.
Would you rather have go to a three hour concert or eat a three hour gourmet breakfast?
Concert for sure. It might be something cool like Mahler. I can't handle that much food, in any case.
Does art become dated after a certain period, regardless of how good it is? Does the skill of the artificer produce longer or shorter lasting works? How does all this stuff work?
You claimed "artworks don't respect dictionaries." So. according to you, nobody can call art "dated," or "good," since both of those words are in dictionaries. So, if we followed your claim, your question would be pointless. We couldn't say whether art is dated or good.
Has the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame unfairly ignored Hip-Hop artists?
Yes, values and perspectives can change dramatically over time. It has to do with the narrowness of the human mind at any given point in comparison to the relative vastness of the historic experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
Can you really ever be friends with an ex-lover?
Yeah, that makes sense to me. I like the way you put it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
As for your question, I have no idea - someone else should answer!
Aw! :( (The answer is no).
Should the US have mandatory military service for young people, as in Israel and Taiwan?
How confusing! Why do you think this is?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
No, no mandatory anything past literacy and basic math, at least far as regulating large swaths of people's lives goes.
I'm working at my bookstore right now; what music should I play next (it's coming through my laptop and I have a lot of classical music)?
Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
If you found a worm in an apple, would you still eat the part that didn't have the worm?
Haha, no seriously! I don't even have that album on my computer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
Yes, though I might feel a little creeped out.
Birth of the Cool by Miles Davis?
If you were spending a few days alone in a remote cabin, would you still close the bathroom door when you showered?
No, they aren't even close.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
And no friends with ex lovers (at least it hasn't worked for me).
And no to eating the apple.
Would you send back food at a restaurant if you didn't think it was very good?
Sure, but I'd be discreet about it. I hate it when people try to show off by bullying food staff.
Total elimination of tipping.
Yes and raise the minimum wage accordingly.
Blue ink?
Aye... the rest of the world has it right on this one.
Awhile ago I was at a bar with some friends and I ordered one drink and I think my girlfriend and her friend ordered one, anyway after I got my drink (a beer, she handed it to me) and was walking away the bartender said "hey you know, it really helps to tip your bartender" and I said "no thanks" and she refused to serve me after, though there were other bars in the club.
Waiters and waitresses also make way way too much money, especially here in Banff where it is absolutely not uncommon for them to bring home $300 or $400+ in a night.
So yes, get rid of it, pay them $15 an hour or something normal and raise food prices 5%.
Thomas Mann?
In America, waitressing is the number one job for single mothers, and very few of them make $4-500 dollars a night, so their children live on their tips.
As to Thomas Mann: he's ok; I'd take Goethe or Sebald over him, tough guy.
Reality television?
What do I care? People are going to be poor and work **** jobs no matter how much money you throw at them. Single mothers also aren't sacred.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pike Bishop
Nay.
Ricky Gervais?
Aye.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
I completely agree about getting tipping. I personally know Taiwan Chinese who have opened restaurants in the US, who laugh themselves silly that Americans want to give them money for nothing.
Football for elementary students?
Nay on Ricky Gervais, nay on football for the kiddies.
Video gaming: a sport?
Wow, you're quite the classy, compassionate guy. "Single mothers aren't sacred." My lord, I'm going to have to remember that jewel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
Yay to The Office Ricky Gervais; no to the post-Office Gervais...and video gaming is not a sport
Bill Maher?
Aye, an esport at least, and they command pretty huge followings and viewership, especially in Korea.
Football shouldn't be in elementary school, no contact sport should be and none should be mandatory. One concussion is too many.
Do you watch/enjoy UFC?
They aren't, and neither are children while we're at it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pike Bishop
Yeah, I get it, you're callous and cool; It's all very impressive. I'm sure you'll never need compassion yourself, so don't worry about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
Bill Maher?
No.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
Is chauvinism sensible?
Fine then... children and single mothers are sacred for... reasons, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pike Bishop
It' not a matter of them being sacred, it's a matter of your dismissive, callous statement negating the fact they are the most vulnerable, most needy members of our society. If you weren't so wrapped up in your being impressed with your own callousness, you would have grasped that.
Vulnerable because of their own decisions. They can work at Walmart, why am I supposed to care? And why are single mothers more vulnerable than the homeless? I am so sick of hearing about single mothers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pike Bishop
Of course you are, you're callous and lacking in compassion for those less fortunate than you. And if you actually blame them for all of their difficult situations, you're as deluded as you are unsympathetic. I myself have no time for people who think like you. So, congratulations, you get to be the seventh and final--for a while at least--member of my ignore list. Ciao, kid.
There are billions of people less fortunate than me who are not single mothers. Why do single mothers get this special privilege of consideration?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pike Bishop
And cya.
Yo... is chauvinism (in the sense of opening doors for women more than men, little favors) sensible?
Yes, provided people stop whacking me about the head with the male privilege card.
Should all education be entirely equal so that everyone of all socio-economic backgrounds are on the same level? No homeschool, no private schools, no grammar schools, etc?
I'm confused, how does eliminating every form of education make education equal?
All education should be available for free, possibly supplemented with private schools.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
If you had a week's holiday now and a thousand dollars, what would you do?
Panic, most likely: too many options.
Do outside forces influence a person's place in life, or is it all up to us?
whack whackQuote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
If you ever find yourself in that situation, I will happily help to spend the money so that you don't need to panic ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
Of course outside forces influence a person's place in life, otherwise we'd all be rich and idle.
Would you rather live in London or Florence?