Thank you, tomndeb for your explanation.
GIGO I take your post with the humor with which it seems intended.
Mr. Mace, someone pee in your coffee this morning? :dubious: A question can be valid to others that doesn’t seem so to you. May I bow before your omniscience? 
Respectfully.
Inky
We can have ONE Bentley, but no more.
And we can’t fuck him.
Stop being such a bentlophobe!
Of course, you and Harborwolf are both correct. I flew off the handle finding the Giraffe jab and read too much into it. As far as I know there’s no real animosity between us. They know I’m their hero. 
Moment of oversensitivity, fit of pique, whatever. Thread ain’t about me so I’ll leave it at that. Sorry for the outburst.
Well that just makes it a silly club. Who would want to join with such a lack of metacohesive nonrealities?*
*Off to look that up. I have no frigging idea what it means.
If you go to Chez Panisse at the right season, they do a superb metacohesive non-realitly lightly sauteed in cream of primordial essence. It’s served with side orders of pickled world spirit and broasted anthromorphized inanimate process. For dessert I recommend the chocolate covered monads. The whole thing whould be washed down with chilled vital essence.
Magnificent, but it’ll cost you alot of Karma.
I would have to take issue with this.
I find the metacohesive non-reality at Chez Panisse to lack a certain ensoucience, a certain je ne sais quoi - cynical rather than ironic, down-hearted rather than downbeat. It just misses the proper epistomological tang, the afterglow that should linger on the palate and complete the roundness of the aesthetic experience.
Plus their beer gives me the shits.
Regards,
Shodan
See, that’s the problem. You drank beer. Eewww!
Bad choice.
Regards,
Shodan
Thank god. I’m so sick of those fucking things.
Thank god. I’m so sick of those fucking things.
Can I get those without windows? I like the creamy filling to be surprised when I bite into it!
I love you.
I find that the more Karma I spend, the more I have.
There are multitudes of self-styled experts on the Middle East in the Western Media.
Few of them speak Arabic. Collounsbury did: he was a true regional expert on a topic populated by blowhards. Furthermore, he took care not to stray too far from his areas of expertise. (He also broke the Board’s rules, but that’s another matter.)
Some are more qualified to evaluate Collounsbury’s skill-set than others.
And the IRS would like to have a word with you about your accounting practices.
See, give the liberal some power and it’s Rolls Royces, metacohesive realilities. Too much power too soon I say.
It’s the sound of a paradigm shift without the clutch.
Sure. But the strong implication by istara in that post is that she’s better qualified to judge the relative worthiness of Collounsbury’s posts simply because she happens to live in that particular region of the globe. I don’t think happenstance of residence has any bearing at all on academic qualifications.
Liberal’s not a liberal - except in the classic sense as it was understood by the founders of the United States. Stick that in your paradigm and smoke it.
In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then, when you get the money, you get the power. Then, when you get the power, then you get the women. Then, when you get the women, you get the metacohensive nonrealities. Then…