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Hobbits always help. They've always got food, and weed.

Prunella Scales, from Fawlty Towers, dies at 93. https://variety.com/2025/tv/global/prunella-scales-dead-fawlty-towers-sybil-1236563223/

I had to look up infix, bit alas, I can't understand the definition! 😣 "An infix is an affix inserted inside a word stem (an existing word or the core of a family of words). It contrasts with adfix, a rare term for an affix attached to the outside of a stem, …" Does it have anything to do with...

Well there is twatwaffle. I'm going to use it, in fact.

Rhymus interruptus

It's like the free will argument to me. If there is or isn't free will, how does either affect my life? If we are in a simulation, how does that affect my life? I know one thing: I would like a conversation with the programmer(s). Who the fuck thought any being or sprite would want to live...

Mendacious means dishonest, deceptive, false. Didn't that tip you off? 😋

No worries. 😀

She passed almost two years ago.

Might it be helpful to suggest what has already been said by various and sundry sources, but has not been said here (unless I missed it) : Science deals in concretes; philosophy deals in abstractions. ?

Philomena Cunk: "If gravity is real, how come it doesn't work on kites?"

Prog used to mean Yes, Genesis, ELP, King Crimson, Moody Blues, Procol Harum, etc, and Jethro Tull for people who don't hate Jethro Tull, which are a vanishing few nowadays.

If those are tattoos he paid too much for them. It looks like some drunk took a sharpie to him while he was asleep. A frat prank.

My sister and are going to watch Women in Love today, a much admired film based on the DH Lawrence novel, made in 1969. She ordered a DVD of it and it arrived yesterday. I've always wanted to see it because Oliver Reed is my favorite actor. Inasmuch as he was a total dick in real life, I love...

When you say "sports angle", are you referring to transgenders in sports? If not, what do you mean?