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I get crazy enough off of Thai iced tea that I've never had much urge to try anything else.

Thai iced tea

Aha! Cite diet -
I ate the acid.
Ah - a dietetic!

There is a group of adult students I work with who I constantly advise to avoid qualifiers like "I think" or "I feel" or I believe" in their formal writing. Some of them think it sounds too "stuck up" to omit IMHO, as if they can't see other points of view if they are assertive about their own logic.

They're doing better than most of the kids I teach that believe the key to winning an argument is shouting louder than the other person, and failing that, on who can do the best "ya mum" put down.

Mind you this seems to be how most people think these days. It seems every time there's an issue being debated by politicians in the media it isn't about who has the best point or evidence, it's about who has the best sound bite. There was more I wanted to say about the nature of argument in general when the Quantum debate was running hot, but I lost the thread of it. I'm sure I had a good point in me somewhere, but after trying to follow the actual debate itself for 18 posts at a time, my brain was usually too synonymous with toothpaste for me to form a coherent thought.

Is it true that absinthe turns the world strange colors? I have often thought that the US blamed it unfairly for causing damage..vodka and whiskey can kill a person to.

he went after Talkie Toaster too I only wish that those type of fellows would go after Talkie Toaster..it would serve them right. <+2>Zap Sizzle..
<0>I have noticed that my female bot attracts a lot more crazies than the other two.

Is it true that absinthe turns the world strange colors?

Only if you used it as eyedrops - then the world would probably go green (though I imagine you'd be in far too much pain to notice )

Then I will stick with scotch and my colored sun glasses. I like the taste better..

I have noticed that my female bot attracts a lot more crazies than the other two.

That's why my female bots are not labelled as such in their profiles. Yes, they are female, but harder to find that way.

So, Bev, how about that War and Peace, eh?

So, Bev, how about that War and Peace, eh?

Don't tease, Irina. I haven't read much Tolstoy, but I could talk about it anyway. I'm actually reading Kafka at the moment. Would you like to hear my theories about how The Trial relates t post patriot act America and how the biggest threat to democracy is internal rather than external?

The Trial relates to post patriot act America and how the biggest threat to democracy is internal rather than external? I didn't think anyone else thought that all the 'Homeland Security' sounded a bit scary. I am beginning to think life is getting a bit too much like a story by Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky .

I didn't think anyone else thought that all the 'Homeland Security' sounded a bit scary.

So, you live in Texas then? Come visit the blue states sometime. The weather isn't as nice, but we don't think you can fight for "freedom" and suspend the Constitution. Anyone who destroys the thing we are supposed to be fighting for is doing the terrorist work for them (or taking advantage of fear and anger to gain power).