Recent content by prabe

It's a feature of the hard-block. Someone blocks you, you can't see the threads they've started, you can't see your posts there, or the conversations you might have been having--or even watching--there.

Left to themselves, things go from bad to worse; after that, the cycle repeats.

Like the year before that, and the year before that, and the year before that, and the year before that ... 😉

"Both these things can be true."

Some of his work was less political than others. I remember when he posted that.

I've had the Cantos on my shelves for years and haven't gotten around to it. I think that needs to change, soon. (I intend to read the books, not get rid of them, to be clear.)

That noise you hear is me yoinking this.

Well, he left a lot of good stuff, so quantity matters in that way. I did intend to be commenting on the duration, but that shouldn't be interpreted as "more wouldn't be better" or "people in their seventies should die and get out of the way" or anything like that. Of course, I'm...

On the one hand, well, crap. On the other hand, he had a really good run.

In such an instance, the inability of both parties to see past their priors is often ... dismaying.

IF YOU CAN'T FIX IT FEATURE IT

Because you're not old enough to remember them being a luxury item.

I happen to have this on a T-shirt. :LOL:

That's not unreasonable. Maybe the transliteration is more like revenge than a prank. "We'll use your letters, but we'll assign them to different phonemes." EDIT: I'm probably still carrying scars from my time recording audiobooks. We (or at least I) hated to see Gaelic come up, it was such a...

I am a firm believer that Gaelic is a prank played on English-speakers.