geordief

I had been wondering lately if we are all competitive eaters as I have noticed that in myself-and certainly the dog.

OK , so watery milk next time with the bread. I see something similar applies to butter -not toxic but not good. .....I think this is a good argument for commercial biscuits as this kind of knowledge is hopefully included in the product and amateur mistakes are avoided.

Yes I make him up something if we run out of biscuits. It would be bread and butter with milk and a little bit of chicken pieces. He also gets the scraps from our dinner plates. But the biscuits are popular (he waits until there is no more really good stuff before heading off there) and I understand that the stinky smell is attractive to them.

I disagree.I had an acquaintance back in the day who was a "petomane" as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Pétomane (but not him of course) In circa 1970 he went out one night and claimed upon his return that he (he was called "Dan l'Americain") to his girlfriend that he had been beaten up by the police (a mark of honour then) She got him to admit the injuries were self inflicted.. He also claimed to be a deserter from the Vietnam War- but never to being able to breathe through his colon.

I missed that last year . Do you have a recipe? This fairly recent thread I found on reddit argues against expecting to achieve results that would save money and that it could be unhealthy if done without expertise. https://www.reddit.com/r/Frugal/comments/14esy2w/how_do_i_make_dog_food_on_the_cheap/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=necmhMW09gg Little Sister pleases me more.😃 Does she (Kamala) have the road map to the vote now that it is clear that he is her bitch?

You should take a look at exchemist's beautiful picture here then. Isn't it gneiss Would'n it be gneiss if the Boy found it in the Beach?

Have shared it.

Sure it is not spideation? The eyes ,you say....ah yes a bit familiar....cute ,yes and kind of ,welcoming. I think I'll take a cl..................

I thought it looked like a crab

Turn the last one downside up and you have "Escapologist".(oh is it not a frog?)

If the universe was to begin and end in endless cycles (which is not anything of a consensus as far as I know) then would you have the chicken and egg question** as to which came first -or was more consequential? Would the question be as to whether you could as well say that the material universe emerged from a "mental" universe? God knows there would be no way to find an answer other than whether it could be disproved. **(I think I understand that the actual chicken /egg question is not paradoxical and that -well I can't remember the answer but was it "the egg"?)

Would that be an indication that most people are active on other kinds of sites where different expectations of civility (and levels of moderation) apply? So ,when they first post here they forget to wipe their feet on the mat.. Unless science forums naturally attract people who want to "show up the experts"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8erpgy727jo Funny ha ha (Edinburgh Festival one liner winners) eg Comedian Mark Simmons was voted the winner with his gag: "I was going to sail around the globe in the world’s smallest ship but I bottled it.”

I think it may have been me who used the description first in this thread. But it I meant that it vindicates the value we place in our own existence That it can be worth doing on its own account. Not an original thought in the slightest as the expression "art for art's sake" surrounds us all and is oart of the common currency.

We are living through times of great and easy satirism.(such a shame Kelsey Grammer decided to satirise himself)

Yes ,it wouldn't have been hard.He has gone down in my estimation as an expert conman. Victim of his own bs? Something crawled up his ear?

I was very surprised he didn't get much of a bump(was it cancelled out very quickly when Biden called it off?) Bet Trump was put out by that after all that ear merchandising to complement the pampers couture.

I don't think I said (or implied?)you did.I don't always address exactly what an interlocutor has specifically said but may say what comes to my mind to emphasize what seemed important to me. Argumentation does not feel always a virtue to me (especially if ,like me you are not very good at it) I am trying to understand a subject better rather than to show others are wrong I tend to admire artists but am aware that ,as people they are no better and perhaps worse than those without the skill. For example,I feel that Dylan sold out (dropped out?) but realise his abilities are such that my feelings count for very little.

A lot of people claim that it is "wrong" to close your mind to all forms of musical expression. That is a debate on its own account If an artist has lived a life that is reprehensible (eg arguably MJ) they will be censored out of the airways regardless of the quality of the music itself. Personally ,once an artist has died I lose nearly all interest in their work (am not looking forward to the possibly imminent demise of Bob Dylan.... he's not ill but old age is its own illness)

Doesn't technical ability increase the "vocabulary" of the artist and thereby the work? And ,as is often mentioned you can be fluent in any number of languages and have nothing worth saying in any. So ,as a corollary you can be highly technically skilled and also have a worthwhile expression ** which would make the object more intrinsically valuable than if the opposite were true. The "business " of art ,whilst it is in the OP might be a red herring as to whether an artwork can have genuine worth. ** not sure how I could define that ,though as a self professed "philistine".

I have a friend who travels around the country from one poetry competition to another. She quite often wins a monetary prize.Some value there

John Fahey claimed he changed his preferences very suddenly https://www.johnfahey.com/Blood.htm "Where I was brought up was very prejudiced towards Negroes," Fahey explains. "I was taught to hate and fear them. I didn't like black music very much, I wouldn't even listen to it." Two years later, Fahey heard the record that turned his music and life around: Blind Willie Johnson's "Praise God I'm Satisfied". "[Blues connoisseur] Dick Spottswood and I were sat in a store where they were selling up old 78s," he remembers. "They weren't catalogued or anything, they were just lying around. We were going through them and I was not picking up any records by Negroes for myself because all I wanted was bluegrass. I found several black records and gave them to Spottswood. Then we went over to this other collector's house and he put on the Blind Willie Johnson. I started to feel nauseated so I made him take it off, but it kept going through my head so I had to hear it again. When he played it the second time I started to cry, it was suddenly very beautiful. It was some kind of hysterical conversion experience where in fact I had liked that kind of music all the time, but didn't want to. So, I allowed myself to like it." Is that what you meant by "personal preferences"?

Can they be wrong?Do you need to understand a work of art before you give an opinion that can be considerered "considered"? Suppose we segregate all those people who can be considered knowledgeable enough that their opinion is valuable and we (as we surely will,I imagine) find a spectrum of responses to the piece... Can we collate those varied reactions and come to something of a consensus amonst the cohort of some intrinsic value(s) of the piece? Not to say that the opinion of the relatively ignorant is not also important but that its importance can be overstated. For years I thought Hendix wanted to "kiss this guy".I still liked the song...

But not all value is monetary. Suppose you happen to be an artist and you are questioning the value of what you do on a daily basis (reflecting on you life choices and actions).. well your work as an artist would be one of those choices or activities that you might wish to evaluate on its own merits. Could that be done or would personal judgements of that kind be kind of "flip of the coin"? (Whether or not it was appreciated,perhaps?) What about Zelensky's refusal of the offer of an American helicopter out of Kiev?