Luncheon on the Couch

[talasiga]

I have started a lot of successful pub topics but lately I feel that my style is a little passe for the sort of trivia that's cropping up as successful topics.

I desperately need to improve my popularity here by partaking in and initiating trivial topics. Linear topics of mild or negligible perspicacity and posts with unambiguous lines where the humour is accompanied by canned laughter.

Simple topics for simple people to get their teeth into. Topics about food for instance.

Let me now, therefore, in a well rehearsed attempt at plebian appeal, relay to you details about my delicious lunch which I am gobbling down with vim in prospect of a busy afternoon with 5 hours of vocal, bansuri and Irish flute practice to come.

Yes
I am just now eating the remnants of black eye bean stew I made last night. To it I added about a pound of frozen corn and peas and a small handful of freshly chopped local ginger.
Simple but delicious.

You see, my hypothesis is that simple people like fancy food
whereas persons with complexes love the simple fare.

Is my hypo. flawed?
Discuss (popularly).

[Wanderer]

I am just now eating the remnants of black eye bean stew I made last night. To it I added about a pound of frozen corn and peas and a small handful of freshly chopped local ginger.
Simple but delicious.

As a well-seasoned carnivore, I must say that this would be a lot better with a hunk of ham slow-cooked in there.

[talasiga]

.....

As a well-seasoned carnivore, I must say .....

You fancy yourself a carnivore
whereas, in practice, you are an omnivore, a
practice which reflects the consitutional state of all humans
even those, like me, who only choose to eat vegetal (plant based)
foods.

The natural omnivorous diet of a forest human
is fruits, roots, seeds, shoots, leaves, insects, eggs, little lizards, shell fish,
wood grubs and the like. All raw of course.

I am, like you, a little removed from this natural condition.
I fancy myself

































a vegetarian

[jbarter]

I fancy myself

We'd noticed.

[chrisoff]

I fancy myself

We'd noticed.

I like talasiga's posts, mostly because I can never figure out if they're a complex joke or entirely (and worryingly) serious.

[jbarter]

I like talasiga's posts

I like 'em because they remind me to practice pronouncing the name. I'm having real difficulty in eradicating all traces of emphasis especially on that third syllable.

[fearfaoin]

Judge me not by the number of my topics,
but by the content of my posts.

talasiga, I thought you were going to increase your
popularity solely in the musical fora for a while.


OK, I was waiting for a talasiga topic anyway so I
could mention this: I remember some time ago when
talasiga denounced the widespread shortening of his
moniker. Recently, a coworker of Indic origin, who
rejoices in the name "Ranganath" was complaining
about the shortening of his name. Most Americans
call him "Ranga", which he's gotten used to, since
Americans love nicknames. But he says that back
home, everyone called him by his full name, and
that it was very unusual to shorten a name the way
we commonly do in America. But now, even his
countrymen appear to be taking to the habit. In the
last couple of months, this has been a frequent over-
the-cubical-wall conversation:

Ranganath: "Gah! This stupid recruiter called me
'Ranga'.... She's never even met me!"
Me: "Is she American?"
Ranganath: "No, she's a Desi!"

Apparantly, I'm the only person he talks to these days,
besides his family, that calls him by his full name.

So, I just wanted to say, I think I now understand tal's
request for less informality.

[emmline]

You see, my hypothesis is that simple people like fancy food
whereas persons with complexes love the simple fare.

Is my hypo. flawed?
Discuss (popularly).

I don't have a sufficient grasp of popularity, or what it feels like to discuss in the requested mode. I think your meal, remnants even, sounds tasty. I have complexes. I cannot address the condition of your hypo.

[talasiga]

....
I like talasiga's posts, mostly because I can never figure out if they're a complex joke or entirely (and worryingly) serious.

I, also, like my posts for the very same reason that you do

[alurker]

......my delicious lunch which I am gobbling down with vim .....

[chrisoff]

So, I just wanted to say, I think I now understand tal's
request for less informality.

I think it's perfectly reasonable for someone to request that their name isn't shortened, it's their name after all and it's only respectful and polite to address someone as they wish to be addressed (as long as they're not nuts and want to be called Lord Spunkypants or something).

Naming conventions across cultures are a strange beast though. In a previous life I had a lot of dealings with Korean users of an application for a very large oil company and they had an amusing, and slightly irritating, habit of calling us by our surnames Didn't bother me so much but some people had surnames which didn't make for very flattering first names and they got quite annoyed in the end.

[talasiga]

So, I just wanted to say, I think I now understand tal's
request for less informality.

I think it's perfectly reasonable for someone to request that their name isn't shortened
........

fear has tried to come with an ethnic focussed justification for my position little realising that his post has links to wiki article which is spurious and quite misleading in its assertions about the application of the Sanskrit derived "deshi". Further, he fails to recognise that "talasiga" is a name from the Fijian language.

The real reason I don't love my name being shortened to "tal" is because "tal" sounds to me like a pet food for toad's.

(At least, thats the real reason today).

[emmline]

No justification, ethnic or not, of anything intended:
The name Talasiga reminds me of Spanish words roughly translating to
"thusly it goes..." which is the attitude I prefer to take when reading Talasiga's curious posts.

[talasiga]

Italy goes thus ......

[sbhikes]

Did you put any rocks in your vegetarian stew?