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Let it harden, then fetch some duct tape and that'll do fine.
Not to mention the existensial quandary of how 'free' a cake can be when it exists merely to excite our taste buds. I need to go ponder, or drink, or something.
Have you checked inside? I've found all kinds of stuff inside Drake products. I once got a pound cake with a 1/100th scale model of Bebe Rebozo at the center. Cracked a molar on the fucker.
Yes, as a matter of fact. see here. On top that, my joints ache, my eyes are tired and watery and I've got a family function tonight. Maybe walk in someone else's shoes before indiscriminately breaking balls.
Dude, get some perspective. Your job is making you actually work for two months to get your severance? Wah. Of all people, you are upset for someone giving you a hard time? You who gives hard times out like they cost ten cents?
I'm sorry you're crabby. But expecting me to magically know it is lame.
Your job is making you actually work for two months to get your severance? Wah.
If you can't see how telling people 'you're on the street in two months, and we're gonna watch your ass for those two months otherwise you don't get any crumbs off the table on the way out,' might piss someone off, then I don't know what to tell you.
You who gives hard times out like they cost ten cents?
I break peoples balls good-naturedly, but I don't kick people when they're down, and if I wanted to be schoolmarmishly scolded about minor grammar mistakes (not to mention do the whole 'Call On Me, teacher, I'm ever so smart' martin prince routine) I would've stayed in school.
chill peanuts, for me personally jon my eye just hung on "existensial" in a painful way. I'm not weighing in on anyone elses snitty answers anymore, but I was just fuckin' witcha in the minorest way possible and you know I'll back you all the way to the wall on the upcoming unemployment.
I wanted to be schoolmarmishly scolded about minor grammar mistakes
Dame wasn't trying to correct your grammar, but rather your misuse of the concept of existentialism. You provided your own answer for the "existential quandry": [the cake] exists merely to excite our taste buds. Whether or not the cake can be called "free" is a semantic question; the answer will have to accommodate the given existential state of the cake.
Or I could be totally wrong, I'm just fucking around.
Like I said, I only took intro to philosophy during my abortive college career, and I destpyed most of the braincells that I stored what I learned in I think. I was just making a joke, that I figured would come through even with the misspellings and poor grammar. But here's a peace offering.
Thanks for the apology. I wasn't trying to make you feel dumb; you were using existential the way most people do, which happens to have little to do with what it originally meant and which I think is a valuable meaning. I thought you would just tell me to stop being such a smarty pants. You know (or should) that I don't think you're dumb.
Also, getting laid off with unemployment + severance was the best thing that ever happened to me: it changed my life. So I'm kinda jealous of your position, actually.
Believe it or not, I'm happy to be departing this job, since it turned the thing I love most (music) into something bloodless and tedious. I'm more pissed about the two month purgatory than anything else, frankly.
I don't see how, once you allow the playful conflation of free:without cost and free:at liberty, jonmc's use of existential is outside its normal usage, which is never really defined more just associated with an ethos and inquiry into day to day decision making. And while generally assuming that individuals have free will, the cake's dilemma falls within the questioning of the reality of that free will, which is peripheral to, but still part of existentialism, no?
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