Ben Kenobi vs Michael the Great

[MichaeltheGreat]

How do you each prefer your chicken? Roasted? Fried? Baked? In the case of Michael, raw?

Depends. Buying it, usually rotiserried and then with BBQ sauce. If I'm making it, usually jerked. There's a really good Jamaican restaurant about 3 miles from me, so if I'm too lazy to get real jerk sauce and marinade the chicken for 24-36 hours, I can always go there. Jerk chicken, plantains, red beans and rice and champagne kola. Oh, and if I want good greasy fried chicken, there's a Popeye's about 2 miles from here too.

[SlowwHand]

Red beans and rice. Yummy. I only recently finally went to Wing Stop. They aren't half bad. Get some of them 60 cent special on Monday and Tuesday.
I get original and it's hot, and they have two that are hotter. I just as soon keep my tongue.

[MichaeltheGreat]

There's a wing stop in the hood a few miles from here, but they have a reputation for suckass service, so I haven't bothered. Too much other good stuff to eat in SD.

[Alexander's Horse]

the wings here are good

[Aeson]

I really don't want to see a thread about touching little boys.

I would like to thank you for your useful post

[molly bloom]

I'm happy to debate against Michael a topic of Poly's choice.

So, what do Polytubbies want to see?

You become a Trappist monk, preferably on Tristan da Cunha or in the Kerguelen Archipelago.

[MichaeltheGreat]

You become a Trappist monk, preferably on Tristan da Cunha or in the Kerguelen Archipelago.

Not there. Maybe the interior of the Congo. Since I like desolate landscapes, those (plus Ascension and St. Helena) have been on the "want to go but likely never will" list. Great places to tromp around with an 8x10 view camera though.

[Nikolai]

Ooh. That's a good one.

*popcorn*

[Alexander's Horse]

*wheels in hotdog cart*

[molly bloom]

Not there. Maybe the interior of the Congo. Since I like desolate landscapes, those (plus Ascension and St. Helena) have been on the "want to go but likely never will" list. Great places to tromp around with an 8x10 view camera though.

Just for you, I'll change the locations to:

Kano, Nigeria and Goma, D.R.C. . Sister Wendy Genuflecta can really put those Christian principles into practice in both those places.

Do you think you'd like the Cornish landscapes of the Penwith peninsula ? Lots of Bronze age monuments, disused tin mines, and the occasional local who resembles the reflection seen in the back of a spoon, as my partner's sister rather dryly put it (she's married to a Cornishman and lives down there). Great beaches, good walks on the coastal foopath and rockclimbing on granite stacks... even in winter it's pretty special. Somewhere I used to go regularly, a few miles from Land's End :




and if you're absolutely desperate for culture there's the open air cliff top theatre, The Minack:



And no, the Cornish Tourist Board isn't paying me anything....

[MichaeltheGreat]

They should. That'd be interesting to tromp around a bit and explore.

[Dinner]

They need to plant some trees there.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Wouldn't likely do well with the winds, I'd assume.

[Sava]

I can't think of any topics Ben is good at

Not being mean... and I just preface this because often times mentioning a personally sensitive issue can be confusing with trolling because tone can be misinterpreted... but I could only imagine BK would have some expertise or valuable information when it came to helping someone deal with recent hearing loss. I imagine the loss or impairment of such an important sense would be have a difficult adjustment period... perhaps leading to severe depression and maybe suicide in some cases. I have a tremendous amount of respect for Ben because, while not knowing exactly, I can imagine how difficult his experience may be at times.

I saw my dad have a stroke when i was 5 years old. He was paralyzed on his right side for the rest of his life and had severe speech aphasia. I've seen first hand the strength that it takes to deal with such challenges.

Despite his despicable moral and political beliefs, BK is an okay guy. To my knowledge, he's never committed a violent crime or ruined someone's life by stealing or anything. The stuff he says is just hot air to me. He has opinions. He's in an extreme minority. With politics and all that, he may as well be banging his head up against a brick wall of sanity. I seriously doubt one of Ben's beliefs or opinions will ever affect me or become public policy. He's harmless.

And when I call him names, he's smart enough to know it's because I disagree with him. He doesn't get all whiny and emo like I kicked his dog down a flight of stairs.

So BK's cool in my book.

[SlowwHand]

Kicked his dog down a flight of stairs.