The Maillard Reaction
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How many fools have you known in your life...
... and why does each one have to insist that they are special and unique.
They all seem the same, ignorant and completely unaware that they are just like all the other fools.
Bummer.
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 07:30:31
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No...no.... I know I'm a fool, but I am special & unique. My mum told me. 
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 07:31:43
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I'm the bigest fool I know apart fromt the dude on the turtle
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 07:48:12
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The dude on a turtle had 5 jobs this week, serving others as a small part of a large community. Day by day.
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 08:02:40
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Mike....
Some fools are so full of themselves it borders on delusional ......
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 08:41:29
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How many fools have you known in your life... I never had enough wisdom to work that out.
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 08:42:04
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I've recognized many but I have not really known them.
I've known folks including myself that have slipped and done
foolish things.
Lately it seems that the "full-time" fools have been falling from
the sky around here. Very strange.
The really sad part is that many people that I enjoyed are not
visiting anymore.
"Conversation" is an art and crayons seems to be medium.
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 08:51:01
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""Conversation" is an art and crayons seem[s] to be [the] medium."
That's some powerful poetry.
PS I only edited it because I thought the sentiment was worth clarifying.
best regards,
mike
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 08:54:19
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do you mean here in the forums....or in the world in general?
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 08:56:37
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I was thinking in general.
I still am.
best,
mike
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 09:14:36
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When I look back at musicians and producers we had "filters".
We could audition a musician. The producers and band could "audition" each
other.
We had the opportunity to evaluate and determine if a person
or band was something we could "handle" and work with.
"Life" was a filter too. Not everybody could acquire recording equipment
and not everybody could be in a band. There were limiting factors-many
of which were just the way times were.
Now an unlimited number of people can make claims to be either and they
don't have to audition. They can be nothing more than talk and associate
with "real" musicians and producers without the need to demonstrate musical
abilities or productions skills.
So...the "real" are subject to the many that are not.
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 10:01:30
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How many fools have you known in your life...
All of them!
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 10:05:20
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I think we all have been and can again be fools ourselves at times. I guess it depends on how many times but I am not counting. I don't look at others this way because I don't have my own self in check.  Rimshot
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 10:15:39
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It's a tough and thankless job but somebody has to do it.
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 10:15:42
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I'm talking about the folks you may have run across that flashed a streak of brilliance yet ended up sleeping in the gutter.
I have know dozens, probably because I frequent circles of friends that are preoccupied with making art and or culture. The seeming social tolerance of the arts community attracts a lot of ego maniacs that seem to think artistic expression will be the ideal manifestation of their preoccupation with self.
It's a common trajectory to witness if you are tolerant enough to allow yourself familiarity with people that celebrate creativity, unorthodox thinking and the accompanying symptoms of life lived near the edge of social norms.
It's sad to think about, but life goes on.
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 10:17:19
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mike_mccue
I'm talking about the folks you may have run across that flashed a streak of brilliance yet ended up sleeping in the gutter.
There are many reasons for that to happen that go way beyond 'foolishness'. Sleeping in the gutter may also be a transitory phase rather than where one 'ends up'. Imagining that at any point you have arrived at a destination is foolish, by the time you actually reach any destination you will have stopped imagining anyway.
post edited by Jonbouy - 2012/04/14 10:24:59
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 10:22:56
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Yes, of course.
I feel certain that not every one who finds them selves in that situation is a fool.
There are many circumstances that are simply out of a person's control that can lead to that sort of circumstance.
I'm speaking of my acquaintances that ended up face down, smiling, and still convinced they new what they were doing was the true and right way to be true to them selves.
Please, make no mistake about this... I am being literal rather than figurative: face down, smiling, and still convinced.
best regards,
mike
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 10:24:00
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I was a fool when I was young. I didn't recognize it until I got older, then I felt so ashamed for my behavior, I faded in to the background of life and now I'm just waiting it out.
As for the internet, judging a fool is very hard. I wouldn't consider someone a fool if they had mental problems that contributed to their behavior, I would have sympathy for them, but it's pert near impossible to discern that from text on a screen most of the time. I have a friend who exhibit's the type of behavior we've seen upstairs and down lately. I don't hold his behavior against him because there's just something night right in his head, but I also don't want to be around him anymore either.
But then again, I've noticed as I get older, it's easier to just let this stuff roll off my back. I don't know if it's age, wisdom (which I doubt), or just the fact that you get numb to it because you've seen it so much. The longer you live, the more crap (and good things) you see, but that doesn't necessarily mean you have learned anything.
Sorry, I'm still half asleep. Just got up, haven't had coffee or breakfast yet. Hope this makes sense.
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 10:25:20
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Yes it makes sense Bub. Tolerance always makes sense. Thanks for sharing.
best regards,
mike
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 10:56:15
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from dictionary.reference.com
noun
1. a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense.
2. a professional jester, formerly kept by a person of royal or noble rank for amusement: the court fool.
3. a person who has been tricked or deceived into appearing or acting silly or stupid: to make a fool of someone.
4. an ardent enthusiast who cannot resist an opportunity to indulge an enthusiasm (usually preceded by a presentparticiple): He's just a dancing fool.
5. a weak-minded or idiotic person.
I've known (and have been) that person in #1. But none were ever that person 24/365, myself included.
I've never known a #2.
I've been that person in #3 but I am not aware that I've ever made anyone a #3.
I'm a posting fool.
Again same for #5 and #1.
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 10:59:26
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:-)
I've got the first 4 covered, no problem!!!
And I have been accused of number 5 enough times to suspect there may be something to it.
:-)
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 11:01:12
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5. a weak-minded or idiotic person.
I'm confused here. I'm definitely not the first part but I'm definitely the second. 
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 11:02:14
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FastBikerBoy
5. a weak-minded or idiotic person.
I'm confused here. I'm definitely not the first part but I'm definitely the second.
Point proven.
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 11:14:54
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mike_mccue
:-)
I've got the first 4 covered, no problem!!!
And I have been accused of number 5 enough times to suspect there may be something to it.
:-)
I always put #5 down to some kind of 'transference' on the part of the accuser. It makes me immune. Is that foolish of me?
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 11:23:37
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Are you trying to pull a #3 on me?
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 11:40:31
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It's tough! Because "Why Do Fools Fall In Love?"
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 13:04:47
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I'm a fool full of forum love...
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Re:How many fools have you known in your life...
2012/04/14 13:05:41
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The Kiosk Project
I'm a fool full of forum love...
You're full of it all right.
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