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There's an apt term for this that's used in many card games, it's on the tip of my tongue...

Just when the rest of the world was starting to look a bit boring.

Real shame the hypothetical fruit wasn't a mango.

Yes, and people who have that conviction are invariably the most deluded.

What if one person pays another for their banana using cash? Is that "capitalism"? If you're saying it is, then I don't think that's a useful or meaningful definition of capitalism.

Right, but is that synonymous with "capitalism"? It sounds like such a broad term as to be virtually equivalent to any kind of trade whatsoever, which has obviously been going on since the Palaeolithic. A definition that inexact surely has no value at all (and we all know you value exactitude!)...

Well there are two very obvious points to make here. One is that there were sociologists active in, say, the USSR, and presumably still are in e.g. Cuba or Venezuela. The other is that there is nothing to stop individual Marxists from working as sociologists (and I'm sure there are tons of...

Uh, I'm talking about modern people studying societies, obviously.

Except that's obviously bullshit, because you could undertake a sociological study of all kinds of non-capitalist societies - whether those of socialist states that have rejected capitalism, or of peoples that have never heard of it in the first place (whatever hunter-gatherer cultures still...

As opposed to one of those sad, lame, non-magic wizards.

No, only one person here merits that level of special treatment.

Well he does seem to project a lot of frustrations he feels about his dad (or maybe about dad-figures in general, if we're being generous) onto several people who post here (or used to), including me.

No, I think you're confusing me with luka.

I find it quite boring, actually. You often have worthwhile things to say but just coming out with things that seem self-evidently untrue and then not explaining yourself doesn't make me think "Gosh, how clever!", it just makes me not want to engage with you.

You know, you could, if you wanted to, actually explain your little gnomic non-sequiturs like this, and "Brexit is ultra-Bremain" etc., rather than just stating them as if they were self-evident, which always makes me suspect you're just hoping no-one will call your bluff. Well that's not true...

Gus (in his own mind) when inflicting a brutal sadface:

That'd be pretty funny, actually.

They're decorated with Transformers. Even Corpsey's pants are more grown-up.

I don't feel I can answer that without inviting several people to issue a fatwa against me.