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Guavanaut posted:It's trivially easy to prove that he was a big fuckwit, and that he deliberately stoked macho bullshit and homophobia, and that his antisemitism was deliberate and preplanned, and that he didn't just 'go a bit mad', but people continue to believe that he had some kind of redeeming quality.
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Oh, vid of the Phil Hammond thing I posted earlier: https://twitter.com/mattzarb/status/1060608722999959554
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I'm already an apostate, how much worse can it get? I'd take the first one as referring to cutin, which is a biopolymer that makes up the waxy coating on leaves, which produce glucose, the sugar hit, from photosynthesis, but I find it can be easy to come up with all sorts of tenuous poo poo when working clues backwards. e; Tesseraction posted:there I was thinking it was because sucrose is the common table sugar and "cut in size" is it breaking into glucose and fructose Or yeah, this. Still B.A.E fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Nov 9, 2018 |
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Nah, there's no actual book learning in there, it's all wordplay and punnery.A Buttery Pastry posted:He had an eye for theater.
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Every time someone praises an aspect of Hitler just tell them he was a zionist and see how they react. :kensay:
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Hitler wanted to give all the Jews a nice home in Israel but then a 10 year old Arab boy with a rock forced him to murder them. :bensay:
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Strom Cuzewon posted:"He, locked in by me, capitally does the job in the kitchen" (5) chefs Okay, it's "he" in the middle because it's "locked in" but cfs isn't "me, capitally" Yes, it is. CFS is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, the more commonly known name for myalgic encephalitis, or ME. E: Have sex with a dyslexic household goddess, is what I just did (4, 6) Jedit fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Nov 9, 2018 |
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Strom Cuzewon posted:
The sugar is your hint their, the cryptic element is 'hit cut in size" which will mean a word for hit cut (probably a letter or two trimmed off) inside a word for size. Cosh is hit, take off the h for cos. Not sure how Glue is size but assume it's some weird arachic thingy
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Nov 9, 2018 15:00
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Pochoclo posted:I'm gonna be honest I envy that a bit. My parents are extremely racist and homophobic and I always have to hold myself back a bit when calling them out on their bullshit because you know, they're my parents, and also because they're getting more and more senile every year and they might die at any time now so I don't want to have any bad blood between us. It's a bit frustrating I guess. Some of my best friends are gay and I have to hide this from them. Military genius what the loving christ.
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Nov 9, 2018 15:01
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Jedit posted:Yes, it is. CFS is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, the more commonly known name for myalgic encephalitis, or ME. But the structure of the sentence means that he is capitalised, not me.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:But the structure of the sentence means that he is capitalised, not me. It's a cryptic clue, so the punctuation is misinformation by design.
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Nov 9, 2018 15:11
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:But the structure of the sentence means that he is capitalised, not me. Yeah, you have to pretty much ignore the sentence structure/punctuation. "He, locked in by me, capitally does the job in the kitchen" (5) 'he' locked in by (me, capitally) / 'does the job in the kitchen' 'he' inside ME, ME = CFS, gives you CheFS which means 'does the job in the kitchen'.
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Nov 9, 2018 15:13
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And meanwhile the coffee break crossword has the clues "does job in kitchen (5)" and "sugar (7)" without all that other poo poo.
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Nov 9, 2018 15:17
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Nov 9, 2018 15:20
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Do English crosswords do that thing Israeli ones do where occasionally the clue will just be something crazy obscure and dumb like 'a river in asia' or '16th century composer'
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Nov 9, 2018 15:21
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Guavanaut posted:people continue to believe that he had some kind of redeeming quality. I can think of at least one of his actions that were mind-blowing.
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Miftan posted:Do English crosswords do that thing Israeli ones do where occasionally the clue will just be something crazy obscure and dumb like 'a river in asia' or '16th century composer' Not the cryptics, no. That's pretty much how american crosswords work though. Edit: favourite clue: 'Push off, Dorothy, he isn't coming' (5) Unkempt fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Nov 9, 2018 |
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Nov 9, 2018 15:25
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Miftan posted:Do English crosswords do that thing Israeli ones do where occasionally the clue will just be something crazy obscure and dumb like 'a river in asia' or '16th century composer'
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Miftan posted:Do English crosswords do that thing Israeli ones do where occasionally the clue will just be something crazy obscure and dumb like 'a river in asia' or '16th century composer' Not really but the sunday times has a General Knowledge one like that I do
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No idea what people get out of cryptic crosswords. Absolutely the most masochistic and least fulfilling way to spend an evening.
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ThomasPaine posted:No idea what people get out of cryptic crosswords. Absolutely the most masochistic and least fulfilling way to spend an evening. Excuse me I'm pretty sure that's watching Only Connect, which I also do...
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Nov 9, 2018 15:44
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kustomkarkommando posted:Excuse me I'm pretty sure that's watching Only Connect, which I also do... Only Connect is ridiculously hard, but I <3 Victoria Coren Mitchell
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TheRat posted:Only Connect is ridiculously hard, but I <3 Victoria Coren Mitchell I love her delivering jokes to deathly silence there's something about her pausing for laughter that never comes that makes it funnier
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Nov 9, 2018 15:49
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I just blew through half of a G "quiptic" (easy cryptic) crossword while waiting for a meeting to start, now worried that I might be a crossword guy I still struggle to start with properly cryptic ones though
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Nov 9, 2018 15:54
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kustomkarkommando posted:Excuse me I'm pretty sure that's watching Only Connect, which I also do... The convoluted missing vowels ones are the best. Especially last years final, where all the categories could have contained an Only Connect related answer ("hard things" "walls" etc.) but none of them did. Or "movie titles reduced by one" Ocean's Ten, Six Samurai, Ninehundred and Ninty-nine thousand nine-hundred and ninety-nine dollar baby. Or "pairs of homonyms" where you have the teams trying to very quickly, and very carefully, say stuff like "polish and Polish" "August and august" It's wonderful.
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Chucat posted:Military genius what the loving christ. Yeah, my parents, just like every single fascist idiot, just repeat things they never actually verified as if they were absolute truth. Growing up was both funny and sad, let me tell you. A bit of critical thinking would do the world a whole lotta good
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Miftan posted:[Israeli puzzles] Strom Cuzewon posted:The convoluted missing vowels ones are the best.
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I've come up with some poo poo clues for you guys to guess! Tackles cockney lies head on. (7) Christ! Too many gay frogs! (6) Bad for Jeremy Corbyn. (9) Plucking, but not in the garden room. (9) Untruths, spread like butter. (5) It snows indoors, again. (7)
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brian posted:a dark and terrible yarn (4, 6)
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Unkempt posted:Not the cryptics, no. That's pretty much how american crosswords work though. Godot
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Humiliation for loser: Pre chlorinated pre avian.
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Pochoclo posted:I'm gonna be honest I envy that a bit. My parents are extremely racist and homophobic and I always have to hold myself back a bit when calling them out on their bullshit because you know, they're my parents, and also because they're getting more and more senile every year and they might die at any time now so I don't want to have any bad blood between us. It's a bit frustrating I guess. Some of my best friends are gay and I have to hide this from them. Personally people dying knowing you hate them is actually quite satisfying.
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Pochoclo posted:A bit of critical thinking would do the world a whole lotta good Basic loving compassion as well. It's amazing how lacking it is with a lot of people, and further, that they consider that a genuine positive EDIT - like, how sociopathic do you have to be to think 'bleeding heart' is an insult?
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happyhippy posted:Bad for Corbyn? (10) Hmm. "This is" doesn't fit, I'm stumped
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Hmm. "This is" doesn't fit, I'm stumped Everything.
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MrTundra posted:It's a cryptic clue, so the punctuation is misinformation by design. Unkempt posted:Yeah, you have to pretty much ignore the sentence structure/punctuation. And this is why cryptic crosswords are the most tedious wastes of time on the entire planet.
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