1) Wordle: I HAVE to use the same first word every time -- can you imagine how I'd feel if it was the word of the day and I had decided to start with something else that day? Once it IS the word of the day, I'll come up with a new word.
2) Detached retina: A few times a year, I get a "retinal migraine" -- an eye condition that causes brief visual problems like flashing lights in 1 eye. It lasts for about 10 minutes. The first time I got one, I freaked and went to the eye doctor down the street immediately (that was back when you could see a doctor earlier than 3 months), and she assured me that it was nothing to worry about.
"Some people react to plays and movies as though they are real..." I'm one of those people and I'm neurodivergent. Not sure if all us highly empathetic types are on the autistic spectrum, but I'm guessing many are.
Pubes are coming back into style, slowly but surely, over the past several years. But in porn when they have them, they tend to keep a triangle up top and shave/wax off everything else. I'll never forget a dvd scene I saw of sort of indie alt-girl cheesecake in which one of the girls was just covered in razor burn down there. Not sexy.
I like chest hair on men ( but not on ladies). It’s nice to curl up against. I didn’t grow up with porn and never had interest in it as a female. And I agree circumference beats length.
I too had a vitreous detachment leading to a “pseudo hole” (a pit) in my retina which led to laser surgery and eventually a cataract. Lines I look at with that eye are wavy, and I never got back to 20/20, even with lens replacement and glasses.
When the other eye had vitreous detachment awhile later, it was a very anxious year of monthly eye exams while we waited it out. It’s still not entirely over but the critical area has moved out of my central vision and everyone has relaxed.
The vitreous is formed in the womb and helps shape the eye and had no real purpose after that— when the doc told me they would suck out all the goo as part of the work they did to save my vision—well, that was enough ick factor for awhile.
I was shocked. Shocked I tell you, to learn that people cheat at Wordle. I can understand having the vocabulary of an armadillo and wanting to impress your smirking so-called friends, but for the rest of the estimated 20+%... In the end, however, this extracurricular help doesn't seemed to have made a difference. The US still ranks well below the top 10 on a list of international obsessives (in terms of the average number of attempts needed to guess a word) --- in 18th place, just above Indonesia and immediately below Canada, according to a study in 2022. There are something like 20 or so variations (at last count), maybe even a hectordle for all I know, but all too similar. I suggest shaking things up a bit by adding to the challenge with such variations as: "girdle" --- get the word in the allotted time or pass out from lack of oxygen. Also perhaps, "turtle" --- where you must maintain an interest in one word over a two month period ---similar in nature to "curdle," but not involving milk.
Detaching retina is not always flashes. Can be like a window shade partially pulled (my case). Want to make sure you have all the info to worry about. 😁
The most-frequently-used words changes a bit if you think of frequency-in-dictionary as opposed to frequency-in-text; T, H, and E are all more common in text than in a list of dictionary words. And even in dictionary frequency, using only 5 letters means G will be less frequent because there aren't very many -ING 5-letter words. So if you ask how frequently a letter appears in 5-letter English words, the order is SEAROITLNDUCPYHMBGKWFVXZJQ. But you can also notice that Wordle (and Quordle) tends not to use plurals, so if you eliminate plurals (of the form Four-letter-word + 'S') then the order is EAROITSLDNUYCPHMGBKWFVXZJQ. Of course Wordle could start using plurals any day.
Coming Thursday right here! The Invitational Week 3, featuring one of our most popular recurring contests (a biennial one). Plus: Funny and irreverent short poems about recently (and currently) dead people, courtesy of our band of Loserbards.
Gene is being prevented, somehow, from answering more questions, apparently. He hypothesizes that there may be a limit on Substack of which we are not aware.
Whoever's in charge on the tech side of things (which I feel safe in assuming is not Gene): why can't he just use JotCast or whatever instead of trying to chat through Substack? I've seen it and similar software used on a variety of blog platforms. I can't imagine the licenses are prohibitively expensive or it's especially hard to use or port onto Substack.
The Welsh are Celtic. I would suppose this would be a race. I should have said it was a derogatory stereotype rather than a racial slur.
2 Things:
1) Wordle: I HAVE to use the same first word every time -- can you imagine how I'd feel if it was the word of the day and I had decided to start with something else that day? Once it IS the word of the day, I'll come up with a new word.
2) Detached retina: A few times a year, I get a "retinal migraine" -- an eye condition that causes brief visual problems like flashing lights in 1 eye. It lasts for about 10 minutes. The first time I got one, I freaked and went to the eye doctor down the street immediately (that was back when you could see a doctor earlier than 3 months), and she assured me that it was nothing to worry about.
"Some people react to plays and movies as though they are real..." I'm one of those people and I'm neurodivergent. Not sure if all us highly empathetic types are on the autistic spectrum, but I'm guessing many are.
Honestly, where else can you get this kind of commentary/ruminations/etc. for only 50 bucks? My money well spent, I'd say.
Pubes are coming back into style, slowly but surely, over the past several years. But in porn when they have them, they tend to keep a triangle up top and shave/wax off everything else. I'll never forget a dvd scene I saw of sort of indie alt-girl cheesecake in which one of the girls was just covered in razor burn down there. Not sexy.
i didn't get a brain tumor until I started being flooded with wordle horseshit every day. thanks, all!
You can't argue with post hoc. It's gotta be propter hoc.
industrial archaeologist.
I like chest hair on men ( but not on ladies). It’s nice to curl up against. I didn’t grow up with porn and never had interest in it as a female. And I agree circumference beats length.
I too had a vitreous detachment leading to a “pseudo hole” (a pit) in my retina which led to laser surgery and eventually a cataract. Lines I look at with that eye are wavy, and I never got back to 20/20, even with lens replacement and glasses.
When the other eye had vitreous detachment awhile later, it was a very anxious year of monthly eye exams while we waited it out. It’s still not entirely over but the critical area has moved out of my central vision and everyone has relaxed.
The vitreous is formed in the womb and helps shape the eye and had no real purpose after that— when the doc told me they would suck out all the goo as part of the work they did to save my vision—well, that was enough ick factor for awhile.
I was shocked. Shocked I tell you, to learn that people cheat at Wordle. I can understand having the vocabulary of an armadillo and wanting to impress your smirking so-called friends, but for the rest of the estimated 20+%... In the end, however, this extracurricular help doesn't seemed to have made a difference. The US still ranks well below the top 10 on a list of international obsessives (in terms of the average number of attempts needed to guess a word) --- in 18th place, just above Indonesia and immediately below Canada, according to a study in 2022. There are something like 20 or so variations (at last count), maybe even a hectordle for all I know, but all too similar. I suggest shaking things up a bit by adding to the challenge with such variations as: "girdle" --- get the word in the allotted time or pass out from lack of oxygen. Also perhaps, "turtle" --- where you must maintain an interest in one word over a two month period ---similar in nature to "curdle," but not involving milk.
MIZZLED
Detaching retina is not always flashes. Can be like a window shade partially pulled (my case). Want to make sure you have all the info to worry about. 😁
The most-frequently-used words changes a bit if you think of frequency-in-dictionary as opposed to frequency-in-text; T, H, and E are all more common in text than in a list of dictionary words. And even in dictionary frequency, using only 5 letters means G will be less frequent because there aren't very many -ING 5-letter words. So if you ask how frequently a letter appears in 5-letter English words, the order is SEAROITLNDUCPYHMBGKWFVXZJQ. But you can also notice that Wordle (and Quordle) tends not to use plurals, so if you eliminate plurals (of the form Four-letter-word + 'S') then the order is EAROITSLDNUYCPHMGBKWFVXZJQ. Of course Wordle could start using plurals any day.
The most shocking thing to me in the entire exchange is that Gene's starting word isn't "penis."
Coming Thursday right here! The Invitational Week 3, featuring one of our most popular recurring contests (a biennial one). Plus: Funny and irreverent short poems about recently (and currently) dead people, courtesy of our band of Loserbards.
Gene is being prevented, somehow, from answering more questions, apparently. He hypothesizes that there may be a limit on Substack of which we are not aware.
This doesn't seem to be the case. I think he just started the chat early and ended early.
Whoever's in charge on the tech side of things (which I feel safe in assuming is not Gene): why can't he just use JotCast or whatever instead of trying to chat through Substack? I've seen it and similar software used on a variety of blog platforms. I can't imagine the licenses are prohibitively expensive or it's especially hard to use or port onto Substack.
So are we finally going to be free of having Tom Brady on a field of competition?
Maybe he and Aaron Rodgers can co-host a podcast.... Grumpy Old Quarterbacks.
Or... maybe it's called White Men Can't Throw with special guests Kirk Cousins and Carson Wentz.