Internet memotivationally epic fails

[FaultyMario]

Merry Christmas, Rich!

[speedpimp]

Feliz Navidad, Mario!

[MR2 Fan]

When you're getting too good as an actor:

Zac Efron recovering after contracting 'life-threatening' illness, reports say. Efron was filming his upcoming show "Killing Zac Efron"

[Freude am Fahren]

I hate to say it, but I actually really like him in everything I've seen him in.

[MR2 Fan]

I hate to say it, but I actually really like him in everything I've seen him in.

Yeah, he seems pretty good. Remember that Leonardo DiCaprio was also thought of as a silly actor that girls fawned over in his early career as well.

[Crazed_Insanity]

He can sing better than Leo for sure. His performance impressed me in ‘the greatest showman‘!

[MR2 Fan]

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aV0L13n_700bwp.webp

[drew]

Truth!

[Cam]

Not true in my gal's case: "Is it edible? OK. OMNOMNOMNOM..." We joke that she's like Ms. Pac Man. :lol:

[drew]

Me too, but for different things.

[speedpimp]

3454

[Cam]

That photo is obviously altered.

[Crazed_Insanity]

Oh my gosh, look at his butt!

Altered or not, he has a big butt!

[dodint]

That photo is obviously altered.

This is one thing I fail to understand. Trump gives so much material proving he's a doofus all by himself; seems really insecure to have to go and manufacture stuff. Even if it's clearly a joke.

[sandydandy]

https://youtu.be/Edq-4i7yHOg

:?

[Crazed_Insanity]

Isn't that just a slip of the tongue? People are making a big deal out of it...

[sandydandy]

I was shocked at first because it really did sound like the n-word. But that's how the brain plays tricks on us, especially if you're subconsciously looking for that word. After listening to it a few more times it's clear she said "Nakers". She tripped over her words and tried to combine Knicks and Lakers.

I saw her Twitter apology and believe her.

[Crazed_Insanity]

I'm not a big fan of MSNBC because they've consistently misspelled my man Andrew Yang's name or put up the wrong pictures of him or completely outright ignored him, saying that there are 9 dem candidates, but showing only 8 pictures of the candidates... So I totally think that they suck when that kind of crap happens over and over again.

However, I do believe honest mistakes could be made, particularly when it's a live breaking news.

[dodint]

What's the alternative? She's been waiting years for a Lakers story to come up so she could subversively drop in the n-word for not material gain?

[Crazed_Insanity]

The alternative is that she's a closet deplorable racist Trump supporter sabotaging MSNBC messing with Californians so that she can help to MAGA! If she were a white male, 'he' probably would've been crucified already. Luckily she's not male, but being white certainly gave her no privileges.

People's nerves are just a bit too raw with such a polarizing political climate I guess. Making a huge deal out of nothing.

[MR2 Fan]

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aR0RzwA_460swp.webp

[MR2 Fan]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQnsCNzWAAEEphR?format=jpg&name=medium

[George]

Nobody, I mean NOBODY, puts mustard on Oreos.
..

[Rare White Ape]

Maybe USA Today was trolling a million people to see if they could get some of them to eat an Oreo with mustard.

[FaultyMario]

The type of punishment Drew casts on his enemies. (https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1228113855567597572?s=20)

[Dicknose]

Maybe USA Today was trolling a million people to see if they could get some of them to eat an Oreo with mustard.

Feels like an office dare...
"bet you cant do an oreo and mustard in the crossword"

[Crazed_Insanity]

I highly suspect mustard was probably somehow accidentally auto-corrected from milk... or perhaps the writer had a brain fart... intending to type milk with the conscious mind but somehow the subconscious evil mind took over without him noticing...

[MR2 Fan]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETVmJAvXgAEMLzv?format=jpg&name=large

[MR2 Fan]

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/az1ww8B_460swp.webp

[speedpimp]

I've met Ted Balls, even as fearless as he is, he capitulated.

[drew]

..

:lol: 6, or 5?


Maybe USA Today was trolling a million people to see if they could get some of them to eat an Oreo with mustard.

"This Tweet is from a suspended account. Learn more" Boo!

[MR2 Fan]

@danevanjohnson

"Hi, welcome to Chuck E. Cheese. Everything is visibly dirty and our mascot is a rat, eat some pizza near a sneezing child.

Come on down for some rat pizza at our child casino."

[Crazed_Insanity]

My daughter was invited to a birthday party there once and loved playing there!

I was forced to take her back once after she begged me so many freaking times...

Glad it’s going to remain shutdown forever... ;)

[speedpimp]

They're aren't going away, just restructuring. I see them focusing on becoming another Dave & Buster's(which is basically Chuck E. Cheese) for adults.
I've delivered to a few different Chuck E.'s and it was always an ordeal, during the week especially as they were chronically understaffed and was told not to show up at :15 and :45 minutes after because that is when Chuck E. is out on the floor and they didn't have someone to open the door to let me in. Seeing the person in the rat suit with the head off is a bit surreal.

[Rare White Ape]

Take a photo next time.

[MR2 Fan]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EclU6VbWoAEQ2Od?format=jpg&name=small

[Kchrpm]

:lol: :lol: :lol: stealing that

[MR2 Fan]

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aAeG0K2_460swp.webp


totally can relate to this...in fact I've joked a super popular idea would be to sell a socket wrench set with just a dozen 10mm sockets

[Phil_SS]

That is a constant meme on r/Justrolledintotheshop Always good.

[mk]

Or solid 13mm bent and angled huddle.

[Yw-slayer]

In fact I have had problems trying to figure out where I can buy the right wrench in the game named, uh, Wrench, in order to release the bolt and drain the engine oil.

[Godson]

Odd, I never lose sockets.



I also end up taking apart a lot more on the car than the job usually calls for.

[MR2 Fan]

(I made this)





Person 1: "Hello, I'd like to finance a car please"

Person 2: "Alright, have you gone into debt before?"

Person 1: "No, I've always paid cash up front for things, but this is my first big purchase"

Person 2: "Sorry, you have to have gone into debt before"

Person 1: "Why? Wouldn't it be better not to go into debt"

Person 2: "No, you have to be in debt previously before I can give you this debt"

Person 1: "What if I paid the debt off right away"

Person 2: "Well that's not much evidence of things is it?"

Person 1: "So I should go into debt, and not pay it off?"

Person 2: "Well yeah, but don't pay off too much"

Person 1: "Ok, I'll pay off like 10%"

Person 2: "Well I can't finance a car then"

Person 1: "Why not? I've paid off part of it"

Person 2: "You have to pay off at least 50%, or maybe 80%"

Person 1: "Ok and as soon as I do that, I can finance a car?"

Person 2: "No, you gotta wait at least a month or so for the credit bureaus to catch up"

Person 1: "Bureaus? You mean there's more than one?"

Person 2: "Yeah, there's 3...and you gotta check all of them to make sure they didn't show it wrong"

Person 1: "So if they show it wrong, I have to tell them myself? They don't verify it?"

Person 2: "Not really, no. You can send them something and then a few months later they'll let you know if they agree or not"

Person 1: "What?"

Person 2: "Look, you seem like a nice enough fellow, so if you put...say 50% down payment on this car, then I'll get you a car payment for $400 a month"

Person 1: "For how long? How many months?"

Person 2: "I can't tell you that"

Person 1: "Well what's the interest rate?"

Person 2: "20%"

Person 1: "That's insane"

Person 2: "Well you should have thought of that before you came in here without having any previous debt you've only partially paid off"

[SportWagon]

(I made this)
[...]
Person 2: "Well that's not much evidence of things is it?"

Person 1: "So I should go into debt, and not pay it off?"

Person 2: "Well yeah, but don't pay off too much"
[...]
Perhaps you should tweak that.

Perhaps Person 2 should say something like, "Not quite. Pay some of it off, but not too much".


What about leasing?

[Yw-slayer]

Odd, I never lose sockets.



I also end up taking apart a lot more on the car than the job usually calls for.

It's more that I don't actually know what tool to buy. :lol:

[G'day Mate]

I had a pretty funny real life conversation with the other half over the weekend while watching Ice Age with the kids

I realised that the sabre-toothed tiger is played by Dennis Learey, but she didn't know who that was. I tried explaining that he's just a regular Joe with a regular job ... next minute I'm getting in trouble for swearing in front of the kids again.

[dodint]

Perhaps you should tweak that.

Perhaps Person 2 should say something like, "Not quite. Pay some of it off, but not too much".


What about leasing?

A little bit at a time over a longer period?

[George]

(I made this)

Person 1: "Hello, I'd like to finance a car please"



At the risk of stating the obvious, that reads like a Monty Python skit. Well done.

[MR2 Fan]

At the risk of stating the obvious, that reads like a Monty Python skit. Well done.

that was the idea :D

[mk]

It's more that I don't actually know what tool to buy. :lol:

You can have 4x4 by searching 8in1 and getting 2.

[Crazed_Insanity]

Jokes aside, financial debts is sort of like a form of modern day slavery...

The system encourages you to get into debt... car dealerships nowadays will actually penalize you for paying cash... financing a house essentially makes you a slave to your house..., but at least your house should eventually go up in value...

I dislike the current system, but I don’t have any clues on how to fix this complicated mess either...

[Godson]

A little bit at a time over a longer period?

There it is!!!!

[21Kid]

A little bit at a time over a longer period?
*golfclap*

[SportWagon]

At the risk of stating the obvious, that reads like a Monty Python skit. Well done.

that was the idea :DPerhaps add an indication of the background bouzouki music?

I think my previous quibble deals with the fact that, when reading, "yeah" appears to confirm "not paying off", although perhaps if actually spoken it could indicate differently.

[Cam]

Columbia Police Dept. officer gets suspended, then fired, for getting caught on camera saying racist epithets at a patron outside a downtown bar. Nearby county sheriff deputy encourages him on LinkedIn to come work for his office. "It's a good department that supports you!" :smh:

[Cam]

Saw a large sticker on the back window of a pick-up truck that was a portmanteau of a stormtrooper helmet and Punisher skull. Sooo, you're a wanna-be fascist vigilante... :rolleyes: :smh:

[Yw-slayer]

lol

[Freude am Fahren]

People are so fucking stupid and I'm tired of it.

[Crazed_Insanity]

Yes, please stop fucking stupid so that we don't end up raising a new generations of stupid kids!

Fuck smart people!

[G'day Mate]

This?

https://149360821.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/THE-TROOPER.jpg

[Cam]

Uh, kinda. Not quite, but close to that.

[G'day Mate]

Oh wow there's actually quite a few similar designs when you search, so more than just one facepalm has thought this was a good idea.

[Kchrpm]

It's strange because the Punisher is a single anti-establishment vigilante that is very good at everything, and storm troopers are waves of mindless cannon fodder followers that are bad at everything.

[Yw-slayer]

Also, The Punisher hates fascists.

[JoshInKC]

Yeah if there's anything the past 5-10 years* have shown, it's some that comic book fans are amazingly incapable of understanding (or even seeing) the themes, subtext, and even the all block letters TEXT of their favorite books. For example "Why do these sjws put politics in Captain America?"

*Though the Punisher's skull has been grossly appropriated for substantially longer than that. That's what "cool-looking" graphic design will get you, I guess.

[FaultyMario]

I've seen the Punisher's skull misappropriated since the late eighties. But it must have happened even earlier, I think.

[George]

Everything has been done before.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/AugustvonMackensen.jpg/200px-AugustvonMackensen.jpg

[Godson]

The better faux pas is the fact people didn't know Rage Against the machine was a massively left wing anti-establishment group.....until this year...

[Rare White Ape]

It's literally in their name and not just some teen angst bullshit.


Yeah if there's anything the past 5-10 years* have shown, it's some that comic book fans are amazingly incapable of understanding (or even seeing) the themes, subtext, and even the all block letters TEXT of their favorite books. For example "Why do these sjws put politics in Captain America?"

*Though the Punisher's skull has been grossly appropriated for substantially longer than that. That's what "cool-looking" graphic design will get you, I guess.

Ahh, you refer to comicsgate, the lesser known evil brother of gamergate, a far-right online harassment campaign that wrought havoc among the comics press a few years ago. It brought down a whole Vader miniseries that Marvel was planning to release, all because the author put a gay character in a Star Was novel a couple of years ago and received endless harassment because of that.

https://www.polygon.com/comics/2018/10/12/17969902/star-wars-writer-chuck-wendig-fired-marvel-comics

Nobody can ever tell me that there is no clear definite link between 'conscientious' objection to The Last Jedi and your garden variety racist, homophobic and sexist commentary from racists, homophobes and sexists.

[MR2 Fan]

A friend of mine sent me some nice MARVEL shirts...one of them is just a regular Punisher shirt.....I won't wear it because of the connotations it has now

[FaultyMario]

reappropriate the punisher i say!

put it in rainbow colors. he is supposed to defend the poor, the disadvantaged, the weak, the harassed... and punish the bullies

[Freude am Fahren]

Yeah, I see the Punisher logo all the time with the blue line. How can you be so stupid?

[Cam]

Morons can't spell oxymoron, let alone define it.

[Yw-slayer]

The better faux pas is the fact people didn't know Rage Against the machine was a massively left wing anti-establishment group.....until this year...

Yes, I agree. Did these people really think it was Nickelback for super-angsty people or something? :lol:

[MR2 Fan]

:lol:

you'd have to either misunderstand or ignore a LOT of lyrics for that!

[Godson]

Literally "Your chosen white" line is repeated in "Killing in the name of" a half a dozen times

Also, Tom Morello went to Harvard as a Poli-Sci student and has a bachelor's in Social studies.


People are dumb.

[Cam]

Remember when Paul Ryan was using a RATM song during one of his campaigns and the band said something to the effect of, "Stop using our music. We're raging against people like you."

[G'day Mate]

I remember a comment along the lines of "what machine did he think the were raging against, the dishwasher?" :lol:


Yeah, I see the Punisher logo all the time with the blue line. How can you be so stupid?

https://themilsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Sean-Hannity-and-QAnon-Fox-News-Anchor-Sports-Punisher-Pin-Indictments-Are-Coming.jpg

[Freude am Fahren]

Yep :o

[MR2 Fan]

Apologies in advance

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/an4ww3V_700bwp.webp

[MR2 Fan]

:lol:

https://twitter.com/MofoeTV/status/1327433813526396928

[FaultyMario]

'Space Karen' wins November.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Em8eq2EW4AMtWKl.jpg

[Crazed_Insanity]

I don’t quite understand the meaning of this...

[FaultyMario]

I don’t quite understand the meaning of this...

Over the weekend, Mr. Musk tweeted:


Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid antigen test from BD.

To which an epigeneticist responded:


Rapid antigen tests trade sensitivity for speed. They return a result in <30 minutes, but can only detect COVID-19 when you're absolutely riddled with it. What's bogus is that Space Karen didn't read up on the test before complaining to his millions of followers.

This graphs shows the probability of COVID-19 detection for the available tests. Rapid antigen tests (orange) only give low false negative results for a couple of days. Space Karen's results (2 neg, followed by 2 pos later that day) are completely in line with this.

To which she added the following graph:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmyLJRuW8AArhNQ.jpg

[Rare White Ape]

Does this mean that Musk has 'Rona?

Why I laugh?

[Yw-slayer]

Why I laugh?

Because always funny to see arrogant ****s suffer.

#1stOctober2020 #NeverForget #GoodTimes

#1stOctober2020 is also a holiday in certain parts of the world. Will let Billi explain.

[FaultyMario]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EovaCsSXEAYQgXH.jpg

##

[JoshInKC]

I'm not going to click into IG to see what the actual account is- but were it the real (and non-deceased) U.K. Le Guin, that would be a truly spectacular misreading of an account's "vibe"

[FaultyMario]

Yes, her estate hired a person to take care of her social media.

I'd love to know which brand was hoping to get an old lady to pose in their leggins, let alone a dead old lady.

[JoshInKC]

The next step is trying to get Octavia Butler to hock crop-tops

[G'day Mate]

This is a few years old, but somebody set up a simulation of the classic "Trolley Problem" and ran people through it:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sl5KJ69qiA

[FaultyMario]

when i saw that the thread had been updated i thought someone had posted the video with Myanmar fitness lady, mittens-Sanders, macho man Donnie and the batucada dude.

[G'day Mate]

Yeah, wasn't really sure where to file this one

[Freude am Fahren]

That's interesting. I think the ethics of putting people through that is more intriguing than the experiment itself.

[Rare White Ape]

Ahhh the trolley problem. I know that one.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/107/922/553.png

[Sad, little man]

http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=3817&d=1631925988

3817

[Rare White Ape]

https://youtu.be/AsKsvKQJDU0

[Tom Servo]

Lol

[Crazed_Insanity]

Jesus did say you can come onto him if you want! :p (Mat 11:28)

[Tom Servo]

This one started making the rounds again


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGAAhzreGWw

[MR2 Fan]

A Review of...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBHBF_vX0AMz1uB?format=jpg&name=small


https://twitter.com/momofnorank/status/1446149270793555971

excerpts:

"....This one is an unrepentant violation of the Geneva Convention. Tastes like hate and sage. So much sage. It’s ironic, because you’ll need to burn sage to erase it from your psyche"

"...There’s definitely some dirt in it, and…Is that a hint of dead leaf, or decomposing June beetle? You’ll have the stabbing pains of deep regret for company as you work that one out."

[Leon]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/126624095/council-to-stop-paying-the-wizard-16000-a-year-after-23-years-on-the-payroll

After more than two decades, Christchurch (city in the South Island of NZ) no longer will have a paid wizard.

The council’s contract with The Wizard called for him “to provide acts of wizardry and other wizard-like-services – as part of promotional work for the city of Christchurch”.

[Freude am Fahren]

A Review of...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBHBF_vX0AMz1uB?format=jpg&name=small


https://twitter.com/momofnorank/status/1446149270793555971

excerpts:

"....This one is an unrepentant violation of the Geneva Convention. Tastes like hate and sage. So much sage. It’s ironic, because you’ll need to burn sage to erase it from your psyche"

"...There’s definitely some dirt in it, and…Is that a hint of dead leaf, or decomposing June beetle? You’ll have the stabbing pains of deep regret for company as you work that one out."

To be fair, most of that could be said of regular candy corn.

[2ndMoparMan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLd22ha_-VU

I bring back a classic.

[George]

I don't want a whale in a box or a bag

:lol::up:

A classic, indeed.

[2ndMoparMan]

make me fries

[GreatScawt]

Not really sure where to exactly put this, so here. Daily puzzle, where you have to guess the five letter word. You have six tries.

Enjoy! :)

https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

[Kchrpm]

Interesting twist on the concept. Really struggled with today's, not sure I care enough to remember to try tomorrow's.

[Crazed_Insanity]

4 guesses!

I 'waltz' into this game not knowing what I was doing... then I 'begin' to seriously thinking about what other 5 letter words I can use, but still only got 3 out of order letters... so I made multiple 'sighs' thinking I'll probably never get it..., then boom! I got it on my 4th attempt! :p

[George]

4 guesses? :eek:

Nice!

I solved today's puzzle, but I admit I had to cheat.

I was writing a list with paper and pen and just couldn't come up with anything by trial and error after my fourth out of six guesses. I had the first, third, and fifth letters correct at that point.

How to cheat:

Go here: https://www.wordgamedictionary.com/word-lists/5-letter-words/

Once I figured out the first letter from a lucky guess, I copied all the words that began with that letter and pasted them into Excel. There were 1,111 words - yes, one thousand one hundred eleven that began with today's first letter.

I used the Text To Columns function to split the five-letter words into five columns and used filters to remove letters that I knew weren't in the puzzle from the second and fourth columns, leaving me with a pretty short list. I chose the most common of the words and that was it.

It was not a very common word, but not unheard-of, either...especially to those interested in...

...military history.

[Crazed_Insanity]

I think I just got lucky! Boy, you were really brute forcing it, heh? Still, I think that's called strategizing than cheating.

Kchrpm is probably now annoyed for not using Excel to help solve today's puzzle. :D

[Kchrpm]

No, I am not annoyed that I didn't cheat :)

[Freude am Fahren]

So I couldn't find in the rules if letters can be used more than once.

Yes they can.

Also can't find if proper nouns are game. Not sure.

[GreatScawt]

I'm fairly certain proper nouns are a no go.

[Fiat500]

I had some luck and managed today's in two tries.

[Kchrpm]

I remembered because of this thread, and got today's on guess 5.

[Crazed_Insanity]

Took me 5 guesses today too.

[CudaMan]

5 yesterday, 4 today. Weirdly fun game so far. Both days my first word guess didn't give me very many clues.

[pl8ster]

4 for me today. Will definitely add this to my daily routine.

[Fiat500]

Fifth guess today.

[GreatScawt]

I can't believe this actually works in the forum :lol: (unless it's getting borked afterwards??)
This is the format I initially saw on Twitter. Doesn't give anything away (unless you know the person's starting word) and gives an idea of how the person got there. Neat snapshot.

The past few have been harder for me. Both 5/6's.

Wordle 201 5/6

🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟩🟨⬛🟨
🟨🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[Freude am Fahren]

Wordle 201 5/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛
🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟨🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Neat!

[dodint]

I got my first one in five. Might have been 4 if I had realized you could

use the same letter twice.

[George]

I did not cheat today.

Wordle 201 3/6

⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[Crazed_Insanity]

Gee, I'm stuck at guess#3 and unable to think of a word that would work for attempt #4 without wasting a letter that I know isn't part of the answer!!!

Will just let my subconscious mind to continue to work on it in the background. :p

[MR2 Fan]

I'm 4 for 4 so far.

If I'm way off the mark, I'll take one or two just to try words with popular letters (the Wheel of Fortune technique) and can usually get it from there

[CudaMan]

I thought I was stuck for a while today. I finally tried a word to glean more info and 'waste' a play, but it was right. Unusual play pattern here.

Wordle 201 4/6

🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[Crazed_Insanity]

Wow, MR2 consistently figure it out in 4 attempts is pretty good.

Okay, I guess today's word is not one I'd use regularly... I had to waste my attempt 4 as well by using all the unused letters to make up a 5 letter word, just so I can get more clues. Luckily the additional clue help me figure out that word on my 5th attempt.

Anyway, this is probably a pretty good brain exercise? Should help fight off dementia as we're all getting older... :p

[George]

It sure is more mentally challenging than the last game mentioned in the Pit Stop that I played from a while before realizing it was just mouse clicking without much brainpower needed: hobowars.com. Anyone else remember that one? It was a long time ago.

[Kchrpm]

I got my first one in five. Might have been 4 if I had realized you could

use the same letter twice.

Yeah I wasn't sure about that on my first day either.

[pl8ster]

Uh, I think today's is broken. Anyone gotten it? I'm at a point where I have four of the five letters correct and have literally tried all the remaining letters, as well as duplicating the letters I've already used.

[JoshInKC]

Worked okay for me. Got it in 4.

[pl8ster]

So my colorblindness had me thinking I had 4 out of 5 letters in the correct spot, they were all in the wrong spots. Just found the 'colorblind' color setting, that should help in the future...

[dodint]

Four today. Oddly I only had one open tile on the fourth guess and still couldn't think of the word, had to go through the remaining bank of letters until it jumped out at me.


Wordle 202 4/6

🟩⬛⬛⬛🟨 STEAL
🟩⬛🟨⬛⬛ SOLID
🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 SLURP
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLUMP

[GreatScawt]

Ah, that stinks pl8!


I started doing them on 12/29 and have kept the streak going.
So far: 2 times I did it 5 guesses, 7 x 4 guesses, and 1 x 2 guesses (lucky first guess)

I guess the concept isn't new, but for me it is, and it's such a refreshing guess-by-elimination game with a little bit of risk and strategy to kick it off.

[Crazed_Insanity]

Today's word was tricky for me as well. Had to change up strategy from earlier... (Adopting MR2's strategy actually) After my 1st guess yielding 0 clues and 2nd guess indicated one correct letter at the wrong place... and 3rd guess only got 2 more letters at the wrong place...

Luckily I've eliminated all except one vowel and was able to figure out with my 3 letters and the only remaining vowel to come up with my word on the 4th try! :D

[MR2 Fan]

you're welcome

[Crazed_Insanity]

I didn't even say thank you! :p

[MR2 Fan]

OBVIOUSLY :rolleyes: :lol:

[George]

How rude! :lol:

And now, this: https://slate.com/culture/2022/01/wordle-game-online-free-explained.html

[MR2 Fan]

6 for 6

[Crazed_Insanity]

What? I thought you might hit a slump today…, or actually yesterday. :p

[Fiat500]

Third guess today. Some luck. Much satisfaction.

[Crazed_Insanity]

Almost could've broken my personal record of 4 attempts had I guessed correctly 2nd time...

Wordle 205 4/6

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[GreatScawt]

Nope, they don't paste nicely anymore! Driving me crazy. I thought it was just me.

Today's was a 5 guess day for me. I had two fake aha! moments before finally getting it.

[GreatScawt]

Nope, they don't paste nicely anymore! Driving me crazy. I thought it was just me.

Today's was a 5 guess day for me. I had two fake aha! moments before finally getting it.

[CudaMan]

When I pasted my last one I had to "Paste as Plain Text". Let's see if it works again. Edit - nope.

Today's Wordle got off to a slow start. As each play revealed few clues I didn't think I would make it in 4 like usual. I think I got lucky!

Wordle 205 4/6

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[Cam]

I thought this was the fail thread. It's turned into a word game thread. :?

[FaultyMario]

Wait for it.

[George]

Anything that pumps some life into this old forum is a good thing.

[GreatScawt]

Yeah we should probably make it its own thing at some point

[Fiat500]

I thought this was the fail thread. It's turned into a word game thread. :?

Clearly the thread has failed.

[MR2 Fan]

Clearly the thread has failed.

:lol:

I'm 8 for 8 now on Wordle

[Crazed_Insanity]

Clearly the thread has failed.

Clearly!

Hey, the word clear has 2 vowels in it! Very useful 5 letter word. Thanks.

[MR2 Fan]

back on the fail train, here's a new british game show starring Jimmy Carr that goes off the rails almost immediately and just gets worse from there, here's the highlights


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMIggDSnPGk

[Freude am Fahren]

I love that the questions are written as the show goes on and feeds off their stupidity.

[George]

https://wheelsrpgs.itch.io/wheeldle

Like Wordle, only you don't have to wait until tomorrow to do it again.

[MR2 Fan]

I'm pretty good at this...haven't lost any yet...about 20 for 20 on that wheedle one above.

I've come up with 3 words that I use to knock out most of the letters, then solve from there...

If anyone wants to know the words I use:


PAUSE
NORTH
MILKY

[Rare White Ape]

That's clever!

Three words. All the vowels are used. The rest are common consonants. None are repeated. I like your style.

[MR2 Fan]

:D

[CudaMan]

I like to just pick a random word each day, usually with two vowels, and go from there on any clues I get. Today I got no clues on my first word. And my second. My third word had only two yellow squares. Once again I feared my streak of always getting the word in 4 guesses was over. But no, I got it on my next one! Lucky or good? I think my luck will run out soon.

Wordle 209 4/6

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[Crazed_Insanity]

Oh, com'on, no shame in making more than 4 attempts! :p

Today's word is one I rarely use I think. Luckily I was able to figure out all 5 letters and the proper position of the last letter of the word. No word came to mind right away so I actually had to try different letter combinations for a while until I come up with a word... and luckily that worked out on my 4th try.

[FaultyMario]

Once again I feared my streak of always getting the word in 4 guesses was over. But no, I got it on my next one! Lucky or good? I think my luck will run out soon.


I'm on the same boat. Currently at 11-0, but today's was close.

[dodint]

Today was the first day I lost. Sad.

[SportWagon]

Ah! So I see you must guess only words it has on its list. You can't make up non-words for early guesses to maximize information.

First try 4 guessesusing Wheel-of-Fortune wisdom and starting with STREW

Might have been three guesses if I had not remembered George's comment about military history, which probably was not about the current one.

[Fiat500]

Me and my wife used the exact same words to arrive at the solution in four guesses today. I'm at home, she's at work.
That was a little eerie.

("EERIE" would be an interesting word to try to guess, btw...)

[CudaMan]

That is definitely strange! And cool.

Today was my first 3-guess play. :)

LIONS
SOLVE
SOLAR

[SportWagon]

I'm pretty good at this...haven't lost any yet...about 20 for 20 on that wheedle one above.

I've come up with 3 words that I use to knock out most of the letters, then solve from there...

If anyone wants to know the words I use:


PAUSE
NORTH
MILKY
After starting first time with STREW I started with TEARS today, and took 4 again. (Guess 3 was a more normal word, however) I'll take your suggestions, too, though...
I think perhaps these past two days have been on the easy side, however.

[Crazed_Insanity]

Haha! Broke my personal record. 1st time with just 3 attempts today!

[SportWagon]

I found Tue Jan 18, 2022 tough. Took 5 guesses, though with each possible.

Do you need PROOF (that's not the answer) I got it?

It is a long way from STARE.

I wonder if they use analytics to make it distant from popular words and/or letter sets people use?

So yes, the previous two were easy.

[Crazed_Insanity]

Yeah, took me 5 attempts to get today's as well.

That'll bring my overall average back to 4 again... :rolleyes:

[SportWagon]

Like someone else I think said, sometimes it's just too hard to restrain one's self from doing things like...

cat /etc/dictionaries-common/words | grep '^a...b$' | grep -v '[eliminated]'
Properly one should add...

| grep -v '^...x.$'
for each eliminated position (orange) too, but sometimes that isn't necessary or can be done visually. (Actually use your own brain).

[balki]

I start off with a four vowel word, but I still end up averaging five guesses to get it right, so billi's strategy must be better.
AUDIO and ADIEU both have four unique vowels. I feel like AUDIO is the better of the two
I think Cuda's approach is the best; use three words to get 15 different letters. By chasing vowels I'm already repeating letters by my third word.

[Crazed_Insanity]

Not really my strategy, I stole it from MR2.

Today's word was kinda tricky... I guessed 3 times and managed only 1 vowel and 1 consonant both still in wrong places too! Figured I was going to go over my usual 4 attempts and cussed it out... and voila! ;)

[SportWagon]

Not quite a spoiler, but a rules clarification...If the word is WHILE, and you guess NEVER
Only the first E is shown as correct but in the wrong place. (orange? mustard?)
The second E is shown as incorrect (dark gray).

If the word was NEVER I guess EVERY would show both E as correct?

In addition to restricting the patterns, the game differs from Mastermind (Bulls and Cows) in that the positions of correct and incorrect guesses is indicated.

Following is a real spoiler (bash commands to give today's answer)

cat /etc/*/words |
grep -i '^....e$' |
grep -i -v '[star]' |
grep -i '^....e$' |
grep -i -v '[mov]' |
grep -i 'i' |
grep -i -v '^...i' |
grep -i '^w...e$' |
grep -i -v '[h]' |
grep -i 'n' |
grep -i 'i' |
grep -i -v '^...n' |
grep -i -v '^..i'On some days the nearly complete answer jumps out. But not so much today, so I think if someone accidentally opens the spoiler they won't get much help unless they study hard or run the code.
But the script I use to generate that currently gets tripped up if guesses include repeated letters.

[balki]

regarding the rules clarification:
NEVER and EVERY will have E, E and R as orange/mustard: it tracks the number of times each leter shows up:
I you use EERIE as you guess you can tell if there are 0, 1, 2 or 3 E's in the puzzle.
I guess I've been using MR2's strategy all along, just not that well.
There have been a few times where I'm trying dozens of words on my last guess (luckily it doesn't penalize you for using words not in the their dictionary).
Feels like this game would be easies if English was as phonetical language.

[FaultyMario]

I just try to find the last three letters, either by 'green' or 'yellow', then it's just guessing, I find that wordle's "vocabulary" is a bit limited, it goes for mostly common words.

The one thing that bothers me is that they're mostly British English terms, so what I think of as "uncommon" could really not be.

[SportWagon]

Its URL would suggest it ought to use a British English dictionary.

Some small tips, which might be obvious to most readers...Your record and statistics must be stored in your browser cookies. If you go to the site with a different browser, or a different browser profile (when that can be done easily) you can use knowledge gained from another session.

When I thereby once got a daily puzzle on the first try its assessment was "Genius". If I cared more, I might try to create a one-guess solving streak in that profile and see if eventually it catches on and says "You must be cheating."

Doing this seems acceptable for, for instance, determining the nuances regarding repeated letters.

Something I read somewhere, while hunting for the fabled archive, suggested that the puzzle presented is based on your browser's time settings (even though the puzzle does not run as a local app) and that your claimed time can vary by many days from the present. I have not tested that, however.

Someone whose wife is more interested in it than either he or I suggested that
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
has a link to an archive.

However, I could not spot it, and used Google to find...
https://www.devangthakkar.com/wordle_archive/

I find it uses strange scaling and I need to shrink it to have reasonable guess boxes and a tiny keyboard.

The link given earlier to wordlelike-on-demand is overly fussy about browser version and did not work for me.

https://wheelsrpgs.itch.io/wheeldle

Like Wordle, only you don't have to wait until tomorrow to do it again.

[dodint]

Why can't people just enjoy a fun diversion? Not everything needs to be reverse engineered. To what end, even? You're just cheating yourself.

As an IT pro I recognize your method and admire your curiosity. But on the flip side you remind me of the guy who watches every trailer and reads leaked scripts for movies that come out in three months. I never understood it.

[SportWagon]

Perhaps eventually I can manage to create a cron job to run every night to solve it for me. Though I haven't yet examined the page formats...

Examining in depth helped me discover the nuance of the scoring for repeated letters before perhaps it bites me.

[dodint]

:up:

[Crazed_Insanity]

Perhaps eventually I can manage to create a cron job to run every night to solve it for me. Though I haven't yet examined the page formats...

Examining in depth helped me discover the nuance of the scoring for repeated letters before perhaps it bites me.

Well, it's a poor strategy to guess with a word with repeated letters. You're just wasting your chances and not eliminated the as many wrong letters as possible...

Anyway, otherwise I think it's cool to find whatever method that suits you to try to beat the game... as long as you don't cheat! :p

[SportWagon]

Using repeated letters will be necessary for the final guess if the answer has repeated letters.In general it seems you want to pick a word with the top 5 most popular letters in the remaining possibilities. For the first guess at least, black results are as useful as others. Perhaps more so, since they clearly eliminate possibilities.

Occasionally it seems appropriate to repeat a letter if it is difficult otherwise to get enough of the popular letters remaining.


Speaking of creativity...
https://manpages.debian.org/testing/faketime/faketime.1.en.html
(the faketime command) can be used (under Linux, at least Debian/Ubuntu) if you run a fresh browser profile (or destroy your hard-earned powerlanguage.co.uk cookies) to apparently peek ahead at future puzzles.

Attempting to use it to go to the past I could not get past a particular https error; it seemed to keep skipping the part where I could add an exception.

And once you have established a "record", you cannot go back before it, although you can move further into the future.

This confirms that your apparent local time is used to decide which puzzle you get, and that the answers are chosen using some function driven by the date.A web search confirms my eventual thought that the orange/mustard colour is supposed to be "amber".

And, no, I never will be simply running a cron job. The mechanics of the page are even more well hidden than I expected.

[Crazed_Insanity]

Anyway, as long as I’m still guessing, I’d tend to use words without repeating letters in order to eliminate as many remaining possibilities as possible. I’d only use a repeating letter word near the end if that’s the only word I can think of to use for my final answer.

So my ‘algorithm’ has 2 phases I guess. Initial phase is to simply eliminate possibilities to narrow things down. Then enter the next phase to start guessing the actual word. Unless I got lucky, my 1st 3 guesses are usually 1st phase… and then I’d be able to attempt to guess the actual word on my 4th try.

[MR2 Fan]

When I was in High School, I wanted to take Statistics as a math class because I heard it was less challenging than other math classes...now I realize how important it is since a lot of people seem to be very bad at understanding statistics and the variables needed in order to get a full picture of things

[SportWagon]

Both LOGIN and LINGO seem to be in the wordle dictionary, but neither seem like entirely proper English words.

[Crazed_Insanity]

Today's word is tricky. After spending my 3 attempts eliminating possibilities and then an easy word came to mind... I thought I nailed it on my 4th attempt when 3 green squares flipped over..., but then I freaking missed the last 2 squares!!! :angry:

So it's down 5 attempts again today...

[SportWagon]

Using a word from the possible set for my third choice actually eliminated the common word as a possibility.
(Actually eliminated two common words as possibilities; and plurals were eliminated by my standard first guess).

[21Kid]

Why can't people just enjoy a fun diversion?
...
But on the flip side you remind me of the guy who watches every trailer and reads leaked scripts for movies that come out in three months. I never understood it.
Same on both accounts.

If I KNOW that I'm going to see a movie. Star Wars, Marvel, etc... I will purposefully avoid trailers, or any kind of advertising.

[Alan P]

Wordle 221 4/6

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[Kchrpm]

Wordle 221 3/6
Lewdle 08 3/6

Apparently pasting to Twitter and then from the post in Chrome to here isn't a solution.

[SportWagon]

Yesterday and today just fell out for me...

[Cam]

YouTube went nuts on me today and suddenly is recommending a bunch of completely random garbage. :erm:

[Crazed_Insanity]

I think Wordle has became increasingly more difficult? Got bored when I could consistently guess the words within 4 attempts, but lately I've returned to the challenge and it's consistently taken me more than 4 attempts! I think the algorithm has figured out my strategy and decided to fuck with me... ;)

Today's word should be challenging...

[speedpimp]

Took me six tries to get it, but I did.

[SportWagon]

Took me six tries to get it, but I did.
That discussion has moved to Arcade...
http://gtxforums.net/forumdisplay.php?15-The-Arcade
http://gtxforums.net/showthread.php?2107-Worlde
February 25?
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In Easy, although I knew the answer, my standard first two guesses eliminated so much that I couldn't reasonably stretch it beyond four...

[Cam]

DC comedy club had malfunctioning neon lights. We checked it out, expecting to replace the transformer that powers the lights. I pulled one of the high-voltage wires too hard and broke one of the neon tubes.

I normally like to keep my swearing to a minimum, but FFFUUUUUUCK. I mean I fucked up hard. That is the first time since I started this job that I broke some glass. I was super-apologetic and the boss said, "It's OK, Cam. I've broke a lot of glass." No, it's not really OK, but it can be fixed. I just more than doubled the complexity of the job.

We removed the broken glass and jumped it with some extra wire. I replaced the transformer and the rest of the neon lit up normally. Whew. Just have to come back later to put a new tube in.

[speedpimp]

Cam, don't sweat it. If it makes you feel any better about your situation, we've had two trucks wrecked(one totaled, the other MIGHT be fixable) since last July. One was hitting a low bridge(truck is 13'1" tall, bridge is 11'5"(the bridge catches at least five trucks a year(and this was the second truck of ours wrecked at that bridge)), and the other was a few weeks ago when the driver was leaving a vendor and had just pulled out onto the road when he drifted over too far to the right, got onto the soft shoulder and tried steering back to the left but it was dug in and the truck laid over on it's side. The same driver was responsible for both incidents(and now it wasn't me) and somehow he still has a job.

[Crazed_Insanity]

Truck drivers are hard to come by these days! :p Hope the guy learned his lessons…

[21Kid]

Cam, do you know if he plans to keep making those glass fixtures? I've seen some pretty amazing-looking "neon" LED-based lights.


Cam, don't sweat it. If it makes you feel any better about your situation, we've had two trucks wrecked(one totaled, the other MIGHT be fixable) since last July. One was hitting a low bridge(truck is 13'1" tall, bridge is 11'5"(the bridge catches at least five trucks a year(and this was the second truck of ours wrecked at that bridge)), and the other was a few weeks ago when the driver was leaving a vendor and had just pulled out onto the road when he drifted over too far to the right, got onto the soft shoulder and tried steering back to the left but it was dug in and the truck laid over on it's side. The same driver was responsible for both incidents(and now it wasn't me) and somehow he still has a job.Are the short bridges in Chicago?

[Cam]

The boss is retiring soon and selling his property, probably before the end of the year.

[Crazed_Insanity]

Maybe you should buy it/take over? If you're really sick and tire of the gig/business, then of course nevermind...

[Cam]

His studio is worth $1.3 million. Suggesting I buy it is ridiculous.

[speedpimp]

Are the short bridges in Chicago?

NO! It's one of only two low clearance bridges still open in South Bend, Indiana. Google Lafayette St. Bridge, South Bend, IN and be amazed by the amount of stories of trucks being wedged underneath it's claustrophobic confines.

On the subject of Chicago clearances, my one incident of hitting a low clearance was in Chicago on Lake St. It's an EL-track that runs directly over the street. The signs say the clearance is 13'6". Bull-fluffing-schmidt. Driving under the L at 10 MPH I felt the top of my truck slam into the bottom of the tracks. The damage was just some cracks in the roof panel. After that each trip to that vendor was done either in a pickup or the cabover Isuzu.

Knowing how tall your truck is is one of the basic tenets of truck driving. There is a reason that Penske and Ryder mark the height of their rental trucks both on the outside and the inside of the vehicles.

When I was doing my time away the guy who replaced me managed to hit a 10'5" bridge in the middle of fucking Amish country. The truck was fixed and the driver is still employed, but still 13'1 vs 10'5...

[JSGeneral]

NO! It's one of only two low clearance bridges still open in South Bend, Indiana. Google Lafayette St. Bridge, South Bend, IN and be amazed by the amount of stories of trucks being wedged underneath it's claustrophobic confines.

On the subject of Chicago clearances, my one incident of hitting a low clearance was in Chicago on Lake St. It's an EL-track that runs directly over the street. The signs say the clearance is 13'6". Bull-fluffing-schmidt. Driving under the L at 10 MPH I felt the top of my truck slam into the bottom of the tracks. The damage was just some cracks in the roof panel. After that each trip to that vendor was done either in a pickup or the cabover Isuzu.

Knowing how tall your truck is is one of the basic tenets of truck driving. There is a reason that Penske and Ryder mark the height of their rental trucks both on the outside and the inside of the vehicles.

When I was doing my time away the guy who replaced me managed to hit a 10'5" bridge in the middle of fucking Amish country. The truck was fixed and the driver is still employed, but still 13'1 vs 10'5...


Around these parts, we call that getting "Storrowed". There's a bridge underpass that grabs at least one moving truck every year.


https://youtu.be/p3lQwtGxC1w?si=ffuNg19XV1ndZTtT

[Crazed_Insanity]

His studio is worth $1.3 million. Suggesting I buy it is ridiculous.

You can look into seller financing!

That business should have a history of income, right? That’d make it much easier to get a loan for the seller than for you a nobody! :p

You should just try to negotiate something hopefully with 0 down on your side… so nothing out of your pocket! You’ll just pay back the loan with portion of your businesses future income.

You’re in it for a while. You should have pretty good idea if this business is stable or growing or declining…

If you really like it and it’s growing and if your boss really cares about his business, surely he’ll want somebody who knows what he’s doing to take over?

https://www.lendingtree.com/business/seller-financing/#:~:text=You%20want%20to%20reach%20more,that's%20a %20mutually%20good%20fit.

[Tom Servo]

I've only been to Boston once and I think I immediately learned about Storrowing.

Also, the 11-foot-8 Youtube channel is an entertaining place to spend some time watching the canopener bridge do its thing: https://www.youtube.com/@11foot8plus8

[speedpimp]

I've only been to Boston once and I think I immediately learned about Storrowing.

Also, the 11-foot-8 Youtube channel is an entertaining place to spend some time watching the canopener bridge do its thing: https://www.youtube.com/@11foot8plus8

That cam was the first to gain traction online, but they have changed the height since then.

In South Bend the elevated train tracks pretty much separated north and south, and there were quite a few low clearances(all along that line) that started getting closed off in the late 80's until now(that has left just Bronson St(E-W) and Lafatette St(N-S) as the only operable low clearances in town). Also Lafayette Street marked what was the beginning of the Studebaker Corridor.

[FaultyMario]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKDAXCeXsAAUi58.jpg

Given today's political climate, I wouldn't put it down to a mere graphic design fail.

[Cam]

April 1 bad taste joke?

[Crazed_Insanity]

Lewis Hamilton uses 44 on his Mercedes.

The political climate change seems to happening much faster than the actual climate change.

[MR2 Fan]

Billi, are you being deliberately obtuse? wait, I already know the answer

[Crazed_Insanity]

Really? You do? I'm not even sure if I'm being deliberately or just naturally obtuse... :p

[Tom Servo]

April 1 bad taste joke?

Definitely appears to be bullshit, but posted by "Hooligans.cz Official"'s account on Twitter with a community note saying it's fake and Kroos neither said that nor has he switched his number from 8.

However, I did see something that Adidas has temporarily suspended the ability to customize jerseys you order from them because of the two 4's looking like the SS logo and halted deliveries of jerseys with the number 44. That one at least looks like a non-April Fool's joke to me - despite being reported on on 4/1, there are articles about it on CNN, BBC, The Guardian, and others.

[FaultyMario]

i was going to say that the typeface looked legit, however i was under the impression that national team player numbers didn't go above 23*, but I've since seen them in high twenties or lower thirties.

* as national teams can only register 3 goalies and 20 field players.

[Yw-slayer]

The 44 ban on the German shirt printing thing is real.