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Mr. Tact wrote on Jan 18, 2022, 10:31:Beamer wrote on Jan 18, 2022, 10:10:Same, my best is 3. Ouch that had to hurt, three greens on the second guess and you didn't get there? My guesses (in secret text to avoid spoilers): taser, round, crock, broil, proof, proxy I definitely got a bit lucky, there were other valid words I had not eliminated. Third guess was weak sauce -- should have thought harder about it.
My bests are in 3.
I lost today's, for the second time. I had 3 greens in the second turn, but still didn't get it. The last two had a LOT of potential combinations.
RedEye9 wrote on Jan 18, 2022, 10:43:Proper nouns are allowed? *ugh* Did not know that.
My buddy needed the first two letters of Shire his first two choices were Zaire and quire.
Mr. Tact wrote on Jan 18, 2022, 10:31:Mine (hidden)Beamer wrote on Jan 18, 2022, 10:10:Same, my best is 3. Ouch that had to hurt, three greens on the second guess and you didn't get there? My guesses (in secret text to avoid spoilers): taser, round, crock, broil, proof, proxy I definitely got a bit lucky, there were other valid words I had not eliminated. Third guess was weak sauce -- should have thought harder about it.
My bests are in 3.
I lost today's, for the second time. I had 3 greens in the second turn, but still didn't get it. The last two had a LOT of potential combinations.
Beamer wrote on Jan 18, 2022, 10:10:Same, my best is 3. Ouch that had to hurt, three greens on the second guess and you didn't get there? My guesses (in secret text to avoid spoilers): taser, round, crock, broil, proof, proxy I definitely got a bit lucky, there were other valid words I had not eliminated. Third guess was weak sauce -- should have thought harder about it.
My bests are in 3.
I lost today's, for the second time. I had 3 greens in the second turn, but still didn't get it. The last two had a LOT of potential combinations.
RedEye9 wrote on Jan 18, 2022, 10:13:Beamer wrote on Jan 18, 2022, 10:10:My buddy got it in five today also but I learned something.Mr. Tact wrote on Jan 18, 2022, 09:47:RedEye9 wrote on Jan 18, 2022, 08:57:sowar? Not in dictionary.com... sofar is there, but I had never heard of it before.
My ex got SOLAR in 2. Talk about lucky.
I came close to not getting it at all when i had the correct letter placement of so*ar after guess 3. 4th was sofar and 5th sowar. If i had guessed SONAR on the 6th try...
Solar I got in 3, but I haven't been recording all my guesses, pretty sure I started with tears for that.
My bests are in 3.
I lost today's, for the second time. I had 3 greens in the second turn, but still didn't get it. The last two had a LOT of potential combinations.
His fourth choice used the same letter twice, I didn't know you could repeat letters.
That just added a whole nother level of complexibility.
Beamer wrote on Jan 18, 2022, 10:10:My buddy got it in five today also but I learned something.Mr. Tact wrote on Jan 18, 2022, 09:47:RedEye9 wrote on Jan 18, 2022, 08:57:sowar? Not in dictionary.com... sofar is there, but I had never heard of it before.
My ex got SOLAR in 2. Talk about lucky.
I came close to not getting it at all when i had the correct letter placement of so*ar after guess 3. 4th was sofar and 5th sowar. If i had guessed SONAR on the 6th try...
Solar I got in 3, but I haven't been recording all my guesses, pretty sure I started with tears for that.
My bests are in 3.
I lost today's, for the second time. I had 3 greens in the second turn, but still didn't get it. The last two had a LOT of potential combinations.
Mr. Tact wrote on Jan 18, 2022, 09:47:RedEye9 wrote on Jan 18, 2022, 08:57:sowar? Not in dictionary.com... sofar is there, but I had never heard of it before.
My ex got SOLAR in 2. Talk about lucky.
I came close to not getting it at all when i had the correct letter placement of so*ar after guess 3. 4th was sofar and 5th sowar. If i had guessed SONAR on the 6th try...
Solar I got in 3, but I haven't been recording all my guesses, pretty sure I started with tears for that.
RedEye9 wrote on Jan 18, 2022, 08:57:sowar? Not in dictionary.com... sofar is there, but I had never heard of it before.
My ex got SOLAR in 2. Talk about lucky.
I came close to not getting it at all when i had the correct letter placement of so*ar after guess 3. 4th was sofar and 5th sowar. If i had guessed SONAR on the 6th try...
Cutter wrote on Jan 17, 2022, 23:34:As I was saying, this is kind of the problem. Tennis Australia and the Victorian government for some reason thought they had the power/ability to override the federal immigration rules. Why? Were they just ballsy and stupid? Did they actually negotiate this ability with the federal government and then the feds backed out on it due to bad PR? This is the part of the situation which has not been sufficiently explained/investigated.
Fuck Australia! This should have never got to this level in the first place. They should have kicked his ass out moment he landed. I'm sure the Aussie elites pleaded for it but what the fuck are a few tennis matches compared to the grand scheme of things?
1badmf wrote on Jan 17, 2022, 23:26:I wasn't attempting to provide an excuse for Djokovic, just indicating the idea that his thinking fits within a pattern which is essentially required to be an elite athlete. Yes, you can have the required mindset without becoming a jerk or worse -- but the thought process makes that bad result without recognition of it, possible. And in case you hadn't noticed, there are more than few elite athletes who are jerks. Although granted, I have no idea if the percentage is better or worse than it is in the general population.
and yet there are elite athletes who aren't scumbags. i'd say most actually. to equate vaccines with routine professional suffering is just a failure of reasoning; one has nothing to do with the other if you think about it even semi-seriously. i would bet most professional athletes are vaccinated and train very nearly as hard as he does if not harder, even if they lack his talent. suffering for one's profession isn't unique to the 1%. djokovic is just an asshole pure and simple. i believe it has nothing to do with his profession except that he has yesmen in his ear pushing him towards the worst of his nature. but at least the french are on board too - no french open now unless he gets vaccinated.
Mr. Tact wrote on Jan 17, 2022, 22:27:
Frankly, I think the Victorian government and Tennis Australia deserve a lot more of a public beating than they seem to have gotten. What the hell made Tennis Australia or the Victorian government think they could run roughshod over the Australian federal government's immigration rules? While I think Novak Djokovic is an idiot and was rightly deported, the mess this was isn't completely his fault.
As far as Djokovic's beliefs go, this WP article raises some interesting points. It talks about how the top 1% of athletes in all the sports really don't think like regular people. If they did, they wouldn't be in the top 1% of their sport.... to talk to Djokovic, who seeks skills in defiance of physical laws through brutal training and solitary suffering, about the danger of going unvaccinated is naive. Our conversations with athletes about dangerous practices fail because of what renowned bioethicist Thomas Murray has called “the you’ll-put-your-eye-out argument.” You can’t tell a quarterback who gets hit by 300-pound linemen or a cyclist who rides up an Alp not to take a steroid because “you might hurt yourself.” The argument has no force for them.
There is an inevitable price to pay for outer-edge mental and physical explorations. Andre Agassi had wrist tendinitis, sciatica and a brief flirtation with crystal meth; Jimmy Connors had terrible back pain, bone spurs and a gambling addiction. But maybe the biggest toll is the slow creep of narcissism. Some 1-percenters manage to maintain their connection to the audience. Rafael Nadal, for instance. For others, performance trumps everything, and it can carry them to a very remote — and lonely — place. Chris Evert once remarked, “I didn’t like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.” She also said: “Winning was a need.”
RedEye9 wrote on Jan 17, 2022, 18:18:I'm at my best when I'm escaping.
I've got 4 episodes of Station Eleven to go, it's been a believable blast along the lines of The Stand.
The airport and minefield episodes were a great roller coaster.
I especially enjoy the part about not trusting any stranger, ever. And barely trusted those you know.
... to talk to Djokovic, who seeks skills in defiance of physical laws through brutal training and solitary suffering, about the danger of going unvaccinated is naive. Our conversations with athletes about dangerous practices fail because of what renowned bioethicist Thomas Murray has called “the you’ll-put-your-eye-out argument.” You can’t tell a quarterback who gets hit by 300-pound linemen or a cyclist who rides up an Alp not to take a steroid because “you might hurt yourself.” The argument has no force for them.
There is an inevitable price to pay for outer-edge mental and physical explorations. Andre Agassi had wrist tendinitis, sciatica and a brief flirtation with crystal meth; Jimmy Connors had terrible back pain, bone spurs and a gambling addiction. But maybe the biggest toll is the slow creep of narcissism. Some 1-percenters manage to maintain their connection to the audience. Rafael Nadal, for instance. For others, performance trumps everything, and it can carry them to a very remote — and lonely — place. Chris Evert once remarked, “I didn’t like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.” She also said: “Winning was a need.”
RedEye9 wrote on Jan 17, 2022, 20:18:It helps being an "island," much like my state. But it's much more than that: they've had good policies and good unity adhering to them. Hats off to the Aussies (among several other countries) who have put on a clinic on how to handle a pandemic. Not just in pandemic handling, but on a lot of fronts I've been pretty impressed with Australian competence.
Djokovic was finally deported for lying, not being inoculated against the coronavirus and for being a vocal vaccine skeptic. Australia rules baby.