Select to expand quoteMr Milk said..
Who said you can be a pedant? I'll bet you don't even use the apostrophe when you type "'phone".
You are right. My pendantry is looser than that. 
Select to expand quoteMr Milk said..
Who said you can be a pedant? I'll bet you don't even use the apostrophe when you type "'phone".
The real question is whether he'd challenge someone playing "ZOO" in Scrabble.
Select to expand quoteHarrow said..
The real question is whether he'd challenge someone playing "ZOO" in Scrabble.
If it made more points than FN got he'd probably have a tanty, throw the board across the room and refuse to ever speak to the other players.
He would then only engage in playing snap against PM33, using a pack of cards of his choice and making PM33 play blindfolded.
FN would then claim this version of snap is the most complex strategy game in the world, unilaterally declare himself the winner and thus smarter than any moron that plays scrabble.
Just a guess.
The lies are so monstrous that many fail to see them......or possibly do not want to see them.
Found this comment on SOTT website under Health and Wellbeing.
I've never had more work and family members die than this year since January. The number is now 16. Mostly middle aged but a few children and young adults. Normal deaths at work were 0-3 or so per annum.
It's gotten so bad at work that the dead are hardly spoken of now. We had a 29 year old drop dead on a zoom call last Monday and there's hardly a peep... It's creepy.
Select to expand quoteHarrow said..Mr Milk said..
Who said you can be a pedant? I'll bet you don't even use the apostrophe when you type "'phone".
The real question is whether he'd challenge someone playing "ZOO" in Scrabble.
Zoo? Is that not allowed? Are some words known issues?
I would figure that if its in the dictionary then its allowed.
Same with phone.
Select to expand quoteTonyAbbott said..
Don't Australian conservative anti-vaxxers have their own memes?
Select to expand quotePcdefender said..
The lies are so monstrous that many fail to see them......or possibly do not want to see them.
Found this comment on SOTT website under Health and Wellbeing.
I've never had more work and family members die than this year since January. The number is now 16. Mostly middle aged but a few children and young adults. Normal deaths at work were 0-3 or so per annum.
It's gotten so bad at work that the dead are hardly spoken of now. We had a 29 year old drop dead on a zoom call last Monday and there's hardly a peep... It's creepy.
Investigation, research, data, analysis, statistics... are obviously all foreign to you.
I remember trying to convince a super endearing woman a year back not to take her clot shot.
Over a number of weeks i tried as best i could but again the programming......... it is simply too good / convincing.
So, she took her THREE shots but thankfully she appears to be as right as rain.
A bit like Russian roulette. really.
Apparently, the worlds governments are now planning on banning the manufacture of aluminium foil,
you guys are screwed now without your little protective hats. ha ha haaaaa.
Na just joking,
they don't need to read your thoughts; they just need to watch YouTube vids and click bait conspiracy threads on the internet to see what's in there.
Select to expand quoteFormulaNova said..Harrow said..Mr Milk said..
Who said you can be a pedant? I'll bet you don't even use the apostrophe when you type "'phone".
The real question is whether he'd challenge someone playing "ZOO" in Scrabble.
Zoo? Is that not allowed? Are some words known issues?
I would figure that if its in the dictionary then its allowed.
Same with phone.
You really have to pay attention to those apostrophes
Select to expand quoteMr Milk said..FormulaNova said..Harrow said..Mr Milk said..
Who said you can be a pedant? I'll bet you don't even use the apostrophe when you type "'phone".
The real question is whether he'd challenge someone playing "ZOO" in Scrabble.
Zoo? Is that not allowed? Are some words known issues?
I would figure that if its in the dictionary then its allowed.
Same with phone.
You really have to pay attention to those apostrophes
Ahhh, no problem. I was typing on my phone, when all the rules go out the window. Well, not all, but I do get looser.
I still want to know about Zoo though. If I ever get friends, I will tell OK about it first, and then play scrabble with them (I mean Scrabble ), and I would like to know the rules around zoo. Phone I am okay with.
I do have one friend/associate/person I met who is incredibly funny as she seems to make up words and uses them in a sentence that is half way to being believable. She also seems to have mastered many small words to use in things just like Scrabble and if it weren't for checking they were in the dictionary I wouldn't believe they were correct.
Select to expand quotePcdefender said..
I remember trying to convince a super endearing woman a year back not to take her clot shot.
Over a number of weeks i tried as best i could but again the programming......... it is simply too good / convincing.
So, she took her THREE shots but thankfully she appears to be as right as rain.
A bit like Russian roulette. really.
Poor lady. She missed out. She could have had a bad case of Covid if you had been more persuasive.
What would you do in that case; if you convinced someone that the vaccines were dangerous and they contracted Covid and died from it?
Select to expand quoteremery said..TonyAbbott said..
Don't Australian conservative anti-vaxxers have their own memes?
No, but they are very well versed on 'their' constitution, the democrats or republicans (I can never remember which is which...) and they are all against gun control (over there).
Apparently they don't understand 'indemnity' either.
Select to expand quotePcdefender said..
I've never had more work and family members die than this year since January. The number is now 16. Mostly middle aged but a few children and young adults. Normal deaths at work were 0-3 or so per annum.
It's gotten so bad at work that the dead are hardly spoken of now. We had a 29 year old drop dead on a zoom call last Monday and there's hardly a peep... It's creepy.
I'm starting to feel left out of this N of 1.
I haven't had a friend or friend of a friend or a family member die in the last 3 years (probably because we all got our shots and boosters).
However our neighbors dog died last week. Does that count?
Select to expand quotePcdefender said..
The lies are so monstrous that many fail to see them......or possibly do not want to see them.
Found this comment on SOTT website under Health and Wellbeing.
I've never had more work and family members die than this year since January. The number is now 16. Mostly middle aged but a few children and young adults. Normal deaths at work were 0-3 or so per annum.
It's gotten so bad at work that the dead are hardly spoken of now. We had a 29 year old drop dead on a zoom call last Monday and there's hardly a peep... It's creepy.
Where do you work? I want to make sure I steer clear of the place!
Select to expand quotePcdefender said..
The lies are so monstrous that many fail to see them......or possibly do not want to see them.
Found this comment on SOTT website under Health and Wellbeing.
I've never had more work and family members die than this year since January. The number is now 16. Mostly middle aged but a few children and young adults. Normal deaths at work were 0-3 or so per annum.
It's gotten so bad at work that the dead are hardly spoken of now. We had a 29 year old drop dead on a zoom call last Monday and there's hardly a peep... It's creepy.
Facinating. I mostly hang around with intelligent, educated people and have only met three unvaccinated people, two of them are windsurfers and one a conspiracy theorist from the local pub.
Of all the other, intelligent, educated, vaccinated, people I know; none of them or any member of their families have suffered a serious adverse reaction post-vaccination.
Maybe I am one of the lucky ones.
I'm thinking that people who ended up with myocarditis post-vaccination, must be unluckier than we thought if 30 percent of them were vaccinated with a placebo. This "finding" could have an impact on compensation payouts.
Select to expand quoteremery said..Pcdefender said..
The lies are so monstrous that many fail to see them......or possibly do not want to see them.
Found this comment on SOTT website under Health and Wellbeing.
I've never had more work and family members die than this year since January. The number is now 16. Mostly middle aged but a few children and young adults. Normal deaths at work were 0-3 or so per annum.
It's gotten so bad at work that the dead are hardly spoken of now. We had a 29 year old drop dead on a zoom call last Monday and there's hardly a peep... It's creepy.
Facinating. I mostly hang around with intelligent, educated people and have only met three unvaccinated people, two of them are windsurfers and one a conspiracy theorist from the local pub.
Of all the other, intelligent, educated, vaccinated, people I know; none of them or any member of their families have suffered a serious adverse reaction post-vaccination.
Maybe I am one of the lucky ones.
I have put lots of research into this thing about antivaxxers knowing lots of people with adverse reactions... well.., I thought about it once while driving.
When you think about it, assume you have 40 people you are in regular contact with. Then consider that each of them may have 40 people they also are in regular contact with. So, a friend of a friend becomes 1 of 1600 people that you "know".
Now, an antivaxxer will have 300 other antivaxxers in their circle even if they have never contacted them. If each of these also have 300 other antivaxxers they can claim contact with, then it makes 90000 people they "know". If you extend it out to another 'friend of a friend of a friend' then you get to 27,000,000 people they "know".
In that number, surely there was at least one that suffered an adverse reaction. Obviously more than that. and when you drop the other almost 2.7M people, you arrive at 'lots of people I know suffered an adverse reaction'.
Simple huh!
^ maybe that's why vaccination data shows about 4 percent of people unvaccinated, but news polls show over 40 percent.
By Frank Bergman July 1, 2023In the past two and a half years, the number of athletes suffering sudden cardiac arrests and related issues has soared to alarming levels.
In early 2021, young athletes started suddenly collapsing with heart-related medical emergencies. Since then, a staggering 1,884 cardiac arrests or other serious issues have been recorded among athletes.
Unfortunately, 1,310 of those athletes died suddenly.
Good Sciencing has been maintaining a non-exhaustive and continuously growing list of mainly young athletes who suffered major medical issues in 2021, 2022, and the first half of 2023. According to Good Sciencing, all of the athletes on the list share one common factor: They suffered sudden serious health issues after receiving one or more doses of Covid shots.
As of April 2023, Good Sciencing had recorded 1,884 athlete cardiac arrests or serious issues since January 2021.There are another 55 cases that Good Sciencing is still investigating or awaiting further information.Good Sciencing has yet to record and investigate more recent incidents such as the four New Zealand rugby players. These four rugby players, reported by the New Zealand Herald last week, are also an addition to Mark Crispin Miller's list.Since January 2022, Crispin Miller has been recording "died suddenly" cases worldwide that are reported in corporate media in a particular week, according to The Expos?.
In his latest compilation, he recorded 57 New Zealanders who were reported as unexpectedly or suddenly losing their lives between 19 and 26 June.
It's important to note that Crispin Miller makes no attempt to investigate whether the incident is related to Covid shots.The list merely records relevant details as stated in news reports. For example, a man in Auckland died after suffering a medical event while in police custody. Last Saturday, a man was taken into custody for unlawful interference with a vehicle."The man was transported to the Auckland District Custody Unit, however, on arrival officers became concerned for the man's welfare as he appeared to be suffering a medical event," police said.Officers immediately transported the man to hospital but he passed away a short time later. "No age or cause of death reported,"
Crispin Miller noted.In another tragic incident noted by Crispin Miller, a class 12 student of a school in Kolkata, India, died after collapsing on the campus. The girl suddenly collapsed after the assembly session around 9.30 am. "She was then attended by the school doctor who found her pulse rate to be very low," a police officer said."She was declared brought dead when taken to the nearby Belle Vue Clinic."A case was lodged in connection with the death and the body was sent for post-mortem. "It's still not known whether the girl was suffering from any illness," the officer said. "It seems that she died of a cardiac arrest, but the exact reason behind her death could be known only after the completion of the post-mortem.
"In Ukraine, a lawyer was killed in a "vaxxident" when he suddenly died at the wheel.According to local Telegram communities, an uncontrolled car rammed several parked cars in Odessa. The deceased is a high-ranking law enforcement officer of the city R. Bershavsky. No age or cause of death was reported.I
n Russia, theatre and cinema actor Mikhail Lozhkin, died suddenly at the age of 36. The cause of death was not noted
.In Belgium, two soccer players "died suddenly." Former soccer player and ex-Red Devil C?dric Roussel passed away on Saturday at the age of 45. He collapsed on a terrace in Bergen on Saturday, first aid was of no avail.And St?phane Demol, the former defender, died following a heart attack. He was aged 57.
In Germany, on 21 June a truck driver was found dead in his cab. He had parked his vehicle in a parking lot on Tuesday evening to spend the night there. The parked truck with the corpse in the cab had been discovered by local residents, who alerted the police. The man apparently died during the night of a natural death, police said. No age or cause of death was reported.
In Iceland, last Saturday morning, emergency services were notified of a discovery of a dead person. He was found on the ground by a bicycle. A doctor was on the scene and pronounced the person dead. No age or cause of death was reported.
On 28 June, Pawe? Kotwica, a well-known Polish sports journalist, died suddenly during the final match of the Handball Champions League in Cologne. He fainted suddenly when his beloved team from Kielce fought for the first place with SC Magdeburg on Sunday. Several minutes before the end of the match. Despite immediate medical assistance, his life could not be saved. He was less than 51 years old.
Mark Crispen Miller's series of lists titled 'In memory of those who died suddenly' for the week of 19 to 26 June goes on and on. It's tragic to see.
Meanwhile, recent studies have shown that specific communities of people have not suffered any mysterious sudden deaths or heart attacks. America's Amish citizens have not suffered any excess deaths from Covid or any increases in cardiac arrests. The Amish people completely ignored CDC guidelines during the pandemic. Therefore, they didn't vaccinate, wear masks, engage in lockdowns, or partake in any other restrictions. Researchers have not been able to find a single definitive case of an Amish person dying from Covid after analyzing ten of thousands of people. They also noted that they also could find a single unvaccinated Amish person with autism or several other conditions that affect the rest of America. Source: slaynews.com
Select to expand quoteremery said..
Facinating. I mostly hang around with intelligent, educated people and have only met three unvaccinated people....
How do you know who is unvaccinated ?
Do you ask them or get them to fill in a form or something ?
Also the first bit - not sure that is true. You hang around with us here.
Select to expand quoteFormulaNova said..
Zoo? Is that not allowed? Are some words known issues?
I would figure that if its in the dictionary then its allowed.
Same with phone.
Being in the dictionary isn't good if enough if the dictionary also states that the word is an abbreviation or slang, although the official Scrabble words list is pretty lax. Flicking through it at my in-laws place seemed to suggest that any combination of 2 or 3 letters is allowed as long as there is at least one vowel. House rules at our place is that you need to know the definition of the word to stop people from trying their luck with random letter combinations at the end of the game.
Select to expand quoteHarrow said..
... House rules at our place is that you need to know the definition of the word ...
Seabreeze forum rules should be that you can use the word if you can put the word into a meme...
Select to expand quotePcdefender said..
By Frank Bergman July 1, 2023In the past two and a half years, the number of athletes suffering sudden cardiac arrests and related issues has soared to alarming levels.
In early 2021, young athletes started suddenly collapsing with heart-related medical emergencies. Since then, a staggering 1,884 cardiac arrests or other serious issues have been recorded among athletes.
Unfortunately, 1,310 of those athletes died suddenly.
Good Sciencing has been maintaining a non-exhaustive and continuously growing list of mainly young athletes who suffered major medical issues in 2021, 2022, and the first half of 2023. According to Good Sciencing, all of the athletes on the list share one common factor: They suffered sudden serious health issues after receiving one or more doses of Covid shots.
As of April 2023, Good Sciencing had recorded 1,884 athlete cardiac arrests or serious issues since January 2021.There are another 55 cases that Good Sciencing is still investigating or awaiting further information.Good Sciencing has yet to record and investigate more recent incidents such as the four New Zealand rugby players. These four rugby players, reported by the New Zealand Herald last week, are also an addition to Mark Crispin Miller's list.Since January 2022, Crispin Miller has been recording "died suddenly" cases worldwide that are reported in corporate media in a particular week, according to The Expos?.
In his latest compilation, he recorded 57 New Zealanders who were reported as unexpectedly or suddenly losing their lives between 19 and 26 June.
It's important to note that Crispin Miller makes no attempt to investigate whether the incident is related to Covid shots.The list merely records relevant details as stated in news reports. For example, a man in Auckland died after suffering a medical event while in police custody. Last Saturday, a man was taken into custody for unlawful interference with a vehicle."The man was transported to the Auckland District Custody Unit, however, on arrival officers became concerned for the man's welfare as he appeared to be suffering a medical event," police said.Officers immediately transported the man to hospital but he passed away a short time later. "No age or cause of death reported,"
Crispin Miller noted.In another tragic incident noted by Crispin Miller, a class 12 student of a school in Kolkata, India, died after collapsing on the campus. The girl suddenly collapsed after the assembly session around 9.30 am. "She was then attended by the school doctor who found her pulse rate to be very low," a police officer said."She was declared brought dead when taken to the nearby Belle Vue Clinic."A case was lodged in connection with the death and the body was sent for post-mortem. "It's still not known whether the girl was suffering from any illness," the officer said. "It seems that she died of a cardiac arrest, but the exact reason behind her death could be known only after the completion of the post-mortem.
"In Ukraine, a lawyer was killed in a "vaxxident" when he suddenly died at the wheel.According to local Telegram communities, an uncontrolled car rammed several parked cars in Odessa. The deceased is a high-ranking law enforcement officer of the city R. Bershavsky. No age or cause of death was reported.I
n Russia, theatre and cinema actor Mikhail Lozhkin, died suddenly at the age of 36. The cause of death was not noted
.In Belgium, two soccer players "died suddenly." Former soccer player and ex-Red Devil C?dric Roussel passed away on Saturday at the age of 45. He collapsed on a terrace in Bergen on Saturday, first aid was of no avail.And St?phane Demol, the former defender, died following a heart attack. He was aged 57.
In Germany, on 21 June a truck driver was found dead in his cab. He had parked his vehicle in a parking lot on Tuesday evening to spend the night there. The parked truck with the corpse in the cab had been discovered by local residents, who alerted the police. The man apparently died during the night of a natural death, police said. No age or cause of death was reported.
In Iceland, last Saturday morning, emergency services were notified of a discovery of a dead person. He was found on the ground by a bicycle. A doctor was on the scene and pronounced the person dead. No age or cause of death was reported.
On 28 June, Pawe? Kotwica, a well-known Polish sports journalist, died suddenly during the final match of the Handball Champions League in Cologne. He fainted suddenly when his beloved team from Kielce fought for the first place with SC Magdeburg on Sunday. Several minutes before the end of the match. Despite immediate medical assistance, his life could not be saved. He was less than 51 years old.
Mark Crispen Miller's series of lists titled 'In memory of those who died suddenly' for the week of 19 to 26 June goes on and on. It's tragic to see.
Meanwhile, recent studies have shown that specific communities of people have not suffered any mysterious sudden deaths or heart attacks. America's Amish citizens have not suffered any excess deaths from Covid or any increases in cardiac arrests. The Amish people completely ignored CDC guidelines during the pandemic. Therefore, they didn't vaccinate, wear masks, engage in lockdowns, or partake in any other restrictions. Researchers have not been able to find a single definitive case of an Amish person dying from Covid after analyzing ten of thousands of people. They also noted that they also could find a single unvaccinated Amish person with autism or several other conditions that affect the rest of America. Source: slaynews.com
"Good Sciencing is a blog compiled by anonymous authors who, according to the about page, "are a small team of investigators, news editors, journalists, and truth seekers," though they add that it "doesn't really matter who we are."
The website offers a dubious collection of news reports from around the world, including some about people who have died from cancer and medical episodes involving former athletes in their 60s, 70s and 80s.
"These are not rigorously identified 'cases,'" said Dr. Jonathan Kim, an associate professor of medicine and chief of sports cardiology at Emory University in Atlanta. "Plus, these are just media reports and appear cherry-picked as the age range is all over the place. Who knows what the cause was for any of these cases."
Kim said he was not aware of a rise in cardiac arrests among athletes in 2021 or 2022, or of any connection between episodes and the vaccines."
Athlete deaths during the COVID-19 vaccination campaign: contextualisation of online information
Mathijs Binkhorst, Daniel J. Goldstein
doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.13.23285851
"Background and aim
Lay people and medical professionals have suggested a link between (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccination and a purported increase in sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) and death (SCD) among athletes. We aimed to compare the athlete death rate in 2021-2022 with pre-pandemic estimates and investigate the role of vaccination.
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Results
The list contained 1653 entries. (Former) athletes, aged 5-86 years, from 99 countries, participated in 61 different sports.
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Conclusion
SCD rate among young US athletes in 2021-2022 was comparable to pre-pandemic estimates. There is currently no evidence to substantiate a link between (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccination and SCD in (young) athletes."
Long Vaxxer... there's a new one.
www.science.org/content/article/rare-link-between-coronavirus-vaccines-and-long-covid-illness-starts-gain-acceptance
Select to expand quoteremery said..
Conclusion
SCD rate among young US athletes in 2021-2022 was comparable to pre-pandemic estimates. There is currently no evidence to substantiate a link between (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccination and SCD in (young) athletes."
Nah, they were got to... 
Which is the standard CTer response when they don't agree.
Select to expand quoteFlying Dutchman said..
Long Vaxxer... there's a new one.
www.science.org/content/article/rare-link-between-coronavirus-vaccines-and-long-covid-illness-starts-gain-acceptance
First sentence... "COVID-19 vaccines have saved millions of lives".
