All the fun of Wordle but with added swearing. It's SWEARDLE, the four-letter word game.
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It gave me ‘Damn’ on the second go round, which I don’t think even the local vicar would consider a swear word. Aced ‘Quim’ on the third attempt though so I can forgive that.
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in the telegraph puzzle newsletter.
:)
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is there some depraved sexual act of which I am unaware?
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Oops. That should have been NORK (as in the singular of norks). Fixed now, ta.
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Not a clue. Does it use random pronouncible words?
*edit* Actually, that describes Urban Dictionary quite well!
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www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=poon
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But to test my theory about Urban Dictionary I thought of the first nonsense word that came into my head which was "Nuck". It has a meaning according to UD, so based on a sample of one I'm standing by my theory!
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so you must realise there's a knuck, and you know the k is silent, so I'm calling shenanigans.
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And I came here to post this. Should have known this was the true source.
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for a dog rimming paedophile gang
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(warning: daily star link, so probably dodgy ads)
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The guy in the blue shirt thinks he's rapping or something.
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No, really.
More interesting than you might think.
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this series of articles about the history of British Saturday night TV is well worth a read.
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it did entertain millions of people for many years, and that is worthy of some respect.
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And vomit at Blobby.
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at its height it pulled 18 million viewers. You couldn't get 18 likes on a post on /links.
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At the time most people only had 4 channels, and I dare say one TV per household. Such limitations and the changed nature of broadcast television are a large factor in these estimates.
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The idea that we all have to "respect" something just because it is (or was) popular is actually pretty repulsive and stupid.
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- Noel Edmonds is just like Hitler.
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A few years ago you would need double digits.
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Does anyone outside Noel Edmonds remember it fondly? That's quite an achievement in a country that will get nostalgic over a test card
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currently got the DVDs of Girls on Top on order...
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nhp30.com/ is also a website about the most important 169 broadcasts in BBC history.
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wiped from his alcoholic body as he performed as a sidekick to Neil Morrisey's Sammy The Shammy. What a hellish death for a really very good actor.
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it's not Mrs Brown's Boys - now THAT is what I call popular entertainment.
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The average colour for each frame of a number of films, shown graphically.
They look a bit like Gerhard Richters, or Bridget Rileys. This is a good thing.
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The average movie uses 24fps and lasts about 90 minutes.
That's 129,600 frames, give or take, with each frame being one line.
Not one of their prints appears to contain 129k lines. Also the idea is really dumb. Who is this for?
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It's pointless, but I like pretty generative stuff.
Then I saw they're doing NFTs, and have never done Derek Jarman's Blue for the arthouse LOLs.
(They don't say it's each frame, but a sample every 10 seconds - thecolorsofmotion.com/faq)
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Then I retract some of what I said, but I'm going to remain somewhat cunty about it.
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from.. thecolorsofmotion.com/faq
How does this all work?
We take a movie, then we extract the frames at at a regular interval based on the length of the movie (For a 1h30 movie, it's around once every 10 seconds). Next, we calculate the average color of each of those frames. Finally we stack those colors as thin bars from top to bottom in chronological order. The result is a color timeline of the movie.
But like, how does it really work?
Ah! The nitty gritty. The entire process of extracting the movie data and generating the prints is automated using a bunch of node script. To extract the images, we use a node wrapper around ffmpeg, then a series of custom scripts extract the average colors. The frames are uploaded to amazon S3 and the color data stored in mongoDB. Relevant movie data is pulled for each movie using an unofficial IMDB api. The generation of the print files is also automated, using a node canvas wrapper.
if each frame was a pixel then a 360 x 360 picture would do 129,600 frames
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Like lighting changing or get learning algorithm to recut the film according to a preset pattern and enjoy the resulting mess.
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My Wife had a cat like this, it's not a funny thing to have to live with. The behaviour is very difficult to discourage and cats can cause a lot of damage when they have the mind to.
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A neighbour was given a Siamese that hadn't been socialised properly and had been badly treated, scary and distressing.
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If you've not listened to a podcast called "Reply All", start with episode 158. If you what I did, you'll then do an archive binge and come across what they refer to as "the best hold music in the world", something called Simplicity by a band called Macroform.
If you search for that on Youtube, about the third hit is a mashup of the song with "Sky full of Song" by Florence and the Machine.
The reason I say it's baffling is that I can't see what they've done - I can't see the join. Normally mashups require some evident effort of editing, whereas this just seems to have involved taking the acapella track of "Sky Full of Song" and pasting it directly over an entirely unaltered file of "Simplicity" - no speed adjustments, no snips, no key alterations. Can two songs be accidentally so similar in structure that you can simply drop one into the other, or did I miss something?
Either way, I think the mashup is actually better than FatM's original.
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Neither are by any means the most dynamic of Songs, so it's no surprise that they mesh together well.
Here's another good example.
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I lost my old log in details.
For the ultimate mashup here, see "Fly me off the Handel"by the ukulele orchestra. 6 or 8 songs in the same key simultaneously.
youtu.be/2P1-UvqdD7o
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One's AK47 if never nearby when one needs it
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between her falling in the water and her dead lifeless body being dragged out.
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And what's with the "salad" dishes all being something set in a jelly mould?
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Made with real brides.
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HAM!
If you are as obsessed by me by this recipe;
vintagerecipecards.com/2011/06/15/ham-and-bananas-hollandaise/
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Not really.
I listened to this a couple of weeks ago and noticed the reference to this year.
Asian Dub Foundation - Fortress Europe - 2003.
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Oh shit,Senser? slipped out of the house to London and saw them at the Marquee as a 13 years old. Slept on a park bench and got a train home unnoticed at 5am. Top 5 gigs.
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crackin' stuff!
Same goes for ADF, actually...
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They’re risking their lives to escape fortress Europe in rubber dinghies to get to a beach on Boris’ bargain basement Brexit Britain. Take back control!
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350 million a week must be available to someone, cause it hasn't gone to the NHS has it.
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The leader board would just be a normal distribution of impulse choices.
I suppose it's about the atmosphere.
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But it makes a lot more sense if you approach it like Professional Wrestling, except the winners aren't decided ahead of time. And everyone seems to be genuinely enjoying themselves.
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Thinking of wrestling, this one from Shiori Tomita ft. Ladybeard still amuses me.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=GjQv0tXQd4A
It's incongruous on various levels.
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Should be okay until someone invents rock scissors.
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Humans are quite poor at generating random number strings. We tend to use patterns. Understanding your opponents Roshambo patterns can shade the odds in your favour, like a goal keeper analysing patterns of an opposition penalty kick taker. I tend to win against my kids because I know what they favour. When we pick the same, one tends to try the opposing shape, while the other persists with it
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Go for a full English breakfast, black pudding, fried slice, the works. It won’t help your hangover but it’ll make your spew look more colourful
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But 10-15 minutes in, it's obvious that the rock paper scissors element is just a flimsy justification for a fucking beauty show.
Or is it just a coincidence that every single competitor is young, slim and female?
(, Sat 1 Jan 2022, 14:59, Reply)
You could kinda argue that Professional Wrestling is a beauty show, too. There's nothing more homo-erotic than a bunch of men's men getting overexcited at the spectacle of two muscular adonises having a big sweaty tumble together.
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So sexy...

..Can't... Prevent myself...

...From having a wank immediately...

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Also there's quite a divergence in the skills demanded of pro wrestling and pro RPS.
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The wiki on it is very NSFW, unsurprisingly.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadomasochism
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It's grim stuff though.
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Seriously, don't post stuff like that direct.
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I guess the Abdullah The Butcher photo? I've swapped it for a less bloody one.
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a J-pop band with over 80 members currently associated with it who are all female, predominantly aged in their teens and twenties and picked for their looks, amongst other things.
The janken (which is what rock-paper-scissors is called in Japan, where it actually originates from) tournament used to be used to determine which members would participate in the next song release (it now determines which member will become a soloist).
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I only made it 15 minutes in, but some of the contestants appeared to have day jobs. I guess being an 'idol' doesn't pay the bills, especially when your pay is split over 80 ways.
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hence the large number of members, to spread the workload.
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One of them was Mum to Everyman Spock, Philosopher Sam Harris.
This is how he could afford to spend 10 years in a monestary in Tibet.
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