Bunch-a poor losers...

[Spiky Bugger]

I can't help it if s/he spelled DOT AND I added an E and then, using that E, made the word HECK, such that it was a 62 point word...I'm not the one who put DOT right there...s/he could at least come back and skip their turn so that we could end the game. Words With Friends, my ass...keeping me from playing OTHER games is NOT friendly!

(I do get it...I hate losing, too...but c'mon...end the game.)



Edited to add: I have something YOU have never had, betcha! I have frostbite on my knee!

 

[DianaCox]

Edited to add: I have something YOU have never had, betcha! I have frostbite on my knee!

And I know how you got it, I'll betcha. I have frostbite on my BACK, over my left shoulder blade. After doing my PT for my frozen shoulder, back in my 40s, I was icing my shoulder with a bag of frozen peas. I didn't want to have to do it for as long as they recommended, so I put the peas on my bare shoulder directly, without using a towel. After a while, it stopped hurting. So I left it on my skin longer than I meant to. To this day, the skin is partially numb and occasionally tingles and itches like mad.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Close...the doctor's assistant. Ethyl chloride at the injection point in my knee. Itches like crazy.

It never stops?

Right now, it's a week old, small, but it is sometimes inflamed and I don't like it.

 

[DianaCox]

Mine is the size of a square pot-holder. And yes, it's been almost 20 years and still itches occasionally. Sorry.

On the other hand, I've learned you play WWF - do you play fair? I like to think I'm pretty good at it. Maybe I should rephrase that - I would like to think that.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

I play fair with normal people. If you are an Aspie with a Scrabble fascination and/or I'm convinced you are using computer assistance, I know where to find similar assistance. (But that DOES take the fun out of it.).

My cousin used to insist I DEFINE each word...but WWF lets you attempt words that you THINK exist and sometimes, without knowing how to define the word, you can still spell a real word.

 

[DianaCox]

OK, so you play the same way I did, the last time I played - which was more than a year ago, with my daughter. So not an Aspie-ish player. But I do enjoy the rare 50+ point play. Check your text messages for my user name. It's very stealthy.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

But we both know that you know way more words than I do...hmmmm...I guess luck will have to play into this'

 

[JackieOnLine]

scrabble, eh?

so....how's Tuvalu holding up? hope they are still above the waves.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

scrabble, eh?

so....how's Tuvalu holding up? hope they are still above the waves.

What About Tuvalu?
Tuvalu, a Polynesian Island in the Pacific Ocean midway between Hawaii and Australia, has also been claiming they are about to be overtaken by rising sea levels. Brian Sussman says Tuvalu’s problem is not climate change. “Tuvalu’s mess is that the country was never meant for modern habitation. There is no fresh water available—only what can be cached from rain. Much of the population on the main island uses a lagoon for its bathing and toilet facilities. The tiny nation ships its garbage to landfills in Fiji and New Zealand. Tuvalu is a tropical island mess being run by slick politicians using global warming for a shakedown operation.” (4)

About Tuvalu, Nils-Axel Morner adds, “I found no evidence of flooding despite claims in Al Gore ‘s An Inconvenient Truth that it was one of those low-lying Pacific nations whose residents have had to evacuate their homes s because of rising seas. In fact the tide gauges of the past 25 years clearly show there has been no rise.” (3)

Cecil Cabanes and her colleagues reported in Science on the rate of sea level change in the world’s oceans from 1993 (the first complete year of satellite data) to 1998. Guess what? Tuvalu was at the center of where sea level was falling. That’s not all. In another part of their paper, they reported on sea level changes since 1955. Once again, Tuvalu was located in a region where sea level had declined for nearly 50 years. (5)

Yet three years later, a featured article in the Smithsonian discussed Tuvalu disappearing beneath the sea because of global warming. (6) Noticeably missing was any reference to the work of Cabanes and her colleagues.


Source:

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/59088