Babble: Archived Puzzle for Sunday, July 5, 2020

12:01 am

cybernan

hi everyone - ran out of time on the last one

12:05 am

Lizlin

Hi all

12:07 am

gapeach

Hi there Nan and Liz.

12:07 am

SuzeeQ24

hi

12:07 am

Lizlin

Hi Peach

12:08 am

jessmom

un7

12:08 am

jessmom

hi all

12:08 am

dizgrannie

sa 7..hi all

12:08 am

SuzeeQ24

re7

12:18 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:19 am

origami

Well, there's no sleeping around here any time soon, so Babble :D

12:23 am

dizgrannie

W's whipped...we 7/8. nbt/nbs

12:26 am

dizgrannie

don't forget iw 4

12:29 am

dizgrannie

un 7

12:36 am

dizgrannie

os 7 x 2

12:54 am

cybernan

found them - ty diz -- relatives of donnie and marie maybe?

12:54 am

dizgrannie

lol nan.

12:54 am

dizgrannie

FWs

12:55 am

rbud

congrats!

12:55 am

cybernan

grats - don't think I'll get there tonight

2:28 am

rbud

done! night all.

3:44 am

movieman

the as5 plz

4:43 am

Lorrie_in_SA

as5/10 ----- think of yoga :)

5:44 am

Atalante

always makes me giggle when si4/5 is accepted but not tanh

6:14 am

Uneaixoise

We7 please?

6:15 am

MollyL

Start like pop goes the...ends with what goes with no ifs...or buts

6:16 am

MollyL

That is the 8, singular for the 7

6:18 am

Uneaixoise

Thanks!

6:30 am

periwinkle

good morning all.phone call woke me up at 6:30 am and then I managed to spill a full cup of coffee over half my laptop,mouse and coffee table. none got on me. but was quite a mess

6:30 am

M3

peri. oh dear, i would go back to bed lol

6:30 am

Atalante

oh peri! have some lovely quiet babble time!

6:31 am

MollyL

Yee Gods Peri, who called you that early?

6:31 am

periwinkle

no I am up now

6:31 am

periwinkle

family member, all is well

6:32 am

MollyL

The only call I have ever gotten that early from a family member was bad news. The phone ringing at that time of day scares me silly.

6:35 am

periwinkle

bl

7:48 am

MLFAN17

ty for the clue for the we 7/8

7:54 am

MollyL

Another archaic word. Color me not surprised.

7:55 am

BzznBea

How were the steaks and fireworks, Molly?

7:56 am

MollyL

Dinner was great and my neighbors put on the best fireworks show ever. We had a lot of fun.

8:03 am

MLFAN17

bzz do you have fireworks every year in the area you live in?

8:03 am

BzznBea

They usually put them on at Kerr Lake. Not this year.

8:04 am

BzznBea

Now it is just the neighbors blowing stuff up and shooting off guns.

8:04 am

MLFAN17

they did fireworks in our area for about 4 hrs

8:05 am

MLFAN17

I don't know how many people attended though

8:05 am

bichon

my dog spent the evening terrified. Had to give him a sedtive

8:12 am

Motek

SIND

8:13 am

cybernan

good morning everyone

8:13 am

Trifioso

count for the lone a middle row, please?

8:14 am

BzznBea

ar6/18

8:14 am

Trifioso

thanks - looking

8:21 am

Trifioso

whew! finally nbt

8:25 am

MollyL

God bless everyone who makes red sauce from fresh tomatoes. What a huge pain. But they are peeled, cored, seeded and mashed.

8:26 am

M3

Molly, im growinng tomatoes for that purpose... do you have a recipe?

8:27 am

BzznBea

It is a pain, Molly. That is why I seldom do it.

8:28 am

cybernan

why are you going to all that work? Blanch, peel, chop up, throw in a roasting pan with a turkey carcass or bones from a roast and leave in the oven at 200F overnight (add bayleaf, oregano, s & p, etc. to taste) In the morning strain the whole mess and you are done.

8:29 am

MollyL

If you are growing tomatoes in bulk for sauce, I highly recommend you invest in an electric tomato straining mill. My friend who puts up 30 jars a year from her farm tomatoes has one and it is great.

8:30 am

MollyL

I did blanch, peel and mash them Nan. That is a lot of work. I make my sauce a different way, but thanks,

8:31 am

cybernan

Removing the seeds from raw tomatoes is certainly a lot of work.

8:33 am

BzznBea

Depends on the tomato too. That is why Romas are the best for sauce,

8:33 am

cybernan

un 7 please?

8:34 am

BzznBea

no alert, nan

8:34 am

BzznBea

not alert

8:35 am

cybernan

agreed bea - I always used roma's with a couple of beefsteak thrown in for the flavour. That's why I always added the bones from a chicken, turkey or rib roast as well --- it was an Italian neighbour that taught me to do that.

8:36 am

cybernan

ty bea *!*~*!*

8:37 am

cybernan

hagd everyone - stay safe

8:39 am

BzznBea

I'm off to the sewing room for the day.

8:39 am

MollyL

I don't like red sauce with seeds in it. So it was worth it to seed them. Easy to scoop out the seed pulp after they have been in boiling water for a short time.

8:40 am

MollyL

Enjoy your sewing Bea.

9:37 am

periwinkle

help with A above the W pls

9:37 am

bojazz

as 6/18

9:38 am

periwinkle

ty looking

9:39 am

periwinkle

I have an as5 but do not see an as6

9:44 am

Vioxx

ar6

9:46 am

HarryHood

morning

9:47 am

M3

as5 clue please

9:49 am

HarryHood

lots of a's

9:49 am

HarryHood

with consonants in between.

9:55 am

MollyL

It's a yoga word Peri, if that helps

9:56 am

MollyL

Sorry, not Peri, M3

9:56 am

periwinkle

found the ar6 6y

9:56 am

periwinkle

ty

10:17 am

HarryHood

me too yay - nbt

10:21 am

HarryHood

36 to go. bbl!

10:33 am

hurshy

any help with O? i have an oa4 and an os4 and that's it

10:33 am

hokie carla

same

10:33 am

hokie carla

cannot see any other possibilities

10:34 am

hurshy

ok i just monkeyed an os6 sounds like donny and marie

10:34 am

hurshy

and pl

10:35 am

Kaplan the Magne

Red boxes red boxes

10:35 am

hurshy

what about the U besides the un4/5

10:36 am

jessmom

change the last letter for another os7

10:37 am

hurshy

thanks jess

10:37 am

jessmom

un7

10:38 am

hurshy

ty again jess!

10:38 am

hurshy

how about M? i have me4, mu4

10:39 am

hurshy

oh sorry pulled a peri, nother mu4

10:39 am

hurshy

and what is the 8?

10:40 am

jessmom

we7/8

10:41 am

hurshy

hmmmm

10:41 am

hurshy

oh i remembered it! yay thanks jess!!!

10:45 am

MollyL

Only Hurshy has that one committed to memory
: D

10:45 am

hokie carla

yeah, I don't remember it. so, it is not a regular word then?

10:45 am

hurshy

it's not so much committed to memory as accidentally left there in the dustbins

10:46 am

rururocks

you grabbed it by the throat hursh

10:46 am

hurshy

no, hokie, not normal. ends with the stuff you find at the beach.

10:46 am

hokie carla

got it, thx

10:46 am

saanichcat

ha ha ru good one

10:46 am

hurshy

oh is that what it means ru?? ha

10:47 am

hokie carla

what about the un7? is it un + a 5 I should have?

10:47 am

hurshy

yes

10:47 am

hurshy

it's a way that you may be caught

10:48 am

hurshy

(that'd be the kind of clue you'd get for it in a crossword puzzle)

10:48 am

hokie carla

duh, thx

10:49 am

hokie carla

what about the 3rd row lone a?

10:49 am

hurshy

name that proper noun! a sect of Muslims

10:49 am

hurshy

that is the hindi word for yoga pose

10:49 am

hokie carla

this grid really doesn't flow for me like yesterday's

10:50 am

hurshy

no wait sorry that one is the top

10:50 am

hokie carla

sunni

10:50 am

hurshy

ar6, that's it

10:50 am

hurshy

ding ding ding!!!

10:50 am

hokie carla

I have tried that a couple of times

10:50 am

hokie carla

got it, thx

10:50 am

rururocks

it's sunny here too hokie (covering for homie)

10:51 am

hokie carla

covering? I was playing hurshy's NTPN

10:51 am

rururocks

oh..

10:51 am

hurshy

i thought ru knew that but was joking like a silly as usual lol

10:52 am

hurshy

7 left! 2-2-2-1 by length

10:52 am

hokie carla

NTPN - Name That Proper Noun

10:52 am

hokie carla

still 27 left here

10:53 am

hokie carla

I don't like the d's

10:53 am

hurshy

di + pale, ashen

10:53 am

hurshy

and pl

10:53 am

hokie carla

thx, weird one but we've had it before

10:53 am

hurshy

yeah

10:53 am

hurshy

the others are all normal

10:53 am

Kaplan the Magne

Why all the red boxes?

10:53 am

Kaplan the Magne

Why all the red boxes?

10:53 am

Kaplan the Magne

Why all the red boxes?

10:54 am

hurshy

perhaps you are having internet connectivity issues kap - i haven't gotten any red boxes

10:54 am

rururocks

don't know

10:54 am

hokie carla

must be your internet connection, kap. no boxes here today.

10:54 am

rururocks

don't know

10:54 am

rururocks

don't know

10:54 am

hurshy

lol

10:55 am

Kaplan the Magne

Why am I in an echo chamber?

10:55 am

bichon

su 6/24, pls

10:55 am

hurshy

because when you have connectivity issues sometimes your post repeats, and then ruru has to joke about it

10:55 am

hurshy

would you like ice cream with toppings, bichon?

10:56 am

hokie carla

banana split and the like, bichon

10:56 am

hokie carla

well, you asked 3x, so ru answered 3x

10:56 am

Kaplan the Magne

Oh, I get it.
Oh, I get it.
Oh, I get it.

10:56 am

Atalante

yes please!

10:56 am

Kaplan the Magne

Oh, I get it.

10:57 am

bichon

ty carla

10:58 am

hokie carla

np

10:59 am

Kaplan the Magne

Would the plural of museum be musea?

10:59 am

hokie carla

it should

11:00 am

hokie carla

stuck at 23 left. going to the list.

11:00 am

hurshy

well, 2.5 out of my last 7 turned out to be fishy.

11:01 am

rururocks

13 here and 6 are 4's

11:01 am

Atalante

hurray for ichthyology

11:01 am

Kaplan the Magne

I wrote to Dr God about changing ethnic slurs- not from being in the dictionary, but for counting for points. I figured since he is a doctor and is also God he can do anything he can bill for.

11:01 am

Kaplan the Magne

I wrote to Dr God about changing ethnic slurs- not from being in the dictionary, but for counting for points. I figured since he is a doctor and is also God he can do anything he can bill for.

11:01 am

hokie carla

just noticed I have 7 4's left. maybe I will try to find those first.

11:02 am

rururocks

I think he takes Doctor and God somewhat loosely kap

11:02 am

hokie carla

yeah, good luck

11:03 am

Kaplan the Magne

More than Marcus Welby?

11:03 am

rururocks

not a dagos by with him not worrying about it

11:03 am

hurshy

rilla is such a good purrer

11:04 am

Atalante

awwww

11:04 am

Kaplan the Magne

Ruru- a barroom joke. I was going out with a vegan but I was nervous because I never met herbivore.

11:04 am

rururocks

i'm using that joke on Thursday kaplan

11:04 am

Kaplan the Magne

Life is a game of chess.

11:05 am

Kaplan the Magne

I don't know how to play chess.

11:05 am

rururocks

chess is easy and fun

11:05 am

Kaplan the Magne

Do you know the one about the frog Kermit the Jagger?

11:06 am

rururocks

no

11:07 am

MLFAN17

un7 clue pls/

11:07 am

penquis

not cognizant of something....

11:07 am

hurshy

many people are apparently still un7 that you can pass on COVID even if you have no symptoms

11:07 am

MLFAN17

hi hurshy ty

11:08 am

Atalante

but hurshy, is telling everyone how good at purring Rilla is not demotivate the others to try their best too?

11:09 am

hurshy

i think it just depends on your purrsonality... some like to rise to a challenge

11:09 am

Kaplan the Magne

A frog goes into a bank requesting a loan of $30,000. The teller's name plate said Patricia Whack. "My father is Mick Jagger. And if you have doubts I would like to offer this as collateral. He gave her a small pink glass elephant. Miss Whack was uncertain this being her first day on the job, so she excused herself to confer with the bank manager. "This frog named Karmit Jagger came in, asking for a loan and brought this as collateral. What IS it? And the manager said...

11:10 am

MLFAN17

as 5 clue please.. for nbt

11:10 am

Kaplan the Magne

"It's a knickknack Miss Patty Whack- give the frog a loan. His old man''s a Rolling Stone.

11:10 am

MollyL

A nick nack Patty Whachk

11:11 am

hurshy

oh i HAVE heard that one

11:11 am

MLFAN17

lol kaplan

11:11 am

MollyL

I actually knew someone named Patty Wack in high school. Her parents obviously thought that would be funny. Patty was not amused.

11:12 am

MLFAN17

everyone should have called her Patricia

11:12 am

hurshy

i knew a gal who knew a gal named Charity, who married a man with the last name Case, and she took his name - said she thought only kids made fun of people's names

11:12 am

penquis

i knew a Crystal Ball.... ;o)

11:13 am

hokie carla

I knew a Cole Cox

11:13 am

Atalante

I knew a Chris Cross

11:13 am

rururocks

i went to high school with a Crystal Lear.. her parent's gave her a middle name of Shanda

11:14 am

rururocks

her parent's also smoked a lot of pot

11:14 am

MLFAN17

omg

11:15 am

rururocks

parents that is

11:16 am

MLFAN17

oh you mean they are not just your average parents?

11:16 am

hokie carla

three s's left after the list :(

11:16 am

rururocks

i don't know what average parents are mlf..

11:16 am

hokie carla

he means they're not possessive but plural ;D

11:17 am

MLFAN17

ruru well how about non drug users lol

11:17 am

rururocks

my fingers automatically put in a ' without warning

11:17 am

hurshy

how poltergeistical of them

11:17 am

rururocks

i'd rather have drug users than alcoholics mlf

11:18 am

MLFAN17

why ruru?

11:18 am

hokie carla

okay, 2 left now, a 6/7. and I know the first 4 letters, surely this will be easy

11:18 am

MLFAN17

i had a parent who was an alcoholic?

11:18 am

rururocks

well maybe not meth, crack or heroin .. i should clarify

11:18 am

MLFAN17

hokie what are the stats?

11:18 am

hokie carla

whew, it was easy!

11:19 am

hokie carla

sa6/24, 7/36

11:19 am

MLFAN17

their is a girl who worked in a restaurant here named Heaven Lee

11:21 am

bichon

an 5/12, pls

11:21 am

rururocks

I guess you'd ask the maitre D "well... take me to Heaven"

11:21 am

gingin

Whilst on the topic of outrageous names, I once was friends with a drag queen who went by the name Vaginal Jackson.

11:22 am

MollyL

Is this like a game? Kaplan keeps posting about how she wrote to Dr. God about the word she finds offensive, and people keep telling her that Dr. God has no control over what is in the Enable Word List?

11:22 am

hurshy

if your marriage wasn't consummated you may be able to an5/12 it

11:22 am

rururocks

drag queen names are the best

11:22 am

periwinkle

when I worked at Childrens HOspital many years ago. there was a patient named Olive Pitts

11:23 am

MLFAN17

bichon i keep finding 5/10 words

11:23 am

MLFAN17

peri lol

11:23 am

origami

I once worked with someone named Phat Dong. Hard to keep a straight face around that.

11:23 am

rururocks

LOL..

11:23 am

periwinkle

indeed ori

11:23 am

gingin

lol

11:23 am

hokie carla

I think she said she wants him to not give points for the words, not remove them from the enable list. but I'm not a computer person but I don't think that would be very easy to do.

11:24 am

MLFAN17

bichon and i both need the an 5/12?

11:25 am

rururocks

we have a restaurant in SF called Phuk It Thai

11:25 am

rururocks

or Phuk et Thai. one or the other can't remember

11:25 am

hokie carla

end a marriage the catholic way, mlfan. hurshy clued it but it must've gotten lost in the shuffle.

11:25 am

origami

Ha:D

11:25 am

MollyL

There is a Phat Phuc Noodle Bar in London

11:25 am

MLFAN17

i have seen names like that ruru on different webpages

11:26 am

bichon

ty carla, fw

11:26 am

periwinkle

wd bichon

11:26 am

MLFAN17

ty both got it as well

11:26 am

hurshy

anyone remember the Law & Order episode where this woman killed someone (i forget if it was her ex or the priest or what) because her husband got their like 20-year marriage an5ed so he could remarry in church, and this would retroactively make their kids illegitimate, and she was so enraged

11:27 am

MollyL

No, Dr. God cannot rearrange the parameters of this game to not give points for one word that someone finds offensive.

11:27 am

Kaplan the Magne

I only wrote to Dr God about removing points from ethnic slurs- . I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask.

11:28 am

rururocks

he doesn't care kaplan....

11:28 am

MLFAN17

int the list automated from somewhere?

11:28 am

rururocks

he doesn't make money on this game....

11:29 am

hokie carla

I just think that would involve a lot of coding that I don't think he'd be willing to do (he hasn't even changed it to pull from an updated enable list)

11:30 am

rururocks

my point exactly homie

11:30 am

MLFAN17

isn't sorry

11:30 am

MollyL

There is no updated Enable Word List. It hasn't been updated since 2000

11:32 am

hokie carla

pretty sure moo said it had been updated a couple of times but this just pulls from the original

11:32 am

gingin

hurshy... I thought an******* was based on no sexual congress or maybe no issue (children) from said congress.

11:33 am

hurshy

yeah i honestly do not know how anyone could justify granting it in that case, but, then again, it is just a show, lol. maybe there was a bribe involved?

11:33 am

gingin

lol

11:34 am

MLFAN17

no not the enable list the list of words we have to find

11:35 am

Kaplan the Magne

nounINFORMALâ€¢OFFENSIVE
noun: dago; plural noun: dagoes; plural noun: dagos
an Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese-speaking person.
Origin

mid 19th century: from the Spanish given name Diego (equivalent to James ).

11:36 am

hokie carla

the wikipedia entry on an5ment explains how they deal with children born, etc

11:36 am

Kaplan the Magne

Jew
/joÍžo/
Learn to pronounce
noun
noun: Jew; plural noun: Jews
a member of the people and cultural community whose traditional religion is Judaism and who trace their origins through the ancient Hebrew people of Israel to Abraham.
verbOFFENSIVE
bargain with someone in a miserly or petty way.

11:39 am

hurshy

all i know for sure is that the pope won't grant one if your reasoning is, "i used to believe my wife that she never consummated her marriage to my older brother, but now that she's hit menopause without giving me a son, i'm pretty sure she was lying and i feel just sick about it"

11:40 am

MollyL

If you do a search on the Enable word list, you will find that it has not been updated since 2000. Moolingwa was incorrect when he posted it had and he said so later in the chat that day.

11:42 am

origami

There are words that I find offensive, but they ARE words. Who decides what should be removed? That just feels like censorship to me. Maybe we could have a book burning later.

11:43 am

MollyL

I agree origami. They are words that have definitions. This is a word game.

11:45 am

hokie carla

yeah, looks like it came out in 1997 and was updated in 2000 and that was it

11:46 am

hurshy

my tudor humor always falls flat

11:47 am

Atalante

it was fab smurshy

11:47 am

Aloyisius

hi all, just logged in to continue. Earlier I found "adware" but .. no good.

11:50 am

hokie carla

Kaplan, I'm not trying to start trouble but simply curious: what was your goal in posting the definitions below? showing us those words are offensive? hoping dr. god reads the chat? I think all of us here already know they are offensive and don't need to see the dictionary definition. Again, I was just curious what you hoped to accomplish with that.

11:52 am

MollyL

I was wondering that too. And why this keeps going on and on when we had a whole day of it not long ago. Point made. Several times.

11:53 am

Atalante

well its obviously still offensive ....

11:57 am

Kaplan the Magne

No one said remove. But to educate ourselves as to the history of the terms we think are normal.What I hope to accomplish is more people being aware of the meaning of the words we use, and not use them . I raise it again because words hurt people, and groups of people, contribute to hatred and so forth. I know we already discussed it a few days ago and I'm sorry it makes you uncomfortable to hear it again, but I decided to speak up to Dr God about it. I play words with friends and these words don't come up. I don't feel that this is a safe space for mecome to as a word game.

11:59 am

hurshy

have i told you how rilla is so brilliant, she invented the game of fetch all by herself

11:59 am

freddie

be more broad minded

12:00 pm

Atalante

I'm honestly not sure how words that we all know are offensive and why create an unsafe space. There are words I hate that are on here but I objectify them as words.

12:02 pm

rururocks

there are lots of words I never use that pop up in the grids, but I am just playing a word game and move by them. I make it a point to never use deragotory words in my life so this game doesn't bother me in that regard

12:02 pm

freddie

all is pure to the pure

12:03 pm

rururocks

what does that mean?

12:03 pm

freddie

why are you so pedantic

12:03 pm

Atalante

and it hurts to see someone say babble isn't a safe space when its where we've all come to year after year with our sorrows and joys

12:04 pm

hokie carla

not safe because you feel people are attacking you or just seeing the word in the grid makes you feel unsafe? as I said before, words are going to come up in the grid randomly and you'll see them whether you want to or not, just like if you were playing boggle in real life and shook the cubes up.

12:07 pm

hurshy

i think the key thing is that the fact that these words count doesn't mean anyone is endorsing them as great words to use.

12:09 pm

MollyL

I agree Hursh. And (for the most part) people here are very intelligent and word savvy and are already aware of what words mean and whether or not they are offensive.

12:20 pm

freddie

babble is a great platform and challenge for intellect that is all....I am always learning.....never completed a grid but still attempt nonetheless ..

12:21 pm

freddie

long live babble and babblers everywhere

12:22 pm

bonkler

language necessarily captures all manner of terrible things, rape, murder, war, profanities and slurs. stripping the dictionary of shocking concepts for the sake of safe space in the game would be rather a large piece of work and one that would require a great deal of deliberation. there are all manner of offensive things to strike from the score card, doesn't mean they won't show up in the grid through.

12:24 pm

Kaplan the Magne

It's not the word appearing; that's random, it's having it defended by someone as complementary of a Jewish talent for handling money. That's what surprised me. Hokie, my name is going to Coe up at some point. Having to explain twice in a week that this word is anti-Semitic, while making it QUITE clear that I knew its presence was random---I thought about it for a couple of days because I am involved in some diversity and inclusion work in my organization, and am more inclined to call things out. When someone said jewing down showed respect for a skill with money, I thought why should I say nothing?

12:30 pm

LeslieAnn

good on ya kap

12:31 pm

hurshy

well then be annoyed with that person, by all means! but if the word doesn't give points, you'll just have people saying "why doesn't this count? it's a complimentary blah blah blah..." the word counting or not can't prevent people from being sadly misinformed on its connotation

12:32 pm

bonkler

if someone is actively using or defending a slur, by all means call it out. I haven't seen it but I'm not on here 24/7 and apart from the occasional troll, I've never seen people act destructively. This has been a safe, relatively adult space for the last decade or so that I've been playing daily. We all know that the profanities are profane and the slurs are slurs. If anyone *is* using ethnic stereotypes, point them out and I'll join you in calling them out.

12:33 pm

hokie carla

I remember that discussion and agree with you educating people. I was more asking why/how you were posting the definitions here today. That person isn't here and no one was saying anything today.

12:33 pm

Kaplan the Magne

No one sad to strip the dictionary or throw out Huck Finn. There are vulgarities all over the place. All I hoped for was that people might think oh, here is a word that is part of a long antisemitic trope.

12:35 pm

Atalante

and I think 99.9% of people here do

12:35 pm

mattygroves

I'm late to the party, but how did this even come up today - unless I'm blind to letters, I don't see that word (which I fully admit is offensive, though would not like to see Babble decide what Enable words should 'count'). So how did this come up - I don't see what started this even in the chat log?

12:36 pm

jan

Personally, I just don't enter words that I find offensive. I seldom finish a grid anyway, so that doesn't bother me. And I also agree that when someone in the first discussion tried to defend the word as complimentary, that calling them out was appropriate.

12:36 pm

Kaplan the Magne

don't know why I am posting it today honestly. I didn't know Enable was such an immovable thing. This is interesting from last fall.https://whyy.org/articles/trenton\n-mayor-says-council-members-quietly-ap\nologized-for-anti-semitic-remark/

12:36 pm

jan

But, point made well. We can move on now, I hope.

12:37 pm

hurshy

kaplan, if i heard someone saying it was complimentary, i'd tell them they were incorrect, so yes, i think we have broad agreement that it is an offensive slur. it's just what to do about it counting in babble that we differ on.

12:38 pm

LeslieAnn

part of being a safe and supportive community is hearing people out when they are hurt.

12:39 pm

LeslieAnn

that isn't necessarily confined to the 5 minutes around an event

12:39 pm

Kaplan the Magne

I had no real reason for bringing it up today. There is nothing en the grid today unless you hate emus. Only brought it up because I had emailed Dr God. I like jans strategy of not entering words that are problematic. Like Jan, I don't have a need for fireworks. Is Dr God a real person?

12:39 pm

dan2bit

yes

12:39 pm

hurshy

yes, doc's a real person

12:41 pm

MollyL

The word is defined (incorrectly) in certain places as "successful at bargaining". One person, only one, made the comment about it being complimentary. The consensus was that it was derogatory.

12:41 pm

jan

I get that Dr God doesn't care to spend much time on these games, but I am confused about what his business model is with them. Frankly, I wouldn't object if I had to watch an ad when I logged in.

12:41 pm

Kaplan the Magne