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Ugh that sounds gross, I hope it goes away soon!!

It's the personal stuff I'd worry about.

One of my friends once messaged me that he'd just written me a really long handwritten letter so long his hand hurt and it was in the post to me. I never got the letter and I never heard from him again, his profile went inactive, I haven't been able to track him down.

I sometimes wonder what was in it and whether me not replying to it (since I couldn't) made us not be friends any more.

Noooo.

I have a theory there's a recessive gene or two in there that can easily become expressed. So probably a quirk of inbreeding for that particular breed.

No I think it's only when it goes wrong. They are meant to look more like this.

You were browsing potential pets to get for your kids. Or maybe reading about Deadpool.

Nope they're fairly obscure, it's just I've noticed over the years that any pup that wins Ugliest Dog is almost invariably some kind of Chinese Crested mix!

Recent examples: Scooter and Mr Happy Face

But I really should add a link to Sam from 2005.

I know what you mean, I'm like that with the irl chess club. I kind of want to join but I'm way too chicken.

Tried backslash but it didn't work...

I had the feeling that link was going to be to some kind of a Chinese Crested cross but I hadn't seen that particular one!

Back when we had a cat I used to play agario and then slitherio and I swear about 30% of my in game deaths were from the cat wanting attention! Would be way harder with kids!

That's the other thing about chess being all ages tho, you can turn off the chat altogether on the big chess sites and they also have a button (automatic "good game" on chess.com, my favourite site lichess.org has buttons for hi, good luck, good game, gtg and bye). Also no one talks at all in most of the 1 to 3 min speed chess.

Sheesh I'm beginning to sound like some kind of shill for Big Chess.😄

Edit; wait, how do I stop it autolinking?

Yum!

I didn't think of that! I know I should pay the dog tax but it's probably like uploading a photo of someone else's kid.

I don't think anyone minds the other person quitting as long as they hit the resign button. A lot of people quit when their queen dies. Also there are thousands of players so it's quite rare to even play the same person again.

I'm so bad at chess that I'm pretty sure some of my opponents quit when their mum calls them for dinner. 😃 (after you play a few games to calibrate it matches you with people at the same skill level).

I think they more likely thought I'd heard Transpower gossip. 😃

I'm super impressed that you were able to deduce it!!!

We are dogsitting a cute dog!

Just had a broccoli and cauli bake the other day, sooo good!

I'm with your kid on this one, broccoli is the best. As a kid I never understood why some kids don't like vegges!

I don't have the capacity for a lot of memorization either so I play openings that don't have much "theory"/memorization, like the london system (unlike normal openings, with a system opening you more or less play the same moves no matter what), or weird openings. That we we get off book and into having to think for yourself more quickly.

I just play against humans on lichess, with a time limit like 5 or 10 minutes.

We really heard it here first!

Mentioning your suggestion to a couple of people made me look like someone "in the know" when the headline came out ha ha.

Managed to go to Pak n Save today. It was quite exciting because all the green veges were cheaper than they used to be so we got broccoli and cauliflower and leek. It's like the good old days!

Only one monarch caterpillar in the garden that I know of. But I did see a heap of Gypsy Moth caterpillars who were super cute, they sort of have a top knot effect and can walk really fast. I wish we could grow veges but unfortunately it's not an option. Still, there's tangelos and mandarins so am happy.

but for years they would also SMS a code as well

Facepalm. Kind of like someone I know who has a good lock but leaves the key under the mat!

Yeah stockfish is a neural net now. I play it when I'm off grid and surprisingly playing it for a week or two tends to temporarily improve my game. The trajectory is pretty interesting eg the Mechanical Turk (a "machine" that was really a human) and Deep Blue (that really was a machine but Kasparov suspected it of being a human).

They are more moves possible than there are atoms in the observable universe, and it’s not even close.

I didn't know that but it makes sense.

That's what I love about chess, the rules are so simple but even a terrible low level player like me can be really surprised and have interesting games - but so can the great masters. And you'll see a neat move online and they'll be like yeah so & so played this in 1850 and caused a sensation.

I kind of wish now that I never stopped playing it as a kid. I loved it when I was little but the "big boys at school" put me off it when I was about 8 and I assumed you needed to be especially brilliant at maths to do okay but you don't really. It's more about pattern recognition and all kinds of devious plots.

I'd be sad to see them decline too, but on the other hand I also really hated it when a kid got killed by one last year when the school decided to visit a flood prone cave during a heavy rain warning.

There has to be a happy medium around high risk vs low risk trips.

There has got to be a mechanism to prevent individual schools from making terrible judgment calls.