Reddit (and other sites) have apparently done a 'good' job, the first result that pops up after reverse-image-searching that image is the Wikipedia page for "Nazi human experimentation"
Honestly, it's a good show, but it's one of the shows where you either think the jokes are really funny or it's just not that funny to you. It's subjective. I personally like it but not everyone does
I gave it a good shot and watched the first two seasons, and I honestly just found it generic and kinda silly, there was nothing profound or interesting about it. I don't get it. But I respect people who like it
Out of context that does look pretty horrible. Lol
But like, the only really decent Doctor Who episode I thought was genuinely well-written and touching was "The Empty Child," the rest are just meh to me.
I mean, it's definitely not a bad show at all, there's some funny stuff in it and I found the character of Rose kinda charming. But I just don't get the absolutely wild love for it I guess
The other thing that I think helps build enthusiasm is the fact that there's so much of it. If you include both pre-reboot and post-reboot it's the longest-running TV show anywhere, ever. So there's lots of "lore" one can get familiar with, repeating themes to spot, and so forth. It's the kind of thing one can really be a fan of.
For my part, I enjoy it but I'm not really a fan. The last couple of series, with Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor, have been pretty poor -- not because of Whittaker in particular, not because OMG female Doctor, how absurd, but because the guy they've got running the show now just isn't terribly good.
I've heard a general consensus to that effect as well, people say the recent series has very poor writing. There was apparently an episode about a poorly disguised Trump stand-in running a company full of giant spiders and I guess it was pretty cringe-inducing.
Social metaphors are hard enough to do without being ham-fisted, but it's worse when you just make a "haha politics bad" episode
I don't know though, again I'm not a fan of the show so I'm criticizing it from a place of already not liking the show :p
There is one word hidden in each of these sentences, what are they related to?
I held the food to my lips.
The den in the jungle lives the lion.
High-quality biscuits are frequently requested.
Most of the cars in the nation are old.
Parents or kids are allowed to enter this place.
The water leve...
@bobble we had these opportunities to do extra work/activities called "step-ups", per subject. When a step-up is done correctly (i.e. reaching a score threshold), the grade for the corresponding subject will increase. If we didn't do any of the step-ups, our grades for each subject stay the same as from third quarter.
You have to manually move the ball around and holes join sides and front and back and and as far I can tell you get blocked in the back.
My son is trying solve it and I want make sure it can be solved.
@Anonymus25 I'm pretty sure you've been told twice in the past fortnight or so that no one's speaking at the moment doesn't mean it's empty. I understand that chat in here is just for fun and perhaps therefore you don't try to make sure to remember what's said, that would be very understandable, but if you are at all concerned by your inability to remember something today that you were told twice recently then I recommend you see a medical professional.
(Unless the five conversationalists in the past hour and eight people in the room all together is what you consider "empty" -- I mean, the room can certainly handle many more people -- in which case fair enough.)
@JohnDvorak Perhaps my conversational skills are defective -- no, scratch that, they are -- but I don't think stating something you know to be a lie is a usual way of starting a conversation. Unless it's meant sarcastically like "nice day, eh?" on a terribly rainy day.
On a side note, I think TSL is actually highly active when compared to previous activity levels per month, lets say. Is there any graph of activity for a SE chat? I don't think you can run data.SE on chats, unfortunately.
@msh210 To be honest, I have mixed feelings about this. You do have a point about reminding the user that the people may be quiet sometimes and thus the chat may not always be active as the user wants it to be, but my opinion is that the part about recommending that "you see a medical professional" and implying that the user had an "inability to remember" was uncalled for, because that is demeaning whether it is true or not true for the person concerned.
Also, I agree with what JohnDvorak said: "it's quite empty here" seems a mere attempt to make the chat active. In such a case, I would just ignore if I'm busy.
(To make clear, I just wanted to point some things out; I am not annoyed at your annoyance.)
oh, i thought i could delete messages past 3 minutes... it doesn't seem to be the case
(...in any case, i don't want to assume you're annoyed either)
@oAlt I certainly didn't mean to be demeaning and don't see how a neurological problem -- if it exists -- would be something one would demean about. If you took it that way, @Anonymus25, then I'm sorry, and I apologize. I was just looking out for your well-being.
It feels as if there's too much clue for the answer.
If, per hint 1, the def is at the end, it seems it more or less has to be "shaken" or "badly shaken".
Which suggests "attendees" comes at the end (unless it's part of what's "removed").
There aren't a lot of short words for attendees. GATE springs to mind as being (1) short and (2) plausible for the end of a word, but then everything before it needs to yield just three letters.
I don't know what "throat cut" means. Removing the second letter? Removing something that means "throat"? Something else entirely?
There are lots of variants of the name Elizabeth. (Or "Elizabeth" could mean ER, referring to the current Queen of England, or the surname of someone whose first name is Elizabeth.)
Maybe "net strike" means an anagram of NET. Or maybe we need to "cut by net strike", i.e., remove an anagram of BYNET or maybe just of NET.
E.g., maybe it's Elizabeth BENNET from Pride and Prejudice and we remove NET to get BEN. But then NET hasn't been anagrammed so "strike" would have to go with the next bit. (A word meaning "strike" with its outer portions stripped? or with something meaning "limbs" removed?)
Or it could be "limbs removed before five hundred", removing LEGSD or something. Or even "limbs removed before five hundred attendees", removing ARMSDGATE or something. Not that either of those specific strings seems likely to be there for removal.
Oh, "before five hundred attendees" could mean "before five hundred, attendees" yielding something like GATED?
Probably not exactly that; only --GATED words seem to be LIGATED (tied off), NEGATED (cancelled) and TOGATED (wearing a toga).
A square with a side length of exactly 1000 can obviously be packed with exactly a million unit squares.
If we increase the side length to 1001, then 2001 more squares can fit.
But if we increase the side length by only 1/4, can you still squeeze in an extra square?
I was thinking along many of the same lines, plus: maybe "net strike" is a word for hitting the net in a net sport. But there doesn't seem to be a word for that in the sports I looked up. Hitting the net with a ball is sometimes a "fault" in tennis, but only an example of a fault and not the only fault. And hitting the net with your body is sometimes a "net fault" in volleyball but again it's not the only fault. So I doubt this is a useful avenue.
Well, now that Gareth posted a whole slew of ideas, we all got hints to think about. Not from the clue setter, of course, but still may well prove valuable.
Especially if @Sciborg knows that one or more them is helpful, there's probably no need to post a hint just yet.
FWIW in botany "throat" is synonymous with "fauces" (or, less commonly, the singular form "faux").
Not the CCCC: Tap throat with end of lancet instead of tip of scalpel (6)
@Sciborg I've seen a total of two or three episodes, all from this century. After two of them, I dared to ask about a technicality ("how does... work") on SFF.SE, and was told not to worry about that sort of thing with that show, since it doesn't. I was disappointed and didn't choose to watch much more.
@msh210 To your earlier comment, I don't know why you are telling me where I live, and you are incorrect about it...? Holland is not in the UP by any stretch, it's in West Michigan, by Zeeland and Grand Rapids...
That makes more sense. I read you very incorrectly on that :p
My bad
And yes, I do dislike Doctor Who as discussed earlier largely because people who enjoy it are adamant that it does not have any flaws, when it obviously has many of them.
(By the way, a friend of mine went to the Ohio State University and refuses to mention Michigan by name. In Facebook posts he'll write "*ichigan" if for some reason he needs to refer to it. Orally I've heard him say things like "that state up north with an M".)
I've seen similar sentiments before, luckily I graduated from a private college that didn't really do sports so I never had to worry about that rivalry :p
To explain @matt, University of Michigan and Ohio State are rivals
My school basically only had two sports (basketball and volleyball) and we only competed with other small colleges. I'm not really a sports person either so I never went to any games :p
the official story is that "For more than 100 years, New York University athletes have worn the distinctive violet and white colors that were derived from the violets that grew under the shade of the trees in Washington Square Park. While some questioned the resulting nickname—the Violets—because it lacked the aggressive, competitive connotation that goes along with sport"
I don't really see how it means attendees. Would MEN also be reasonably clued by "mathematicians", "Muslims", "meat-packers", and "Moldovans"? I'd buy it for "soldiers" or "workers", maybe.
Here is a simple but I hope fun one:
Can you recreate any of the following patterns?
Rules:
Integer arithmetic only
Stricly local, i.e. only a point's x,y coordiantes may be used to compute its color
No lookup tables
No brute-forcing (that's why the no-computers tag is there in case you ...
@msh210 Flowers are absolutely gnarly. With a near unbreakable grip on a clump of earth, they put a claim on the land that is theirs. They outcompete smaller shrubs by strangling them before they can even grow, sucking away desperately needed sunlight with their bushy interiors. They defend themselves with by any means necessary, including thorns, pungent scents, irritants, and even poisons. They can even lift (water, through the xylem).
Ok, here is a simple puzzle to think :-
Find the largest lettered word such that deleting one letter at a time can give you a meaningful word in each step .
Note that only deletions are allowed, in each step you can only delete one letter.
Also proper nouns, abbreviations or acronyms, rearrang...
Some <expletive> <expletive> gave my phone number to some spammers, so now I keep getting spam calls/texts addressed to "Michael", telling him about where he can get "0$/mo" health care
You have to manually move the ball around and holes join sides and front and back and and as far I can tell you get blocked in the back.
My son is trying solve it and I want make sure it can be solved.
A square with a side length of exactly 1000 can obviously be packed with exactly a million unit squares.
If we increase the side length to 1001, then 2001 more squares can fit.
But if we increase the side length by only 1/4, can you still squeeze in an extra square?
What we call this setup?
I just try to swap the corner and edge-center of each side.
Do we've name for this?
Here is a simple but I hope fun one:
Can you recreate any of the following patterns?
Rules:
Integer arithmetic only
Stricly local, i.e. only a point's x,y coordiantes may be used to compute its color
No lookup tables
No brute-forcing (that's why the no-computers tag is there in case you ...
Ok, here is a simple puzzle to think :-
Find the largest lettered word such that deleting one letter at a time can give you a meaningful word in each step .
Note that only deletions are allowed, in each step you can only delete one letter.
Also proper nouns, abbreviations or acronyms, rearrang...
