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Post by Ben Grimm on Jul 13, 2021 21:11:37 GMT -5
More fun online tests: measure divergent thinking by coming up with the ten most unrelated nouns you can think of. www.datcreativity.com. First try I got 86.7, 90th percentile. Then after looking at scoring from the first round I pumped it up to 90.9, 97th percentile. 90.9, 97.33 percentile. My closest words were potato and daffodil. My furthest were titmouse and potato, though potato and girder were just behind. My words were: potato abstraction frankincense polonium daffodil girder titmouse |
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Post by songstarliner on Jul 13, 2021 23:04:38 GMT -5
87.23, 91.65th percentile, first and only try.
Closest words: hallucination and toothache (71).
Furthest: snake and frippery (102).
Words: hunger frippery toothache snake hallucination maracas gentrification.
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Post by Dellarigg on Jul 14, 2021 5:33:00 GMT -5
90.02.
Furthest distance - 113
Words: horror belief throat edition canker whim frieze. (Canker and edition had the 113 score.)
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Post by ganews on Jul 14, 2021 15:07:20 GMT -5
More fun online tests: measure divergent thinking by coming up with the ten most unrelated nouns you can think of. www.datcreativity.com. First try I got 86.7, 90th percentile. Then after looking at scoring from the first round I pumped it up to 90.9, 97th percentile. I'm didn't record what I wrote the second time, but on the first round my words were "lizard granite chess knob oxygen solution raise". And I think there were some more abstract concept nouns at the end, but I guess they only take the first seven before you can start deliberately getting abstract. |
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Jul 15, 2021 8:06:54 GMT -5
Popped into my head this morning as I was stressing about my (lack of) career: "Well, there's always a need for office drones."
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Post by liebkartoffel on Jul 15, 2021 8:34:38 GMT -5
93.01 (98.77%)
schooner velvet icecap tendon bismuth entropy haberdasher
Furthest: schooner - entropy (105)
Shortest: schooner - haberdasher (78??)
I guess because they're both found in old timey books?
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Jul 15, 2021 15:05:56 GMT -5
I just saw this vaguely ominous sign in a dairy Queen: "This cake freezer is under surveillance, violators will be prosecuted". I'm pretty sure that's a backstory I don't want to know.
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Jul 15, 2021 16:18:18 GMT -5
I just saw this vaguely ominous sign in a dairy Queen: "This cake freezer is under surveillance, violators will be prosecuted". I'm pretty sure that's a backstory I don't want to know. American Pie 12: Piece of Cake |
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Post by monodrone on Jul 22, 2021 10:27:25 GMT -5
More fun online tests: measure divergent thinking by coming up with the ten most unrelated nouns you can think of. www.datcreativity.com. First try I got 86.7, 90th percentile. Then after looking at scoring from the first round I pumped it up to 90.9, 97th percentile. That was fun! First shot: 95.72 - 99.6th percentile with "ball sandwich radiator flight empathy portmanteau usurper". Best pair was 108 between usurper and flight, worst was sandwich and ball for only 77. I've tried a bunch since then and never topped that combo.... UNTIL bibliography harpsichord wasteland contract wreath fuck crepuscular got me a score of 98.17 which is at 99.87% and included a staggering 114 for contract/crepuscular |
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Post by moimoi on Jul 22, 2021 14:21:25 GMT -5
More fun online tests: measure divergent thinking by coming up with the ten most unrelated nouns you can think of. www.datcreativity.com. First try I got 86.7, 90th percentile. Then after looking at scoring from the first round I pumped it up to 90.9, 97th percentile. That was fun! First shot: 95.72 - 99.6th percentile with "ball sandwich radiator flight empathy portmanteau usurper". Best pair was 108 between usurper and flight, worst was sandwich and ball for only 77. I've tried a bunch since then and never topped that combo.... UNTIL bibliography harpsichord wasteland contract wreath fuck crepuscular got me a score of 98.17 which is at 99.87% and included a staggering 114 for contract/crepuscular First try I got 90.33 /96.76th percentile with valence lanolin cartography kazoo rhubarb ennui incisor. How did you get away with crepuscular - isn't that an adjective? |
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Post by monodrone on Jul 22, 2021 15:56:23 GMT -5
That was fun! First shot: 95.72 - 99.6th percentile with "ball sandwich radiator flight empathy portmanteau usurper". Best pair was 108 between usurper and flight, worst was sandwich and ball for only 77. I've tried a bunch since then and never topped that combo.... UNTIL bibliography harpsichord wasteland contract wreath fuck crepuscular got me a score of 98.17 which is at 99.87% and included a staggering 114 for contract/crepuscular First try I got 90.33 /96.76th percentile with valence lanolin cartography kazoo rhubarb ennui incisor. How did you get away with crepuscular - isn't that an adjective? I have no idea. Up until just now it was a word that I knew was a word without knowing what it meant. It's good to learn! In the meantime I've racked up a 100.67/99.97 with ketchup astrology alloy semiquaver query condominium gangrene. Finally I can log off. |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Jul 23, 2021 10:03:18 GMT -5
I usually do all my cleaning chores on Thursdays, but we're having a party tomorrow (Saturday) so I wanted to try and wait until then so the clean would be as fresh as possible.
Couldn't do it. Cleaned first thing this morning.
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Jul 24, 2021 18:32:53 GMT -5
Games Magazine's "Solitaire Hangman" feature is now called "Boxing Match". According to the instructions, "The object of this solitaire challenge is to guess a word before making six incorrect guesses, as in a familiar childhood game."
...Is this cancel culture?
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jul 27, 2021 13:23:17 GMT -5
The Google Doodle game is pretty fun.
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Post by ganews on Aug 1, 2021 17:08:16 GMT -5
I keep a glove in my gunbox in case someone on the highway makes me so mad I want to challenge them to a duel.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Aug 1, 2021 18:13:21 GMT -5
I keep a glove in my gunbox in case someone on the highway makes me so mad I want to challenge them to a duel. |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Oct 11, 2021 8:32:27 GMT -5
Oh, and just one more thing: Happy Columbo Day!
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Post by Ben Grimm on Oct 11, 2021 9:02:37 GMT -5
Oh, and just one more thing: Happy Columbo Day!
Now I want an episode of Columbo where he arrests the King of Spain for the murder of the Arawak. |
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Oct 13, 2021 21:42:28 GMT -5
I know exactly where this corner is. It's in front of our favorite Mexican restaurant, across the highway from the Old State Capitol.
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Post by 🔪 silly buns on Oct 23, 2021 10:05:42 GMT -5
I just saw a picture of a Joro spider.
Hell to the NO!
Citizens of Georgia and surrounding areas, please protect the rest of the country from this. Whatever you need, please let us know.
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Post by Hachiman on Oct 26, 2021 23:45:03 GMT -5
I just saw a picture of a Joro spider. Hell to the NO! Citizens of Georgia and surrounding areas, please protect the rest of the country from this. Whatever you need, please let us know. Ah, my least favorite midside spider has made it to the US. Wonderful. I hate these things. They are pretty harmless if left alone though. They're just big, rather flashy, and are happy to spin their webs like right at human eye level. You actually get used to them. There are larger spiders here that are higher on my concern list. Just giant spiders over here. |
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Oct 28, 2021 15:06:30 GMT -5
I just saw a picture of a Joro spider. Hell to the NO! Citizens of Georgia and surrounding areas, please protect the rest of the country from this. Whatever you need, please let us know. Ah, my least favorite midside spider has made it to the US. Wonderful. I hate these things. They are pretty harmless if left alone though. They're just big, rather flashy, and are happy to spin their webs like right at human eye level. You actually get used to them. There are larger spiders here that are higher on my concern list. Just giant spiders over here. Lot of babies in this conversation (the colorful precious perfect eight-legged variety, and the cowardly hominid sort) |
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Post by Hachiman on Oct 28, 2021 21:01:33 GMT -5
Ah, my least favorite midside spider has made it to the US. Wonderful. I hate these things. They are pretty harmless if left alone though. They're just big, rather flashy, and are happy to spin their webs like right at human eye level. You actually get used to them. There are larger spiders here that are higher on my concern list. Just giant spiders over here. Lot of babies in this conversation (the colorful precious perfect eight-legged variety, and the cowardly hominid sort) Hey, I have no problem with spiders. I saw a jumping spider the other day and it actually made me smile. It's just the big spiders here that I have a problem with. Coming into my neighborhood to eat the other giant bugs. Actually, considering the giant bugs here I have no problem with the big spiders either. They're higher on my list then the goddamn cicadas and but lower then the mantises blocking my door and the stag beetles that occasionally show up to get captured as temporary pets. |
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Oct 28, 2021 21:08:17 GMT -5
Lot of babies in this conversation (the colorful precious perfect eight-legged variety, and the cowardly hominid sort) Hey, I have no problem with spiders. I saw a jumping spider the other day and it actually made me smile. It's just the big spiders here that I have a problem with. Coming into my neighborhood to eat the other giant bugs. Actually, considering the giant bugs here I have no problem with the big spiders either. They're higher on my list then the goddamn cicadas and but lower then the mantises blocking my door and the stag beetles that occasionally show up to get captured as temporary pets. Every single thing you just listed as an unfortunate day-to-day reality of Japanese life makes me want to move there, just sayin'.
Are you into beetle fighting btw? I think stag beetle fights are the coolest thing.
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Post by moimoi on Oct 28, 2021 22:51:29 GMT -5
Hey, I have no problem with spiders. I saw a jumping spider the other day and it actually made me smile. It's just the big spiders here that I have a problem with. Coming into my neighborhood to eat the other giant bugs. Actually, considering the giant bugs here I have no problem with the big spiders either. They're higher on my list then the goddamn cicadas and but lower then the mantises blocking my door and the stag beetles that occasionally show up to get captured as temporary pets. Every single thing you just listed as an unfortunate day-to-day reality of Japanese life makes me want to move there, just sayin'.
Are you into beetle fighting btw? I think stag beetle fights are the coolest thing.
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Post by haysoos on Oct 29, 2021 9:09:26 GMT -5
Hey, I have no problem with spiders. I saw a jumping spider the other day and it actually made me smile. It's just the big spiders here that I have a problem with. Coming into my neighborhood to eat the other giant bugs. Actually, considering the giant bugs here I have no problem with the big spiders either. They're higher on my list then the goddamn cicadas and but lower then the mantises blocking my door and the stag beetles that occasionally show up to get captured as temporary pets. Every single thing you just listed as an unfortunate day-to-day reality of Japanese life makes me want to move there, just sayin'.
Are you into beetle fighting btw? I think stag beetle fights are the coolest thing.
I know! I was like "I want to live somewhere with cicadas, mantises, and stag beetles!". Well, technically, we do have cicadas, but they're boring yearly cicadas. We don't get anything as cool as Brood X cicadas. Also, my hearing is so crap that I can't actually hear them - their chirps are outside my high range. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Nov 1, 2021 2:16:03 GMT -5
I just saw a picture of a Joro spider. Hell to the NO! Citizens of Georgia and surrounding areas, please protect the rest of the country from this. Whatever you need, please let us know.
I just looked them up. Wow, the female has a very flashy color pattern. According to the info I read there is zero chance these spiders will end up here. Apparently they need humidity.
I've only ever seen one spider that I thought was truly crazy looking here. Not tarantulas, of course, we have a ton of those. But this was a gigantic spider I saw hanging out in mid-October outside the door of my neighbor one year. Looked to be a Giant Crab Spider. When I first saw it I honestly thought it was part of their Halloween decorations, it was that big. I saw this spider every night in roughly the same spot for about a week, and then it disappeared.
I love having spiders around to help catch all the insects I don't want inside my home. However, holy moly, I would NEVER want a spider that big to get inside my home.
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Post by Hachiman on Nov 1, 2021 20:03:29 GMT -5
Hey, I have no problem with spiders. I saw a jumping spider the other day and it actually made me smile. It's just the big spiders here that I have a problem with. Coming into my neighborhood to eat the other giant bugs. Actually, considering the giant bugs here I have no problem with the big spiders either. They're higher on my list then the goddamn cicadas and but lower then the mantises blocking my door and the stag beetles that occasionally show up to get captured as temporary pets. Every single thing you just listed as an unfortunate day-to-day reality of Japanese life makes me want to move there, just sayin'.
Are you into beetle fighting btw? I think stag beetle fights are the coolest thing.
You know, I've never actually seen or even heard of a beetle fight. They're just really fun to observe for a couple of days and release. Most of the 100-yen shops here sell little bug cages along with the accessories like feed for pretty cheap so assuming you find one then its a pretty small investment to keep one for a little bit. You can buy some really big ones in pet shops but again I think those are just for observing and not fighting. Who knows though, maybe I am just not cool enough to get invited to beetle fight club. |
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Nov 2, 2021 14:50:57 GMT -5
I'm going to fire up the tractor and move some hay.
Greeeeen Acres is the place to be!
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Nov 2, 2021 15:27:23 GMT -5
I'm going to fire up the tractor and move some hay. Greeeeen Acres is the place to be!Did you all know the "I-i-i-i-i-iiiiiiii" in the verse of "Groove is in the Heart" is sampled from the Green Acres theme? |
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