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26-Mar-20 23:12

Lesson one: lie about a grouping system. (14)

(I had time to think while I queued ... Laugh | :laugh:

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super26-Mar-20 23:45

super

26-Mar-20 23:45

CONSOLIDATING ?

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Super

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OriginalGriff26-Mar-20 23:47

26-Mar-20 23:47

Er .. no. Not really sure how you got that ...

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super26-Mar-20 23:51

super

26-Mar-20 23:51

13 and grouping system. Laugh | :laugh:

Just shooting blindly hoping I hit something.
Its looks unsolvable at the moment, but in an hour I will be going to Aldi, so I hope to find the solution in queue too

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Super

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OriginalGriff27-Mar-20 0:07

27-Mar-20 0:07

So ... random 13 letter words to fit a 14 letter solution then? Laugh | :laugh:

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super27-Mar-20 0:35

super

27-Mar-20 0:35

Extra Space for Social distancing.. Big Grin | :-D

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Super

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OriginalGriff27-Mar-20 0:41

27-Mar-20 0:41

Oops! Sorry:

L e s s o n   o n e :   l i e   a b o u t   a   g r o u p i n g   s y s t e m .   (  1 4 )

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pkfox27-Mar-20 1:07

Re: WSO CCC OTD 2020-03-27 - we have a winner!

27-Mar-20 1:07

Classification ? don't know why but it's spelt correctly Laugh | :laugh:

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OriginalGriff27-Mar-20 1:10

Re: WSO CCC OTD 2020-03-27 - we have a winner!

27-Mar-20 1:10

Lesson    CLASS
one:           I
lie             FIC TION
about a            A

grouping system.
CLASSIFICATION

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pkfox27-Mar-20 1:16

27-Mar-20 1:16

Blimey I didn't expect that - it was the fiction I didn't see, although it's pretty obvious now - good clue Paul

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pkfox27-Mar-20 0:12

27-Mar-20 0:12

Why am I thinking procastination ?

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OriginalGriff27-Mar-20 0:16

27-Mar-20 0:16

Because you can't spell? Laugh | :laugh:

procrastination
/prə(ʊ)ˌkrastɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
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noun
the action of delaying or postponing something.
"your first tip is to avoid procrastination"

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pkfox27-Mar-20 0:24

27-Mar-20 0:24

Ok I tell you what my train of thought was - lying = prone - group = cast - then the trail goes cold

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OriginalGriff27-Mar-20 0:40

27-Mar-20 0:40

Yeah, but procrastination has two "R"'s and 15 letters... Big Grin | :-D

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pkfox27-Mar-20 1:03

27-Mar-20 1:03

Indeed it does - am I anywhere near the right track ?

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Mark_Wallace26-Mar-20 22:58

26-Mar-20 22:58

Scientists find bug that feasts on toxic plastic | The Guardian [^]

But don't be too quick to celebrate -- read this sombre cautionary tale[^], first.

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Stefan_Lang27-Mar-20 1:10

Stefan_Lang

27-Mar-20 1:10

It's not a bug, it's a feature! Poke tongue | ;-P

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Greg Utas27-Mar-20 2:01

Greg Utas

27-Mar-20 2:01

A quote within the article:
When you have huge amounts of plastic in the environment, that means there is a lot of carbon and there will be evolution to use this as food. Bacteria are there in huge numbers and their evolution is very fast.

I wondered if they were going to make this point; it finally appeared near the end of the article.

Mark_Wallace27-Mar-20 4:14

27-Mar-20 4:14

Greg Utas wrote:
A quote within the article:
When you have huge amounts of plastic in the environment, that means there is a lot of carbon and there will be evolution to use this as food. Bacteria are there in huge numbers and their evolution is very fast.
I wondered if they were going to make this point; it finally appeared near the end of the article.

So the plastic should go into lockdown, and socially distance itself from other plastics.

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Daniel Pfeffer28-Mar-20 8:59

Daniel Pfeffer

28-Mar-20 8:59

The was, if memory serves, a story by Larry Niven in which he mentions a bacterium that lives on polyurethane. Eventually, people just had to do without plastic wrappings. OMG | :OMG:

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Mark_Wallace28-Mar-20 9:49

28-Mar-20 9:49

Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
The was, if memory serves, a story by Larry Niven in which he mentions a bacterium that lives on polyurethane

I don't recall that one, but maybe I'm mentally obfuscating it with the Puppeteers' bacterium, that eats superconductor material (and has Louis Wu performing the stupidest and worst thought-out/written repairs ever in the history of Sci-Fi).

Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
people just had to do without plastic wrappings

No bubble wrap?!?

Thank God mobile phones had been invented, otherwise no-one would have anything to keep them occupied whilst waiting for Louis Wu to repair their alien-tech computers with a bolt of superconductor cloth, a pair of scissors, and a (presumably) slot-head screwdriver.

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CCC may be late...

OriginalGriff26-Mar-20 22:39

26-Mar-20 22:39

Currently queuing to enter the supermarket, 35 minutes so far. "1 out, 1 in" system in operation, with priority for NHS workers.
Will get more than I wanted to as I don't want to do this tomorrow...

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Re: CCC may be late...

Mark_Wallace26-Mar-20 23:01

26-Mar-20 23:01

It seems that the government is trying desperately hard to reintroduce the wartime black market (which so many of their progenitors made their fortunes from).

They must have pals who aren't filthy-rich enough, yet.

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Re: CCC may be late...

OriginalGriff26-Mar-20 23:30

26-Mar-20 23:30

45 minute queue to get in; it'll be worse later on when more people are up and wanting the weekly shop.
And of course, once they are in there, they want to make it worth it and be sure they don't have to visit again soon ... so the stockpiling will get worse. Sigh | :sigh:

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Re: CCC may be late...

Mark_Wallace26-Mar-20 23:44