The world has become a strange place
Things are changing at one hell of a pace
When I were't lad there was none of this
We'd give the ladies loos a miss 
With all that lippy and lace.

I think the young of today would not go to fight for this country with blindfolds on..
The many wars gone by saw young men in their thousands going off to battles ..
Proud to fight for their country.. Even lying about their ages  ..
Many were used as fodder.. Young boys/men.. of little importance to those giving the orders..
Few at the top saw the horror of the battle field...
So incredibly sad...

Young men of today are not wearing blindfolds and will question when told to go 'Over the top'..
 Good for them... They are not cowards.. Just young who have a life to live..

Tommy Robinson !!!   

Quote from: CHF on January 17, 2026, 07:41:25 PMTommy Robinson looks fit and always ready for action. I bet he'd plead
that he was a conscientious objector.

Why would he do that.. ?
When you come to think of it Tommy Robinson is already fighting for his country..
A country we are slowly losing to others...

The world has become a strange place
Things are changing at one hell of a pace
When I were't lad there was none of this
We'd give the ladies loos a miss

Poor little thing ! 

Quote from: CHF on January 17, 2026, 07:41:25 PMTommy Robinson looks fit and always ready for action. I bet he'd plead
that he was a conscientious objector.

Why would you think that ? 
Becaue he's rough and you don't like him ? 
Lots of soldiers are rough it doesn't mean that their courage is in question .

The Us has other bases in the Middle East .
It has a base in Jordan which no doubt pays Jordan plenty for as do we .

They are  just the sort the army doesn't want Mups .
They want those children who are already showing promise and are in the cadet corps .
The ones whose parents have instilled in them a sense of decency .

Ted went to the barbers for a shave
But the lady told him to behave
For he expected a man
Who he remembered as 'Sam'
But was now presenting as 'Maeve'.

The world has become a strange place

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Quordle offers a practice mode - https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/quordle/#/practice

If you didn't want to do Quordle there is nothing stopping you using it to practice Wordle. Tune your initial words for instance.

Wordle doesn't call using all the letters you already know hard mode for nothing...

Quote from: klondike on January 18, 2026, 12:41:41 PMThat's because you try to guess words rather than eliminate letters first. My usual start words revealed all 5 letters and the solution is the only way that those letters would fit together to make something that looked like a viable word. Without it being a common word and only having some of the letters with others ruled out it would be completely impossible to actually solve by any normal means.

Yup! I use the same three words to start every time, it rarely fails.  All five vowels across them and common letters like S, T etc with none repeated. Klondike and I both play Quordle and Octordle. Same method.  Try it Mups.

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