yeah, when your mom is a private piano teacher and your dad used to be a drum major, you kind of pick up on these things...
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I cannot condone this game on the grounds that I find its goal in ending world hunger morally reprehensible. The world would be a lot better with less people in it, and starvation is an important factor in limiting our population.
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43. For someone of my intellectual, professional and political upbringing with a 2:1 from Oxbridge and a long career at the top of government I expected to get more, but some of the words are obscure and I am, anyway, a native Russian speaker, so perhaps that is where I'm going wrong. Also a lot of them (budgerigar for one) are easy if you are a British English speaker.
How do you wind it up? I expected it to have an upper limit of how many grains of rice you could donate (though having done development work in Africa - well, two weeks' worth - this "aid in grains of rice to fight world hunger" would work better if the rice were sold in this country and earned money for an African or Asian farmer than given to them and keeping them reliant on Western donation...).
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Wow, that is a lot of fun. Words you'll know from Magic: Synod, Maw, and a bunch of others I forgot.
There's quite a few that are obscure names for garments.
There's one that I came across where I didn't know the definition, but I made a good guess and got it right. The definition was "world order inversion" and the word was "ana..." something or other. I love the sound of the word. Anyone know the word I mean?
Anatastrophe. That ones come up for me like three times, and every single time I get it wrong.
Average level: 38, best 41
Also, I donated over 2000 last night.
Magic Words: Dreadnought, Locus, some others that have been said
I cannot condone this game on the grounds that I find its goal in ending world hunger morally reprehensible. The world would be a lot better with less people in it, and starvation is an important factor in limiting our population.
Are there not more humane ways of limiting population, such as education and availability of contraceptives?
I can consistently get 42/43, but my highest was 46.
I showed this to my mom too, because she's a linguist and I figured would be interested in this. She managed to donate over 2,800 grains of rice, and maintined a 48/49 average. I was awed.
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17 November 2007 160, 497,630
18 November 2007 170,885,620
19 November 2007 212,660,970 20 November 2007 218,510,070
21 November 2007 195,957,920
22 November 2007 147,385,350 23 November 2007 128,386,810
I don't have any hard numbers on this, but I'm targeted more often than a black guy driving a beat-up sedan with a broken tail-light and no license plate, and Cy's well aware of that.
Then by all means, show us how it's done. Preferably, with a noose around your neck and a wobbly chair.
Lead the way!
EDIT: I got up to 50 ... once today
Nice answer! Although EvilDuck is not so bad when you get to know him. A lot of the problem is that people have begun to look on other people as cattle or as an amorphous mass, so they begin to forget that they have souls and spirits and individuality. I may not agree that this campaign is the best way to solve world hunger - in fact even things like fair trade can keep people dependent on agriculture* - but having done a lot of private work - and one public trip last time I "rested" for two years to Uganda - for development charities and other firms associated with aid distribution - any start we can make on ensuring everyone has the basics is one step towards solving overpopulation in a constructive way.
*the Romanians under Ceausescu broke with the Soviet Union because the USSR had earmarked Romania as an agricultural producer for COMECON and Romania quite naturally wanted to improve its industry base, starting with large oil and coal deposits under much of Muntenia (southern Romania, around Bucharest). So keeping people artificially dependent on agriculture, a by-product of the fair trade industry (which is also causing problems in Britain as councils spend far too much money putting up signs saying "Much Snoring On The Marsh is a Fair Trade Borough" and not, say, renovating derelict bus stations or shopping centres), is to me not actually a constructive way of developing countries to be able to support more than just subsistence agriculture and keeps them dependent on supplying the west with cash crops such as coffee, sugar and cocoa when they could actually be processing these crops into finished products themselves thus developing industry, helping local employment and the balance of trade, enabling them to pay off debt and thus being able to bring living standards up to Western scratch.
Uganda - where I went in 2000 - is a country that has been successful in raising standards, but this is largely a product of getting rid of Idi Amin and they have had problems with AIDS which is a symptom of "too much money, not enough to do with it, needs help urgently putting western infrastructure in place". If I had a penny for every westerner who has a vague plan to fight poverty, AIDS and drought in Africa but can't bring themselves to treat Africans themselves as individuals with their own ideas as to how to solve these or what the issues are based on, then I would be rich man and would have long ago retired to the Bahamas.
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Not bad at all Dr.Dee, i peaked at 40, after that there started to be some words i had no idea about.
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I seem to be repeatedly hitting a wall at 41. I've recently started trying to donate atleast 2000 grains a day. Im helping and learning at the same time.
I try to get to 4000 grains before I go to bed. it looks like 4000 grains = about 2 cups of rice, which is about 250 g of rice, or about 25 g of dietary protein - one meal's worth of dietary protein.
It's getting better - I'm learning new (if useless) words by the truckload - but it still takes me way too long at night to "prepare" one meal. I guess I just need to read more books. I've sorta gotten stuck at 45-46 which is actually pretty good, but the words just don't stay with me.
I couldn't get past 35--not because I couldn't, but because I got bored with it. I keep coming back to it though.
I do the exact same thing. I got to 45 the first time I played, then got bored with it. I've probably played half a dozen time since but never played past 40. Watching rice pile up isn't nearly as entertaining as it could be.
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How do you wind it up? I expected it to have an upper limit of how many grains of rice you could donate (though having done development work in Africa - well, two weeks' worth - this "aid in grains of rice to fight world hunger" would work better if the rice were sold in this country and earned money for an African or Asian farmer than given to them and keeping them reliant on Western donation...).
Thank you to R&Doom for the amazing sig banner and Le_Gambit for the wonderful avatar.
"He took the balls from many clerks/And hung them from a branch
"When he struck us with feet and hands/It made Volpone dance!" - The Ballad of Dentling Nick, by Mr Owl
Anatastrophe. That ones come up for me like three times, and every single time I get it wrong.
Average level: 38, best 41
Also, I donated over 2000 last night.
Magic Words: Dreadnought, Locus, some others that have been said
Are there not more humane ways of limiting population, such as education and availability of contraceptives?
Besides, its free!!!
I got up to 47 again last night three times.
Very tricky. A lot of weird possibly Indian words. And medical terms...eurgh
Hope they like rice though, I'm keepin' at this.
Example: Bailey means:
castle wall
informer
weighty
opposite
Castle wall is the most specific term, so that's what I chose. And it was right.
I showed this to my mom too, because she's a linguist and I figured would be interested in this. She managed to donate over 2,800 grains of rice, and maintined a 48/49 average. I was awed.
No, there's too many people in the world already. We could use a global population decimation. The herd must be thinned.
"Stoned players can't attack, block, or play spells or abilities."
Then by all means, show us how it's done. Preferably, with a noose around your neck and a wobbly chair.
Lead the way!
EDIT: I got up to 50 ... once today
I had a problem though. Browbeat was the word..and i didn't see a spot that i could check off for this--->Browbeat
People go offline for the holidays. I'm sure it will go back up.
My highest is 44, I'm around 37-38 though.
lol i got kinda bored...... maybe ill try again later
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Nice answer! Although EvilDuck is not so bad when you get to know him. A lot of the problem is that people have begun to look on other people as cattle or as an amorphous mass, so they begin to forget that they have souls and spirits and individuality. I may not agree that this campaign is the best way to solve world hunger - in fact even things like fair trade can keep people dependent on agriculture* - but having done a lot of private work - and one public trip last time I "rested" for two years to Uganda - for development charities and other firms associated with aid distribution - any start we can make on ensuring everyone has the basics is one step towards solving overpopulation in a constructive way.
*the Romanians under Ceausescu broke with the Soviet Union because the USSR had earmarked Romania as an agricultural producer for COMECON and Romania quite naturally wanted to improve its industry base, starting with large oil and coal deposits under much of Muntenia (southern Romania, around Bucharest). So keeping people artificially dependent on agriculture, a by-product of the fair trade industry (which is also causing problems in Britain as councils spend far too much money putting up signs saying "Much Snoring On The Marsh is a Fair Trade Borough" and not, say, renovating derelict bus stations or shopping centres), is to me not actually a constructive way of developing countries to be able to support more than just subsistence agriculture and keeps them dependent on supplying the west with cash crops such as coffee, sugar and cocoa when they could actually be processing these crops into finished products themselves thus developing industry, helping local employment and the balance of trade, enabling them to pay off debt and thus being able to bring living standards up to Western scratch.
Uganda - where I went in 2000 - is a country that has been successful in raising standards, but this is largely a product of getting rid of Idi Amin and they have had problems with AIDS which is a symptom of "too much money, not enough to do with it, needs help urgently putting western infrastructure in place". If I had a penny for every westerner who has a vague plan to fight poverty, AIDS and drought in Africa but can't bring themselves to treat Africans themselves as individuals with their own ideas as to how to solve these or what the issues are based on, then I would be rich man and would have long ago retired to the Bahamas.
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It's getting better - I'm learning new (if useless) words by the truckload - but it still takes me way too long at night to "prepare" one meal. I guess I just need to read more books. I've sorta gotten stuck at 45-46 which is actually pretty good, but the words just don't stay with me.
I do the exact same thing. I got to 45 the first time I played, then got bored with it. I've probably played half a dozen time since but never played past 40. Watching rice pile up isn't nearly as entertaining as it could be.
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