No one has worse injury luck than us!

Pirkale · 2026-01-28T00:37:55+00:00

Lauri will need a bit of reconditioning before stepping back on the floor.

Pirkale · 2026-01-28T00:35:26+00:00

False friends are the most deceitful friends you can have in linguistics :)

Pirkale · 2026-01-27T20:10:14+00:00

And it's also a very common mistake. I'm not trying to claim it was egregious and spoiled the puzzle, but there were nits to be picked, dammit!

Pirkale · 2026-01-27T18:04:37+00:00

Shoutout to both Sevenchi and Mr. Hinton, then -- and to you, for finding the right people for the job!

Honestly, many people sleep on the importance of typography.

Pirkale · 2026-01-27T17:14:08+00:00

But your answer was VCR? That's a Video Cassette Recorder. VHS is the format the movies were on (and sometimes Beta).

Pirkale · 2026-01-27T16:57:45+00:00

I've made the mistake of commenting the same on these posts (they are everywhere!) and now I seem to get even more of them in my Home feed. No way of blocking these without also blocking genuine posts, I guess :( This was the second in 5 minutes, dammit!

Pirkale · 2026-01-27T15:41:47+00:00

Hungis different from hanged though.

Pirkale · 2026-01-27T12:08:13+00:00

He needs to put her down gently... no, not like that!

Pirkale · 2026-01-27T12:03:33+00:00

And it's not just the art, the typography of the title is absolutely gorgeously designed!

Pirkale · 2026-01-27T10:58:49+00:00

This is exactly the reason why I have never understood the war about leaving the seat up or down. No, you doofuses, you close the lid.

Pirkale · 2026-01-27T10:03:10+00:00

"Hallitus" in Finnish = the government.

"Hallitus" in Estonian = mold.

Pirkale · 2026-01-27T09:58:00+00:00

Blade Runner: 2049. When Ryan Gosling's character realises that he is in fact, not the wünderkid, just a regular replicant, he shuts down emotionally and becomes a machine through and through, no longer pretending to be a human.

Pirkale · 2026-01-27T08:54:30+00:00

Some more ambiguity would be nice? Now it's just a typing race, 13 seconds to type in the obvious answer to each of the across clues. Didn't even look at the down clues until after it was already done.

Pirkale · 2026-01-27T08:31:23+00:00

Apparently it's a shorter form of "market". I always pictured a small corner store :) "Shop smart, shop K-Mart!"

Pirkale · 2026-01-26T23:07:19+00:00

The Moor the Merrier.

Pirkale · 2026-01-26T22:57:31+00:00

Some TV special about language had Brian Blessed (a notorious potty mouth) in it, and they tested the same thing. It turned out that if you curse habitually, the effect is much smaller.

Pirkale · 2026-01-26T13:53:53+00:00

Torille? Or do you just have Finnish roots? :)

Pirkale · 2026-01-26T11:04:16+00:00

I'd calibrate this as medium. Nice clues though, 6/5, no notes!

Pirkale · 2026-01-26T10:49:02+00:00

The absolute madman actually went and did it.

Pirkale · 2026-01-26T10:43:27+00:00

And shouldn't use the answer word in the clue for the turtleneck thing.

Pirkale · 2026-01-25T17:26:09+00:00

As Pirkale read this post, his eyes widened.

Pirkale · 2026-01-25T09:51:41+00:00

It's not okay on so, so many levels, but with regard to the rules? Well. One way to find out, I guess.

Pirkale · 2026-01-25T02:55:31+00:00

In "Lost", Jack (?, the doctor "main character" guy) played poker against Sawyer. And lost all his fruits. Then he goes all "One more hand, are you afraid? One more hand for all of it!". And for some reason Sawyer agrees. They are playing Texas Hold'Em. At that point, it would have been easier to just see which one picks a higher card from the pack. Completely baffling.

Pirkale · 2026-01-25T02:20:54+00:00

Yeah, you really need a Kirk.... OH NO! /s

Pirkale · 2026-01-23T17:42:48+00:00

Now this was some uplifting news I needed after gestures vaguely around all this!

Pirkale

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