Tungsten Tales

 Mixing Darts with a knock-off of Scrabble. Get in. 

It's cold outside. Blizzard conditions.

 

Games played: 60

Games won: 32

Games lost: 28

Games drawn: 0

Bingos: 23

Quietly does it . . .

 

Games played: 80

Games won: 44

Games lost: 36

Games drawn: 0

Bingos: 32

Lexulouz-Voulez

 It's habit-forming  . . . 

Games played: 438

Games won: 227

Games lost: 209

Games drawn: 2

Bingos: 171

Another Placeholder of sorts . . .

 I've been here before. You know the drill.

Games played: 378

Games won: 177

Games lost: 198

Games drawn: 3

Bingos: 160

A Placeholder of sorts . . .

. . . is that the right term? I never know about these things. I've been Lexulous for about 11 years now. It's the Facebook version of Scrabble. I seem to remember that I started playing it because I was coming down with a severe case of 'Baby Brain', and I needed some form of intellectual stimulation before my brains leaked out of my left ear. As the stats indicate, I am a decidedly average player. In my defence I don't cheat, and I know some -  though not all - of my opponents feel the need to cheat by using word generators. I'm passed caring at this point.

What's the point of the 'placeholder'? Well, I just finished my 16,000 game, which is a landmark of sorts and at this late stage I'm interested in bingos for some reason, so that at the start of each month I'll post a screen grab of my stats so I can keep track of them. Why the sudden interest now? I don't have a scooby. Just my latest wilo-the-wisp bullshit version of prevarication and procrastination.

Apologies for the garbled post. Now that I've placed the blog on private, I'm giving less of a shit about proof reading:

Addendum

Wow, look at this post from March of this year. Talk about repeating myself. Same patter and everything. Looks like the 'Baby Brain' never really went away, after all.

There's a word for that.

I seem to remember that I started playing Lexulous because I was suffering a really bad case of 'baby brain', and lack of sleep meant I could feel my brain seeping out of my ear each sleepless night. Eleven years on and I play Lexulous 'cos I can't be arsed to get the Scrabble board out:

Ya stoater

A triple score and 77 points for 'Steamie'. Thank you, Mr. Tony Roper.

I bet my American opponent is scratching his head in bemusement right now. "A fucking what? He just made that shit up".

Declaration of Purpose

An exiled SPGBer writes  . . .

I just knew all those decades of membership, with its attendant recitation of the D of P both morning and night - and four times on a Sunday - would finally result in a, erm, result:

Bingo, as Jack, Alex and Tommy used to say in the old Communist Club.

Fun and (word) games

2013 ended on a high:

Bad Amkra

I think I must have murdered a scrabble player in a past life.

A Christmas Miracle

Recovering from a 111 point deficit? A modern day miracle at Christmas.

Injury time

Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 126

Dear Friends,

Welcome to the 126th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

We now have 1563 friends!

Recent blogs:

The illusion of freedom

WSPUS Manifesto on the War, 1917

1789: France’s bourgeois revolution

Coming Events:

Radical Film Forum

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29th November - Sicko

13th December - Earthlings

Quote for the week:

"Scientific socialism considers our views dependent upon our material needs, and our political standpoint dependent upon the economic position of the class we belong to. Moreover, this conception corresponds with the aspirations of the masses whose needs are in the first place material, while the ruling class must necessarily base itself on the deductive principle, on the preconceived unscientific notion that the spiritual salvation and the mental training of the masses are to precede the solution of the social question." Joseph Dietzgen, Scientific Socialism, 1873.

Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

Robert and Piers

Socialist Party of Great Britain

Word of the day

Mauger

prep. 1. In spite of; in opposition to; notwithstanding.

A man must needs love maugre his heed. - Chaucer.

This mauger all the world will I keep safe. - Shak.

So, mauger Darren not even knowing that the word mauger previously existed, he just scored 42 points with it on Lexulous.

Does that make sense?

PS

Apologies for referring to myself in the third person. Darren won't do it again.