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[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 96 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)
[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 42 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Use the p then

  • trump - A suit in card games that outranks all other suits for the duration of a hand.

  • pi - A transcendental number, approximately 3.14159, represented by the symbol π, that expresses the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle and appears as a constant in many mathematical expressions

  • is - The third person singular of the substantive verb be, in the indicative mood, present tense

  • sap - The watery fluid that circulates through a plant, carrying food and other substances to the various tissues

  • Rapist - One who commits the crime of rape (e.g. Donald Trump)


Edit - even with the c

  • Sac - A pouch or pouchlike structure in an organism, sometimes filled with fluid.

A person who believes a particular race is superior to others (e.g. Donald Trump)

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

For a person to be in the position depicted the word would have had to be "sa" which I don't believe is a word. But you can play words that aren't words in Scrabble as long as no one challenges you. But it's also an incredibly bad choice of a word, setting up an opponent for a triple like that.

Cartoonist is playing scrabble with a child confirmed.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

cartoonist is playing scrabble against trump confirmed

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That is generally not how sentences work even if one word is on top of the next.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 66 points 9 months ago (1 children)

scrabble board

expects me to play by the rules of not scrabble

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I don’t know what version of Scrabble you play, but I’ve never seen a directive for how to read out sentences that happen to show up on a Scrabble board. Feel free to point them out to me.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 51 points 9 months ago (2 children)

i’m not making a sentence i listed all the words on the board dawg :( thanks for taking all the fun out of commenting

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[–] STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

lol they're just reading the individual words the way scrabble would read them

pi and sac are scoring words

squid had a bad day maybe?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I don't know, looks like I pissed a bunch of people off and probably gained another few people who hate me when I didn't think what I said was anything but just playing along, so it sounds like a pretty typical day.

[–] STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

ok well, so you know, you came off as pretty sassy and oddly defensive

i relate to having my attitude misunderstood though

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (10 children)

It's a good day when only one or two people tell me what a horrible, worthless person I am (I guess three if you include myself), so I guess this is one of the occasional good ones.

Edit: Come to think of it, there are no good ones and if I didn't have real world responsibilities, I don't know that I would want to keep existing.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Hey, for what it’s worth (which is up to you to decide), I enjoy your being here. I get that you’re beyond frustrated about your personal life stuff. From what little I do know, it sounds horrible. So no shade there at all. It’s tough.

But, despite that, you come here and have helped build communities where people can go and let off steam and forget their personal shit for a few moments, and for some of us, that’s tremendous. You could shrug it off; you’ve not met these people in real life. I don’t know, maybe you have. But to some of us, it’s a little something we can look forward to because it helps us cope when we have little else. So thank you for that.

Anyway, carry on and fuck the haters. You can’t please everyone.

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

You have fallen to one of the classic blunders. The most well known of which is never discuss a land war in Asia on lemmy.ml. But only slightly less well known is to never assume some random geeky thing is not a passionate fandom.

You've upset the Scrabblers by slightly misrepresenting the rules of Scrabble in order to make a pithy joke. For this, they will never forgive you.

[–] MediumGray@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

My dude, you haven't pissed anyone off here that I can see, you've just gotten overly defensive and are seeing slights where there aren't any. People are disagreeing with you and some may be critical of your responses but that doesn't mean anything is heated. Maybe take a short break from Lemmy and get a glass of water or something? I mean that with 100% sincerity. If you're interpreting these comments as hateful you're probably in a bad headspace and I'm doubtful the internet is going to help.

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[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And sentences are not how Scrabble works. This meme sucks.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you accept that 'rapist' and 'racist' both apply to Trump, I'd say it's a pretty good meme.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not bad in theme, it's bad in the way most of the Spiderman glasses memes are bad because they put the no-glasses Spider-Man on top when it should be glasses spiderman on top.

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[–] Sorgan71@lemmy.world 73 points 9 months ago (32 children)

Some of these are not words, this guy sucks at scrabble.

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"_M" is the only one that's bad as far as I can tell.

"AS" bottom-up is probably fine? I don't know the rules. The words it could turn into by adding "racist" or "rapist" would be valid words, "sac" and "sap".

[–] wolfpack86@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (10 children)

_M has a tile above it, meaning this can be anything. There are plenty of words that end in _m.

Scam, scum, slum, plum, trim, tram,

The only bad one is SA

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

But it's not SA it's SAC or SAP.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Not currently. The implication is that the person is in the middle of their turn, and needs to choose between the two letters, but that means that SA was already played in a previous turn, and while I'm unsure if SA is a proper two letter word in any language, I am sure SA isn't a proper two letter word in English because my family had the list of two and three letter words in the official Scrabble dictionary, and SA isn't on the list. Sh, si, so, and st, are.

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[–] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Let's pretend the game started with rapist/racist and this is showing how it could progress either way and work?? Maybe? Idk I also suck at scrabble

[–] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ps the cp being cp and not pc is a Choice imo

(I sometimes reply to my own comments because lemmy is inconsistent on showing edits)

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago

"Crapist"

One who craps his diapers.

[–] unreachable@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago
[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 16 points 9 months ago
[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 12 points 9 months ago

Ah, you can make UP on the left there

[–] bender223@lemmy.today 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Porque no los dos? 🤷‍♀️

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[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Don the Con(vict/man). Ah shit I suck at scrabble...

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