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You will also require a monocle... and a walking cane... and a smoking pipe... and a whacking great 'tache.... Just go full-on Hipster, really. Are there no modern pocket watches that would be good enough? Some of these, perhaps...

It used to matter a little. Back when I last looked at CPU blocks, some were a few degrees better in 'goofy' orientation than standard sideways, and vice versa. I ended up going for a Cuplex Kryos NEXT, which is designed to be goofy but still got better ratings than most blocks' standard.

They're Slovenian. I didn't get a choice on my EK GPU block, but everything else has been AquaComputer for a long while. So glad I made that move!!

I read the whole dictionary, in order to 'git gud', though.....

Scrabble was invented in 1938. I'm merely playing an older version than todays', without a lot of the easy cop-out 2-letter 'cheat' words. It's like playing a video game without aim-assist...

How is this 'woke'? Ignoring the whiny Leftists and forcing people to use proper big-boy words, instead of finding ways to make it easier and eliminating all competition, reducing the game to a participation trophy for everyone. To me, my approach seems the very antithesis of wokeness....

The rules state that everyone agrees which dictionary will be used, so approval is down to that... and since we only have one that does not include, or even predates, most of them, the problem is solved. "Za" or "zah/zar" as mentioned above was not being used by the trendy middle-class Kentish...

Most games allow customisation. Monopoly also has common variants. It just cuts out the BS/shortcut side and encourages more thoughtful play.

Nah, we just implemented home rules against such BS. Also, the only handy dictionary we had that could live in the game box was a pocket one from 1966, which didn't really have many of those.

Just reminds me of Barb Wire with that whole, "Don't call me Babe" gimmick....

Can confirm. All our houses on this road are 1865, and we've moved a load of such stuff out of ours. Most bottles were broken, but we did find an early OXO one still intact.

If you are within a water-stressed area, yes they can. They have the legal power to implement mandatory smart metering across the entire catchment. They can't usually do it on an individual basis, though.

I'm not a fan of it, but I remember laying Zygote on a triple word score once. I have basic secondary school education to thank for such outrageous words as that, so I wouldn't say it's impossible. What I find most challenging is that, despite knowing plenty of really weird and obsolete words...

Only 'possible'...? I'd say there are many ways for it to utterly fail. Whoever said bacon makes everything better was probably an undercover vegan trying to bring down the system from within. I've experienced bacon flavour vape before... It smelt like bacon crisps in the bottle, but as an...

Oh, you'd be surprised....!!! Well, livid is probably the better description, for most people. Presumably, but that doesn't mean that's where the leak is coming from. It could be from any surrounding pipe, serving any surrounding property, on any surrounding land. This spot is just where it's...

Who owned the pipe? Was the ownership clearly established from the outset? Who owns the land it was on? Was access readily available or did NW have to issue notice and go through the court proceedings? Who owns the road? Was the council agreeable to works taking place, or did they throw up a lot...

That's why you get an Olight O-Pen...

I'm sure some of it went to covering up all the MP affairs with Soviet spies, Nazis spies, gays and gangsters, the attempted murders, and all the usual fraudulent conduct typically found within government. It certainly didn't go into the network... Private investment and repayments are just a...

Except that the rot of underfunding and underinvestment was there long before privatisation... Things most certainly were not better!

Given that it was down to the regulator to specify and enforce the conditions of sale such that the likes of Macquarrie did not do exactly what they've done, it ultimately always is the fault of the government.