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I spy a CHEATER! (i.imgur.com)

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[–]Blackeagleman12 309 points310 points ago

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Upvoted because that's an unbelievably clear enhance

[–]leafeator[S] 136 points137 points ago*

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Love my Canon =D

[–]cravf 89 points90 points ago

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Canon. Only one 'n', blasphemer! GO BACK TO NNIKON!

[–]leafeator[S] 35 points36 points ago

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My fingers failed me. I am ashamed.

[–]HamsterHero 28 points29 points ago

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Oh he blames his Fiddily sticks...He Lies!!!! Double blasphemy!!! Sharpen your pitchforks people, we shall drive him to...The Pit!!!!!

[–]Let_Me_Narrate_That 10 points11 points ago

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Narrated

[–]anuj0682 21 points22 points ago

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It's NIKONN.

[–]Yid 14 points15 points ago

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Ni!

[–]SisRob 7 points8 points ago

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Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptangya Ziiinnggggggg Ni!

[–]jnd-cz 5 points6 points ago

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it

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    [–]letmetrythis 2 points3 points ago

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    Are you saying Ni to that old woman?

    [–]Miiich 2 points3 points ago

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    Ow, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say Ni at will to old ladies

    [–]jnd-cz 1 point2 points ago

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    NIKKOR

    [–]RickHayes 3 points4 points ago

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    I count two. One in the middle, one at the end.

    [–]Defenestresque 4 points5 points ago

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    Only one 'n', blasphemer!

    Cano? Caon? Can? HOW DO YOU TYPE IT WITH ONE 'N', YOU MUST TELL ME.

    [–]SlapMyWilly247 1 point2 points ago

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    I work on a Canon network support desk, holy shit is this annoying. I spell out our remote sessions, every time "it says page cannot be displayed." DID YOU SPELL CANON "C-A-N-O-N!?!?"

    [–]cravf 1 point2 points ago

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    You would think that by the time someone owned one, they'd know.

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      [–]BlueJoeCo 8 points9 points ago

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      Nice try, Canon marketing supervisor...

      [–]leafeator[S] 10 points11 points ago

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      I wish. Then I would have real lenses.

      [–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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      What model and lens

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        [deleted]

        [–]derptyherp 76 points77 points ago

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        ENHANCE IT FURTHER.

        [–]aaomalley 16 points17 points ago

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        Don't know if you made that or not, but I haven't used my ration of pedantry today so you win.

        In the image containing the chromosomes the text says to grab the paternal chromosome, but it grabs an X chromosome which would be maternal in a male as the mother contributes the X always and the fathers contribution is either X or Y, thus determining gender. Since the killer had a traditionally masculine name I can only assume that the tech screwed up and analyzed the wrong chromosome, which means your lab has no credibility. Your honor I move for immediate dismissal of all charges due to this egregious error on part of the crime lab.

        Lawyered!

        [–]dontnation 6 points7 points ago*

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        Uh, what makes you think that's an X chromosome?

        [–]rmm45177 2 points3 points ago

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        It's shaped like an X of course!

        [–]SvenHudson 2 points3 points ago

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        TV science. Whatcha gonna do?

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          [–]TooSkoolForCool 1 point2 points ago

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          Enhance.........

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            [–]photophobicfit 1 point2 points ago

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            Relevant

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              [–]Slicerwind 3 points4 points ago

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              I thought it was an enhancement of the first photo lol. That would have been amazing, but now I realized they're all separate shots except the last xD

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                [–]Akme 254 points255 points ago

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                Adobe Reader. Possible the most useless shortcut ever.

                [–]Or8is 122 points123 points ago

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                And yet it insists on creating itself after every update.

                [–]test_alpha 78 points79 points ago

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                It insists upon itself.

                [–]spexau 1 point2 points ago

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                You must restart your computer to finish your update. FFFFFFFUUUUUUU

                [–]redditor9000 1 point2 points ago

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                It is sentient.

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                  [–]RegonaldPointdexter 55 points56 points ago

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                  Hmm, what am I gonna do today... anything useful on the desktop, maybe?

                  Oh yeah! Imma go look at some PDFs!

                  [–]Woetren 23 points24 points ago

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                  Boot up your Adobe Reader already, and get started!

                  [–]thetoastmonster[!] 6 points7 points ago

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                  No need, it's already loaded itself into memory when your computer started up, just so you don't have to wait quite so long for Adobe Reader to get it's ass in gear and show you that PDF you wanted.

                  [–]NorthernSkeptic 11 points12 points ago

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                  OH SHIT IMMA PDF RIGHT NOW!!

                  [–]SpecialOops 30 points31 points ago

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                  Sumatra PDF, Fast and debloated

                  [–]Taniwha_NZ 1 point2 points ago

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                  I'll throw in a plug for FOXIT as a pdf toolset. I've never had to install or use any acrobat bullshit since I was told about FOXIT.

                  I'm not an employee or anything either, I'm even too lazy to provide a link.

                  But I'm sure if you type FOXIT into the address bar of your browser, you will be taken to it.

                  The PDF reading stuff is definitely free, but I've never used any authoring stuff in it, so that might be money, I don't know.

                  But the reader is fast as fuck and very lightweight.

                  [–]jigs_up 7 points8 points ago

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                  Or just use Chrome, works good

                  [–]the-fritz 9 points10 points ago

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                  No. The Chrome pdf viewer is only good for a quick pdf preview. That is a very common usecase on the web and it makes sense. But for normal pdf reading it lacks a lot like the concept of pages (page numbers, jumping to pages, bookmark for pages) and other stuff like I/O Correlations. And it's sadly not part of Chromium.

                  I think pdf.js (Mozilla pdf viewer) is a bit better for in-browser pdf viewers but it loads slower (uses html5 for pdf) and not as mature yet.

                  But for normal pdf reading a dedicated pdf reader like Okular, Evince, Sumatra PDF is in my opinion superior. Adobe Reader has in my opinion the best font rendering, printing options but it's just a pain to use.

                  [–]thorhat 4 points5 points ago

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                  Sadly some of us actually have to create pdf's :(

                  [–]GreenPresident 1 point2 points ago

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                  With Adobe Reader?

                  [–]winry 1 point2 points ago

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                  Make it in HTML or Word and then print it as a PDF with Bullzip or Nitro PDF.

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                      [–]IRunIntoThings 7 points8 points ago

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                      Check out PDF-XChange Viewer (http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer) and Foxit PDF Reader (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/Secure_PDF_Reader/). I haven't have Adobe Reader installed on any of my computers in over half a decade.

                      [–]inaccurate_statement 1 point2 points ago

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                      foxit is the man!! Although I did have some problems printing with it. pages were all messed up and I had to install adobe

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                        [–]carltoncarlcarlson 71 points72 points ago

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                        Victory ain't nearly as sweet

                        When you're a god damn cheat

                        [–]rwizo 27 points28 points ago

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                        Yea but the gloating is still pretty awesome.

                        [–]rxpatient 4 points5 points ago

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                        I'm telling this to my mum, she is a facebook scrabble cheater! A damned FSC!

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                          [–]MrRabbit 158 points159 points ago

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                          A cheater AND a PIRATE!!!!

                          You know, unless he uses uTorrent for LEGAL downloads... like me.

                          [–]pepsi_logic 23 points24 points ago

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                          Yep, all those linux distros...

                          [–]MrRabbit 21 points22 points ago

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                          There are so many CHOICES!!

                          [–]_Dodecahedron_ 5 points6 points ago

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                          I'm sure you use it for legal files only. Really.

                          [–]freefm 3 points4 points ago

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                          Think about the Linux distros' limited bandwidth!

                          [–]RickHayes 1 point2 points ago

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                          I thought all uTorrent files were legal. I mean the internet wouldn't let me break the law, would it?

                          [–]riomhaire 1 point2 points ago

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                          Just torrented Metropolis. Gotta love that public domain goodness.

                          [–]HMPoweredMan 7 points8 points ago

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                          he?

                          [–]Bladethegreat 19 points20 points ago

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                          Her?

                          [–]iamnotmyusername 12 points13 points ago

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                          Egg?

                          [–]MrRabbit 4 points5 points ago

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                          Pat?

                          [–]PatFight 9 points10 points ago

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                          Yeah? What's up?

                          [–]MrRabbit 7 points8 points ago

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                          I don't want any trouble man.. or lady..

                          [–]PatFight 8 points9 points ago*

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                          Awwww, it's alright. We can be friends.

                          [–]MrRabbit 1 point2 points ago

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                          Yay!

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                            [–]definitelynotaspy 26 points27 points ago

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                            Why? Why would you cheat at online Scrabble? How is that even fun?

                            [–]user24 3 points4 points ago

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                            someone played, among other obscure words, the word "tegminal" against me once. I stopped playing against him.

                            [–]MadModderX 5 points6 points ago

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                            When I started out and was in a jam (couldn't find any words) i used a descrambler to start learning new words and learn most of the 2 or 3 letter words. I've learned enough now that I've uninstalled the app. bane of my existance is c, no legal 2 letter words ಠ_ಠ

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                              [–]IClimbStuff 315 points316 points ago

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                              http://www.scrabulizer.com/ actually gives you the biggest point combinations possible based on your input of which words are on the board already.

                              Not that I'd know from experience or anything. A friend told me about it.

                              Seriously. ಠ_ಠ

                              [–]TheDroopy 130 points131 points ago

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                              Protip: try to stick to the words that people have heard of. Girlfriend called me out on this when I scored like, 80 points on some kind of medical terminology.

                              [–]Stepoo 325 points326 points ago

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                              You cheat at scrabble against your girlfriend?

                              [–]Majoring_In_Vaginas 397 points398 points ago

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                              ex-girlfriend

                              [–]Bearasaurus 70 points71 points ago

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                              His other hand.

                              [–]feureau 16 points17 points ago

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                              Yeah. that hand chopped itself off when it found the other other hand was cheating in scrabble.

                              [–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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                              Oh, hey. It's you!

                              [–]feureau 1 point2 points ago

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                              Wait.. what ever did I do to get me this tag?

                              [–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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                              I...actually don't remember....

                              Oh wait! I have the link in RES. This is how you got your tag.

                              [–]feureau 1 point2 points ago

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                              Awesome. Awesome to the max. You may resume tagging me with that tag.

                              [–]vyleside 1 point2 points ago

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                              That's how ash's troubles started in evil dead. True story.

                              [–]Eurynom0s 1 point2 points ago

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                              Hangela's evil twin, L'Angela!

                              [–]bernkastel87 1 point2 points ago

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                              I'm reminded of this from The Onion.

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                                [–]thediscokid 14 points15 points ago

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                                How else am I supposed to get that blowjob?

                                [–]altoid2k4 21 points22 points ago

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                                7 letter word bonus, nice!

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                                    [–]ambivilant 16 points17 points ago

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                                    My friend tried calling me out when I played 'fjord' the other day. 'Adze' is a great word to play on somebody, too. Nobody ever let's that play without saying a word.

                                    [–]mammaryglands 39 points40 points ago

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                                    Your friend has never heard of a fjord?

                                    [–]hawker101 13 points14 points ago

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                                    I had a geography teacher about 17 or so years ago that made a joke about Puget Sound (Seattle) actually being a fjord. He said that Puget Sound Ford should actually be called Puget Fjord Ford. One of the only lessons I remember from that class.

                                    [–][deleted] 17 points18 points ago

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                                    When Wrath of the Lich King came out (I know, I know), half of the people I talked to called it Howling Fidge-ord.

                                    [–]Silix 1 point2 points ago

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                                    wowinsider podcast had a long running gag purposefully mispronouncing it on every episode.

                                    the joke was that people would send them emails to tell them they got it wrong, and they'd proceed to pronounce the email wrong too.

                                    personally I thought the joke was tired after the second time they did it, and hearing about emails where 12yo kids were trying to correct their father's fjord on insisting it's a fidge-ord.... just makes me cringe.

                                    [–]kateastrophic 1 point2 points ago

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                                    I don't understand anything you've said.

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                                      [–]TheDroopy 1 point2 points ago

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                                      Doesn't he know what dead parrots pine for?

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                                        [–]osciminan 31 points32 points ago

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                                        I always remember adze from an episode of Home Improvement... Yep.. Tim Allen is partially responsible for marginally increasing my vocabulary.

                                        [–]osciminan 13 points14 points ago

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                                        And the magic of Youtube!

                                        [–]adartmo 7 points8 points ago

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                                        watched about 5 minutes before i remembered "oh yeah, reddit"

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                                          [–]haakondafo 23 points24 points ago

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                                          Wtf. As a Norwegian I am offended that people don't know the word fjord!

                                          [–]hous 13 points14 points ago

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                                          Thanks to a certain dead parrot, you can be sure that most Redditors are in fact pining for the fjords.

                                          [–]riomhaire 3 points4 points ago

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                                          Slartibartfast put so much work into them and all!

                                          [–]GueroCabron 3 points4 points ago

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                                          I always shoot for CWM so I can get the challenge points

                                          [–]Doreagarde 17 points18 points ago

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                                          'Qis' is one of my favourites. A lot of people believe there aren't any words in English that have a 'Q' without being followed by a 'U'. These people lose at Scrabble.

                                          [–]sxtxixtxcxh 8 points9 points ago

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                                          qat is allowed in Words with Friends

                                          [–]JPsmooth42 1 point2 points ago

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                                          Upvote for seeing a PSN buddy in the wild.

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                                            [–]diggmeordie 5 points6 points ago

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                                            Suq is also.

                                            [–]HoratioHufnagel 23 points24 points ago

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                                            Not with my daughter it aint

                                            [–]KingOfWickerPeople 9 points10 points ago

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                                            Funny, she always lets it slide when we play

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                                              [–]pyroshen 2 points3 points ago

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                                              Qat also is a good one.

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                                                [–]CraineTwo 7 points8 points ago*

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                                                I find that CRWTH is even more fun for WTF's. I don't care how many points it is, I'll play it if I have the chance. It also helps that I'm a musician with an affection for ancient and obscure instruments, so if anyone accuses me of cheating, I just mention psalteries, rebeks, and erhus and they STFU.

                                                Edit: FYI Rebek and Erhu are not acceptable Scrabble words, but they ARE real instruments.

                                                [–]GueroCabron 1 point2 points ago

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                                                as long as you get the challenge points

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                                                  [–]travis_of_the_cosmos 47 points48 points ago

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                                                  You guys are all missing the point - Scrabble (or at least the online, unlimited-time-per-move) isn't a word game, it's a strategy game. Playing the highest-point word is often a shitty move; in the majority of cases it's only around 30 points, and played in the wrong place it can open up powerful moves for your opponent. You can crush your competition by never opening up a clear route for your enemy to any of the double or triple word scores, and by forcing them to do so instead. Then there's the end-game; in close games you want to time your moves so that you go out before your opponent, to grab those precious leftover-letter points.

                                                  Source: I'm something like 20-0 against a bunch of people who are clearly cheating, playing words no one has heard of. I'm actually thinking about retiring unless I can find someone who also understands the strategic aspects.

                                                  [–]Kuskesmed 17 points18 points ago

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                                                  I have a friend who plays like you, I didn't want to play more than 1 game that way. She would rather play a 2 letter word than open up to any DW or TW tiles. Got super boring real fast, snoozefest.

                                                  [–]travis_of_the_cosmos 19 points20 points ago

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                                                  Yeah, it's boring as shit. And effective. I'm like the Ulysses Grant of Words With Friends.

                                                  [–]jeaguilar 6 points7 points ago

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                                                  Inevitably drunk if not playing; sober for the game; a failure at all other games?

                                                  [–]travis_of_the_cosmos 1 point2 points ago

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                                                  Also I'm happy to kill off my tiles on shitty words in order to march toward the end of the game and win the war of attrition.

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                                                    [–]Corporal_Cavernosa 1 point2 points ago

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                                                    Agreed, boring as hell, made me wanna kill my best friend. ಠ_ಠ

                                                    [–]dpwood 40 points41 points ago

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                                                    Scrabulizer lets you order the results by their strategic value, not just by points: http://www.scrabulizer.com/static/strategy

                                                    Also the iPhone application is awesome (cause I wrote it)!

                                                    [–]EasyReader 8 points9 points ago

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                                                    The problem is when you play someone else who knows this, the board turns into a horrific mess where it takes ages to find a place to put one shitty word, because you both keep squeezing shit in to avoid opening the TW or something.

                                                    [–]dodge84 1 point2 points ago

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                                                    Yep, I beat all my friends using this strategy

                                                    [–]Taniwha_NZ 1 point2 points ago

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                                                    Well, I don't know why you find it difficult to get opponents who understand the game, but if you join a scrabble club in any reasonable-sized city they will kick your ass up and down the street for months.

                                                    It does ruin the game, when you decide to take it seriously, because you can no longer play against regular people for some casual fun. You will be desperately trying not to score too much, because people just get super-pissed when you roll out words that score 60 and up every second turn. And it's just depressing waiting for ages for someone to play a word, and you can see they've got 'quiz' right there in front of them and there's a place on the board where it would score over 100... and after an eternity they roll out 'zip' on unbonused squares and are thrilled with 14 points.

                                                    Nope, once you get even slightly serious about scrabble, you can only play against other serious folk. And see how depressed you get when some friends persuade you to play, despite your initial misgivings, and then they all agree to play four-player so everyone can play. There is no bigger or more annoying waste of time than playing 4-player scrabble, unless all four players are of similar ability.

                                                    So just think about that before you complain too much about not having any decent opponents. But if you don't mind ruining the game for any kind of casual fun, join a scrabble club.

                                                    It's actually funny how nerdy competitive scrabble is. It totally missed out on the 'geeks are cool now' tide that was supposed to lift all boats. Nope, even in the nerdiest geek website on the planet, people who play competitive Scrabble will still be on the outer, looking in.

                                                    I almost created a throwaway to make this comment.

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                                                      [–]ProEthan 2 points3 points ago

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                                                      Bryan?

                                                      [–]tehkingo 1 point2 points ago

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                                                      If the patient gets difficult, you quone him.

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                                                        [–]gmick 34 points35 points ago

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                                                        I don't understand why people cheat at any games, period. WTF is the point of playing something if you have absolutely no responsibility for your victory? Any accomplishment you appear to make is bullshit because you cheated to get it. It's a complete waste of time and deceitful.

                                                        [–]minderaser 8 points9 points ago

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                                                        I also have fun, for instance I play Words With Friends occasionally and I know someone who's a huge cheater, so our games just become massive cheatfests of who can create the most outrageous words. I enjoy it anyway, because we both know what we're doing.

                                                        [–]seamouse 9 points10 points ago

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                                                        I'd say that's not cheating, but changing the rules. You've created a game where both of you use something for guidance, and in doing so, have modded the game. This is fine. Cheating would be one of you using it without telling the other, and I agree with gmick: I find it weird that people cheat. I'm aware that many, many people do it out of habit, because that's just how they view the world.

                                                        I worked in a restaurant/bar, and we had trivia night on Wednesdays. I was on a team with one of the waitresses, when I learned she cheated every time. And she was okay with it when I saw her do it; it was just how she operated.

                                                        [–]BlindMildred 1 point2 points ago

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                                                        Well, technically, that´s not cheating.

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                                                          [–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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                                                          Holy fuck. So that's how the asshole I know did so well at it.

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                                                            [–]freddygonzalez7 136 points137 points ago

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                                                            A FUCKING Magic game with the PERFECT FUCKING VIEW and this mother fucker is playing Scrabble?! What a waste!

                                                            [–]leafeator[S] 50 points51 points ago

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                                                            He was probably getting paid too.

                                                            [–]pan0ramic 31 points32 points ago*

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                                                            which is probably why he didn't care as much. When we're paid to do the things we like to do, we tend to like them less.

                                                            edit: I read about the effect in Predictably Irrational however a quick summary of some of the most interesting topics of the book can be found in this great little video. (thanks to nyuncat for the link)

                                                            [–]PatFight 29 points30 points ago

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                                                            Pretend you're not getting paid to make that comment so we can see the link.

                                                            [–]taifoid 7 points8 points ago

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                                                            Pretend you're not getting paid and find it for him.

                                                            [–]Harman_M 3 points4 points ago

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                                                            ad infinitum

                                                            [–]NorthernSkeptic 6 points7 points ago

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                                                            yo dawg, i herd you like not getting paid while you do the things you like to do, so we didn't pay you while you get paid to do the things you like to get paid to like to do so you can like getting paid while you do what you like to do

                                                            [–]burpen 2 points3 points ago

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                                                            I didn't take the time to validate all that in my head, so I'm just going to upvote and assume you did your due diligence.

                                                            [–]nyuncat 5 points6 points ago

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                                                            Not sure if you meant this, but it's relevant.

                                                            [–]taifoid 1 point2 points ago

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                                                            Never make your hobby your job; unless you're a hooker.

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                                                              [–]andrew_ryans_caddy 119 points120 points ago

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                                                              I honestly thought for a second, "But it's basketball, not Magic: The Gathering...."

                                                              I need to go outside more.

                                                              [–]Lelldorianx 23 points24 points ago

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                                                              I immediately looked at his taskbar to see if he had Magic Online open.

                                                              I shall join you "outside."

                                                              [–]Bladethegreat 14 points15 points ago

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                                                              Took me 5

                                                              [–]functor7 4 points5 points ago

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                                                              For real, I'm stuck not seeing it and this asshole has front row seats and is playing scrabble!

                                                              Go Magic!!!

                                                              [–]gmick 2 points3 points ago

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                                                              If you're cheating, you ain't playing shit. You're just wasting everyone's time.

                                                              [–]farmd 2 points3 points ago

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                                                              came here to say this. also, MAGIC WON! fuck yea

                                                              [–]El_Dicko 1 point2 points ago

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                                                              First Magic game! Definitely radder in person.

                                                              [–]SecondGuy 5 points6 points ago*

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                                                              Agreed. The last thing you'll find me doing at a game is playing on a laptop or phone. I can't fathom someone working at a game and not wanting to watch the clear view of world-class entertainment.

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                                                                [–]rdudejr 104 points105 points ago

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                                                                Obviously this guy failed English and has

                                                                ( •_•)

                                                                ( •_•)>⌐■-■

                                                                (⌐■_■)

                                                                no class

                                                                [–]taifoid 32 points33 points ago

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                                                                Looks like a 3 headed snowman handing out sunglasses. What a nice fellow you are.

                                                                [–]Mr_chiMmy 46 points47 points ago

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                                                                ( •_•)  ⌐■-■<(•_• )  
( •_•)> ⌐■-■<(•_• )  
(⌐■_■)       (•_• )

                                                                [–]kilo4fun 24 points25 points ago

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                                                                Back and forth, forever.

                                                                [–]Madd0g 11 points12 points ago

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                                                                ))⌐■-■((

                                                                [–]G_Julius_Caesar 11 points12 points ago

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                                                                ( •_•)  ⌐■-■<(•_• )  
( •_•)> ⌐■-■<(•_• )  
(⌐■_■)       (•_• )  
( •_•)>⌐■-■  (•_• )  
( •_•)> ⌐■-■<(•_• )  
( •_•)       (⌐■_■)

                                                                [–]riomhaire 1 point2 points ago

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                                                                I think I'm in love with emoticon snowmen.

                                                                [–]Stonewater 8 points9 points ago

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                                                                All I got is creased, but that doesn't use the 'O'. Any better?

                                                                [–]bhingque 15 points16 points ago

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                                                                No 8 letter words, but a few with 7:

                                                                $ possibilities.pl oeceasdr "......."
Letter combinations: 247
Reading in dictionary
Read 332824 words
acerose
creased
decares
recodes
sarcode

                                                                It's not cheating when you write it yourself, right? :D

                                                                Actually, as has been noted elsewhere, this method produces largely unusable words. And it's not fun to win by cheating. Fun programming exercise, though.

                                                                [–]IAmAWhaleSexologist 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                Probably could run the words produced through an online dictionary. 0 results means it's a useless word.

                                                                Also, 10 points for Perl.

                                                                [–]naranjas 1 point2 points ago

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                                                                Did you write that in Perl or Prolog? You could probably write a scrabble solver in 10-20ish lines of Prolog.

                                                                [–]reconcilable 4 points5 points ago

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                                                                Only serial killers take joy in programming in Prolog

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                                                                  [–]clumsymechanic 1 point2 points ago

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                                                                  as if those are real words! creased?? wtf?

                                                                  [–]Milpooool 8 points9 points ago

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                                                                  Why is this man sitting at a desk, at a basketball game, playing scrabble?

                                                                  [–]IdSuge 7 points8 points ago

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                                                                  Wow. What a heathen fuck.

                                                                  [–]leafeator[S] 6 points7 points ago

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                                                                  ctrl + f "heathen fuck" ಠ_ಠ

                                                                  [–]TheLuckiest 4 points5 points ago

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                                                                  Who, the OP? Totally. ;D

                                                                  [–]leafeator[S] 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                  ಠ_ಠ

                                                                  [–]tr01101010101 6 points7 points ago

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                                                                  CALL THE POLICE HE HAS uTORRENT!!

                                                                  [–]aarongutch 12 points13 points ago*

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                                                                  Lexical is the best one I've ever us-- heard of.. ಠ_ಠ

                                                                  [–]TheSneeze 10 points11 points ago

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                                                                  Amazing seats at basketball game and doesn't watch.

                                                                  [–]A4thGrader 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                  He's DVRing it at home... Why would you want to watch at THAT angle when he can easily watch it straight on at home? Plus it's probably just so damn noisy in there.

                                                                  [–]leafeator[S] 4 points5 points ago

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                                                                  I was at the magic game tonight and sneaked up to some better seats. When I was snapping pictures this unfolded. Figured some of you would enjoy. ,

                                                                  [–]everycredit 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                  Ah, HDTV. When everyone on television misses standard def.

                                                                  [–]SocksOnHands 3 points4 points ago

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                                                                  If you're going to play scrabble on your laptop why even be at the basketball game?

                                                                  [–]Ayenguyen 5 points6 points ago

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                                                                  Front motherfucking court seats and this bitch is playing Words with Friends... This world.

                                                                  [–]Neckwrecker 13 points14 points ago

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                                                                  And at a basketball game no less. AYFKM?

                                                                  [–]ShallowBasketcase 9 points10 points ago

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                                                                  my brother pulls this shit and I still beat him all the time.

                                                                  fuck yeah, vocabulary.

                                                                  [–]danielvutran 16 points17 points ago

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                                                                  Your brother Fucking sucks.

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                                                                    [–]piptastic 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                    i play with a dude that i know does this

                                                                    it's annoying because i don't always have the time to do the same back to him

                                                                    [–]iamBillCosby 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                    HE'S A WITCH!!!!

                                                                    [–]jeebuscrisp 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                    Creased?

                                                                    [–]EukaryoteZ 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                    This is grounds for immediate termination of friendship...

                                                                    [–]comedic_implement 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                    Want hear something sad? I was browsing the iTunes app store last night and the 113th top selling app was a cheating at words with friends app.

                                                                    [–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                    Who brings a laptop to a basketball game?!

                                                                    [–]knightofmars 1 point2 points ago

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                                                                    Who brought a basketball game to his scrabble game?!

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                                                                      [–]ctull 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                      Is anyone else wondering why he's playing scrabble at an NBA game?

                                                                      [–]clumsymechanic 1 point2 points ago

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                                                                      NO

                                                                      [–]Hookhand 8 points9 points ago

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                                                                      I think we're all missing the most poignant part of this whole thing, and that is that basketball is boring as fuck.

                                                                      [–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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                                                                      Only womens basketball.

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                                                                        [–]imsodizzy 4 points5 points ago

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                                                                        I told my friend one time that he could cheat all he wanted and I would play fair, and I would still win. So, he used one of those things every turn. I still won. What a rookie.

                                                                        [–]MalevolentOnez 4 points5 points ago

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                                                                        Hey Joey!

                                                                        [–]leafeator[S] 4 points5 points ago

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                                                                        Who......

                                                                        [–]Gradual_Freestyle 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                        I swear I've seen this dude at least 5 times. He's always at the magic games (prob staff or reporter). Regardless people around always heckle him for using that cheating program/site (yes he does it that much)...but whatever floats his boat i guess. To confess I'd probably do something underhanded like that if it were for money or something like that. Cause you know I like my wallet fat. Hah...but yeh I hate when friends dip out on bets. And if they aren't paying up then I'm coming strapped. With a gat. Full clip spit grabbed from the hip placed to the dome in their home flash the chrome while i cheat on google chrome hope to not get caught but whatever I'll kill any squeelers. Put you in the ward call it pittsburgh steelers. Black and yellow while you are black and blue and I burn a few blunts and hit on a few cun-...women. Later that night I'm in her linens. Sinnin'. Working up a sweat call it thinning. I think I'll call her tomorrow ... who we kidding. Fuck that. Stay Single, ready to mingle pleasin females like chris cringle pleases kids. Fuck Lids I got my own thinking cap and its twice as quick as yours. Like a scout on the point but I'm done so lets just smoke a joint.

                                                                        [–]andrewsj1 1 point2 points ago

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                                                                        HAHA perfect

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                                                                          [–]TheChickenLover 3 points4 points ago

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                                                                          I saw someone in one of my lecture class do the exact same thing. Kind of made me hate people.

                                                                          [–]Haetrid 8 points9 points ago

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                                                                          Feeeeeeeedd meeeeee.....

                                                                          [–]Bladelink 1 point2 points ago

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                                                                          BURN HIM

                                                                          [–]lumpystumps 1 point2 points ago

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                                                                          Why is he on a laptop at a basketball game?

                                                                          [–]PohTayToez 1 point2 points ago

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                                                                          Worst part is that he's sitting on a pretty fantastic pile of letters there.

                                                                          [–]reofficedude 1 point2 points ago

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                                                                          The Magic are that bad...

                                                                          [–]JBEHAR11 1 point2 points ago

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                                                                          what a waste of such a great seat to the game

                                                                          [–]Andreus420 1 point2 points ago

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                                                                          I am ashamed to say that in my 10+ years of online gaming. Words With Friends is the one online game I have Cheated at... I am not proud of this, but if I lost one more time I was gonna off myself and or drop out of school. Because clearly by the games standards I'm a retard. :(

                                                                          [–]MattPDX04 1 point2 points ago

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                                                                          So...I guess no one in the arena was actually watching the game? No wonder Dwight wants to leave town.

                                                                          [–]diphiminaids 1 point2 points ago

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                                                                          oh how i hope his opponent sees this

                                                                          [–]Amanitas 1 point2 points ago

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                                                                          dwight howard at the free throw line? yeah, cheating or not, i'd much rather play scrabble online than watch that trainwreck.

                                                                          [–]umadtodd 1 point2 points ago

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                                                                          Well, I say cheating is the gift man gives himself!

                                                                          [–]diggexpat 1 point2 points ago

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                                                                          What kind of neckbeard busts out a laptop at a fucking NBA game?

                                                                          [–]ZeMilkman 1 point2 points ago

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                                                                          On behalf of the American government and the military I'd like to issue the following statement:

                                                                          We can neither confirm nor deny the validity of the photograph shown here. In any case, using a "Scrabble Word Finder" is NOT considered to be cheating but rather an enhanced playing technique.

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