We don’t make any fuss here at the back of the pub. A small group happily playing Wordle, exchanging witty repartee like “Oops, that’s a Junior” and “Hard luck, Paul”.
Then along comes Gary who sits down at the table and starts playing some nonsense called Wordiplay. Even more alarmingly some of our gang join him!
The Wordle Committee can’t help but feel that our harmless quizzes are starting to clutter up the noticeboard and whilst we always welcome new members (standard vetting practices apply) we do appreciate that most of the AfterWord has little or no interest in our jolly pastimes.
Howsabout alongside Nights In/Out etc you Mods set up a portal called “Quizzes” or perhaps “Men Of A Certain Age Who Play With Themselves”?
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Is it time for a siesta yet?
Excellent idea! You could even take it one step further and set up whole new site. I hereby volunteer for the job of moderator, if you do.
You can shut the f**k up, tis all your fault!
Firstly, it was Baron H who had the marvelous idea of getting a Wordiply thread going.
Secondly, as has been discussed at great length, Wordiply results go under the radar without clogging up the system.
Thirdly, there isn’t a thirdly.
And fourthly, I can’t shut the f**k up, for it is in my nature to discourse, an affliction it ill becomes you to mock.
Ah, Baron set up your thread and called it “Piss off, Gary”. You duly obliged.
However I withdraw my f**k off, your discourse is, of course, always welcome. (Apart from the Wordle thread. And apart when you drone on about Pink Floyd. And apart from pool boys and shaved donkeys and how bloody handsome you are. And apart from living the dolce vita, it’s 21c here and I’m here and you’re not. Apart from that you can discourse away.)
Vote Corbyn!
“Don’t camarade me, you quisling! You’re not in uniform, and it’s dark!”
He doesn’t know what he wants but he wants it now.
I confess that I have no comment to make on the premise of this thread – but I really enjoyed that live clip!
Good man!
I really enjoyed it too. One of the advantages of being deaf.
If you can set up a virtual dart board I’d happily join you in The Games Room…
I’m already piling up 50 pence* pieces on the edge of the pool table.
How much does a game of pool in a pub cost nowadays? I haven’t played for probably 20 years. Not drinking means not going to the pub.
The main reason I played pool or snooker in pubs is that the cue was very handy to hold myself up with.
Free at my village bar. Mind you, it’s a brave man who says ” Hey, Marcel. You and Claude have been playing for two hours now. Any chance of letting me in?” It’s a long way home with a pool cue up your fundament.
That last line was scratched from Mott the Hoople at the last minute
Didn’t scan or something
I did Wordle for a few months, didn’t like threads here on it as people made “smart” comments that gave clues Not really sure why people like to brag about their results (or not), bit weird really
And why do new threads need to be started every few days, wouldn’t one be enough?
It was made clear from the start not to go to the thread before completing that day’s Wordle.
We need a new thread after 300 or so comments because the old thread closes in on itself and you can only see the last comment.
Nobody is “bragging” , just banter between mates in the Snug.
We’d welcome you back with open arms (as long as you keep your snarky comments to yourself)
Lodey is right twice in one day, and it’s not even Wednesday.
You might well be almost as smart as Gary. Wednesday indeed.
Yes but it shows up in recent activity which messed it up for me at the time, so I stopped bothering, especially as the new word appears in the UK/EU 5/6 hours before here
Just say No. Do your Wordle at whatever time suits you. Ignore any updates, recent activity in the current AW Wordle thread. Post your effort and watch as we laugh – ” Four? We all did it in 3!”
Buy us all a drink and soon we’re best chums and the world is a better place .
My mean spirited post may be partially due to my ongoing pain affliction. I use “Updates” a lot in which one can’t help seeing possible spoiler posts. But I also got a bit tired of Wordle.
I’ve had three months of pain now (complications after knee surgery) and throughout it all I have remained polite and well-mannered. Not once have I told Gary to f**k off or called Baron a cheat or indeed been anything else but a kind and loving husband to my wonderful wife (who has promised to return home any week now).
Tired of Wordle, tired of life….
Never Wordled, have a life.
Far be it from me to defend Wordle, but playing it really can’t be considered an indication of quality of life. Any more or less than, say, taking the time to comment on The Afterword can. The fact that some of those who play it are no doubt regarded, even by their loved ones, as the worthless dregs of a broken society is no reflection on the game itself, much less on those few participants whose lucidity might plausibly be judged redeemable.
Have you tried Wordiply?
As usual f**k off. Wordle is a true indication that the player is a man or woman of distinction. Wordiplay shows a man or woman of distrust and fear (although my 100% today shows a man of high intellect and modest with it).
Your modesty has never been in doubt, as far as I’m concerned. Even at your most potty-mouthed, humility shines through your every utterance. However, your evident supposition that distrust and fear are somehow inferior qualities in comparison with intellect and distinction is misleading. For example, would you rather bathe naked with a hoard of angry savages armed only with intellect and distinction, or would you find fear and distrust more reassuring emotional companions? I know where I stand.
Mods! Outbreak of extreme ponciness!
I tried the word “ponciness” in Wordiply and it was rejected.
It’s a wonder it didn’t implode.
I tried “compostibilitynessing” and guess what…..
You lost the will to live?
Yup
No judgement, but it may be that Wordle threads are just not right for you, in much the same was as a thread entitled ‘ATM – best Analog to Digital line level gizmo with a USB interface to a PC?’ are just not right for me.
I agree – come back in Dai. The water’s lovely.
Stay where you are, Dai. Don’t trust them. It’s not really water.
This thread is turning into the plot of Cocoon.
Careful – the Afterword AI bot will ban you if you throw words like that around.
Why, because of the association with Steve Gutenberg?
He was never any good after he knocked out his Bible.
If the Afterword was a pub, I hope that there’s a pool table and a dart board. I love playing both. I’m pretty good at the first, incredibly inconsistent at the second; oh bum, double-1 checkout again…
Some bar snacks would he nice. Decent pork pies, pickled onions and cheese and onion crisps should do it.
Pork scratchings? Chicken itchings? Doggy scabs?
Wolf nipple chips? Otter’s noses?
What is still my local in the nearby town served two kinds of rolls for lunch – cheese and onion, or ham – both on pappy white rolls. In clingfilm. Said rolls endured for at least three mein hosts; distinctly possible that they were the same rolls, dredged out of some bottomless chest freezer. Both varieties known as ‘scaggy rolls’. Sorry Ron and Sheila, Dave and Sandra…