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  • D DerekT P

    Could you do us the favour of explaining why "annoying" is "generic", but "challenging" isn't? Struggling with the rules here but regardless, I do like "Finally" as proposed elsewhere. Accessible both to developers and the general public.

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    5teveH
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    DerekT-P wrote:

    Could you do us the favour of explaining why "annoying" is "generic", but "challenging" isn't?

    Yeah, it's a bit of a grey area, admittedly - but I'll give it a go: - Someone can be "annoying" for any number of reasons - including being "opinionated" or "challenging". - [I think], "challenging" describes a more specific type of characteristic - maybe! To be honest, the fact that I consider the word "challenging" as an option for my gravestone, probably gives you the only clue you need to my approach to rules. Particularly when they've been made up, on the spot, by some lunatic posting random stuff on The Lounge! ;)

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      ... what would it be? I'm struggling, between "opinionated" and "challenging". And, BTW, the 'rules', (that I'm just making up, right now!), state that you can't have catch-all, generic words. Otherwise, I could have just gone with "annoying". Note. I'm not planning on dying any time soon - but I know, from bitter experience, that you never can predict what life will throw at you. Every morning, when I wake up, I say to myself: "result". :)

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      If we can include numbers: 307 if you believe in reincarnation 308 if you don't.

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      • R Rich Leyshon

        I would go for either: "BUGGER" or "HELP!"

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        5teveH
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        My favourites so far. :-D

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          ... what would it be? I'm struggling, between "opinionated" and "challenging". And, BTW, the 'rules', (that I'm just making up, right now!), state that you can't have catch-all, generic words. Otherwise, I could have just gone with "annoying". Note. I'm not planning on dying any time soon - but I know, from bitter experience, that you never can predict what life will throw at you. Every morning, when I wake up, I say to myself: "result". :)

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          Sander Rossel
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          • R Rich Leyshon

            I would go for either: "BUGGER" or "HELP!"

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            Johnny J
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            "Bugger" would be my choice too... :laugh:

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              Slacker007
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              Is that really one word? :) sounds like a noun and a verb.

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                ... what would it be? I'm struggling, between "opinionated" and "challenging". And, BTW, the 'rules', (that I'm just making up, right now!), state that you can't have catch-all, generic words. Otherwise, I could have just gone with "annoying". Note. I'm not planning on dying any time soon - but I know, from bitter experience, that you never can predict what life will throw at you. Every morning, when I wake up, I say to myself: "result". :)

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                Slow Eddie
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                "Resting" or "Done". But I too like Finally

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                • R Rage

                  "Loading..."

                  Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                  I was thinking along the same lines, either Uploading ... or Downloading ... Depending on where you think you'll end up. :laugh:

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                    ... what would it be? I'm struggling, between "opinionated" and "challenging". And, BTW, the 'rules', (that I'm just making up, right now!), state that you can't have catch-all, generic words. Otherwise, I could have just gone with "annoying". Note. I'm not planning on dying any time soon - but I know, from bitter experience, that you never can predict what life will throw at you. Every morning, when I wake up, I say to myself: "result". :)

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                    Obi_Hendrix
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                    "Return" or "EOF"

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                      Rage
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                      This is brilliant. :laugh:

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                      • O Obi_Hendrix

                        "Return" or "EOF"

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                        Rage
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                        EOF is very good !

                        Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                          ... what would it be? I'm struggling, between "opinionated" and "challenging". And, BTW, the 'rules', (that I'm just making up, right now!), state that you can't have catch-all, generic words. Otherwise, I could have just gone with "annoying". Note. I'm not planning on dying any time soon - but I know, from bitter experience, that you never can predict what life will throw at you. Every morning, when I wake up, I say to myself: "result". :)

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                          Ron Anders
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                          Later

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                            ... what would it be? I'm struggling, between "opinionated" and "challenging". And, BTW, the 'rules', (that I'm just making up, right now!), state that you can't have catch-all, generic words. Otherwise, I could have just gone with "annoying". Note. I'm not planning on dying any time soon - but I know, from bitter experience, that you never can predict what life will throw at you. Every morning, when I wake up, I say to myself: "result". :)

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                            Johnny J
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                            "Ooops!" :rolleyes:

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                            • D den2k88

                              Either AFK or BRB.

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                              5teveH
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                              I'm not sure if acronyms is cheating, (and I made up the rules!), but I like these.

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                                ... what would it be? I'm struggling, between "opinionated" and "challenging". And, BTW, the 'rules', (that I'm just making up, right now!), state that you can't have catch-all, generic words. Otherwise, I could have just gone with "annoying". Note. I'm not planning on dying any time soon - but I know, from bitter experience, that you never can predict what life will throw at you. Every morning, when I wake up, I say to myself: "result". :)

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                                raddevus
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                                Tenacious

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                                  ... what would it be? I'm struggling, between "opinionated" and "challenging". And, BTW, the 'rules', (that I'm just making up, right now!), state that you can't have catch-all, generic words. Otherwise, I could have just gone with "annoying". Note. I'm not planning on dying any time soon - but I know, from bitter experience, that you never can predict what life will throw at you. Every morning, when I wake up, I say to myself: "result". :)

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                                  dandy72
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                                  Old meme, but: </life>

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                                    I'm not sure if acronyms is cheating, (and I made up the rules!), but I like these.

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                                    den2k88
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                                    Well, German with its composite wordss would also be cheating then :D

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                                    • J jhaga

                                      DEAD

                                      jhaga

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                                      jhaga wrote:

                                      DEAD

                                      Back in the late 80s I saw a Honeywell DPS6000 series mainframe crash dump that started out with the hex values DEAD.

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                                        ... what would it be? I'm struggling, between "opinionated" and "challenging". And, BTW, the 'rules', (that I'm just making up, right now!), state that you can't have catch-all, generic words. Otherwise, I could have just gone with "annoying". Note. I'm not planning on dying any time soon - but I know, from bitter experience, that you never can predict what life will throw at you. Every morning, when I wake up, I say to myself: "result". :)

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                                        MarkTJohnson
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                                        !alive

                                        I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.

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                                        • P Peter_in_2780

                                          In that case, whatever the opposite of "result" is....

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                                          MarcusCole6833
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                                          UpforAPint

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