Yes, for this forum. I’ve encountered that requirement in other threads when all I could muster was an emoji – which wasn’t enough.
My previous comment was specifically about this thread, where the opposite tends to be the case.
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Pinochle is my favorite card game though I haven’t played in years now. None better in my opinion. There’s a few variations but I only played single deck with single bid…no auction bidding. I worked in a packing house between college and the service and we’d play in the tavern off the back gate on our 30 minute breaks or after work if we got off early.
I don’t recall being part of an organized protest…except once when we were on strike at the packing house.
I’ve seen several protests in my life both large and small. Much too often the original good intent gets lost as a crowd swells and a mob mentality creeps in. Add a counter protesting crowd to that dynamic and it quickly just turns into a soccer match. And when the dust clears both sides go home virtuously patting each other on the back and the community has to pick up the pieces.
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Some require bourbon as an emoji is just not enough.
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Not enough bourbon (scotch in my case) in the world 
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It’s as set by the admins of those websites to fight spam I guess. And they are usually global, not for individual threads. Also many of them have the wait times between posts.
Tired of that now I can just copy paste this word 
Made it for Supercell forum. They shut it down last year though.
Many fora using Discourse require 20 characters, but it is Admin configurable and it appears that this instance (Hungry Onion, I mean) of Discourse does not have a minimum number required.
Anywhere you find that it does, you can insert invisible text to make up the necessary total. Any string of letter characters embedded within left- and right-pointing carets works.
For example, if you remove the initial space, these would be invisible text:
< mmmmmmmm>
< abcdefghijk>
However, your solution is more fun.
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I want to clarify what the mod team does here. If you take a look at the site rules, it clearly say that there is no personal attacks and politics. If we see something going awry, we’ll review and handle accordingly. With that said, we have a few volunteer mods, we don’t and can’t read everything, especially we all have regular day jobs and run the forum as a hobby. hence why we rely on the flag system for users to flag problematic posts.
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Gotcha. I am still using my training wheels here. The little wheels are onion shaped. Love totoro. https://ghibli-shop.com/product/totoro-plush-toys-cute-fat-cat/
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In college I had a delightfully charming English prof and he put forth the idea to the class of not reading all the classics and saving a few for old age. As he was doing. You never know, you might fall in with the wrong crowd someday. And they might need a fourth for pinochle.
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Well I am never doing the protest thing again. We only had ten people tops and I was also responding to the other flag you usually fly but took down for Flag week. I can be subtle. See see? As another member mentioned right before I proposed to her, being an observer provides many gifts. My big point buried in there among my ramblings was that I was the only one in the diverse group over many weeks who felt strongly that the police were protecting us, not spying on us. I helped with a union protest a few times. The group picketed peacefully outside a heat treat plant. United Steel Workers. Most truckers would not cross a picket line then. Dunno about now. Someone falsely accused the picketers of placing nails in the road and when the management inside ordered a pizza delivered the strikers paid for the pizza and enjoyed it themselves. And laughed a lot. For Occupy Lansdale I tried to keep it light. For example we had a thick rope connecting the signs and when a friendly guy walked past with his pet cockatoo I encouraged him to let the bird perch on our rope. For solidarity you know. Also interesting was all pedestrians gave us fist pumps and some of the men shook hands. People in cars not so much.
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Woot. But the partner thing is such fun. And there is a better game in my opinion. Pinochle is the weed that lead to my cardboard crack addiction: Magic The Gathering. And to think I could theoretically blame my wonderful grandmother for my obsession. Naw. https://cardboard-crack.com/
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Oh yes always partners, always count cards, and sly inkling. I am probably the best pinochle player in the western hemisphere and the biggest troublemaker too.
I’d like to test that theory. My SO’s dad also played. A grenade went off in his hand before he could throw it but he could still sling those cards with the fingers he had left. Pinochle was such a lovely past time. Television can be over rated. Well, except Breaking Bad. I never would have watched that show if Jim Leff had not put me on to it. Some of my friends mock me for not watching enough tv. So I kill them. I much prefer duels in magic the gathering and the premise is that you and your opponent are planeswalkers fighting over control of the same plane. It is a duel to the death. I don’t lose often. One of the shop owners where I play gave me the best nickname: A Train because how do you stop a train? You don’t. Plus how many posts have you had flagged today? Huh? Huh?
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This was sent to me and thought that I would share:
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Warriors! Holy cannoli!
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Awww thank you! Am sitting here with my aperol spritz on this humid muggy night and what a delight.
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Topic? What is this topic you speak of? I know what you mean though. I did start a new topic in praise of thrift shops but I have found in my limited time here and on other sandboxes it’s just best to chat. I hate to say with like minded people because I love talking with people who don’t think the same as me. Make it so number one. If you build it they will come. I have not found too many constraints yet. I had a post flagged today but I think it was because of one word I used in a quote from several years ago. I told my one friend and he mumbled something like euphemism treadmill. The flag system tends to skew towards the more complainy types just like on chowhound. I never reported any one there except twice people selling sneakers. Want to buy some sneakers?
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“Today is SCOTUS’s last opinion release day for June 2022. With their term coming to an end each release date is highly anticipated.”
Please Google it as we can’t mention what these decisions are.
Our thread might get locked so we can’t discuss them because it would be considered political.
We are all enjoying this thread, yourself included.
Again, we don’t want to risk the thread getting locked.
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I was joking about the sneakers. I should google it but perhaps a negroni first to steel myself.
