coast

Thank you Tricky - I'd give you another star for all that, if I could!

lone

I wonder how many unique words you can get in an unbroken chain in this game...?

Sascha - thanks, that's helpful. Am I being too nosy to ask how it's funded? Through an HE organisation, or advertising from universities or something else?

Whatever it is, I think it's very good, despite the colours :p

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punk

Question for the forum people really.... who actually runs it? I was wondering whether it was a specific university, or some other academic organisation or a private company....

I was curious, as you seem to make amendments and fix technical problems very quickly, which is an astonishingly fast response for a student resource, compared to my own institution's IT provision.

Re the other things people have mentioned, I'm also happy with the newest posts first, the recent changes are great and I also find the colour scheme a bit hideous.

runt

Have you any idea why there are relatively more pig-related unsults and not-very-polite turns of phrase, compared with other animals? It doesn't seem any fatter/messier/less attractive/definitely not sweatier than anything else to me, and goodness knows where the abusive police connection came from.

boost

Hi Lara,

Thanks for asking - had a slightly disappointing day yesterday, actually! Did about 2 hours of writing, sorted out half my illustrations for this chapter and got several useful references from an old yellowing book that made me sneeze. Then I did my food shopping, cooking and watched detective programs on TV as my treat for the day. And now I'm back at work for 2 days, so any PhD stuff that gets done will be a bonus - though reading through the draft so far and editing it on the bus is usually quite productive, I find! My deadline is the 31st for this chapter, so will have to crack on with it on Friday.

How's everyone else getting on?

Is there a sweatier creature that one should suggest instead, for anyone using that term? Assuming you want to use an animal comparison to emphasise excessive human perspiration, of course... though I'm starting to think pigs acquired a rather negative public image, somewhere along the line.

pant

Rune

Tone

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