Deep discussion of the word Thwarted

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Deep discussion of the word Thwarted

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This was the suggestion of another forum user. What I was after was done so how could I have been thwarted?

Are there many topics thwarted on this forum if so why?
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I had assumed that the reference to "thwarted" was provoked by a BBC link to this story.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/18659782
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Edwards wrote:This was the suggestion of another forum user. What I was after was done so how could I have been thwarted?


Edwards wrote:...I just wanted to keep this towards the top...


I believe there are two senses in which you have been thwarted. :wink:

1. towards the top - The very top is not towards the top. Since the thread has been stickied it will stay at the very top of "Does Anyone Know?" until the powers that be unstick it or give pre-eminence to another sticky.
2. I - this has not been achieved by your own doing but by someone else. You have been denied the opportunity to keep the thread towards the top by your own "bumping" efforts.

Edwards wrote:Are there many topics thwarted on this forum if so why?

Perhaps there are degrees of thwartedness.

Unanswered threads are thwarted by default, I suppose you could consider locked threads to be thwarted by design, those that receive a post from the mods to indicate there is a duplicate thread on the same subject are possibly thwarted, but those threads that are moved off to the naughty corner out of public gaze are seriously thwarted.
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I'd add being thwarted by hijacking and /or, going off at a tangent.
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I sent a PM asking for it to be stick thingied and then by magic it happened, along with the message about being thwarted.

Some of the long threads do not seem to get the original message across as so many disagree. Would that be thwarted.

I was not sure if it was some sort or internet thing that had another meaning?
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Edwards wrote:I sent a PM asking for it to be stick thingied and then by magic it happened, ...


If your PM was to the person who stuck it then I must withdraw my previous thwarts on the subject.

Edwards wrote:... along with the message about being thwarted...


I am at a loss, or possibly even thwarted, to come up with a reason for the thwarting message :? . Unless you have been thwarted by the sticky thing being done through the correct application of the forum software rather than the use of magic to achieve your ends.

Did you specify within your PM that supernatural means should be used to achieve the stickiness?
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I also wonder about the addition of "SPOILERS!" to the title of the post. This appears to have been achieved by the hand of mod.

So if your intention, unstated within the thread (but known unto mod, who is omnipotent :wink: ), was to give away the results before the highlights have been watched then you may indeed have been thwarted.

I would not believe that to have been your intention, so much for the idea of an omnipotent mod.
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We should consider the implications of this for the wider forum. eg in the context of horizon's concerns about the inapproppriate use of the "historic present," is it preferable to say "I always thwart" or does "I thwink" or (heaven forfend) "I am thwinking" give a better sense of immediacy?
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Gaz the first post says if you do not want to know the result look away now in big worms. I am wondering if TC is along the right lines with thwink.

I do use the thwunk occasionally but not to often as it tires my brain. Not sure if I have ever been caught thwinking and certanily not when tense.
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Edwards wrote:Gaz the first post says if you do not want to know the result look away now in big worms...

Good point, but even so I thwink I can click the last post link from the topic titles page, in which case your warning worms are thwarted.

Anyway...

I thwart I thwaw a puddy tat.

I did, I did thwaw a puddy tat.

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I thought you were referring to a chav with a speech impediment. Innit?
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I have been Thwarted in my new role, as part of my new nursing duties I am required to assist in the shower. I end up getting soaked so asked for proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
I checked with a specialist online shop for waterproof clothing for the activity and sorted out two types of material, rubber or PVC.
I though the uniform looked good and was of the type required for this type of nursing duty.

The idea was rejected out of hand and told that I must not ask the insurance company to pay for the uniform.
So a good idea THWARTED.
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One thing to emerge from this is that it made me look it up in the dictionary. I'd always had a vague idea that it derived from a nautical expression but it doesn't. It seems the only thing to do with water is that a rower's seat may be called a thwart. So Wiggo being thwarted means something different to Steve Redgrave.
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