• AFK BRB Chocolate
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    1191 year ago

    Jessica Tarlov, one of the panel’s more liberal co-hosts, said she was in favor of the game removing slurs, adding, “I think we can all agree on that.”

    Two panelists replied, “Not so fast!” and “Be careful, Jessica.”

    Jesus Christ, how do these chucklefucks convince themselves that they aren’t terrible people?

      • @fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
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        111 year ago

        Nice sentiment, but too many syllables to hold their attention.

        More like “why they call me ass for being ass?!”

    • @JakenVeina@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      “Yeah, Jessica, we’ve talked about this. You can’t just SAY that racist things should be avoided, we’re trying to APPEAL to racists, remember?”

        • @chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Would only really be relevant for tournaments, except the organizing bodies of which aren’t affiliated with Hasbro and have their own sets of words and drama over them. People playing casually can just have house rules about whether slurs are or aren’t accepted and what counts as one.

            • @TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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              111 year ago

              We used to play “if you can convince me it’s a word, it counts”. I got a triple word score on zaxticuous and that shit got shut down. It means: Having the property or appearance of Zach Morris from Saved by the Bell.

              (The events in this comment are a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.)

              • @orphiebaby@lemm.ee
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                51 year ago

                “Any resemblance to actual persons— Zach Morris or otherwise— or actual events… is purely coincidental.”

              • Flying Squid
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                41 year ago

                The best Scrabble move I ever saw:

                My brother: “Can you put down swear words?”

                My mother: “No.”

                My brother: (Puts down SHIT) “Not a swear, just what I have to do.” (Leaves to go to the bathroom.)

            • Flying Squid
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              1 year ago

              Ours was the unabridged OED when I was a kid.

              And my father with his English PhD didn’t even play.

        • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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          31 year ago

          I’ll accept it if its obviously a real word, no matter how offensive it is.

          Not if it requires a capital letter though. I’m not a complete animal.

    • TWeaK
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      101 year ago

      Jessica Tarlov, one of the panel’s more liberal co-hosts

      I honestly first read that as “one of the panel’s more literate co-hosts”.