• cybervseas@lemmy.world
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    Don’t give them ideas, HT…

    His brother already shared that his “big story” was no one wanted to sit next to Tim on road trips as a child because he used to get car sick.

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    “Bag toss” lol

    Satire site doesn’t wanna say cornhole?

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      I’m a gay northerner who moved to Georgia many years ago. When one of my co-workers said he was going to go play cornhole with his buddies, I asked if I could come too.

      Needless to say, I was terribly disappointed.

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        I was 35 before I heard it called anything but bags. I only found out it’s called cornhole (because I guess the bags used to be filled with corn?) because I was at a bar, and it was on. On ESPN. That’s also the day I learned ESPN will show just about anything that can be classified as a sport or game when there aren’t major sports events going on.

        I laughed for a solid several minutes about it. (Thankfully I was not by myself or I’d have looked like a nutter)

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          The word “soda” comes from the sodium salts in carbonated water, which reduce the liquid’s acidity. The word may also come from the Italian word suwwād, which refers to a saltwort that can be used to obtain sodium carbonate. The first known use of the word “soda” was in 1558.

          The term “pop” was first used in the early 19th century as a colloquial term for fizzy drinks. The earliest known use of the word was in 1812, when poet Robert Southey wrote in a letter that a new drink was “called pop, because ‘pop goes the cork’ when it is drawn”. The term “soda pop” was later combined from the words “pop” and “soda” in 1863.

          I mean soda was around to refer to a carbonated beverage hundreds of years before pop came into use. Plus pop is one of those confusing English language words that can mean a few different things (dad, loud-noise, carbonated-beverage, punch, arrive, etc.). You do you though. And keep thinking anybody who does things differently than you is weird. That’s healthy.

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          My mom’s 100% rural redneck boyfriend is an avid “bags” player and calls soda “pop” as well as calling dinner “supper” and any dish he isn’t familiar with is a “casserole”

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          I called it pop when I was a kid, then I grew up. I don’t call it soda though. Now I just call it whatever is actually in the can.

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      It’s addressed in the article but the game has several regional names. Cornhole is one of them.

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        We all just called it “beanbag toss” when I was a kid, but now people from the area have switched to calling it cornhole.

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      Growing up in the midwest, we always called it “bean bag toss.” I remember someone calling it “bean bag golf.” shrug

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      I just assumed some global megacorp had finally managed to get “Cornhole” through the trademark office and started suing everyone into oblivion. Must be time for an internet break to rebalance the pessimism.

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    I saw the headline, and I automatically assumed that this was an actual “scandal” that Fox News was cooking up.

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    It took me way too many bites of this onion to realize what I was eating. Well done.

    Conservatism has become identical to parodies of conservatism.

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    Such a scandal! He must step down now! There can be no compromise on ethics for Democratic candidates!

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      He inflated the score by 2 points only. What a loser. Well he won, but you know what I mean. Don would have inflated the score by 145 points. He’s the best inflater, nobody inflates like he does. He has inflated so much that he had the biggest inflation ever. Ah fuck, you know what I mean.

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    Tim Walz inflated the score of the other team because they weren’t doing so well.

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    I’m a Republican that does their Own Research and this article PROVES Tim Walz is a HORRIBLE Person and only TRUMP who had an affair while his Wife was Pregnant is Fit to Lead the Country!

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    I can see it now. Years into the future, a weird Republican coalition in Congress: “But his bag toss!” “Where’s Tim’s real score?”

    As the country burns.

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    Next you’re gonna tell me the fish he caught on a fishing trip in '99 was slightly smaller than he described. Outrageous.

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    The Onion is fake news! It wasn’t Walter Mondale who did the photo op in the tank. It was Michael Dukakis. FAKE NEWS

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    In other words doing dad stuff. Sounds like the “opposition” is against fatherhood now