The Official Nonsense Thread

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(19-06-2013 10:19 PM)Caspin Wrote:  I'll let my scrabble-playing friends know that they are all intense psychos.

I have never liked scrabble, even though I like words, because people do take it so seriously and get so competitive. I also really hate trivial pursuit and will generally refuse to play it, even though I like facts, for the same reasons. It's a game, people! If a board game is to be played, maybe at Christmas, and I'm asked to choose, I always pick Cluedo. Then I can make dramatic announcements about candlesticks and lead pipes in the billiard room.

Board games players - I could tell you a few tales! If you want to find the biggest collection of prigs, perverts & political extremists, go to any board or RPG game convention, usually the same sort to be found at Real Ale festivals, but at least there you can get drunk.

Really, all the stereotypes are true. Geeky I like, geeks are usually quite charming & sweet, but they're the sort of that thinks still being entertained by childhood toys makes them into some sort of master race, & they really, REALLY dislike anyone that's not "one of us".

I used to know Richard Sharp, who was once British Scrabble champion. He was the epitome of the brittle, pompous Home Counties middle Englander - just the sort that would have been found with a garden fork through his head in an episode of Midsommer Murders.

Trivial Pursuit: when I was still at school, I was "volunteered" to be part of a team representing it in a district TP championship run by the council library services. One of the games ended in a punch up between two players over a dispute as to whether one of the questions was really a Science & Nature question (JHC, the poor librarian was only reading out what was on the card, she didn't print it!) & another one occured outside between one winner & a bad loser. I think this was before the European Union outlawed certain e-numbers in soft drinks.