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[–] ech@lemm.ee 47 points 3 months ago (10 children)

"Bag toss" lol

Satire site doesn't wanna say cornhole?

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 65 points 3 months ago (1 children)

However, the governor will not be apologizing for calling it ‘bags’ instead of ‘cornhole.’”

[–] ech@lemm.ee 15 points 3 months ago

Lol, fair. Didn't click through to read it.

[–] Poot@discuss.tchncs.de 48 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've always thought corn hole was receiving unlubricated anal sex. Is that correct?

[–] Poot@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 months ago

My neck of the woods it was used to refer to m2m anal, don't know about the "unlubed" bit.

[–] doctortran@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Disappointed because lack of butt stuff, or because cornhole is a really boring game?

I'd believe either.

[–] Poot@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago

Lol... Or both :)

[–] ganksy@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My wife calls it 'bags'. Hung my head low the day I found out.

[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago

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)

[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 5 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Saying pop vs soda can get you killed in some places. This ain't shit.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Soda weirdos are the ones calling it bags.

[–] ensoniqthehedgehog@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Disgracefulone@discuss.online 2 points 3 months ago

You may have taken this too seriously. Friendly got-your-back-reminder.

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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"

[–] Disgracefulone@discuss.online 1 points 3 months ago

The real rednecks call it "so-dee"

[–] doctortran@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I always play it safe and call it gassy sugar juice

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago
[–] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 4 points 3 months ago

Fake midwesterners!

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"bag toss" also sounds kind of dirty to me

[–] ech@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago
[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

to be fair, unless you're using corn cobs it ain't really cornhole

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] villainy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

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.