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HylianFox
07/20/22 12:43:50 AM
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/quidditch-changes-name_n_62d744d3e4b0aad58d13bff5

Sounds like something you'd play on the college grounds between classes...

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Alteres
07/20/22 12:45:50 AM
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that doesnt sound like a bullshit fake witch name and therefore actually doesnt fit at all...

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Smashingpmkns
07/20/22 12:56:44 AM
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Lol they actually run around with a stick between their legs

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Lairen
07/20/22 12:57:47 AM
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This is dumb af.

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Guide
07/20/22 12:58:25 AM
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That's stupid, may as well rename wands to "magistix"

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ThePrinceFish
07/20/22 12:58:28 AM
#6:


HylianFox posted...
Sounds like something you'd play on the college grounds between classes...
So it's perfectly descriptive

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MarshallStack
07/20/22 1:01:01 AM
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this is some vegetarian liking mumford and sons candyass dumb as fuck bullshit

also Harry Potter is shit

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Philip027
07/20/22 1:07:16 AM
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I don't know whether to say good for them (not sarcasm) or wonder why anyone would even try to do something like this without real flying brooms.

It's like the world's saddest LARP attempt, which is saying a lot.

Unlike in Rowlings books, the players dont fly.

Yeah thanks chief, we got that.
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viewmaster_pi
07/20/22 1:12:04 AM
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they should really ditch the whole riding brooms like toy horsies thing

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SprtTrcks
07/20/22 11:05:37 PM
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How 2022
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TheAttackTitan
07/20/22 11:41:03 PM
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viewmaster_pi posted...
they should really ditch the whole riding brooms like toy horsies thing

But then how would people know that they are virgins for life? It takes real effort to keep normal women away. They just don't have time, you know? Too busy being the biggest losers ever born.
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YugiNoob
07/20/22 11:43:34 PM
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Was Dorkball taken?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/5/2/AAPV5JAADeZo.jpg

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Jagr_68
07/20/22 11:53:23 PM
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Oi down for a matchup of good ol quadball eh bruv?

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haloiscoolisbak
07/20/22 11:53:38 PM
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YugiNoob posted...
Was Dorkball taken?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/5/2/AAPV5JAADeZo.jpg

She thicc tho

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PiOverlord
07/21/22 12:07:28 AM
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When the FAQ'ers are calling the others nerds and dorks, smh.


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Anteaterking
07/21/22 12:09:57 AM
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I feel like the result of cancelling J.K. Rowling should be that people stop playing quidditch and being obsessed with Harry Potter, rather than try to pretend like that's not whose work they are celebrating.

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haloiscoolisbak
07/21/22 12:12:46 AM
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Anteaterking posted...
I feel like the result of cancelling J.K. Rowling should be that people stop playing quidditch and being obsessed with Harry Potter, rather than try to pretend like that's not whose work they are celebrating.

That would make too much sense

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FortuneCookie
07/21/22 12:13:49 AM
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Reminds me of when America tried to push "freedom fries" to spite France.
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ZangsBeard
07/21/22 12:14:17 AM
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Alteres posted...
that doesnt sound like a bullshit fake witch name and therefore actually doesnt fit at all...

Bullshit, Professor Lowhangin Quadball is definitely a canon name.

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FortuneCookie
07/21/22 12:27:32 AM
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Anteaterking posted...
I feel like the result of cancelling J.K. Rowling should be that people stop playing quidditch and being obsessed with Harry Potter, rather than try to pretend like that's not whose work they are celebrating.


haloiscoolisbak posted...
That would make too much sense

You say that like diehards wouldn't sooner sever their left pinky finger than give up Harry Potter. You can't pull a "stop liking what I don't like" in the name of progress. Even without the fanatics, it's still a story which appeals to millions of people. You'd be better off to set fire to a mountain of money than to cancel Harry Potter himself.
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Gobstoppers12
07/21/22 12:29:26 AM
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But actually, it's still Quidditch. They taped over the real name with a new, worse name but it's still Quidditch.

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dioxxys
07/21/22 12:32:02 AM
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Lmaooo
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Naysaspace
07/21/22 12:32:23 AM
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we support playing a game created and popularized by a transphobe! but we hate her so we'll call it something different, yet similar.
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haloiscoolisbak
07/21/22 12:44:02 AM
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FortuneCookie posted...
You say that like diehards wouldn't sooner sever their left pinky finger than give up Harry Potter. You can't pull a "stop liking what I don't like" in the name of progress. Even without the fanatics, it's still a story which appeals to millions of people. You'd be better off to set fire to a mountain of money than to cancel Harry Potter himself.

People stopped listening to Michael Jackson, watching Chris Benoit matches etc

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FortuneCookie
07/21/22 12:53:15 AM
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haloiscoolisbak posted...
People stopped listening to Michael Jackson, watching Chris Benoit matches etc

No, they didn't.

Michael Jackson had continuous airplay on radio stations at the height of the molestation accusations. And Benoit matches still get a ton of views on the WWE Network, YouTube, Daily Motion, etc.

Not to minimize it, but people who speak hate are still in a different category of guilt from those who actually commit rape or murder.
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ZangsBeard
07/21/22 12:55:34 AM
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haloiscoolisbak posted...
People stopped listening to Michael Jackson, watching Chris Benoit matches etc

What color is the sky in your world? I want to come live there. I have skills.

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CelestialVoices
07/21/22 12:57:00 AM
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why not quadditch

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haloiscoolisbak
07/21/22 1:18:06 AM
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ZangsBeard posted...
What color is the sky in your world? I want to come live there. I have skills.

I've seen tons of anecdotes of people saying they can no longer listen to MJ or watch Benoit. Or Spacey, Cosby etc

It's obviously not everyone though, just like not every HP fan wants to cancel JKR

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ZangsBeard
07/21/22 1:29:15 AM
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haloiscoolisbak posted...
I've seen tons of anecdotes of people saying they can no longer listen to MJ or watch Benoit. Or Spacey, Cosby etc

It's obviously not everyone though, just like not every HP fan wants to cancel JKR

Fair. But also fair that your statement about people stopping consuming the media of certain people was ambiguous in form.

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haloiscoolisbak
07/21/22 1:47:05 AM
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FortuneCookie posted...
No, they didn't.

Michael Jackson had continuous airplay on radio stations at the height of the molestation accusations. And Benoit matches still get a ton of views on the WWE Network, YouTube, Daily Motion, etc.

Not to minimize it, but people who speak hate are still in a different category of guilt from those who actually commit rape or murder.

The MJ cancellation only came after that documentary a few years back. Like when the Simpsons canned his episode completely from re runs. That's the era I was referring too and more relevant to the JKR stuff. I would say some radio stations followed their lead around then

At the height of MJs accusations, cancelling wasn't a thing really. In fact Benoit being completely blacklisted from the WWE network and kinda erased from history through never again being referenced on any WWE programming (until recently) is probably one of the first examples I can think of like, modern cancelling(so not including the stuff Stalin did lol). Vince ahead of the curve there lol

As to your point about what they did being worse than what JKR did, fair enough.


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Kim_Seong-a
07/21/22 2:20:06 AM
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Our sport has developed a reputation as one of the most progressive sports in the world on gender equality and inclusivity, in part thanks to its gender maximum rule, which stipulates that a team may not have more than four players of the same gender on the field at a time,

...huh.

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PesticideDream
07/21/22 2:40:48 AM
#36:


PiOverlord posted...
When the FAQ'ers are calling the others nerds and dorks, smh.

That's how you really know you've hit the bottom rung of the social ladder, when even other dorks and nerds look down on you for being the ultimate incarnation of dorky and nerdy.
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Smackems
07/21/22 2:50:35 AM
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QUAD BALL PUMPIN YEAaAAAHHH

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dioxxys
07/21/22 3:26:01 AM
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Kim_Seong-a posted...
Our sport has developed a reputation as one of the most progressive sports in the world on gender equality and inclusivity, in part thanks to its gender maximum rule, which stipulates that a team may not have more than four players of the same gender on the field at a time,

...huh.
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Anteaterking
07/21/22 5:45:23 PM
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FortuneCookie posted...


You say that like diehards wouldn't sooner sever their left pinky finger than give up Harry Potter. You can't pull a "stop liking what I don't like" in the name of progress. Even without the fanatics, it's still a story which appeals to millions of people. You'd be better off to set fire to a mountain of money than to cancel Harry Potter himself.

Yeah, I would be fine with them just continuing to call it Quidditch then.

Harry Potter was a global sensation. I don't assume that anyone who has some emotional attachment to it supports J.K. Rowling and her beliefs. But it's then weird to be like "Yes we are really invested in continuing to play but also want to look like we're doing something".

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Damn_Underscore
07/21/22 5:46:50 PM
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PiOverlord posted...
When the FAQ'ers are calling the others nerds and dorks, smh.

Takes one to know one

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Priere
07/21/22 5:48:16 PM
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You could tell me that this was a real sport in Scotland or England for hundreds of years and I would believe it.

Along with the tradition of winners eating a feat of pig ears and fish and losers having to till a field at night.

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haloiscoolisbak
07/21/22 5:50:03 PM
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Has harry potter outgrown jk Rowling? Can we erase the person who actually created this whole idea? Let's reclaim harry potter!... Or is it just claim

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DuneMan
07/21/22 5:51:05 PM
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Harry Potter will outlast Rowling.

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Shotgunnova
07/21/22 5:52:52 PM
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YugiNoob posted...
Was Dorkball taken?


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uwnim
07/21/22 5:53:36 PM
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Lairen posted...
This is dumb af.
There's also a business related reason for changing the name. In the article I read, it was mentioned that the name Quidditch was owned by Warner Bros and like that caused some difficulties for the sport.

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dioxxys
07/21/22 11:02:37 PM
#46:


DuneMan posted...
Harry Potter will outlast Rowling.
Well yeah but that is the case for anything with a massive following.

Star Wars will carry on long after George Lucas passes, I mean with his involvement he has pretty much already passed.

Lord of the Rings has already way outlasted JR Tolkien.

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ZangsBeard
07/22/22 12:16:07 AM
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Anteaterking posted...
Yeah, I would be fine with them just continuing to call it Quidditch then.

You'd be fine with her continue to enrich herself and her Terf beliefs? Yike.

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TheAttackTitan
07/22/22 8:35:16 PM
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haloiscoolisbak posted...
Has harry potter outgrown jk Rowling? Can we erase the person who actually created this whole idea? Let's reclaim harry potter!... Or is it just claim

*JK Rowling is a TERF*

"Cancel Harry Potter!"

Millions of people (if not a billion): "lolno"

"Maybe we could cancel the creator and say Harry Potter has outgrown her?"

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