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[-] ech@lemm.ee 48 points 10 months ago

"Bag toss" lol

Satire site doesn't wanna say cornhole?

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 61 points 10 months ago

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

[-] ech@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Poot@discuss.tchncs.de 46 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] doctortran@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

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

I'd believe either.

[-] Poot@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago

Lol... Or both :)

[-] ganksy@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

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

[-] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 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)

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

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

[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 5 points 10 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.

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

"bag toss" also sounds kind of dirty to me

[-] ech@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago
[-] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago

Fake midwesterners!

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

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

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 points 10 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 10 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.

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