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FannyCann · 2021-12-19T06:48:34+00:00

Also there is the small matter that the name is trademarked be Warner brothers. But who knew? I certainly had no idea there were to US Quidditch leagues running around with broomsticks between there legs! Quidditch leagues changing name of sport https://mol.im/a/10324923

Tanith · 22/12/2021 12:03

There's a photo of the snitch near the bottom (pun not intended!) of this webpage :

https://quidditchuk.org/play/getting-started

ErrolTheDragon · 22/12/2021 10:35

@highame

Giles Coren - always knew he was GC

I don't know if he's really 'GC', but he does have an eye for the risible.

ChimChimeny · 22/12/2021 08:33

Heard this on sky news on MondAy, the way it was said there was no 'alleged ' transphobic comments, it was fact which pissed me off. then followed by an advert for all the Harry potter movies on sky

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 22/12/2021 08:32

Is that the most openly GC GC has ever been?

TheWeeDonkey · 22/12/2021 08:29

[quote Kanaloa]@MargaritaPie

Well yes that’s exactly what he does. Ties a sock to his shorts and runs around I guess. I imagine that’s what all these elusive ‘husbands hobbies’ are. They’re grass quidditch snitches.[/quote]
Ahh, thats why they won't admit to what the hobby is! 😂

highame · 22/12/2021 08:23

Giles Coren - always knew he was GC

Original poster

FannyCann · 22/12/2021 02:04

It's all ridiculous obv but one could surely find a more elegant attachment for the ball than a sock? And to the back of their shorts? Pretty sure my dog has something better in his toy collection.
Though he wouldn't say no to a ball in an old sock of course.

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Kanaloa · 21/12/2021 23:43

@MargaritaPie

Well yes that’s exactly what he does. Ties a sock to his shorts and runs around I guess. I imagine that’s what all these elusive ‘husbands hobbies’ are. They’re grass quidditch snitches.

APurpleSquirrel · 21/12/2021 22:00

Saw this on Twitter from Giles Coren in the Times:

twitter.com/neilblairtbp/status/1473199809158918148?s=21

Triphazards · 21/12/2021 21:27

@Sasketchewoo

The thing that cheered me up today was that since JKR's tweets on feminism, her followers dropped from 14 million to 13.9. I mean, I'm sure that was the equivalent pain of a mosquito bite, but still. Today it's back at 14m. It shows she has so much support, for all the death threats.

I find the whole idea of quidditch rather endearing. The world has been a frightening place for people under 25 to grow up in with terrorism and climate change and it makes sense some of them have clung to something childish and comforting. It doesn't stop them being idiots in terms of how they're behaving at the moment but there's room for all sorts in this world. Better a quidditch player than being a furry, for example. And if it gets more women running around, being active, given how many women drop out of sport, then even better.

The World was frightening before, too.

We were supposed to expect hydrogen bombs to fall on our heads!

CallMeNutribullet · 21/12/2021 21:21

Pretty difficult to "distance yourself" when you're playing a pretend sport that literally came from the imagination of the person you want to be distant from

Sasketchewoo · 21/12/2021 20:30

The thing that cheered me up today was that since JKR's tweets on feminism, her followers dropped from 14 million to 13.9. I mean, I'm sure that was the equivalent pain of a mosquito bite, but still. Today it's back at 14m. It shows she has so much support, for all the death threats.

I find the whole idea of quidditch rather endearing. The world has been a frightening place for people under 25 to grow up in with terrorism and climate change and it makes sense some of them have clung to something childish and comforting. It doesn't stop them being idiots in terms of how they're behaving at the moment but there's room for all sorts in this world. Better a quidditch player than being a furry, for example. And if it gets more women running around, being active, given how many women drop out of sport, then even better.

ScreamingMeMe · 21/12/2021 16:26

I don't think anyone is frothing. More pointing and laughing.

tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz · 21/12/2021 13:41

Gaaaah apologies my reply was to wrong post

tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz · 21/12/2021 13:37

@DialSquare

knobs obviously. Bloody phone.

I like the other option too

DialSquare · 21/12/2021 11:48

knobs obviously. Bloody phone.

DialSquare · 21/12/2021 11:46

Pissing myself at "sad nobs on broomsticks"!

MargaritaPie · 21/12/2021 11:39

[quote Kanaloa]@MargaritaPie

Well one of the is the snitch. Presumably he doesn’t have a broom.[/quote]
So what is his role? Runs around with a golden ball dangling between his legs?

Waitwhat23 · 21/12/2021 11:16

@Hypatia415

This is another example of click-bait-and-switch.

If you read these articles it's clear that Warner Brothers owning the Copywrite to the name 'Quidditch' is far more likely to be responsible for the need for a name change than JKR's objectional beliefs.

The media knows that by overhyping the possibility that JKR's unhelpful statements may be the reason behind a certain decision will whip all of the Gender Critters into a froth and drive much more traffic to their website then if they just focused on the more likely explination.

Yes, copyright issues have been mentioned many times on this thread alone, in particular that JKR's 'objectionable' views (I.e. rational and reality based views, shared by the majority of the population) are a useful hook for zealots to have a tantrum and yet another go at JKR.

Stamp, stamp, stamp 'Warner Bros are so meeeaaan! We want to use a copyrighted concept without paying the money or giving credit' is what it comes down to but sounds like toddlers having a tantrum.

The 'gender critters' (do you mean gender critical?) see it for what it is. A toddler tantrum. JRK is just being used as a useful scapegoat.

Swashbuckled · 21/12/2021 10:54

@EsmaCannonball

From Garbo and Dietrich to Bowie and Bolan, the old school gender rule- breakers were all about grown-up glamour and sexiness. Why is such a significant chunk of the modern-day gender identity crowd determined to live life in nursery school? I'm not just talking about the grown men who want to wear nappies or who like to identify as little girls, I'm talking about the young adults who want to remain in the world of rainbows and glitter and unicorns and wizards. I see these people everywhere in young, middle-class circles. A desire for lifelong infancy seems to go hand in hand with a nasty Maoist approach to any person who disagrees with them. It's sinister.

This interests me too but it’s not just the middle classes. I worked with a colleague (in her forties) who would get excited about things like her new unicorn pencil case, Hello Kitty lunch box and Harry Potter wallpaper. Others too. It’s rife.

EsmaCannonball · 21/12/2021 10:46

From Garbo and Dietrich to Bowie and Bolan, the old school gender rule- breakers were all about grown-up glamour and sexiness. Why is such a significant chunk of the modern-day gender identity crowd determined to live life in nursery school? I'm not just talking about the grown men who want to wear nappies or who like to identify as little girls, I'm talking about the young adults who want to remain in the world of rainbows and glitter and unicorns and wizards. I see these people everywhere in young, middle-class circles. A desire for lifelong infancy seems to go hand in hand with a nasty Maoist approach to any person who disagrees with them. It's sinister.

Hypatia415 · 21/12/2021 10:17

This is another example of click-bait-and-switch.

If you read these articles it's clear that Warner Brothers owning the Copywrite to the name 'Quidditch' is far more likely to be responsible for the need for a name change than JKR's objectional beliefs.

The media knows that by overhyping the possibility that JKR's unhelpful statements may be the reason behind a certain decision will whip all of the Gender Critters into a froth and drive much more traffic to their website then if they just focused on the more likely explination.

NotBadConsidering · 21/12/2021 10:03

🤣🤣😆

I loved that film when I was a kid so I’ve just been down a rabbit hole reminiscing. Angela Lansbury is still alive, bless her and she’s 96! Bedknobs and Broomsticks was released in 1971, which means she was only 46 when it came out! In my mind as a kid she was an old lady like my nan 🤔. Maybe it’s because when I watched it, Murder, She Wrote had just started and she was a bit older. Anyway, what a legend.

FrancescaContini · 21/12/2021 09:12

@Datun

"Sad knobs on broomsticks" is genius 😂

Yes

tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz · 21/12/2021 09:11

I love when they play it on The Internship and Owen Wilson's response to the Golden Snitch making an appearance -

"Who the F*#k is this guy?!"