Scrabble, jizz and my mother

[PotteringPondering]

I spent New Year with my elderly mother. She's a huge Scrabble fan, and we played several games.

In one game I realised I could get the highest score I've ever got for a word. It would blitz the game, and triumphantly crown all my years of Scrabble playing. It included two Zs (one from a blank), and a triple word score.

But the word was JIZZ. I realised I couldn't face the ensuing conversation with my mother, so it went unplayed.

Was I unreasonable to forego the most euphoric Scrabble moment ever, because I wouldn't explain jizz to my mother?

I was just going to argue that knowing what something is doesn't mean each generation has the same slang words!
All this about old people not being ignorant doesn't mean they used the same words!
I remember as a child 'spunk' was an Australian word for a hunk. It didn't translate well!

May I ask how you do this?

Yes, my jizz included an unproductive blank.

(On a less biological note, its proximity to a couple of other words would have massively bumped up the total.)

I have a wonderful video of my late DM playing “cunt” in scrabble and declaring that I would play it if I was her! She was a wicked scrabble player, a good game had to score at least 500 points, and my DF was cremated with their scrabble score book.

I am a grandmother and it makes me smile when younger people try to protect my sensibilities - I lived through the Swinging Sixties FGS! - you know - sex and drugs and Rock 'n' Roll!

It's slang.

I play my mum online and we've both played rude words. My mum is very traditional, doesn't swear or say anything controversial so it makes me chuckle when she plays words like jizz, cunt etc 😂

My highest score is 212. I used all seven of my tiles to add to an existing letter between the triple word squares. And it also had a Q in it. So I had the score for the word, triple word twice and 50 bonus points for using all my letters in one move.

^^^That was 212 for the word, not the game!

Isnt it Ali G’s punchline?

We used to play Scrabble thus: double for a rude word, double for a French word, and quadruple for a rude French word! I did achieve the latter.

Old people have normally had much more sex than young people. It what comes (no pun intended) with living all those years. And she'll definitely know what semen is.

I was going to say YANBU but then I remembered I’ve had payed cards against humanity with mine. And she was way worse than anything my sister and I came up with.

Actually it did happen, exactly as described.

And I really do have a Scrabble Dictionary in front of me right now.

My mum loves Scrabble. No way would I use that word! Doubt she knows it tbf.

@Mumsnet classic?

I was mortified when my mother placed SHAG on the board when I was around 12/13. She said deadpan that it was a sea bird, but she certainly wasn't clueless about its alternative meanings 😂

@RicherThanYews 😊 A fellow punster! Ty for noticing. I’d have struggled to attempt a third 😂

I'd have totally played the word.

I’ve still never recovered my nerves from my mum beating everyone at Cards Against Humanity.

I haven't RTT but apparently jizz is also something to do with birds 🤷

but don't Google bird jizz

And there we are. 🙄

Jizz is not a permitted word in online Scrabble.