Quidditch rebrand

[McDuffy]

As is the case lately, comments are thhe best bit!

Quidditch now ‘quadball’ to distance sport from JK Rowling over her views on transgender issues

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/d63a49b0-084e-11ed-8c31-545bf77a6173?shareToken=d69106ed8448134fd0160dade102c1b8

I thougbt the whole point was that it was Quidditch. What's the point of calling it something else its still based on the game in the book.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2019/apr/30/hobbyhorsing-what-girls-everywhere-can-learn-from-the-finnish-craze

This kind of hobbyhorsing seems much more positive. And age appropriate.

A while ago, I saw it described as “Sad Knobs On Broomsticks”

I suspect JKR might be happy enough to no longer be associated with this activity.

Lengths of pipe!! 🤣

It’s not really Quidditch though, is it? That involved magic and actual feet off the ground stuff. It doesn’t seem right that it actually used Quidditch name while the key element - x and y but no z coordinate.

Key element was missing that is

There's a joke here somewhere around people getting confused about the reality of what's between their legs...

A pathetic version of a magical, fictional game that’s played by 12 whole groups? Yeah, I don’t think JKR will be crying into her butterbeer too much.

I was thinking that the issue with Warner Bros couldn't be that big because how much monetisation could there possibly be.

And then I thought of drunk students who would probably watch it to laugh at the "players".

It could be monetised I guess, but how delusional little self-esteem would you have in order to want to be monetised for your stupidity?

“Sad Knobs On Broomsticks”

<snorts>

I was thinking that the issue with Warner Bros couldn't be that big because how much monetisation could there possibly be.

You mean they might be delusional about the reality of a situation? Fuck me, that's surprising.

I bet it can be monetised a LOT. It’s blindingly obvious that it’s about money not transactivism. So disingenuous.

Thinking of this periodically and snorting with laughter to myself. Husband thinks I've lost it 😆

Absolute numpties running about with sticks (or pipes ffs) between their legs, taking it all very seriously. Passersby must think It's some sort of bizarre dare or hazing session.

'Quadball'? They could have picked something a bit less shite sounding, surely?

Oh god. Any adult playing this would give me the major ick.

What a bunch of sad twats

Oh, Sadknobs on Broomsticks! I just got that 😆

Shame they couldn't figure out the substitutiary locomotion spell for the brooms. What we need is for the suits of armour in Hogwarts to come to life and fuck them all off into the sea.

Yes, my husband observed that when they were using proper broomsticks it was arguably symbolically gender neutral because it was a knob at one end and a merkin at the other.

Now, also perhaps symbolically, it’s a load of JKR-haters running round a pitch holding onto what look very much like fake penises.

It’s the snitch that gets me. It’s a ball in a sock, fastened to a player’s backside. Truly, this is a game of parody!

Maybe if they started a wee sing song before kick-off? (Broom off? Pipe off? Knob off? Who knows).

Link to song for those a bit nostalgic -

because it was a knob at one end and a merkin at the other.

Now the knob is sitting in the middle

That's unintentionally amazing.

Yes, definitely the association with JKR that should embarrass them.

😄

I joined my university quidditch team thinking it would be more of a HP fan group than an actual sport. I was wrong and it actually involved a lot of running.

Then I learnt about the ‘gender rule’ and quit. Ass the teams are mixed, they try to make it fair (I.e acknowledging the male advantage), by saying no more than 4 of the 7 players can be the same sex. Except it’s not sex, it’s gender so you can have 4 males, and 3 more males in skirts. So they know the male advantage exists, they choose not to care.

"We realised we were heading for a copyright infringement on Rowling's creation so we thought oh shit, let's change the name and then nobody will know where we got it from. Oh, and she thinks women exist and have rights, and we hate that too because despite what it looks like, we're down with the kids. Yes, we did get hit on the head by some Bludgers, how did you know?"

Oh no!
You mean the bepenised realised they could game the system and win?

😯 Shocked!
This is my 😯 Shocked Face....

😯 Shocked!

This is my 😯 Shocked Face....

its an awesome shocked face…totes gets the whole ‘i am shocked’ thing over…