Reviving this thread because I must have glossed over it the first time around. I just learned about the game because a FB friend posted this article over the weekend:
On the same or next day (it was a long weekend, blurring together), another friend posted that she and 4 others were playing CAH and laughing their asses off.
I posted, "I haven't heard of this game before, but another friend just posted this - have you seen it?" and I linked the article.
She was pissed, basically like I was a crotchety judgmental old finger wagger.
I just said it looked like it started with some innocuous humor a 12 year old boy would like (I regularly describe myself as having the humor of a 12 year old boy so that wasn't an insult), but apparently with expansion packs it turns pretty gross. Especially by including date rape as one of the cards, which just seems gross to me.
She unfriended me. She said I am accusing her and her friends of supporting date rape and it was insulting and have a nice life.
I'm ok with the unfriending, but I thought she was a bit overinvested in the game. #1 who cares what I think? I was just sharing another article on the topic that she could take or leave, and #2) maybe she had only played with the original pack, and would like a heads up about the expansion packs.
Have those here who like it played with the expansion packs? What do you do with a card that you draw that crosses your boundaries of appropriateness? (I like the above poster who said you just discard and draw another). I mean, I read parts of this article to my husband - my non-PC born-and-raised-in-Texas, dirty sense of humor close-to-red-neck husband and he said, "Hmph. Sounds like a game made for bigots. Not really my thing." And walked off.
I am pretty sure I am the only person who has never played this. Finally getting it, but I have a question - does anyone NOT like it? Like don't play it with my grandmother or that sort of thing.
Also, is it an actual game, as in there is a score with a winner at the end?
Can two people play or is it only for groups?
Do not play with your grandmother unless you are drunk enough to not mind explaining what "dick fingers" are to her. I learned this the hard way when I played with my parents.
OMGzombies Dad: What the hell are dick fingers?!" awkward silence around the family table OMGzombies: "So Dad... you know that smell?" Dad turns beet red, followed by a very quick and abrupt "Yes, yes, I get it."
This is our neighborhood game. Made far more interesting when you find out things you THOUGHT you knew have urban dictionary meanings you were unaware of...
Post by omgzombies on Sept 1, 2015 13:17:02 GMT -5
I believe it can be both:
According to Urban Dictionary:
Dick Fingers A hyperendemic medical condition caused by forgetting to wash one's hands post-masturbation. Transmission occurs via tactile association between infected and susceptible individuals. Symptoms include extreme clamminess of the hands; a smell can usually be ascertained as well. Objects at risk of contamination include door knobs, refrigerator handles, light switches, and computer mouses especially. At present, the only known vaccination is castration.
Dick Fingers Someone who is poor at catching objects such as balls in sports or anything being passed or thrown to them. Hence their fingers are resemblant of flaccid penises.
I actually think my parents would be hilarious at this game, but there is no way I could handle playing it with them, nor do I think they would want to play it with me.
when I play with friends we always have a rule that if a card you draw is offensive to you it is okay to discard it. It is not a game for the easily offended and I make that clear when I host it for game night.
I have played this with my parents, siblings, and various spouses. My parents, for their 50th anniversary a couple of years ago, took the whole family on a cruise. We all played together on deck during one of the "at sea" days. Many explanations had to be made (my parents because they didn't know many of the sex related cards, my BIL and SIL because English is not their first language). It was hilarious.
Post by theoriginalbean on Sept 1, 2015 13:34:57 GMT -5
I think it's fun. We play with BIL/SIL while we drink during overnight visits and I just introduced my sister to it, when she was in town last week. We play that if a card is seriously offensive to you, you can discard.
I would never play it with either sets of parents.
Honestly, I don't really like CAH or apples to apples. I don't get them. They require no skill. I prefer trivia games where I can show off my mad jeopardy skills.
Post by omgzombies on Sept 1, 2015 13:45:56 GMT -5
The problem with Apples to Apples or CAH is that they get old very quickly. I need enough time to forget all the cards and jokes, there are only so many times in a row you can think those sorts of offensive jokes are funny.
The problem with Apples to Apples or CAH is that they get old very quickly. I need enough time to forget all the cards and jokes, there are only so many times in a row you can think those sorts of offensive jokes are funny.
Or expansion packs.
Like the article mentioned - a certain race's penis size, date rape, rufies, transphobia issues.
Reviving this thread because I must have glossed over it the first time around. I just learned about the game because a FB friend posted this article over the weekend:
On the same or next day (it was a long weekend, blurring together), another friend posted that she and 4 others were playing CAH and laughing their asses off.
I posted, "I haven't heard of this game before, but another friend just posted this - have you seen it?" and I linked the article.
She was pissed, basically like I was a crotchety judgmental old finger wagger.
I just said it looked like it started with some innocuous humor a 12 year old boy would like (I regularly describe myself as having the humor of a 12 year old boy so that wasn't an insult), but apparently with expansion packs it turns pretty gross. Especially by including date rape as one of the cards, which just seems gross to me.
She unfriended me. She said I am accusing her and her friends of supporting date rape and it was insulting and have a nice life.
I'm ok with the unfriending, but I thought she was a bit overinvested in the game. #1 who cares what I think? I was just sharing another article on the topic that she could take or leave, and #2) maybe she had only played with the original pack, and would like a heads up about the expansion packs.
Have those here who like it played with the expansion packs? What do you do with a card that you draw that crosses your boundaries of appropriateness? (I like the above poster who said you just discard and draw another). I mean, I read parts of this article to my husband - my non-PC born-and-raised-in-Texas, dirty sense of humor close-to-red-neck husband and he said, "Hmph. Sounds like a game made for bigots. Not really my thing." And walked off.
I could have written that piece you linked, it's EXACTLY how I feel about the game now. I used to really enjoy it, and seek it out. But more often than not, it did turn into an offend-off, rather than a funny-off. I want to laugh so hard my belly hurts, but what usually happens is people go for the worst groans and winces possible. At some intangible point it just stops being funny for me.
It may have to do with the people I've played. The sex-positive geek culture in Seattle is huge, and because we're all so "enlightened" about sexual norms jokes about fisting Grandma are supposed to be funny. I don't subscribe that anymore, I guess. Not that fisting Grandma isn't funny in other contexts!
Honestly? You have to play with the right people for it to be fun. In my group of friends, it isn't necessarily the most offensive combination of cards that gets picked as the winner of a round. It's all up to the question holder so everyone tries to tailor it to what they think that person would think is funny. I'm lucky in that my friends are pretty damn funny and witty. Also, I know I wouldn't feel comfortable playing this game with just anyone. Bigots need not apply.
Michelle So you haven't played it, and hadn't heard of it before the article, but you're going to shame any of your friends that play it because one article said it was bad.
Are there any books you want to ban because you've heard they're bad while you're at it?
i could have written that piece you linked, it's EXACTLY how I feel about the game now. I used to really enjoy it, and seek it out. But more often than not, it did turn into an offend-off, rather than a funny-off. I want to laugh so hard my belly hurts, but what usually happens is people go for the worst groans and winces possible. At some intangible point it just stops being funny for me.
It may have to do with the people I've played. The sex-positive geek culture in Seattle is huge, and because we're all so "enlightened" about sexual norms jokes about fisting Grandma are supposed to be funny. I don't subscribe that anymore, I guess. Not that fisting Grandma isn't funny in other contexts!
I don't think so. I think you were there when we had a disastrously unfunny and boring game of Apples to Apples that no one was enjoying, but most of our game nights were trivia, Pictionary, or Rock Band.
I have all but the most recent expansion pack and find them all equally funny in the right context. With the group of friends we play with, this game is hilarious.
i could have written that piece you linked, it's EXACTLY how I feel about the game now. I used to really enjoy it, and seek it out. But more often than not, it did turn into an offend-off, rather than a funny-off. I want to laugh so hard my belly hurts, but what usually happens is people go for the worst groans and winces possible. At some intangible point it just stops being funny for me.
It may have to do with the people I've played. The sex-positive geek culture in Seattle is huge, and because we're all so "enlightened" about sexual norms jokes about fisting Grandma are supposed to be funny. I don't subscribe that anymore, I guess. Not that fisting Grandma isn't funny in other contexts!
I don't think so. I think you were there when we had a disastrously unfunny and boring game of Apples to Apples that no one was enjoying, but most of our game nights were trivia, Pictionary, or Rock Band.
It was probably that exact game that turned you off A2A forever.
Michelle So you haven't played it, and hadn't heard of it before the article, but you're going to shame any of your friends that play it because one article said it was bad.
Are there any books you want to ban because you've heard they're bad while you're at it?
I wasn't shaming anyone. I asked her if she had seen it because I had JUST seen it.
I never said no one should play it. In fact, by relating it to my own juvenile sense of humor I implied I could see how it could start off hilarious.
I never said anyone was a bad person for playing it nor did I imply people should ban it.
I did say joking about date rape is gross but I don't know I they ever played that card or just had a methods for removing certain cards. And if you are supposed to be hard to offend to play the game my opinion that date rapes are gross shouldn't offend or shame anyone.
Michelle So you haven't played it, and hadn't heard of it before the article, but you're going to shame any of your friends that play it because one article said it was bad.
Are there any books you want to ban because you've heard they're bad while you're at it?
I have a feeling that FB friend was just waiting for one last reason to finally unfriend.
Wait what?! Someone - scratch fr hat, multiple people didn't know what the 3/5 compromise was???
I mean, there's no shame in not knowing what pixelated bukkake is. I'm pretty sure I had to google it the first half dozen times I played because I kept forgetting what it was. (Don't ask how one forgets that.) But the 3/5 compromise? Did none of these people take 4th grade social studies?!
Jesus take the wheel.
I was with a dozen people who didn't know what it was. I'm guessing half of them college grads.