Pope betting didn't turn out to be the next hottest thing.
this post was submitted on 11 May 2025
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Taliban is going to have to ban a bunch of stuff, because people who get a rush from gambling will gamble on anything.
My high school did this. They hauled me and my friends in front of one of the deans because we'd been playing chess in the lunch room, and they said that if they let us play chess, they'd have to let the other students play dominos, and when they play dominos, they gamble, and when they gamble, fights break out, and there weren't enough security guards to handle that. So no chess. We pointed out that we were the school chess team, but they were unmoved on the topic.
It was really dumb.
We talked a bit about the possibility of having a couple of our better players play mental chess, that is, no board or pieces to look at, and just yell moves back and forth across the lunch room while the rest of us loudly gambled on the outcome, but we never actually did it.
Start a gambling ring around whether or not teachers do specific things during the day that you don't like. Then maybe they will ban the teachers from ever doing those things.
"10:1 odds that Mr. Peters gives extra homework on Tuesday afternoon!"
In all of my life, I have never met more incompetent and unqualified people in any professional position than that of any “administrator” position in a school. Dean, office, principal, particularly school police officers. These people and the goddamn republicans are what are destroying our education system.
I've met a few decent school administrators. Very few.
Educational administration is largely a dumping ground for the dimwitted middle class, with a few pedos thrown in.
Oh hey that's why they banned magic The gathering at my high school when I was a kid. It was less than a year after the game came out. Their argument was that because other card games, like poker, were banned for gambling that all card games were banned for gambling even games that made no sense for them to be banned for gambling.
Depending on when you were in high school Magic may have been a gambling game. In the first few editions of the game you "ante'd" the top card of your library before you played and some cards could cause you to ante others. Plus kids bringing things with monetary value that is flexible and hard to track is definitely a recipe for fights
Then my high schools all like "huh, you're gambling. Please continue, sorry for disturbing you." when you're actually gambling.
We'd pitch pennies and get in fights over that. Teenaged idiots are going to fight regardless of what it's nominally about.
We pointed out that we were the school chess team
"Oh shit, we are hosting a gambling club at the school? SHUT IT DOWN"
We had a teacher that ran a gambling club for the teachers.
The teachers would all put into a pool at the start of the year and he would pay out the percentage at the end of the year. He had bank accounts in a few countries and would look for odds imbalances and spread the bet to gain an advantage.
He used to give us cash and send us to the TAB to put bets down on his behalf as he was banned for winning too much. Each year a new batch of students would come who were all not banned.
In return he taught us all how to count cards and play poker. Dude was a maths wiz.
He one day came into a different class and asked the teacher for everything in his wallet as he had "found one". The other teacher gave him all the cash. Turns out he had seen something along the lines of "world all-stars" vs "Tonga" at ice hockey, with 8,000:1 odds. But they messed up and had it round the wrong way. Both teachers retired at the end of the year.
That is really dumb.
Just punish the kids that gamble/fight. Keep making harsher punishments until it stops being an issue.
“No, we’re proud to have a zero tolerance policy at this school. That means we don’t have to investigate if a game involves gambling or if fights are truly fights rather than attacks. Everyone is punished equally. It’s very fair.”
Education is a business.
Businesses don't care about their products or customers.
'If we allowed X, we'd have to allow Y!'
No you don't.
CC: every moderator of every site that tolerates bigots.
And horses can move sideways, which is just nonsense. I have a TV so I know. Horses go forward or, at best, galavant at The Olympics dressage events. And castles don’t move. I agree with the Taliban on this one. Chess is misleading. It is haram.
Also it involves use of the mind, something the Taliban are resolutely opposed to.
Not to mention the queen is the most powerful piece on the board, I mean WTF!? Obviously we can't allow a woman to have that much power in a 100% male dominated society!
Holy shit this might actually be the reason.
Insanity
Exactly.
Whatever reason, insanity is almost definitely behind it.
That’s not the reason.
I think the piece is named differently over that way.
That's gonna be a long and frustrating road of bans before they nip it in the bud. I don't know if there are other games popular over there, but gamblers are gonna gamble, they'll make up a game especially for it if they have to!
"Which hand is the bean in?"
All foodstuffs banned.
I guess all that's left there is..
A N A R C H Y C H E S S
Someone did an en passant on their leader and he’s throwing a fit.