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Proof that society has now irrevocably dumbed down!

Posted: 09 Apr 2010, 16:47
by Erudite
Scrabble changes rules:

Couldn't spell J G, let alone Ballard!


Doomed, I tell ye! :eek: :roll:

Posted: 09 Apr 2010, 16:51
by markfiend
You can still get the proper version.

Posted: 09 Apr 2010, 16:57
by Erudite
That's no' the point, laddie! :wink:

Posted: 09 Apr 2010, 17:00
by Maisey
I find this more depressing than I would have imagined that I would.

Posted: 09 Apr 2010, 21:27
by boudicca
We'll be allowed to use the word "Beyonce"?! :lol:
Is there a Venn diagram where "scrabble players" and "Beyonce fans" intersect?

Posted: 09 Apr 2010, 21:31
by stufarq
So what? Scrabble accepts that people have names. The only "news" here is that they're pretending that it's worth people spending money on a new edition.

Posted: 09 Apr 2010, 21:45
by lazarus corporation
Warren Ellis (writer, not musician) wrote:I'd be upset about Scrabble changing its rules if we hadn't had to burn our set for fuel during the last Tory government.

Posted: 09 Apr 2010, 22:31
by James Blast
"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about".
~ Oscar Wilde

Posted: 10 Apr 2010, 00:31
by splintered thing
As a Scabble fan, I was upset to read this, then I realised most young 'uns would need the txt version to play it anyway...

Posted: 10 Apr 2010, 01:46
by Erudite
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