Those 1920’s flapper girls sound amazing
Not knowing how to play Bridge or do the Charleston really makes me feel like I need to step my game up.
Bridge kind of sucks, though. It has an official set of rules for game play, but then an unofficial set of conventions for coded communication in the bidding phase that you have to learn separately. You can’t actually play the object level game, you have to play the meta. It is extremely neurotypical.
Low-level bridge play requires quite a lot of intuition, but high-level play is very much the opposite. Top players have basically a phone book of what every bid, every play means, and expect their partners to follow it exactly. The only communication allowed is through numbers and cards, and they must precisely follow what you have. In competition play, if anyone makes a strange bid or plays a ‘weird’ card, you may stop play to ask their partner what they understand by that, and they must answer correctly or risk having points deducted by the adjudicator if they were perceived to have mislead. It’s very mathematical.
Ironically, I quite enjoy playing with low-level players when it’s a laugh, but high-level players tend to start with OCD and build on top of that.
In competition play, if anyone makes a strange bid or plays a ‘weird’ card, you may stop play to ask their partner what they understand by that, and they must answer correctly or risk having points deducted by the adjudicator if they were perceived to have mislead.
Can you share an example of this? Sounds intriguing but I’m not sure what to search for (“bridge weird card (adjudicator)” ain’t it, apparently).
“Announcing and alerting”, and the adjudicator is the Tournament Director (TD). English Bridge Union rules on this are in their ethics book; basically the entire contents are on what information you must and must not share. I understand most bridge unions work the same way.
https://www.ebu.co.uk/documents/laws-and-ethics/blue-book/blue-book.pdf
Now we need the modern response to these types of memes where someone draws them making out
earn my own living
wow this is so bad. west has fallen. holy shit
Huh so that’s why grandmas like bridge
Yeah, playing Bridge used to be cool. But people born after 1950 seem to have collectively decided to not play it anymore.
Bridge’s predecessor Whist (or even earlier Trump) was the primary upper class gambling game for 300 years. If you read a book about someone losing the estate playing cards it was Bridge, not poker and probably not proto blackjack (which both existed in some form but were a bit lower class)
It could be schafkopf if they’re central European. Which is also basically bridge.
There’s also Basset and Faro, which could be charitably described as “card roulette” except even less fair to the player in the former case.
Quadrille was big for a while i think too. But really you want your trick-taking card games (Bridge etc.) for “game responsible for bringing down a dynasty stretching back to the middle ages”
The youth of today is wasting their time playing Bridge while sipping on their cocktails instead of becoming doctors
Next thing you know they’ll be hanging out in jazz clubs and smoking reefer sticks
This cultural change was largely driven by WWI. By finding a way to also get women to work they could much more efficiently contribute to the war effort. At the same time, expanding recently-industralised capitalism is looking to sell more stuff to more people. Coincidentally that got women involved in new and what were previously exclusively “male” pursuits.
Ok but crocheting and playing the zither at the same time is pretty impressive. And what’s the point of playing the zither if no one knows how to Charleston? Sounds like these two ladies should hang out with each other more, they’d probably have a great time together.
i’m forming a polycule with both of them
Hot
I respect them both
Bit idea: Girl who knows how to wisecrack, how to shake a cocktail and how to play the zither.
flappers can’t even wear a big ass hoop skirt to cosplay as a cake topper smdh
The dress on the left is perfect for hiding a undeployed law rocket launcher.
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But what if I want to farm and cook while she makes preserves and crochets?
Yeah but check out her GAMS!
Both dope-ass Rimworld toons. Sounds good.
