WuMo by Wulff & Morgenthaler for October 20, 2023

The very low bar of woke culture

Participation trophies for everyone !

Snowflakes strike again.

Don’t get me started.

“No one will be upset!”

Wanna bet?

It makes sense to me. Either raise it so everyone has to shoot, or lower it so everyone can dunk. The game became silly once the teams populated with such behemoths that they can just drop it in.

This is just another case of finding systemic inequity where there is none.

No one will be upset? Really? Players 9, 18, and 7 sure don’t look happy.

The elementary school I attended had 8 foot baskets. I remember a very old MTV sports show that had celebrity teams of athletes and actors and singers and such that had not only had 10 foot baskets but 20 or 25 foot ones as well along with a points system that awarded something like 10 points if you could make the taller basket and even more if you made the taller basket from beyond the 3 point line. It was a very long time ago because I remember Dean Cain was one of the celebrities and my mother liked him at the time.

IIRC there was a 5’ foot and under division in the YMCA league in a city I lived in a very long time ago.

I saw this same poor joke when the ADA was passed.

Nope. Still too high. I want to roll the ball in.

Why a three-foot-high basket? That’s none of yard d@mn business!

Clever rules can make such a game challenging. What is the point of a game for schoolchildren where the tallest have an insuperable advantage? (Professional athletes competing with equals are fine.)

That’s nice! They have done the same with public schools and colleges, too. Even most of the private schools are doing it. Television has been doing that for years, even more so now that the writers and actors are on strike.

He stole my joke! Whenever I would lob a paper ball at the waste basket at work I would always look around and say “If the basket was that close to the ground and that much bigger than the ball, I could play in the NBA.”

I never did understand Basketball. :)

Next, they will give each guy his own ball.

And everyone goes home with a trophy!

Equity strikes again.