I-was-saying “the baron is playing chess; he must be a lazy, shiftless bum”

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    Two weird things people assume about me often enough that it’s worth mentioning, that is good at chess, cause I’m smart and that I’m Jewish which I think is cause I’m funny and do bring a sort of Larry David vibe to the table. I don’t even know how to play chess, I don’t know what all the pieces do. And my family are Anglican loyalists who moved to Canada and German Midwesterners who went to Canada instead of the midwest.

    However me and another guy at work have started a bit where we call random chess moves to each other at work and occasionally say things like ‘ahh! The morrocan gambit, how clever!’ to give customers the impression that we’re super geniuses