I apologise for using the phrase "Chinese whispers"

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What exactly are Chinese Whispers?

That children's game in which you whisper a sentence in another kid's ear, and that kid whispers it to the next kid, and by the time the eighth kid in the circle hears it it's totally garbled into a completely different sentence. The game goes by other names I think.

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Aberdonian community are easily offended now? Sounds a bit sheepish...

How does he feel about the term "Scotch Tape"?

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Why would he need to apologize?

We called that game “ gossip”.

Ladies, and Gentlemen

Miss KT67 would like to apologize now to the many Americans, of the Ovid persuasion, for her...insensitive comments .

Mr KT67 would like to apologise to any North Eastern Scots of the ovid persuasion for his... insinuations

In any event, that's a complete misnomer. The taste isn't even close to being right.

Eh, they were just quoting a rap song.

And here it's called "Telephone," or "Playing telephone," if you're referring to how someone's message got mixed up or distorted along the way.

When I clicked this thread I assumed that "Chinese whispers," was going to refer to some sort of tactic by the CCP used to plant the seeds of ideas in various other countries and Pepe was apologizing for criticising them. In which case I was going to defend him, because they actually do things like that all over the world.. in governments, on university campuses etc - they do it here 100% for sure.

I was just talking to a political sciences student at The Fire the other night who was born in Shanghai, moved to the USA when he was 4, also has Canadian citizenship & is here to study. He's extremely critical of the CCP for many reasons. His grandfather basically sold his soul to the party for $$, that then allowed his dad to get an education and build wealth so that now him and his older brother can be highly educated in Canada. A Machiavellian means to an end that he's very, very, well aware of - well beyond his years. He's frustrated that the CCP have growing tendrils in Canadian society and government and angry that we don't put a stop to it/elect officials that help facilitate it - and I get his frustrations 100%, but we as the little people have next to zero control over what our lying politicians do once in office. If their aim is to fly to China and sell us out, as they did, then that's that and now there's approximately sweet F all we can do by closing the barn door once all the horses have run away.

How's that for garbling the OP?

I thought it sounded like a Chinese tantric sex position.

That sounds like fun.

*adds it to my post-covid to do list*

I thought Chinese Whispers was slang for Covid-19.

Yeah. "Playing telephone".

Thank you.

I was gonna say "its another name for the game of 'telephone'" after my description of it, but had one of those brain farts while typing my post, and forgot that simpler name for it in mid sentence, and couldnt get it back.