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LemmingsArePirates aka Jacquie is a 22.54 year old girl, has been a member since July 13, 2006, has scored 308 submissions, giving an average score of 1.38, helping 9 designs get printed.

Jun 18 '07 by LemmingsArePirates
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Great design, but...

about Snakes & Ladders

I don't know if many Americans will get it. The game is called "Chutes and Ladders" over here, but I'm lucky enough to have an English mom, so I know it's called "Snakes and Ladders" in other places (or at least in England).

Well, it really doesn't matter, because as has been stated many times and scientifically proven, the world does not revolve around the United States. And some might get it; maybe I'm just ignorant and the game also goes by the name "Snakes and Ladders" here.

Well, whatever. I still love the snake eating the kid.

hanzabean on Jun 18 '07 at 3:45pm

There is a men at work song by that title...

and it's not a big leap.

Khol on Jun 18 '07 at 4:33pm

I've always known it as "Snakes and Ladders" and I grew up in DC.

therecouldbenothingafterThis on Jun 18 '07 at 4:40pm

heard both. agree that its not a huge difference. thinking of buying. this is a great design.

McJamie on Jun 18 '07 at 5:06pm

We Americans know it as Snakes and Ladders too. Indeed, the world doesn't revolve around us. Point taken?

Themilkman666 on Jun 18 '07 at 9:31pm

I know it as snakes and ladders. I would get the joke if I saw a ladder.

Themilkman666 on Jun 18 '07 at 9:33pm

If I had a dollar for how many times I heard "The world doesn't revolve around the U.S." I would have healthy bundle of money which I could then invest.

The world revolves around the sun....

Asahi on Jun 18 '07 at 10:05pm

As long as there are snakes devouring little children on it I'm a happy guy

fuaijie on Jun 18 '07 at 10:39pm

why wouldnt americans get it?, i've always known it as snakes and ladders. there is a chutes and ladders too, but i've always called it snakes an ladders whether or not it was snakes or chutes.

and im from alabama

squamousguy on Jun 19 '07 at 1:30am

I've actually never heard the game called Snakes and Ladders... But I also only played the game a few times long ago... BUT as is stated above, I'm only in it for small child devourment!

hanzabean on Jun 19 '07 at 1:32am

omg squamous your hair is AMAZING.

Quid Pro Quo on Jun 19 '07 at 1:50am

Yeah, americans will get this.

superjonelle on Jun 19 '07 at 3:37am

geez why are you being so holier-than-thou about snakes and ladders? it's not like it's a sofia coppola movie or something.

i have to go hide under a rock now because my spoiled overprivileged american childhood didn't teach me all the facts of the universe.

Anti-Smiley on Jun 19 '07 at 9:26am

i just have one thing to say...the ladders are green and the shirt is green, and that is terrible. the ladders just blend in with the shirt.

2 days later

plaid-duckie on Jun 21 '07 at 11:29pm

i had snakes and ladders...and then i had chutes and ladders...they're two different games

transparentman on Jun 22 '07 at 9:42am

what are you talking about??

i've always known it as snakes and ladders and i'm American.

transparentman on Jun 22 '07 at 9:45am

I find it annoying that people keep on saying "The world does not revolve around America" OKAY POINT TAKEN i've heard this about 1000 times great. Oh and uh in Africa they've never heard of the game period..but the world doesn't revolve around Africa does it?

love_lingers on Jun 22 '07 at 2:25pm

uhh.. plaid duckie.. they're not two different games... i dont' get what you're talking about ... yes two diferent layouts but i don't think the gameplay is different...

es0teric on Jun 23 '07 at 3:22pm

watch this american school ya: snakes and ladders is played with a die and chutes is played with a spinner. that's about the only difference. it originated in England but they got it from India where it was about Spiritual Ascension or Enlightenment or Goodness or Heaven (ladders) and The Descent into Darkness or Ignorance or Evil or Hell (snakes). English people think they're vastly superior to Americans- why do half of you live here then?

Vindemiatrix on Jun 23 '07 at 3:52pm

English people think they're vastly superior to Americans- why do half of you live here then?

WTF?

LemmingsArePirates on Jun 23 '07 at 7:38pm

Okay, okay. Point taken.

Sorry, I didn't know people called in Snakes and Ladders here too. Sometimes I don't know whether things are just different terms or pronunciations in England and America or if it's just that what I've heard from my family conflicts with the rest of my isolated bubble.

And it doesn't help that my dad speaks Pennsylvanian and I live in Texas so I don't know how people in other places across the U.S. refers to certain things.

McJamie on Jun 24 '07 at 1:00am

Then don't assume.

Geh. D:

LemmingsArePirates on Jun 25 '07 at 11:21pm

Heehee.

This is fun. I've never written a blog before and I didn't know I could piss so many people off.

I should seriously do this more often. :)

shirtflirt on Jun 25 '07 at 11:27pm

northamericancentricity.

learn it.

love it.

live it.

7 days later

tomorrow_i.ll_be_you on Jul 03 '07 at 10:26pm

wow... I had no idea snakes/chutes & ladders could be so controversial hahaha... it's an awesome shirt regardless of what the game's called, leave it at that.

Oh & LemmingsArePirates - awesome questionable content icon.

63 days later

Sesamee on Sep 05 '07 at 9:56pm

Snakes or Chutes, same difference its an awesome shirt.

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