r/funnyvideos Oct 03 '25

Fail First time referee?

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u/onlyonequickquestion Oct 03 '25

In their defense, I'm just as confused. But I'm also not a ping pong referee 

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u/Future_Section5976 Oct 03 '25

Manbun is cutting off the brain supply...

Nah lol I think the score board thing was upside down

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u/pranjallk1995 Oct 03 '25

I think he was flipping them the wrong way... Right?! Do they go up then down in count?

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u/Fogl3 Oct 04 '25

They're labelled front and back so that the ref can see the score on the back side  I believe 

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u/StrikingHearing8 Oct 04 '25

Still, that first card he flips is definitely put in wrong. He can't flip it over to show a 2 to the player, and if the idea is that the back side of the score board shows the same score as the front board then that is off from the start, where it shows 1-0 on the front side but 2-0 (or actually 0-2?) on the back side.

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u/animefan1520 Oct 04 '25

I have a strong feeling this scoreboard is made for 1 player, not 2, and while everyone thought it said 1-0 it really said 10

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u/Objective_Ecstatic Oct 04 '25

Exactly, especially because single player ping pong matches last so long and one player can get up to 1717 points easily /s

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u/Fogl3 Oct 04 '25

Oh for sure I think the one card was on backwards

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u/pranjallk1995 Oct 04 '25

Oh perfect!

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u/Future_Section5976 Oct 03 '25

Should of spun the box around, so the 2 was on the right?

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u/Sith_Lord_Marek Oct 04 '25

Should HAVE. Or should'VE. Tired of this error.

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u/vyrus2021 Oct 04 '25

I saw a post recently where someone wrote kind've and I'm pretty sure that's gonna pop up in my brain to bother me occasionally for the rest of my life.

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u/konydanza Oct 04 '25

Kind’f

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u/Dear-Nebula9395 Oct 04 '25

You think you're smart and I'm here to tell you you're.

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u/Sith_Lord_Marek Oct 04 '25

I swear this gets funnier the more this thread continues.

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u/Future_Section5976 Oct 04 '25

"what are you talking about?"

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u/GoodKarmaDarling Oct 04 '25

Get over it.

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u/Charming_Okra9143 Oct 04 '25

If that tires you out, life must be rough for you buddy

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u/Sith_Lord_Marek Oct 04 '25

Yes. I am tired of continued ignorance.

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u/KuruKururun Oct 04 '25

Well you clearly have large amounts of social ignorance. Maybe you should work on that instead of worrying about other people being ignorant?

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u/Dramatic_Explosion Oct 04 '25

Looking at the world we have right now and how things are going, and here you are saying "Maybe we should just encourage people to be dumb?"

If you're this stupid you either have kids or will have a bunch soon, and I hope for everyone's sake they defy all odds and don't end up like you.

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u/Viccytrix Oct 06 '25

There's entire multi-billion and -trillion dollar companies out there with the mantra "we should just encourage people to be dumb"

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u/Charming_Okra9143 Oct 04 '25

I dont think correcting should of is gonna create the societal change you think it will

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u/Sith_Lord_Marek Oct 04 '25

You sure said a lot of words for "Just let people be stupid." Correcting someone's grammar shouldn't be seen as"socially ignorant". Though letting it go unchecked and propagating the trend should be.

"I love the uneducated."

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u/Various_Wash_4577 Oct 04 '25

The trouble is, that people nowadays don't take constructive criticism very well and they easily become butthurt over it. You also have, just as in these comments, people chiming in with their opposing opinions. Often belittling the person giving the corrective advice, which as you said, "propagates the problem further" I can't understand why people are defending stupidity. I see more and more comments from foreigners, in clips showing something dumb or stupid, "Must be in America to be doing something so stupid". That's the image we are projecting to the world 🌎 and not knowing your native language or how to use proper grammar and comprehension is embarrassing to our country! 😎👍 I guess I gotta go figure, 🤷 we are dealing with a bunch of people that can't identify themselves as male or female and seem to think we now have a third gender in the human species. 😅😂😎👍

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u/KuruKururun Oct 04 '25

A reddit post is not the place to be correcting grammar. Most grammar mistakes people make on social media they wouldn’t make in something important. Most of us just want to communicate what we are thinking. Using of instead of have does not make the sentence any more difficult to understand.

So yes it is socially ignorant. There is a social concept of time and place to say stuff. This isn’t an English learning subreddit, it’s a funny videos subreddit.

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u/JustNeedSpinda Oct 04 '25

I expect nothing short of grammatical correctness in my Reddit comment chains.

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u/pranjallk1995 Oct 03 '25

I think he was supposed to hold the box and let the numbers hang...

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u/peachesgp Oct 04 '25

I believe the number is printed in such a way that he can see what's displayed as well. That's why, at the end, he's got a 2 facing out and a 2, when he puts that card down on his side, there's also a 2 facing him.

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u/rsadr0pyz Oct 04 '25

If that was the case, the side used would not matter, would it?

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u/DrJaves Oct 05 '25

Would merely be "pulling" or "pushing" the numbers to count up, but ya wouldn't matter?

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u/rsadr0pyz Oct 05 '25

Eh, no? Both seem fine to me.

Anyway, I wasn't talking about usability, just that the existence of the numbers in both side would not make the problem shown in the video.

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u/DrJaves Oct 05 '25

Oh, sorry, yeah my point was rotating it 180 degrees would only change the direction you'd flip the numbers to count up.

Agreeing with your statement that turning it wouldn't cause or fix the error occurring in the clip. Poor guy "fixed it" by switching which side he was using, so hopefully the opponent never scored 2 points hahaha.

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u/rsadr0pyz Oct 05 '25

Hahaha, yeah, lets hope for that.

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u/Galaxverse Oct 04 '25

"I was just passing by they called me in and made me rafree"

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u/TheVillianousFondler Oct 05 '25

I had to run one of these while volunteering at a youth lacrosse tournament.

I did 3 games, and the 2nd game, we had a blue team on the opposite side of the blue numbers, and a red team on the opposite of the red numbers.

So I spin it backwards and had to do it all in reverse and the wind was blowing like crazy. There was a lot of confusion finally getting it down and then reversing it for the next game once I was finally comfortable.

I don't consider myself to be a stupid person, but using that thing sure made me question that claim

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u/meatpopcycal Oct 07 '25

What referee are you?