One day many , many , year from now , I ’ll tell my grandkids , Zap , Pop , and Chrome ( in the future , name will be highly futurist ) , " Back in my mean solar day , I had to take the air 1 km up a hill cover in white , concentrate water " ( in the future , C will not exist due to globular heating and lack of bee , and we will have switched to the metric scheme ) " just to play flip cup with my near buddies during my college years . "
After explaining what college was ( all education will be serve in viral baby elephant video via VR implants ) their wide eyes will gaze up at me in my hover chair , and ask , " Why grandperson , why?"(gender does not survive in the future ) . I ’ll say them :
" Thomas Kyd , flip cup is the best drunkenness game to ever live in the former USA , now legally referred to as Disney ’s American Experience ™ . "
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Flip loving cup is certainly the greatest imbibing plot of all clock time – preferred to the self - appointed rule champ , beer pong . I ’ll damn well believe it 70 year from now when food is in pill form and our chairwoman is a sentient refurbished Furby . And I all-fired well believe it today . Here ’s why .
Beer pong is overcomplicated and boring. Flip cup is decidedly not.
In the metre it take to fill out four gripping , high-pitched - octane games of flip cup , your beer - niff counterparts will have just figured out if they will play with or without paddles , if they should stick to traditional Cornell - style , and how the mercy prescript should toy out in the event of a simultaneously made double - shot on a behind - the - shoulder joint put - back .
There are more arbitrary rules , complications , and iteration in beer pong than a game of risk of infection in a way full of obsessional - driven adjunct principal with factual sticks up their buttocks . It ’s a biz of encyclopedic particularities . And it ’s annoying as fuck . In impudent cup , there ’s only one set of universally agree - upon rules . And people love it .
Flip cup is an engaging, inclusive game built for the masses
The intuitive smell of toss your loving cup into mathematically consummate orbit , to have it swoosh rim - first , flush on a slick backyard terrace table or dimly lit kitchen counter , is like draining a three at the doorbell , or hitting the sweet place on a Louisville Slugger . It ’s a moment of competitive paragon you just find resonating through your bones . I ’m fair certain the revolution of a fictile loving cup during a game of flip cup matches up with da Vinci ’s gilt ratio , but do n’t quote me on that .
Flip cup is a secret plan for the masses – in the good potential way . It ’s the democratization of a drinking game ; this is the simplest conceit of a booze - infused competition ( drink in , then do this before someone else does ) . And it captures playfulness in its purest form – without pretension , constraints , or heavy - handed semantics . It ’s verse in motion . Beer niff is a slog through a trough of stale beer - flavor exclusivity .
Anyone and everyone can play, and games aren’t the length of an epic Russian novel
Flip cup – though esthetically riveting ( the chugs ! The spin ! The one guy wire who just ca n’t seem to alternate that cup ! ) is not a spectator sport . The drinkers on the out of bounds are n’t forced to look out frat bros go back and off for hours before their turn is up .
The secret plan is infinitely scalable . In theory , there is no strong-arm boundary to how many insolent - cup musician can be involved in a secret plan , economise our own Pentateuch of space and time .
Can you think if all of life ’s problems were solved with a gulp of light-colored beer and the flip of a Solo loving cup ? cursorily . Objectively . Beer - er - ly . It ’s the optimal fight resolution .
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It’s easier to cheat during flip cup
Despite what people tell you , cheating is the secretly fraudulent but cheap - as - hell material that paves the way to ultimate triumph and winner . See : baseball record books , or every politician ever .
Flipping a lil ' early , pouring half the beer down the interior of your sensible unisex turtleneck , filling your glass up less , distracting musician with your electric sex – all fair ( well , kind of ) game in the reality of flip cup . Like in Monopoly and external soccer , cheating is an constitutional part of the game . It ’s all in proficient fun . More importantly , it requires zero acquisition .
You can play flip cup almost anywhere
All you need to trifle flip cupful is a surface and a few cup . No woozy misstep to 18 unlike memory on a pursuit for ping - pong Ball , or a stumble to the service department to draw out a table covered in wanderer eggs . That ’s how people conk out their backs !
It’s more hygienic
You do n’t have to be Howard Hughes to think flipping a loving cup atop a ( probably ) dingy table is kind of gross . But then again , how many niff balls have slide underneath a frat clotheshorse ’s nasty couch , only to be " cleansed " with a water cup , and sent back into play without a second thought ? And that ball ’s probably been used in multiple games . It ’s fundamentally a bouncing sphere of disease . And if you ’re one of those people who plays beer pong with water in the cups and drinks from a wise beer , well , you do n’t really deserve to play in the first situation .
There’s never that one “douchey flip-cup guy”
At any given party out there in America , there ’s always the douchebag in flip - floating-point operation and a purposefully upset chapeau " running the beer - pong table , " pumping his fist , and draining all the potential merriment from what is designed to be a fun game .
No one accept flip loving cup this seriously . I have in mind , it has the word " flip-flop " in the name .
In the end, it’s exactly what a drinking game should be
comfortable , gratis - flowing , approachable , just the right amount of dirty , and – best of all – that annoying douchey beer - pong guy rope wo nt be there .
And if you dissent with the logical thinking spell out in this article , that guy rope is in all probability you . Even if you are a girl . But that does n’t matter , in the future , gender will be disused , recall ? Unlike flip loving cup . Which will hopefully make its way into Olympic competitor by the time we hit Tokyo 2020 .
finger thwart , and cups toss away .
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