Totally immersion breaking

The story takes place in Britain and the vast majority of the characters barely, if at all, know what Football(aka Soccer) is. Mr. Weasley the muggle "expert" doesn't know what a rubber duck is for. They're not gonna know shit about some American muggle sport.

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The fact that the wizarding world is able to be this aloof about 99% of the population they live amongst is incredible. In a real world that would be due to a tireless cadre of extremely knowledgable and capable wizards working to keep them separate. Unfortunately the fact that some hack like Voldie could make such a mess of things so easily kinda disproves that. Therefore the wizarding world is the luckiest bunch of idiots ever.

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- The story takes place in Britain. What the fuck even is a chicago bull?!
  
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- This is why I only liked the earlier Harry Potter books, the setting is clearly just not built to be taken seriously... so Goblet of Fire and onward demanding as such just fails.
  
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- You should read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. I don't want to spoil anything but it is so good. Honestly, book stores should stop selling the official Harry Potter books and just stock HPMOR.
  
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- Or they see themselves as a superpower that is above needing to learn about others, perhaps?
  
  (I didn't read the books so if this is obviously wrong I'm sorry)
  
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The Statute of Secrecy people might've been tasked to investigate one "Magic Johnson."

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It's....it's a joke

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- I'm aware.
  
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- An extremely american centric joke
  
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And the Chicago Bulls are a basketball team... so there's no chance they'd know what that is, despite Quidditch being essentially soccer + basketball...

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Yup.

The Bulls aren't a Quidditch team.

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Side note, i really hate the whole soccer/football thing. It's so confusing because sometimes people accommodate me and mean American football but just say football. But then I have to ask what they mean anyway because not everyone accommodates me that way (and why should they?). It's just so many extra steps.

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Did you see that ludicrous display last night‽

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Being that it was set in England no, they wouldn't have.

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Michael Jordan in the 90s was a worldwide phenomenon. I can totally believe it if they mentioned him. I'm from India originally and even we knew who he was in the 90s.

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- Yeah, people don't really get the fame he had. Michael Jordan is the reason Gatorade is a big brand. He's the main reason people wear athlete branded shoes and gear.
  
  People below are proving your point. "I just know that he played basketball." This dude has been retired for 2 decades and people who don't care about basketball still know who he is. That's huge.
  
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- i know he is a basketball person. thats about it
  
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- I grew up in the 90s in England, and we didn't give a toss about basketball. Still don't.
  
  Michael Jordan was the guy in Space Jam with the expensive trainers that a couple of spoiled kids had. We were aware of his existence, but that was it.
  
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- That's the guy from space jam isn't it?
  
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Should have said Manchester United then….

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The "design" of Quidditch is proof Rowling didn't know anything about sports.

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It's proof she's a horrible writer, she wants a scene to make Harry look good in front of his classmates... So she invents a sport that conveniently has a role where the focus can be on one person and that one thing this one person does is just magically more important than anything anyone else does.... It creates two things, Harry's image as a Gary Stu and the world's most pointless fucking sport.

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lmao instawin snitch

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- It's not instawin, you can catch it and still lose
  
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I thought Quidditch was her attempt at satirizing how arbitrary she thought real-world sports are, but maybe that's giving her too much credit

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- Giving her too much credit.
  
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Yeah, yeah, sports, cell phones, computers, etc. But I still cannot believe that none of the muggleborns brought a damn ballpoint pen to Hogwarts. It would blow the mind of those crazy wizards still using quills. "Weasley Wizard's Wheezes proudly presents the new quill that writes without an inkwell!"

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The wizarding world seems really conservative. They might know of them but just scoff at such modern ridiculousness.

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Harry Potter is based in Britain, so it's an absolute travesty that no one is singing Three Lions, or talking about the absolute dicking that Gazza gave the Scots.

Also no mention of Bucky. It's almost as if they're not really in Scotland, and that it's all fictional.

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brits don't care about nba

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A truly amazing sight: an average Twitter resident discovers that countries outside of the US exist

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A truly amazing sight: An average Lemmy user discovers that they can't tell when someone on Twitter is making an obvious joke

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- Its just a bad joke since HP is not set in america so the joke doesnt even make sense
  
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- I guess an average Lemmy user can't tell when someone on Lemmy is making an obvious joke either
  
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- Too many of them are not joking though
  
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Man, the Chudley Cannons are terrible this decade.

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It’s a bunch of nerds and magic geeks. They would think about sports about as much as I did in the 90s, and if anyone asked me whether the Chicago Bulls had an epic run I’d say uh… what? I don’t know.

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This comment is giving me Mr. Enter vibes, for those who don't know, he's a Youtuber infamous for claiming "Turning Red" sucks because it didn't randomly drop the Red Panda premise in order to focus on the (Literally not American....) characters reacting to 9/11.

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Was the way Mr. Enter framed the video a joke?

Because this is a joke.

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- Unfortunately no, he was completely serious, though people did meme on his take a lot. - https://youtu.be/BhRD2lgNSJE
  
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We explaining the joke then?

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