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Alt Text: A cartoon illustration of three men each carrying different items, a rock, paper, and scissors, meeting at a crossroads. Caption reads "It was the historic, first-time, meeting of Roe, Sham, and Bo."

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[–] epicthundercat@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Paper guy is the most screwed. He better be a fast runner.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

The guy with the big fucking rock is strong, that rock has a lot of inertia, by he gets one shot then he's strong and unarmed

The guy with the scissors will win, if he survives the first shot with the rock.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I first heard the term "Ro sham bo" from South Park where the game was taking turns kicking each other in the nuts and the first one to flinch loses. It wasn't until years later I saw it associated with Rock, Paper, Scissors.

[–] burgermeister@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you for mentioning this lol, that's the only place I've heard of Ro Sham Bo

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 2 points 22 hours ago
[–] mydoomlessaccount@infosec.pub 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The one guy just walks around all day carrying a big-ass rock everywhere he goes? I think he could probably take the other two in a fight, then

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's all hip muscle, and he's letting his skeleton do the work

[–] Matty_r@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago

His skeleton would kick their arses

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

Rock is on a side road so has to stop.

Scissors and paper go first, scissors cuts paper, then rock breaks scissors.

[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is the Roe Sham Bo bit an American thing?

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Rock paper scissors is what I think we can it in the US

*Paper, scissors, rock in the US.

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] nedwben@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

Rochambeau was a French general for the American revolution. There is no evidence the nick name for rock, paper, scissors has any relationship with the actual man. Janken(rock, paper, scissors) came to America in the 20th century by Japanese immigrants. Roshambo is slang from the West Coast of the US. First evidence of the term was 1936 in Oakland.

Maybe it was named after the general, maybe it's a coincidence, we don't know.

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

You're going to cite AI as fact?

Ouch...

[–] TheYojimbo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Never heard before

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whoever goes second would win.

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No one would go. They know who ever goes first loses to their weakness. So they dare not go first, but not going at all is also a lose. Thus a forever stalemate.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 18 points 1 day ago

The only winning move is not to play.

[–] drzoidberg@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's not how roshambo works.

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

I mean, neither is the comic? They aren't choosing what they get and it's three ways instead of 1v1.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 0 points 1 day ago

4 downvotes for the truth, smh

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The madman running around with scissors obviously has an intimidation factor here.

[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 3 points 1 day ago

Running with scissors also comes with extra risk, so that might even it out again.

[–] dp@thebrainbin.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

i'm starting to understand why socrates was just clowning on these idiots 24/7

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

Let's assume that they should have colours and that the three colours picture here are the correct ones, then, IMO, Ro should be red and carrying a rock, Sham should be yellow and carrying the scissors, and Bo should be blue and carrying the paper.

It's not clear who is who here, but they don't fit with my colour-item pairings.

Reasoning: Sham is vaguely like French "jaune" which is yellow. B and P are related sounds. There's a bit more to it but the rest is mostly obvious.