A while back we posted an article on the official rules of Beer Pong. Overall the response was good. However, we kept getting comments and emails from individuals who claimed the proper name for Beer Pong was Beirut.
Here is one such comment: “I really wish the legit drinking websites would stop calling it “Beer Pong”. It’s Beirut, dammit. For those of us that play Beer Pong, to mix up the games is blasphemy. Check this out to get more information. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_pong” (At least he called us legit)
I rank these people right up there with the hippies that tell me cutting down trees is murder and that I shouldn’t eat meat because animals have rights too. They can all go straight to H E double hockey sticks. I’m an American and I will play Beer Pong on my table made of wood while eating raw steak. But I digress. This post is about why Beer Pong is not called Beirut. Here is an exhaustive and thoroughly researched list of these reasons.
1. Beirut is a city in Lebanon. There is no such place called Beer Pongadelphia. There is only the game, Beer Pong.
2. If you Google Beirut, the only thing that shows up for several pages are entries about the band called “The Beirut Band.” You actually have to search Beer Pong + Beirut to get results of other ass hats calling Beer Pong Beirut.
3. No girl would ever brag to her friends about a one night stand with the dorm Beirut Champion. That’s like saying you had sex with the president of the Glee Club.
4. Every time someone calls Beer Pong Beirut, Chuck Norris gently slaps a baby. In Beirut.
5. If this were an SAT question it would be: Beirut is to Stephen Hawkings as Beer Pong is to Tony Hawk.
6. People who call it Beirut are just trying to be as cool as the college kids who say “Le Mis,” or “Poly Sci.”
7. Beer companies don’t sponsor “Beirut” tournaments.
8. If you call Beer Pong Beirut, you’re probably a Freshman.
9. They even call it Beer Pong IN Beirut.
10. Calling Beer Pong Beirut is like calling a guy “pretty.
You know, your post could have easily made a legitimate argument as to why it should be called Beer Pong instead of Beirut. But instead, as the others have mentioned, this is racist and insanely ignorant. I’m American-Lebanese, and LOVE playing beer pong, drinking beer, and eating steak as much as any other red-blooded American. But I also love my native Lebanon, and I am so f*cking sick of ignorant people like you just aggregating an entire population or region and labeling us terrorists. Who the hell are you to label an entire city that you have never even been to or know the first thing about a breeding ground for terrorism? Do you want to know what’s funny? If someone like you visited the country, our people would welcome you with open arms and give you some of the best damn hospitality of your life.
Bottom line is…shhhhh, you don’t know what you’re talking about. The only I will agree with you on, is that I call it beer pong too.
Calling Beirut beer pong is like calling cotton swabs q-tips, or facial tissue Kleenex, it is commonplace to call these things that, but it isn’t an accurate name for what it being talked about. Beer Pong is played with paddles, thus the “pong” in beer pong, which is a reference to Ping Pong, which is also played with paddles. You can say that Beirut is to beer pong as Texas hold-em is to draw poker, but that’s even a stretch because the overall goals of beer pong and Beirut aren’t as similar as Texas hold-em and draw poker. Beer Pong plays like normal ping pong, with the exception of a ball going in the cup requiring you to drink half or all of your drink (depending on how you want to play). I used to use the poker reference to keep the youth informed, but now looking at it, I’m not sure if it truly pertains. Even the Broken Lizard guys agree with all of us saying the writer here is wrong, go watch Beerfest and tell me what is on the board when they are supposedly playing your beer pong.
No girl would brag about a one night stand with a “beer pong” champ either
it is beirut. it was originally beirut until ignorant jackasses who weren’t invited to play started playing with other losers but didn’t know what it was called so they assumed it was called beer pong. the name beer pong caught on the same was bands like lmfao, bon jovi, maroon 5, and taylor swift have caught on, because the world is full of ignorant jackasses.
It’s beirut. You high school born in 1996 kids probably just call it beer pong. I don’t really care either way… But when I grew up and we played it was beirut. Let me guess, you graduated in 2009 and your almost done with college? Yeah – call it pong beer pong beirut whatever but don’t be billy badass saying stupid shit.
Hilarious. Not sure why peeps are getting so mad. It’s funny.
Fuck you fucking faggot retards. Why the FUCK would it be named after a city you dopey shit heads. It is called beer pong. Not beiruit. Why dont you start calling it bumblefuck, where you retards must come from. Yea beer pong can involve paddles, but it can also just be throwing balls into cups. FUCK it has two meanings. If you call it beiruit you are just a shit head freshman pussy gdi faggot.
wow.. you are one of those people who should really get your facts straight before speaking on a subject you do not know.. beirut is when you line up cups at each end.. and you throw balls into the other teams cups.. beer pong is the same thing but with paddles.. hence the name.. BEER PONG.. YOU DUMB RACIST FUCK……
Jimmy, you are a fucking ignorant racist. You fucking dont know anything about Lebanon so shut the fuck up. And for the record, the bunch of terrorist in Lebanon are not even lebanese you fucking retard, get your facts straight. And US is full of fucking terrorists. Holy crap you’re so ignorant and stupid.
You fucking idiot.. I’m a Lebanese christian living in Beirut. Come to the city for a week and see if you can find your precious terrorists. The city is invaded by crazy drunk people and awesome nightclubs. And if you consider hezbollah terrorists, you’re wrong because i know hundreds of them and all they care about is fighting israel to protect Lebanon.
Long live Beirut Nightlife and fuck the bad reputations and stereotypes. America should shut the fuck up and visit MY BEAUTIFUL LEBANON before judging it.
Beer pong, people, it’s called beer pong. Ping pong balls and beer. It’s not a difficult concept.
I like the post but the thing is that its a little bit rascist.See I’m Lebanese and live in Beirut and I know for a fact that there are more terrorists in America than in Beirut.
Plus we(our army) are the ones that actually fight terrorists on ground zero while your CIA and NETO jacks off trying to figure out how to sell bullshit about Usama Ben Laden while they made him and he is already dead.
P.S : I’m christian so don’t think that I’m defending that a-hole Usama Ben Laden or his fucking followers.
hahahahahahahahahaha… shut the fuck up
It IS Beirut!!!!
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Love Jimmy
your an ignorant idiot. ping pong is used with paddles. no why? because the word pong is the only word associated with the use of paddles. remember the video game pong? yep hitting a ball with paddles. therefore, beer pong is a game used with cups, beer and paddles. and it came long before that of throwing ping pong balls into cups. you lose. and damn it feels great.
Honestly, I find this article disturbing and racist. I have been to Beirut and their nightlife and culture is a million times better and richer than that of the US. NY times said it was the number one place to go in the summer of 2009, and it has been rated as one of the best party cities in a variety of sources. I am a Russian-Jew living in New York, so no bias at all.
And I know the game to be called Beirut, not beer pong.