Messed up the bracket with Superpoke

I have just “messed up the bracket with” a friend on Facebook. (For anyone reading this 50 years from now, this means I was logged on to the social networking site Facebook, which had an application called Superpoke and I clicked on this action in Superpoke so that the next time my friend logs in she will be informed that I have done this thing to her. Sigh – seems slightly tedious when you write it all out but passed for fun in 2008.)

I have no idea what ‘messed up the bracket with’ means except that it seems to be something to do with basketball (from the little icons attached to the action), is American slang and is not rude as it is not in the PG-13 list. That is a good, because seemingly innocuous things you think you know – like teabag- are in the PG-13 list. When you ’superpoke’ someone with the teabag action Facebook says you have ‘brewed a spot of tea for’ them, which is something us English do all the time and seems quite civilised. However, if you look up the verb ‘to teabag’ on the (wikipedia of urban slang) urbandictionary.com it tells you it is something rude (“messed up the bracket” isn’t on there).

Superpoke is, in fact, full of interesting topical information about America. For example, I know when everyone is watching American idol and the Oscars, what food to eat at Thanksgiving and when the primaries are on. I have little interest in the latter, but I found out who the Republican candidates were through a Superpoke action. It was notable that all four Republicans were on the same tab whereas the Democrat nomination battle was a straight contest between Hilary and Obama (sic). Moreover, unlike the Republicans, both Hilary and Obama had individual Superpoke icons (you could throw them at someone). Does this suggest the Democrat candidates have captured the imagination of American and therefore have a much better chance of winning than the Republicans – at least in the age-range using Facebook?

Tags: education, Politics, social networking, Superpoke