Originally Posted by redietz View Post
A ploppie is a bad blackjack player, but there's a self-congratulatory aspect to using it, like when people use "squares" as a sports betting term to demonstrate they get the jargon and that they ain't one.

Nobody asked, but I hate jargon. Probably has something to do with trying to communicate clearly to a general audience as opposed to tagging oneself as belonging to a knowledgeable clique.
You've been right about everything that went on here and that goes on at the "math club" all along. Now they'll add you to their list of people they can call names and insult, since we're not there to make them look stupid for doing so. "Safety of the Nerds"