# smartass speed chess a common online playstate in which two oh-so tiresome mansplainers suddenly sit down across from one another on opposite sides of the net they then take turns on the clock to smartly deconstruct the false underlying first unchallenged assumptions of the other via quote 'a clever and interesting use of words' meanwhile everyone else in the room looks on with deadpan whatever because constantly imagining oneself cleverer than everyone else is a one-way roadmap straight to duckheadsville alternatively they just quip and snipe and smug at each other like the pathetic man-children they seem (sometimes for years) on some hyper-specific backwater internet forum anyone with a real life true friends and actual things-to-do couldn't give a stuffed monkey's chuff about // republic of bob