For those of us who are dreading going to shul for the high holidays, have no connection to Judaism and the elaborate davening, can't stand seeing the faces of your past that sit near you every year, and count the minutes until shul is over. Why not play the bangitout.com drinking game? Cause as they say in Kiddush club, Shul is much funner when you are drunk.
Just follow the guide below, and you'll be having more fun than a chazan at a cantor's convention:
Take two sips every time… Someone walks in wearing a tallis like Amelia Earhart.
Take three sips every time… You are greeted with the full “L'shana tova v'ticatav blah blah…” and you try mumbling a similar response
Take one sip every time… the rabbi makes a sports analogy to the high holidays (bottom of 9th etc)
Take two sips every time… The page-changer gets the page wrong, and someone embaresses him in public
Take one sip every time… The old guy behind you shushs you.
Take one sip every time… you have no clue of the person's name of the guy next to you.
Take one sip every time… someone asks you how school is going when you graduated ten years ago.
Take two sips for every time…someone mentions from the pulpit the rising 'air conditioning costs to the shul'
Take one sip every time…you think about all the strategic work involved in the shul seating chart
Take one sip every time…a baby starts crying during shofar blowing
Take three sips every time…a frenemy shows up with their parents, you've been avoiding them for 5 years.
Extra sip if you make eye contact
Take one sip for every… Mourners Kaddish sang to the yom tov tune. You know it and are now humming it. It is haunting!
Take two sips for every time… they announce the page and it's over 300 pages from the end of the machzor.
Take two sips every time… A high-school friend appears.
Take three sips... if that friend dyed their hair and has an awesome nose-ring.
Take four sips… if that friend is too frum to talk to you.
Take five sips… when someone mentions the shidduch crisis and eyeballs you.
Take two sips every time… people start mumbling “Yihi Ratzon” before the shofar blowing is even over
Take one sip for every time... The chazan waits for the crowd to fill in the rising: Ah ah ah ah…ah.
Take two sips every time… people start mumbling “Yihi Ratzon” before the shofar blowing is even over
Take three sips if… The Gabbai yells at someone for not open the ark and closing it at the exact correct moment
Take five sips… when the rabbi “thanks the gabbaim”
Finish your beer if… The Rabbi manages to speak under fourty-five minutes