Random Thoughts That Don’t Warrant Their Own Thread: 2025

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  1. Gunners

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    Pickleball is outdoor ping pong but gets many elderly people doing something which is good

    I hope I don’t ever play it until I make it to 65 if I do
     
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  2. Lip

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    I am a multi purpose pervert
     
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  3. Name P. Redacted

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    As your fellow pervert wes tegg says, specialization is for ants
     
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  4. wes tegg

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    Specialization is for insects.
     
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  5. Gunners

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    Being in a region with 4 seasons is great

    My ceiling fan decides to turn into the worst thing imaginable when seasons change(I kinda need circulating air)

    Tonight is 1, bless up
     
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  6. Sub-Zero

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    Pickleball is fun to play so I get it but what I don’t get is people watching pickleball. It’s horrific as a spectator sport and I swear the only people watching it are doing so feeling like they have to support it.

    I also can’t tell the difference between a pro pickleball player and a regular neighborhood pickleball player.
     
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  7. Lip

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    Quoting in advance of your early morning edit
     
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  8. Lip

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    this post makes no sense. The few pro pickleball rallies I’ve seen on social media are ridiculous full swinging out of the air rallies back and forth. None of that stuff occurs at your local rec center
     
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  9. Gunners

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    I’m sober and won’t sleep much but I am weird so can understand why you’d think that
     
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  10. Lip

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    in that case, I have no idea what you were trying to say with that post
     
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  11. Sub-Zero

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    Maybe I just have friends who are not pros but are decent athletes who play. They post stuff on social that looks highly competitive. I’m not referring to 60 + year olds… just general younger people playing for fun who have some sort of high school tennis background or so.
     
  12. i am a bammer

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    Can those of you that play Pickleball save some pussy for the rest of us?
     
  13. mb711

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    What course/club and why?
     
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  14. Gunners

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    I need a ceiling fan and it’s being loud af and I can’t sleep

    Is that clear
     
    #1714 Gunners, Mar 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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  15. Sub-Zero

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    By the way I mean this as a spectator product. Not me saying pro pickleball players aren’t good at what they do.
     
  16. MLS

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    Wilshire, there's an approval process for guests for members. Ethan has played there multiple times but I didn't get approved.
     
  17. mb711

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    That's crazy, never heard of that before, was it a hcp/index thing or that you're a woman
     
  18. MLS

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    I edited it, it was Wilshire not LACC. Wasn't overly logged into my memory since I never got to play there.

    Probably age and female being a red flag.
     
  19. MLS

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    Annoying because I was really excited to slut it up on the course

    CLUBHOUSE ATTIRE FOR WOMEN
    • Shirts permitted to be worn on the golf course and golf practice areas may also be worn anywhere in the Clubhouse. Collarless shirts, blouses, sweaters, and sleeveless shirts without collars in good taste are permitted. T-shirts and exercise clothing may only be worn in the locker room and fitness center.
    • Pants permitted to be worn on the golf course and golf practice areas may also be worn anywhere in the Clubhouse. Denim may only be worn in the Grill Room, Macbeth Bar, locker room and on the patio. Denim may also be worn for specified events as approved by the Board of Directors. Pants must be clean, well-fitting, free of tears, frays, stains, messages, and graphics of any kind.
    • Dresses in good taste and dresses permitted to be worn on the golf course and golf practice areas may also be worn anywhere in the Clubhouse. Dresses must completely conceal undergarments.
    • Shorts and skirts in good taste and shorts, skirts, and skorts permitted to be worn on the golf course and golf practice areas may be worn anywhere in the Clubhouse. Country Club appropriate length denim skirts free of tears, frays, stains, messages, and graphics of any kind are permitted in the Grill Room, Macbeth Bar, locker room and on the patio. Denim may also be worn for specified events as approved by the Board of Directors.
    • Closed-toe shoes and appropriate open-toe and fashion sandals may be worn in all areas of the Clubhouse, except for flip-flops and shower shoes which may be worn only in the locker room.
    • Hats and Caps. Hats, caps, and visors may be worn everywhere outside of the Clubhouse, and in the golf shop, the locker room, and on the patio. Dress hats and sunhats are permitted inside the Clubhouse. All other hats, caps, and visors (including bucket hats) may not be worn inside the Clubhouse. All hats, caps, and visors must be worn with the bill facing forward.
    • Appropriate exercise clothing may be worn only in the locker room and the fitness center. Exercise clothing may be worn while traversing from the Member parking area to the locker room or to the fitness center. A Member arriving and leaving the Club in exercise clothing is required to use the entrance and exit located along the loading dock to the left of the handicapped access ramp adjacent to the Members’ parking lot and may NOT traverse any other area of the Club’s premises.
    • The Board of Directors may designate a dress code applicable only to special events.
    GOLF COURSE ATTIRE FOR WOMEN
    • Women are expected to wear appropriate attire for golf including shirts with collars, shirts with turtlenecks or mock turtlenecks, or collarless shirts or tops with sleeves intended as golf wear. T-shirts with graphics, racerback shirts without a regular or mock turtleneck collar, and tank tops are prohibited. Shirts must completely conceal undergarments.
    • Tailored and capri style pants are permitted. Pants must be clean, well-fitting, free of tears, frays, stains, messages, and graphics of any kind. Denim pants, draw string pants, jumpsuits, cargo pants, and all types of exercise clothing (e.g., yoga pants, warmup suits) are prohibited.
    • Country Club appropriate length golf dresses with collars, turtlenecks or mock turtlenecks are permitted. Tennis dresses are not permitted.
    • Country Club appropriate length shorts, skirts, and skorts are permitted. Tights and leggings may be worn underneath shorts, skirts, and skorts. Denim shorts, skirts, and skorts, tennis attire (e.g., tennis skirts), leggings not worn under shorts, skirts, or skorts, and any other type of exercise clothing are prohibited.
    • Golf shoes must be closed-toed and be either soft-spike or spikeless.
     
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  20. arsenal

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  21. Pasta88

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    Padel > Pickleball. It’s the fastest growing sport in the world apparently but for some reason hasn’t caught on much in the US and Canada.
     
  22. ~ taylor ~

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    LACC laughs at the idea of denim being allowed on the property
     
  23. Goose

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    As they should
     
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  24. devine

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    Worst part about pickleball is all of the basketball courts being torn down or repurposed for it
     
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  25. colonelrascals

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    now this I can get behind
     
  26. wes tegg

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  27. Goose

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    And a groomer
     
  28. One Two

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    If they didn’t want to be hated they shouldn’t have chosen the name “pickleball”.
     
  29. MLS

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    I asked the PPA guy why it was called pickleball and got a damn novel of an answer during which he started doubting himself.

    The last boat to return on fishing excursions used to stay out and pickle the catch, "pickle boat".

    Then it started being used as a crew and sailing term for the last boat to finish the race and they were given a jar of pickles because they were assholes.

    He said thats why it is named Pickleball but also he had a dog named pickles so we're not 100% sure and I may have just wasted 10 minutes of your time.
     
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  30. Sub-Zero

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    Simply because of the structure needed for padel. Pickleball on other other hand needs just like 30 feet of empty concrete.
     
  31. One Two

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    Some fresh shirt and clean bracelet science

     
  32. Eathan Edwards

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    I wonder if the bird pieces it together or just thinks he's all of a sudden irresistible.
     
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  33. One Two

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    I doubt the bird has the same self awareness I did when I knew my sudden popularity was because of Phoenix Axe Body spray
     
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  34. Celemo

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    gonna have to add that to the list, my sis recently moved to Alabama and I've already got her picking me up a Rocket City Trash Panda cap
     
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  35. Celemo

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    that also means at some point I'm gonna have to visit Alabama for the first time...hooray?
     
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  36. Hatfield

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    Anyone have a good experience w/ tuxedo rentals for a wedding?

    I'm getting married in June, so trying to get that all squared away w/ the Groomsmen too. Not everyone is local, so can't really do our men's shop. I've done Jos A Banks/MW before but have had pretty average experiences with both.

    Suggestions? I've briefly looked into Gen Tux and The Black Tux, but dont know anyone who has used them.
     
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  37. Clown Baby

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    Lucky you
     
  38. Nug

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    I've done the Black Tux 2-3x in your situation (groomsmen scattered across the US), it did fine. Suits were OK, they were def rentals.
     
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  39. Truman

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    There are people who take it way too seriously. Those people are huge losers. Same family tree as softball guy
     
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  40. devine

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    Black tux let us do a test run and I thought the quality of tux they sent was pretty bad and didn’t fit well. Ended up going with jos a banks and it was fine to good
     
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  41. Pile Driving Miss Daisy

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    Is pickleball that loud? Granted I don't live right next door to a court, but when I'm near one it doesn't sound like it's being played with sticks of dynamite.
     
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  42. MLS

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    It's loud, apparently loud enough for someone to develop a graphic about it.

    [​IMG]
     
  43. Pile Driving Miss Daisy

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    That's louder than maybe I thought but decibels is a logarithmic scale, it's not as if a jet engine is twice as loud as pickleball. I'd imagine it's on the level of a pickup basketball game outdoors.
     
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  44. ohhaithur

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    it's a very off-putting sound in addition to its loudness
     
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  45. MLS

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    I think the repetition and the fact that people will play from 6am until close is probably a big part of the annoyance factor.

    I wouldn't live next to one but have no problem living next to raging nightclubs.
     
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  46. Nug

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    Didn't know they got Clown Baby to model them. Sick sweatband!
     
  47. Goose

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    The neighbor who put her place up for sale is also a Republican so take that into account.

    People also play there for like 2 hours once a week on Saturday mornings and that’s about it.
     
  48. Pile Driving Miss Daisy

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    That makes more sense, sounds like a different kind of ball would be better but that isn't going to happen.
     
  49. MLS

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    Ben Stiller has a pickleball movie coming out.

    Jake Johnson from New Girl, Stiller, Ed Harris, Mary Steenburgen, Chloe Fineman, Patton Oswalt, Aaron Chen, Martin Kove, Chris Parnell, Christine Taylor, John McEnroe and Andy Roddick.

    I'm hoping for dodgeball part deux but that's lofty.
     
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