Pickle ball is the proletarian form of tennis. The courts are smaller, they take up less land. The paddles are solid, they'll never need to be restrung. The balls effectively last forever. Furthermore, pickle ball kills fascists.
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As far as sports go, tennis is not expensive. A tennis court is roughly the same size as a basketball court, it's common to see publicly accessible courts, and all of the equipment costs less than half a day's wages.
The balls DO NOT last forever. They usually break along the manufacturing seam after a while. They aren't recyclable but you can give them to your dog to play with.
Source: Me, a former parks and rec garbage man.
The ULTIMATE tennis is just played on whatever buildings happen to be nearby!
So funny to me that Kirk’s death is called an “assassination.” Didn’t that word used to be reserved for people who were important in some way?
And what's rich is he's become an even bigger meme in death.
When will we admit as a society that the benefits of pickleball (mild exercise, daydrinking) do not outweigh the risks? (Death, pickles)
Pickle ball requires running sometimes and is therefore not a day drinking sport. People need to wake up to this. Sports you can drink to are slow paced and mostly involve aim. Like darts, bocce, curling, mini golf and while I hate to include it, regular golf, pool etc.
Was this guy drinking?
I dunno. I was jusr replying to a thing
"Cheerlead choreographies? Yep, that's also fascist" - Me to my normal friends
I still have no idea what pickleball is, and I still refuse to learn.
It's like basketball, except with pickles and pickle jars. You gotta slam dunk the pickle for extra points
its like a shuttlecock
hehe shuttlecock
Modern cheerleading as in cheerleading for the fascist boot entering your mouth?
No, as in the extremely dangerous not-classified-as-a-sport-to-avoid-safety-regulations practice of highschool cheerleading within a for-profit monopolistic framework. Also hired a lot of already-convicted pedophiles to help run his organization, because of course he did. Just this perfect fascist trifecta of sexualizing teenage girls, endangering and maiming them, and also grifting on top of it.
It was tough in high school having people understand the difference to your saying it isnt classified as a sport and therefore not held under the same regulatory standards ans saying it's not a sport in my personal opinion, cheerleaders in my high school, I was kn your side, it should be considered a gymnastic sport and be treated as such. The sexualizing teenage girls problem went over my head at the time cause as a teenage boy, so was I. But lack of safety was noticeable and I thought this as someone who was street skating the most haggard locations and concave hills without a helmet for 6 hours a day minimum when it wasn't raining. High school gym mats arent enough for these kinds of stunts
Also, slightly less known is that the teenager pyramids are landing pads for teenage alien spaceships 
People weren't ready to hear that in 2007
Cheering with a boot in your mouth is actually quite challenging.
Webb died from complications of a fall he suffered while playing pickleball
lol
So this is embarrassing, but for like 20 years I thought pickleball was something my high school invented as something for bored kids to do inside a gym when it was raining or cold. I had no idea until a few years ago that it's a real sport. Also bonus trivia, it's the number one cause of a specific kind of sport injury in adults over 50.
PICKLE BALL! PICKLE BALL!! LMAO!!!! I was rolling on the floor laughing! My chest was in pain and i almost felt that i was going to suffocate!! Funniest shit i’d ever seen, i’ll tell you that. Im still laughing thinking about it. Awww man, you had to be there. It was just so funny.
Dies whitely
didn't realize robert muller mentored charlie neck
I'm just going to pretend that this headline appeared out of a time warp and was read at some point during the mid 90s, to be ready as an inscrutable non sequitur.
Because the future knows what it did.
And I'm not even angry. I'm just disappointed...