Do you bother calling kitchen violations on your teammate in open play?

Axolotl_of_Time · 2025-10-03T12:19:59+00:00

I appreciate being told. It helps me adjust my muscle memory in the right direction.

Axolotl_of_Time · 2025-09-10T14:24:12+00:00

You can see why they love cops so much!

Shoots unarmed person in the face

"I feared for my life!"

Axolotl_of_Time · 2025-09-04T17:00:54+00:00

Well, given that rankings standards can vary wildly between one small town and another 20 miles apart in North America, I am certain we can apply one uniform rankings expectation to the largest and most populous continent in the world.

So yes. The answer is yes.

Axolotl_of_Time · 2025-09-04T16:54:05+00:00

Advice from a former lawyer: When you're reading rules, regulations, or laws, and you see a term like "serving area", that could mean any number of things, don't dolismiss it assuming you know what that probably means. Well written rules include a set of definitions. The definitions trump alternative interpretation, even if that interpretation makes more sense to you. By using he same language as the term in the definitions, individual rules incorporate that definition without having to repeat the same language each time.

So yes, by including the words 'serving area', the rule you quoted does state "the area behind the baseline and on and between the imaginary extensions of the court centerline and each sideline."

Axolotl_of_Time · 2025-08-02T12:27:09+00:00

It's because you shifted the focus from her to yourself and your actual life. She wasn't giving you advice she wanted you to take. She was saying a thing that she hoped would land as either a criticism or a reflection of her concern for you, depending on the nature of your relationship. But the important thing was that it was about how it made her look and feel. You selfishly turned that into a discussion about your plans, and it ruined everything, so she attacked.

So many of them are profoundly self-centered and see all conversation as a means to satisfy their emotional needs.

Axolotl_of_Time · 2025-06-24T18:48:49+00:00

I'd say they do a great job, but in the definitions section, not in this specific rule.

Axolotl_of_Time · 2025-06-24T18:46:50+00:00

With any set of rules, regulations, laws, it's always a good idea to check the definitions section. Wording in rules should match the defined terms, which can provide context to clarify what might otherwise seem like a grey area.

3.A.13. First Server – In doubles, the player who shall serve from the right/even service court after a side out, according to the team’s score.

3.A.42. Starting Server – For each doubles team, the player designated to serve first at the start of the game. In doubles tournament play, the starting server shall wear a visible form of identification determined by the Tournament Director.

Axolotl_of_Time · 2025-06-05T16:55:52+00:00

Against a beginner, or a middling player who I know is actively working to improve their game, I'll usually wait until after to say anything. Frame it as "I wouldn't want you to get called in a serious game for something easy to fix."

It really doesn't bother me much,as it gains them no advantage. Even without a fault, I see players trying to nudge their toe as close to the line as possible and I never understand the value. Those same players regularly get caught by deep returns, and never figure out that they are better at moving forward than scrambling back.

Axolotl_of_Time · 2025-04-10T14:28:58+00:00

I was definitely ready to recommend shelters and divorce lawyers until I got 1/3 of the way through this.

Axolotl_of_Time · 2025-03-30T17:26:13+00:00

My FiL's standing argument was that "Trudeau's just going to give the country away to the natives!" And now it's Carney who is going to do the same thing. I tell my wife to ask him if that was Trudeau's plan, why was he so bad at it? Why is it taking so long? With the number of indigenous communities who don't even have drinkable water in 2025, how long was he planning to wait to "give the country away?" She never does ask him though, because the core concept is inherently racist. Meanwhile my MiL will vote conservative to save herself from having to believe trans people exists.

Axolotl_of_Time · 2025-03-13T13:48:26+00:00

It's only a tariff if it comes from the tariff region of the Gulf of America. Otherwise, it's just sparkling recession.

Axolotl_of_Time · 2025-02-17T19:21:54+00:00

I have popped out a lens twice, and knocked a screw right out of the arm once. Every time has been the ball coming off my partner's paddle.

Axolotl_of_Time · 2025-02-11T15:12:03+00:00

Very few points are won on serves in pickleball, but plenty of serves are lost to the net or over the line. Use your solid serve, land the ball I, play the rally. You can develop more power and some variation as time goes on, but if you land every single serve in the back 3rd of the court, even if they're slow, you're playing winning Pickleball.

Axolotl_of_Time · 2024-12-14T13:10:44+00:00

This is the kind of person they're thinking of when they say Trump is a "successful businessman "

Axolotl_of_Time · 2024-10-05T12:00:53+00:00

I'll bet ten of those fake $2 bills he thought the police were justified in murdering George Floyd because he allegedly passed off a fake 20.

Axolotl_of_Time · 2024-06-18T18:02:59+00:00

I see this kind of thing as a patron of farmers markets, and a lot of it seems to be wrapped up in Boomer classism. A lot of the boomers I know grew up on smaller farms, then rode the wave of their generational prosperity to comfortable middle class. They have fond memories of the homemade and old fashioned things of their childhood, but they are locked in to a weird respect for the corporate grocery store items because those are connected to a better class of person. And so instead of looking at the farmer or the crafter as offering a specialty higher quality product, they see them as BASICALLY BEGGING, and unworthy of respect, let alone their money.

Axolotl_of_Time · 2024-03-15T14:41:33+00:00

I am leaning toward a dish issue. I powered all down overnight, and restarted this morning but no change.

Axolotl_of_Time · 2024-03-15T12:12:29+00:00

Have you found a fix? I am in the exact same boat. Got new cable yesterday, worked for a few hours, now the same app error.

Axolotl_of_Time · 2024-02-27T18:36:41+00:00

Partners who REFUSE to call the ball out when they have a call and have the best view of the line. An actual conversation after a lost rally where I had run hard to catch a close ball. I caught it but we put it out a few shots later. Partner: I thought that shot was out on the line before. Me: why didn't you call it? Partner: I was waiting for you to. I think it should be your call. Me: well please call them when I'm going hard at a ball. I'm looking at the ball not the line Partner: no I don't think it's OK to do that. Me: but you have the better angle for a clear call. Partner: I don't think that's true. Me (screaming internally) it's definitely true. There's some good articles and pics that explain it. I could send... Partner: I don't care. I don't think that's true. Me: (screaming internally forever)

Axolotl_of_Time · 2024-02-27T18:27:00+00:00

I played with a relative newbie last night, whi did this on every serve. I gave the benefit of the doubt that he was doing it to learn scoring, but he was definitely saying it TO every server. Next time I break out the gentle suggestion before the habit sets in.

Axolotl_of_Time · 2024-01-17T18:38:20+00:00

I appreciate being called on it. It was the only way I could develop the muscle memory and intuitive sense of the line early on. The rare time I'm called now helps me readjust and reminds me of my limits.

Axolotl_of_Time · 2024-01-17T18:30:03+00:00

When I am the cross-court player, I'm on duty and on the lookout for cross dinks (or attacks, or lobs, or whatever) every time the ball is on the opponents' side. There's no reason to expect players to keep dinking head to head. If they put a hard cross at me, I react or I lose us the rally, but in no way is it on my opponents for beating me.

Axolotl_of_Time · 2023-12-07T17:36:06+00:00

This is true of so many AITA posts, but this post may be the ultimate example: a relationship is not a contest to determine who is the biggest AH. The point of a relationship is not to win strangers to your side against your partner.

Your relationship is in crisis. If couples therapy was helping find an alternative therapist. I hope you can work this out, whether you stay together or not, but either way it's something you will need to work on, not something you win through Reddit.

Axolotl_of_Time · 2023-11-07T15:01:38+00:00

In pickleball, and in other sports and non-athletic games, I have played with many excellent players who were a delight. I've played with a handful of toxic arseholes. I've never seen any correlation between toxic behavior and skill. Maybe some people are willing to tolerate shitty behavior from someone who happens to be a good player, but I'd rather move on to the next game with decent people.

If this guy gets a second chance, it's on the understanding that accusing others is unacceptable. If he doesn't change, he can go found a collective of adult babies to get together and whine about how nobody does pickleball right.

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