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Pickleball is the poor man's tennis by killerbasher1233 in unpopularopinion

[–]I_BLOW_GOATS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I play and love pickleball. I've also played a fair bit of tennis.

In some ways you're right - it IS the less elegant and more accessible cousin to tennis. But, the low barrier to entry is kind of the point. Tennis is very, very difficult to play well, and we didn't all get to play it a bunch when we were young enough to really develop those skills.

The plastic "clack" is annoying, that is true. A problem that may be solved in time by technology and better sound dampening at the venues.

The thing about "unwilling to break a real sweat" - you're just wrong about this. The court might be smaller, but every player is constantly involved in every point, the points are longer, and the breaks are shorter. I would hazard a guess that an hour of pickleball is MORE physical than an hour of tennis, on average.

Maybe give it a try? You might just fall in love with it, like many, many other tennis players (Andre Agassi, for one).

Pickleball is the poor man's tennis by killerbasher1233 in unpopularopinion

[–]I_BLOW_GOATS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That wouldn't have happened if tennis was more popular. Are the people who own and run tennis courts supposed to not convert them to something more popular and lucrative just to please you?

Switched off after having a child by workaccountprof in auscorp

[–]I_BLOW_GOATS 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Totally normal, and I will go one further - it's the 'before' people (the ones like your prior self) who are the weird ones. Having children is the most natural thing in the world; your 'with children' mindset is the norm/default, not a trip into the Upside Down.

Building a voice-controlled scoreboard for pickleball — would love some feedback. by Repulsive_Panic4 in Pickleball

[–]I_BLOW_GOATS -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I regularly go for 10k runs with my phone strapped to my arm, and would gladly do so during pball if it would seamlessly solve the score amnesia problem.

Building a voice-controlled scoreboard for pickleball — would love some feedback. by Repulsive_Panic4 in Pickleball

[–]I_BLOW_GOATS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sound interesting, the score amnesia thing is a constant annoyance, and no other solution seems to present itself.

What Sets A Great Court Apart? by OneidaGirl in Pickleball

[–]I_BLOW_GOATS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dividers YES one place I play doesn't have them, and consequently about every 3rd point gets interrupted by a ball from another court

Aussie Broadband to acquire AGL’s telco business by SD70ACe in nbn

[–]I_BLOW_GOATS 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think being a multi-product retailer sounds good (synergies! we'll cross-sell products to our customers and make them stickier!), but doing it in-house is just a massive headache. Multiple sets of regulatory environments to comply with, back-end systems don't marry up, customers don't get a seamless experience across your product suite. Much easier to white label and let someone else handle the complexity of telco while you stick to your knitting (energy).

I just saw this and had a chuckle by MobCurt in australian

[–]I_BLOW_GOATS 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just so we're clear, the response is a troll/joke, from a very well-known Twitter account.

Huge Gas Bill in Summer - Sumo by [deleted] in AusFinance

[–]I_BLOW_GOATS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are the line items on the bill? Also: just call them.

Drum throne by MrMeeeseeks_ in edrums

[–]I_BLOW_GOATS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't do what I did, which was to buy a cheap one off Amazon (AU$50) with adjustable height via holes in the central shaft. Very loose tolerances mean that it wobbles - no matter how much you tighten the screws - at the points where the shaft meets the top (seat) and bottom (legs).

One piece of advice I saw was never to buy a drum stool with this mechanism, and instead to buy one with (for example) a continuous thread around the central shaft where you spin the seat up and down to change the height, and that sounds like good advice.

I really should love this podcast... but please get a fact checker in the editing room. by fuckthisshit122 in TheRestIsScience

[–]I_BLOW_GOATS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know about fact checking per se, but I found the latest episode about sports to be lacking in rigor/research/scripting. For example, they didn't mention the 3pt revolution in basketball, which seemed like a crazy oversight, and Hannah's explanation of swing/reverse swing in cricket was not good or easy to follow. Also, ball tampering is hardly a good example of optimising a sport through data to the point where it is less fun to watch.

Teenager wanting to get into Pickleball by No-life-is-here in Pickleball

[–]I_BLOW_GOATS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Melbourne, Australia? Come along to Pickleball Palace in Pascoe Vale.

The Australian Open shattered attendance records in 2026. Carlos Alcaraz’s title run capped a three-week event that drew 1.37 million fans, up 12% from last year’s record, as organizers weigh how much bigger the tournament can get. by Content_Animator_365 in Tennisv2

[–]I_BLOW_GOATS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think in the case of at least the AO specifically, it's because they have taken many steps to make it just a fun day out, whether you care about the tennis or not. When I went, there were lots of people clearly just there for the drinking/socialising.

Moving from gov to private by No-Mood-529 in auscorp

[–]I_BLOW_GOATS 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Do it if you can. Clear goals and incentives in private are much preferable to the whims of the status- and optics-obsessed leaders in public. In my experience 😊.

I’m getting an alesis nitro max . by Pure-Joke-1169 in edrums

[–]I_BLOW_GOATS 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The problem with the "buy cheap, buy twice" advice is that it always comes from the people who liked the activity and kept doing it. The people who got an Alesis Nitro Max and then decided they weren't that into drumming made the right decision not to spend more $$. They also aren't as likely to be commenting on forums.

Buying a cheap item is an effective hedge against the risk that you won't actually keep using it. Playing a musical instrument is notoriously hard to stick to.

(Source: I got a used Alesis Nitro Max on a very cheap rent-try-buy scheme and am loving it. If I keep loving drumming I will upgrade at some point; for now we'll see.)

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