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Hot Diggity! posted:Been bowling a lot lately. Am I middle aged? Only if you aren't using bumpers. Also, I would love to get out of corporate america I just don't know what to do. The income is so nice it would be hard to start fresh somewhere doing something else 
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Post your best bowling score ever. I bowled a 202 once. I felt like I was on fire and then began to think I have no clue how people can bowl 300's. Truly an underappreciated sports accomplishment.
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May 10, 2017 16:31
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I keep telling myself that corporate America will pay for everything until I gain the skills I need to start my own consulting company That sounds naive now that I typed it out
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May 10, 2017 16:32
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weird Asian candy posted:Post your best bowling score ever. I bowled a 202 once. I felt like I was on fire and then began to think I have no clue how people can bowl 300's. Truly an underappreciated sports accomplishment. I went on a first date and bowled like a 68. I got home and told my dad and he put a hand on my shoulder and said "being a poo poo bowler runs in the family"
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Blitz7x posted:I went on a first date and bowled like a 68. I got home and told my dad and he put a hand on my shoulder and said "being a poo poo bowler runs in the family" 68?  Bowling is surprisingly difficult, though I employ the straight line technique because if I try to put spin on the ball I basically break my wrist. My bowling game plan is basically pick the heaviest ball I can (mainly because my fingers don't fit in the light balls) and then whip it as hard as I can at the pins and hope for the best.
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May 10, 2017 16:35
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Blitz7x posted:I went on a first date and bowled like a 68. I got home and told my dad and he put a hand on my shoulder and said "being a poo poo bowler runs in the family" One Pin Away
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May 10, 2017 16:39
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i have tiny wrists and bowling is really uncomfortable
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May 10, 2017 16:47
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I am not a good bowler but one time I randomly bowled a 214. I think that was when I was around 20. I've probably bowled six games since then and never broken like 160? Basically this is an allegory for life, you peak when you're 20 and still too stupid to do anything useful with it and the rest of your life is a slow frustrating decline weird Asian candy posted:Also, I would love to get out of corporate america I just don't know what to do. The income is so nice it would be hard to start fresh somewhere doing something else   In college I enjoyed my geology classes, astronomy classes, and painting. I'm not going to go back to school for like 6 years so I can try to launch a badly-paid career in geology in my late 40s though, that'd be insane. Also I'm not that good at math and if you want a hard science degree you have to do a lot of math. I'm stuck in the corporate grind, and if I wanted out I needed to get out 10 years ago.
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May 10, 2017 16:48
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FizFashizzle posted:lol Evan Bayh who came back to walk into a senate seat and got dunked all over Unfortunately I saw that coming a mile away. Sucks living in Indiana when the morons elect that piece of poo poo Todd Young over Bayh.
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May 10, 2017 16:50
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BrownThunder posted:One Pin Away Not even, girls go for the bad boy bowlers (aka 150+)
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Leperflesh posted:I am not a good bowler but one time I randomly bowled a 214. I think that was when I was around 20. I've probably bowled six games since then and never broken like 160? You are my bowling spiritual animal because that basically describes my game to a tee. And yeah, I think I am stuck as well. I guess it could be worse, but the corporate life is slowly sucking the life out of me. I wish the pension system in Illinois wasn't so hosed. Firefighter/Medic would have been a great career.
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May 10, 2017 16:55
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FizFashizzle posted:i have tiny wrists and bowling is really uncomfortable Candlepin is truly the king's bowling.
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May 10, 2017 16:58
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weird Asian candy posted:Only if you aren't using bumpers. No bumpers and I might start being an alternate in my friend's league team, baby!!!! Also yeah to your second point that would be nice not doing soul destroying work.
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May 10, 2017 16:59
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EMTs deal with a loooot of bullshit and the burnout rate is really high. Right now I am supposed to be editing readmes (because someone edited them directly in github instead of in the local repo so now I have to reconcile them) and it's not even hard work, I just can't feel motivated to do it.
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May 10, 2017 16:59
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I'm working from home until I move and I'm not doing poo poo because I basically am a reserve for people to dump their supplement requests on, but we're in a supplement lull. I'm playing NES Classic, listening to podcasts and chillin with my cat (RIP Non-Nazi Pepe)
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May 10, 2017 17:02
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I'm going to buy a book and enjoy the weather before working out later.
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Leperflesh posted:EMTs deal with a loooot of bullshit and the burnout rate is really high. I was a career firefighter for a few years (part time prior) and where I was wasn't bad. Of course you deal with a lot of BS in the EMS field like drunks and psych evals but it wasn't too bad. What sucks most is I worked my butt off to get there, and then Rauner got elected and the pension system is in scope so it was like eh, I could put in 30 years and hope for the best or I could get out, make bank in the I.T. industry and stash money away while getting out of Illinois. I chose the latter, and still think I chose correct but I miss the Fire/EMS work. Also, no one even reads the readme's...that sounds like a horrible task. Hot Diggity! posted:No bumpers and I might start being an alternate in my friend's league team, baby!!!! Good luck! Hope you get in the league!
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May 10, 2017 17:04
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FizFashizzle posted:I'm going to buy a book and enjoy the weather before working out later. Why are you buying a book? Don't you already have a copy of the bible?
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May 10, 2017 17:06
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I love my YMCA and but the weight room is so tiny. It basically can't handle 5 people if one of them is deadlifting. I need to get better at waking up early so I can go at 5:45 and hopefully have it to myself.
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May 10, 2017 17:11
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weird Asian candy posted:Post your best bowling score ever. I bowled a 202 once. I felt like I was on fire and then began to think I have no clue how people can bowl 300's. Truly an underappreciated sports accomplishment. Yeah it is. I had a time back in my 20s where I bowled a lot and I once bowled a 180-something and it was all strikes and spares. In another game I had one open frame and missed a spare and my score was like 40 points lower or something. Bowling is hard.
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May 10, 2017 17:12
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Guys if you plant grass seed then like 27% of your life is spent taking care of it in the beginning. Also my dog won't stop attacking the sprinkler.
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May 10, 2017 17:14
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So compensatory picks closed yesterday and that means probably some more free agency stuff, do we just chat about it in this thread now or what http://www.sbnation.com/2017/5/9/15596052/nfl-compensatory-pick-window-closes-free-agency-2017
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May 10, 2017 17:19
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Ehud posted:Guys if you plant grass seed then like 27% of your life is spent taking care of it in the beginning. That's a good dog
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FizFashizzle posted:i have tiny wrists and bowling is really uncomfortable
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Ehud posted:Also my dog won't stop attacking the sprinkler. A metaphor for life man. We all need to take a big bite out of our own sprinklers.
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May 10, 2017 17:25
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No Irish Need Imply posted:I have tiny wrists and don't look good with a watch on. My biggest regret... I have never owned a watch in my adult life
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May 10, 2017 17:26
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The only watch I own is a vivosmart, which only kind of counts
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May 10, 2017 17:28
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Everytime I try to wear a watch, I'm reminded by like an hour in why I don't and that is because that drat dial always digs into the back of my hand and annoys the piss out of me!
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May 10, 2017 17:29
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I wear a fitbit, but it's worthless as a watch since you have to hit the button either once or five times to get the time.
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May 10, 2017 17:31
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I'd wear a watch but I'm surrounded by clocks. No wait, I'm surrounded by cocks.
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May 10, 2017 17:35
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i wear a fitbit and i like knowing things like how well i sleep.
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Kalli posted:Candlepin is truly the king's bowling. Candlepin bowling's Tom Brady should be made into a movie imo
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May 10, 2017 17:37
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I don't see anything in there about him cheating. 
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When I was a young boy my dad and older brother went to a monster truck show and I was left at home because my mom was afraid I would damage my hearing or something. Anyways, when my dad and brother came home they gave me a sick Bigfoot monster truck watch. You pulled up the truck and it had the time underneath. That's the last watch I owned.
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Jiminy Christmas! Shoes! posted:I don't see anything in there about him cheating. quote:In 2011, when Sargent bowled a 245, tying the world record for a single game, organizers — as well as jealous bowlers — did everything they could to poke holes in his record, he says. There were rumors that the pins had been sprayed with a lubricant to make them fall easier. There were whispers that the lane where he bowled the record — Metro Bowl in Peabody — had been warped in a flood and should disqualify him. And there were claims that his bowling balls were too heavy, so he was required to have them weighed. something something ideal resin law
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Ehud posted:I have never owned a watch in my adult life
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May 10, 2017 17:40
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My last watch was a Garfield watch.
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May 10, 2017 17:41
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I really enjoy the Divers watch look and I have a knockoff version of the Rolex Submariner and get compliments all the time And by knockoff I mean like ~150 instead of the 5k+ Rolex
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May 10, 2017 17:41
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Kalli posted:I wear a fitbit, but it's worthless as a watch since you have to hit the button either once or five times to get the time. How old is your fitbit? The newer ones will show the time when you raise the arm you have it on. gently caress Fitbit anyways. Their products are so loving cheap and constantly break for no reason. I've had my fitbit replaced like 5 times and they refuse to make things right with this last one.
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No Irish Need Imply posted:I like it as a fashion piece. I love how a good watch brings an outfit together. I'm out here with lapel pins as my suit accessories and it's dope as hell but I still like watches. I am wearing shoes with holes in them and a decade old dolphins shirt right now
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