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Last time I was in a bowling alley was when I was at the Bourbon and Beyond fest up in Louisville. It was all the chaos of walking through the crowds and vendors and sideshows. Not in the bowling alley, but at the festival.
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Nuts and Gum posted:The only bowling alley within 30 minutes of me is closing soon. Wtf is wrong with WA state? I think the indoor smoking ban wiped out a lot of them.
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Nov 19, 2022 07:01
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Bowling owns.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I think the indoor smoking ban wiped out a lot of them. That really sucks. If people wanna poison themselves then remove the cosmic bowling and bumpers - lean into 21+ lifestyles. There must be a DDR machine and indoor smoking is required.
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Nov 19, 2022 07:36
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I wish 5 pin was more popular, it's a great game. It's finesse, it's grace, you get to stare at butts and legs with more strain put on them. Wonderful game.
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I’ve always wanted to like bowling as a social act, and I’ve tried many times, but I’m a pathetic germaphobe and the idea of wearing shoes that other people have worn repulses me. I’m sure they clean them…somehow…but it’s a mental block I’ve been unable to get over.
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Nov 19, 2022 15:37
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Candlepin is basically like long skeeball but I don’t remember the last time I saw a candlepin place
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a peck of pickled peckers posted:I’ve always wanted to like bowling as a social act, and I’ve tried many times, but I’m a pathetic germaphobe and the idea of wearing shoes that other people have worn repulses me. I’m sure they clean them…somehow…but it’s a mental block I’ve been unable to get over. You can order your own bowling shoes and ball, and insist you only ever throw Your Ball. I have two 5-pin balls that I try to only ever use. Besides germs, you want to get used to the weight so that you're not using incorrect force based.on what you're used to. I went to bowling camp as a kid and I coached some youth bowling. drat shame it's a dying dead sport, leagues are down because people don't want to commit their time every week and pay a few bucks for several hours of fun and competition. We watched people drop out and just sit at home on their rear end instead. Dunno if youth sports are down in general, but between when I started at 7 and by the time I took over managing the place at 20, we lost every single youth bowler. The kids aged out and none of them became adult bowlers. No kids replaced them. I started in the adult leagues when I was 13, good source of pocketmoney if you're into illegal gambling. It was awesome to walk out with 50 bucks from a pins over average or high game pot.
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The Bowland has Kids Free Bowling every summer and we signed up every year until this summer when my son aged out. There were always a poo poo load of kids there, so hopefully a few keep on participating. Could be because it’s Florida and it’s goddamned hot and full of old people but our bowling alleys are thriving.
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Charles Bukowski posted:You can order your own bowling shoes and ball, and insist you only ever throw Your Ball. I have two 5-pin balls that I try to only ever use. Besides germs, you want to get used to the weight so that you're not using incorrect force based.on what you're used to. I went to bowling camp as a kid and I coached some youth bowling. drat shame it's a dying dead sport, leagues are down because people don't want to commit their time every week and pay a few bucks for several hours of fun and competition. We watched people drop out and just sit at home on their rear end instead. It's because bowling is really boring, even with alcohol.
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ugh god im not usually too germophobic but now im remembering the time my brother got wings at the bowling alley and was eating them with his fingers after using the alley balls 
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a peck of pickled peckers posted:I’ve always wanted to like bowling as a social act, and I’ve tried many times, but I’m a pathetic germaphobe and the idea of wearing shoes that other people have worn repulses me. I’m sure they clean them…somehow…but it’s a mental block I’ve been unable to get over. I wonder what the avg bacteria count or whatever is on your fingers after playing with even one shared ball? I usually end up throwing two or three different balls to find the best weight/finger size combo, so I’m sure it’s a cornucopia of lost diseases and I end up rubbing on my face by accident.
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I like to take the kid bowling but drat five pin sucks can’t wait till they’re older we can do ten
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i was good friends with this kid when i was like 8 - 14 years old or something like that. we lived in the same street and would play video games together and stuff. anyway he was kind of a weird kid, mostly harmless except he was super mean to his mum who was a total pushover. anyway he was super into bowling and played in a league and had his own ball and shoes and stuff. i used to still go hang out at the bowling alley when he played though because they had time crisis 2 and metal slug.
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They’re closing the bowling alley https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJCt8wOgkg
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Beer is a performance enhancing drug for me when I bowl, just a couple though. It loosens me up and I'm not so anxious. I got back into bowling about a year ago after I saw this video :https://youtu.be/aFPJf-wKTd0
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          They seem to have a lot of kid's birthday parties, I'd be getting drunk too. e: drat, Iowa! 
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why would you doxx me like this?
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Candlepin is basically like long skeeball but I don’t remember the last time I saw a candlepin place I was gonna say that they still have a few in Maryland, but apparently that's duckpin, which is a while other thing? I never actually did it, but it's supposed to be way harder than regular bowling. There are a bunch of bowling alleys near me, but they are fancy hipster places so it is pretty costly to get drunk in one. Also there are a few in the basements of Catholic churches, which was apparently common back in the 50s. My favorite bowling memory is going out bowling with a very queeny friend of mine who it turned out was a bowling prodigy and threw 2 simultaneous 200+ games at 2 different alleys.
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GokuGoesSSj69 posted:It's because bowling is really boring, even with alcohol. A bowling alley is a bar with an amazing communal game everyone gets up to play every 5 mins. If you can't have fun there you might just be a boring person. I grew up playing bowling, baseball, and golf and bowling is easily the most fun of those. Also 5 pin rules, gently caress the haters right into the earth. Candlepin and duckpin are variants I've never seen in person, more of an East coast thing. Charles Bukowski fucked around with this message at 10:06 on Nov 20, 2022 |
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When I go out to drink with friends I'd rather not have our conversations interrupted by someone having to get up and act like they care about bowling when it's their turn but that's just me. If you can't carry a conversation and need a game to keep it going you just might be a boring person. GokuGoesSSj69 fucked around with this message at 10:45 on Nov 20, 2022 |
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Just look at that map of where most bowling alleys are. Iowa is the most boring place on the face of the earth. Lots in the known cultural centers of the Dakotas too. Wow! Must be an exciting thing to do! I'd rather take up curling at least you can get into the Olympics with that. GokuGoesSSj69 fucked around with this message at 10:54 on Nov 20, 2022 |
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You know Buddy maybe you wanna take a walk and leave these lanes to us? I don't think you care for our fun game. Go on just get the gently caress out of here
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You can catch me at the Curling Club, which isn't a bar but a Club so if you're invited you get all you want to drink by tipping the person behind the bar. *slides across ice out of the thread*
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This ping pong table is sorta like dilly pickle tennis.
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I watched a man drunkenly fall into the gutter once, it owned.
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It was only to thwart the other thieves.
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I’m the Miller LITE sweater
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loving dog has loving papers.
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kntfkr posted:loving dog has loving papers. Lolol
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kntfkr posted:loving dog has loving papers.
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kntfkr posted:How do you get home from the bowling alley if you're drunk? The midwest's famed rail system? Everyone drives drunk and the police sit right out of the parking lot scooping up a few unlucky boozers while the rest escape. Hopefully it’s better now that Lyft is a thing.
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We just wanted a Johnny Cab to drive us around while we drank booze and smoked
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Cassette Moodcore posted:I like to take the kid bowling but drat five pin sucks can’t wait till they’re older we can do ten 5 pin is totally fun for kids, adults arguing for it is some lol.
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Look at all those states where you can go outside in the winter
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SilvergunSuperman posted:5 pin is totally fun for kids, adults arguing for it is some lol. What, bigger ball and more pins = adult? That math is fucky, 5 pin rules!
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