Unfortunately, I’m infected with the “Why do something unless you’re trying to get gud?”
Which means, I’ll try something for a while and if I think I have some base talent as a foundation and I don’t have anything else I’m obsessed with at the time I’m absolutely going to fixate on it until I’m really good. But if I think I’m doomed to mediocrity I completely lose interest in it. Note that I don’t have to start off good, I just need to feel an intuition of “Oh, I could go somewhere with this.”
I suck at bowling and I don’t ever want to do it. I only begrudgingly do it because friends drag me to it and if they let me I’ll sit out and just chit chat instead of actually playing.
The best way to bowl is to put the rails up so no one can gutter ball, then play for lowest score. It’s impossible to take serious, no one can be good or bad at it, a 7/10 split still sucks, and the people in the next lane will be very confused.
Fun all around.
I’m going to try this.
It’s a blast, tell your friends.
i think it’s genuinely worse when people are good at karaoke
You know what’s funny? I’m an excellent singer. Years of formal training, sang professionally for years. But take me to a karaoke bar and I will be the suckiest sucky fuck there. Why? Because on a professional stage it’s a different vibe. Very focused, very intense, and if you try to do that in a karaoke bar you look like a fucking tool, so instead I try to be casual, not use my “pro” technique, and I end up sounding like shit.
Yup, my ex is literally a professional singer. Take her to kareoke and it’s like strangling a cat. On purpose, because she doesn’t want to be a dick.
Meanwhile I mumble while keeping the mic as far from me as possible, because I suck at singing in an entirely organic manner
When taken to karaoke, I’ll sing only one song, and it’ll be an aggressive metal song sung and screamed with my full energy and passion that I used to give at live performances. And then I’ll quietly sit for the rest of the night, enjoying the knowledge that no one else will try to pressure me into singing another song.
Do they do Lorna Shore songs at karaoke bars???
They’ll allow literally anything! One time, they even let someone perform Living on a Prayer, if you can believe that! And Hooked on a Feeling. And Born in the U.S.A. Now that I think about it, maybe New Jersey isn’t the barrier you were referencing.
Which is hillarious because I’ve been kicked out of Karaoke bars for laughing too hard at my own rendition of Islands in the stream by Dolly Parton with my drunk buddy as Kenny Rogers. It was magical and hillarious. I am a respectable Karaoke singer drunk or sober.
Karaoke bars are often polluted with a pestillence of people who think they are undiscovered musical geniuses who are minutes away from being discovered by a record label executive trolling the depths of karaoke shitholes looking for the next great pop-star. Anything that fucks with their discoverability makes them go coocoo.
Yeah you have to like unlearn so much to not look like a tryhard
Is it true that karaoke shifts the pitch by a couple semitones — because people normally don’t hear their own voice from outside their skull — and this ends up throwing professional singers off?
I also have this problem
Strangely, I am basically the opposite of this.
No formal training whatsoever, basically only sing in the car, shower, or karaoke bars.
I am nowhere near good enough to be some kind of professional vocalist, but I am usually in the top 3 singers by actual ability to hit the right notes on songs, at any given karaoke / bar outing.
I’ll usually try to cajole another actually good singer into some kind of duet, be it either an actual proper duet, or basically if its like a song from a singer with incredible range in the song, i do the baritone lines, they do the tenor or falsetto, we both sing the mid range, we basically act as live backing tracks for each other.
That’s why they always use really shitty microphones— to level the playing field
Why? Singing and making music is a worthwhile goal that you generally achieve by some other means than doing a lot of karaoke. But to get good at bowling you have to specifically have practiced bowling.
Singing is not karaoke. Karaoke is bad singing with enthusiasm.
I dunno what “good at karaoke” means other than singing well.
Don’t get me wrong, I also find it annoying when a group goes to karaoke and there’s the one theatre kid who can actually sing and just embarrasses everyone else, but I’d still say they’re good
Karaoke is kinda like improv comedy: You need an easy, quick setup, then a punchline that’s also easily understood, but not too crude. High-brow comedy has a place, but a low-brow club generally isn’t it.
For Karaoke, the song is the setup, so ideally you’ll pick a well-known one, while the punchline is the mediocre singing. Singing well is like telling an anecdote: interesting, for the right audience, but not what people go to Karaoke for. Take too long to get to the funny part and the anticipation is gone. Sing too poorly and it becomes unpleasant rather than funny.
You can be good at Karaoke as a form of entertainment without strictly being an actual good singer, if you nail that balance and deliver it well.
You guys are making me want to try karaoke again, which is not something I’ve ever felt before.
Only because you mentioned shoes: all three of the main generals involved in the Battle of Waterloo (Wellington, Blucher and Napoleon) had a type of shoe or boot named after them.
I was the guy that owned his own bowling balls (yes, plural) and shoes. In my twenties. Mostly because it was near impossible to find a ball that had the right weight and hole size.
But I have a story: I went to an Evangelical university in the early 2000s. Start of sophomore year they held a bowling tournament at the local alley. So me and two friends signed up. But we first went to the thrift store and bought cheap polyester suits and enormous aviator sunglasses, aiming for something out of the “Sabotage” music video. Our other friend decided to dress up like he was our “muscle” by wearing an outfit like you’d see in the background of the “Beat It” music video. We walked into the alley (which had not been updated since probably 1981, other than the scoring screens) and decided to take on personas like we owned the place, talking trash and generally acting like we existed in a different plane from everyone else. I kept an unlit cigarette in my mouth the whole time. I was the first of our team to bowl and, quite magically, I got a strike right out the gate.
All these church youth-group types were our competition. They had no idea how to deal with us. We won our match and then went to the bar, ordering Miller High Life and pretending we were regulars. Then the guy who held the event came up to us. Apparently drinking alcohol at a university sponsored event is a VERY serious no-no. Even though the official stance was that students of legal age were allowed to drink (at extremely moderate levels), alcohol was not allowed on campus nor, apparently, at events. Oops. Perhaps because we were having a good time they let it slide (I was also an RA at the time, which probably helped). Either way, we finished 3rd.
Ok so honest question… why tf would you go to an evangelical university?
Raised evangelical.
EDIT: Was raised evangelical but was on the precipice of leaving that world, however I had accumulated a lot of credits at a different evangelical institution that would transfer and count toward my degree. But where I went to school (Palm Beach Atlantic University) was, at the time, a pretty relaxed school (in evangelical terms).
Side note, PBA has probably the coolest mascot in all of US colleges! The burrowing owl, an endangered owl that is not only native to Florida but lives on the campus! I know you know that, but for everyone else it’s worth knowing and looking up some pictures.
You could also make an argument for UC Santa Cruz
Edit: just realized I mixed up Florida Atlantic with Palm Beach Atlantic. But it’s still a cool mascot fact so I’m leaving it
Were either of the schools accredited? Because if not, it kind of doesn’t matter how many credits you had
Curling is a thing
Even the gold medal winners are old fat dudes.
Baseball?
Edit: *Gasp. Downvote!?! Very well:
Top 5 oldest and heaviest MLB players active in the 2026 season, including their age, height, and weight:
Rich Hill Age: 45 Height: 6’5" (196 cm) Weight: ~210 lbs (95 kg) Justin Verlander Age: 43 Height: 6’5" (196 cm) Weight: ~225 lbs (102 kg) Max Scherzer Age: 41 Height: 6’3" (191 cm) Weight: ~220 lbs (100 kg) Chris Martin Age: 38 Height: 6’4" (193 cm) Weight: ~240 lbs (109 kg) Carlos Santana Age: 39 Height: 6’1" (185 cm) Weight: ~235 lbs (107 kg).
Carlos Santana
Damn, talk about a renaissance man
Not sure where you’re getting this info from, because it’s horribly wrong.
Per Baseball Reference, corroborated by Savant:
- Rich Hill is not an active MLB player
- Verlander weighs 240
- Scherzer weighs 208
- Martin is 39yo, 6’8”
- Santana is 40yo, 5’10” 210lb
Leaving aside that you’re calling 43yo/6’5”/240lb “old and fat”—that’s below average BMI even before accounting for BMI not accurately representing the fatness of elite athletes
And yet somehow the part where there are active MLB players who share names with Cold Play’s lead singer and Carlos Santana is not wrong.
In true shitpost fashion, I make shit up as I go. I was too lazy to do any real research. I’m too lazy to verify your shitpost isn’t doing the same thing. Either way, ponder this:
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I would have done Bartolo Colón
Behold, an old fat fuck! (Chris Martin)
Pitchers stand there for a lot of the game and need to be tall to throw so it makes sense that most of your list are pitchers past their prime.
Carlos Santana plays baseball???
Is there nothing that man can’t do???
These people are normal weight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Young_(baseball)
6’5" and 322 lbs =
Also for age: Fifty-fucking-nine!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_Major_League_Baseball_players
BMI measures how statistically healthy one is if they were an American from the late 1800s. It doesn’t work well with tall people because they didn’t exist back then.
That’s what all the fatties say. I’m JuSt BiG BoNed! Source: Am fatty.
Back when the small town I grew up in still had a bowling alley, I was regularly scoring perfect games. I even had my own ball.
Here, I fixed it for ya:
Hey, Niko!..
You’re not wrong. You’re just an asshole.
Any time I go with my wife I go with the expectation that she’ll absolutely destroy my score. But she was on her college bowling team. Same with golf.
She was on the golf team too?
Sure was
Damn, your wife got passed around!
She didn’t play basketball or American football, though.
I might be guilty of this. Used to go every week with a friend and eventually started figuring out my stride. Now I’m the one that does better than a casual player and it’s weird.
genuinely nothing worse than going bowling
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Poll: Anyone ever have hipsters in their highschool go through a bowling shoe phase?
Upvote = yes Downvote = no
Edit: By early poling numbers, I can’t tell if it was only a thing in my highschool, or if people who wear bowling shoes casually, yet ironically or even post-ironically, just haven’t come to terms with the fact that they are indeed hipsters.
Bowling shoes no, but I remember saddle shoes having a resurgence with hipsters and I think the stereotypical bowling shoes are a type of saddle shoe.
When everyone went to high school will matter a lot, too.
Yeah I feel like hipsters weren’t really a thing, at least where I am, until I was already out of high school. Or at least not to an extent I was aware of.
