cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44632289
Pickleball goated lmao
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/us-sport/jeff-webb-charlie-kirk-cheerleading-dead-b2942614.html
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44632289
Pickleball goated lmao
62 Comments
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 90 pts · 145d
LOOOOOL
Anyway, rest in piss, pervert
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world · 79 pts · 145d
Finally pickleball is good for something.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 59 pts · 145d
"
Robert MuellerSome racist pervert dude just died. Good, I'm glad he's dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!"Wait. Am I doing this right?
Trex202@lemmy.world · -18 pts · 145d
Actually no
Jerb322@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 145d
Fucking headlines are getting stranger by the day.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 145d
Lol. Lmao, even
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 7 pts · 145d
Maybe roflcopter weather permitting
markz@suppo.fi · 17 pts · 145d
The hell is pickleball
Apparently something like tennis, but on a badminton court.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 145d
It's worse-minton.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 145d
Bravo!
IronBird@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 145d
no, nothing is worse than badminton. besides maybe that speedwalking shit
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 145d
Clearly you have not pickled the balls
But yes, speedwalking is worse than that
IronBird@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 145d
wait, just remembered that cup stacking bullshit that got forced on everyone for awhile that shit was even dumber
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 145d
Nobody was forced to stack those cups, either.
IronBird@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 145d
definitely got pushed from down top, nobody would willingly stack cups for "sport" otherwise
Revolver1864@piefed.social · 1 pts · 145d
Hey it did give us the Black Cocks NZ badminton team in 2004
areakode@riskeratspizza.com · 13 pts · 145d
Old people tennis. I feel like the trend was going younger last year, but now I feel it's only for middle age people and older.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 145d
badminton is old people tennis. i feel like pickleball is midlife crisis territory
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 145d
A lower net. Plays a more like tiny tennis.
Been getting more and more popular over the decade, and it’s pretty huge in the states these days. If you’re in a major US metro, you know someone who plays it.
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 145d
Kiddy tennis for unfit old people
glimse@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 145d
Ehh it's not the most fun game but it's good for anyone of any fitness level looking for exercise. We used to play it during winter in college and I was fit as fuck back then.
It's great for older people because there's way less joint stress and injury is, despite this article, pretty rare
regdog@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 144d
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 13 pts · 145d
What innovations did he make in "modern" cheerleading?
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 145d
If I had to guess, financialization.
CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 144d
Im guessing he was the reason Penn & Teller had to do a Bullshit! episode on the subject
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 9 pts · 145d
Another one bites the dust.
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 8 pts · 145d
Let us use this opportunity to eliminate cheerleading altogether in his honor
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 145d
What the hell is pickleball?
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 145d
Tennis with ping pong paddles and a whiffle ball.
vikingtons@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 145d
this mf whiffed and died lmao
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 145d
or more likely (knowing absolutely nothing about his health or injury besides his age), i'd guess he had vision problems because he's 76, the vision problems combined with a rotation on the court caused him to trip and hit his head or break a bone in his torso/pelvis/femur and that hit or break was enough to cause whatever other health problems he had to overwhelm him.
i have a friend who was, for a brief time, the leading authority in the world in knocking over old people and her professional opinion is that most falls (like over 2/3 of them) are caused by vision problems. Keep your eyes checked as you age, and make sure your parents and grandparents (if they're still alive) have current prescriptions because falls can kill you way easier than you think.
Kobibi@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 145d
This makes it sound like she out there pushing them over
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 144d
When I first referred to her biomechanical engineering PhD this way her husband spat across the room. They are very dear friends.
vikingtons@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 145d
appreciate you lookin out 🥰
DokPsy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 145d
Well someone has to. The old people certainly can't.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 145d
Tennis with pickles for balls
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 144d
Such a waste of pickles you hate to see it.
Glytch@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 145d
Tennis for out of shape people
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 145d
That's badminton isn't it ?
Glytch@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 144d
Trade the shuttlecock for a whiffleball and you're there.
wesdym@mastodon.social · -5 pts · 145d
@teyrnon Something that's very easy to look up if you have Internet access.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 144d
Oh rather. Why discuss anything, we van let computers tell us shit!
wesdym@mastodon.social · -2 pts · 144d
@teyrnon I know it's easier to use other people's brains than your own, but give it a try.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 144d
So true! The ones telling us the way things are are clearly the ones to trust! Glory!
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 145d
C'mon grim reaper! Keep going!
BigDiction@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 145d
Imagining he slammed is head on some very hard or sharp object near the court? It’s pretty difficult to do that much damage on a typical flat court surface falling.
moondoggie@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 145d
It might not have taken much. I hear the Kirk boys are prone to head injuries
moondoggie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 145d
Totally read that headline wrong. I was thrown off by thinking that photo was Brian Kilmeade
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 145d
I love pickleball.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 145d
What is it?
ProfThadBach@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 145d
All I know is doe not involve pickles.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 145d
Further down it was explained, like badmitton or tennis but lazier I guess.
It's not a particularly dangerous sport either, don't know how this asshole killed himself doing it, must have been an act of god.
ProfThadBach@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 145d
I was just making a shitty joke. Sorry.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 145d
It doesn't?
Oh noo ...
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 144d
Pickleball is basically badminton played with ping pong paddles. It was named after a dog named Pickle. It's actually pretty fun.
VM_Abrantes@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 145d
Counting or not counting sports-related injuries?
Reygle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 144d
Good
atropa@piefed.social · 1 pts · 145d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 145d
always love those posts "let's not mock people going to the gym"
a racist dies playing a goofy sport? "haha stay on the couch tard"
y'all are letting your bigotry show
balsoft@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 144d
I don't see a single comment like this here tho? It's either mocking him for his bigotry, wondering what the sport is, or mocking it as a rich-people-goofy-sport (which is still leagues away from "stay on the couch tard").
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 144d
Lots of "it's a fat/lazy/out of shape/etc people's sport", which I noticed a couple hours after my comment were mysteriously not there anymore
synae@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 145d
yes I am bigoted against racists, and you can too
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 145d
and you see all the ableism up and down the thread too? oh wait, you don't because it's against a republican