"Etiquette"

[LGQ7]

I got an email last Thursday for tennis last Saturday. I asked one of the guy there.
Me: were you here last week?
guy: No I wasn't.
Me: You missed all the drama.
guy: There's too much drama in the world. I don't need anymore drama.

I thought that was very funny. There were 7 people there. Usually when they are by themselves, they would play 1 doubles, and what they call "Australian", I've known it as "Canadian", whatever the hell it's called it's 3 man on the court. It's such a stupid idea. Hmm, let's see, we have 3 man and 1 court, what do we do? Oh, I know, put 3 man on 1 court! What a bunch of idiots. I got them to play what I call 3 man rotation. It's the perfect system. I usually would not play tennis with 2 man, I need 3 man. 2 will play, and then rotate. That way you get to rest, but at the same time, the action will continue. So I got 4 people (including myself) to play 3 man rotation, counting ping pong to 21, 20-20 is a draw. I think over time, they will be accustomed my system.

I prefer singles, so I thankfully did not have to deal with the Old English Guy, he played in doubles. When we left, I didn't speak the Old English Guy. He spoke to me first. He said something like, "Bye, (my name) . . . see you next week." Then I said "bye . . . " too. That went fairly well.

As I left, a guy carrying his tennis gear to the court asked me "Are you ok?" I remembered him. I was sitting in front of his lawn last week waiting for my friends to finish. I told him what happened last week. Me: Yeah, we're friends now.

As the week transpired, I got more and more irritated. I AM smarter than the average person. But how would they know? The TV signal and TV screen we have now are digital. Before that TV signals are analog. The TV we have now is HDTV, high definition TV. If you invent high definition TV, how would you communicate it to the people? Advertise it on TV? You CAN'T advertise on TV! Stupid would would say, that HDTV commercial is not impressive! (In case you're stupid, I'll explain the joke. You can't advertise HDTV on an analog low resolution TV.)

On the court at my apartment, there's a new guy I've been playing with for a couple of months. The past week has been stressful, and he made me lost my sh*t. [I'm smart enough to predict you will say, "you lost your sh*t on your own"] . . . but that is a story for another time . . .

 

[Bender]

I don't know music. What I know comes from movies. Is there someone out here with a music background to tell me how many hertz per hertz must an instrument be tuned, whether it be a piano, violin, guitar . . . ectc... Does ANYBODY here know music? And can make an intelligent comment?

I played violin and piano for many many years before I stopped the former because of jaw issues and the latter because we were no longer able to keep the piano for financial reasons.

There is no "hertz per hertz" an instrument must be tuned, only that it should "sound like it has been tuned correctly". Even in concerts, you would tune by ear, and not with a tuning instrument. If anything, using or relying on a tuning device would make you look like an amateur, so people would try their hardest to tune it by ear so that they'd look like they've done it long enough "git gud", so to speak.


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[Bender]

5/445 = 1/89

Take a stop watch. Press start and press stop. 89th of a second, good. 90th of a second, good. 91/th of a second, too much. The thing is you can't even SEE beyond 24 frames per second. You can't even SEE it, let alone stop the stopwatch. That's how precise music has to be.

If you're arguing that people can't distinguish between 24 FPS with say 60 FPS, you ought to play some video games. Hell, even adult videos are converting to 60 FPS to make it more "real".

A far better analogy would've been to ask if your average person can tell between a song @ 320 Kbps MP3 and the same song in FLAC / ALAC. The answer can be yes, depending on the person and equipment they're using.


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[Topspin Shot]

Not sure if Dunning-Kruger or trolling.

 

[MAX PLY]

Worst Letter to Penthouse Forum I have ever read . . .

 

[kingcheetah]

This is getting sociopathic.

 

[LGQ7]

I played violin and piano for many many years

I'm glad there is a musician here. How would you feel playing with let's say 2 balls new from a can and 1 dead ball? And 1 other person in 4 screamed "It doesn't matter. We're just playing for fun. This is not Wimbledon." ?

 

[The Unknown]

Is anyone else worried like I am?

 

[Deleted member 23235]

Too long did not read.

tldr;
when with 3 guys, he doesn't like playing with soft balls, so he took his two hard ones, and left.