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live across a river from our town's park, has football field, 2 little league baseball field and what used to be 2 full tennis courts plus half court with 20' wall. tennis courts would rarely get used, maybe once a week would hear someone playing against the wall. last year, they turned it into 4 pickleball courts and a 3/4 basketball court. this summer, they added another 2 pickleball courts, plus there are 2 extra nets so they can take over the basketball court. almost every night can hear people playing till they turn the lights off. walked by the courts 100's of times and think i have seen maybe 5 people that appeared good at it. half the people just stand there and swat at the ball like it was a fly. what is really strange, maybe seen 2-3 couples that were older than 50.
 
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I'm still confused as to what the fuck pickleball is and why it came out of nowhere and why the fuck is it absolutely everywhere now.
 
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Koushirou said:
I'm still confused as to what the fuck pickleball is and why it came out of nowhere and why the fuck is it absolutely everywhere now.
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Simpsons made it famous

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JOESAN21 said:
But then you have to get up and wizz like 8 times to where you wife and even the dogs are getting sick of your getting up. Seriously I look at a glass of water before I go to bed and I end up getting up four times at night
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See the urologist
 
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JOESAN21 said:
But then you have to get up and wizz like 8 times to where you wife and even the dogs are getting sick of your getting up. Seriously I look at a glass of water before I go to bed and I end up getting up four times at night
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Ah, now we're getting into the core "old guys being old" talk. I had a problem with charlie horses, as mentioned working a banana in every other day (my dr wanted to put me on a potassium supplement, but screw that), and switching to a vitamin with more magnesium seemed to help a lot, I very rarely get them anymore.

As for waking up frequently to piss. That can be tied into dropping T levels (which you can fix, just ask around here..), but can also be a sign of swollen/enlarged prostate, so you should get the that sneaky finger check done if you haven't recently. (Or they can always check blood work for elevated PSA). I drop a gallon of water a day pretty easily now as it actually helps me sleep better at night, only rarely have to pee at night, but usually drop a small bucket of piss first thing when I wake up in the morning.
 
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Koushirou said:
I'm still confused as to what the fuck pickleball is and why it came out of nowhere and why the fuck is it absolutely everywhere now.
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Well, from my observation :
  • Takes a smaller court and involves less movement than tennis.
  • Can be easily picked up and played by about anybody
  • Can be easily played in environments that serve alcohol (there are literally Picklebar bars around Dallas, IIRC)
  • Is a good socializing game, as it's not so physically intense as to keep you from chatting while you play.
Perfectly fits all the "middle aged people need something to occupy themselves with" check boxes.
 
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Koushirou said:
I'm still confused as to what the fuck pickleball is and why it came out of nowhere and why the fuck is it absolutely everywhere now.
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pickleball is where you have these faggots buy the same gaudy looking gear like those faggot bicyclists

and they act the part too

 
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Goatface said:
live across a river from our town's park, has football field, 2 little league baseball field and what used to be 2 full tennis courts plus half court with 20' wall. tennis courts would rarely get used, maybe once a week would hear someone playing against the wall. last year, they turned it into 4 pickleball courts and a 3/4 basketball court.
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yea the conversion to get 4 pickleball courts from 1 tennisball court makes it highly attractive to make more use out of the park
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Haus said:
my dr wanted to put me on a potassium supplement, but screw that), and switching to a vitamin with more magnesium seemed to help a lot
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You're ok with taking magnesium but not potassium? 200mg potassium is like magic for me, basically zero random cramps ever.
 
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Control said:
You're ok with taking magnesium but not potassium? 200mg potassium is like magic for me, basically zero random cramps ever.
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Not really, just that of the small "do it without pharmaceuticals" things I can do working a banana or two in per week rather than another pill on the list seemed more agreeable to me.
 
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As long as I piss twice between my last glass of water and going to bed, I'm good till morning.
 
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Occasionally my sciatic nerve in my lower back gets pinched, and then I feel like I'm being stabbed in the back, while someone needles my legs. This time around it was 3 days of pain. Thankfully last night it must have unpinched, because now I'm just sore instead of in agony.
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I hate the nerve pinch that involves the cluster at the shoulder blades. Feels like en electric shock going up the back of my head when it fires. I spend 30 minutes trying to self massage it out when it happens. It sucks a lot.
 
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Hoss said:
As long as I piss twice between my last glass of water and going to bed, I'm good till morning.
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depends on the liquid for me, if it's water, my sleeping self can hold it, if it's tea or coffee the caffine will make me want to pee like a 3yr old, gotta wake up and run to the toilet
 
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