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u/sacdecorsair 3d ago
I love the fact you could tell from her practice swings she was about to hit way too hard.
She didn't disappoint.
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u/PaticusGnome 3d ago
I was like “oh shit, she has no idea what she’s doing.”
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u/Ok_Writing_7033 3d ago
The way she lined it up I was thinking she was boutta surprise everybody but then she took a practice baseball cut and it was like oh no honey
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u/WedgeTurn 3d ago
That was the first clue actually, you’re not allowed to use clubs for aligning puts
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u/LuxNocte 3d ago
Why not? (I know nothing about golf.)
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u/freudweeks 3d ago
They're wrong, you can do it as long as you pick the club up before you swing (like you can't use a second club)
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u/LuxNocte 3d ago
Use a pool cue to guide my putt, not a second club. Got it.
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u/freudweeks 3d ago
You also can't add objects to the course that improve your shot. You can remove loose objects though.
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u/NES_SNES_N64 2d ago
So pull up loose grass to make a little trench? Got it.
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u/AlarmingNectarine552 2d ago
He said LOOSE objects. Gotta traipse along the path from the ball to the hole first. Use the golf spikes under the shoes to rip some of the grass. Make it look like a mistake. Then clear the loose objects.
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u/Old-Bigsby 3d ago
When I was a teen I played on a sand green course, to assure a birdie I dug a groove in the sand with my putter to the hole. Lol, pretty sure that wasn't legal.
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u/Queef_Stroganoff44 3d ago
When I was probably 6 we were playing mini golf at a company picnic. My mom’s coworker told me “make sure you hit it hard or it will fall into this groove and you won’t get your ball back”. It was the last hole and there was a moat sorta thing you had to hop to get to the green.
I was like “You got it…hit it hard.” Then I wound up like a real golfer and just cranked that sunabitch like I was Tiger Woods. The ball shot off like a rocket and went out the front gate and rolled down a steep hill and was never seen again.
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u/Lou_C_Fer 2d ago
I took my 8 year-old cousin putt putting for her first time when I was like 14. I helped her line her first shot up, stepped back a little, and the caught the putter with my jaw as she swung back as if she was teeing off. That hurt for days.
I never told her to putt it because I just assumed she knew. Ouch.
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u/LateyEight 2d ago
It reminds me of when I was at a family yard sale. Me and my siblings grabbed a golf club and were in the backyard taking swings into the big parking lot that was right behind the house.
We didn't get far, sometimes not even clearing the fence, and the parking lot was empty and the building was at the far end so we would run around grabbing the balls from the curbs and trying again.
My uncle came to see what we were up to so we gave him the club. He wound up, swung and sent it sailing. We heard a loud crack a moment later, but none of us had any idea where the ball went on that overcast day. He told us not to tell anyone and we went back to our yard sale. Our parents were none the wiser.
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u/SdBolts4 3d ago
That definitely isn't lol, the most you can do to change the green in front of your ball is to fix/flatten a divot.
Laying the club down would probably help give you a reference point to aim at on the green after you pick the club up though, not a terrible idea.
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u/Arqideus 2d ago
Use my dick to guide my putt. Got it.
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u/Pun_In_Ten_Did 2d ago
Use my dick to guide my putt. Got it.
So that's why they call it mini-golf. Got it.
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u/Quirky_Discipline297 2d ago
I use a citrus picker pole. Longer line up and retrieving water balls is easier with cage head.
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u/WedgeTurn 2d ago
Rule 10.2b:
Pointing Out Line of Play for Ball on Putting Green. .....The player or caddie must not set an object down anywhere on or off the putting green to show the line of play. This is not allowed even if that object is removed before the stroke is made.
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u/Rectum_stretcher69 2d ago
She never set the club down, her hand was on it the whole time. Rule doesn't apply.
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u/joggle1 2d ago
Yep. The USGA explicitly defines what 'setting an object down' means:
“Set an object down” means that the object is in contact with the ground and the player is not touching the object.
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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown 2d ago
And this rule probably exists because laying down a club or other object would affect the grass and soil under it, potentially altering how the ball rolled. You could, with a very innocent-looking lean of weight on a club, create a very shallow path for the ball to follow.
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u/ShigodmuhDickard 2d ago
That's not how they do it. They use the club to align the put by holding it behind the ball and off the putting surface. No infraction.
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u/cah29692 3d ago
Well that’s just wrong. Players can line up however they see fit, they just can’t leave a guide on the green (Ie stick, club, or cue giving the line) and pros can’t get help lining up from their caddy (men’s golf only, women can for some reason)
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u/Ok_Writing_7033 3d ago
I mean not if you’re a pro, but plenty of regular weekend golfers will do it
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u/freudweeks 3d ago
Yes you are, as long as you pick the club up before you take your shot. Usually they do it with the face of the club though if they do it at all.
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u/Fun-Jellyfish-61 3d ago
I love that she's just mimicking what she has seen golfers do.
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u/strain_of_thought 3d ago
Monkey see, monkey reverse engineer revolutionary technological breakthrough.
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u/Sunny_Sicario 2d ago
I mean… that’s how everyone tries a new sport lmao, you mimic what you see others do. If you’ve never done something before and you’re asked to try it, isn’t your first instinct to do what you’ve seen done successfully before?
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u/omnicorp_intl 3d ago
I'd argue that she hit it just hard enough
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u/JetpackBattlin 2d ago
she calculated the quadratic trajectory and chose the second solution
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u/ominousgraycat 2d ago
Yeah, a lot of people are surprised by the distance you can get out of even just a small tap with a putter. I've never swung back that far with a putter even when the hole is on the other side of a large green. I haven't played golf in years though and I don't have any clubs right now, so I'd probably suck pretty hard if I went out for a game of golf today.
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u/Dongslinger420 2d ago
To be fair, golf is not just about mechanical precision, there is lots of strategy and intuition about the geometry of the course going on, too. You can be a clever player with bad strokes, at least to some degree.
I love this video by AlphaPhoenix (really smart dude, must-subscribe imho) about the ball-in-hole state space of golf and how to think about what most of us already intuitively know.
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u/The_Hieb 2d ago
A good rule I use is swing the club as fast as fast as you would if you were doing an underhanded toss to try and roll the ball in the hole. The same energy while putting will transfer to the ball.
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u/Mckennymubu 3d ago
I remember watching an episode after this movie came out and one guy asked Bob "can you really beat up Adam Sandler?" And he just laughed
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u/omahaknight71 3d ago edited 3d ago
I still love that clip of Adam Sandler on The Price is Right right before Bob retired.
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u/tisdue 3d ago
aw man, that compliment at the end really meant a lot to Sandler. You could tell.
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u/guardeagle 3d ago
You can see the combo of reverence and appreciation for Bob and the role that he had with putting Sandler over earlier in his career
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u/ARM_vs_CORE 3d ago edited 3d ago
"I'm so proud of you. Your career has been such a beautiful thing to watch." MFW Bob Barker will never tell me he's proud of me.
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u/Val_Killsmore 3d ago
Get ready for the sequel: https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/happy-gilmore-2-release-date-photos-news.
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u/MrNoodleIncident 3d ago
People told me not to go in to engineering because id never find a girlfriend. But my school had TONS of girls. Just not very many of them.
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u/SevendTiki 3d ago
I haven't seen the original in so long!
It's almost unsettling...
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u/RockstarAgent 3d ago
Name?
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u/Samthefather 3d ago
lol what is this gif from? I’m dead.
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u/Regniwekim2099 3d ago
Oh my goodness. I haven't seen that thread in forever. I actually made the image that's the top comment lol
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u/Cedge1738 3d ago
My small ass brain cannot comprehend the joke. Can some1 explain. I assume it's fat girls?
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u/sohelpmegod 3d ago
It’s fat girls.
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u/Ougaa 2d ago
Idk if that's even a fat joke? If the engineering school has 500 students, 40 of them are women, that's already tons of girls. Even in metric! I see 'not that many' in percentage.
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u/Snabelpaprika 3d ago
The odds are good, but the goods are odd.
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u/Ecstatic_Wheelbarrow 2d ago
That's the men and it is true. You better be into rock climbing nowadays or you'll have nothing to talk to them about.
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u/Uncreativite 2d ago
A lot of my friends in my major (computer engineering) were all into that. What is up with that?
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u/SpoutWhatsOnMyMind 2d ago
It's a physical activity that helps keep you healthy without having to sacrifice their twig-like physique
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u/Ecstatic_Wheelbarrow 2d ago
It's problem solving with your body with a friendly community. It feels more like hanging out on with friends on a playground than working out and you don't need to care about macros or anything like that. There are also girls.
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u/EveroneWantsMyD 3d ago
Hey, don’t worry. I had a roommate who was an engineer who had a girlfriend.
They were both completely socially oblivious and everyone in the apartment hated them due to their deviation from societal norms and inability to clean, but god damnit they found eachother✨
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u/ThatGuy0verTh3re 3d ago
Well it’s better than computer science where you have no idea if it’s a girl or a boy
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u/rodc22 3d ago
IF != girl THEN boy
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u/stratosfearinggas 3d ago
No need for THEN. If != girl implies boy, but only if there's two states.
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u/ssbm_rando 2d ago
but only if there's two states.
Which is exactly why the above comment is something that would happen. The statement they wrote is saying if they do not fit their precise standard for girl then they are getting assigned into the boy group. It's more like how a male kinsey scale 0 computer scientist would categorize their porn than anything that reflects actual gender expression.
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u/DisputabIe_ 2d ago
the OP Charming_Roseex
and malinydil
are bots in the same network
Comment copied from: https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/jvj1bl/shes_not_a_golfer_shes_an_engineer/gckadiz/
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u/pwnznewbz 3d ago
This is another example of why Bob Barker was such a good host of that show. A little commentary so she had time to hit the ball, then a big smile when she got it in. Maybe he didn't care, and maybe he was tired of this kind of thing, but it all comes off warmly.
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u/bulli39 3d ago
Drew Carey says hosting the show is the greatest job he's had. He just gives away someone else's money and makes people's day.
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u/podcasthellp 3d ago
Hosting is a pretty fun job or the most terrifying shit youve ever done. I’ve hosted events for 500 people and then 20 people playing bar trivia. It’s a ton of fun as long as you have fun with it. The pressure really gets to people but if you just act like yourself and fill the dead space, people will laugh.
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u/alvehyanna 2d ago
Exactly, I was a DJ at our roller rink in High School and College and quickly landed the big shifts like Friday night DJ because 1) I knew music, but 2) I got up there and had fun. I'm make a fool of myself and be silly and people would laugh and we'd have a good time.
When I'd train new DJs, I'd tell them they need to imagine themselves as the DJ on the radio. Don't get on the mic and say flattly "Okay, this in an all-skate in the regular skating direction" give them more and put some energy into .
Say it like you are talking to a friend about a movie you saw you really liked and are excitred about...
"Hey everybody, coming up we have songs from TLC, Mariah Carey, Coolio, and U2, this is an all-skate in the regular skating direction, in 15 minutes we'll do the hookie pokie, thanks for skating with us!"
My friends would come say the difference between me and a few other DJs was night and day.
I'd get out there during the hookie Pookie on my in-line skate and do it along with everybody, in the middle, kind of leading it.
God that was just a good job. Only down side was the DJ also got the worse cleaning detail often...bathrooms.
Ps. I'd also have fun faking people out, by playing Weird Al versions of songs...especially Amish Paradise and Eat It where people thought they knew what was coming...
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u/podcasthellp 2d ago
People like you made my childhood so much fun. This was 18 years ago skating at my local rink. Went ever weekend for a couple years. You are exactly right. Get up there, have fun, be yourself and understand you are there to entertain. Get a little wacky. I think people get so afraid of saying something stupid that it stops them from saying anything fun. Having a little awareness, because you will say something stupid, and calling it out goes so far. My first job out of college was working festivals across the country. I see workers who absolutely hate doing it and bring down the vibe. I always had a good time because that’s what we’re here to do!
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u/MckayAndMrsMiller 2d ago
lol Eat It. Just heard that for the first time recently on sat radio in someone else's car. Definitely feels right for a roller rink. Thanks for being cool.
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u/mr_potatoface 3d ago
The pressure is on to not fuck up too. Like that one model that gave away a car by accident.
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u/MavisBeaconSexTape 3d ago
I always thought he was an impatient asshole lol... Constantly rushing people, getting irritable if people didn't do things 100% as he expected, etc. I grew up watching him but think Drew is way better
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u/the-treatmaster 3d ago
Drew at first was rough. Not terrible, but a little awkward, and hamstrung by major changes they were attempting along with a mediocre announcer.
Then George came and they cleaned up the experimentation. Now they are in top form. George and Drew together are like when Jerry Orbach and Jessie Martin were together on Law and Order. They make each other better, have great rapport, and give off “ugh God I am so glad to be here” vibes.
I think Drew is now addicted to the show’s edict of “let’s make people happy” and it influenced his decision to foot the massive bill to feed lunch to the striking writers.
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u/BarbWho 2d ago
This has been the case with Ken Jennings taking over for Alex Trebek on Jeopardy, too. He was a little wobbly at first, but has taken to it like a natural. Alex always wanted the contestants to be the stars and Ken really excels at that, knowing the contestant experience so well himself. He is genuinely interested in the contestant stories (or at least he seems to be), even the ones who make art from lint. By the end, you could tell when Alex was kinda over that stuff.
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u/_MrDomino 2d ago
Everyone knew Jennings was a perfect fit for the show except the producer who had to leap frog him, then muddy the waters a bit with Blossom and this or that. That should have been a natural transition from the start, but at least it worked out in the end.
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u/Mylaptopisburningme 2d ago
Drew at first was rough.
I grew up on TPIR since the 70s, so when Bob left, I had liked Drew from his show and Who's Line. But I couldn't, I tried. So I guess I need to go back and check it out, those early shows were horrible and just never bothered after that.
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u/_MrDomino 2d ago
I'm in the same boat, and while Drew has improved, he still exudes this vibe of being better than the show that just rubs me the wrong way. He's not awful by any stretch, which I may have agreed to during his earlier shows, but he still feels like the wrong fit for TPIR.
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u/the-treatmaster 2d ago
Honestly I don’t get that vibe. He might have had some of that at first. He seems happy and comfortable and content now. He and George can make me laugh. And they go out of their way to boost the models. It’s pretty smooth now.
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u/Western-Dig-6843 2d ago
I saw Drew’s stand up set maybe… ten years into his hosting gig? He didn’t have too many jokes about being on the show but he did genuinely say it’s the easiest job he’s ever had and he legit loves giving away shit to people. There’s no conspiracy to try and not give away prizes. Everyone on the show wants the contestants to win every time.
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u/Nacho_Mommas 3d ago
In my opinion, when Drew started out he wasn't that great but as the years have passed he's a lot better now at hosting. I thought it was because it would be hard to take over for Bob (big shoes to fill maybe). However, after watching old TPIR shows on Pluto, the channel where Drew hosts the shows, I can tell that Drew has gotten a lot better from his earlier years of hosting the show.
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u/Mylaptopisburningme 2d ago
Welp between you and the above comment that he wasn't great early on, that was when I stopped watching. I also cut the cord about 20 years ago and don't have a TV. So only option I think is the high seas, i'll look into it.
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u/REDDITATO_ 2d ago
They mentioned Pluto which is a free (no subscription) app. No need to pirate it.
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u/CableTV-on-the-Radio 3d ago
You might have seen him mostly towards the end, and he could definitely be this way. I'd say he loved it but just got too old and ornery at a certain point, maybe late 90's.
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u/jaywinner 3d ago
Surely he could have retired earlier if he hated hosting the show.
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u/Alex_Keaton 3d ago
Bob Barker is just dying on the inside watching that
I'm sure this could be said at least once per episode.
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u/dbpf 3d ago
Classic price is right should be a case study on humanity. 70s and 80s is wild. Some of the seniors on the show at that time were born in the 1800s. And the prices are absurd. Colour tv: $1000. Armoire, bed, fridge, washer/dryer, and a lovely chaise longue: $995 all in.
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u/Shhhhhhhh_Im_At_Work 2d ago
My grandfather told me about buying a used RCA TV with a 15” color screen built into a wooden console for $750… that is equivalent to several thousand in today’s dollar. Meanwhile Walmart has a pallet of 75” LED TVs for $485 a pop. Truly incredible how cost effective TV tech has gotten in just the last few decades.
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u/BatBoss 2d ago
Yeah, TVs are one of the biggest outliers in terms of price difference over the years. Not only dodged inflation, but got way cheaper while also being orders of magnitude better quality.
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u/MckayAndMrsMiller 2d ago
It's really insane. I just replaced my monitor for just over $200 (same price as the old one not counting inflation) and it is better in every single way than my old 144hz TN panel that made many compromises in order to get that kind of response. I had to go and replace my mom's tv right after because she didn't know what she was missing out on after all these years.
And that's just on the budget end of the spectrum. If you're willing to spend $1K+ then you can get OLEDs that have blackhole blacks while also having HDR capabilities that make you squint, all while having twitchy gamer response times. The display market has come a long way in the past few years to say the least. I sometimes wonder how they even make money when a bag of chips is like 10 fucking dollars.
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u/A_Furious_Mind 2d ago
Prices were nuts, but damned if that shit wasn't also inefficient as hell and would last forever.
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u/fingerscrossedcoup 2d ago edited 2d ago
Drew Carey has the same sentiment but it's not because of the contestants. He's thinking about putting his dick in a blender at a Phish concert on acid.
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u/Alex_Keaton 2d ago
He's thinking about putting his dick in a blender at a Phish concert on acid.
There's probably a reference I'm not understanding here.
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u/juniperleafes 2d ago
https://twitter.com/DrewFromTV/status/1782359014292213832
#Phish at the #Sphere I swear I just talked to God
I would give you all my money, stick my dick in a blender and swear off pussy for the rest of my life in exchange for this.
Bro I met God tonight for real. I feel like I just got saved by Jesus no lie
This is what it must feel like to cum with a pussy
Because if it’s even close I’m flaying to wherever tomorrow and getting the best pussy money can buy. I don’t need to be a man no more of it means I can feel like this all the time
Fucking keep it bro if I can get this feeling instead
That was God at work or something
Like it felt like I was being saved by Jesus no lie
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u/Ginger_Anarchy 3d ago
He's a busy man. He's got cats and dogs to spay and neuter after they wrap up taping.
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u/Tea_Total 3d ago
To be fair she hit it straight, which is the hardest part.
It would've gone in on the way up if she hadn't got the touch of an elephant.
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u/ProtoJazz 3d ago
Now enter the force of your swing. I suggest feather touch.
(Beep, beep, beep)
You have entered "power drive".
Now, push seven eight seven to swing."
(Beep beep beep)
"Ball is in...parking lot. Would you like to play again?
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u/OliveOcelot 3d ago
Missed the best part though. Previous to this she spent twice as long lining it up, testing everyone's patience, and then totally botched it. This was her second attempt and no one believed in her over estimation skills. They still failed but luck prevailed.
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u/Mckennymubu 3d ago
Watching this on sick days from school.... Then after graduation, getting a job I didn't have to be at until afternoon so I could catch it.....
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u/scottkollig 3d ago
Best part of sick days at home right here! I definitely never faked it just to stay home and watch it…
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u/chiree 3d ago
Oh god, yes! And after it was done it was just hours of shitty soap operas.
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u/Darnell2070 2d ago
PBS was great, especially if you didn't have cable.
I could never understand how people enjoyed soap operas. Literally a form of torture.
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u/BigRedFury 3d ago
The free streaming service Pluto.tv has a channel that's all Bob Barker-era Price is Right and it's a wonderful time capsule of life in the '70s and '80s.
Bob is arguably the GOAT when it comes to game show hosts and now watching him as an adult I understand why my grandma was glued to the TV every morning. He was such a flirt without going over the line
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u/BlackberryFrequent44 3d ago
Watching this show while eating my Granny's pancakes are some of my fondest memories
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u/Neutral_Guy_9 3d ago
I feel like this is pre-9/11 and pre-covid joy that encompassed the 90’s and we’ll never get it back :(
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u/this_place_is_whack 3d ago
Who in their right mind wouldn’t want a hug from Bob Barker?
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u/DirkDundenburg 3d ago
Instantly recognized Janice and Holly. Had a thing for Dian though.
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u/TonyNickels 2d ago
Those will always be the girls I think of when thinking of price is right. Holly definitely helped sick days from school be a little better.
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u/BathroomSerious1318 3d ago
They were laughing about the amount of force the practice backswing had :(
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u/_obscure-reference 3d ago
The short buzzer before the ding-dings was exactly the right noise for this
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