You were trying to find an edge in a game where you can win a $2 prize for your $2?!?

I was happy to hear the foreign accents in the clip you attached. Proof that there are people from other lands stupid enough to play carnival games. Doesn't make us smarter, but does lower the curve a bit.

They were good prizes. Don't they have giant stuffed animals in the UK? I won a giant stuffed snake on my first try running the table at 3-ball. It scared the cats.

It is something we Mericans do well, spot the scam. It must be the commercial culture we're brought up in, you learn by age 5 ain't nobody givin away nothin for free and carnies don't feel sorry for nobody.

People pay to go bowling and play golf, and they don't even win any prizes. What's the difference?

They're more fun. You're right, I'll pay a carni a few bucks to see if I can beat his scam. He's gotta feed his kids too.

The difference is that there is a cheese fry stand that is clearly more +ev within just a few feet.

Interestingly and a bit more on topic, I met someone who has his ear gauged who has a job last week during a trip to Pittsburgh.

I like the cotton candy. Especially when you're with a woman and keep shoving giants amounts of it in her mouth. Very sexual.

I don't know anything about golf, but bowling revolves around a similar problem regarding how much to hook the ball. The greater the entry angle to the pocket, the higher the chance of striking, and the greater the margin of error. Some players are big hookers, called power players. Other players tend to throw more straight and hard, relying on greater accuracy and precision ball speed. Power players have more more complex mechanics, and historically they have done a little better; however, one of the most successful bowlers who ever lived is Walter Ray Williams Jr. who is a stroker. He also has a physics degree, and he's a horseshoe pitching champion. Different oil patterns often favor different styles.

There's a lot more to the physics of bowling than meets the eye. You need to control the direction of the ball's angular momentum vector in 3 dimensions. It's angle to the foul line in the plane of the alley is called axis rotation. The greater this angle, the longer the ball will skid before it starts to roll. You need more axis rotation on drier lanes. This is controlled by whether your fingers track straight up the back of the ball (low axis rotation) or more to the outside of the ball (higher axis rotation). How much the angular momentum vector is tilted vertically is called axis tilt, and it's controlled by how much the wrist is cocked to the side and its movement during the release. Axis tilt causes a precession that acts like a gyroscope to keep the ball from rolling out prematurely. This can allow it to deflect less and finish stronger, especially when axis rotation is high.

Depending on oil conditions, ball speed, revolution rate, axis rotation, and axis tilt, a player must choose a ball with the proper amount of friction on the coverstock, a drilling pattern which gives the proper weight bias, the proper radius of gyration which is determined by the distribution of mass within the ball, and the differential radius of gyration determined by an asymmetrical core. A pro bowler can have as many balls in his locker as a golfer has clubs in his bag. He must then continually adjust some or all of these factors as the invisible oil patterns migrate with every shot.

Frisbee golf tho

Kona Pipeline is ****ing wrong. Had a sip. Tried scraping it off my tongue. Didn't work.

I just imagined you (personified as your avatar) in a white van with no windows saying "want some candy, little girl?"

Otherwise, I approve.

I have a feeling that my life is better than most because I lack subtlety and skip over the niceties.

Visited an old college buddy and his wife tonight. Had a great meal at a pub that has more beers than God, on draft or bottled. I got a hoppy brew. We soaked in his outside hot tub after, drinking Oban. Discussed life, retirement, friends, old times etc. Excellent evening; relaxing and enjoying little pleasures and friendship.

Gonna take a road trip over the holidays to see family and friends too. Plan to meet up with an old childhood buddy whom I lost contact with for 15 years and reunited a few years back. We now hang out once a year and and smoke a few pipes, drink scotch and philosophize. Its kinda fun because he's way out there. A jazz guitarist turned Christian, but not super annoyingly so. My turn to bring the scotch. Any suggestions?

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The Oban I mentioned is excellent, not strong but great hints of smoke and peat. It is about $75-80 a bottle. A standard 12-year old Macallan at about $50 a pop is also good, or go for the 18-yr-old if want to make it more special. Dalwhinnie is also good (15-yr old). My three suggestions. The list of possibilities is of course much larger.

Just wow, what a multi purpose word! Not a word about golf though

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/break

Somewhat close, but is a spinner. Still no mention about the slope on the ground as the cause, as when putting in golf, as I've learned itt . The quoted definition suits better the spinning that can be applied when hitting the ball pre putting, imo.

Golfers, unite, and make an appeal to the Bureau of The Free Dictionary!

I've never had the Oban, so I'll have to try it. Last year he got a bottle of Lagavullin 16, which was my favorite so far.

In bowling the whole idea is to control the breakpoint. In baseball one throws a breaking ball.

In baseball, bowling, pool, ping pong, and so on the ball breaks from its trajectory on it's own due to spin. In golf, spin is not typically put onto the ball while putting - at least not much, and not for the purpose of causing a break. The ball is really just following the path created by the terrain. So calling a golf ball's motion a break might not technically be correct. That said, every native English speaker should understand what was meant. Where are you from, plaaaynde?

As you probably know English isn't my native language. I'm from the EU.

That leaves surprising gaps in the knowledge about words, you don't stumble upon them in your daily life.

Makes sense. I actually didn't notice until just now, so I'm guessing you've spoken English for a very long time. You shouldn't be expected to know every nuance about a language you didn't learn first. You probably know about 6 other languages better than most of us though.

Thanks, but it's a constant struggle for trying to get it right. Have to edit and re-edit all the time. But guess that's the way to get better. 2+2 is THE place I speak English at, btw. Films, science programs etc. of course make you hear it a lot.

Now that I know it's more obvious. Prepositions are one of the hardest things to translate, since they're used differently in different languages. What's funny is so many of us type fast and don't bother to correct much so you blend in quite well. Oh, that and our speling, and, are grammar is pretty bad to.

So my meticulous work will maybe achieve your careless style? . You are right about the prepositions, "God, how I have struggled".

But I think content is king, and that's the most difficult part, for all of us

Doesn't the terrain have a big influence on the golf qestion? If it's dead flat, straight may be the best. With a tilted plane, break shots may be required.

So it is.