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Society & Culture Things you do/did that you probably think no one else does
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What on earth is gross about it?
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I turn my ps3/Computer on as soon as I get home, do what I need to do. Then there's no downtime, I can get straight into gaming.
Couple of things that are probably less common for someone in my age bracket:
-- Play card games. Last year, while on school camp I was taught how to play 500 and thought it was a great game. Played with my parents on Christmas Eve instead of going out with my mates. Had a great time, but my mates didnt really understand it. Outside of poker they think card games are pretty lame.
-- Use libraries. Used to always buy books, but then, like Seinfeld, thought it was a bit of a waste of money, so now I use community libraries to borrow books.
-- Buy newspapers. Once I get up, the first thing I need to do is go and buy the paper.
-- Play card games. Last year, while on school camp I was taught how to play 500 and thought it was a great game. Played with my parents on Christmas Eve instead of going out with my mates. Had a great time, but my mates didnt really understand it. Outside of poker they think card games are pretty lame.
-- Use libraries. Used to always buy books, but then, like Seinfeld, thought it was a bit of a waste of money, so now I use community libraries to borrow books.
-- Buy newspapers. Once I get up, the first thing I need to do is go and buy the paper.
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If you like 500 and are mathematically-minded, I really recommend giving bridge a try. Same kind of game, but with so much more depth and statistical precision to it. I was a 500 fiend during free periods in high school but when I found bridge I was hooked.
The problem is usually just finding 3 other people who know how to play.
The problem is usually just finding 3 other people who know how to play.
Man, Bridge has such a negative connotation attached to it. I doubt I could find anyone under the age of 40 who knows how to play.
For now I'll have to stick to subtly winning friends over to 500.
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4 mates + cards + snacks + drinks = good way to burn an hour before the game.
4 mates + cards + snacks + drinks = good way to burn an hour before the game.
Yeah, the Maths faculty of my university had a bridge club and a friend got me into it. But I imagine most bridge clubs going around are full of old people.
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13 = best card game out.
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My brother tickles his arm to help him to get to sleep. I find it very, very strange. And then I found out my dad also does it.
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13's a great card game. We used to play it all the time during free periods last year, there would usually be five of us though so we had the 5th person coming in for the loser after every game.
I've got a mate that had never played it before so we taught him and now he's unstoppable. He just goes all out early on and gets up every time.
I've got a mate that had never played it before so we taught him and now he's unstoppable. He just goes all out early on and gets up every time.
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I've done the following sports in dice form
- Dice Footy (2 rolls per quarter per side, first for goals, 2nd for behinds. If it rolls off the surface it's a 0. Even tried to redo the 1996 season once with full teams for the feature matches of the round, ladders and even a Coleman Medal count but generally did it for a NAB Cup type tourney pre-Super Goal days)
- Dice Cricket (when I was primary school aged it was 1 was out, and each batsman represented an individual wicket until numbers 10 and 11 which was
treated as a pair. Later it became partnerships and 5 was out rather than 1)
- Eraser cricket (as per dice cricket except off the bed was out with the scorebook on the floor)
- Dice Rugby League (5 rolls per half but was 3 for Sevens Fixtures, 3's and 5's were nothing, 4 was a try, 6 a converted try, 2 a penalty goal and 1 a field goal. Union could be played by tweaking some numbers)
- Dice Soccer (2 rolls per game, 1 for each half. 1-3 rolled was the number of goals scored in that half, 4-6 was nothing)
- Dice Baseball (1 for a single, 2 for a double, 3 for a triple, 4 for a homer, 5-6 were out, no walks. Needed a wooden peg contraption for who was on what base)
- Dice Golf (pretty self explanatory but making up a course was the hard bit)
Some of the other things that I do for Footy Matches
- When on a bus trip for a footy match, I try to sleep on the way down and sit towards the front on the way back sending down chips to the back of the bus just to shut them up. And I sometimes if I'm in the mood sing "arseh*le" on the return trip. (Anything else that goes on a bus trip, stays on a bus trip)
- When not captain, I like to be 2ND out of the shed behind the captain.
- I try not to touch the ball at all during a warm-up, instead having an extended stretch
- I wear a long sleeved garment under the jumper (we don't have sleeves up here) at all matches to start with (haven't played well without the sleeves)
- Walk to home games and city based away games except for finals (get a taxi for finals), always arriving to watch/umpire junior games in the morning
And finally, as a kid I rode the bike around the backyard and either pretended it was a motor race or even a horse race. AND when I batted, I always banged the bat into one of my pads before facing up to every ball.
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What about flick footy? You draw a field and your players on a piece of paper, then you draw a set amount of dots from the player in possession of the 'ball', and your opponent has to draw a line, in a flick motion, from one of their players to hit the dot and steal possesion. Can play an AFL version or Soccer, but it works best for Rugby League.
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good get. flick footy was a great game in school. and flick motor car racing.
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Cause we play on matting, when I play cricket, everytime I bang my bat I make a mark on the pitch. Even if I then mark leg instead of middle, I must still bang the bat on that same spot, and then simply take a greater/smaller step across. It really messes with me when the keeper is up to the stumps, as I always bat a long way down the track. I then have to really quickly define a new mark before I feel comfortable again (I usually dont bat long enough to worry about any of this though...)
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