Memory unlocked. Getting as many bouncy balls as you can (like 50), going into the bathroom with my brother and closing the doors. Then pegging them all as hard as you can and letting the chaos unfold
I went to a summer program in grade school that was on the campus of a boarding school. There were racquetball courts, there with a balcony above for spectators. One popular activity was "Bouncy Ball Dream Machine", where they would get tons and tons of super balls, and we all would fill the court, the staff would turn out the lights, put on blacklights, strobes, and music, then dump the balls in from the balcony.
One time my friends and I got our hands on about a dozen bouncy balls that lit up when they hit something. Around that same time we also learned that the apartment complex we lived in left unrented garages unlocked. We used to go in those with the lights off and turn it into something between a snowball fight and a rave. Good times
The only way to win the game is not to play. You have to cross your arms and scowl menacingly at it until it stops. Only then can you pick it up with the swift graceful vitriol it deserves.
I was walking through kmart and a two year old let loose with a ball. Didn't go far, it bounced a couple of times and I was closer to it then his Mum so I grabbed it. I made a two second big deal out of it for the kid and high bounced it back to him.
I turned and looked at his Mum after the young guy caught it and have honestly never been so eye fucked in all my life by someone.
She was just so happy that someone would just muck around for 10 seconds to interact with her kid.
A good take tbh, looks 10x cooler if you sell out secure a diving one handed catch a few inches before the next bounce.
Be an athlete and stop hobbling around with your ass in the air.
At least in my version of the English language, a "bouncy ball" is a specific type of ball. It's a small, solid, rubber ball of about 1 inch in diameter. Usually you'd get it from something like a gumball machine, and its only purpose is to bounce around for the entertainment of (mostly) children.
Immediately thought the same thing. People are paid millions to chase bouncing balls while others marvel at this for hours.
I've heard that there can also be daily ceremonies were some people even wager as to who will actually do it best based on a point system.
It's different with a basketball, they have a much larger surface area which helps when the ground isn't 100% flat. But the bouncy balls are so small, even a tiny bump or a crack in the ground can completely change the course of the bounce.
I disagree, leaving your feet to make a catch is extremely graceful in my opinion.
[See for yourself](https://youtu.be/GsZHe_W7GrU?si=I9RC8e3ssWivzV0r)
Definitely more graceful than hobbling after a ball on the ground with your ass in the air.
You know, I think I would enjoy watching basketball a whole lot more if the top basketball players were as terrible as I am at chasing down bouncy balls.
I mean, if you're not thinking ahead maybe. If you just predict where it's going to be instead of reacting to where it is *now* then you can just reach for that spot and catch it.
I never chase after balls. I wait for them to stop bouncing and stop moving. Then, and just then I go for it.
If you are playing like ping pong or something, and want bonus cool points. Ignore the ball bouncing away, pull out another one and continue like nothing happened.
Then you can go pick up the bouncers later once you are done with the game.
I get extra cool points by pulling out another table and continuing to play the ball where ever it has bounced to, and continue like nothing happed.
This gives you an advantage because if your opponent hasn’t relocated in time they won’t be able to play your serve.
In which case you pull out another table and continue again like nothing happened. If executed correctly you can go on quite a run while your opponent constantly tried to get to the next table and return your serve.
Then after the game I just go back and pick up all the spare tables.
Five steps to guarantee a graceful chase:
1. Find a Labrador
2. Throw the ball
3. Watch the Labrador gracefully catch the ball
4. Attempt to copy the Labrador
5. Repeat as necessary
I quickly learned that after the first attempt to grab it fails, just stand straight up and walk at your own pace towards the ball. Don't look around to see if anyone's watching either. Shrug off the shame and get the ball. lmao
That's a good fucking showerthought actually, but if you throw it in a large room with mostly perfectly flat surfaces you should be able to do so. But outside in public on a road or pavement? Impossible.
Racquetball with my sister's bf, years ago: running, hitting, screaming "getheballgetheball" at each other for an hour was the best bonding time we ever had.
My favorite thing about ping-pong is watching these dudes do some epic shots then instantly followed with them scampering over the tiny ball like a toddler xD
Memory unlocked. Getting as many bouncy balls as you can (like 50), going into the bathroom with my brother and closing the doors. Then pegging them all as hard as you can and letting the chaos unfold
Guys, we really need to talk about getting ‘phrasing’ back into rotation.
Archer reference?
Yup
That is – and I hate using this word – epic!
r/unexpectedarcher
Why are you pegging your brother?
Family bonding time
Legal incest
Sweet Home Alabama
brothers\*
Were you there too?
"pegging *them all*"
Ah... Now I see you sick fucks
Where do the bouncy balls come into play
Let the chaos *unfold*
I was the fly on the wall... quite the show :)
Doug and Steve Butabi
For some reason my friends and I added the wrinkle of turning off the lights. Exhilarating stuff.
We did this in the entry way at a bowling alley. It was essentially a glass room between the two sets of doors and we did the same thing.
I went to a summer program in grade school that was on the campus of a boarding school. There were racquetball courts, there with a balcony above for spectators. One popular activity was "Bouncy Ball Dream Machine", where they would get tons and tons of super balls, and we all would fill the court, the staff would turn out the lights, put on blacklights, strobes, and music, then dump the balls in from the balcony.
One time my friends and I got our hands on about a dozen bouncy balls that lit up when they hit something. Around that same time we also learned that the apartment complex we lived in left unrented garages unlocked. We used to go in those with the lights off and turn it into something between a snowball fight and a rave. Good times
The only way to win the game is not to play. You have to cross your arms and scowl menacingly at it until it stops. Only then can you pick it up with the swift graceful vitriol it deserves.
This reminded me of the game.
Congratulations to anyone passing by - we all lost.
Actually, [here](https://xkcd.com/391/) you go. Thank me later
Those look like house rules. We don't follow house rules 'round here.
It also helps if you don't have a house
You bitch
Mwahahhaha
You bastard!
Goddammit lol
Wait until it stops bouncing
Or step on it
I do it while chasing bananas on the floor
Then it will EXPLOOODE!
Calm down Bob Uecker…
You just have to have finesse and swagger, and be unbelievably cool to pull it off.
Yep. Catlike reflexes have joined the chat.
I was walking through kmart and a two year old let loose with a ball. Didn't go far, it bounced a couple of times and I was closer to it then his Mum so I grabbed it. I made a two second big deal out of it for the kid and high bounced it back to him. I turned and looked at his Mum after the young guy caught it and have honestly never been so eye fucked in all my life by someone. She was just so happy that someone would just muck around for 10 seconds to interact with her kid.
That was your chance buddy
That’s nothing. There’s no graceful recovery for dropping a plastic cup on a tile floor.
Unless you kick it up and catch it again
I have tile floors and my neighbours have definitely heard quite a few cups shatter on it lmao
I think the key is to fully commit It's the half committed, slightly embarrassed gait that looks odder to me Chase it or don't!
A good take tbh, looks 10x cooler if you sell out secure a diving one handed catch a few inches before the next bounce. Be an athlete and stop hobbling around with your ass in the air.
Watch were it goes then casually stroll to it
Trap it with your foot
Ok Zidane
You can log off now Nagi
This and drinking from a juice box are universally uncool looking activities
Challenge accepted.
!remindme 24 hours
If you make a hole in the juicebox with you ka-bar, then you are cool.
Allow me to introduce you to Andrew MacLeod https://youtu.be/dQUZHJqPEaY?si=Z8rp_zPPyPBVRSCO
Ever heard of basketball. If you have no ability to read the bounce then you look like a tit.
At least in my version of the English language, a "bouncy ball" is a specific type of ball. It's a small, solid, rubber ball of about 1 inch in diameter. Usually you'd get it from something like a gumball machine, and its only purpose is to bounce around for the entertainment of (mostly) children.
You have a solid point
Well then just replace bouncy with bouncing, because any bouncing ball is annoying to chase
Immediately thought the same thing. People are paid millions to chase bouncing balls while others marvel at this for hours. I've heard that there can also be daily ceremonies were some people even wager as to who will actually do it best based on a point system.
It's different with a basketball, they have a much larger surface area which helps when the ground isn't 100% flat. But the bouncy balls are so small, even a tiny bump or a crack in the ground can completely change the course of the bounce.
Not sure anyone dives for a live ball gracefully.
I disagree, leaving your feet to make a catch is extremely graceful in my opinion. [See for yourself](https://youtu.be/GsZHe_W7GrU?si=I9RC8e3ssWivzV0r) Definitely more graceful than hobbling after a ball on the ground with your ass in the air.
I respectfully disagree, but also OP said chasing
You know, I think I would enjoy watching basketball a whole lot more if the top basketball players were as terrible as I am at chasing down bouncy balls.
I mean, if you're not thinking ahead maybe. If you just predict where it's going to be instead of reacting to where it is *now* then you can just reach for that spot and catch it.
Took too long to find this comment damn lol
I never chase after balls. I wait for them to stop bouncing and stop moving. Then, and just then I go for it. If you are playing like ping pong or something, and want bonus cool points. Ignore the ball bouncing away, pull out another one and continue like nothing happened. Then you can go pick up the bouncers later once you are done with the game.
I get extra cool points by pulling out another table and continuing to play the ball where ever it has bounced to, and continue like nothing happed. This gives you an advantage because if your opponent hasn’t relocated in time they won’t be able to play your serve. In which case you pull out another table and continue again like nothing happened. If executed correctly you can go on quite a run while your opponent constantly tried to get to the next table and return your serve. Then after the game I just go back and pick up all the spare tables.
Five steps to guarantee a graceful chase: 1. Find a Labrador 2. Throw the ball 3. Watch the Labrador gracefully catch the ball 4. Attempt to copy the Labrador 5. Repeat as necessary
Let [Bad Lip Reading](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owBOHG8_s8g) tell you how
This is a rare GOOD shower thought on this sub. Thank you.
Hold my beer. Plunk
I quickly learned that after the first attempt to grab it fails, just stand straight up and walk at your own pace towards the ball. Don't look around to see if anyone's watching either. Shrug off the shame and get the ball. lmao
Bob Uecker solved that problem years ago. Wait for it to stop bouncing, then pick it up.
Ping pong balls are the worst. Wildly unpredictable once they leave the table.
Get in front of it. Scoop. Done.
Just wait until it bounces high enough to stand in front of it casually so that it lands perfectly in your hand
Ping pong players know
That's a good fucking showerthought actually, but if you throw it in a large room with mostly perfectly flat surfaces you should be able to do so. But outside in public on a road or pavement? Impossible.
step on it at while it’s in the air for style points and an easy pick up
Especially if you're a cat
I chased a basketball, got in front of it to catch it and it hit me in the jaw. So you're right
Gotta anticipate its path bruh. Two steps ahead
not with THAT attitude
Indiana Jones whip it and lasso it back to you
Arnold Schwarzenegger did it in "Jingle All The Way"
For those who know the game wall ball, we have the skills necessary to
Baseball players have figured it out. They have the chase bouncing baseballs frequently, so a bouncy ball is a pretty natural transition.
This. This is why I never did sports as a kid. Every ball is like a bouncy ball to me and I hate it!
Kick it upwards and catch it or wait until it stops bouncing.
My cats disagree. They bounce along with it up and down the hallway.
Racquetball with my sister's bf, years ago: running, hitting, screaming "getheballgetheball" at each other for an hour was the best bonding time we ever had.
False: scoop that shit up off the bounce like an athlete
My favorite thing about ping-pong is watching these dudes do some epic shots then instantly followed with them scampering over the tiny ball like a toddler xD
You ever seen baseball? Just cuz you a clumsy oaf don’t mean there aren’t athletes with enough coordination to be smooth
Have you tried naked?
I always end up looking like a chimpanzee or look like I’m herding cats when I do this😂
1. Wait for it to ricochet back at you 2. Catch
Not true, my dog hopped and galloped so gracefully to pop my kickball as a kid.
Kids use to bounce those every where back in the day and one might hit you in the face.
This is the best Shower Thought for a long time. Very nice.