This meme is way less impressive for someone living in Europe. Ryanair will take to to either for like 19 euros.
Why does badminton even need to be separated it’s not a strength contest
Trans women also got banned in chess. https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194593562/chess-transgender-fide-pushback
Reaction time, endurance, strength(yes hitting a shuttlecock harder is important), etc. They vary wildly between men and women and no sport can really balance the scales in either direction.
Because some people view Men’s sports as professional, and a career opportunity. Women’s sports on the other hand are seen by those people as recreational, and something fun to do outside of the house.
Who would put a professional player against a recreational player? That’s just not fair, the recreational player would be embarrassed at how bad they are and it wouldn’t be fun to watch.
Obviously nothing I said is true but it’s an opinion held by many.
So men don’t have to be embarrassed from being beaten by a woman.
Never seen Serena Williams play badminton?
/s
Fake. CEO’s aight choosing shit. They’re going to Paris and Barcelona
They’re choosing which football club they’ll buy, Paris or Barcelona
Yeah CEO’s and shareholders are driving it to the extreme, but in the end everybody wants their interest on savings/investments, their yearly wage increases etc. The whole economic system is at fault and America is driving it to the extreme.
The whole economic system is at fault and America is driving it to the extreme.
No, americans are just speed-running it.
Not American, so idk what I am speedrunning. Maybe I can finally post a time on speedrun.com
Fixed it.
Holy shit, insulin is ~$98 on average over there!?
That is literally the most expensive place to buy insulin on this planet.
Most countries have insulin available for ~1/5th that price or less, with many selling it for less than 1/10th of the US price.I knew it was bad over there but that’s fucking atrocious.
At least you’re more free over there than anywhere else though, right?
Right?It’s absurdly actually come down significantly in the US since 2021.
That $98 is a major improvement.
Yeah. It’s literally against the law for Medicaid or Medicare to negotiate for lower prescription drug prices. They have the largest insurance pools, and therefore an incredible amount of leverage, but nope. Gotta pay those insurance companies!
Gun and bullet is cheap i heard, the equipment of freedom is affordable.
Yeah I mean where else can you fuck your employees this hard and purchase a job gutting the government
You might not have to pay $.02 in taxes every year to accommodate transgender prisoners, but at least egg prices are down…right?
…right?
Oh my God. Eggs are expensive because people aren’t buying them!
Ye olde inverted supply and demand, just like my econ professor taught me
Idk what could possibly be causing a supply problem, all the chickens in the country are as healthy as can be.
The DOGE said so.
Badminton is criminally underrated
It might have better PR if they renamed it to “Goodminton.”
They really bury the lede with the whole “shuttlecock” thing. When I learned that shit, it gave it an immediate boost in my teenage brain lol
The Nelson-Atkins art museum in St Louis is strewn with massive, almost twenty foot tall shuttlecocks. Truly a haven for size queens.
Double Plus Goodminton
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Lmao, this is new to me!! Sending to my friends…
I prefer squash.
pfft, squash has nothing on pumpkin
Only at the end of October.
Apples and oranges for me.
G O U R D S
Squash is good too. I actually played quite a bit when I was young. But imo nothing compares to the feeling of defending smash successfully esp. multiple times in a row.
It might have something to do with me sucking at badminton, but squash seems easier to hit the thing. Even if it’s a little more intensive cardio wise.
I can’t not shill my favourite sport though now. Rock climbing. Mostly indoor sport or bouldering, but i climbed my first outdoor boulder last week and I’m hooked. Just got a torn tendon so can’t really do anything right now.
Good luck w/ur tendie buddy, you’ll be back out there soon
Thanks dude. I really hope so as climbing is the one thing that has silenced my mind and gives me joy so not being able to go is mentally hard.
I literally just had my first indoor bouldering session yesterday and loved it
That’s awesome. Do you think you would keep doing it?
What did you love about it the most? For me it’s kinda meditative. I’m quite neurotic and I find it hard to shut off my mind but the mix of physical and problem solving involved in climbing has me captivated and in the moment.
Don’t do what I did and push to hard and listen to your body. Really focus on climbing with your legs and not pulling with your arms as you’ll be able to go longer. You can practice keeping arms straight and relying on your legs to push up and thus your arm will bend without using the bicep. Then you can reach for the next one.
Yeah, I think so! There’s a trans indoor climbing group in my city that meets once a month, and it’s really comfy being around other queer folks while doing it. I really enjoyed the camaraderie that entailed, building each other up and looking out for one another.
I definitely felt what you’re talking about, quieting my mind and focusing on the problem at hand.
Funnily enough, I probably will have to focus more on using my arms than my legs. I have a physical disability and my knees are a major pain point. I use a power chair a lot of the time outside the house. I actually loved that nobody made me feel infantilised even though I rocked up in it.
That’s really good to hear and I’m glad they do those kind of nights for people to make them more comfortable.
I will say that in my experience the climbing community is super accepting and even if you went to a regular climbing place that nobody would be judging you and people would be willing to help and engage with you if you wanted.
