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resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

Charlie Kirk’s ‘mentor’ and father of modern cheerleading dies after falling while playing pickleball

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Charlie Kirk’s ‘mentor’ and father of modern cheerleading dies after falling while playing pickleball

www.independent.co.uk

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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Father of modern cheerleading dies after falling while playing pickleball: report
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Pickleball goated lmao

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  • Reygle@lemmy.world
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    Good

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    What innovations did he make in “modern” cheerleading?

    • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world
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      Im guessing he was the reason Penn & Teller had to do a Bullshit! episode on the subject

    • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.worldOP
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      If I had to guess, financialization.

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    Fucking headlines are getting stranger by the day.

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    Charlie Kirk had it all—charisma, faith, respect for everyone…

    LOOOOOL

    Anyway, rest in piss, pervert

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    Finally pickleball is good for something.

  • D_C@sh.itjust.works
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    “Robert Mueller Some racist pervert dude just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!”
    Wait. Am I doing this right?

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      Actually no

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    Another one bites the dust.

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    Lol. Lmao, even

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      Maybe roflcopter weather permitting

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    C’mon grim reaper! Keep going!

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    The hell is pickleball

    Apparently something like tennis, but on a badminton court.

    invented in 1965 as a children’s backyard game

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      It’s worse-minton.

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        no, nothing is worse than badminton. besides maybe that speedwalking shit

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          Hey it did give us the Black Cocks NZ badminton team in 2004

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          Clearly you have not pickled the balls

          But yes, speedwalking is worse than that

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            wait, just remembered that cup stacking bullshit that got forced on everyone for awhile that shit was even dumber

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              Nobody was forced to stack those cups, either.

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                definitely got pushed from down top, nobody would willingly stack cups for “sport” otherwise

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        Bravo!

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      Old people tennis. I feel like the trend was going younger last year, but now I feel it’s only for middle age people and older.

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        badminton is old people tennis. i feel like pickleball is midlife crisis territory

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      A lower net. Plays a more like tiny tennis.

      Been getting more and more popular over the decade, and it’s pretty huge in the states these days. If you’re in a major US metro, you know someone who plays it.

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      Kiddy tennis for unfit old people

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        Ehh it’s not the most fun game but it’s good for anyone of any fitness level looking for exercise. We used to play it during winter in college and I was fit as fuck back then.

        It’s great for older people because there’s way less joint stress and injury is, despite this article, pretty rare

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    What the hell is pickleball?

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      Tennis with ping pong paddles and a whiffle ball.

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        this mf whiffed and died lmao

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          or more likely (knowing absolutely nothing about his health or injury besides his age), i’d guess he had vision problems because he’s 76, the vision problems combined with a rotation on the court caused him to trip and hit his head or break a bone in his torso/pelvis/femur and that hit or break was enough to cause whatever other health problems he had to overwhelm him.

          i have a friend who was, for a brief time, the leading authority in the world in knocking over old people and her professional opinion is that most falls (like over 2/3 of them) are caused by vision problems. Keep your eyes checked as you age, and make sure your parents and grandparents (if they’re still alive) have current prescriptions because falls can kill you way easier than you think.

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            i have a friend who was, for a brief time, the leading authority in the world in knocking over old people

            This makes it sound like she out there pushing them over

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              When I first referred to her biomechanical engineering PhD this way her husband spat across the room. They are very dear friends.

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            appreciate you lookin out 🥰

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              Well someone has to. The old people certainly can’t.

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      Tennis with pickles for balls

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        Such a waste of pickles you hate to see it.

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      Tennis for out of shape people

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        That’s badminton isn’t it ?

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          Trade the shuttlecock for a whiffleball and you’re there.

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    Let us use this opportunity to eliminate cheerleading altogether in his honor

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    Imagining he slammed is head on some very hard or sharp object near the court? It’s pretty difficult to do that much damage on a typical flat court surface falling.

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      It might not have taken much. I hear the Kirk boys are prone to head injuries

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        Totally read that headline wrong. I was thrown off by thinking that photo was Brian Kilmeade

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    Counting or not counting sports-related injuries?

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