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Previously on "Ten pin bowling etiquette"

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  • woohoo
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    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
    You're a contractor. Stop whining. Buy your own ball.
    What kind of contractor are you? Buy your own bowling alley.


    Residential Installations – Lynx Bowling - Lynx Bowling

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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by original PM View Post
    Not quite TEN pin bowling but I guess close enough!

    I guess if we had stayed in the EU we would soon have been 9 pin bowling - with balls with no holes in tch.

    Guess again, you really should know a bit more about England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skittles_(sport)



    No holes, no pins and quite probably old fuddy duddies:

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  • PhiltheGreek
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    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
    You mean you don't have someone who cleans and polishes your balls?
    Fox Hat does for Jesus

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  • greenlake
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    Originally posted by original PM View Post
    So went ten pin bowling at the weekend (Cheshire Oaks for this who are in the area )
    Ah, bowling....

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  • original PM
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    Can't help but share at a Kegelbahn (9 pins only) unless you use your own. However the good bowlers don't use balls with holes in them...

    Not quite TEN pin bowling but I guess close enough!

    I guess if we had stayed in the EU we would soon have been 9 pin bowling - with balls with no holes in tch.

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  • darmstadt
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    Can't help but share at a Kegelbahn (9 pins only) unless you use your own. However the good bowlers don't use balls with holes in them...

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  • Lance
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    etiquette?
    At a ten-pin bowling alley?

    It's not fecking croquet you know.

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
    You're a contractor. Stop whining. Buy your own ball.

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  • NotAllThere
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    You're a contractor. Stop whining. Buy your own ball.

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  • original PM
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    Originally posted by HugeWhale View Post
    It is poor etiquette to take a ball from the other side of the rack. If left to its own devices it is 50/50 which side of the rack the ball will go down when it returns, but with gentle coaxing you can ensure that your balls slide into the appropriate rack.
    Very true - but if there is 4 on each team each using different weighted balls then by the time you get to go again there have been approx 7 more all returns...

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  • WTFH
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    Originally posted by Jog On View Post
    Don't eat free nuts laid out in bars.
    Don't go to places where people lay their nuts out on the bars.

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  • HugeWhale
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    It is poor etiquette to take a ball from the other side of the rack. If left to its own devices it is 50/50 which side of the rack the ball will go down when it returns, but with gentle coaxing you can ensure that your balls slide into the appropriate rack.

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  • Antman
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    Originally posted by woohoo View Post
    You are a man, pick that ball up, go over to this other person. Say to them in a clear and strong voice, "my ball".

    Then take a quaver from his packet of crisps and shove it in your mouth. Then whilst crunching the quaver, say "understand bitch?".

    Sorted.
    lol, that's the way to do it!

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  • Jog On
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    Don't eat free nuts laid out in bars.

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  • woohoo
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    You are a man, pick that ball up, go over to this other person. Say to them in a clear and strong voice, "my ball".

    Then take a quaver from his packet of crisps and shove it in your mouth. Then whilst crunching the quaver, say "understand bitch?".

    Sorted.

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