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The best way to bowl is to put the rails up so no one can gutter ball, then play for lowest score. It's impossible to take serious, no one can be good or bad at it, a 7/10 split still sucks, and the people in the next lane will be very confused.
Fun all around.
I'm going to try this.
It's a blast, tell your friends.
i think it’s genuinely worse when people are good at karaoke
You know what’s funny? I’m an excellent singer. Years of formal training, sang professionally for years. But take me to a karaoke bar and I will be the suckiest sucky fuck there. Why? Because on a professional stage it’s a different vibe. Very focused, very intense, and if you try to do that in a karaoke bar you look like a fucking tool, so instead I try to be casual, not use my “pro” technique, and I end up sounding like shit.
Yup, my ex is literally a professional singer. Take her to kareoke and it's like strangling a cat. On purpose, because she doesn't want to be a dick.
Meanwhile I mumble while keeping the mic as far from me as possible, because I suck at singing in an entirely organic manner
Yeah you have to like unlearn so much to not look like a tryhard
Which is hillarious because I've been kicked out of Karaoke bars for laughing too hard at my own rendition of Islands in the stream by Dolly Parton with my drunk buddy as Kenny Rogers. It was magical and hillarious. I am a respectable Karaoke singer drunk or sober.
Karaoke bars are often polluted with a pestillence of people who think they are undiscovered musical geniuses who are minutes away from being discovered by a record label executive trolling the depths of karaoke shitholes looking for the next great pop-star. Anything that fucks with their discoverability makes them go coocoo.
When taken to karaoke, I'll sing only one song, and it'll be an aggressive metal song sung and screamed with my full energy and passion that I used to give at live performances. And then I'll quietly sit for the rest of the night, enjoying the knowledge that no one else will try to pressure me into singing another song.
Do they do Lorna Shore songs at karaoke bars???
They'll allow literally anything! One time, they even let someone perform Living on a Prayer, if you can believe that! And Hooked on a Feeling. And Born in the U.S.A. Now that I think about it, maybe New Jersey isn't the barrier you were referencing.
I also have this problem
Is it true that karaoke shifts the pitch by a couple semitones — because people normally don't hear their own voice from outside their skull — and this ends up throwing professional singers off?
Strangely, I am basically the opposite of this.
No formal training whatsoever, basically only sing in the car, shower, or karaoke bars.
I am nowhere near good enough to be some kind of professional vocalist, but I am usually in the top 3 singers by actual ability to hit the right notes on songs, at any given karaoke / bar outing.
I'll usually try to cajole another actually good singer into some kind of duet, be it either an actual proper duet, or basically if its like a song from a singer with incredible range in the song, i do the baritone lines, they do the tenor or falsetto, we both sing the mid range, we basically act as live backing tracks for each other.
That’s why they always use really shitty microphones— to level the playing field
I was the guy that owned his own bowling balls (yes, plural) and shoes. In my twenties. Mostly because it was near impossible to find a ball that had the right weight and hole size.
But I have a story: I went to an Evangelical university in the early 2000s. Start of sophomore year they held a bowling tournament at the local alley. So me and two friends signed up. But we first went to the thrift store and bought cheap polyester suits and enormous aviator sunglasses, aiming for something out of the "Sabotage" music video. Our other friend decided to dress up like he was our "muscle" by wearing an outfit like you'd see in the background of the "Beat It" music video. We walked into the alley (which had not been updated since probably 1981, other than the scoring screens) and decided to take on personas like we owned the place, talking trash and generally acting like we existed in a different plane from everyone else. I kept an unlit cigarette in my mouth the whole time. I was the first of our team to bowl and, quite magically, I got a strike right out the gate.
All these church youth-group types were our competition. They had no idea how to deal with us. We won our match and then went to the bar, ordering Miller High Life and pretending we were regulars. Then the guy who held the event came up to us. Apparently drinking alcohol at a university sponsored event is a VERY serious no-no. Even though the official stance was that students of legal age were allowed to drink (at extremely moderate levels), alcohol was not allowed on campus nor, apparently, at events. Oops. Perhaps because we were having a good time they let it slide (I was also an RA at the time, which probably helped). Either way, we finished 3rd.
Ok so honest question... why tf would you go to an evangelical university?
Raised evangelical.
EDIT: Was raised evangelical but was on the precipice of leaving that world, however I had accumulated a lot of credits at a different evangelical institution that would transfer and count toward my degree. But where I went to school (Palm Beach Atlantic University) was, at the time, a pretty relaxed school (in evangelical terms).
Side note, PBA has probably the coolest mascot in all of US colleges! The burrowing owl, an endangered owl that is not only native to Florida but lives on the campus! I know you know that, but for everyone else it's worth knowing and looking up some pictures.
You could also make an argument for UC Santa Cruz
Edit: just realized I mixed up Florida Atlantic with Palm Beach Atlantic. But it's still a cool mascot fact so I'm leaving it
lol For a moment there I was thinking "I thought we were the Sailfish..."
Were either of the schools accredited? Because if not, it kind of doesn't matter how many credits you had
Back when the small town I grew up in still had a bowling alley, I was regularly scoring perfect games. I even had my own ball.
Only because you mentioned shoes: all three of the main generals involved in the Battle of Waterloo (Wellington, Blucher and Napoleon) had a type of shoe or boot named after them.
Unfortunately, I'm infected with the "Why do something unless you're trying to get gud?"
Which means, I'll try something for a while and if I think I have some base talent as a foundation and I don't have anything else I'm obsessed with at the time I'm absolutely going to fixate on it until I'm really good. But if I think I'm doomed to mediocrity I completely lose interest in it. Note that I don't have to start off good, I just need to feel an intuition of "Oh, I could go somewhere with this."
I suck at bowling and I don't ever want to do it. I only begrudgingly do it because friends drag me to it and if they let me I'll sit out and just chit chat instead of actually playing.
Any time I go with my wife I go with the expectation that she'll absolutely destroy my score. But she was on her college bowling team. Same with golf.
She was on the golf team too?
Sure was
Damn, your wife got passed around!
She didn't play basketball or American football, though.
I might be guilty of this. Used to go every week with a friend and eventually started figuring out my stride. Now I’m the one that does better than a casual player and it’s weird.
