Rise up against your electronic pickleball oppressors
January 28, 2025 1:15 PM Subscribe
bradsucks, who haunts this cavernous place on occasion, has a new music video out called Learning to Lie that is VERY entertaining. And educational too! I had no idea that pickleball required one of the players to be a Kaiju Big Battel-style cardboard robot!
Though I do wonder what became of the guy who got turned into the robot? Is he dead now? Did Brad stomp the head of an alien abductee?
posted by grumpybear69 at 2:43 PM on January 28
posted by grumpybear69 at 2:43 PM on January 28
I'm sure it was a case where the aliens abducted him and left their artificial person in his place. No one will suspect a thing!
posted by JHarris at 3:12 PM on January 28 [1 favorite]
posted by JHarris at 3:12 PM on January 28 [1 favorite]
I have not yet played pickleball but apparently it is very addictive. My 80-year-old father has a bum knee but still goes out to play almost every day. He lives for it.
posted by zardoz at 3:56 PM on January 28 [1 favorite]
posted by zardoz at 3:56 PM on January 28 [1 favorite]
Oh wow I'm here for this. I led a small local Bradsucks popularity wave like 15 years ago and I'm ready to lead another.
posted by jellywerker at 5:21 PM on January 28 [3 favorites]
posted by jellywerker at 5:21 PM on January 28 [3 favorites]
Cool song/video!
Pickle ball is indeed fun and definitely suited to dual-wielding. Really glad to see that getting some attention.
I assume it's technically against the rules, but it is a really great way to play 1v2. I also just switch hands sometimes, bc it's occasionally faster and always funnier to hit a ball low on my left that way. I'm not especially ambidextrous, but something about the small clunky paddle and slow moving ball makes for little penalty to off-hand play.
posted by SaltySalticid at 5:28 PM on January 28 [1 favorite]
Pickle ball is indeed fun and definitely suited to dual-wielding. Really glad to see that getting some attention.
I assume it's technically against the rules, but it is a really great way to play 1v2. I also just switch hands sometimes, bc it's occasionally faster and always funnier to hit a ball low on my left that way. I'm not especially ambidextrous, but something about the small clunky paddle and slow moving ball makes for little penalty to off-hand play.
posted by SaltySalticid at 5:28 PM on January 28 [1 favorite]
I first heard of Brad Sucks from the I Don't Know What I'm Doing album and have loved everything since. This music video is great, and you should check it out: https://www.bradsucks.net/
Fun fact: Brad Sucks was also in an episode of Bee and Puppycat.
posted by AlSweigart at 7:33 PM on January 28 [2 favorites]
Fun fact: Brad Sucks was also in an episode of Bee and Puppycat.
posted by AlSweigart at 7:33 PM on January 28 [2 favorites]
Well this is charming, even before the Making Of at the end. And it’s lovely to know bradsucks is keeping on after his long-ago MeFite days
posted by janell at 7:44 PM on January 28 [1 favorite]
posted by janell at 7:44 PM on January 28 [1 favorite]
This is fun! And Brad Sucks is great!
posted by slogger at 2:20 PM on January 29 [1 favorite]
posted by slogger at 2:20 PM on January 29 [1 favorite]
bradsucks, who haunts this cavernous place on occasion
Metafilter: this [occasionally haunted] cavernous place
posted by otherchaz at 1:43 AM on January 30
Metafilter: this [occasionally haunted] cavernous place
posted by otherchaz at 1:43 AM on January 30
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