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Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can also smell and taste this picture

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ball

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      • IDontHavePantsOn@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Is life

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      • EnderMB@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        so hard

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    • JoShmoe@ani.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You tried to put it in your mouth?

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      • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’ve never put big red balls in your mouth?

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      • ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’ve never been knocked over like a bowling pin because some asshole decided to pitch overhand instead of bouncing it?

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    TWAAAANNNGGG … and then a high pitched ringing for about 30 seconds after (this brief 30 second pause when you are dazed and confused is usually the time when three or four more balls hit your body from different directions)

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    • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Image

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      • ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Dodge, dip, duck, dive, and dodge!

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      • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Image

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      • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I wonder how many takes they had to take to get this scene just right

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  • RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    PONK

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    • thesporkeffect@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sometimes, THOINK

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The way it feels when you get hit by one in the face. Like a waffle made of bees.

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Describe the sound please

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A hollow, almost metallic and slightly high pitched doink.

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      • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Like a motorboat? (I’m deaf)

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    • baldingpudenda@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      TING!

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      • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Also

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      • Fern@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The high-pitched sound of the rubbery air filled ball’s sudden contact reverberates off the gym’s echoey walls, followed quickly by the “Ohhhh!” Of your colleagues. The trauma of this is not something you can process in this moment, and it will continue to be that way. It’s all being solidified in your memory by the sudden twinge of seething pain on your nose and forehead, which is somehow intensified by the extreme embarrassment. The stunned look on your face can only last a moment before you hear your gym teacher shout, “You’re out! To the side!”

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    • Jerkface@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Kind of like a bell, in a way. There’s the initial ‘slap’ when it hits the ground, or wall, or face of a child. But then there’s this distinct, hollow ringing that lives on until it’s caught or it bounces again.

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    • GombeenSysadmin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      PAUNG! PAUNG! PAUNG!

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    • MrMcGasion@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Imagine holding on to a large, metal pipe (like a hand rail on stairs) and someone on the other end, hitting the pipe with their hand, not a big “clung”, but like they swung past it, and barely nicked the pipe with the tips of their fingers as their arm swung by. Combine that vibration with a breathy, hollowness that kinda warbles as the rubber ball contracts and expands due to the impact. The whole sound only lasts about a second - unless you were the one that got hit in the head, in which case there’s a high pitched ringing in your ears for a bit as well.

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  • lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can’t? maybe it’s an American thing?

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think so. I’m not an American which is why I pretended to be deaf to learn about their balls

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      • lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        got it! why no bananas though? they are good

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    • sxan@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Naw. I’m an American and I don’t recognize this thing. I think it’s generalizing, maybe? Like, OP experienced this in school and thinks it means everyone who’s been to school has had the same experience they did?

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  • mangosloth@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Saddest day of my childhood was halfway through middle school when they switched from these classic red waffles to these sponge “safety” dodgeballs, because the school board was afraid of injuries. They were so light you couldn’t get any speed behind your throws and when they hit you if felt like nothing more than a sharp gust of wind. I’ve never been the same since

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    • ShadowCatEXE@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We had a gym teacher that would allow us to play dodgeball with volleyballs… Probably the most painful but thrilling games of dodgeball I’ve played.

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    • the_tab_key@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I remember that day well. That was a sad day.

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    • graymess@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Schools don’t use these balls anymore?!

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    God I miss dodgeball! I was not a high pick for most sports in high school, but dodgeball I dominated via the OP strat of sprinting up and wailing the ball at people who just threw before they had a chance to retreat. I was an ambush predator, always lying in wait, ready to strike and avenge. I also had gym class with several school bullies, which meant dodgeball was more than just a sport. It was a time of vengeance!

    Watching my dodgeball thrown at maximum force bounce off the faces, stomachs, and backs of bullies from 5 feet away was the best part about gym class, thank you for reminding me <3

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  • martinbasic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This ball looks a bit like the Amiga boing ball

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    • dankm@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think the Amiga boing ball looks like that ball.

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  • Tilgare@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    <O>

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  • I2jgwh0hYtxrCZQ@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dodge, duck, dip, dodge and dive

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