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Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 13, 2024

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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Surely the current yuppie sport of choice is pickleball?

No, pickleball is for high school kids and senior citizens. It's a considerably less yuppie version of tennis, in that it's cheaper and involves less skill.

Tennis is like golf in that it tends middle class, primarily just because of the demographics of existing players and because almost everyone playing it got into it because of a parent.

Pickleball is definitely a yuppie sport, though, like it’s a banker meme, almost an in-joke.

Funny, in my area pickleball is largely a "tech-bro" meme. I didn't realize it had penetrated the finance scene as well.

Pickleball is currently transitioning from the joke stage to the hobbyists taking it seriously stage. It's no longer entirely funny for your coworker to tell you they're going to a pickleball tournament, but it's not entirely serious either.