Should I count myself as part of the guys group?

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I suck at these sports

1. Foosball
2. Table Tennis
3. Carrom
4. Pool

Should I assume guys from my social group think I am lame?

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If you look at all like your avatar, you could suck at everything and you'd be accepted with open arms. (Lame? I don't theeeenk sooooo! Wink

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@vinsan,

3 of the 4 games on your list I suck at also.
The only one I am any good at is foosball.

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@mysteryman,

Re Foosball: it's all in the wrist. SCORE!

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@Ragman,

Ragman wrote:

If you look at all like your avatar, you could suck at everything and you'd be accepted with open arms. (Lame? I don't theeeenk sooooo!

Um, Ragman.... I am pretty sure that Vinsan is a man. Shocked

Avatars can be deceiving.

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@Intrepid,

I have no idea, I assumed that he or she was a woman. Perhaps Vinsan will forgive me?

That sure changes the nature of my reply.

OK, then...

Assuming reasonable eye-hand coordination, the more you practice these games, the better you'll get. However, even if you aren't any good, it's not lame.

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If being good at those games (they aren't sports) is what counts as cool to
them, I think the guys in your social group are lame.

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@George,

Table tennis isn't a sport? yer nutz

The next-to-last place I worked at, there was one group of IT guys who were all about the foozball. If you didn't play well (or at least put good energy into it), you just wouldn't be part of their social group.

On the flip side, who wants to stay in the office an extra 4 or 5 hours a day playing table top games? I'm decent at foozball and pool (made the finals of the last office tournament here), but I can't imagine hanging around the office to play them.

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@ehBeth,

ehBeth wrote:

Table tennis isn't a sport? yer nutz . . .

OK, I'll grant ya that.

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We stayed late at the lab to play chess - not often but sometimes. We also did, once in a while, hang around to do a jigsaw puzzle.
I don't remember any of that as being part of some group - in fact, we were individual women, still are.

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@vinsan,

I must be the lamest of the global lot as not am I only horrible with options 1, 2, and 4, I have absolutely no idea what carrom is.

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@tsarstepan,

I had a carom board as a kid, but it didn't have instructions, so we made up our own rules...

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@Intrepid,

Intrepid wrote:

Ragman wrote:

If you look at all like your avatar, you could suck at everything and you'd be accepted with open arms. (Lame? I don't theeeenk sooooo!

Um, Ragman.... I am pretty sure that Vinsan is a man.

Avatars can be deceiving.

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@Intrepid,

That is a picture of Madhuri Dixit

http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/images/madhuri-dixit.jpg

http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/images/madhuri-dixit-2.jpg

http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/madhuri-dikshit-2799.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhuri_Dixit

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002043/bio

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Thx guys for cheerig me up...

I asked this because I had just been to a foozball and pool session with my guys group and I sucked big time... Sad

Oh and BTW I am a guy and happen to Luv Madhuri Dixit. Smile

Hence the picture.

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@Ragman,

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If you look at all like your avatar, you could suck at everything and you'd be accepted with open arms. (Lame? I don't theeeenk sooooo!

Perhaps I should change my profile picture !!!!

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@vinsan,

Don't worry about it, Vin. I've been taken for a guy pretty routinely, what with the italian food word ending in - o -. (What was I thinking the day I picked that? I just remember that 'pizza' was already taken.) People catch on, if they read enough of your posts. I explain a bit in my profile.

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@ossobuco,

ossobuco wrote:

Don't worry about it, Vin. I've been taken for a guy pretty routinely, what with the italian food word ending in - o -. (What was I thinking the day I picked that? I just remember that 'pizza' was already taken.) People catch on, if they read enough of your posts. I explain a bit in my profile.

You sure it's not the avatar?

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@Finn dAbuzz,

Yes, from prior reading of vinsan..

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@George,

George wrote:

If being good at those games (they aren't sports) is what counts as cool to
them, I think the guys in your social group are lame.

I'm with George here.

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