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Exactly. The statement is based on sponge as dampener, not sponge as spring. In a sense, I can understand it and think it is right, but in another sense, it needs to be caveated because its practical application in the modern game is questionable. Unfortunately, the practical application of...

Happy Birthday, Buddy! You need some new equipment...

That's why Carl is my buddy - our goal is to help people. My personal limitations are what they are, but in the end, it's about trying to help.

I think the exhibition element of our sport is severely underutilized. I think more effort should be put into designing and building out co-ordination events to attract more women.

Goon squad bait...

When Pnatchwey would start a thread here on some scientific or engineering topic, for a while, some newly opened account would miraculously show up on mytt with a post linking to the thread on ttd asking people to come over and debate. Pure coincidence? You be the judge.

Come on, buddy. You have not been attacked. And if anyone attacks you,the Empire will strike back ;).

You were supposed to think I was serious. OTherwise, my point about why the thread should not be closed would have little impact.

Hahahaa... I was just joking about the ban though. I wanted to make the point that we can't close every thread we don't like.

OK, if we want to go that route, I think OP should be banned. He has been banned on every other major TT website.

Why should it be closed?

It isn't appreciably stressed relative to what? I wrote something specific which you edited. It's easy to make people sound stupid when you misquote them in the first place. If you really believe that the fact that everything has tension means that everything is equally internally stressed...

Hahahaha... izra, nice description, but I don't think you know what you are talking about wrt to me and Pnatchwey. I actually wrote at more personal length to explain why I consider people like him dangerous because they don't understand enough TT to understand the limits of their thinking...

If they said elastic topsheet, would that make you feel better? Like I said, tension and elasticity are linked concepts. So how is this useful to a practical player? And while I disagree with you, without it being something demonstrable, our debate is largely useless. What is far more...

izra, give me a break. Isn't the whole point of my posting some of these things and the whole point of Carl's post to alert people to the fact that OP is not speaking the same language as others if they care to know, whatever you think of my taste or Carl's? Tension and elasticity are linked...

Your option is similar to mine. It's no different from how language evolves and gets adapted.

On the internet, people don't demonstrate, they debate. When you ask for demonstration, you get more debate. That's when a smart man like yourself realizes that it is more about intimidation and persuasion, and less about truth and verification.

Pnatchwey made this comment on the very first page of the civilized thread you referenced - there are other comments but I think this makes the point: "This forum seems to be smarter than the other ones." But in your view, the discussion is civilized just because you think it is. There was an...

You are a very nice guy, vvk1, but in the famous words of John McEnroe, you cannot be serious! As in, what threads have you ever seen OP post related to physics that don't end up like this on every forum he has ever joined? And you want pretend that this one was intended to be any different...

The terms forehand and backhand rubber make me cringe every time I hear them. Just saying.