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[daimeinashi]

[When the video comes on, Sai has a book in his hand. From the looks of the cover, it's an encyclopedia of some kind. After a few more moments giving a mildly intrigued look to the page, he addresses the communicator.]

I've been reading up on sports, recently.

[He thought it might help him to relate to his classmates better. Spoilers: it hasn't.]

It's all very interesting--[read: weird as hell; the NFL makes about as much sense to him as the chuunin exams do to anyone here] but there's one particular thing I've noticed that keeps coming up.

Basketball, baseball, football, soccer, rugby, tennis, pool, hockey....they all involve playing with balls, somehow.

[That's delivered with a perfectly straight face. No snickers, no chortles, no smirks, nothing. So for a moment, it's left to hang, whether it was intentional, or whether the boy is clueless enough to have missed the double entendre entirely. And then:]

It rather makes one wonder...if the players might be compensating for something.

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not here

[rathercommon]

[ wow dear lord ]

not here at all

[daimeinashi]

[It's not Sai if he isn't talking about dicks at least once in a game.]

video; hello housemate

[notafishwhisperer]

[ Arthur has only seen this man in passing, not having had much of a chance or desire to interact with the people he's been assigned to live with, but good lord. ]

You really don't understand... a ball of all things?

video; hellooooo i am forever sorry for this weirdo

[daimeinashi]

I know what a ball is.

[He also knows what balls are, though. Get it? It's a joke. Freddie did tell him he should try working on humor. (She wasn't serious, Sai)]

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[notafishwhisperer]

But you sound as if you don't understand why they would be used in sports. [ Ie. His brain is breaking a little. ]

Even Atlanteans use them underwater.

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[iwatobi]

[Haruka very clearly misses the joke entirely.]

Not all sports. Swimming doesn't.

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[daimeinashi]

[He blinks. Isn't swimming a basic survival skill? After flipping a few more pages in the encyclopedia, he gets to sports played in the water. Well then.]

Hm. So it doesn't.

[About...fifteen seconds later, he decides this guy might be able to answer a question.]

This book says one type of swimming is called the 'butterfly', but wouldn't a butterfly die if you placed it in the water?

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[iwatobi]

It's just the name. The stroke looks like butterfly wings.

[He doesn't swim that stroke, so he doesn't demonstrate. Not that he would have anyway if he did swim butterfly.]

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[databoner]

[...Can't help but think about Sanageyama, here...]

...

Yes.

Yes, they are.

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[daimeinashi]

Oh? Is that speaking from experience?

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[databoner]

Speaking from ... personal observation.

[he doES NOT KNOW HOW WRONG THIS SOUNDS]

VOICE.

[mantlepieces]

What else are they supposed to use -- bricks?

[ There's so much Reggie could comment on, but that's the first thing he decides to focus on. Let's just get that out of the way early on. ]

Besides, hockey uses pucks.

VOICE.

[daimeinashi]

They could, I suppose. Although a brick wouldn't bounce.

[Taking things far too literally, life with Sai.]

Though pucks don't bounce either, so you're probably right that hockey doesn't count.

VOICE.

[mantlepieces]

Good job, that was sort of my point.

[ Get on his level. Or don't, because he's an asshole. ]

It counts the same as any other sport. You're the one that's projecting.

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[sniptuck]

Compensating for what?

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[daimeinashi]

A small penis.

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[sniptuck]

What does that have to do with sports?

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[bratziska]

Why are you so insistent on littering the network with your juvenile humor?

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[daimeinashi]

Insistent? This is the first time I've made the attempt.

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[daintylegs]

[Try making dick references to a robot Sai, see what happens.]

You're... You're making a joke of some kind right? I see it in your face. Kinda. Sorta.

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Wow I'm kinda lost here.

video; i apologize forever sobs.

[daimeinashi]

[Congrats Tailgate, you're the first one to guess.]

Indeed. "Balls" is a way of referring to a penis. Likely because of the shape of the testicles.

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[hoboagogo]

It's a jock thing, I think.

[HE SOUNDS A BIT AMUSED. mostly because he lives with a huge jock.]

Alpha bullshit, chest bumping, whatever. Hell, contact sports like wrestling and shit can be weird too.

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[daimeinashi]

[Shinjiro might be speaking Japanese, but he could just as well be speaking Vulcan for how little of that made sense to him.]

Ah..."jock"?

[Let's start from the very beginning, a very good place to start.]

[shuckit]

[ l o l . look most of the time thomas isn't big on humor, but that is a very valid point. and maybe he's secretly a five year old on the inside. ]

Don't forget dodgeball. Literally hitting people with them.

[daimeinashi]

[Yes good, embrace your inner immaturity.]

That's very true.

I'm surprised at how many there are.