I would also like to add but didn't feel like editing that I think it is really bizarre that J, who wasn't raised in an Asian family, is a bowling fanatic, compulsive gambler, and used to smoke, even though no one else in his family does any of those things. You can take the boy out of Korea...

I think the attraction with bowling is that it is so physically undemanding yet at the same time so satisfying when you see those pins scatter without much effort.

I've been bowling maybe three times in my entire life yet it's probably the easiest known sport in the history of the entire world, especially if you don't take it all that seriously. And it's one of those rare sports that actually gets easier as you get older.

It's really all about the hotdogs and beer, isn't it?

thought it was about women who likes to handle balls and men who like to stick their appendages in holes

Nordic-kulta, Pidän sinusta oikein paljon. Kiinalaisten ja suomalaisten lapsista tulee kauniita!

I used to coach a Special Olympics Bowling team at that Bowlerama location about ten years ago.

Recently a friend took us out to Club 300 in Unionville (Chinatown North). Now I'd been there a handful of times when I lived up there as a teenager, but I was amazed at what a trendy hot-spot it has become for young Asians.

Not only is it a bowling facility, it has a suprisingly mid-upscale Chinese Hot Pot restaurant (with windows overlooking the bowling facilities), as well as party facilities with a dance floor and Karaoke.

i think ive been there when i used to hang out with my Taiwanese friends when they were still in Canada

OK, does a special bowling ball make THAT much more of a difference over a regular one? And will it actually help performance? I can understand a special golf club making a difference, but I don't know about a special bowling ball.

I'd like to start a new trend for AM/WF couples at the rifle or pistol range. Or we could have special AM/WF skeet shooting events. I think it would be great fun.

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. -Albert Einstein"

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He who dares wins.

club 300's best days are long gone.. maybe 10 years ago or more.. it still survives because of the proximity to pac-mall..

world bowl on hwy 7 is a good sight nicer

Hello,

I work at Yonge/Finch in North York, and my colleagues and I go to that Bowlerama all the time (uh...it's for business...uh, team-building! Yeah, that's it! Seriously, though, we do go there for team events, and we see either Asian teenagers there (with other Asian teenagers) or Caucasian senior citizens. Maybe I'm just going at the wrong time...

It's interesting, because I was corresponding with someone last year and I mentioned that I barely see any Asian male / non-Asian females anywhere in Toronto. Lots of Asian females and non-Asian males. She said that she saw it all the time, and maybe I'm just not paying much attention (this could be it, since I am pretty dense, as my wife tells me). Or it could simply be location. It was suggested that in high-Asian populated areas like where I work and where I live, interracial dating may be frowned upon.

I have to think for a sec here...I've worked at Yonge/Finch (roughly the area you were referring to where the Bowlerama is) for seven-plus years now. Aside from the occasional office worker photo on their desk, I can't recall anytime where I have seen an Asian male and non-Asian female on the street, in the restaurants, etc. But I am pretty sure it's just not me paying much attention to these things, since a new burger joint opened up nearby and people were raving about it, but I had no idea where it was. It turns out that I walk pass it every day and just did not bother to notice...

I'm glad that I'm not employed as a lifeguard.

P.S. The person with whom I was corresponding on this topic mentioned that downtown Toronto on the West End, there is a large concentration of AM / WF.