Taking Hold in Silicon Valley, A Ping-Pong Boom
Although the sport’s visibility is growing nationally — thanks in part to celebrities like Susan Sarandon, who recently opened SPiN New York, a table tennis social club in Manhattan — it does not yet have Little League-style cultural clout in the United States, which parents say makes it difficult to compete.
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#91 San Francisco « Stuff White People Like
Though they live in a world class city, San Franciscans have a crippling inferiority complex about New York and even hinting at that will make them very sad or very defensive.Fortunately, there is a fool-proof method for quickly returning the conversation to a positive, trust-building tone. No matter how much you have offended someone from San Francisco, you can always make them feel better by asking them how they feel about Southern California.
