Backhand dominant player - reverse > pendulum serv

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 zeio wrote:

After years of reading the western view on human rights conditions in China, and years of posting on this forum as to how severely crippled human rights really are because people are so easily offended, I seriously feel the quote below is nothing more than a mere decoration.

 Freedom of speech is the right to articulate one's opinions and ideas without fear of government retaliation or censorship, or societal sanction.

You can't comment on race, color, sex, age...without fearing that someone WILL get offended.

Last but not least, if this will make you feel better:
In the United States, under the First Amendment to the Constitution, speech, even speech that some may find offensive, is permitted unless it is in the judgment of a court obscene, slanderous, libelous, or inciteful to violence or panic.  Leeway is given to speech or writings that are viewed as satirical.  For example, none of the Tucson, Arizona police have come after me for posting sarcastic posts to this forum.  Members of the United States Armed Forces are not allowed to speak ill to their superiors, be they non-commissioned or officers, under penalty of non-judicial punishment or in more extreme cases a court martial.  Children may face expulsion from school or detention at school for being bratty to their teachers or their principal.  Policemen and firefighters, as well as for example physicians, do not play the smart ass to their bosses.  Neither do employees in general, as an employee not covered by a contract for a specific period of time or belonging to a union can be fired for any reason or no reason at all.

In the United States, it is most likely true that if you make a derogatory comment about someone's color, race, sex or age, that someone will be offended.  If your comment is so offensive as to amount to "fighting words" (depending on what you say, not necessarily protected as free speech), you may get busted upside the head or slapped on the cheek but you probably won't be jailed.

Also, there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that says you can't be a flaming asshole, so long as you don't commit any crimes while being one.

Now what was the subject of this post again before it became derailed?  Oh yeah, the backhand dominant player and the reverse pendulum service and how to return it.

A good question.  I've never employed a reverse pendulum service but if I were facing one I'd probably try to return it to the middle of the table and hope that my opponent doesn't crack it off my playing elbow.
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