South Africa

Wonder if anyone knows where to get decent Carrom boards in South Africa? I did buy one at Makro to only realise later it has straight cut pockets whilst the official rules stipulate rounded pockets with nets, and slightly rounded corners. Preferably it should be plywood at least 8 mm thick but better at 12 mm or 16 mm.

Seems none of the better known Indian boards like Synco, Syn6, Precise, Sisdcaa, GSI Superior, KORNERS, or KD AAR-Kay are available anywhere in SA.

Games shops seem to only sell small board games. Closest I've seen so far is maybe the Himco board that Decor Essentials is selling, or maybe the Fury Cruiser board that SollyM Sports is selling. The Gripstar board at Tenth Sports looks similar, but it has sharp corners and the pockets are not set against the corners really (although it has a good plywood playing surface).

Can see now why people say they often can't buy locally. But maybe I'm missing some place that is not online.

The post on the rules got me thinking about this.

The need to have some form of an understanding of decentralised systems is a slight downfall to the fediverse concept, in my opinion. Just signing up can be confusing for a start as people generally don't want to think further than providing an email to log into whatever is being served. People certainly do not want to think about how they conduct themselves without bots and algorithms moderating them. This is probably not our average reddit user I'm talking about here. I think Reddit has somewhat prepared it's subscribers in that we are now used to sub instances, moderated by (mostly)humans, within a single server instance. Hence the migration here. Now, let's do multiple server instances all over the world, all intertwined, with multiple layers of regulations dependant on the server you are posting on et cetera?... could be a bit of a brain full. Kind of sounds like I had to google my way into this community, right?

So here we are, just a few, who made it over. I don't know whether it was just my subs, but I always had a strong feeling of a big SA presence on Reddit. Some good, some bad. Nonetheless, I would love to get the best of the South African presence from reddit here. Does anyone feel that way, and if so, what are your thoughts on how we can make this move easier for our fellow war heros lost on read-only reddit?

Getting some heavy rainfall in the Western Cape this week.

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Please suggest rules for this community. Let keep it simple and short and let try to accommodate everyone! :)

Think the first one should be RESPECT.

There was a reason that r/RSA was created and that was because of mod abuse and censorship of anything outside of their own narrative. Can we be sure that this community will not end up the same?

We live in a future of AI and tennis rusks. What a time to be alive

We're opening our resort to the general public on the long weekend of the 16th, if you are in the Pretoria area and you would like to see what our resort looks like without taking your clothes off (maybe next time) come and visit us coming Saturday! Feel free to AMA in the comments.

Welcome to the ZAR group!!