It’s a familiar conundrum to single nightclub goers. You’re by the dance floor, drink in hand, and meet the eye of a potentially significant other. Do you talk to them, buy them a drink or go dance together? Or should you instead challenge them to a game of ping pong?
对夜总会单身客人来说,这是一个经常遇到的难题。你站在舞池边,手里端着酒,与自己中意的女孩眉目传情。你是与她们搭讪、为她们买杯酒或者一起跳舞?还是应该和她们打一局乒乓球?
This last, improbable, courtship catalyst is the basis for Bounce, a cavernous underground nightclub in Holborn, London, where drinking and dancing is organised around 17 table tennis tables. By coincidence, it happens to be the same building where, in 1901, the British manufacturer J. Jaques and Son trademarked an after-dinner parlour game for the upper classes as “ping pong, in reference to the noise of the ball bouncing off the wooden bats.
对伦敦霍尔本的一家洞穴般的地下夜总会Bounce来说,乒乓球这一离谱的媒介是泡妞的基矗在这家俱乐部里,喝酒和跳舞都是在大约17张乒乓球台旁边进行的。碰巧的是,在1901年,也正是这幢建筑物里,英国制造商J. Jaques and Son将上流社会饭后玩的一种室内游戏申请注册为“乒乓球商标——因乒乓球撞击木质球拍时所发出的声音而得名。
“I was the geek playing [ping pong] and my mates wouldn’t play with me – so we wanted to put it at the centre of a club, says Bounce’s co-founder, Dov Penzik. “I played table tennis my whole life and decided there was an opportunity to create something where people would socialise.
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