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I miss playing pool for money
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Thanks Saw, I Snorked my coffee.
Pretty sure that what you guys would call a fish supper, I might be hesitant to use for Bait.
Sometime I will show you how to run 2 balls, 5 times in a row.
Believe it or not, some people get great satisfaction on a deep subconscious level in losing. I have never heard of this dude but I doubt that he loses a fight, goes through the anguish, then finds himself busting his ass in the gym ASAP so that it doesn't happen again.
Plain and simple he might feel rewarded in some way by losing fight after fight and he might be living his dream. Seriously, we all have different dreams and sometimes they might be irrational and hard for others to understand but I say say who really has time to give a f@ck. I focus on my dreams and live and let live.
Man, yer so 100% correct. There is absolutely no shame at admitting defeat, as long as you are willing to go back to the drawing board and try harder.
If you give up and have to live with it, then thats defeat. But then, no one is 100% perfect at anything.
I think that for a few of the things that I am good at, if it weren't for the 100s of mistakes made along the way, a person wouldn't know where they need improving.
God only knows how many 2 x 4s that I have cut too short before I learned to measure twice and cut once.
Satori, I would be willing to bet 100 bucks that you are also correct. Kind of like a reverse, Schadenfreude.
Have to ask the Old Lady tomorrow, shes the one with the degree and not I.
Isn't Schadenfreude a weird thing. Something that is inherent in our Genes. Seems sad in a way. There are people that I actually feel sorry for when bad luck happens their way and others, well, some serious Schadenfreude. Seems like an unnatural natural.
The easiest way that I can come up for it is that in someone elses failings, we recognize our own failings and that makes us feel good that we are not alone. Its probably not out of pure meanness.
Well, some people are just serious Dicks and deserve it.
Now, taking pleasure in our own failings. Thats gotta be some deep seated thing. Maybe having parents that kept telling you how much of a failure you are when growing up.
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Well, that can be arranged. Just post your address and leave the door of your truck unlocked.
Who knows what drives some people?! Perhaps expressing schadenfruede isn't all "bad" though. Perhaps there are also those that derive pleasure from others taking pleasure in their misfortunes.
(Meaning for example, if I would have experienced pleasure from Rhea's misfortunes and expressed it, I wouldn't feel guilty about it because it appears she likes that. But I also wouldn't feel like it was a healthy thing for ME to do and I would want to change that for me.)
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Way too deep for me at this time of night. Just watching a Zombie movie with Brad Pitt.
I'll sleep on it and get back you in the morning, there Siggy.
I'll sleep on it and get back you in the morning, there Siggy.
I'm just saying, I don't know Rhea well enough to want to really figure her out but at first glance it would appear that she is getting a kick out of hearing how dumb she is acting and she enjoys posting about her misfortunes. Who knows why? But I say, you go girl! <<<< lol, I don't really say that! But seriously, she don't want advice and ridiculing her does nothing for me so I just let her live.
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That way it makes sense. She has been on a downward spiral long before she started posting on AZ.
Probably a reason as to why she refuses any good advice. She is at the point that without realizing it, sabotaging anything good that comes out of her voyage.
As soon as she has a good streak, purposely acts the Go Off Artist and puts herself in
the bad situations that she constantly finds herself in.
And that is why she tells everyone about it. She wants everyone to feel or see her pain.
If someone gave her 10 K, she would purposely mismanage it until she was back where she was before she had it.
OK, the War Dept just got up so I asked her. Without getting into a huge lecture, Fear of Success is an excuse for Bad Behavior. Thats just one possible reason of many.
Ring a Bell?
Probably a reason as to why she refuses any good advice. She is at the point that without realizing it, sabotaging anything good that comes out of her voyage.
As soon as she has a good streak, purposely acts the Go Off Artist and puts herself in
the bad situations that she constantly finds herself in.
And that is why she tells everyone about it. She wants everyone to feel or see her pain.
If someone gave her 10 K, she would purposely mismanage it until she was back where she was before she had it.
OK, the War Dept just got up so I asked her. Without getting into a huge lecture, Fear of Success is an excuse for Bad Behavior. Thats just one possible reason of many.
Ring a Bell?
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I have been reading "RHEA" threads since the begininng and I thought cool somebody chasing a dream lets see how they do. Now I realize she is in a nightmare whith no waking end in sight
Here is a funny story: 23 years ago I wanted to gamble playing pool so my wife said "ok" here is $5.00 when you lose it you don't get no more! well I turned that $5.00 into Thousands:grin:
I started of with $1.00 a game and so on until I built up my bank role $10 at a time until I graduated to $20 a set and so on, but I never spent a dime of my family's money because I didn't have much while I was lower enlisted in the Army. Sure I lost some but I have kept that going now all this time. I have been a smart gambler, I have paid for a lot of things with my gambling fund: Many pool sicks, bills that were due, a nice camping trailer, a few vacations to Gerogia, Texas, ETC, my pool lessons with Scott Lee and Mark Wilson. I fund all of my tournament expenses from this as well. There is more that I am forgetting but I always try to keep a little in that account to keep the fire burning.
I did the same thing for years. Other gamblers/friends would tell me I'm full of shit when I'd have the knowledge on how I'm doing over a year or a few years.
Apparently I have offended some of the local St. Louis players by discussing someone's speed, without adequately knowing them, or consulting them first, so as I am have ruined their action.
So this is my formal apology to Julia (and to whom contacted me via Facebook)... I am sorry if I spoke out of line, and it was my understanding that anyone who knew anything about pool in or around STL knew that Julia was no hack. My comments were out of respect for her skill, not for adverse affects, so again I am sorry.
Jay (thinking maybe I should just stay on my side of the river for a while, apparently I have worn out my welcome in MO)
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So this is my formal apology to Julia (and to whom contacted me via Facebook)... I am sorry if I spoke out of line, and it was my understanding that anyone who knew anything about pool in or around STL knew that Julia was no hack. My comments were out of respect for her skill, not for adverse affects, so again I am sorry.
Jay (thinking maybe I should just stay on my side of the river for a while, apparently I have worn out my welcome in MO)
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You are always welcome to come to our great state. You must pay the toll now though. I'll take 9-7 at Kenny's.
You are always welcome to come to our great state. You must pay the toll now though. I'll take 9-7 at Kenny's.
oh, BS. i hear this happening all the time. league or simple bets. if they don't know this goes down, then they need to get their head out of the sand. cause everyone talks to everyone else - it's who you know....
i've heard of guys sending in friends to either watch or play an upcoming opponent/team, and clock their speed. a friend recently got a game w/ someone we know, and the guy wanted the 6 & out & all breaks. $50 sets. Jamie was going to give him the 7. i said "no. he can sink 5 on the break. he's BSing you. he's good." they played straight-up & went hill-hill.
Rhea had this same issue 7 months ago. claiming to be a D player, while simultaneously posting about being a B+/-. OMGWTF did her research when Rhea was asking for weight - Melinda posted Rhea's quotes & turned around & insisted on weight herself.
people & the internet can be a dangerous thing to your hustle. the days of slipping under the radar, are over.
I guess I am just frustrated... I never try to hustle... I don't try to hide my speed, and if someone asks how I play, I tell them. So when someone asks how someone else plays... I don't see a problem with saying what I feel to be the truth. If you have to be sneaky about your game, are you really winning...?
Oh well, I would rather hold my tongue, and keep everybody happy then share my opinion and ruffle feathers. I kinda feel like I actually lost a good connection over this... sad
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I don't think you have done anything wrong.
Sounds like someone wanting a free handout instead of working for the money. That is pretty typical in today's society.