are you a pretentious pool A-hole???
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Okay, but wait a minute. I know this guy. He proclaims that he's interested in becoming a better player. To that end, he's now practicing at least once a week for an hour.
His stance is wrong (he has no power in his stroke).
He doesn't know about the 30/90 degree rules.
He shoots shots that are not challenging and doesn't play for position.
I know all this because I was once in the same boat. No one ever said squat to me as I squandered almost ten years in a can't-shoot-for-shit-rut. I would've welcomed advice from someone interested in helping my game instead of padding their wallet.
So what do you do? Do you offer advice, keeping to the facts and being positive? Or do you keep your mouth shut while knowing that the fool is just wasting his/her time?
Me? I'd rather take a chance and offer a suggestion. If it's taken the wrong way or outright rejected, at least you have the satisfaction of knowing you tried.
Isn't the first rule of pool to keep trying?
Shoot safe.
John
His stance is wrong (he has no power in his stroke).
He doesn't know about the 30/90 degree rules.
He shoots shots that are not challenging and doesn't play for position.
I know all this because I was once in the same boat. No one ever said squat to me as I squandered almost ten years in a can't-shoot-for-shit-rut. I would've welcomed advice from someone interested in helping my game instead of padding their wallet.
So what do you do? Do you offer advice, keeping to the facts and being positive? Or do you keep your mouth shut while knowing that the fool is just wasting his/her time?
Me? I'd rather take a chance and offer a suggestion. If it's taken the wrong way or outright rejected, at least you have the satisfaction of knowing you tried.
Isn't the first rule of pool to keep trying?
Shoot safe.
John
I try not to limit myself just to pool.
Say whaaaaaat??? That hasn't been your personal experience?? :grin:
And pretentious assholes certainly don't shut up when they win. They just turn into bigger assholes.
hmmm, no. Now he's like a booger I can't get off the end of ma finger.
Lou Figueroa
All in good fun :smile:
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Stop picking your nose then. Maybe you shouldn't have called me a two-bit coward if you didn't want to deal with me. Maybe you should not have started in on me again AFTER we made peace the first time back in 2003.
You think just because you won a set that it's over? Did you think that you would then be able to to say whatever you want with no rebuttal?
I asked you after the match if we could be cool now and you agreed. Then not a week later you were spouting bullshit. And you want to complain that you can't be left alone?
Cry some more because as long as you are here and being nasty you will have to contend with me commenting on your nastiness. You want to not have to deal with me? Shut up then.
But you're not only pretentious, you're fake....you don't want to be rid of me, you just want to needle so you can gloat more. You practiced for 10 hours a day and could barely beat me in a race to nine. No wonder an ahead set scares you so much.
He will destroy us with words!!!!!!!
Hey the gang is almost here. Stalker 1 and 2 accounted for. At least Lou posts under his own name.
But, but, John, everyone picks their nose. Just not everyone admits to it. And you are just like the sticky booger I can't flick off, no matter how hard I flick.
I did not agree to "be cool." In fact here's what I wrote about that:
"I shoot and land prefect on the 10 and carefully line up the $10,000 money ball. .. blessedly, mercifully, it goes. The 10 ball disappears into my pocket. I’ve won the final game 8-3...
After the photos John tells me he hopes that we can 'bury the hatchet.' And all the while he is talking to me telling me this I am looking at him, wearing a T-shirt bearing the name of a pool hall I am barred from in St. Louis, and about which he has taunted me for months. And I think about how John backed out on all the additional bets. I think of the coaching during the match. I remember how just moments ago he kept talking while I was shooting. And I conclude that any reasonable person would find it hard to accept John’s brand of sincerity. I want to be that good a person, but..."
Here's the unsaid part, John, since you're apparently too dense to read between the lines: I am not that good a person.
So then to the issue of crowing about the win.
Question: is there a single, solitary man here who believes that John would not be in my face, for the rest of my life here, in every thread, if he had won? Anyone? Buehler? Buehler?
No. He would have used it against me, cudgelled me with it none stop at every turn, deserved or not. Jeezus, he still crows about beating me 2-1 for absolutely nothing 10 years ago. Just how nitty is that?!
And so, I practiced. I took my responsibility for $10,00 to myself, my wife, Mike, and all those rooting for me (including the ones you stiffed on the side bets) to heart. All the while you went on about how you were constantly in action, playing champions like James Walden, taking 15 hours of lessons with Stan "Mr. CTE" Shuffet, and barking at me in my home room for a lousy $100 a game. But I had the audacity to practice?
As to the 10 ahead, I just don't want to spent that much time playing you. Make it reasonable and we can get down, John. But no, you'd rather bark about a game I've told you repeatedly I will not play. 10 ahead -- not going to happen, so you're safe there and that's what you will bark about. What a surprise
Lastly, you think I can't get backing for whatever I don't want to cover? lol, John, I could crowd-fund my end if I was so inclined.
Lou Figueroa
lol. Take a break Q. I'm going to go watch some TV with my wife and then to bed.
Lou Figueroa
There's a great Peter Sellers line about that, but it escapes me at the moment
Lou Figueroa
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Yea I have the balls to play a friend with a huge spot and then give advice, win or lose. If I see something obvious that might help, I'm gonna point it out. Or at least ask why they do it a certain way.
I'm not trying to be a dick, in fact I'm trying to help us both.
Some things are obvious to an observer. And some things are understood better through discussion and argument.
I'm not trying to be a dick, in fact I'm trying to help us both.
Some things are obvious to an observer. And some things are understood better through discussion and argument.