Garreth Potts

voiceofreason said:
I find running 100m equally boring. Also swimming. Very tedious.

I go to work for money. I'm a contract business consultant and charge £500 a day plus expenses so don't really need to play a sport for money but thank you for your concerns.

I work in the insurance industry, which is worth around £85bn a year in the UK - far far more than all the cue sports put together so a lot easier to earn from that, plus, as my experience increases (ie, as I get older) it in fact becomes easier to obtain work rather than in your typical sport form declines as you age.

Playing sports for money is not for many, in fact, I am more than happy to enjoy my chosen sport in my leisure time for my own pleasure and fun and thank the good Lord I do not have to rely on it for a living!


Sigh...

It's my hobby and I like it and thank you for your concern. I don't actually care what you play but I hope you continue playing your boring easy dying game and in the evenings when you are at home examine your stamp collection whilst listening to Fleetwood Mac LP's
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Lol. There's no need for Fleetwood Mac, ever. Besides, isn't that F1?

Anyway, are you suggesting E8B is thriving in comparison to snooker?
 
TheThaiger said:
Lol. There's no need for Fleetwood Mac, ever. Besides, isn't that F1?

Anyway, are you suggesting E8B is thriving in comparison to snooker?
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Nope, I am saying I (and possibly Mick Hill) couldnt give a monkeys about snooker or AP, because we play E8B.

In much the same way that tiddily winks players don't care about cue sports at all probably.
 
justadub said:
This is good stuff, you three
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I'm lovin' it!

I'm blessed with several Brit friends. They go at it all the time, but most of the time they have a smile or twinkle in their eye as they throw out the barbs. It took me awhile to get the humor in these interactions, but they truly seem to be misunderstood by the American pool culture, or at least within the subculture that pisses their precious hours away here on AZB.
 
This is a one sided fight, you all need to take the other team, I'm wiping the floor with everyone at the moment...

@sloppy pockets

Nobody in the world is better at a good fight than the brits
 
Pidge: I heard voiceofreason said you cued like a girl

voiceofreason: TheThiager said you are fat.

TheThiager: Pidge and voiceofreason both called you a troll when you weren't looking and then they said that the Americans all cue better than the Brits do.



Just so you guys know. Don't shoot the messenger.
 
BasementDweller said:
Pidge: I heard voiceofreason said you cued like a girl

voiceofreason: TheThiager said you are fat.

TheThiager: Pidge and voiceofreason both called you a troll when you weren't looking and then they said that the Americans all cue better than the Brits do.



Just so you guys know. Don't shoot the messenger.
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The voice of reason is welsh, so his opinion is entirely worthless for a variety of reasons.

His schtick has also been done much better elsewhere, I should add.
 
It's going to get like Peaky Blinders in here soon, or at least I hope. :)

It's a pretty good show if you haven't seen it.

Later
 
Some thoughts on the various games, having played and watched them all to some degree:

Snooker: Primarily a break building game, requiring very accurate potting and positional skills. Patterns are predictable and a little boring imho. Long safety play is a valuable asset.

American 8 Ball: Primarily a breaking game. A creative mind for patterns helps a fair bit. Medium potting and positional skills required.

English 8 Ball: High creativity in pattern play required and medium to high potting and positional skills.

Chinese 8 Ball: As above, but higher potting and positional skills, and patterns are easier due to more space and less clusters.

American 9 Ball: A breaking and kicking/ safety competition. Excel in both of these and you can beat anyone. Medium potting and positional skills required.

I enjoy all to a degree. Watching the best in any of those sports makes one marvel at how they have developed the skills required to win more than others.

For me, I'd probably go with English 8 Ball for its balance of offensive play, creative play and potting and positional skills. 9 Ball is my least favorite, though Mosconi Cup is probably the highlight of my viewing year.
 
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DAVE_M said:
I said 'Merica does war the best. I never said we win them the best :p
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The Military-Industrial-Congressional-Media Complex has been winning big time for a long time, which is plan A. Not that we're ever told that by any of them.
 
Colin Colenso said:
Some thoughts on the various games, having played and watched them all to some degree:

Snooker: Primarily a break building game, requiring very accurate potting and positional skills. Patterns are predictable and a little boring imho. Long safety play is a valuable asset.

American 8 Ball: Primarily a breaking game. A creative mind for patterns helps a fair bit. Medium potting and positional skills required.

English 8 Ball: High creativity in pattern play required and medium to high potting and positional skills.

Chinese 8 Ball: As above, but higher potting and positional skills, and patterns are easier due to more space and less clusters.

American 9 Ball: A breaking and kicking/ safety competition. Excel in both of these and you can beat anyone. Medium potting and positional skills required.

I enjoy all to a degree. Watching the best in any of those sports makes one marvel at how they have developed the skills required to win more than others.

For me, I'd probably go with English 8 Ball for its balance of offensive play, creative play and potting and positional skills. 9 Ball is my least favorite, though Mosconi Cup is probably the highlight of my viewing year.
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Is that because E8B is the biggest game in australia and the game you play the most? :wink:

It is a universal truism players like best what they have and what they already play. Try getting a snooker player to play 9 ball or, even, a world rules specialist to switch to blackball. I've given up trying to explain the benefits of other games/rules. The mindset of the average cue sport enthusiast is immutable.
 
Ron Swanson said:
Is that because E8B is the biggest game in australia and the game you play the most? :wink:

It is a universal truism players like best what they have and what they already play. Try getting a snooker player to play 9 ball or, even, a world rules specialist to switch to blackball. I've given up trying to explain the benefits of other games/rules. The mindset of the average cue sport enthusiast is immutable.
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I don't think that is the case in my situation Ron, though surely many Aussies would reach that conclusion out of a sense of prejudice toward familiarity.

At times, E8B annoys me, and I refer to it as ping pong, as it can be such a dribble fest, of blocking pockets and non-offensive play at non-elite levels, which is where my game often sits unless I'm putting in a lot of time at the table.

But at the highest levels, the game is very offensive and creative I think, with a requirement for the odd very accurate pot.

Though, I do miss the feel of whacking US balls around. I played US games pretty much exclusively for 6 years. I grew up on a 12' snooker table playing billiards from age 7, then snooker and later fell into E8B when I realized there was some money to be made. I thought 9 Ball was the bees knees when I discovered it, but after some years I tired of it, as I realized I didn't want to spend hours practicing my break and safety shots. There is little incentive in getting much beyond beating the ghost, when one can improve breaking, kicking and safety significantly with time spent on those aspects.
 
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