idiosyncrasies that drive you nuts while playing.

[scsuxci]

Most people drive me nuts anyways but I play once a week
with a guy that if I start dominating game after game, in the
middle of my run out I'll hear him laughing which usually
doesn't fizz me but last week it did.
I asked him ''What the heck he was laughing at''. He said '' I don't know''
I said ''Well it must be one of 2 things, either your trying to
throw me off or your retarded''. He said probably a bit of both.
We laughed and I kept on shooting and he kept on laughing.
People are people!!

 

[bwally]

What about the guy who comments on all of YOUR shots while you're running balls?
-"Why didn't you shoot that in the side?"
-"I'd have went two rails."
-"Whoops! Hit that one too hard."

I guess I just hate most people...

Got a few of those around here.

 

[Celophanewrap]

How bout this one? Guy shows up with his girl friend and a bucket of beers. Pulls up two chairs and a table and parks it next to your practice table where you can't even walk around the table any more so they can watch their friends playing on the next table over. Then his friends show up and park in your area as well.

I think they call it APA.

I would typically call them BCA, you know.... the 'real' players that play for money and are never obnoxious, but maybe that's just me.

I hate the guys that have to chalk when they miss and leave the table, I guess because chalk is better when you have to park your ass in a chair.
I hate the guys that chalk then bang their cue on the table or people that mistreat their equipment at all. Ever seen the guy that misses then hits the table with his cue or throws his cue into the resting place, hate that.
Have you ever been racking and the your opponent is practicing his lag or just hitting the cue the length of the table, hate that person.
The player that has to take 412 practice strokes before he finally shoots.

This brings me another question, The mental aspect is a part of every sport, game, or event that we play or watch. Football, Darts, Hockey, Politics....
and though we may be the politest player in the room, even by our sportsmanship we may be getting in the head of our opponent. There are time when nothing bothers me more than someone that is nice and quiet. To be fair though I have time when absolutely everything would piss me off, I think we're all like that at times.
Is it all part of the game and we should just learn to live it, or is it conscious sharking and worthy of a complaint?

 

[fastone371]

Everything previously mentioned pisses me the *F off!!!

Then you have the guys that study the table for 5 minutes then miss a straight in stop shot or have virtually no chance of getting out. Do they think if they wait long enough the balls will rearrange themselves for an easy run out???

The one guy who always says "you shoulda shot that one first then went here and..............." even though you broke and ran, WTF????

Backed cloth, why does anyone still even make this stuff?????

The guy who says every table he plays on rolls off or the guy who says "why didnt that go in, I hit it perfect, there is something wrong with the table, the balls, chalk, cue, my hair-doo?" They dont even consider the possibility that their stroke is not very good or that they were not lined up right.

 

[tonythetiger583]

- When they're sitting behind the spot where I need to shoot, and I'm pretty much sitting on their lap cause they don't even think about getting out of the way.

-When they miss and I get up and go for the chalk, and as I'm reaching for it, they grab it up and start chalking and I have to go find another piece of chalk.

-When they take the chalk back with them to their seat and seem to be making a collection.

-That squeaking sound people somehow make when chalking that looks like it's gunna snap the stick in half.

-People that you could beat 100 times in a row, but if you even lose once, they think you're on the same level.

-Playing awful people in league who think acting like a pro player means calling judge every 5 seconds, and making you call every straight in shot.

-Pretending that perfect shape they got was on purpose, when you can see in their eyes that shape was the last thing on their mind when they mindlessly slammed in the ball.

-Waving in the cueball like helping a truck back in a few more inches into perfect position after they had just mindlessly slammed in the ball.

-Them thinking that I'm so lucky and that the world is out to get them whenever their luck runs out and mindlessly slamming in balls no longer works.

 

[KRJ]

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-Pretending that perfect shape they got was on purpose, when you can see in their eyes that shape was the last thing on their mind when they mindlessly slammed in the ball.

-Them thinking that I'm so lucky and that the world is out to get them whenever their luck runs out and mindlessly slamming in balls no longer works.

Yeah, love those. Especially when you see exactly where they are hitting on the cue ball, and you think, "ha, he's fkcing this up", but he lucks out and acts like it was all planned out

 

[tonythetiger583]

I would typically call them BCA, you know.... the 'real' players that play for money and are never obnoxious, but maybe that's just me.

I hate the guys that have to chalk when they miss and leave the table, I guess because chalk is better when you have to park your ass in a chair.
I hate the guys that chalk then bang their cue on the table or people that mistreat their equipment at all. Ever seen the guy that misses then hits the table with his cue or throws his cue into the resting place, hate that.
Have you ever been racking and the your opponent is practicing his lag or just hitting the cue the length of the table, hate that person.
The player that has to take 412 practice strokes before he finally shoots.

This brings me another question, The mental aspect is a part of every sport, game, or event that we play or watch. Football, Darts, Hockey, Politics....
and though we may be the politest player in the room, even by our sportsmanship we may be getting in the head of our opponent. There are time when nothing bothers me more than someone that is nice and quiet. To be fair though I have time when absolutely everything would piss me off, I think we're all like that at times.
Is it all part of the game and we should just learn to live it, or is it conscious sharking and worthy of a complaint?

I know a guy who've I've been there for each of the 5 times he's snapped his cue in half. He once flung his cue across the table and javelin-ed me in the gut. I don't play with him much anymore.

Whereas I'm over here and if someone knocks over my cue, I'll be apologizing to my cue for the next hour, cooing softly and promising we'll go get ice cream later.

 

[SARDiver]

#5... Opponents ball is about 4" in front of the corner pocket.
No way to get past the opponents ball. I called the shot, to pocket off his ball. Hit the rail first, pocketing off back of his ball.
He called it a foul. I said that I had called the shot off his ball. He said off his ball meant I had to hit his ball first, not the rail.

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I guess I'm confused. Why did he think you needed to call more than ball and pocket?

 

[bsmutz]

Scotch doubles irritates me. Was playing with someone the other day. He wanted to shoot a combo, but I showed him how if he just did a stop shot on the duck I left him, I could clear our two balls that were tied up and we could get out. He slams it with tons of bottom right and ends up parked right on one of the two balls that were tied up leaving me no shot at all and says he should have shot the combo. At that point, I finally realized that I had no future in trying to influence him on a shot. A couple of games later and he's on the case ball before the 8 (playing 8 ball). It's an easy cut to the side and although it's not clear what kind of shot I will have on the 8 after he's done, I don't really care except to tell him to just shoot it in and don't try any heroics, I'll take whatever he leaves. So what does he do? He slams it again with tons of right english that's going to leave me on the wrong side of the 8 and scratches in the side on the other side of the table. I was extremely disappointed and had a hard time not showing it.

What really bugs me is that he plays every day for a few hours and plays on 2 or 3 league teams. Great guy, but almost every game that he plays, he shoots 10 times harder than everyone knows he has to on that last or next to last ball. Every. Single. Time. Drives me nuts, especially when we're on the same team.

 

[krupa]

This brings me another question, The mental aspect is a part of every sport, game, or event that we play or watch. Football, Darts, Hockey, Politics....
and though we may be the politest player in the room, even by our sportsmanship we may be getting in the head of our opponent. There are time when nothing bothers me more than someone that is nice and quiet. To be fair though I have time when absolutely everything would piss me off, I think we're all like that at times.
Is it all part of the game and we should just learn to live it, or is it conscious sharking and worthy of a complaint?

I don't completely understand your question. Are you asking if it's sharking when an opponent sits quietly waiting for his turn!?


As for me, it bugs me when people win 9- and 10-ball matches on-the-snap and then apologize for it.

 

[slach]

Opponent that chalks up after missing before sitting down.

Opponent you've just beaten who wants demonstrate his reverse english ghostball technique for never miss two cushion banks. And casually informs you that there's really no such thing as cue ball induced throw.

 

[easy-e]

I have a buddy that claims to hold the "world record for consecutive spot shots made". Is that even a thing? He tried to demonstrate his aiming technique and missed the first two shots. I couldn't stop laughing.

 

[BmoreMoney]

Surely yall know this guy; gets a bad roll, misses an easy shot, or makes shot but hits it so bad his shape is a safety --- then immediately proceeds to hump the table.

 

[SARDiver]

This is not uncommon among some old school players, call shot, call pocket, meaning you must call everything the balls come into contact with, balls or rails. In the worst cases this includes the rail that leads into the pocket. It's totally impractical but practiced by plenty of bar players I've met and I grew up with these rules (though touching the rail on the way to the pocket is not usually a problem, just among some very strict adherents). There's an old timer I enjoy playing 9 ball with but I won't play him 8 ball because we'd never agree on these rules.

That's asinine. Thank you for the explanation.

 

[Colonel]

Nothing really bothers me, I just let it all roll off

 

[oneshotwiss]

I can fade most stuff but having said that

The guy with bridge hand fingers that move like a spider.

Folks that play with a toothpick in their mouth.

And my favorite, the guy who, on the table next to you, will endless set up and practice the same jump shot over and over. (Usually massacring it and not even coming close.)

Lou Figueroa

I second the bridge hand guy. He is usually the same guy that every time he over runs position by a foot wants to point his stick to the spot on the table where he was supposed to leave the cue ball. God that gets on my nerves because I've already figured out where he was trying to leave it and that he f&*$%@ up

 

[GoldCrown]

When someone tells me good shot. I know they mean it but for some reason it just guarantees I'll miss my next shot. (I do appreciate the compliment though)

How about when they yell NICE SHOT and scare the crap out of ya.
Also....bugs me when spectators mumble. They call your next shot.
Somebody whistling.
What really burns my ass is a fire about 2 feet high.

 

[beerpressure]

- When they're sitting behind the spot where I need to shoot, and I'm pretty much sitting on their lap cause they don't even think about getting out of the way.

I just about got into a fight about this a few weeks ago.

I was almost putting my butt cheeks on this guys lap and I asked can you please move? He said no I'm not interfering with your stroke. Well I called him a few choice words and took a shot then missed. He said "see i told you it didn't interfere" Still waiting to knock this guy's teeth out.

 

[tonythetiger583]

I second the bridge hand guy. He is usually the same guy that every time he over runs position by a foot wants to point his stick to the spot on the table where he was supposed to leave the cue ball. God that gets on my nerves because I've already figured out where he was trying to leave it and that he f&*$%@ up

It only bugs me when you know they're really not remotely capable of hitting any spot at all.

 

[tonythetiger583]

When a person goes to the table to shoot, and they've got pretty much no shot, and their teammate yells "Work it Out!" I don't know why that irritates me.

I just hate the phrase "Work it Out!" If you think it's so easy, why don't you come up here and shoot it.