Shaft Forgiveness
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dirtvictim
Ignore the entitled they haven't earned respect
When I get the shaft I don't forgive I call richard roundtree.
1mm is a lot
If I was making 40/year I’d change everything about my life and take a hard look at the quality of my decisions. I’d take some big chances to fix that. The upside is huge, the downside ain’t much lower
Jus sayin’
Some people aren’t so lucky, so I respect anyone who is out there working hard. However at 40/year you have to try and do better. That’s short $ now. 20-30 years ago it was ok.
Ok back to shafts
Best
Fatboy
DeeDeeCues
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40/year is McDonald's in my mountain town.
40 is what my starting wage was seventeen years ago as a mechanical engineer. That was low, but I survived, even put some away. Wouldn't want to try to do it with a family to support, but as a single dude in my twenties with no debt, it was fine. Had a lot of fun, played a lot of pool and foosball, drank a lot. The days when I had more energy than money. Kinda miss them.
Yeah just starting out it’s cool, or in some areas that aren’t super expensive. I can’t knock anyone working.
But man 40/year is lean pickings these days if your in most places or over 25-30 years old. Tough action.
Sometimes you have to fade tough action to find a sweet spot in life. That’s why I’ll never knock anyone working hard and trying to do better. Or if they are happy with what they are making. I could make more, but I’m not interested in working that hard anymore. However if I had to I would.
The way things look 40/yr is gonna be poverty sooner than later.
When pool was $2/hour 40/year was ok. That was 1985ish. Gas was 69¢/gallon and Motel 6 was $40/night.
Seems like a long time ago
In this context (tip/ball accuracy/forgiveness) it’s essentially nothing, because it’s the part of the tip that rarely even gets used.
pj
chgo
True, never used
DeeDeeCues
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Amen. That was my base and the job had an extra-effort bonus program that paid up to 38% extra when projects were in critical stages. My 40 was really 55 the first year and the extra was all gravy that wasn't part of the expected budget.
Six years in, I had a cash profit share payout of over 40, plus 20 into my IRA. It was worth the lower wage to start. Had a lot of people who started when I did jump ship before they were fully vested.
Most of any job is to show up early and be engaged.
It may rarely touch the ball, but it helps resolve the forces. Evidence:. Tips mushroom.
OK (I guess), but does that have anything to do with this topic (tip/ball accuracy/forgiveness)?
pj
chgo
DeeDeeCues
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Sure. The larger tip is going to be more consistent when hit away from center than a smaller tip hit the same distance from center.
How much, I don't know, but you can't throw away a significant amount of something and just say it doesn't matter.
I don’t buy it - one tip may react (slightly) differently than the other, but it won’t be less consistent with itself.
Sure - IF it’s actually significant to the topic.
pj
chgo
I am not going to ask why you remember the cost of a Motel 6 from 1985 LOL
It's not too hard to make a decent living, my son who is not even 22 yet is working as a bartender/manager at a pool hall 15 mins up the road from us, and due to not having to pay health insurance or rent (he lives with me) is actually ending up with a lot more money to save and spend that I am. He was the only one working there for a few months and there have been days he would come home with $500+ in tips. He actually on his own kept that business running, putting in 70 hour work weeks.
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DeeDeeCues
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Hard to believe that you fancy yourself a billiards scholar with this attitude. You haven't proven anything is insignificant. You 'feel' like things aren't and dismiss possibilities out of hand.
You can't understand how leather surrounding the impact area alters there support? Try this:. Go get a bowling ball and set it on a foam cushion. Move it close to an edge until it falls off. Notice that the center of the ball is still well inside the edge of the cushion.
I don't understand how you can believe that a narrower tip with unchanging width is significantly less consistent than a wider tip with unchanging width. The two tips may react slightly differently than each other, but they each react consistently with themselves.
And "you fancy yourself a billiards scholar"?
pj
chgo
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SlateMan
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Did the conversation go something like this:I asked it last night……it told me “no” I haven’t been forgiven
I have a very good memory. I wish I didn’t. It’s amazing all the things I can remember. I’d rather not have it in all honesty.I am not going to ask why you remember the cost of a Motel 6 from 1985 LOL
It's not too hard to make a decent living, my son who is not even 22 yet is working as a bartender/manager at a pool hall 15 mins up the road from us, and due to not having to pay health insurance or rent (he lives with me) is actually ending up with a lot more money to save and spend that I am. He was the only one working there for a few months and there have been days he would come home with $500+ in tips. He actually on his own kept that business running, putting in 70 hour work weeks.
It's not so much the remembering of the fact as to why you would be visiting it to remember said fact LOL
I was broke back then. Motel 6 was a better than average spot for me.