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Further update: While property is a little "oversized" for a couple with a cat... I just realized that it comes with an added benefit... Wifey and I get our own private bathrooms, each with a shower! Plus a spare for guests... No more annoyance with all wife's stuff cluttering up the...

For the UK folks on the forum.. Looking for someone to set up my Diamond table/Light in Polebrook, Oundle, probably sometime mid to late December. Table is currently completely disassembled. It will be on ground floor. Would prefer someone with actual experience with Diamonds, even if it...

Update: We found a different house, and did manage to get a small rental price reduction. About $2,000 or so over our yearly housing allowance. Tolerable. It is a very high spec property (for UK....) New house https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/163415351#/?channel=RES_LET The dining room...

Well, there's an update... The landlord was up to total shadiness, and after running by the military housing office to check things out, after explaining the deal with the property, they advised us to absolutely not take deal as-is, and we followed their advice. So back to square one, and we...

Mmmmm.. I was looking for something more "automatic", that kicks in when the temperature falls below a certain level, and is energy efficient enough to leave running for multiple hours during the winter. Does this system fit the bill? I cannot follow the link, cuz apparently Lowe's thinks there...

Bob, As the table is completely disassembled now... Is there something I can do to "retrofit" the table with underslate heating as it is being rebuilt?

Not sure which direction/place you are talking about, but no place internal to the house is big enough for a 9 foot Diamond. The glass room is 12 foot wide at most, and the same with either leg of the "L" of the Sitting/Dining Room.

Yeahhhh, no. There are no dining rooms in the UK, even in most "executive" homes, that have a dining room approaching any semblance of room for playability. All the rightmove pictures are taken with fisheye filters, so they look a lot bigger than they reallynare.

So, moving on from Germany, where the language barrier has been a major issue for both my wife, and to a lesser extent, myself.. Will be living in Northamptonshire region. We got picked to rent an absolutely amazing property, well within our housing allowance. (The UK rental market is extremely...

Are we talking gambling, or tournaments? I really don't know, since I did not get to watch any of them play live until much later, but the word on the street was that Parica murdered a lot of champions on the gambling tables way before he started winning tournaments. Granted... I think your...

Do you think that maybe that was more about lack of knowledge of play outside of the U.S. at the time, though? I am not sure that Jean would have been able to deal with even the second tier Filipinos at the time, due to the influence of Efren and Parica (and Rotation) on how the game was played...

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, gross!

This. iusedtoberich would be driven absolutely bats**t crazy by the Gold Crowns most Germans play on. Absolutely rock hard pocket facings, as they don't extend the subrail so they can use a proper thickness pocket facing, so they just double them up. Makes the pocket facing play like concrete...

It is looking like he might give Krause a good old fashioned passionate horse f***ing!!!

Ten packs with the 1 on the spot where the wing ball was dead wired in the corner on certain tables, on 4 5/8" pockets. Not even in the same universe as what players are doing these days. Top players of that age had a power break, because obviously they needed one... But everything else about...