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I'm not in the best shape myself and I think that's the worst excuse I've ever heard. If you're too fat to make the shot legally go ahead and use the bridge, or hit the gym.

Honestly, I had a hard time following your story. I tried, but your use of pronouns were often confusing. I think I followed the gist of the story and the bottom line is that before you pushout you gotta indicate it and clearly. I don't think it's quite the same as not calling an obvious...

I generally play at home on my table, so I make my rules whatever I want. I only posted this question to the forum to see how people felt about it. I am not attempting to suggest that one way is better than the other definitively. I won't play CB Foul if I have any say in the matter. I...

I'm 30 years old and I've been playing since I was about 15....thanks for making think about that. I sure do suck for someone who's been playing for 15 years. I think I'm going to go burn my cue....haha.

I used to really enjoy playing scotch doubles. It's pretty fun if you can get 4 decent shooters together.

I am confused by this question. How ethical is it to have something produced by a manufacturer, sell it, and decide not to pay the mfg? I don't think this is really a questionable ethical practice, it's pretty clear cut stealing. Maybe I'm not around the cue trade enough, but is it general...

I don't play much league pool. Maybe that's where people get that from. I guess it's because I play golf. To me it just seems wrong to be able to move the balls around! Don't touch or move the balls except on a legal shot! Fortunately through experience I've learned that it needs to be...

I have always played foul on all balls. I just don't understand playing cue ball fouls only. Some of the difficulty of shots come from shooting over other balls and if you can simply touch the other balls without infraction the pressure and difficulty of those shots can often be minimized...

I've also found that gambling just helps me keep focus for longer periods. Often the truest test for me is keeping focus for long periods of time. It's easy to make balls, with concentration I can make most shots. Where it gets difficult is when the mind relaxes. When something gives way and...

I tool lessons with Max a few years ago and subsequently quit the game. I've picked it back up and I think I'll check out his DVD's. I'm not sure if he's still around, but I'd pay for more lessons from him too!

I've been playing pool since I was 15 years old and this not allowing soft breaks was one of the biggest shots to the game. I just don't like that they don't allow it. Doesn't seem to be any reason for it, other than players got too consistent and pocketing balls on the break and keeping the...

I agree. I don't believe that gambling IMPROVES your playing ability. It does however make the game worth playing. I don't enjoy playing pool for nothing for any longer than about an hour. After that, it's just boring. That being said, it doesn't have to be money. That's why tournaments and...

I will generally go rent a table and play by myself for an hour or so between matches. That's the only thing that's ever resurrected a bad night for me. I've entered double elimination tournaments and, lost my first match because I was all thumbs and couldn't put ANYTHING together. I'll go...

Final quick update. Yesterday I turned my swamp cooler on in the morning and left the garage slightly ventilated. I opened the back walkthrough door and left the garage door open about 3-4 inches. I didn't hold out much hope for a comfortable garage come the afternoon, but I was able to...

I drove up to Lancaster today to the middle of freakin' nowhere and picked up a swamp cooler today. COMPELTELY uselss today of course as the humidity had to be 95% so the swamp cooler is completely worthless today. The AC didn't do a damn thing and there wasn't a scenario that I could see...

Or how about...no bumping. There's a thought. Worthless "bumps" drive me absolutely crazy. I stay away from the whole wanted/for sale section for the same reason. I'm not wading through all of the garbage to find what I'm looking for. It feels disorganized and hard to find what you're...

Good luck with quitting. I quit cigarettes a few years ago after 10+ years smoking everyday, all day. I'm glad that I never got into chewing, that seems like it would be much harder to quit. With cigarettes I found that if everytime I wanted a cigarette I just did a little quick spurt of...

Hmmm....yeah, my two hose portable AC really isn't doing anything. Even after it cools off in the evening the garage stills stays too warm. Even if I open the garage door. All that does is make it hot and full of bugs. I am in a rental house and I don't have a window in my garage so I...

I would think that during monsoon season it wouldn't be too terribly effective. They use swamp coolers up @ Sharky's? I was considering going up there this weekend to play, but I'll wait for the cooler season, haha.

Oh I definitely agree. I used to go around playing them 4 or 5 days a week by traveling around within 30 miles. It was great fun and I got to know a lot of people. Those are the kinds of tournaments though where those "dead money" guys/gals that just put in because it's cheaper than table...