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According to Hendricks, the earliest evidence of ground billiards is in English and French letters of excuse to magistrates after people had been beaten or killed playing the game. Not in fights or arguments, you must understand. The stick just slipped from someone's hand, it was an awful...

The mites thing never even occurred to me, thanks. Was there a specific product you used for that?

What do you lot do to look after your old books (as in, a hundred years old, that sort of age)? I did a little reading and the advice I found was just to put them on a bookcase, ideally lying flat, in little stacks, and try to keep the humidity low to moderate. It's less protection than I was...

Here in the UK, so many people list the wrong tip size. They seem to just guess. I think I bought three straight advertised as 9mm, that turned up and were 9.5. 😭😭😭

Have you asked Black Pearl? They might know the local system better, or be able to speak to someone.

Oh, okay. I thought you might mean for layouts for drills etc. (I've been thinking about trying some of Dr Dave's position pool stuff. I guess all it takes is accessing it on a phone though...)

How do you use it when you're practicing?

Here's a question: For joe average, what kind of spot would you need if you hoped to break even? Like, if Buddy spotted me every ball, excluding on the break...

Someone else posted the link: https://www.seyberts.com/lowering-price-cues My guess would be somebody was supposed to manually change the price each day, but they forgot about it. I like the idea for the promotion though.

I've been making an effort recently to read more carefully because I'd caught myself in a couple of errors skimming things. But to fully extract that deeper insight is another level again. It takes a lot more mental effort, but you can get so much more out of some things. We habitually get...

Okay, I'll run you through how I used to play and what I did about it. So the way I played the game in the old days, nothing felt 'wrong', there was no obvious cause of problems in my performance, and it's only with hindsight that I can diagnose it. After all, if you feel how you normally feel...

The brain mapping thing is interesting. I know far less about this than you, but I remember Oliver Sachs writing that a 'phrenology' approach would be misguided because the brain was so plastic in mapping functions to new/different areas. But looking at the relative size of each area clearly...

OP sounds a lot like I used to be: Overthinking (in the form of constant conscious assessment), background concern about outcome creating a mildly anxious disposition. All of which subtly gets in the way of performance. I got a lot better after I stepped off that carousel. Unfortunately...

That sounded incredible, so I had a look. From ones of the researchers in a 2013 study: "This means that, if your finger was the size of the Earth, you could feel the difference between houses from cars," I remember watching a report on graphene (the new form of carbon they worked out how to...

https://www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-Should-Have-Gone-School/dp/1312441135

Honestly that sounds potentially huge. Warming up the right parts of the brain is maybe half the value of sports psychology. I'll experiment with this. The relationship to the tongue makes sense because of the motor precision involved in speech, and the attention involved in learning speech (at...

I mean you did say you were thinking about writing a book and trying to improve at it... :oops:

OP did say "So what now ... do you shoot another foul hoping to break up the balls that have your object ball hidden?" - Was the jump (or creating other clusters) the other tactic? These two points have caused big problems in English pool, with political divisions about what counts as a "push...

I (think I) remember in Hendricks' that carom comes from the Spanish carombola fruit, and I had the idea that it was red and round, resembling the old red billiard ball. But on checking now, a carombola is a star fruit, which is the wrong color and wouldn't even roll. So what were they thinking?

Something reminded me of this the other day. As nobody's offered a solution, is Bob willing to share?