Really? I had this mental image of you in a nice leather piece with a matching holster and waistcoat
Wrong guy, do wear a Bsseball most of timeout door, but never for Pool.
Do you shoot pool with a hat on?
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Wrong guy, do wear a Bsseball most of timeout door, but never for Pool.
Flakeandrun
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Yeah, I can't wear a hat and play. If it's hot enough outside to wear one, like when it's 40*C here, I just don't go outside.
I never did, until I watched Ruslan win the 14.1 championship while wearing a ball cap. I considered the old style green light shade instead, but since I couldn’t find a proper/comfortable one, and plus I’m now almost totally bald (and self conscious), I’ve learned to adjust. It DOES take some effort though to keep the brim at just the right angle, so only the light is blocked while down on a shot.
Mr Machine
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My only antique is dad’s fedora (“my good hat”) from the late 50’s……
cueball2010
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A couple people have also said this. SVB says that shooting pool is like shooting a gun....
I see people at the range or hunting all the time with hats on. Is pool really so different?
yes.... but a question is.... what do you with your eyeglass, when you shoot...
cueball2010
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Your hat is your eyeglass.
No cap, hat, chapeau, bandana, sombrero, helmet or any other head covering.
It becomes a distraction sighting down my cue’s shaft and a sweat box during
the summer months. I don’t wear a cap in my car with the sunroof open. I like
the sun even when over a 100 degrees. I used to be a heating & cooling technician
so working in boiler rooms when the outside summer temp was 110 degrees and
hotter was pretty common. Temps in the boiler room could easily exceed 120 degrees
and you had to wear a hard hat on the job. So I like feeling the ceiling fans and air cond.
on my noggin when it’s it’s really hot outside & wearing a cap or hat defeats the purpose.
It becomes a distraction sighting down my cue’s shaft and a sweat box during
the summer months. I don’t wear a cap in my car with the sunroof open. I like
the sun even when over a 100 degrees. I used to be a heating & cooling technician
so working in boiler rooms when the outside summer temp was 110 degrees and
hotter was pretty common. Temps in the boiler room could easily exceed 120 degrees
and you had to wear a hard hat on the job. So I like feeling the ceiling fans and air cond.
on my noggin when it’s it’s really hot outside & wearing a cap or hat defeats the purpose.
You been looking at my Picture in the profile !!!
Retired Navy boiler Room 150+ temp
cueball2010
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I'm not sure how it is outside of the USA but I've never been to a pool hall that doesn't have air conditioning or central air.
Yeah….I’m imagining down within the hull of a ship, heat escape is really poor. At least above ground, you get to open building doors and when really lucky, lift doors. Now hospitals will have boiler buildings or rooms, cooling towers, air conditioning and refrigeration systems. The worst was working on cooling systems on roof tops that tend to be asphalt.
You bare handed touch an aluminum roof top panel panel after 10am on a summer day, you’ll remove your hand fast.
But do it around 2-5pm, you’ll burn your hand. The whole challenge is to remain well hydrated so you sweat a lot that helps to cool your body. But make no mistake about it, doing it in hot weather sucks which is why you show to service those accounts at 5:30 - 6 am during the hot summer months. But a enclosed boiler room on a ship must be tough and in tight quarters.
Only when I'm drunk.
Vague enough for pool.
billiards_watch
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Class.