Drinking and Playing Pool

[ridewiththewind]

First off...I apologize for hijacking the thread...my bad. Didn't mean to.

Serious, sitting in traffic is just as bad as anything you could get from the secondhand smoke...unless you have a car with an air filtration system. That's not to mention what our factories and mills still continue pump out.
We have so utterly polluted our planet and atmosphere that I don't think there is a hope of real recovery for this world of ours.

Lastly, I have a match tonight, and I had to testify in court today...so this girl is gonna have a few, and try to have fun.

Lisa

 

[Jeff]

I have learned from day one how to play under the influence of alcohol, or "aimin' fluid" as I like to call it. I play in a local bar league and usually have a few on league nights. I find that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks to a certain point. Much of pool is confidence and alcohol is like liquid confidence. I really open up the stroke and lace 'em down after 1-3 beers, but anymore than that I find the positive effect begins to diminish. Confidence gradually becomes arrogance the drunker I get. Strategy is replaced by reckless abandon, and soon I'm just bangin' balls.

That's pretty much me to a T. I really can't remember the last time I played pool and didn't have a drink. There are no "pool rooms" anywhere around here. If there's a pool table, you can buy a drink.

I got to a match late one night and as soon as I walked in the door, I heard, "you're up". I couldn't make a shot. I started settling in after a couple of games and a couple of Crowns.

But that got me wondering if I could do one without the other as that's the way it's always been.

P.S. I'm a smoker too

 

[Colin Colenso]

I start my 1st adult beverage at the start of my match...as far as smoke in a public place IMHO I have more moral authority to piss in your Budweiser than you you do to pollute community air.

LWW

It's only community air in a communist society.

In the US, property owners should still have the right to do as they please on their own property. If you don't like it, find somewhere else you like. You don't have a right to tell people what to do in their own business, just as you don't have a right to tell people what they can do in their own homes.

On my trip to the USA, I found it depressing at how people have allowed themselves to become slaves of a politically correct majority through the force of the state. I'm relieved in some respects to return to the relatively free market, unregulated ex-socialist China.

 

[LWW]

In the US, property owners should still have the right to do as they please on their own property.

If someone wants to smoke at home on their property that's fine, I agree. OTOH nobody has right to let their smoke waft towards everyone else. PERIOD. That is a ridiculous argument to suppose otherwise. Society sets many rules as to how an individual can/can't behave in public.

LWW

 

[Mind4Pool]

Leagues are a social thing. They are competative but we ain't talking about making a living at it. Have a few drinks to relax but not to get drunk and beligerent( I hope I spelled that right). One drink an hour puts me in the zone when I play cuz sometimes I'm just too nervous with so many people watching. If I don't drink, I'm pissed when I lose and I just get too serious when I should be enjoying pool with friends.

You all got to remember that the host bar doesn't make any money on the leagues but from the league players eating and drinking. If all the league players started getting serious and quit drinking, the leagues wouldn't last.

As for smoking, I posted earlier on this topic on a different thread. The government forced alot of establishments to go non smoking and within a year, many bars and pool halls closed down. Mini-recession in the restaurant industry. The non-smokers who wanted it, got it, and still never came out to those restaurants and bars but patted themselves on the backs for getting rid of those rotten smokers(who spent alot of money).

When it comes to smoking, I say let the room owners decide and the public will dictate who survives.

 

[Str8PoolMan]

Let Freedom Ring!

It's only community air in a communist society.

In the US, property owners should still have the right to do as they please on their own property.

Really? Try burning down your house. Not only will your neighbors get a bit perturbed, but you will get arrested. If you live in an urban or suburban area, stop mowing your lawn and see how long it is before the city comes down on you like a ton of bricks for code violation. The same is true for parking a vehicle on your lawn. Can't do it in my city; has to be a paved driveway.

Don't even get me started on how those neo-fascist neighborhood associations can make your life a living hell.

Do as you please? Hardly.

P.S. So as not to be completely off-topic, I drink while I play pool, but then, I don't take it too seriously.

 

[renard]

I start my 1st adult beverage at the start of my match...as far as smoke in a public place IMHO I have more moral authority to piss in your Budweiser than you you do to pollute community air.

LWW

I would then kindly put my cigerette out in your adult beverage. By the way why are you drinking a pink squirrel?