I was glad to be back...until now
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What I don't understand is when I'm in the bleachers at a pro pool event (ALL) of the people are freindly, you can agree/disagree & everybody is civil. You take those same conversations to AZ & the civility is out the window. At the drop of a hat people call you an idiot or worse.
There are still alot of nice & knowledgeable folks here that I really appreciate but it's like walking thru a dark ally to get to them.
There are still alot of nice & knowledgeable folks here that I really appreciate but it's like walking thru a dark ally to get to them.
This is very true. I am glad you brought that up because there are, indeed, some good pool peeps on this forum.
Many moons ago, a pool forum member wrote some very mean-spirited words about a pro player. The posts were written with the intent to be hurtful and mean-spirited. A few months later, I was at the Open and witnessed this same pool forum member standing in line to get an autograph of the person they wrote about on the pool forum.
To this day, I will never understand why it gives some folk pleasure to be mean-spirited and hurtful. Posting on a forum, hiding behind the monitor, allows some to feel superior, and they write things they would never say to a person's face. The world is full of all kinds, I guess, and this forum is no different. They say you can't pick your relatives, but you can pick your friends. Well, I guess we can pick what we read and not to read too.
Getting an autograph from a player they bashed..... (WOW)This is very true. I am glad you brought that up because there are, indeed, some good pool peeps on this forum.
Many moons ago, a pool forum member wrote some very mean-spirited words about a pro player. The posts were written with the intent to be hurtful and mean-spirited. A few months later, I was at the Open and witnessed this same pool forum member standing in line to get an autograph of the person they wrote about on the pool forum.
To this day, I will never understand why it gives some folk pleasure to be mean-spirited and hurtful. Posting on a forum, hiding behind the monitor, allows some to feel superior, and they write things they would never say to a person's face. The world is full of all kinds, I guess, and this forum is no different. They say you can't pick your relatives, but you can pick your friends. Well, I guess we can pick what we read and not to read too.
Her post is on point. What AZ needs is more people like Jenny and far less of people like Thaiger.
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I knew if I hung around here long enough I would hear you say something that I agreed with:grin:
I completely disagree.
why the need to mention of playing 200 dollar sets? is that a lot? I don't think it is
Isn't his case business located in Communist China? Per capita income there is around $8,000 dollars a year so $200 would be more than a weeks pay.
Banks
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This is very true. I am glad you brought that up because there are, indeed, some good pool peeps on this forum.
Many moons ago, a pool forum member wrote some very mean-spirited words about a pro player. The posts were written with the intent to be hurtful and mean-spirited. A few months later, I was at the Open and witnessed this same pool forum member standing in line to get an autograph of the person they wrote about on the pool forum.
To this day, I will never understand why it gives some folk pleasure to be mean-spirited and hurtful. Posting on a forum, hiding behind the monitor, allows some to feel superior, and they write things they would never say to a person's face. The world is full of all kinds, I guess, and this forum is no different. They say you can't pick your relatives, but you can pick your friends. Well, I guess we can pick what we read and not to read too.
Onepocket.org has had numerous pros over the years and yet there's rarely a post by them nowadays. I've looked up some on here and it seems they just disappear as there's only so much they want to put out there. Heck, look at the Ask the Pro section.
All it took is someone disagreeing with you or Keith to bring the wrath, or even a bikini picture. Yet, you've never once apologized even when you knew were wrong. Is that what you mean about people behaving differently on here?
Like another mentioned, most just want freebies for nothing and the ones that do stick around have something to sell.
We have Barton going and ruining every freakin thread his touches with a million rambling posts, nobody can disagree with another without some baby calling them a hater, troll or naysayer, people like Thaiger and Champ making new aliases regularly, even Mr 3C had a duplicate. For that matter, many others do, too. People want their butts kissed, want to tell svb how to play, want to say what's wrong with pool and how it's dying, but don't do a damned thing to benefit pool.
CJ must love FB. I've taken a peak and all he does is repost the same crap there, just like he does here. The only difference is that so many more people haven't read his copy and pastes there before, so they fall for it.
See, i don't care what people think of me and I'll call them out on what they say in their posts. I'm also putting my money where my mouth is and trying to do something, instead of crying all over azb and getting in the way. There are many good people here. There are also many people that act like teenagers and form their little "i got your back" cliques, run to mommy when they read something they don't like and just generally act immature towards others.
Great to be back and seeing the yaytrollers and a few others clamoring for a cool-kids' playground once more. Whoop. Dee. Doo.
I have nothing against Jam but I must say that Thaiger is great. A very funny dude!
Ron Swanson
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TheThaiger
Banned
Cheers. One thing I've noticed: Americans in the pub are a great laugh. Americans on here, much less so. Not all, obviously, but many seem to take the written word far more personally than the spoken word.
What's that all about?
TheThaiger
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Fewer, B. Fewer. I await green from jam for the grammatical correction.
ElCorazonFrio
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I find this hilarious. I get a lot of criticism for saying things here. So many of them say I am negative...and it isn't negativity.
For instance, I heard of a forum member writing a biography and stated that I would be unlikely to read it because I don't like how that person posts and I don't like hero-worship biographies.
I said all of that without malice. Most of the people on here took it like children. Many even chastised me for writing something that wasn't in keeping with the supportive nature of the thread.
That is childish ridiculousness. If every thread is only posted to have agreement, we would have nothing here. Nobody could write a dissenting opinion.
I'm happy to see anyone leave who thinks that I am too harsh. If everybody wants to do the JB thing and move to facebook where they can block people, erase comments and only see praise, go for it. I'll stay here with the people who can argue and realize that having dissenting opinions is how one learns and grows.
For instance, I heard of a forum member writing a biography and stated that I would be unlikely to read it because I don't like how that person posts and I don't like hero-worship biographies.
I said all of that without malice. Most of the people on here took it like children. Many even chastised me for writing something that wasn't in keeping with the supportive nature of the thread.
That is childish ridiculousness. If every thread is only posted to have agreement, we would have nothing here. Nobody could write a dissenting opinion.
I'm happy to see anyone leave who thinks that I am too harsh. If everybody wants to do the JB thing and move to facebook where they can block people, erase comments and only see praise, go for it. I'll stay here with the people who can argue and realize that having dissenting opinions is how one learns and grows.
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Ron Swanson
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Also strange given her recent post about the dangers of, er, revealing your real name on an internet message board.
Ron Swanson
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You have to join the dots on that one, it's not difficult. The goodwill for a folk hero is unfathomable to me but there you go.
The real problem around here is the membership of azb does not reflect modern times. It is STILL trying to wring every last drop of nostalgia from an alleged golden age it can, whilst systematically failing to look to the future. Very sad.
Lack of new blood is the problem wih azb.
ElCorazonFrio
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You have to join the dots on that one, it's not difficult. The goodwill for a folk hero is unfathomable to me but there you go.
The real problem around here is the membership of azb does not reflect modern times. It is STILL trying to wring every last drop of nostalgia from an alleged golden age it can, whilst systematically failing to look to the future. Very sad.
Lack of new blood is the problem wih azb.
Oh, I thought it was because everybody was mad that I chased the girl away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3jUVSl1om4
'This year we had a girl come and everything...'
Ron Swanson
Banned
Every board I have ever been on thrives on different experiences and different points of view. What appears to be different here on AZB is that many people believe so strongly in their own viewpoints that they try endlessly to convince those with dissenting opinions that their's are right, better, superior or what have you, and when the other party still doesn't agree the tone changes to one of personal attacks and name calling. (Man that was a run on sentence, but not sure how to say it better)
This is especially true on topics of politics, race and religion. Many forums have banned those topics and anyone that tries to bring them up. Here those topics really tend to bring out considerable debate and people don't seem to be content to just say we will have to agree to disagree. Rather it turns into snide comments and who is going to get the last word to prove their penis is bigger.
I'm a relative newbie here so I can't really say what this place once was or what it has become. What I can say is that having a different viewpoint here leads to a much more aggressive discussion than the cigar, garage and PWC forums I frequent and because of that I bypass a lot of threads that look incendiary.
Man, put me back on ignore, will you? I much prefer reading how often you post that you have me on ignore.
Amazing how the banned members posting and trolls share the same views, not to mention they post in a tag-team manner, one right after the other in the same thread. It's all fun and games. :grin: