My new sh*t-list

My list was of people I hate to be around. I would love to be around your above mentioned people, with a Saiga shotgun in my hand (25-round drum). But then of course, the people that were #5 on my list would object :rolleyes:.

I too know car salesmen, lawyers, poolplayers, etc. that are fine people. It's just that some of the biggest jerks/a-holes/d*ckheads that I've personally met were in my categories listed. I have as yet to meet a mass-murderer, suicide bomber, tyrant, child-molester, and the likes.

Remember, tongue-in-cheek.

The reason I started this thread was because of something that happened to me in a tournament last night. Keep in mind, i JUST quit playing in APA leagues to focus more on mid-week tournaments because I just got tired of all the poor sportsmanship/table etiquette that was going on in my league. So last night I go to a poolhall 29 miles from my house to play in their 9-ball tournament. I'm hill-hill with a player that I'm giving two games on-the-wire to. I'm running the 5-ball down the rail with hard high/right english because the 6-ball is up on the short rail near my grip hand (could not use low left because of traffic). I made the shot but accidently brushed the 7-ball into the corner pocket wth my grip hand. Keep in mind we are playing cue ball fouls only. I told him what I did and where the 7-ball was sitting (I don't even think he realized what happened nor would have known if I had simply kept shooting). He asked a couple of people at the surrounding tables and they all said to spot it or put it back where it was (he had NO clue where it was, but had to have known it was near the corner pocket or it could not have been brushed in), but that a foul had not been commited. He decides to go to the TD and ask for a ruling. I stayed in my chair as I didn't see a need to hear the ruling. He comes back and says that the TD said if the cueball was moving in a direction to where it would have made contact with the 7-ball (which was now no longer on the table), then a foul was commited and he would have ball-in-hand. Now, he KNOWS that the cueball would not have hit the 7-ball, not even close. He said the TD said that it was HIS call to make, so he chose to keep the 7-ball down and take ball-in-hand, thus running the three remaining balls and winning the match. When he told me that he was calling a foul and taking ball-in-hand, I said to him "If you want to win that way, go ahead. I'm only here to have fun" (to which a few people around us nodded their heads in support of me). Now, I admit that I started this whole scenario by brushing the 7-ball into the pocket, be he was outright dishonest in his assessment of where the cueballs path was going. So coupled with my APA league dealings and what happened last night, this thread was born. I was trying to avoid this little rant by keeping my OP short, sweet, and to the point with a little side humor tossed-in for the heck of it. But at least I got last night off my chest (I lost the losers bracket match in a hill-hill match when my opponent sh*t-in the 9-ball early in the rack. I was spotting him two games also).

Maniac

just goes to show you there are assholes every where, not just apa league or any league for that matter.
 
Add to that list, posters who use contrived controversy, to get cheap responses instead of having something substantive to say.

Yeah, like CTE, what the best tip/cue is, what's wrong with pool, who was the all-time greatest player, and the likes of other substance of high quality that's NEVER been mentioned here before, eh :rolleyes:???

The thread was a little more for the humor standpoint than it was for the rant (which I never intended in the beginning to mention). Seems lately there's a lot of people responding to humorous-type threads that have no sense of humor.

Lighten up people :thumbup:!!!

Maniac (takes NOTHING on this forum seriously)
 
just goes to show you there are assholes every where, not just apa league or any league for that matter.

I've never checked, but last I HEARD everybody's got one :embarrassed2::D:D:D!!!

Maniac (Once knew a fella that was born without one. Seriously.)
 
The service folks in Vegas used to tell me at bars, places to eat. cabbies and such that they didn't look forward to pool events because most pool players didn't tip very well.

Women eating as a group are also bad tippers I have heard from service persons, or maybe is it the service person who is doing not special to earn a tip for good or outstanding service. A tip is based on good service.

I recall the day I stopped to see a friend in a local bar, order a Draft Beer, the girl said $2.00, and I gave the girl a $5.00 Bill, she put the change on her tray, Two Singles, and 2 Quarters. I picked up the singles, and I think she expected more than a 20% TIP.

Did she doing anything special, NO IMHO. 20% was more than fair. She almost acted like she was going to give me the Two Quarter Back, and if she had I would have kept them.

She IMHO did not get the big picture, of the Quarters adding up to a lot of money at shift end.
 
I got a great list, just of people at a pool hall.

1) people who talk to me during my shot
2) people who talk during their shot, and continue talking once it's my shot again
3) people who talk about my shot while i'm shooting it
4) people who talk about the shot i just shot while i'm shooting the next one
5) people who talk about the shot i just missed while my opponent is setting up on his or her next shot, and then all sudden-like they switch to talking about what his next shot should be
6) people who try to squeeze around me instead of just waiting for me to finish my shot
7) people who think their winning the last rack gives them permission to go outside and smoke for half an hour, and yell at you about "stealing their table"
8) people who think defensive play is cheating
9) people who, at the end of a call-pocket game, want you to call the shot on the 8, when they didn't call the shot on the 8 they made in the last game.

i think that's about it for right now. one thing i've noticed on my list is that everybody who pisses me off is people. i should stop spending so much time around people, i think.
 
1. Politicians
2. Car salesmen
3. Realtors
4. All other Liars, Cheats and Thieves (you know who they are)

Animal abusers and child molesters are in a special category all their own.
:p
 
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Realtors are lying scum. Almost as bad as car salesmen. Most police officers are pretty bad as well.
 
Women eating as a group are also bad tippers I have heard from service persons, or maybe is it the service person who is doing not special to earn a tip for good or outstanding service. A tip is based on good service.

I recall the day I stopped to see a friend in a local bar, order a Draft Beer, the girl said $2.00, and I gave the girl a $5.00 Bill, she put the change on her tray, Two Singles, and 2 Quarters. I picked up the singles, and I think she expected more than a 20% TIP.

Did she doing anything special, NO IMHO. 20% was more than fair. She almost acted like she was going to give me the Two Quarter Back, and if she had I would have kept them.

She IMHO did not get the big picture, of the Quarters adding up to a lot of money at shift end.



#1. You got stiffed for .50.....5 - 2 = 3 2 + .5 = 2.50....deficit .50

#2. You actually tipped her 50% .50 you gave her + .50 she kept up front.

#3. The most likely reason you missed the .50 was because you were staring at her breasts, which would also account for the disgusted look she gave you.....JMHO....Dan
 
So if my profession (car sales) and hobby (pool) both appear on Maniac's list, does that mean I'm a double dose of sh*t? :thumbup:
 
Today we have gathered to lay to rest a fine lawyer and good man...

From the back - "Hey! That's illegal! You can't bury two people in the same grave."
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How about anyone that says, "It's just business, don't take it personally."
 
My latest version of groups of people/professions who I loathe to be around. Poolplayers are moving up the list.


4.) Poolplayers (per capita the biggest bunch of a-holes I've ever been around)

5.) Gun-control advocates (just felt the breeze of the poolplayers passing them in the rankings :rolleyes:)

There's nothing wrong with having "Gun-Control" (meaning being able to hit your target). I'm a strong advocate of hitting what I'm aiming at in both pool and shooting.
 
The top of my sh*t list is:

1. People who abuse humans and/or animals
2. Liars and cheaters (which pretty much covers Manic's list)
3. Ungrateful people that also only do something if it helps themselves
 
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