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.
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.
