Pool Peeves

Jude Rosenstock said:
I was once playing in a room that had these ping-pong tables nearby. One of their ping-pong balls fell under my table as I was taking a little break. The guy comes over and grabs my old Predator and gets ready to sweep it out when I yell, "That's a $500 broom you've got in your hand, there." He quickly put it back where he found it.
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Isn't it amazing the liberties some people will take with other people's cues?

Lunchmoney
 
God! I can't believe I forgot that one!! And the best is when the do it while you're already down on the shot! They just swoop in and take your bridge right there.
 
DOes this only happen in my pool hall or is it a universal thing? Every now and then, a couple of kids decide it'll be fun to stand on opposite ends of the table and ujst fire balls into one another! What the f*@! is the point of that?! I eman, really! It doesn't even look like fun!
 
lunchmoney said:
People who will pick up your cue without asking and start shooting with it "to see how it hits". It happened last weekend. I told the guy if he wanted to feel how a $800.00 cue hit to go buy one.


Lunchmoney
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Love your advice & reply :cool:
 
OK. Now this one isn't pool-HALL related but it is pool related. I hate it when you post a cue for sale or for trade and then 50 people say "I'm interested! Send me some pics!" So you do that. Then when they want to talk price, almost all of them back out. Thats understandable. This can be an expensive game. But what I hate is when certain individuals (and I won't name any names here) go so far as to say "Yeah! I want it!" and "Let me know how much for shipping!" and "When can you get it here?" and then a second before you walk out the door to take the cue to the post office, they back out of the deal!
 
chefjeff said:
That's one where I really must disagree with you.

Pool needs more celebration, imho. The next time you see this, look at the non-pool players turning to see what's going on. This is good for the big picture of pool and should be encouraged.

It could be that the top player wins BECAUSE he celebrates his wins. In other words, he likes the high that comes from winning and showing it. Pool needs much, much more of this emotion, especially from the good players as they seem to be mechanical and boring to non-pool players.

Yee hah!

Jeff Livingston
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Like i said, i don't mind a guy celebrating, just don't go ape shit if your an A playing a D. Its the most annoying thing seeing a guy that could likely win 95 out of 100 games against a lousy player celebrate like he just won the world series.
 
I never even thought about some of these things that have been brought up, although they were always subconsciously there like a little pin prick. Now that this thread has brought everything up to the forefront, I don't think I could ever go into a room again and not be pissed off from the moment I enter until the moment I leave. It's kinda like going to a movie theatre and getting irritated at all the crap that goes on there and at some point you are no longer listening to the words of the actors, but you're lying in wait for some scumbag to cough, rattle candy wrappers, talk, laugh, sneeze, chew loud, dig for their popcorn, get up 50 times to piss, etc., and all you want to do is go back and just shoot them on the spot! :mad: :mad:
 
Whoa i remembered one of my biggest Pet Peeves. People that complain about vegas rules and tell you how much better bar rules are. No ball in hands, don't have to contact a rail, basicly you can just roll the balls wherever you want and the other guys gotta shoot, if the 8 is in the kitchen and he scratched, ball in hand behind the line shooting forward. Its bullshit. But most bangers would like to argue these are REAL RULES, and the world standardized rules are for shitty players that need ball in hand. BALL IN HAND IS A PUNISHMENT TO THE MORON THAT JUST SCRATCHED OR MADE A MISTAKE. YOU CAN'T GO AROUND F***ING UP EVERY SHOT AND GETTING AWAY WITH IT!! HIT YOUR OWN BALLS FIRST, THEN A RAIL. this one REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY pisses me off.
 
fxskater said:
. People that complain about vegas rules and tell you how much better bar rules are.

basicly you can just roll the balls wherever you want
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At the tavern where I play sometimes we either play APA rules or call your shot (best effort). I really have no problem either way.

Friday I had a guy start playing safes on me by just rolling the cue ball behind his balls. Not hitting an object ball or a rail. Nobody in this town does that.

Well I scratched trying to kick at my last object ball and the guy ran out. I tossed my Dufferin sp into the corner and it broke at the joint.

A bad night all around.
 
Wally in Cincy said:
Friday I had a guy start playing safes on me by just rolling the cue ball behind his balls. Not hitting an object ball or a rail. Nobody in this town does that.
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It is astounding to me that people "play safe" this way. Bar rules, my ass... Get some skill, people!
 
This is annoying and a waste of time:

When someone racks the ball in numerical order (9-ball) or yellow, yellow striped, blue, blue striped, red, red-striped, et cetera...
 
pharaoh68 said:
God! I can't believe I forgot that one!! And the best is when the do it while you're already down on the shot! They just swoop in and take your bridge right there.
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Well, if you're already bent over to shoot they figure you're likely not gonna be needing it...
 
marissayi said:
It is astounding to me that people "play safe" this way. Bar rules, my ass... Get some skill, people!
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I dunno, in the average New York City bar, you could get seriously beaten for playing safe. If someone starts pulling that move, I just pick up my drink and move to the other side.
 
ROFLMAO People who "jump" the ball by scooping it - I saw a guy repeatedly hook himself on purpose so he could do this! He would also run around the table and time himself on how fast he could shoot. Surprisingly, he couldn't run two balls and we got him for a few hundred.
 
How bout the guy who throws a tantrum every time he misses!
Tosses the chalk across the room!
Swears for 2 minutes!
Stomps around the table then grabs his drink and gulps it down like he just ran a marathon!
Then explains to the whole bar why this game sucks!
Then appoligizes even though he will do exactly the same dance next time he misses!
 
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BigRigTom said:
How bout the guy who throws a tantrum every time he misses!
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I was practicing one afternoon and the guy next to me was practicing 9-ball. He was not a bad shot but he shot everything way too hard and missed about every 4th ball and then started bitching to himself. Serious, vulgar bitching.

After about 1/2 hour I couldn't take it any more and considered leaving but fortunately he quit first. He spoke to me and asked to see my cue and he turned out to be a super nice guy.

I guess pool just turns him from Jekyl to Hyde.
 
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