OK, I admit I'm trolling a bit here, but it's a rainy afternoon and I'm waiting for my computer to finish a long install. I'm really tired of the bullshit attacks posted here by nearly everybody, and wonder whether I'm wasting the effort.
I've read a bunch of stuff from both Blud an FL, and they both strike me the same way. I'm gonna list the attributes in no particular order, with no intentional bias. They both are:
Older than the forum average
Opinionated
Under-educated
Claim to be good at what they do
Feel that they have had issues in the past that they need to defend
By the last point, I remember Blud defending against the dilution of his name, and FL posting about people "stealing" his shots.
So, how many people here have both played with a Blud cue and played against FL? I have never heard of Blud before, and I think his cues are immensely over-priced considering that all a cue needs to be is a striaght piece of wood with a leather tip. Am I supposed to be in awe because he is some kind of cue savant?
I guess that my overall point is that we should all leave people alone. In another thread somebody posted that the "old timers" may not understand what a touchy world they are stepping into on-line (it had something to do with Japs, but I didn't read the whole thread). Maybe all the touchy people should realize that not everybody in the world will conform to their ideal of politeness and tolerance. Maybe too many people are nit-picking on the semantics and "tone" of posts rather than trying to extract actual information. Or, maybe it's because so much of pool seems to be made up of ego and woofing that nobody can just relax and have a good time.
Anyway, I had a point when I started this, but either you get it or you don't.
It's just so frustrating to see a medium like this bogged down by worthless, petty bullshit which helps nobody.
-jeff
I've read a bunch of stuff from both Blud an FL, and they both strike me the same way. I'm gonna list the attributes in no particular order, with no intentional bias. They both are:
Older than the forum average
Opinionated
Under-educated
Claim to be good at what they do
Feel that they have had issues in the past that they need to defend
By the last point, I remember Blud defending against the dilution of his name, and FL posting about people "stealing" his shots.
So, how many people here have both played with a Blud cue and played against FL? I have never heard of Blud before, and I think his cues are immensely over-priced considering that all a cue needs to be is a striaght piece of wood with a leather tip. Am I supposed to be in awe because he is some kind of cue savant?
I guess that my overall point is that we should all leave people alone. In another thread somebody posted that the "old timers" may not understand what a touchy world they are stepping into on-line (it had something to do with Japs, but I didn't read the whole thread). Maybe all the touchy people should realize that not everybody in the world will conform to their ideal of politeness and tolerance. Maybe too many people are nit-picking on the semantics and "tone" of posts rather than trying to extract actual information. Or, maybe it's because so much of pool seems to be made up of ego and woofing that nobody can just relax and have a good time.
Anyway, I had a point when I started this, but either you get it or you don't.
It's just so frustrating to see a medium like this bogged down by worthless, petty bullshit which helps nobody.
-jeff