I'm sure most of us know the story of the Emperor who walked around in his underwear and no one was bold enough to tell him he was a half naked idiot.
So, I'm sitting here watching the ladies play some straight pool. A link at Poolbz. Kynthia Orfanidis vs Jasmin Ouschan. And I'm watching the referee rack the balls, and it is starting to annoy me. It's like Ralph Cramden watching Norton take his warm-up strokes in a pool game they played.
Torture, so, I couldn't help but rant a bit. I'm sure that this whole thing about table tapping and racking balls without a damned rack is a case of the Emperor's New Cloths. That's right, The Emperor's New Cloths.
Yep, some brain surgeon came up with this ridiculous idea to smash dents in the table and then one by one place the damned balls in the dents and HOLY CRAP ... guess what? If we do that we don't need a rack!
Then everyone, embarrassed to be wrong by saying, "Are you a friggin idiot or what?" Agrees with this nonsense and we start denting tables and throwing racks away.
This referee is taking twice the time to rack a set of balls as he would if he just had a rag in his hand, threw the balls in the rack, brushed the rag over them quickly to remove any residual chalk that might make a ball roll off, and then ..... RACK THE DAMNED BALLS.
I know, I know, some people have even become obsessed with speed racking a dented table. Well even if they rack faster, they still dented the table.
I figure if they wanna bang up their tables, I'll invent a hammer with 15 triangular center punches welded to the head so they can smash it all 15 at a time.
What an innovation! Reinventing the wheel. Hey, reinventing the wheel. That just gave me an idea. We can save money with auto production by leaving out the emergency brake if we just caved in dents all over the road so we can park in them! What the hell is wrong with us for not thinking of this sooner?
End of rant.... :smash::speechless::killingme:
So, I'm sitting here watching the ladies play some straight pool. A link at Poolbz. Kynthia Orfanidis vs Jasmin Ouschan. And I'm watching the referee rack the balls, and it is starting to annoy me. It's like Ralph Cramden watching Norton take his warm-up strokes in a pool game they played.
Torture, so, I couldn't help but rant a bit. I'm sure that this whole thing about table tapping and racking balls without a damned rack is a case of the Emperor's New Cloths. That's right, The Emperor's New Cloths.
Yep, some brain surgeon came up with this ridiculous idea to smash dents in the table and then one by one place the damned balls in the dents and HOLY CRAP ... guess what? If we do that we don't need a rack!
Then everyone, embarrassed to be wrong by saying, "Are you a friggin idiot or what?" Agrees with this nonsense and we start denting tables and throwing racks away.
This referee is taking twice the time to rack a set of balls as he would if he just had a rag in his hand, threw the balls in the rack, brushed the rag over them quickly to remove any residual chalk that might make a ball roll off, and then ..... RACK THE DAMNED BALLS.
I know, I know, some people have even become obsessed with speed racking a dented table. Well even if they rack faster, they still dented the table.
I figure if they wanna bang up their tables, I'll invent a hammer with 15 triangular center punches welded to the head so they can smash it all 15 at a time.
What an innovation! Reinventing the wheel. Hey, reinventing the wheel. That just gave me an idea. We can save money with auto production by leaving out the emergency brake if we just caved in dents all over the road so we can park in them! What the hell is wrong with us for not thinking of this sooner?
End of rant.... :smash::speechless::killingme:
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