The funny bangers...
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Sorry we must have posted at the exact same time, about the exact same thing. Cosmic connection maybe.
rossaroni said:I like it when people place the eight-ball on top of the other balls when racking and it falls into place-it is pretty cool. It takes practice though and is only usually done by good players!
There's a guy on one of the local leaguee teams who racks everything up, removes the head ball, places it on the spot, slowly slides the rack up to it and tilts up the front end of the rack up like a hungry alligator and snaps it down over the head ball ( nowhere near the head spot after all this shit)
it cracks me up everytime
OMG. The whole move-the-cue-ball-off-the-rail thing. It's been YEARS since I've seen that. Ahahahhaha.
Baby powder... I was in this little sports bar last night, hoping to find some cheap action (like 5-dollar games) - no luck there, just ended up playing a couple of guys for a while, laying down the hurt. Over at one end of the little room where the tables are (3 barboxes), there's a rectangular wicker-looking basket with a BIG-ASS white plastic container of baby powder. People use it so much there, that the excess powder falls all around that area - and the little brick riser that the basket sits on is just COVERED with it, along with the carpet on both sides. I'll have to take a picture of it next time I'm in there.
I even tried to write "WASH ME" in it with my finger, but it's so caked in there, I couldn't push my finger through enough powder to clear it off the bricks. :/
Baby powder... I was in this little sports bar last night, hoping to find some cheap action (like 5-dollar games) - no luck there, just ended up playing a couple of guys for a while, laying down the hurt. Over at one end of the little room where the tables are (3 barboxes), there's a rectangular wicker-looking basket with a BIG-ASS white plastic container of baby powder. People use it so much there, that the excess powder falls all around that area - and the little brick riser that the basket sits on is just COVERED with it, along with the carpet on both sides. I'll have to take a picture of it next time I'm in there.
I even tried to write "WASH ME" in it with my finger, but it's so caked in there, I couldn't push my finger through enough powder to clear it off the bricks. :/
bigskyjake said:
Cracks me up just reading about it!
They also have a tendency to rack on the head of the table...always. I've even seem them rack at the 3rd diamond instead of the 2nd.
ScottW said:OMG. The whole move-the-cue-ball-off-the-rail thing. It's been YEARS since I've seen that. Ahahahhaha.
Baby powder... I was in this little sports bar last night, hoping to find some cheap action (like 5-dollar games) - no luck there, just ended up playing a couple of guys for a while, laying down the hurt. Over at one end of the little room where the tables are (3 barboxes), there's a rectangular wicker-looking basket with a BIG-ASS white plastic container of baby powder. People use it so much there, that the excess powder falls all around that area - and the little brick riser that the basket sits on is just COVERED with it, along with the carpet on both sides. I'll have to take a picture of it next time I'm in there.
I even tried to write "WASH ME" in it with my finger, but it's so caked in there, I couldn't push my finger through enough powder to clear it off the bricks. :/
yep, theres a popular bar here -rp tracks (older sister to rp billiards) that puts out flour sometimes. pretty funny.
the place i usually play has alot of younger people there, which gets old sometimes, but always provides entertainment such as has been listed by you guys previously.
i played a $5 rack with a guy the other night who butt-spotted the cue, counted his shitshots, and still lost, even after trying to let him win. had he wanted to play a second game, i might have let him know such would not be tolerated. then again, it could have helped me bump up the bet on the next game... haha
You tell them only the tip can legally hit the cueball and they tell you they scoop all the time.Poolfiend said:
How about the guy who claims , " I put myself through college playing pool"?
I always ask, " No way. You went to college?"
One banger told me I lost the game after I scratched on the break but he'll keep playing anyway even though he already won he said.
One banger agreed to play BCA rules with me, as in BIH rules. He scratched one shot but tried to claim a scratch is not foul.
Oh, " you play cheat pool" statement when you play safe. That's always hilarious.
How about the guy who takes a house cue back to his table, rolls it accross the clothe but doesn't know why he did it, he just saw somebody else do it. He grabs a rack and takes care to alternate a solid & stripe like he's arranging a rubik's cube, and then he rolls the rack up near the spot and wha-la, raises it off the balls with a flourish. Of course, they're now spread like a texbook 14.1 break, but he doesn't see it. He's too busy walking to the foot rail to break while looking down his house cue like Dan'l Boone sighting down a flintlock. He arrives at his break spot and bends down and WHACK! The cue ball squirts into the side rail near the pocket before hitting the other side rail and as it's still rolling towards the 14.1 cluster, he goes to the next table for chalk, squinting menacingly at the flat as a penney tip as if it somehow betrayed him.
What is especially fun is if he's got a female companion watching him do his best imitation of a pool shooter and he's just kind of whacking 'em around because she's too bored to play and he's still trying to make one in a row. If all of his machinations are too much to bear, one sure fire way to get him to leave is to go up to him and ask "Do you feel like betting on yourself?" After the obligatory heming and hawing, he realizes he's late for a movie that he didn't know he wanted to see.
That's bad, isn't it?
What is especially fun is if he's got a female companion watching him do his best imitation of a pool shooter and he's just kind of whacking 'em around because she's too bored to play and he's still trying to make one in a row. If all of his machinations are too much to bear, one sure fire way to get him to leave is to go up to him and ask "Do you feel like betting on yourself?" After the obligatory heming and hawing, he realizes he's late for a movie that he didn't know he wanted to see.
That's bad, isn't it?
How about the banger who comes in with his custom budweiser cue..Or the guys who rub blue chalk in between thier fingers and end up getting it on there face. The guys that stand in place at the table while you shoot, guy who take balll in hand behind the line and try and shoot impossible shots instead of the easy ones
Neil said:
Thanks Neil! Was trying to figure as to how best to search for this old classic thread started by Breakup. I bumped it up as a separate thread.
You think pool bangers are funny? You should watch kids learning to pole vault!
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everyone has a short memory...
This thread in and of itself is funny....
From what I've gleaned from this forum, most of the posters making fun of "bangers" are not that far removed from the people they are laughing at...
Now that they have become "players", they are making fun of the same things they used to do when they were learning how to play.
seymore15074 said:
This thread in and of itself is funny....
From what I've gleaned from this forum, most of the posters making fun of "bangers" are not that far removed from the people they are laughing at...
Now that they have become "players", they are making fun of the same things they used to do when they were learning how to play.
Guys who have seen the old commercial for "Learn from the Best" and think they can masse because of it.
Guys who will face a medium difficulty shot, fire it in the pocket and proceed to bury the cueball with no shot afterwards..... and brag about how good of a shot they just made.
Guys who will walk up to where you are playing, and take one of your/your opponents cue and walk off with it..... then state "I thought it was a house cue....."
Guys who talk about a family member who plays "better than anyone" and how they are always in 10000-20000 action.
Guys who insist on Balabushka chalk...... cause with a name like Balabushka....... it has to be good
Chuck
Guys who will face a medium difficulty shot, fire it in the pocket and proceed to bury the cueball with no shot afterwards..... and brag about how good of a shot they just made.
Guys who will walk up to where you are playing, and take one of your/your opponents cue and walk off with it..... then state "I thought it was a house cue....."
Guys who talk about a family member who plays "better than anyone" and how they are always in 10000-20000 action.
Guys who insist on Balabushka chalk...... cause with a name like Balabushka....... it has to be good
Chuck
Rite of passage
So you know that all these people who wrote something are "not that far removed from the people they are laughing at."?
Are you saying once a banger always a banger? Or are you saying that nobody in this thread is any good? Which is almost what it sounded like to me.
I enjoyed reading this stuff cause it is funny. Nobody mentioned any names, so who exactly is everyone making fun of.
Shortside K said:
So you know that all these people who wrote something are "not that far removed from the people they are laughing at."?
Are you saying once a banger always a banger? Or are you saying that nobody in this thread is any good? Which is almost what it sounded like to me.
I enjoyed reading this stuff cause it is funny. Nobody mentioned any names, so who exactly is everyone making fun of.
I laugh when I see that too, whether they know why or not...because it doesn't make a bit if difference whether the house cue is straight or not. The only important thing is that it has a decent tip. Many times I have shown people how to shoot with a warped cue that still has a good tip.
Scott Lee
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Scott Lee
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lodini said:
