The funny bangers...

[pooltchr]

I used to run the pro shop in a local room. This guy comes up to me and asks me if I can replace the tips on his cue with LePro's. When I told him yes, he reached in his pocket and pulled out 4 screw-on tips, handed them to me and asked me how long it would take!
I think he was a true banger!
Steve

 

[Hail Mary Shot]

I used to run the pro shop in a local room. This guy comes up to me and asks me if I can replace the tips on his cue with LePro's. When I told him yes, he reached in his pocket and pulled out 4 screw-on tips, handed them to me and asked me how long it would take!
I think he was a true banger!
Steve

are you serious?

 

[SPINDOKTOR]

The tables I play on are Olhousen 9' s with thin rails, not thick like the brunswicks, and at times makes it unconfortable to shoot rail shots.. well, this new guy came in and ask me to play, so I grab the rack, rack the balls and set down.. He breaks, pockets the 1 and has a nice shot at the 2 but he's laid up on the rail, no biggie.. I can tell he is a banger, stroking a 100 mile an hour, really short, strokes, then before his final stroke he swings way back, power's forward, BAM! and nothing happened, i was like what the heck? the cue ball never moved! lol...

He had apprently over extended pulling back, without the support of the extra rail like on the brunswicks the cue stabbed right into the side of the table! damn it was loud! He looked at me, I looked at him, his face then turned bright red... He didnt know what to say, I didnt either, then it happened, whatever it is that makes you laugh exploded! Buhahahahaha! I couldnt stop, then it hit him, man, I hurt I laughed so hard, then it hit everyone else, and the whole room exploded with laugher.. I finaly just had to walk off, WOW, that was crazy...

Now that I think about it, laughter has a way of crossing that bridge when you meet new people.. that guy I now consider a friend and you know that proboly wouldnt have happened if he hadnt been a hopeless banger at one point. Plays much better now, but I wont let him forget that table that night.


SPINDOKTOR

 

[softshot]

Now that I think about it, laughter has a way of crossing that bridge when you meet new people.. that guy I now consider a friend and you know that proboly wouldnt have happened if he hadnt been a hopeless banger at one point. Plays much better now, but I wont let him forget that table that night.


SPINDOKTOR

We were all the hopeless banger at some point thats why its funny. We have all done these things way back when.

 

[SPINDOKTOR]

I cant believe I was ever that hopeless, was I? let me think......hmm, you know I suppose I was, What made a differnence for me was when I ran my first rack. As I progressed running out more and more, I think it changed me.

Without a positive influence however a hopeless banger may remain just that. This is where I feel the pool schools come in.. and I'll tell ya, that monk guy, I dont like him much, but what he is doing more than makes up for that.. He is a positive influence on the biliards industry and I respect that...


SPINDOKTOR

 

[Chenz]

Has anyone ever seen this for a game of 8-ball? After all the balls are racked , they take the 2 corner balls and move them up a row on the outside to form what looks sort of like a crown? Never understood that one?

 

[pooltchr]

are you serious?

That is absolutely a true story...hard as it is to believe. The guy claimed to be the best APA-2 in the city!
Steve

 

[trustyrusty]

That is absolutely a true story...hard as it is to believe. The guy claimed to be the best APA-2 in the city!
Steve

Those tough 2's are SCARY!!!! LOL

I did lose to a 2 once though, boy was she a cutie, and she was buying me drinks....yes, even after our match

 

[Rotarded]

Has anyone ever seen this for a game of 8-ball? After all the balls are racked , they take the 2 corner balls and move them up a row on the outside to form what looks sort of like a crown? Never understood that one?

Yes, just a few weeks ago in my local watering hole. I had never seen the "crown rack" before and so I just went with it. The guy was pathetic. He made 4 balls total in the 5 games in a row we played (all crown racked) and still wanted to play another. I didn't have any interest in crown-stomping him again, so I let him get beaten by a girl at the bar who had told me earlier she "can't ever make a ball."

I've also had a person grab my cue from the table I'm still sitting at, and walk over and chalk it. This was the bar I play league for. As I grab ahold of it and tell that she cannot use my cue, she states "I didn't see your name on it" and tries to pull the cue back. Being incredibly nice for how fired up I was, I told her that the house cues are on the wall and she can use any of them, but the cue in her hand is worth several hundred dollars and I'd appreciate it back immediately. She responded with "well maybe you shouldn't bring it here then", and pushes the cue back towards me. She then procedes to ***** about me to the rest of hers fat friends at the bar-box loud enough that I could hear her from 20 feet away.

 

[sde]

At league this week, while my team mate was down on a shot that was questionable whether or not he could hit enough of the ball to pocket it, his opponent stuck his face over the cue between my buddy's bridge hand and grip hand to take a look for himself! And announced loud enough for the entire room to hear, "I didn't think he could see it".

Steve

 

[sde]

I've always liked the ones who get a rack of balls and go rack the balls on the Billiard table. Usually don't notice until after they break the balls and start looking for pockets. This one used to have us rollin!!

The next time this happens calmly tell them that if they shoot the ball into the corner and hit both rails at the same time the corner will open up and the ball will fall in! This is usually good for 10 minutes or so and a few more laughs.

Steve

 

[Neil]

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[Pushout]

The next time this happens calmly tell them that if they shoot the ball into the corner and hit both rails at the same time the corner will open up and the ball will fall in! This is usually good for 10 minutes or so and a few more laughs.

Steve

I'd like to, but I've only seen one billiard table since I left New York and that was in Q-Masters in Virginia. I haven't heard there is one anywhere in South Carolina.

 

[CreeDo]

lol @ the "spacer", that's what we call it. Usually a group of giggly girls using it but sometimes some guys who act very serious.

also lol@blue chalking inside the bridge area of the hand, thinking it will reduce friction, when it actually increases it. Actually I don't know if it actually increases it (never tried it) but I always tell scrubs that it makes things worse just so that they'll stop being stupid with it.

somewhat lol - when they insist on finishing all the balls after the game is over, to get their money's worth out of that quarter table.

It's funny to see various banger bridges:
- the knobby knuckles, done with a flat fist.
- the angry claw, done with a raised claw hand shape
- the live long and prosper, almost exclusively used by girls, keeping the heel of the hand on the table and raising all the fingertips like you're trying to make the spock greeting but you can't cuz your hand's glued to the table partially
- the scorpion's sting, where you make sort of a regular open bridge with the thumb and the pinky sticking out, then lift everything except the middle three finger tips way up off the table bed. For added effect jack up the ass end of the cue.

Stuff that just makes me mad:

- bangers trying to sound all pedantic and expert about how behind the line takes more skill and is the way good shooters always play, and how ball in hand takes the skill out of the game

- when they beat the shit out of the equipment for no reason and laugh about it

- when they sling the balls around the table and try to get them to collide and get all giggly just seeing stuff slam off the rails and zip around. I always make sure to laugh loudly when someone gets his finger smashed.

- when they accidentally jump a ball, and people laugh, so they think "omg I just came up with the funniest thing to ever make people laugh!" so they proceed to do it over and over. I think if this happens my new policy has to be "you don't get the cue ball back the second time, come back tomorrow."

 

[sde]

lol @ the "spacer", that's what we call it. Usually a group of giggly girls using it but sometimes some guys who act very serious.

also lol@blue chalking inside the bridge area of the hand, thinking it will reduce friction, when it actually increases it. Actually I don't know if it actually increases it (never tried it) but I always tell scrubs that it makes things worse just so that they'll stop being stupid with it.

somewhat lol - when they insist on finishing all the balls after the game is over, to get their money's worth out of that quarter table.

It's funny to see various banger bridges:
- the knobby knuckles, done with a flat fist.
- the angry claw, done with a raised claw hand shape
- the live long and prosper, almost exclusively used by girls, keeping the heel of the hand on the table and raising all the fingertips like you're trying to make the spock greeting but you can't cuz your hand's glued to the table partially
- the scorpion's sting, where you make sort of a regular open bridge with the thumb and the pinky sticking out, then lift everything except the middle three finger tips way up off the table bed. For added effect jack up the ass end of the cue.

Stuff that just makes me mad:

- bangers trying to sound all pedantic and expert about how behind the line takes more skill and is the way good shooters always play, and how ball in hand takes the skill out of the game

- when they beat the shit out of the equipment for no reason and laugh about it

- when they sling the balls around the table and try to get them to collide and get all giggly just seeing stuff slam off the rails and zip around. I always make sure to laugh loudly when someone gets his finger smashed.

- when they accidentally jump a ball, and people laugh, so they think "omg I just came up with the funniest thing to ever make people laugh!" so they proceed to do it over and over. I think if this happens my new policy has to be "you don't get the cue ball back the second time, come back tomorrow."

Mad. The ones that make me mad are the macho guys that lift, shake and bounce a table trying to get back a ball that is stuck, because they dropped chalk into the pockets!

Steve

 

[DelaWho???]

Mad. The ones that make me mad are the macho guys that lift, shake and bounce a table trying to get back a ball that is stuck, because they dropped chalk into the pockets!

Steve

I saw a bruiser of a woman do this with an 8' coin op bar box....Picked it about 4" off the floor and let it drop. She did get the stuck ball free.

For some reason the better players didn't like shooting on that table...

Banger

 

[trustyrusty]

I saw a bruiser of a woman do this with an 8' coin op bar box....Picked it about 4" off the floor and let it drop. She did get the stuck ball free.

For some reason the better players didn't like shooting on that table...

Banger

now that's a WOMAN....I'll keep my wife for some duties, but I want the one you described in case my truck ever gets stuck, or I need to move a piano or something.

 

[bagofpaper]

I get a kick out of the guys that have a cell phone tucked in their neck, and are shooting with one hand because the other hand is holding up their pants that are down below their butt.

LMAO! Yeah I see a lot of that kind of stuff.. yesterday at the poolhall I saw a guy playing while wearing one of those bluetooth headsets.. he was with his whole family so I can't imagine who he'd be talking to while playing pool.

 

[inside_english]

This thread was hilarious! I am glad I read all of the posts as most of my observations about bangers were already listed. I do have a few more though, but they relate to how I reacted to some of the bangers in the previously-mentioned situations:

I have been known to calmly walk over to the table where a banger is either scooping a ball, racking at the wrong end or making an illegal shot in order to correct them and explain at some length why their actions are wrong. I used to do this if I perceived the banger to be showing off. Sometimes I would even go so far as to take a few balls to set up a shot, totally disrupting their game, to make my point. Interestingly, I have never received any resistance for these actions.

I do enjoy watching the befuddled looks on the faces of some that are watching me play one-pocket. I usually try to guess how long it would take for them to work up the nerve to ask me what game we're playing.

I have taken the time to show some bangers a few pointers. These are the ones that are usually by themselves or with one other friend, and would either (a) ask me a pool-related question or (b) seem to be trying their hardest with little or no success. I help them because they seem eager to learn and/ or I was bored at the time.

Sorry if none of this is funny, but you guys already posted the best "banger infractions".

I would admit that I enjoy watching some hot young thing trying to play but she is much more concerned about bending over "too far" and constantly adjusts her clothing for fear of revealing too much, which ends up with her shooting or stabbing at the CB while standing almost straight up...

I once played a buddy who used to gently insert two fingers between the CB and rail if the latter was frozen, then said I was too fussy for objecting.

I also had one where the banger practically begged me to play him, then said I was no fun because I had him constantly re-rack as the CB was almost a half-ball's width away from the rest of the rack!

Or have you guys ever played girls/women who said you were "mean" because you played them safe?

That's all I can remember for now.

 

[kobyp]

or the guys that get into local tournaments just because they need something to do... and then complain that everyone else is taking this game 'too serious' and when you play safe on them, they piss and moan saying you are playing 'dirty pool'

Come on, when did safeties become 'dirty pool'? It's part of the game A__hole!!


I really like it when you call a safety, then make one of your balls and leave them behind a cluster that prevents them from hitting anything but your balls. And they argue with you on "that's not a real safety, it's still your shot because you made a ball."

Those were also a rant b/c that's what I went through last night at our local Monday 8ball tournament...that I went undefeated in.