What Is Wrong With People?

JAM said:
Last night, I went to a neighborhood meeting at a local school. The city government wants to install sidewalks on Oregon Avenue. The neighbors who live there are pissed off about it. I live one block away, and they want to install a sidewlak on my street, as well.

At the meeting, two men got in a shouting match and starting fist-fighting, right there in our little neighborhood meeting about sidewalks.

The "where" it happnes really doesn't matter sometimes.. It's the "why" people feel like physical assault is the answer, kind of like this forum sometimes, when some unidentified, multiple-identified, and banned members posting attack others for the fun of it. Trolling is a sport on AzBilliards, more popular than pool itself.
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I think its a real shame that people aren't as shocked as me about what I saw. And over a sidewalk...just as pathetic but it seems people have been tuned to just deal with it over time. I'm 26, so maybe its because I haven't been around drunk people as much as others on this site, but if this is how they act I'd rather keep it that way.

Like others have said, I've seen guys loose crazy amounts of money playing this game with nothing more to say than well played, ill get you next time and a shake of hands. People like the guys in this pub need to take a step back and think about what's important in life...a game of pool or leaving a man scared for life.
 
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Really

Pidge said:
Yes, but fortunately I'm not from America, the land of I gots me a gun, might aswel shoot somebody.
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You complain about Cro-Magnon man type behavior in Britain and then you throw all Americans in one pile. Perhaps you might want to look at yourself or go buy a yacht and confine your travels to the yacht club. Civility and Commonsense are not found in plethora in bars and apparently not in Britain or America so you should definitely stay home more often. Unless of course you are going to be starring as Frazier Crane Psychotherapist in Seattle....oh my the world is such a ghastly place!
 
336Robin said:
You complain about Cro-Magnon man type behavior in Britain and then you throw all Americans in one pile. Perhaps you might want to look at yourself or go buy a yacht and confine your travels to the yacht club. Civility and Commonsense are not found in plethora in bars and apparently not in Britain or America so you should definitely stay home more often. Unless of course you are going to be starring as Frazier Crane Psychotherapist in Seattle....oh my the world is such a ghastly place!
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Alright calm down now. The comment you quoted from me was obviously out of order on my part, I can admit that. FWIW the times I've visited your side of the pond I've met nothing but nice people. Complete strangers coming upto me and chatting purely because I'm English.

Know of any yachts for sale? :-)
 
Typical league night? No.

bdorman said:
Sorry, but I fail to see the problem.

That the pub was in the middle of nowhere?

Other than that, it sounds like a typical league night. :D
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Arguments perhaps, fist fights, no.

I've played more than seventy seasons in pool leagues since 1966, and seen four or five fights.

Interestingly, those involved in three of those fights were not kicked out or even reprimanded by the proprietor because they were big spenders.
 
sheffield6 said:
well.......was it a touching ball or not
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Ha, I didn't stay to find out.

Edit - I thought league matches had refs? Surely the ref should have stepped in before voices were even raised to set things straight. Even if you think the ref is wrong you just got to shut up and sit down.
 
Pidge said:
On advice from the girlfriends boss at work we went for an evening meal at a pub in the middle of nowhere miles from where we live. What an err, entertaining night...

We get there and the first thing I notice is a couple of pool tables through the window. We ordered a few drinks and my girlfriend says do you fancy a game, so we had a quick game. Sat down at our table to order some food, had the meal, went and sat at the bar for a few drinks and hot chatting to the lovely old lady that owned the pub...i really nice evening. Then 6 big bouncer looking type guys walk in with their cases. Looked at the owner and she just said its league night. So we had a couple more drinks and these lads hadn't even got their cues out of their cases yet so we went over and started playing on one of the tables. We got half way through the game and one of them pipes up "you gunna be long on there, we've got some practice to get in". I said nah, just finish this game and its all yours. We finished the game and went back to the bar.

An hour or so passed and the other team entered the pub. The matches got under way and we could hear them all having a laugh and a bit of banter between teams. But it all changed rather quickly. All I heard was "keep your mouth shut, you little fat b*****d". I just though oh god, these guys are taking it a bit seriously aren't they! Well, all hell broke loose verbally. All I heard was shouting and swearing from about 10 different people and "touching ball" kept being said, not quite sure why. Then I just heard a glass smash and a cry of "arghhh". Some poor guy had a pint glass smashed over his head over a league match! Wtf? Well s**t hit the fan and they started fighting. At this point me and the mrs decided to bigger off and jumped in the car and headed off home.

What is wrong with people? I've never seen anything like that before over a league match! They should be ashamed of themselves.
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Funny, I've always assumed pool in Britain is as in the following documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc3E7UkIzt4

Gideon<----I think I need a Begbie to English translation
 
in a bar fight in the u.s. you have to worry about your ear getting bit off. since in england that cant happen you have to worry about a bottle over the head.
 
Pidge said:
Lol.

Ask Ron Swanson, I'm sure he will be happy to translate for you.
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I have lost count of the number of times people have said i look like begbie. Not robert carlisle, mind. Begbie. Anyway, it's memikey or churchy you need to spraff tae fo' pure radge jocko, ken?
 
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Ron Swanson said:
I have lost count of the number of times people have said i look like begbie. Not robert carlisle, mind. Begbie. Anyway, it's memikey or churchy you need to spraff tae fo' pure radge jocko, ken?
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Aye, ah ken, ah ken.
 
Pidge said:
Yes, but fortunately I'm not from America, the land of I gots me a gun, might aswel shoot somebody.[/QUOTE

You may or may not agree with gun ownership. But it is true, that the possibility of someone being armed keeps the 6 big bouncer types polite.
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Perhaps, but I draw the lime of someone risking losing their life over words. If there is an immediate risk to a persons life and they are concealing then by all means its you or them..but I feel if it was legal in the UK to carry, there are too many scrotes in this country that there would be no choice but for everyone to carry.
 
When I think of an England badass I think of none other than Lee Murray.

Dude was more than legit.

He first rose to fame through an Internet forum on a night when the UFC held its first event in London I believe. It was a great night of fights but the talk on the boards was all about Lee Murray, a local fighter who wasn't even on the card. You see Tito Ortiz was the UFC champ and posterboy if you will and recognized as the best. He was at an after party that also contained Chuck Liddell, Pat Militich, Mark Hughes (Matt's twin brother), and many others. An arguement started between Tito and the Militich camp, who Lee had trained with, and soon Tito and Lee were squared up and Lee knocked him out cold in a fair fight. He had legit skills for a thug and went on to have a pretty good career in some big organizations.

One other story I remember was when he was at a party of some famous female celebrity in England and not uncommonly got into another fight. He was severely stabbed by multiple guys and at first reported dead. He didn't die though and was said to have been brought back to life 3 times that night. Again there was a lot of talk on the forums with people saying they hope this will straighten him out. A few days later he makes a post that essentially said fach all of you and minds your own biz. Needless to say it didn't straighten him out and not too long afterwards this occured,... http://youtu.be/WcSt3_JiQFo

Anyone who has ever met Lee will tell you that he was the real deal and scared of nothing.
 
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Pidge said:
Yes, but fortunately I'm not from America, the land of I gots me a gun, might aswel shoot somebody.[/QUOTE

You may or may not agree with gun ownership. But it is true, that the possibility of someone being armed keeps the 6 big bouncer types polite.
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Pidge needs to visit a gun club range next time he's in the states...you won't find a more polite and congenial group of people anywhere, for obvious reasons...;)
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Pidge said:
Alright calm down now. The comment you quoted from me was obviously out of order on my part, I can admit that. FWIW the times I've visited your side of the pond I've met nothing but nice people. Complete strangers coming upto me and chatting purely because I'm English.

Know of any yachts for sale? :-)
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Unfortunately there are Drunken dumbasses everywhere. Yes we tend to be kind to strangers over here. Especially if they act like they don't speak English then we kindly overcharge them for their drink, smiling the whole time.....so what language do you speak Old Boy? lol

I have seen boats for sale, on huge trailers for cheap, the expensive motors were out so the owner decided to scuttle the project. Friend of mine bought one for his kids to play in. What a playhouse!!
 
threres one reason why this (pool)will never be a respectable sport...played by profesionals..like golf or tennis it should be but will never be in our lifetime a olympic type sport..but you dont see the above mentioned sports played in bars nite clubs and honky tonks .oooo whatch your languge on hear when you tell yor stories here theres some sensative lady boys on here who are not use to how men talk............FLORIDA DA GUN TAMPA DA TRIGGA FLU FLY.. DA GIANT KILLA..
 
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