You know what I hate?

Safety

Safety

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I'm usually a really positive and optimistic person, but sometimes I hear the most annoying things when I'm at the poolhall.

Maybe its just me, but it especially bugs me when I hear someone say, "I should bring my friend, he'll beat everyone in here. He was the top geometry student when we were in high school and now he's an engineering major at [fill in your favorite Ivy League school here]!"

Is it just me? What are the other outrageous things you've heard?
 
Safety said:
I'm usually a really positive and optimistic person, but sometimes I hear the most annoying things when I'm at the poolhall.

Maybe its just me, but it especially bugs me when I hear someone say, "I should bring my friend, he'll beat everyone in here. He was the top geometry student when we were in high school and now he's an engineering major at [fill in your favorite Ivy League school here]!"

Is it just me? What are the other outrageous things you've heard?
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Hope this is nothing personal. In high school, I was the captain of the Math team and I am also an Ivy League graduate. Believe me, a few of us geeks actually can run a rack.
 
sjm said:
Hope this is nothing personal. In high school, I was the captain of the Math team and I am also an Ivy League graduate. Believe me, a few of us geeks actually can run a rack.
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You can play because you put the time in on the table. Not because of your education. One doesn't have anything to do with the other.
 
I have heard things like that before, it bothers me a bit, but not very much, as long as they are not obnoxious with it. There is a lot more to pool and billiard than geometry I know that, I'm asian, we are born with a calculus formulas tattooed on our back. lol. It bothers me more is the guy that brings a girl to a poolhall and try to show off or "teach" them how to shoot. Obviously he is terrible at pool, he brings his own glove, use a house cue(which there is no problem with shooting with a house cue, but you bring your own glove but you didn't bring your own cue, kinda lame-o) and miss shots like he was a bat flying in day time. They try to bank shots and etc and tell the girl, "Oh, usually I can make that shot over and over again, I'm just off today." or ,"I'm just going easy on you." blah blah blah you lil' pr!ck.


A month or so ago, I ran into a girl I knew at Ray Rec. witha guy friend of hers. She says the guy is teaching her how to shoot, and so I watched him play (This was the guy I was just describing above.) and he was terrible, and since he knows that she knows me, he was watching me shoot the entire night, but I acted as if I didn't knotice them watching me. Later on the nite, while the guy walked off for a drink, I asked her, you are letting this douche bag teach you how to shoot? She laughes and when the guy came back, she says to him, hey do you want to shoot a game with him (me) and her guy friend stood there looking at me, and I stood there looking at him, he doesn't say anything, bends over to miss another shot and didn't answer her question. lol Not to say I am good, because I suck terribly at pool, and this guy was worst than me, trying to teach someone how to shoot lol. I think that bothers me more than the engineering friend comes in to clear out a poolhall deal lol. Maybe I'm just jealous of the guy who brings the girl to the poolhall...... :eek: ....:o ***cough*** bullsh!t ***cough*** :D

Happy shooting! :)

Chino
 
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some of the funniest stuff I have ever seen . . .

It didn't annoy me, struck me as terribly funny when I would watch a female friend that could play pool getting "taught" by somebody that they could beat playing one handed jacked up and still spotting them the last three. The pained expression on the girl's face when the man couldn't see it was hilarious and I always knew that the man would be paying dearly sooner or later for being allowed to give those lessons.

Hu



chin0 said:
I have heard things like that before, it bothers me a bit, but not very much, as long as they are not obnoxious with it. There is a lot more to pool and billiard than geometry I know that, I'm asian, we are born with a calculus formulas tattooed on our back. lol. It bothers me more is the guy that brings a girl to a poolhall and try to show off or "teach" them how to shoot. Obviously he is terrible at pool, he brings his own glove, use a house cue(which there is no problem with shooting with a house cue, but you bring your own glove but you didn't bring your own cue, kinda lame-o) and miss shots like he was a bat flying in day time. They try to bank shots and etc and tell the girl, "Oh, usually I can make that shot over and over again, I'm just off today." or ,"I'm just going easy on you." blah blah blah you lil' pr!ck.


A month or so ago, I ran into a girl I knew at Ray Rec. witha guy friend of hers. She says the guy is teaching her how to shoot, and so I watched him play (This was the guy I was just describing above.) and he was terrible, and since he knows that she knows me, he was watching me shoot the entire night, but I acted as if I didn't knotice them watching me. Later on the nite, while the guy walked off for a drink, I asked her, you are letting this douche bag teach you how to shoot? She laughes and when the guy came back, she says to him, hey do you want to shoot a game with him (me) and her guy friend stood there looking at me, and I stood there looking at him, he doesn't say anything, bends over to miss another shot and didn't answer her question. lol Not to say I am good, because I suck terribly at pool, and this guy was worst than me, trying to teach someone how to shoot lol. I think that bothers me more than the engineering friend comes in to clear out a poolhall deal lol. Maybe I'm just jealous of the guy who brings the girl to the poolhall...... :eek: ....:o ***cough*** bullsh!t ***cough*** :D

Happy shooting! :)

Chino
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You could play into it and take all of their money right? Build them up saying how great mathmeticians are at pool and how you are afraid of his friend especially if he brings a protractor and sextant.

Imagine some doofus measuring out angles on a pool table while gambling and going nuts when he can't make a ball and loses all of his money.
 
My personal favorite is the old guy who has run everywhere around the country, telling people to either use a light, or heavy cue depending on the person telling the story. You know him, he always hung around that pool room that some idiot told you they were always playing $100 a ball. You know, the same one that woofs at everybody in the bar to play for 50 or 100 a game till you say ok, then he wants to warm up for 5?
 
My favorites are the guys who come in, and bang balls around for a little while. Then they come up to you and want to play for free, or maybe something cheap..... .then they start telling you how they used to make a living playing pool, and all the cool fancy shots they made again Joe Schmoe at the local bar 20 years ago.....
Chuck
 
:slap: Chino, You should have just Rack um up for him.
You might have made some points with the girl. :kiss: :dance:
 
RiverCity said:
My favorites are the guys who come in, and bang balls around for a little while. Then they come up to you and want to play for free, or maybe something cheap..... .then they start telling you how they used to make a living playing pool, and all the cool fancy shots they made again Joe Schmoe at the local bar 20 years ago.....
Chuck
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That reminds me of a story. I had just started playing again after a 10 year layoff. One day I am at Family Billiards in San Francisco practicing by myself and notice a guy standing by the cash register watching me. The guy takes about 20 minutes clocking me before he finally comes up and asks me to play. He asks me if I want to play some and I reply, "sure how do you want to bet?" Well the dude got all flustered by my simple question and proceeded to tell me that he doesn't gamble because he had lost close to a million gambling over the last couple of years. I told him it was no big deal and that I would just play him for nothing, and that I thought that he wanted to play me for money the way he was watching me practice.

So we ended up playing for fun and I must have beaten the guy 12 games in a row and I could tell the guy was really developing a complex about the whole thing. He finally told me he was going to quit and that he was wasting my time. I kept telling him not to worry about it but I could tell that this was a huge ego blow to this dude, he really thought of himself as a great player and felt that I had somewhow hurt his image in this poolroom by showing him up, which was not my intention at all. Funny thing is, later that night there is a tournament on the other side of the bay, and he shows up. We ended up drawing each other first round, I end up winning 5-0. After this day I ran into the same guy at the pool hall on almost a daily basis, he never spoke to me again!
 
Haha...everyone here just made me feel better. Thanks!

Its not the statement alone that bugs me...its just how frequently I've heard that SAME EXACT thing. Its always geometry and engineering.

I guess I can understand where geometry would come from if they didn't know how to play. But engineering????

sjm said:
Hope this is nothing personal. In high school, I was the captain of the Math team and I am also an Ivy League graduate. Believe me, a few of us geeks actually can run a rack.
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Sorry, I wasn't attacking geeks. I'm a geek myself. I was actually complaining about the people who make those statements. I don't mean to offend anyone by this post, just venting.
 
thebigdog said:
That reminds me of a story. I had just started playing again after a 10 year layoff. One day I am at Family Billiards in San Francisco practicing by myself and notice a guy standing by the cash register watching me. The guy takes about 20 minutes clocking me before he finally comes up and asks me to play. He asks me if I want to play some and I reply, "sure how do you want to bet?" Well the dude got all flustered by my simple question and proceeded to tell me that he doesn't gamble because he had lost close to a million gambling over the last couple of years. I told him it was no big deal and that I would just play him for nothing, and that I thought that he wanted to play me for money the way he was watching me practice.

So we ended up playing for fun and I must have beaten the guy 12 games in a row and I could tell the guy was really developing a complex about the whole thing. He finally told me he was going to quit and that he was wasting my time. I kept telling him not to worry about it but I could tell that this was a huge ego blow to this dude, he really thought of himself as a great player and felt that I had somewhow hurt his image in this poolroom by showing him up, which was not my intention at all. Funny thing is, later that night there is a tournament on the other side of the bay, and he shows up. We ended up drawing each other first round, I end up winning 5-0. After this day I ran into the same guy at the pool hall on almost a daily basis, he never spoke to me again!
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Thats not nice... He should've at least given you some table time and buy you a drink for the free lesson.
 
ShootingArts said:
It didn't annoy me, struck me as terribly funny when I would watch a female friend that could play pool getting "taught" by somebody that they could beat playing one handed jacked up and still spotting them the last three. The pained expression on the girl's face when the man couldn't see it was hilarious and I always knew that the man would be paying dearly sooner or later for being allowed to give those lessons.

Hu
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Haha, I haven't seen that one before, but there are a few Redheads that come in Ray Rec. once in a while, gosh those ponytails on her are fu(king hot!.... Yes... I do fantasize about it :o :D :thumbup: They shoot pretty good, I don't ever underestimate girl players. I wish there were girl players up there that would shoot with me. lol


rackem said:
:slap: Chino, You should have just Rack um up for him.
You might have made some points with the girl. :kiss: :dance:
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The girl was a lil' on the heavy side, and that is an understatement. Though she was overweight, she was a hell of a cool chick. I know, I know, fat girls (:eek: Did I really say fat!!!??? hope I didn't offend anyone) need love too, but that is a lil too appetizing to me. :grin:

Yea, I should've just went over to the table while he stood staring at me and just racked it up for him and give him the break. That would've been fun, because I never shot with a complete stranger before, gosh that makes my blood flow hot right now, lol. Hope the guy doesn't just come up like WTF!!!??? and punch me in the face lol

Happy shooting! :)

Chino
 
I don't like the guys that piss and moan, after you beat them, about how they didn't get enough sleep the night before, work was so hard today, or any other excuse they can come up with. What is it with pool players? Can't anyone just say "Good game" and leave it at that?
MULLY
 
According to the Pythagorean theorum and postulate 14.7, if I hit the ball about here, it should then continue to rotate in a counter clockwise motion until striking the railsurface, enabling the theory of relativity to take control and force that postulate into play enabling me to execute this simple 8 rail bank into the cross side with the blue and white ball over there.......



What about the "my dad and grandfather were professional pool players and all the pros used to bounce me on their knees when I was a baby...and I got this $3000 custom made black stained maple and balsam wood nylon wrapped JossWest/Balabushka given to me personally back in the day when I started playing professionally". And then can't string together 3 balls in ten minutes.
Why don't those types ever play for anything real.......or EVER SHUT UP?
I just want to carry them into the damn bathroom and give them a swirly just to shut them up, sometimes!



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sjm said:
Hope this is nothing personal. In high school, I was the captain of the Math team and I am also an Ivy League graduate. Believe me, a [highlight]few[/highlight] of us geeks actually can run a rack.
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The word "few" is used when the figure is too minuscule to mention. I graduating from the University of Southern California with a Masters in Business and later graduated from Air War College. That doesn't mean I can "take care of buinesss and blow people off the table." Like thebigdog said, "You can play because you put the time in on the table. Not because of your education. One doesn't have anything to do with the other."

(Just messing with yea man, I gave you a rep for geeking, i mean speaking up!)
 
mullyman said:
I don't like the guys that piss and moan, after you beat them, about how they didn't get enough sleep the night before, work was so hard today, or any other excuse they can come up with. What is it with pool players? Can't anyone just say "Good game" and leave it at that?
MULLY
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It's human nature to find excuses for their weakness instead of accept defeat like a real sportsman and learn from the lost game. I call them Man-B!tch lol
 
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