CaliforniaMama Wednesday May 29 01:04 PMMay 29, 2013 - Billiards Anyone?
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ZenGum Thursday May 30 03:22 AMMy reactions:
Nice!
Cool in an indutrial sort of way.
Ooh, very zen.
Yes! my favourite.
Fun, but would the game play properly without a felt surface?
and ...
You're just an idiot.
glatt Thursday May 30 08:40 AM
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Originally Posted by ZenGum
and ...
You're just an idiot.
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The car one? Yeah. I though the same thing. You can't even gain access to that entire end of the table.
Lamplighter Thursday May 30 09:04 AM
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Fun, but would the game play properly without a felt surface
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fuzzy balls ?
ZenGum Thursday May 30 09:26 AMNope.
Waxed.
What?
Sundae Thursday May 30 02:57 PMHang on!
Is billiards another name for pool?
Otherwise where are the pins?
HitTheLake Thursday May 30 03:40 PM
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Originally Posted by ZenGum
Fun, but would the game play properly without a felt surface?
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As a pool (billiards) player, I wondered the same thing.
Interesting reading about this table
Aliantha Thursday May 30 09:41 PMWelcome to the cellar HitTheLake!
Clodfobble Thursday May 30 11:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Sundae
Hang on!
Is billiards another name for pool?
Otherwise where are the pins?
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I thought the pins on the table were for snooker? Billiards and pool mean the same thing in the US, and snooker is that weird other game that only cigar-smoking British men play.
xoxoxoBruce Friday May 31 01:37 AMPins are for bowling, cue sports, billiards, pool, snooker, etc, don't use pins.
toranokaze Friday May 31 02:39 AMand lets not forget 8 ball , 9 ball, and those other fun money making games
BigV Friday May 31 09:19 AMthanks to HitTheLake's link, I learned that the bare glass surface requires their specially coated balls to play. it surely looks weird.
jimhelm Friday May 31 12:28 PMYou said specially coated balls.
Beest Friday May 31 01:00 PMBilliard tables ain't got no pockets, just sayin' .
Sundae is referring to Bar Billiards.
Clodfobble Friday May 31 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Pins are for bowling, cue sports, billiards, pool, snooker, etc, don't use pins.
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What's the game that looks like pool, but the table is smaller and there are a bunch of obstacles sticking up in the way? Kind of like the round bumpers inside a pinball machine, but made of wood and rubber. I can't even find a picture because I don't know what to call it.
Edit: Kind of like what Beest just posted, but not quite.
glatt Friday May 31 01:13 PMbumper pool
Clodfobble Friday May 31 01:17 PMOoh, that's it! Like this one!
glatt Friday May 31 01:21 PMyep! Great for basement rec rooms and other small spaces.
xoxoxoBruce Friday May 31 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Beest
Billiard tables ain't got no pockets, just sayin' .
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Google and I disagree.
Sundae Saturday Jun 1 05:57 AMGoogle and I disagree about taxes.
But I agree with Beest on the subject of bar billiards.
No idea if there are still any tables set up in pubs these days.
But I bet there are, especially village pubs.
Hell, I know one which still has its own skittles alley.
xoxoxoBruce Saturday Jun 1 10:25 AMThe trouble with you Brits is you keep lallygagging in the past, those tables went out with sword fighting and knickers. You even get football wrong.
Sundae Saturday Jun 1 02:10 PMOkay, British bar billiards may have had their day.
But don't even talk about the global phenomenon that is soccer (true, original name for football), as opposed to the egg-chasing with padded shoulders
Cheese rolling, that was a failed export.
Ditto Piers Morgan. You don't like him... but then we didn't either.
I'd rather fall down a hill in Gloucester than have dinner with him. Even if he was paying. And that's saying something.
infinite monkey Saturday Jun 1 03:28 PMsoccer started here for all the kids who had no real athletic talent.
you get a trophy just for getting out of the car.
oh, it's the strawberry festival this weekend, btw. didn't see you in the parade.
it's raining.
is piers as pompous and snotty as he looks?
piers. hahhahahaaa! say, piers old chap, tally-ho and whatnot.
--william wordsunworth
Sundae Saturday Jun 1 04:07 PMCulturally, I know what I would rather watch (meaning the culture I grew up in) but I was only responding to Bruce's baiting
Does Piers look snotty? I don't think he looks as snotty as he is.
To look like his character he'd need to be covered in so much slime and snot that he leaves a snail-trail. He'd also need to have some sort of ferrety nose poking out, and a rat's ability to crawl through sewers.
Plus a huge mutated brain, like he'd been bred in a lab. Because the man is genuinely intelligent, don't be fooled.
He just has no morals, decency or boundaries.
He'd sneak into your bedroom and steal your tampons to get DNA if he thought he could get a story.
ETA - no, not at Strawberry Festival this time. Sadly.
I'm now barred because of last year's "incident".
I didn't know someone had laced the strawberry punch with vodka!
Anywhoo, turns out someone with suspected cirrhosis isn't counted as having the correct moral fibre to be a Festival Queen.
xoxoxoBruce Saturday Jun 1 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Sundae
Culturally, I know what I would rather watch (meaning the culture I grew up in) but I was only responding to Bruce's baiting
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Oh sure, blame the victim. I'm sorry I dress so sexy.
Sundae Saturday Jun 1 04:15 PMDon't dress, gorgeous.
I'll be round later.
SPUCK Monday Jun 3 06:26 AMDon't rag on Piers!
That pompous dickhead.
Beest Monday Jun 3 09:32 AM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
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I see your google and raise you a wiki ( or two)
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In the United States, though the original "pool" game was played on a pocketless carom billiards table, the term later stuck to all new games of pocket billiards as the sport gained in popularity,[citation needed] and so outside the cue sports industry, which has long favored the more formal term pocket billiards, pool has remained the common name for the sport.
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from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool_(cue_sports))
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carom_billiards
xoxoxoBruce Monday Jun 3 11:21 AMI suppose you're muzzle loading your paintball gun, too. At least try to move up to the last century. Christ, no wonder you lost the empire.
ZenGum Monday Jun 3 08:41 PMI thought pocket billiards was something else entirely.
Your reply here?
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