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glatt 05-31-2013 12:13 PM

bumper pool

Clodfobble 05-31-2013 12:17 PM

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Ooh, that's it! Like this one!

glatt 05-31-2013 12:21 PM

yep! Great for basement rec rooms and other small spaces.

xoxoxoBruce 05-31-2013 09:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beest (Post 866662)
Billiard tables ain't got no pockets, just sayin' :eyebrow:.

Google and I disagree.

Sundae 06-01-2013 04:57 AM

Google 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 06-01-2013 09:25 AM

The 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. http://cellar.org/2012/bwekk.gif

Sundae 06-01-2013 01:10 PM

Okay, 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 :rolleyes:

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 06-01-2013 02:28 PM

soccer 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 06-01-2013 03:07 PM

Culturally, 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 06-01-2013 03:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sundae (Post 866800)
Culturally, I know what I would rather watch (meaning the culture I grew up in) but I was only responding to Bruce's baiting :)


Oh sure, blame the victim. I'm sorry I dress so sexy. :cry:

Sundae 06-01-2013 03:15 PM

Don't dress, gorgeous.
I'll be round later.

SPUCK 06-03-2013 05:26 AM

Don't rag on Piers!



That pompous dickhead.

Beest 06-03-2013 08:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 866717)
Google and I disagree.

http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios...urnamenr-2.jpg

I see your google and raise you a wiki ( or two)

Quote:

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.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool_(cue_sports))

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carom_billiards

xoxoxoBruce 06-03-2013 10:21 AM

I 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. :rolleyes:

ZenGum 06-03-2013 07:41 PM

I thought pocket billiards was something else entirely.


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