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by Dan-cat » 05 Feb 2018 Read
Which sessions will you be attending my good man?
Also - well done on the month off beer!
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by SnookerFan » 05 Feb 2018 Read
Dan-cat wrote:Which sessions will you be attending my good man?
Also - well done on the month off beer!
Truth be told, I aint felt like it. Still suffering on and off with stomach pain and heartburn. (Some good days, some bad ones.)
Been on some pills for it.
Some days I can't even look at a beer.
I'll live, mind. Other days fine.
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by Chalk McHugh » 05 Feb 2018 Read
SnookerFan wrote:Dan-cat wrote:Which sessions will you be attending my good man?
Also - well done on the month off beer!
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Truth be told, I aint felt like it. Still suffering on and off with stomach pain and heartburn. (Some good days, some bad ones.)
Been on some pills for it.
Some days I can't even look at a beer.
I'll live, mind. Other days fine.
Good man snooker fan. I've cut back myself bigtime. Only drank twice in four months now. Hsd a bit of a slip up two weeks ago. Back on the horse now. I like being sober. Something to be said for feeling fresh. Hopefully your pains ease up. Probably be worse if you were still drinking regularly.
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by SnookerFan » 05 Feb 2018 Read
That's why I'm not. Had a 330ml bottle with lunch on Sunday. My first beer since 3rd January.
Edit. I meant since 3rd January. I've been off it less than I've been pretending.
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by Chalk McHugh » 05 Feb 2018 Read
SnookerFan wrote:That's why I'm not. Had a 330ml bottle with lunch on Sunday. My first beer since 3rd December.
Did it go down the hatch well?
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by SnookerFan » 05 Feb 2018 Read
Yeah, it was nice. Didn't make me feel worse.
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by SnookerFan » 12 Feb 2018 Read
Oh, and by the way, I'm at the Saturday evening semi-final and all day final.
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by Deewee » 12 Feb 2018 Read
I was there last year from Wednesday to Sunday, 19 games. Great fun. My first live snooker. Didn't see much of Preston though. One day I didn't get enough sleep and forgot to eat in between games which resulted in hallucinations that people were speaking Finnish. Slightly disturbing.
Highlight was watching McGill-Fu at 1am with about five other people and Liang playing great against Perry. Also bumping into Hawkins in the hotel lift after the first session of the final. Hope the crowds are better this year though I didn't think they were completely awful.
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by SnookerFan » 12 Feb 2018 Read
Yeah, I remember the poor crowds.
Looking forward to my first trip to Preston.
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by Dan-cat » 12 Feb 2018 Read
when does this start? I know I'm being lazy
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by SnookerFan » 12 Feb 2018 Read
Dan-cat wrote:when does this start? I know I'm being lazy
Monday, I think.
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by Dan-cat » 12 Feb 2018 Read
SnookerFan wrote:Dan-cat wrote:when does this start? I know I'm being lazy
Monday, I think.
Ace!
The shootout makes me miss proper snooker. What a vaudeville sham that tournament is.
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by SnookerFan » 12 Feb 2018 Read
Dan-cat wrote:SnookerFan wrote:Dan-cat wrote:when does this start? I know I'm being lazy
Monday, I think.
Ace!
The shootout makes me miss proper snooker. What a vaudeville sham that tournament is.
Some peo just need to accept that it's a ranking event.....
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by Dan-cat » 12 Feb 2018 Read
I'm a virtue signalling snowflake flip-flop. At least I. Think I am...
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by Chalk McHugh » 12 Feb 2018 Read
Whats the craic with this Grand Prix? Never heard much about it. Where is it in order of importance in the snooker calender year?
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by Chalk McHugh » 12 Feb 2018 Read
Whats the top 10 tournaments?
1 Worlds
2 Masters ( many prefer the UK)
3 UK
4 ? Is it dictated by prize money only?
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by Alex0paul » 12 Feb 2018 Read
Chalk McHugh wrote:Whats the top 10 tournaments?
1 Worlds
2 Masters ( many prefer the UK)
3 UK
4 ? Is it dictated by prize money only?
China Open number 2 now
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by Chalk McHugh » 12 Feb 2018 Read
Alex0paul wrote:Chalk McHugh wrote:Whats the top 10 tournaments?
1 Worlds
2 Masters ( many prefer the UK)
3 UK
4 ? Is it dictated by prize money only?
China Open number 2 now
I kind of mean the top 10 for prestige, not just money. The three majors are the ones all the players want. And the fans love. Whats the next best seven i'd like to know. For prestige and history andxatmosphere ( not just money). For the players? And for the fans? China and Germany are two i'd say. Maybe the four home nations tournaments. After that im struggling. I barely heard of the Grand Prix.
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by Chalk McHugh » 13 Feb 2018 Read
Although the empty seats in China is not a good look. They can jump up the prize money all they want but it doesnt have much of an atmosphere.
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by KrazeeEyezKilla » 13 Feb 2018 Read
The importance of the Chinese events seems to be all over the place. The International Championship was created as the Chinese major but then came the China Championship and now the China Open has overtaken both of them. The crowds and dull look of them keep them from rivaling the UK or Masters.
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by Badsnookerplayer » 13 Feb 2018 Read
...but they did invent the Chinese snooker.
Actually I have always wondered why it is called that. I mean, it is bizarre really. None of the Chinese lads seem to specialise in it do they? In China, would they just call it a snooker and call a normal snooker an English snooker?
This sort of thing can worry people and needs clarification in the rules.
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by Badsnookerplayer » 13 Feb 2018 Read
...and another thing - if I put a bit of side on the cueball, then Acesinc and his compatriots would say that I applied English to the white. I have seen all nationalities apply side but you might say that the English invented it. I find that hard to believe if I am honest.
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by SnookerFan » 13 Feb 2018 Read
Ding vs King.
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by Dan-cat » 13 Feb 2018 Read
Badsnookerplayer wrote:...but they did invent the Chinese snooker.
Actually I have always wondered why it is called that. I mean, it is bizarre really. None of the Chinese lads seem to specialise in it do they? In China, would they just call it a snooker and call a normal snooker an English snooker?
This sort of thing can worry people and needs clarification in the rules.
They didn't invent it, it just got called that. No-one has a satisfactory answer why. I heard Clive Everton and Neal Foulds discuss it at length in commentary with no definitive answer. If Clive doesn't know, then.... it's not worth knowing.
I've noticed that the commentators have stopped calling them that recently, I'm guessing in case it's considered racist?
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by Dan-cat » 13 Feb 2018 Read
Badsnookerplayer wrote:...and another thing - if I put a bit of side on the cueball, then Acesinc and his compatriots would say that I applied English to the white. I have seen all nationalities apply side but you might say that the English invented it. I find that hard to believe if I am honest.
I have a theory that both the chinese snooker and the use of the word English in America to mean side is because it's some kind of play on that fact that it's a bit tricksy/canny/underhand?
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by SnookerFan » 13 Feb 2018 Read
Dan-cat wrote:Badsnookerplayer wrote:...and another thing - if I put a bit of side on the cueball, then Acesinc and his compatriots would say that I applied English to the white. I have seen all nationalities apply side but you might say that the English invented it. I find that hard to believe if I am honest.
I have a theory that both the chinese snooker and the use of the word English in America to mean side is because it's some kind of play on that fact that it's a bit tricksy/canny/underhand?
Well, not really.
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by Dan-cat » 13 Feb 2018 Read
Here's an answer from The Answer Bank when I Googled 'why is a chinese snooker so called' (incidentally, it was a pre-saved search on google - we are not the only ones wondering.)
'I believe the most popular explanation is due to the stereotyping of the Chinese as being or rather diminutive stature. So, when the cue ball is directly in front of another ball, it is harder for a shorter person to make a clean contact, as they have to raise the butt of their cue. The taller you are, the easier this is.'
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Phrases ... 58001.htmlI call bullsh*t on this.
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