What about no footwear?
Or do you not class swimming and surfing as sports?
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Very good, well done.
It’s not a sport if you play it professionally in your normal shoes.
Although that could just be marketing. Mrs jokes that I have more shoes than her. Golf, cricket, football, squash, running etc etc
BBC Iplayer fucked that up.
guessing you don’t play a lot of 9-ball then.
That’s pool, not snooker either.
And I could reverse my car into one of the pockets, they’re so big
That Robertson bloke’s hair is upsetting.
that’s wonderful, but snooker isn’t really condusive to most social situations.
Much like fly fishing compared to gear fishing. Sure, you can fly fish if you really want to. But if you want to catch fish, gear is the way to go.
hell of a lot easier to fit a 4x8 pool table in a bar, than a snooker table.
We all looked like that during lockdown tbf.
Or a billiard table.
are we seriously going to have a semantics debate on the definitions of billiards vs pool vs snooker?
In fairness billiards is/can be used as a catch-all term that includes snooker and pool but it is its own game (I guess it’s kind of like Rugby teams calling themselves Rugby Football Clubs when they in fact have no football).
Billiards is played on a table with no pockets and there are only three balls - A red, yellow and white. I can’t say I’m an expert but I believe you get points by hitting all three balls and at least three cushions with each shot.
No.
But the original post was about how skilful snooker was.
You brought the massively less skilful game of pool into the discussion
and you brought the term billiards into the discussion, which is a generalized term for cue-based games like 8-ball, 9-ball, cutthroat, snooker, carom, etc.
In the 1961 film The Hustler, the duration was 2hr 14mins.
They were going to make one about snooker, but they didn’t think the cinema audience would sit through a 16hr film :0)
Starring Paul Newman - Here is as ‘Fast Eddie’ (What a great moniker)
It really isn’t important enough for me to be arsed reading back, but it was actually you.
Well mine was more Tom Petty.
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I totally did.
Almost…