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Earwicker posted:is there some kind of context to this? like is it related to some kind of drama or internal politics in the snooker world? does the orange color have some significance? or is it just some random nut who wanted to get on tv for a second? There's no orange ball in snooker so the colour is extra offensive to snooker audiences.
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Bad Purchase posted:the gape is its own reward, just as righteous with a ball inside or nothing at all So Kirk is renting himself out as a snooker hole now? If so it would be an easy shot, even for me. Dicere posted:The event was two English people playing a game in (probably) England, with (probably) mostly English people in attendance. Maybe there was a Welshman in the stands, who knows. Like ... it's a pretty low emissions form of entertainment. Same with going to the museum to look at paintings. The message I'm getting here is that any form of leisure or enrichment is a sin so long as carbon is in the atmosphere, which comes off as a worldview of someone unwell.  Also I hope the activist's clothes didn't hypocritically include any petroleum-derived products, e.g. plastic in buttons, shoes or shoelace tips. At least it's a less destructive protest method than vandalising great art. Those people should be locked up for years IMO.
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Dicere posted:The event was two English people playing a game in (probably) England, with (probably) mostly English people in attendance. Maybe there was a Welshman in the stands, who knows. Like ... it's a pretty low emissions form of entertainment. Same with going to the museum to look at paintings. The message I'm getting here is that any form of leisure or enrichment is a sin so long as carbon is in the atmosphere, which comes off as a worldview of someone unwell. the just stop oil people are all about getting as much publicity as they can for their cause, from wherever they can get it. it's not anything to do with snooker per se
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Mescal posted:When we heard that sound we thought it was another of Ronnie "the Rocket" O'Sullivan's champion farts, but no. An astonishing thing. While Robert Wilkins or Joe Perry was lining up his shot, a strange figure ran in, jumped on the table, and released an explosion of what resembled orange Gatorade powder. The Crucible Theatre erupted in boos. "Nay," they shouted, "Get away. Bunch of decent folk have come here to enjoy the game. Thank you, no." wtf is with the typeface choice on that video's image there? is that Comic Sans? gross.
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BigBadSteve posted:So Kirk is renting himself out as a snooker hole now? A few years ago someone hassled an airport with drones in England. It stopped all the flights for safety reasons and the search area was so wide they couldn't find the person doing it. I'd have been very gutted if I'd booked a flight/holiday then, but I couldn't help admire the sheer impact of such a small thing and assumed the climate protestors would take it up as a new method. But they never found the person flying the drones and it's not happened since I don't think.
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mudskipp posted:A few years ago someone hassled an airport with drones in England. It stopped all the flights for safety reasons and the search area was so wide they couldn't find the person doing it. Well then maybe they did find them...
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Dicere posted:The event was two English people playing a game in (probably) England, with (probably) mostly English people in attendance. Maybe there was a Welshman in the stands, who knows. Like ... it's a pretty low emissions form of entertainment. Same with going to the museum to look at paintings. The message I'm getting here is that any form of leisure or enrichment is a sin so long as carbon is in the atmosphere, which comes off as a worldview of someone unwell. They're literally funded by an oil tycoon's granddaughter lol
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Apr 19, 2023 09:50
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The idea that we can "just stop" using oil is incredibly naïve
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Honestly just stop oil at this point feels almost like like a set up with the objective of damaging public opinion of climate activists and protests.
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Mr Teatime posted:Honestly just stop oil at this point feels almost like like a set up with the objective of damaging public opinion of climate activists and protests. what's the cointel reach of a snooker tournament, in tens of millions of people
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Apr 19, 2023 10:42
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MrQwerty posted:what's the cointel reach of a snooker tournament, in tens of millions of people Look first it’s snooker but what next, darts? Horseshoe throwing? That one place where they chase a big cheese down a hill? Nothing is sacred to these people.
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there are only two kinds of climate protests: the ones that are hated and the ones that are ignored Remember last year when a guy immolated himself in front of the US Supreme Court? Quite likely you don't because the news didn't care.
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I think that's happened a couple times in the UK recentlyish around job centres (unemployment gov services) and it was also very unreported for how significant an act it is
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If the protestors could make really big jellies which were disruptive due to their size/location in a public place I think that'd convince people better
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Apr 19, 2023 11:37
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:he really snookered them there haha Why does it mean that? Why does snooker also mean "to trick"? It's not a very tricky game. "Wow, my opponent put a ball in a hole! I really didn't see that one coming. What a tricky move!"
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Apr 19, 2023 12:49
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secretly replace all the snooker balls w/ balls that explode into colored powder before the championship game and it will be the greatest tragedy to befall the UK since WWII
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Mr Teatime posted:Look first it’s snooker but what next, darts? Horseshoe throwing? That one place where they chase a big cheese down a hill? Nothing is sacred to these people. A darts crowd would gently caress them up. They're a rowdy bunch, especially at the worlds.
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Mr Teatime posted:Look first it’s snooker but what next, darts? I wanna hear Russ Bray scream about someone sabotaging a Darts tournament. https://youtu.be/JmhENVVNDY0
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Blurry Gray Thing posted:Why does it mean that? Why does snooker also mean "to trick"? It's not a very tricky game. "Wow, my opponent put a ball in a hole! I really didn't see that one coming. What a tricky move!" when you "snooker" someone in the game, it just means you've left the cue ball in a position where your opponent can't directly hit whatever ball(s) he has to hit next, and he'll have to bank it off the sides or something to hit his target ball and avoid a foul. so it's like leaving them in a tricky situation, you've "snookered" them.
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Blurry Gray Thing posted:Why does it mean that? Why does snooker also mean "to trick"? It's not a very tricky game. "Wow, my opponent put a ball in a hole! I really didn't see that one coming. What a tricky move!" to "snooker" your opponent means to play a legal shot in such a way that when they have to play the next shot, the ball they have to hit is hidden behind another ball or balls, thus making it more difficult than usual for them not to foul
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So would you say replacing all the balls with balls that explode into colored powder when they get hit would be a jolly royal snookering
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Apr 19, 2023 13:48
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Back in the day the balls had a bad habit of exploding.
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goatface posted:Back in the day my balls had a bad habit of exploding.
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STABASS posted:it's pool for people with bad teeth 
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mudskipp posted:A few years ago someone hassled an airport with drones in England. It stopped all the flights for safety reasons and the search area was so wide they couldn't find the person doing it. With the christmas Heathrow disruption they aren't even sure if there was actually any drone. It was at night, confirmation bias etc.
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Every stupidly formal british thing should be disrupted like this. Their time is over, the fake posh poo poo needs to end. They're foggy island trash and it's time to start acting like it
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Konar posted:Every stupidly formal british thing should be disrupted like this. I hope to god protesters gently caress up the coronation so half this wretched island dies of outrage
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is snooker the game where you can get points for bouncing the Q ball off the walls again and again and get infinite points forever
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naem posted:is snooker the game where you can get points for bouncing the Q ball off the walls again and again and get infinite points forever No it's not. hth.
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I saw a youtube or something once and it was balls in a diamond shape in the middle of the table, just like the triangle of balls in pool the guy just kept hitting the q ball equivalent in bouncy shot around the other balls instead of hitting balls, into the balls everyone acted like he was doing something really clever maybe just warming up?
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bitterandtwisted posted:I hope to god protesters gently caress up the coronation so half this wretched island dies of outrage 
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Konar posted:Every stupidly formal british thing should be disrupted like this. snooker's not some stuffy thing for the patricians. it's cheap to play and the stars i can think of are mostly from humbler backgrounds. for those of you unfamiliar snooker is a 'sequence' billiard game. in such games you get the balls in a certain order. eg in 9ball, you have to hit the lowest number on the table. the sequence balls are the 'colours' and they are numbered, though not labeled. there is a second group of balls, the reds, which are fungible and nonnumbered. the player alternates between sinking ('potting') a red ball and potting a colour. however, the sequencing does not begin until all the reds are gone. until then, you may repeatedly alternate sinking the highest-value ball and reds. The reds stay down and the colours get spotted until, again, the reds are gone. the game begins with one player breaking the rack as gently as possible with a safety intended to disallow the opponent points. the different character of play is largely due to how the game punishes recklessness. you've also got bigger tables, smaller balls, thinner sticks, smaller holes. the pocket bevels are rounded, which means that if balls miss they don't sit before the pocket--they ricochet unpredictably. and with the high speed of the tables it just means risky shots are much riskier. so yes the shots are difficult to execute. but people saying it's a hard game, i don't understand that. it's a competitive game. it's only as hard as your opponent. the game can last for minutes with a century break, which is like a break-and-run with bonus points, or they can extend interminably with exhilarating safety battles. for those of you saying "why is this on TV in egland," you probably see a game that's as boring as pool but more confusing. that's not true. i play pool. pool is boring to watch. snooker is a great spectator sport, because it has depth of strategy, and because of that skill levels do not mean foregone conclusions. the strategy difference is about the difference between chess and turkish draughts. a snooker player could probably place high in a world pool championship but the opposite is less true.
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Mescal posted:snooker's not some stuffy thing for the patricians. it's cheap to play and the stars i can think of are mostly from humbler backgrounds. this is very true. we used to have a snooker club in my area when i was younger. it was basically a cheap pub with a few rooms of snooker tables. good way to kill a few hours, drinking pints and playing snooker with your mates.
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it's good for dieting too you can lose 20 pounds playing snooker with andy capp
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What the gently caress is on everyone's ears? Headphones?
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They're headsets to listen to the tv commentary.
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Bad Purchase posted:pretty sure i heard at least one c word from the audience Its Northern England I’d have been more surprised if no one said it.
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Chrs posted:Its Northern England I’d have been more surprised if no one said it. look at this oval office from the south of england
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