Comments on: Asking for trouble

By: pool table dimensions

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:46:57 +0000

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By: Pool Table Paul

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:41:27 +0000

My favorites of all pub games are pool and darts. There are so many types of games you can play when it comes to both pool and darts, and they are also great games to get your drunken mates involved in too.

By: Brandy

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:50:42 +0000

Scoring free booze is simple. Hardly counts as a mission, secret or otherwise.

By: Ben

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:47:35 +0000

Ouch, pool balls hurt as weapons, my teeth bare record of their effectiveness.

There is Pool, Billiards, Snooker and one other (I think).
I don’t play much in pubs, too many fights over the rules. Plus I can break glasses with the cue too easily.

By: Ben

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:44:00 +0000

Is this a secret mission? Or can you tell us the finer details?
I bet it is to simply score free booze, I wish I was female, then I could have even less liver.

By: Adam

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:16:15 +0000

You’re right, I forgot to add pool… we do have a differnt version here with just two different colours, but the 8-ball version is becoming more popular in the dedicated halls.

And that’s the thing. Pool tables take up a lot of room… room that could be filled with drinking customers, so they tend have slowly disappeared from most pubs as they get re-furnished.

Aww, remembering the days when a decent pub fight included pool cues and smudges of blue chalk under your eyes… Oddly I recently heard about a mini-riot in a UK prison where the pool table became the focus of the action. A lot of projectiles…

By: Erika Hammerschmidt

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:17:58 +0000

My husband John and I are just starting to get interested in pool. The eight-ball kind. I don’t see that on your list… is it not played in bars where you live? (And is it called something different? What exactly is the difference between pool and billiards?)

Used to be that you couldn’t go anyplace to play pool without being choked with secondhand smoke, which gives John hives on his face… but now that smoking is banned in pretty much every public place in Minneapolis, we’re finding the game fairly entertaining. Currently John is a lot better at calculating angles and spin than I am, and the only advantage I have is that John has an unfortunate tendency to sink balls he’s not supposed to (his opponent’s balls, the cue ball, the eight ball before its time). But I just know that he’s going to get a lot better really fast, and then I won’t stand a chance against him without huge handicaps in my favor.

By: Aya

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:16:54 +0000

Well, i’d say it’s not such a bad thing having to talk to the grumpy old bloke glued to the bar, somehow forces inter-generational meetings, doesn’t it? I’ve always seen the pubs as a socializing place where you could meet people in a friendly fashion around good ales (or not so good ones sometimes, you couldn’t imagine how distateful stouts are here).
Anyway, here in France, the only one game played from the above is darts… Shame the others gave way on the process of transfusing pubs in that country. But, I imagine that’s the way civilization goes on, keeping to the cutting edge.

By: Brandy

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:50:21 +0000

Unfortunately for everyone, I have never been rendered speechless by alcohol. Quite the opposite, I’m afraid.

By: Adam

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:03:41 +0000

Franzy Darts – It’s good for your heart.

Or not, depends how good the throwing player is.

By: Adam

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:02:54 +0000

Mission in a pub? Intriguing…

Your mission, should you accept it, is to render yourself speechless and legless. This gin will self destruct after reading.

By: Adam

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:01:39 +0000

Ahh, real men again.

I bet the horse shoes were the size of jet engines…

Heads up…

By: Adam

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:59:59 +0000

You know how hard it is to find a ha’penny these days? They’ve been out of circulation for years…

I’d love it if the holodeck replicated that too… yeah you can play, but first you have to ring up most of your old relatives, and talk to the grumpy old bloke in the pub to get hold of what you need.

By: Maura

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:13:13 +0000

They did!

By: franzy

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:16:10 +0000

My favourite version of darts is to see how badly I can scare the shit out of my best mate when he’s standing right next to the board writing up the scores. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, gets the blood pumping and the high-pitched squeals going like a steel spike juddering in the fibre-board inches from your hand. Or your head.
Points are awarded for the most people standing around watching who suddenly stop talking.

By: Brandy

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:04:05 +0000

I very, very rarely play pub games. When I do happen to wander into a pub (not often), I have a mission and I don’t care to distract myself from said mission with other tasks.

By: Roo

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:45:55 +0000

Oh, where I grew up it was definitely traditional to play horseshoes while drinking beer — but not in pubs. At cook-outs, rather… guys with flame, slabs of bloody meat, cheap beer — hurling heavy metal objects alternately in different directions through the air.

By: Davey

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:58:44 +0000

Well, they play horseshoes around here, but not in the pubs, and not while drinking. (It’s a semi-dry county… weird!)

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:46:57 +0000

Obviously I’m familiar with darts, otherwise I’ve seen all of these (except Quoits) on television. I believe they played Shove Ha’penny on the holodeck in Star Trek the other day.