The football thread

Chlidonias said:
oh people get hurt in ping-pong too. One of those balls can take an eye out! I knew one guy who had two glass eyes after losing his real ones in a ping-pong match. He still played but wasn't much good any more.....
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That's sad. You can get hurt in pretty much any sport (is Ping-Pong considered a sport?) although I haven't really heard of anyone getting hurt in Cricket.:p

~Thylo:cool:
 
All sports are dangerous, my friend knows someone who broke their wrist after a snooker ball flew off the table.
 
ThylacineAlive said:
What the hell is a snooker ball.
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It's a ball you play snooker with. It comes in nine colours.

Snooker has many similarities to pool but is basically a lot harder to play, particularly when drunk. The table is larger, the balls smaller, the pockets narrower, the rules more complicated, the game more tactical - and it involves doing maths.

I've been a passable pool player in my time, but my maximum snooker break (points scored at a single visit to the table) is no more than 9 (the maximum assuming no penalties or irregularities is 147).
 
ThylacineAlive said:
I had myself watch a live Soccer (Football) scrimage yesterday and it wasn't that bad. I watched a Lacrosse game after and found it vastly confusing and had a very difficult time keeping track of the ball.

~Thylo:cool:
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If you were watching a scrummage, then that was surely rugby, not football.

If you were watching football, then that wasn't a scrummage.
 
Maguari said:
If you were watching a scrummage, then that was surely rugby, not football.

If you were watching football, then that wasn't a scrummage.
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I was watching a scrimmage, not a scrummage.

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~Thylo:cool:
 
epickoala123 said:
I was going to say pool, but wasn't sure if americans played pool
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You're too young* to have had the pub debate about 10 minutes into the game about whether you were playing American rules or British rules, or indeed House rules, and whether you are therefore allowed a free ball/to shoot backwards from the D/to play without nominating/to still play your extra shots after you've potted a ball/to stay on the table if you win to play a stranger and therefore have less fun.

For your future reference, the correct solution is always - "who cares, is it your round?".





*I say this - but we are talking Scotland here... :D
 
According to Ernest Hemingway there are only two sports; bull fighting and auto racing. The rest are games.
 
I know roughly about pool, in fact I slotted a few balls myself earlier tonight. I couldn't care less about english or US rules
 
ThylacineAlive said:
That's sad. You can get hurt in pretty much any sport (is Ping-Pong considered a sport?) although I haven't really heard of anyone getting hurt in Cricket.:p

~Thylo:cool:
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My teeth got smashed with a cricket ball, so four of my front teeth are rebuilt. After 20 years and a few root canals later they are still fine, except the rebuilt portions look much whiter than the rest of my teeth. :D
 
Chlidonias said:
what about Foxy Boxing?
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As thylacine said, there are under aged kids here. Which reminds me: what is the minimum age to be a member here as per the site's terms and conditions? We do discuss some adult topics so at the very least I thought it would be pg 13.
 
ThylacineAlive said:
That's sad. You can get hurt in pretty much any sport (is Ping-Pong considered a sport?) although I haven't really heard of anyone getting hurt in Cricket.:p

~Thylo:cool:
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It was either a baseball or cricket batter that got killed after being hit in the head by the ball. Someone in the stadium said that the sound of the ball hitting his skull was so loud they thought he'd hit the ball with the bat.
 
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