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selenau837 said:Eh, don't swear much! Bloody hell!!!! That's funny!
Yes that's true, we Brits aren't known for our foul language, it's an American trait, something to do with a lack of vocabulary
![Stick out tongue :p :p](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png)
selenau837 said:Eh, don't swear much! Bloody hell!!!! That's funny!
what pray is coke zeroselenau837 said:Nope, Coke Zero!! Gotta keep the balls of my nice new tongue ring shiny. And the coke should do it.![]()
It is much better than Diet Coke. It actually take more like real coke. It doesn't have the nasty after taste.ColinEssex said:what pray is coke zerois that what we call diet coke in the UK?
ColinEssex said:I remember an old saying my Mother used to say
"Knacker lacquer adds a lustre to your cluster"![]()
keep yer balls shiny at all times
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Col
Thought that was "Billiards" and Snooker was more akin to Nine Ball... OK...British translation/input, please...ColinEssex said:Snooker is the proper way to play what you colonials call 'pool' - much more skill needed
Bodisathva said:Thought that was "Billiards" and Snooker was more akin to Nine Ball... OK...British translation/input, please...![]()
Matty said:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooker
"Snooker is a billiards sport that is played on a large (12' × 6') baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. It is played using a cue, one white ball (the cue ball), 15 red balls (worth 1 point each) and 6 colours: a yellow (2 points), green (3 points), brown (4 points), blue (5 points), pink (6 points) and black ball (7 points). A player wins a frame of snooker by scoring the most points, using the cue ball to pot the balls in the manner described below. A match consists of an agreed number of frames. Snooker is particularly popular in English-speaking and Commonwealth countries, and the Far East."
selenau837 said:I thought Snooker was a octagon playing table with little post sticking up in the middle of the table. They appear to be obsticals, but I don't know. Never played it.
Rich said:That's skittles![]()
selenau837 said:Wow, I thought skittles was a rainbow colored fruit flavored candy.
Bodisathva said:sounds like "Skittles" is "Bumper Pool"..."Snooker" is close to "Pool"...but not quite.
Bodisathva said:Billiards, or Straight-Pool, only requires that you pocket a ball during your turn, scoring is usually one point per ball, you continue shooting until you miss. From the description of Snooker, the object would be to seek out the balls with the higher point value as opposed to taking the easiest shot. Of course, "house rules" are always different, but that is the basic idea.
Bodisathva said:Sort of, but in nine ball, you have to pocket the balls in turn, but whoever sinks the nine (assuming in rotation or by using the next ball in the rotation) wins and the only points assigned are the number of games won.
But...imagine a game of Pool where you take either "stripes" or "solids". In that case, you have to stick to "your" target balls, but there's not a point system established, so I suppose Snooker would be a combination of Billiards and regular Pool.
I'm sure the British contingent will correct me...