Social Science Unpopular Opinions you have (non-football) Part III

[Catfish Alley]

My sister has a full size table. I enjoy a few games on it when visiting but don't think I'd want one even if I did have the room.

 

[phantom13]

My sister has a full size table. I enjoy a few games on it when visiting but don't think I'd want one even if I did have the room.

I tend to agree with this, noting again, if I had all the money and some sprawling estate I’d gladly have a pool table.

 

[Shell]

I was gutted when I saw "Felt" and Hotel Lindrum had closed. Lovely restaurant + free pool. What's not to love about that.

 

[burge13]

I'm amazed by the amount of people I've known with home pool tables that only played 8 ball (in between loads of washing, natch)

I reckon every time I asked "Do y' wanna play 9 ball instead?" I had to follow up by explaining the rules for 9 ball. No one ever seemed to play snooker either. And forget billiards!

You'd think if you went to the expense of a home table, you'd have at least tried every game you can play on it over the intervening years? Not just the one game played by bogans in pubs or ladyboys in Patong Beach bars

Snooker is great but some home tables are a bit small imo. 9-ball is a rubbish game, can't blame people not playing that

 

[Shell]

Got the entire house + pool table to myself while my uncle services my car.

Not bad at all.

 

[Kram]

Got the entire house + pool table to myself while my uncle services my car.

Not bad at all.

Wrong fred?

 

[Shell]

Wrong fred?

No?

 

[Kram]

Thought that would be pleasing not unpopular.

Nm missed the posts above.

 

[Pistol Night]

Is there laundry on it?

Every time I go around to someone's place with a pool table it has laundry on it.

Nah it had a cover and it was in the man cave so was no excuse not to use it. I think i played too much when we were younger and got sick of it

 

[Kram]

The problem is you need people coming over to play against, and arguably a few drinks. Unless someone is young with mates how often does that happen with older people with families?

 

[Kram]

Worked on one new house where the pool table had to be put up in the loft as they were finishing the construction as it wouldn’t have been able to be moved up when finished.

So it's there forever..

 

[edgie]

I don't understand why some people don't just stick a hard top on a pool table and use it as a table.

I've got an air hockey table but with no hard top for it it's annoying to work around and can't use it for much else.

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[Quivorir]

We had a hard top on the one I had growing up and it became a laundry table.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

Smoke alarms cause more harm than good.

No doubt smoke alarms can save save lives and injury. The flip side are deaths and injuries from falls experienced while replacing batteries or when the alarms go off and howl like banshees.

Unlike a blown globe where you can plan and get a maintenance person or nimble person to replace, a madly twitting smoke alarm or worse when it hits banshee levels require immediate attention which people are tempted to do.

I have had all the detectors removed from my place. I danced about as I drowned the fekkers.

Have had a squizz at Coronial and Australian Institute of Health and Welfare data. We know hospital admission data on falls is inadequate - roughly 20% of cause of fall eg trip, loss of balance etc. We also don’t know what people were aiming to do when they fell from ladders or balanced on ladders/furniture inside the house.

Thoughts?

 

[Billy ray]

Smoke alarms cause more harm than good.

No doubt smoke alarms can save save lives and injury. The flip side are deaths and injuries from falls experienced while replacing batteries or when the alarms go off and howl like banshees.

Unlike a blown globe where you can plan and get a maintenance person or nimble person to replace, a madly twitting smoke alarm or worse when it hits banshee levels require immediate attention which people are tempted to do.

I have had all the detectors removed from my place. I danced about as I drowned the fekkers.

Have had a squizz at Coronial and Australian Institute of Health and Welfare data. We know hospital admission data on falls is inadequate - roughly 20% of cause of fall eg trip, loss of balance etc. We also don’t know what people were aiming to do when they fell from ladders or balanced on ladders/furniture inside the house.

Thoughts?

Maybe they should go on walls?

 

[Kram]

You can't stop the false smoke alarm pressing the button with the end of a broom stick like everybody else?

 

[PT Bar None]

If you can't be trusted to stand on a ladder, subscribe to detector inspector. Or better yet, guilt your children into paying for it

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

You can't stop the false smoke alarm pressing the button with the end of a broom stick like everybody else?

High ceilings and shoulder issues required climbing on furniture.

If you can't be trusted to stand on a ladder, subscribe to detector inspector. Or better yet, guilt your children into paying for it

best personal solution was drowning them in a bucket of water.

how many lives have they saved? How many have they cost?

 

[Kram]

You must have the shoulders of a 100 yo if you can't poke a big button with a stick..

 

[PT Bar None]

High ceilings and shoulder issues required climbing on furniture.



best personal solution was drowning them in a bucket of water.

how many lives have they saved? How many have they cost?

Nil all for me

 

[peternorth]

+1 for snooker.

Many memories and good times had at friends place in the 80s whose basement was a haven for us kids. Full sized snooker table, sega or nintendo with zillions of games, bean bags, tv.

 

[dogs105]

Board game table would be awesome:

 

[the_interloper]

+1 for snooker.

Many memories and good times had at friends place in the 80s whose basement was a haven for us kids. Full sized snooker table, sega or nintendo with zillions of games, bean bags, tv.

Steve Davis on Pot Black on the ABC FTW! (I'll bet you watched it too)

 

[peternorth]

Steve Davis on Pot Black on the ABC FTW! (I'll bet you watched it too)

Fond fondest memories when lived in the UK watching the world snooker championships with friends. then wed go to the snooker room and mimic all of the characters like jimmy white, alex higgins, steve davis, colin hendry and james wattana

 

[Engimal v3]

Fond fondest memories when lived in the UK watching the world snooker championships with friends. then wed go to the snooker room and mimic all of the characters like jimmy white, alex higgins, steve davis, colin hendry and james wattana

When I was really depressed I for some reason would be oddly calmed by snooker videos. I still don't really know the rules, but I've watched a * load of footage on Ronnie O'Sullivan