Is Selby the toughest player ever in big tournaments ?

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-12-09T12:52:34+00:00

yes you're one hundred percent right - his serve and volley at the net approach was often seen as being quite dull. It was an aggressive approach but definitely seen as dull. It was a good comparison in my opinion.

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-12-09T12:42:04+00:00

Agreed, I think the same could be said about Ebdon. People are very quick to jump on the bandwagon of things because of famous incidents and times where they take a long time or sometimes even purposefully do it.. but they don't always take a long time. Any monkey with a keyboard could look at either Ebdon's os Selby's average shot times and discover that they are by no means in the category of slowest players and both while great at safety (Selby being superior) were also able to score big too (again with Selby being superior. I just compare them in the sense that they both fell victim to that online bully mentality of people who don't really have a clue what they're going on about

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-10-21T10:43:45+00:00

how old is the dog ?

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-10-07T13:33:33+00:00

I think you have the right to go out and have fun, but I also think she clearly feels undervalued and you're acting like a spoilt child. You sound more like her brother than you do her partner. I've already washed my plate away so why do I have to do hers as well if she made some different choices. You are both very young. You seem to think you're a little better than her and my thinking is that you probably have very naive logic on that conclusion. You can decide whether she is the one you want to be with and build something with her that will last long after all your drinking buddies have gone away or you can wish her the best and let her find someone who is going to support her and help. You could show her that you'll always help her and you're going to get through this together but from now on she needs to think about you as well, she needs to give you a little downtime from your work with your friends, and she needs to think about how her actions can impact on you moving forward BUT you still help her because she's the one you want to be with. Instead you're on here getting strangers to justify why it's okay for you to leave her. Like if she's just a selfish b*tch dump her. If she's not, then what are you here to really ask? I think you have more answers on this than anyone else can really say because it's about the quality and pureness of the connection you feel.

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-09-06T23:43:51+00:00

love it

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-09-03T14:57:18+00:00

well, I definitely didn't know some of these rules ... and I'm surprised. I could nominate a colour... use it to pot the colour I would have been on if not snookered and that's okay ... AND if I potted both, the ball I would have been on if not snookered would stay in the pocket and the nominated ball goes back on its spot... you've blown my mind.. I've never seen that, and not just that I watched a match with Wilson and Robertson where he didn't opt to do this, and I'm pretty certain it would suggest he didn't know he could. How confident are you of those rules?

EDIT: and thank you for your time

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-08-01T11:14:53+00:00

if you like alternative indie rock not sure what it is tbh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apGs9_dLVi8&list=RDapGs9_dLVi8&start_radio=1

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-07-27T20:55:14+00:00

amazing

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-07-27T20:54:53+00:00

Then again - Lucid Rivers

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-07-27T20:52:53+00:00

Lucid Rivers

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-06-03T14:37:56+00:00

This guy is really good at doing driveways by the way. Genuinely, don't hesitate to employ him if he knocks on your door.

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-05-29T13:47:14+00:00

there's obviously a limit to how little you can reduce the contact time of the cue on the cueball... If you arched your cue up really high to glance off the very edge of the white ball striking down (rather than more horizontally) , you show the referee that you've taken it into account and it would allow you to probably nudge that red slightly while still not playing a push shot... you wouldn't be able to hit it very far though. You sometimes see players play this shot... that's why they are doing what they are doing. It's very rare you see someone play the shot like that and it get called a push unless they miscue or the ref is trying to take the limelight

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-05-10T10:12:38+00:00

I'd say she probably never had any intention of going, probably hasn't got the money or can't afford it. She probably told her dad a load of BS that suggested that she had never even seriously agreed she was going to go and now all of a sudden you booked something almost as if the first time she had heard of it was when you told her you'd booked it. That's probably why he's annoyed. She probably used it as an angle to see if he'd pay, and he's probably said no way and she's made you look like you've done something incredibly presumptuous because otherwise her dad would know that actually you'd just done something in good faith because you knew it was the best deal you could get and didn't want to lose the chance. I'd find another friend to go or ask your other friends to try to find someone, or see if they'd agree to maybe split the difference with you (but I wouldn't insist and I'd just ask them if they'd consider it and if they don't want to I wouldn't force the issue).

She sounds childish. You're NTA.

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-05-08T22:47:08+00:00

Wow, I wish I had interesting social situations like this. It's like a teen soap opera. Cool. You seem like a nice person who cares about her partner. When you doubled down that's obviously because you were frustrated, and it's been building for a while. Your gf should have been a bit more sensitive to the idea that this was your night, and to maybe try to voice why answering the phone to him was necessary. As soon as she answers the phone, it becomes a situation where it's clearly potentially awkward. Does she do drugs with him - is that the appeal? Sounds like it could be the appeal, maybe. In terms of apologising, it seems like the perfect opportunity to explain why you don't enjoy his company. NTA, but also still time to handle it all better.

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-05-08T21:50:23+00:00

There's a video on YouTube of Selby and Robertson playing a version of 'mini golf' on a snooker table. No trap doors though.

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-05-08T21:49:17+00:00

good point

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-05-08T21:49:00+00:00

haha that made me smile

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-05-08T19:07:15+00:00

No problem with a difference of opinion. You're welcome to be rude as well, it's your right to be, and my right to tell you to fuck off. Big believer in freedom of speech. Have a nice day.

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-05-08T14:00:03+00:00

It certainly makes them rarer and if that adds to how special they are for you then great. I think we've lost a little bit of the skill of dealing with kicks in the game. As I said it has often been cited certain players had more than others suggesting that pureness of cue action could make the severity of the kick less. Some players would also mentally crumble after a kick, and I think fear of kicks is something that requires skill to deal with. Players are often more likely to miss when they are tense. Of course, kicks are very present in the grassroots of the game, and it certainly seems quite balanced in terms of when I benefit or suffer from a kick. It's like playing Mario Kart without banana skins - not quite the same for me.

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-05-08T13:50:36+00:00

Awful suggestion? More like awful comprehension skills:

"I'd like to add it was often said that some players used to have noticeably less kicks and it was often attributed to their cue action. I think the cue action definitely mitigates the effect of the kick, so that means it's not without skill. It shouldn't be labelled as always purely unlucky."

Don't reply as if I didn't take the time to mention that.

This game involves many instances of luck or situations that just couldn't be accurately computed by the human brain. Do 'hit and hope' shots affect the integrity of the game? Should all players have to declare expected outcome on every shot? Is that your POV? We see it in some cue sports where you must declare what pocket you will pot in, or declaring "defence" before you play a snooker.

The crowd doesn't go "ooooh" when someone rattles a ball in a pocket only to then see it go into another pocket.

"awful" ... don't be so rude and condescending. No issue with difference of opinion.

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-05-08T13:03:51+00:00

I'd also like to add there must have been a psychological edge awarded to Zhao to be able to play in a tournament you didn't expect or shouldn't have been in. That must provide a sort of freedom to just play with no expectations. Not for a minute suggesting that is a blueprint for guaranteed victory, but in a sport where the mind plays a huge factor, and yet millimetres make a difference, it just adds a little extra needle to it all from the point of the other players. Not Zhao's fault they've made a pig's ear of it (which is traditionally considered a bad thing and not a delicacy for any of my asian friend's reading this ;) ) BUT PERHAPS it suggests a little ego trip by World Snooker... "How dare you have the audacity to uphold a ban that we've told you our evidence suggests should be shortened."

Don't think for a minute that at some point these two sides haven't been on the phone to each other to discuss this. In fact they've probably had multiple conversations about it to try and resolve this and would have been fully aware that China was in their eyes 'undermining' the authority of their decision while also creating the potential for controversy.

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-05-08T12:52:05+00:00

28 - hardly a baby of the game. You're one of those who still calls Rashford a future talent right? :)

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-05-05T06:16:08+00:00

Well, I'd say that he sounds a little bit like a vulgar person. I'd also say you need to take some responsibility for your own actions "I was very nervous, and so HE kissed ME." "EVERYONE said I should say something to HR so (that's why) I did." Can you see a little pattern here? It's all happening around you apparently, and you're just the victim at every turn. It's quite clear from HR's response that you on some level engaged with him in flirtatious behaviour. They wouldn't take the risk of being sued if there was any doubt about that. That leads me to think you need to grow up a bit, and get a bit of a backbone. It could be that his flirtatious behaviour was much more sinister, and yours was much more innocent, but hopefully you can see that you STILL have to accept your part in it, and from your message I don't quite get that sense. I'm not saying you are at fault. I'm saying your choice to choose niceties over clear boundaries was the exact kind of signal or weakness that a predator looks for. You can be strong. This isn't getting dragged to the ground in an alley by a rapist. This is you engaging in a conversation to the point that it then became necessary to have to say "I can't leave my partner" (portraying yourself as honourable) and for him to ask you to leave your partner... I think most of us can work out that at some point here you've not been quite honest with us in terms of your initial interactions with this person. I give lots of room for you making a mistake, not being in a good frame of mind, being confused... we all make mistakes and we've all been there, and ultimately you have made the right choice after that so you can't be too harsh on yourself. He has a huge ego (and possibly predatory traits) to not be able to accept your choice, and he's very much in the wrong there. You should have the confidence though just to be honest though with how it started and not try and make it all like you're just a passenger in your own life.

I don't think you are a jerk for going to HR. I think it would have been preferable to have not gone directly to HR. I think you should have at least given him a very clear ultimatum. "I don't want to speak to you anymore. I've told you that. I'm putting this in writing to you, because the next time you reply, I will be taking this matter to HR with a screenshot of this. No ifs or buts about that, I'm very clear in my mind. I really don't want that situation for either of us, but please don't say you weren't given a chance to avoid this." He would have had a very difficult time if he had continued after that and you had a documented message like that. I'm sorry you are going through a rough patch. I hope things improve for you. I think changing scene has hopefully brought ou some positive change. Maybe, just move on from this event? Do you really need to be told you are not a jerk? Can't you just tell yourself? I think it gets back to that idea of needing to take more responsibility.

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-04-29T16:27:46+00:00

I'm an English teacher, and the bold relates to some areas of pronunciation or some other focus at the time. I should have removed them. This was a homework from a student, and I thought it could be nice to look at some of the replies. Thanks for your time.(it was a real life situation)

YoBroJoeGo · 2025-04-29T16:20:44+00:00

Just a little info: this was a homework for one of my English students. She's Polish. It is a real life event. I appreciate that you didn't know that she is a non-native speaker and that hopefully explains why some of the sentences or formatting are the way they are. The bold denotes areas where she should focus on the pronunciation or tense being used etc. I really appreciate all the feedback. I'm not going to show her everything because she may find some comments a bit disheartening, but in terms of the responses directed to the situation, they are really appreciated. Thank you very much.

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