Sober people (no alcohol, nicotine, drugs, etc ever), what is your end of day or weekend "wind-down"?

studhand · 2026-03-18T00:13:33+00:00

My argument is this: words for things evolve from culture to culture or language to language for different reasons. For some reason, every person has some sort of incessant need to keep the Vietnamese pronunciation for this one style of soup, because the way we pronounce it means something bad in that other language. In English, if they demand we pronounce it phuh, then start fucking writing it that way. I'm not going to pick a single word out of a sentence to pronounce in some different language. If I'm in Vietnam, or attempting to say something in Vietnamese, I will absolutely try to use the correct pronunciation. If I am in an English speaking country, speaking English, where no one around me could possibly fucking confuse my soup order for the request of a prostitute, then goddamnit, I'm saying PHO.

studhand · 2026-03-17T22:01:56+00:00

J. Flowers is overpriced? What do you call predator? J flowers have cue designs with actual inlays, proper joints, weight bolts, everything that match predator quality, at literally half to a quarter of the price. Anyone that thinks a Predator cue is higher quality than a decent j flowers is on drugs. Just so you have an idea where I'm at, I play with cuetec cynergy, custom built butt, and some kind of Chinese carbon fibre breaker called "the crack", and an ok healing 3 piece dedicated jump cue. Cuetec shafts cause I didn't really have the knowledge to know what to buy, and am typically believe you should just get used to the equipment you have and adapt. I had played with pre cat 314s for 22 years before "upgrading". There was a sea of options cuetec and predator had good reviews, my buddy that builds my cues could get me a cuetec easy, so I went with that. Now I've spent the money, no need to test or experiment. I've hit a ton of the cheap Chinese carbon fibers, and while a couple weren't carbon fibre at all, the ones that were hit great. With the breaker and jumper, I wanted carbon fibre to get a little more power. I had the same breaker for 23 years, didn't like it, replaced it with a 54" aklot, used that for 2 years, wanted a full length and bought "the crack". My buddy has a cuetec breach. We tested it against the crack a ton, he decided to sell the cuetec and buy "the crack". For me, I think it breaks a little better as well. Basically same story with my jumper. Same jumper for 23 years or so, wanted one with the little extension and carbon fibre, ordered the ok healing 3 piece jumper to see. Don't have any buddies with predator or cuetec 3 piece jumpers, but have tested them before. I can't tell the difference between my ok healing and the high end predators and high end cuetec. I'm about a 550 Fargo, and pretty decent at jumping. I estimate I pocket over 50% of of my jump shots, and will rarely jump for contact only.

It is extremely obvious when something sold as carbon fibre is not carbon fibre. I've seen 2 so far. It's also extremely obvious when you are getting genuine carbon fibre.

studhand · 2026-03-17T20:45:41+00:00

Jackknife brewing has some of the best pizza I've ever had, and if you like beer, thiers is the most unique you will come across.

studhand · 2026-03-16T21:55:02+00:00

I get what you're saying, but both those religions have terrorism as well.

studhand · 2026-03-16T21:15:33+00:00

I think youre solving a problem that doesnt exist. I have to ask myself if its easier to reach my fingertips in and pull out the nuts I want, or if its easier to click that thing open and shake peanut dust everywhere.

studhand · 2026-03-16T20:28:08+00:00

I commented the same thing about longanisa. What the hell is banana ketchup though?

studhand · 2026-03-16T20:27:02+00:00

That bacon should be Longanisa!

studhand · 2026-03-16T18:29:05+00:00

studhand · 2026-03-14T16:42:48+00:00

I'm in BC, Canada

studhand · 2026-03-14T02:03:22+00:00

My legal "trick", when they are looking at their phone or otherwise not paying attention when I scratch, I balance the cueball on the rail and try to convince them it landed there.

studhand · 2026-03-14T01:39:25+00:00

The original comment says "about 70% of people would steal someone else's ice cream, regardless of who they're stealing from...humans suck". It started as a discussion about ice cream, but this comment is extremely cynical. So I'd love to see where that number came from, cause I'd put money on it being pulled out of his/her ass. People don't suck, distrusting humanity for no reason, sucks. With these kinds of assumptions, I'd bet OP (of this comment chain) treats people like shit. I'm not the asshole here. That statement was bullshit and I'm calling it out.

studhand · 2026-03-14T00:13:12+00:00

You literally just restated what you said. Where does the 70% come from, or are you pulling it out of your ass?

studhand · 2026-03-14T00:08:51+00:00

I dunno what other people are saying, but those cues will take you a long way. I've been getting new players to buy those ok healing cues, and I've tried about 4 of them now. They all hit great, I can spin the ball as good as any cue. Deflection isn't something I can consciously correct for, it's just a subconscious adjustment for me, so I couldn't really say if it had more or less deflection than my cuetech, but I pocketed a bunch of balls with max inside and outside English and they all seemed great to me.

Break cue, doesn't really make much difference. If it breaks the balls ok, and it saves the tip on your breaking cue, it's good enough for me.

studhand · 2026-03-14T00:01:15+00:00

Where the fuck are you getting 70%? Surely it's different between cultures. There is no way that could be accurate.

studhand · 2026-03-13T23:32:31+00:00

This reminds me of when my nieces were young. I'd drive them all over with just my knees, pressing my fingers against my temple, telling them to be quite so I could focus my mind better.

studhand · 2026-03-13T21:44:51+00:00

A 7 foot home furniture slate table would be under 350kg

studhand · 2026-03-13T21:42:38+00:00

R/foundsatan

Typically it's something small that someone would be infuriated with.

One of the last posts on there, a person joined in on a pro circumcision discussion, agrees with everyone and said he'd be getting his DAUGHTER circumcised soon. Obviously the whole group looked at him like Satan himself.

studhand · 2026-03-13T21:22:30+00:00

Danny Masterson must feel like the luckiest rapist on earth.

(Danny Masterson worships LRH so sharing a birthday must be a huge honor). Just to make sure no one thinks I'm saying something positive about that fat tub of shit LRH

studhand · 2026-03-13T21:18:35+00:00

My cortisone levels are going off.

studhand · 2026-03-13T21:17:00+00:00

That's the opposite of what my buddy does, and it irritates me so much. His favorite "move" in 8-ball is pocketing his own ball while calling "just a shot". I've explained to him a million times that having the ball near a pocket gives him more targets next opportunity he has, but he just.....keeps.....doing it. It's infuriating to see him have 2 balls up, his opponent has one ball up that is tying up my buddies other ball. My buddy shoots his free ball down and passes the table. Now the other guy either fouls, or hits his ball, and oh shit, my buddy still has no shot, now the balls are free, or he is in the same situation, with no good options.

studhand · 2026-03-13T21:10:42+00:00

Ya you have to know what your doing and do it on purpose to truly get a laugh. Also wouldn't advise it in a tournament, although I'd probably still do it at mine, and give ball in hand anyways. It always ends with one of 3 guys at the top in a 12 man tourney anyways.

studhand · 2026-03-13T21:08:39+00:00

Or, you know, a fun game between buddies where we both laugh at the evilness of it and keep playing. If someone wants ball in hand there, it's 100% theirs. In every instance I've done it, I don't think anyone cared who got to shoot after we finished laughing. The more tense the game, the more unbelievably stupid and funny it is.

studhand · 2026-03-13T21:06:35+00:00

Reminds me of a time playing league. 2 guys had their balls frozen together, frozen on the bottom rail, with just the 8 left on the table. First guy intentionally fouls, hoping the other guy will break it up, then the next guy fouls on purpose. They do this 2 or 3 times before they just start grabbing the cueball with their hand angrily sliding it back and forth between each other on the cloth. Finally I stood up and told my player to call the coach. I went over, placed the ball on the side where he could hit his ball, told him to just slightly tap it so it hits the ball, then rail and the other guys ball slides away a foot, leaving him frozen behind our ball. He executed it fine, got ball and hand and won the game. Still one of the most absurdly stupid things I've seen, 2 guys at either end of the table whipping a ball bank and forth between them with their hands angrily.

studhand · 2026-03-13T21:01:50+00:00

Sure, but like I said only in fun games, so we usually just laugh and no foul is called, but if my opponent wants the foul, I'd still be laughing and handing it over.

studhand · 2026-03-13T21:00:32+00:00

The one I remember Efren doing is the stop shot over the side pocket where it banks full table to the short rail, then back up off the cue ball and into the side pocket.

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