Terry's Videos Showing SIT or No SIT?

[Hello, Mr Big Shot]

I can't remember how the SIT stuff started now. This is bonkers hahaha

This is more controversial than CB V On sighting and "Thai gate" lumped together

The irony is, this is not controversial at all. That a couple of B level players have never heard of something means nothing. TSF is a tiny, insignificant speck on the cue sport playing world; hugely unrepresentative of players around the world.

Snooker has always been a backward, parochial pastime - the very reason it is dying. It needs to reinvent itself by appealing to a broader audience. Top global sports are sliced and diced a million times every day from every conceivable angle - this creates interest and develops internal markets. Stats, technology, personalities, innovation...

The answer to everything in snooker is a curt "just bloody practise". Well, duh!

[Hello, Mr Big Shot]

Yes it does, thank you. I never though of CB = OB sighting. Christ we better keep it quite or Biggie will drag out some American internet reference where it will 'prove' CB sighting is right and OB sighters are all wrong.

Didn't associate Thai-gate with that cuemaking scandal. I even remember a photo purporting to be in JP's back room showing a bunch of Thai cues in a box.

Come on tel, give me the physics! If you don't like nasty big American equations, come up with some lovely Canadian ones instead.

Would you like me to provide the link to them again? You demanded to see them and I'm sure you'll have the time to study them properly now you've done your videos.

[Terry Davidson]

Again, why does physics break down on a snooker table? What is it specifically about SIT that doesn't work on a snooker table? Coriolis proved many other effects of balls colliding on tables - top spin and screw back to name but two - don't they happen on a snooker table either? I could have sworn i have seen them. Perhaps the larger balls and napless cloth of a pool table make them follow a little further and draw a little more, but i've definitely seen the effects of both top and screw on a snooker table.

Or is it just this one reaction that fails as soon as the cloth turns green?

I never said I could explain it just that it seems to be happening. Maybe try it out yourself if you can get a cue.

[gpfan]

"I'm expecting some flak from some of the SIT believers."

Terry? Andy, here. I'm sh*t at snooker, but expect flak from those of us that speak Her Majesty's English.

" Travis' "

It's "Travis's", dear boy. Perhaps those wild Guelph nights on the town have you kerfuffled.

[Terry Davidson]

A good guffaw at the bolded bit.

Interesting you mention CIT. I'm betting a pound to a Canadian dollar you had no idea about CIT until relatively recently. I'm also pretty sure you had no real clue about it until the nic barrow threads. If you had, and had actually understood the physics of the shot, you wouldn't have said it was caused by cloth friction. I let you off that one before, in the spirit of thinking you were finally getting it, but if you think i can take seriously anyone thinks CiT is produced by cloth friction, you're nuttier than i thought.

And you think people should take you seriously after 10 minutes of thinking about SIT? Laughable! Some of us are a decade into this - it is frankly insulting to read the abject drivel you and vmax come out with. Educate yourselves, then learn to play.

I wish they allowed swearing on here because you deserve. Impact throw has been known and discounted as a minor effect and is cause on angled pots by the ball/cloth friction. If you knew as much as you continuously say you do. In your opinion 50yrs of playing and I haven't learned anything yet I managed to win titles but of course at snooker which doesn't count for you I guess. Why don't you bog off and emigrate to the States. They would love you over there I imagine.

100yrs of snooker on top of 100yrs of English Billiards and no one except your Frenchman came up with this? You are insulting your own British heritage. I don't remember Walter Lindrum or Joe Davis ever mentioning CIT and SIT which are 2 American terms by the way.

[Terry Davidson]

The irony is, this is not controversial at all. That a couple of B level players have never heard of something means nothing. TSF is a tiny, insignificant speck on the cue sport playing world; hugely unrepresentative of players around the world.

Snooker has always been a backward, parochial pastime - the very reason it is dying. It needs to reinvent itself by appealing to a broader audience. Top global sports are sliced and diced a million times every day from every conceivable angle - this creates interest and develops internal markets. Stats, technology, personalities, innovation...

The answer to everything in snooker is a curt "just bloody practise". Well, duh!

Gosh, have you called Barry Hear and offered your insights. I'm sure he would welcome your input. As for being a B Level player, tell us just how good you are then and why your opinion matter so mcuh. You sir, are a troll and I'm done with you.

[jonny66]

"I'm expecting some flak from some of the SIT believers."

Terry? Andy, here. I'm sh*t at snooker, but expect flak from those of us that speak Her Majesty's English.

" Travis' "

It's "Travis's", dear boy. Perhaps those wild Guelph nights on the town have you kerfuffled.

Travis' is correct, as is Travis's. There isn't really a rule about this http://data.grammarbook.com/blog/apo...s-ending-in-s/

[Terry Davidson]

"I'm expecting some flak from some of the SIT believers."

Terry? Andy, here. I'm sh*t at snooker, but expect flak from those of us that speak Her Majesty's English.

" Travis' "

It's "Travis's", dear boy. Perhaps those wild Guelph nights on the town have you kerfuffled.

I took English around 60yrs ago so I forget and it really matters to some I guess.

[Terry Davidson]

Travis' is correct, as is Travis's. There isn't really a rule about this http://data.grammarbook.com/blog/apo...s-ending-in-s/

That's you being set straight on words ending in 's' I guess. I couldn't find it quick enough in my Oxford Dictionary but I have done an awful lot of writing and have some experience there too but of course some on here would say I know even less than I know about snooker.

[gpfan]

It IS a rule. We (well, me) are British. We speak English. Americans or Belgians or Martians may spell it "Travis' ", but Her Majesty most certainly does not.

[gpfan]

"I took English around 60yrs ago so I forget and it really matters to some I guess."

Seems one is still speaking English now, Terry, so does it not still matter?

AND, it was a wee joke. Get a sense of ha-ha.

When we have a frame, I shall not get stroppy due to you correcting my form.

[jonny66]

It IS a rule. We (well, me) are British. We speak English. Americans or Belgians or Martians may spell it "Travis' ", but Her Majesty most certainly does not.

Terrible syntax.

[gpfan]

How is that "Terrible syntax?"

[Terry Davidson]

"I took English around 60yrs ago so I forget and it really matters to some I guess."

Seems one is still speaking English now, Terry, so does it not still matter?

AND, it was a wee joke. Get a sense of ha-ha.

When we have a frame, I shall not get stroppy due to you correcting my form.

For goodness sake, if you're trying to make a joke then use an emoticon to ensure everyone understands you. As an example of how badly the English language has been butchered let me ask you how you would pronounce 'Liecester'. Would it be as it's written or do you say 'Lester' as everyone else does. Or Worchestershire Sauce' - Wooster sauce. (see...emoticon)

I never say anything about my opponents form during a tournament but in a friendly I'll say 'that will be $50 please unless you're over 65, then it's $40'

[Terry Davidson]

How is that "Terrible syntax?"

Oh good, let's have another 100 pages on the correct use of English language.