Weakest Link & Sporting Curiosities.

Englishman

Do you Americans actually enjoy watching The Weakest Link? The series has been rattling around the Tea-time TV slots over here for about a year now, and is getting a little tedious with Mrs Prune Face looking more and more menopausal with each passing show.

This evening, the BBC started to show some of the USA programmes. Well, I was so embarrassed. How can you bear to let this miserable old biddy berate your fellow countrymen so harshly? Cancel her visa and dump her is my advice to you!

Changing the subject a little, I’m intrigued as to what sports the Yanks and the Brits have in common. For example, are you as nuts about snooker as we are? Do you ever see a game of cricket in the US? Croquet maybe? How about rugby?

Seems to me that the UK competes sporting-wise against virtually every country except the USA, why is that do you suppose?

Englishman

Truth exists;only falsehood has to be invented. -Georges Braque

jayhawk1

I can't speak for every American, but I hate The Weakest Link. Could we send her to Afghanistan? That way she will have to wear what all other women wear in that country.

Is this a light saber in my pocket or am I just happy to see you?

"Hand me that whiskey, I need to consult the spirit."-J.F. Rutherford

jayhawk1

BTW, what is snooker?

Is this a light saber in my pocket or am I just happy to see you?

"Hand me that whiskey, I need to consult the spirit."-J.F. Rutherford

Englishman

What is snooker!

Ha ha, seriously though, I have never seen a US snooker player. Why is that?

Come to that I can only remember one Canadian player - Cliff Thorburn as I recall.

Englishman.

Truth exists;only falsehood has to be invented. -Georges Braque

expatbrit

Snooker is far too exciting a sport for Canadians.

Expatbrit

jayhawk1

Maybe the reason you have never seen a U.S. snooker player, is because nobody in the U.S. has heard of it. So what gives E-man? How do you play snooker?

Is this a light saber in my pocket or am I just happy to see you?

"Hand me that whiskey, I need to consult the spirit."-J.F. Rutherford

Englishman

Ahhh....!

Now I understand a little more. http://www.snookerusa.com/

Englishman.

Truth exists;only falsehood has to be invented. -Georges Braque

Englishman

Some sneaky pasting:

"At first glance, snooker resembles the American game of pool or billiards. However, in this case, looks are deceiving. A regulation full-sized snooker table is much larger than a pool table, measuring 6ft. x 12ft. The six pockets as well as the balls, are much smaller than those used in pool – the pockets are just a bit larger than the balls.

"The color and number of balls also are very different from pool. To begin the game of snooker, 15 red balls are racked into a pyramid at one end of the table. Six different colored balls are placed on certain spots around the table. Two or four players can play, It is customary to toss a coin for the honor of breaking off – do not toss coins on the table please!

"It is not necessary to drive a ball to the cushion, as in American snooker. So the first player would play the cue-ball from the ‘D’, or the half-circle, and make contact with one of the bottom two reds in the triangle. The player would try and use the correct pace, so as to get the cue-ball back into the ‘safe’ area of the table (known as the baulk-end).

"The purpose of the game is to sink or pot a red ball, then choose any colored ball and pot it. This cycle continues until there is a miss and the table is turned over to the next player. The red balls remain in the pockets, but each time a colored ball is potted it is returned to its respective spot until all the red balls are potted. When only the colored balls remain, they are potted in order until they are all sunk – yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black. The red balls are worth one point and the colored balls values range from two to seven points (yellow - 2, green - 3, brown - 4, blue - 5, pink - 6 and black - 7). There are 147 possible points.

Englishman.

Truth exists;only falsehood has to be invented. -Georges Braque

JanH

englishman,

As far as sports are concerned, the US could just as well be its own planet. They changed rugby into american football, prolly to make room for advertising space, and cricket into baseball, prolly to avoid learning to ball.

- Jan
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jayhawk1

Thanks for the link. I am getting lazy in my old age, (lol) so I didn't look up what snooker is. There might be a place in Wichita (Side Pockets) that plays snooker from time to time.

JanH, you are exactly right, we Americans in our vein attempt to be better than everybody else, changed our sports to be different. That is why we spell the English word "COLOUR", "COLOR", etc.

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