Forgot about the meximelt, I miss that one. Still like the Mexican pizza.

I said Sav B, not Grey Goose. That is cutting back.

In general, I have been cutting back a lot. I also went to an AA meeting. No joke. I even spoke briefly. I said "my relationship with alcohol has ruined every other personal and professional relationship I have ever had".

So, you punish everyone instead of the ones causing the trouble.

You're like the elementary school teachers who made the whole class miss recess because one kid didn't do his homework.

0% chance of this working.

It might seem that way in hindsight but maybe it merely accelerated the inevitable?

Sure, bruv. How much do I owe you for these irreplaceable words of wisdom?

Tell you what, I'll teach you how to fianchetto your bishops properly (that would be, without losing a tempo), and we call it quits?

Didn't realise I was initiating a willy-waving contest but iyrc we stopped playing because most of our games ended in draws, you being unable to break down black's fianchettoed bishop with Ns on d4 and c6 structure lol.

nerd fight!

I think it more likely delayed the inevitable.

I struggle to find the correct words to send you where you belong.

That's actually kind. While a number of games ended in draws, I'm pretty sure my record has more losses than wins. Which kinda makes my joke.

Schlitz mmmm banned 7 days for continuing

Too bad yer still at that level of thinking. Grow up and understand the situation better.

Hmm, ok, I wasn't so sure. But anyway we were both rusty and a shadow of our former selves, naturally.

Are you suggesting he should cease to exist?

Too bad the best chess this forum had is still banned.

For the record, I was intending to ban Schlitz and Vic yesterday but wanted to finish reading through the thread for completeness. Unfortunately, I didn't have the time right away to read another 100+ posts and then didn't come back to 2+2 for the night. If/when the thread reopens it will be more heavily moderated. To whatever extent I'm involved, I won't bother reading all the posts for context and will just ban anyone who makes a post that seems purposely inflammatory with no intent to move forward a conversation (eg insults or posting pictures of dead bodies and stating that this is what other posters want).

Nvm

The thread does need to reopen. It's a major world event and remains the most important news event of the last year. We can't ban discussion of something that the NYT and WaPo are writing articles about daily-- that would be absurd.

It's funny, right. I play pool. For a lot of money. I lose a lot of money. The only guy I dislike is a guy who didn't shake my hand after he lost. Much better player than me, I got lucky. The dude didn't shake my hand. Even his own friends told his he was a dick.

We banning everyone?

I understand it's complicated because I agree it's a major issue and currently one of the most salient political issues in the west, otoh it's also a particularly hot topic that generates incredible adversarial feelings because people are more polarized about it than about most other things and there are actual human lives on the line in the present and in the future which we (both sides) care about a lot.

If you feel one side is supporting a moral atrocity of a large scale (like I think anyone supporting Hamas does, and like they think anyone supporting Israel does) it's normal to get really angry, not in the normal sense of angry but rather in the "your actual physical elimination would be a splendid result" sense of angry , or worse.

But I mean isn't it actually normal that war creates those feelings? I feel actually at war with western citizens that support Hamas, and I feel many of them feel at actual war with me and with people that agree with me.

Would it shock you to learn that nobody gives a flying **** what you think?