u/Katskan11

Part 1.

Hello All,

Gonna try my luck with a random post.

I'm going to Bristol this weekend from Southampton. I want to turn up to the occassion with a couple of REALLY good cheeses!

Will be driving up and wondered if anyone knows of anywhere I could pick anything up more than the bog standard supermarket / or what supermarket is best and what cheese would you pick?

I was after something like a Sage Derby, or some extra good cheddar or some other cheese that blows the rest away!

Cheesey Help Needed Please!

Read Ronnie's autobiography a few years back when I was also running a lot. And seen a few interviews with him now where he'll be chatting to Jimmy White or whoever talking about his 6+ years drink and drugs benders coz he felt so anxious and uncomfortable in his own skin.

I just watched for the millionth time his 5 minute 147. I know Ronnie has always been abit of a gurner etc. But after the worlds fastest 147 he sits down, wipes his nose with his hand. Gets a red hanky / cloth and wipes his face and gives his nose abit of a blow and a wipe and a sniff up etc.

Now having done a lot of drugs myself over the years and knowing that numb drippy feeling you always have to have a little sniff / wipe incase you have polo nose as you can feel it sort of seeping abit and want to make sure it aint obvious etc.

I play pool more than snooker and in our pool league a swear so many of the lads are in the bogs snorting and the blokes at the higher levels are deff up to it. Even to the point of blatently doing a big snort up one nostril with finger over the other at the bar etc middle of a league night etc. And admittedly, I've played some of my best, easiest pool after a couple of stripes.

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone else has always thought Ronnie has never been totally proud of that 147. He says he was in fear and just wanted to get it out the way and says he wasn't playing that well etc. But I wonder if he feels like the world record is somehow 'marred' with the fact he was sniffed up at the time.

Did they do routine drug tests in pro snooker back then?

Has anyone else thought the same? Watched the 147 and his nose wiping and sniffing after and thought "I've seen that a few times" Well he continued in that championship and didn't win that year but also no signs he had an ongoing cold.. apart from the columbian cold.

I'm not a Ronnie hater. Like I say, read his book followed and loved him for years but I can't be the only one who's thought there was a good reason for his ability to play as the 'rocket' back then.

Obviously the most gifted of all time but I'm sure there might be abit of performance enhancement there....

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