“What are you watching?”<\/p>\n
“Snooker.”<\/p>\n
“What?”<\/p>\n
“Snooker.”<\/p>\n
“Snooker is not a word, Daniel.”<\/p>\n
“It’s a game.”<\/p>\n
“It’s not even a game, Daniel. They don’t show games on TV!”<\/p>\n
“It’s a sport, Claire.”<\/p>\n
“It’s definitely not a sport, Tina.”<\/p>\n
“It is.”<\/p>\n
“It isn’t! They’re not even wearing trainers. And<\/strong> they’re wearing trousers.”<\/p>\n “You’re not even wearing trainers or trousers!”<\/p>\n “Shut up, Ethel.”<\/p>\n “You shut up, Claire!”<\/p>\n “And anyway, if it IS a sport, why are they all so old?”<\/p>\n “Claire!<\/em>”<\/p>\n “What now Daniel?”<\/p>\n “That’s so rude!”<\/p>\n “It is not rude. Just look at them. They look like ghosts in a haunted hotel!”<\/p>\n “There’s no such thing as ghosts, Claire.”<\/p>\n “I know that, Ethel! And I never said there was! So there!”<\/p>\n “You did!”<\/p>\n “I did not!”<\/p>\n “You did!”<\/p>\n “I did not!”<\/p>\n (repeat until end of frame)<\/em><\/p>\n __________<\/p>\n Notes:<\/p>\n 1. Written on May 1st, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br> “What are you watching?” “Snooker.” “What?” “Snooker.” “Snooker is not a word, Daniel.” “It’s a game.” “It’s not even a game, Daniel. They don’t show games on TV!” “It’s a sport, Claire.” “It’s definitely not a sport, Tina.” “It is.” “It isn’t! They’re not even wearing trainers. And they’re wearing trousers.” “You’re not even wearing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[625,1211,545,1209],"class_list":["post-5541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-from-the-town","tag-games","tag-snooker","tag-sport","tag-tales-from-the-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5542,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions\/5542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Support An Accumulation Of Things<\/a><\/h3>If you like the things you've read here please consider subscribing to my patreon<\/a> or my ko-fi<\/a>. <\/br><\/br>Patreon subscribers<\/a> get not just early access to content and also the occasional gift, but also my eternal gratitude. Which I'm not sure is very useful, but is certainly very real.<\/br><\/br>(Ko-fi contributors<\/a> probably only get the gratitude I'm afraid, but please get in touch if you want more). <\/br><\/br>Thank you!<\/i><\/br><\/br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"