Ping Pong or Pool?

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:27 pm

Let's say you are adding-on and remodeling a section of your house.

You now have space for either a Ping Pong table or a Pool table.

What would you choose?

Post by **spot** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:36 pm

If I were intending to provide exercise and amusement for the under-25s, the ping-pong table. They can move fast and I'd not want to turn them into lounge-lizards.

If I were intending to provide skillful face-to-face exercises in humiliation and braggadocio for those of more mature years, the pool table. They can't move fast and they're already lounge-lizards.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:42 pm

I'd really like a hot tub.......but would opt for the ping pong table.

Fibonacci · Post by **Fibonacci** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:47 pm

Why not a Ping Pong-Pool table?

I have one. The ping pong surface drops in over the pool table surface.

Mystery · Post by **Mystery** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:48 pm

We just bought a ping-pong table for the residents at the facility I manage, and I keep finding myself wanting to kick the clients off of it so I can play :wah:

BUT, my close friend and her husband have an antique pool table, and we have a lot of fun playing the game there - although, admittedly, I suck at pool.

weeder · Post by **weeder** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:55 pm

Pool Table.. Interesting things happen over pool tables. Ping Pong is good at aummer camp. Plus the ping pong sound drives me crazy.

watermark · Post by **watermark** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:26 pm

If you aren't much of a pool shark get the ping pong over the pool table combo. If you take pool seriously you needn't be asking this question :wah:.

koan · Post by **koan** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:36 pm

It's an entirely different type of environment with each game.

Even though younger folks might prefer the ping pong on one level I think they'd thank you for the pool table over time. Much more suave and an entirely more useful skill.

dubs · Post by **dubs** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:56 pm

You can't hustle at Ping Pong! Well I suppose you could, but not the way I play!....

:D

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:04 pm

Tombstone;696474 wrote: Let's say you are adding-on and remodeling a section of your house.

You now have space for either a Ping Pong table or a Pool table.

What would you choose?

Although I love both I would go with the table tennis table due to the fact that the ends can be lifted up and the table rolled away making space for

something else (like a pool table). Plus, the table can be covered and makes a great buffet table. Why not both? The pool table is much, much more costly.

I play table tennis on a professional table and it can be stored in a space 7 ft. wide,2.5 ft deep, 5 ft high.

Clint · Post by **Clint** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:16 pm

No question in my mind, it has to be a pool table. Ping Pong requires physical exertion.

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:27 pm

I'd choose the pool table.

But if there were an option #3, I'd go for air hockey. Seriously.

But there's just something about a pool table.

Tater Tazz · Post by **Tater Tazz** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:17 am

Have a pool, have to go with a game room.

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 7:50 am

I've got both and have had for years. Quite honestly the ping pong table gets more use on a regular basis.

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 7:58 am

YZGI;696710 wrote: I've got both and have had for years. Quite honestly the ping pong table gets more use on a regular basis.

I'm moving in with you!

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:00 am

sunny104;696712 wrote: I'm moving in with you!

You will have to sleep on the pool table.:wah:

pinkchick · Post by **pinkchick** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:00 am

I vote ping - pong:D

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:01 am

YZGI;696713 wrote: You will have to sleep on the pool table.:wah:

well, that's one thing I've never done on a pool table!

minks · Post by **minks** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:41 am

dubs;696507 wrote: You can't hustle at Ping Pong! Well I suppose you could, but not the way I play!....

:D

OMG I was thinking on that line too :wah:

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:22 pm

Thanks for everyone's replies! It's a toss-up, isn't it?

I'll look at one of those convertible tables - so we can do both. Great ideas!

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 5:06 pm

Ping pong it is! And here is the room/corner that the ping pong table is going to go.

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Post by **spot** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:14 pm

Shield the lights!

Lady G · Post by **Lady G** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:00 am

NOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo......................................

A Pool Table.

I would LOVE to have a room I could put a pool table in. It is my game and I LOVE it.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:31 am

I'd go for the ping pong table.

I used to be pretty good at Table Tennis and played for the works team in the Walsall league. Imagine the ribbing I got at work the morning after being beaten by a 9 year old girl. Her Dad was the England coach and gave her a right old telling off when I beat her in the first game. I felt sorry for her so took it easy in the 2nd game gaining points by letting her make mistakes rather than smashing her off the table. When we approached deuce and I thought I should wrap it up, I made a couple of errors which saw her beat me.

I then lost the plot in the 3rd game as her old man was ranting and lost. It meant more to her than to me anyway and the laugh next day was worth it.

Last time I played was against the holiday rep in Lanzarote. Undefeated in 3 years, he wasn't overly happy when I thrashed him. He would probably have stood a better chance if he'd been 9 years old