wait til your hear her surf rock album
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 29 March 2024 23:29 (one month ago) link
i feel like i probably added beyonce to this thread a zillion years ago. i'm just kinda sick of america though. and americana. and corny corn bread recipe rah rah anthems. and the south. for reasons that i won't go into right now. trump.
― scott seward, Friday, 29 March 2024 23:30 (one month ago) link
I don't really care about Beyonce but she's pretty easy to avoid, even with the dumb cowboy outfit
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 29 March 2024 23:36 (one month ago) link
i'm just not into that billionaire national anthem halftime show stuff made for amex commercials. i would be down for a cajun/creole swamp blues beyonce album though. in french. that would be dope.
― scott seward, Friday, 29 March 2024 23:37 (one month ago) link
its not even beyonce really. just anything that reminds me of the superbowl. and money. i don't care about.
― scott seward, Friday, 29 March 2024 23:38 (one month ago) link
KNOWLES GOES ZYDECOS
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 29 March 2024 23:44 (one month ago) link
Laissez les Bey Temps Rouler
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 30 March 2024 02:13 (one month ago) link
i just want her to make more songs like 'all night'
― mookieproof, Saturday, 30 March 2024 05:48 (one month ago) link
It’s an album about awards shows.
That’s the only way I’ve been able to process the intrinsic corniness of this new Beyoncé album, “Cowboy Carter,” which, very much like the most punishing of Grammy nights, runs way too long, yet still finds time to involve Post Malone.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2024/03/30/beyonce-cowboy-carter-review/
― scott seward, Sunday, 31 March 2024 12:25 (one month ago) link
lolz
So H.E.R. is on it, too?
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Sunday, 31 March 2024 14:30 (one month ago) link
Daylight Savings. Just let it go.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 31 March 2024 14:56 (one month ago) link
This Oyler person
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 18:45 (one month ago) link
no one should care about her
― ivy., Tuesday, 9 April 2024 19:17 (one month ago) link
lolita
― stwahberrymilkgirlll, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 19:19 (one month ago) link
would gladly hear about tiger woods shooting 10 over par, but give me a fucking break when he's tied for 25th or whatever
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 April 2024 04:59 (one month ago) link
OTM. It's been the same in every single major he's been in for the last 20 odd years.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 April 2024 08:47 (one month ago) link
Woods gets more following and was totally unique as we have gone on to see. Making the cut even now is incredible.
Scheffler is very unexciting (and a Christian lol). Anyone who could've replaced Woods (Rory, Spieth) fell away after winning 2-4 majors in quick succession.
Aberg sounds like a massive talent but he's only just starting.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 April 2024 09:42 (one month ago) link
tiger was an utter phenomenon 25 years ago and he was a top player even ten years ago. he's a legend. but he's not going to catch nicklaus, and while i do not envy him the circumstances in which he was raised, he seems to be a weird asshole
as far as making the cut, well, so did vijay, and he's 61. anyway i simply don't need Moments and analysis from Tiger Woods' round about a dude who finished +16
(tbh i wondered if the koepka-dechambeau beef was a scripted work in an attempt to draw eyes to non-tiger players, but it seems like they really do loathe each other)
― mookieproof, Sunday, 14 April 2024 22:15 (one month ago) link
Golf
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:56 (one month ago) link
Golf is so so hateable, maybe now more than ever, but god do I enjoy playing it and watching these assholes do their thing. Really was into Speith’s whole vibe when he was rolling. Loved watching lefty pull birdies out of his ass. Love how fucked up pebble beach is.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 23:38 (one month ago) link
Oof yeah, I am repulsed by golf
― banana-flavoured potatoes, “bonatoes”, (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 23:48 (one month ago) link
i still feel like golf is one of those sports where if enough people had the time to play it and practice it all the time that there would be a TON of legendary golfers. kinda like bowling. whereas, i don't think this is true of other sports. like tennis? or baseball? maybe sports where you have to have amazing hand/eye coordination. seem harder to me. i'm not saying being good at golf is easy its just that so few people ever get a chance to get good at it. but millions of kids play tennis and baseball at high school levels and hardly any of them will ever be good enough to play on a good college team, let alone go pro. i think there would be a tiger woods in every city if enough kids played it all damn day long.
so maybe that's why i don't respect golf that much. but i could be totally wrong. plus, its boring. unless you have some sort of procedure done and you have one of those good doctors who gives you the good pain pills and you are on a couch all day and that sea of green and sand looks like infinity and heaven rolled into a little white ball.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 23:52 (one month ago) link
9 holes on a dewey morning, it’s just beautiful my friend
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 00:02 (four weeks ago) link
very meditative and grounding, ok I’m done.
i love the smell of weed killer in the morning...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 00:15 (four weeks ago) link
haha, i totally get why people like things. i really do.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 00:22 (four weeks ago) link
I enjoy the game of golf, but don't really have the means to do it, so I play golf video games from time to time.
― beard papa, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 00:55 (four weeks ago) link
i don’t watch or follow golf but my dad did and i associate the sound of a golf game on tv with a certain feeling of home (in a pleasant way). i get being bored by it/not caring about it but it doesn’t rouse strong passions in me either way. mini golf is fun but i’m not very good at it lol
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 02:26 (four weeks ago) link
lol fair
i still feel like golf is one of those sports where if enough people had the time to play it and practice it all the time that there would be a TON of legendary golfers
not sure i agree, but it's a good question! otoh, we absolutely do not need more people who play it and practice it all the time
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 02:31 (four weeks ago) link
Man, I loved playing it, but didn't have any friends who played, and playing alone is not huge fun, and I always had sweat burning my eyeballs, and it's bad for the environment, so I gave it up after 10 years...but I loved playing.
― Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 02:35 (four weeks ago) link
Old school driving ranges (not that Top Golf shit) and mini golf rule
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 02:47 (four weeks ago) link
driving ranges and mini golf do indeed rule! so much fun.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 03:36 (four weeks ago) link
idk if any higher % of ppl to swing a club make it pro than any other sport tbh
and if anyone has ever tried to consistently get any good at landing the ball within a dozen yards of a flag 250 yards away i doubt theyd speculate about how easy it is
nb only americans play baseball, really. and tennis seems to me to be /at least/ as middle class barriers to entry as a route
but golf seems to be one of those yank coded things and my island is essentially one large, reasonably-priced golf resort so hey
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 05:51 (four weeks ago) link
deems what is your handicap
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 06:13 (four weeks ago) link
(i almost broke 90 once)
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 06:15 (four weeks ago) link
I remember a major argument on ILX with Tuomas (I think) about golf.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 06:38 (four weeks ago) link
im no good at golf mookie i never got near a handicap
xp yeah tuomas didnt believe things could be different than hed decided and hed decided golf was impossible based on being finnish iirc
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 06:41 (four weeks ago) link
don't care about golfdon't care about upper class English peoplebut pg Wodehouse's golf stories otoh
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 06:48 (four weeks ago) link
I’d like golf more if the courses were less manicured and unnatural. Green lawns are enough of an offense to god in half of the US, acres of pristine Saint Augustine are another level.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 06:55 (four weeks ago) link
i usually try to preserve my acidity by self-inserting "in the united states" to an awful lot of posts but look ive made the effort above to actually note the varying relevant contexts and im not sure that our respondents are open
(US open?)
anyway golf is a decent spectator tv sport for a relaxing evening until a good major or the ryder cup when it becomes the pinnacle of sports viewership imo
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 07:24 (four weeks ago) link
fwiw (i almost broke 90 once) = same
honestly the most impressive golf performance i've ever seen was by this left-handed dude i knew in university who was compelled to play with right-handed clubs. i mean, he wasn't *good* but by god he got that ball to that hole again and again
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 07:31 (four weeks ago) link
went round a nice course- mainly heather and sheep, milo would approve- with a fella once and all he carried was a 3 wood, a nine and a putter and he looked like a dwarf and played like a wizard
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 07:33 (four weeks ago) link
I absolutely think golf takes skill and practice, I just hate it and find it completely repulsive. There’s a reason “Chemical Warfare” is among my favorite Dead Kennedys songs. That said, as a practitioner of a somewhat marginal and weird sport, I totally don’t want to yuck others yum because I know that most people are like “you climb rocks??!”
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 11:10 (four weeks ago) link
i fantasise about rewilding all the golf courses near me.
― ledge, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 11:23 (four weeks ago) link
yuck others yum
ban table
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 11:39 (four weeks ago) link
its official. golf is the 51st most difficult game to play. i think its debatable that its harder than cheerleading though. those pyramids are tough!
https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/sportSkills
― scott seward, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 11:46 (four weeks ago) link
_yuck others yum_ban table
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 11:54 (four weeks ago) link
No cricket, no credibility.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 11:59 (four weeks ago) link
In fact, why isn't cricket in that table when rugby is?
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 12:01 (four weeks ago) link