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Golf is associated with Scotland because the rules, bylaws, rituals, courtesies, self-discipline, record-keeping etc exemplify traits of Presbyterianism.

and because it was invented there

thats why Hess flew to Scotland, he knew they were a bunch of Tory cunts!

Golf is as american as apple pie

The two main powers in St Andrews are the university and the Royal and Ancient - both very conservative forces, unfortunately.

xp apple pie isn't American either so that works

Golf to me is like a religion. I fucking hate it but what a lovely venue.

The number of times I've seen a lovely large unlabelled green space near our new house on google maps, switched on the satellite view to see what it is and found out it's a golf course.

That number of times, my friends, is two.

Love the solitude of golf. Spent most of my days off this summer teeing off at 5am and having the course completely to myself aside from a few dog walkers and joggers.

One time we were eating in the local Chinese restaurant when some guy turns up to wait for a takeaway and gets talking to the (Chinese) proprietor

somehow he gets on to complaining that there are too many immigrants, a controversial topic of conversation in general and surely a bit rude in the circumstances. he rants for a while, all the usual. eventually he says it is a problem for him because they don't speak good enough English and it makes his job as a teacher harder

the other half and I work in education and are both children of teachers, so this piques our curiosity/outrage a little. what does this man, this obliviously rude man but one who perhaps has a useful public-spirited job which he feels is being hindered in some way, teach? the restaurant manager also asks him what he teaches, in remarkably polite cheery tones

he says

he teaches

GOLF

he is a golf instructor at the course up the hill! sometimes foreigners come for an introductory golf session! and they don't speak perfect English! it is a disaster! a disaster for this very important golf instructor, ranting about foreigners to the Chinese restaurant evening manager who speaks excellent English and btw has a day job as a lawyer!

in summary, lol golfists, the end

if all golf courses were land-mined one night, the arsehole quotient would be right down. This is indisputable and completely uncontroversial!

Being controversial, I'd say golf isn't a sport it's a leisure pursuit/pastime/hobby and is only taken seriously because so many complete wankers play it!

Well, golf is undoubtedly a game; I don’t really care what makes something a sport

making controps that hold any water is a game as well, a difficult one for me tbh.

I live behind a golf course and enjoy the view.

I don't golf, but I do like biking at 5:30am along golf cart tracks and seeing deer and rabbits out on the courses as the sun comes up

Fellas

Ilx’ing is a sport

My grandfather lost an eye after getting hit by a golf ball.

mini golf is fun, but actual golf seems impossible to play... like how tf are you gonna hit that bill so far into that little hole? Serious

it's kinda like peeing into a urinal in a public restroom. you start from across the room, almost certainly missing big time, then make adjustments and get closer to the target as you go

this is how men pee is public restrooms when no one else is in the room, i'm convinced. it's like golf

flappy bird otm, have never understood this

it’s like how are you going to jump so high over the tall man and put the orange globe into the swisher

most shows/movies are better than the book

― F# A# (∞), Sunday, October 14, 2018 6:55 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's only a few feet, though. The hole is like half a mile away!

yea c'mon even a hail mary pass is plausible, i literally don't understand how golf works and how anyone that isn't tiger woods can get a hole in one

golf but every green is a big funnel aiming for the hole would be cool imo

imagine that, but in a public restroom

https://i.imgur.com/slQ6PHq.jpg

I like the Ur-in-goals better.

well, they were the originals

yea c'mon even a hail mary pass is plausible, i literally don't understand how golf works and how anyone that isn't tiger woods can get a hole in one

― flappy bird, Monday, October 15, 2018 7:08 PM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a hole in one is the easiest aspect of golf to explain: it's luck. note also that it's usually not tiger woods making a hole in one, but players you otherwise don't hear about.

To be more precise, getting the ball within 2 or 3 feet of the hole is skill. It's the remaining distance for the hole-in-one that is luck.

Anyway, controversial opinions. If that Trump painting was a 1000 piece puzzle I would buy it (and the Obama one).

Flappy, like baseball, it's flush contact of club to ball that drives the distance. Each club has a certain shaft length & stiffness and clubface angle & weight to return a certain yardage. Aim is a combination of body / hand positions, timing, tempo, concentration, etc. I saw a cartoon years ago that showed a man surrounded by a hundred thoughts during his swing. My swing thoughts are just down to keeping my head still during the swing (which should keep me centered and not rearing up and down) and my left arm straight through impact.

The hole-in-one comes from luck, as said, combined with the skill of knowing which club to use for what yardage and hitting that club precisely. Once you can dial in a distance, you can factor for wind, the shape of the green, how the ball will roll when it lands, and other variables that separate the amateurs from the pros.

Sure there are wankers (the trend of soundtracking your round with a loud radio = DUD), but it's a surprising equalizer, playing in leagues with people of all manner of jobs and educations.

golf is wonderful.

Insofar as I am required by my cultural entourage to mock golf and/or be indifferent to it, I should rebel and give it a fair shake. But this is one of those cases where the Latin hivemind is manifestly correct.

Politicizing tragedies is good.

Spaceballs is funnier than Young Frankenstein

christ

sb

The Big Sleep, Chinatown, and Blade Runner are all dull and overwrought films known for a couple of striking moments and otherwise completely forgettable.

Chinatown in my memory: incomprehensible discussions of water usage in a palatial room--> "She's my daughter/my sister/my daughter and my sister"--> "Forget about it Jake it's Chinatown."
Blade Runner in my memory: It's dark all the time and looks kind of Tokyo-ish-->tears in rain monologue
Big Sleep in my memory: there's a bookstore and also a house and maybe some driving on windy roads and I may also have parts of Double Indemnity mixed in there

You have a bad memory.

Though I kinda agree The Big Sleep isn't that good.

I don't think I like noir much. I mean I can't say that across the board, Third Man is great for example. I think I like Coen Bros homages to noir more than actual noir.

Arty noir kinda sucks. Caveman noir like Detour or The Big Heat is great.

man alive half otm really. I haven't seen The Big Sleep but I was really underwhelmed by Blade Runner - other than the vibe being completely amazing and evocative of PKD's whole body of work, it's pretty boring, and the tears in the rain monologue does feel like a 'big' moment tagged at the end of a boring blur of a movie. tbf I'm not a fan of the Do Androids..., wouldn't make my top 15 PKD. I loved Blade Runner 2049 though.

Chinatown is one of my favorite movies but I just watched it again at home in September and saw it in a theater with a friend who'd never seen it last week. My rewatch at home was great because I hadn't seen it in a couple years, but the film is so plot driven and point a to point b that I was really flagging in the theater, and so was she. I realized how talky and slow it is in the theater, but it's totally gripped me when it's been fresh.

man alive's read on The Big Sleep is bizarre to me - say what you want abt those other two films but TBS really *moves*.... i actually can't remember any "moments" from it at all, the pleasures are in the script and delivery, scene by scene by scene.. admittedly bogart doing a "gay" rare book dealer is pretty bad and i wouldn't fault anyone saying it's a deal-breaker.

Blade Runner has the same feel to me as ambient music, I mean basically just a few things happens and it moves slow but it casts a spell; I think seeing the re-release a few years ago on the big screen was eye-opening for me, I was pretty mesmerized by it. Maybe it did more for me after years of seeing various versions on VHS and DVD.

I do think Blade Runner 2049 is outstanding, it revisits the first film without being a fan service disaster. Gosling is put to very good use, Harrison Ford is alive and committed to the role, Leto is...inoffensive.

Strangely I think the film it reminded me most of all was The Two Jakes, which as a sequel to Chinatown was a lot better and more ambitious than it had to be, and similarly did not revisit the first film in ways that were totally predictable. I don’t think it’s as good a sequel as BR2049 (which I was impressed enough by on first pass to consider the pair of films put together more Alien/Aliens than Jaws/Jaws 2) but it’s a very good SoCal period noir. Nicholson is a bit more “Jack” than Jake, but not in ways that really bugged me. Anyway, worth a look.

My favorite noirs these days are probably Kiss Me Deadly or Gun Crazy, if you can really call the latter a noir (which you maybe can’t.)