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InsertPotPun posted:In the middle of their "touchy Biden" campaign they elevate a serial harasser with a history of payments that trump has vigorously defended in the past. You don't think Trump and the GOP would run against Biden as a touchy creep despite his being accused of much worse? Their superpower is shamelessness.
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skylined! posted:Remember Cain is a sexmonster. Payouts to Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny
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syense posted:This is the same hermain Cain who made his fortune slinging gas station pizza, yes? for what it's worth, herman cain served on the board of the fed reserve kansas city branch for like six years
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InsertPotPun posted:In the middle of their "touchy Biden" campaign they elevate a serial harasser with a history of payments that trump has vigorously defended in the past. https://twitter.com/elivalley/status/1113830207939645440
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Shifty Pony posted:It largely is. Houses in course communities are plummeting in value as boomers move out to assisted living or die and no younger people want to buy a place where you can't walk to anything and you have to pay an assload to the HOA for course upkeep. And those sorts of courses apparently were never profitable or sustainable as independent business ventures to begin with. Instead just being built to inflate the value of the houses in those communities.
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Asema posted:there's a couple spoiled codebros in my office that golf and that's all I know and it seems more from what they did with their very rich family than their age though tbh Unfortunately the barriers to entry (greens fees, complete club sets, atrocious water/land usage) and the people attracted to the clubs that care for courses don't make it accessible or worthwhile in our hellworld.
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ReidRansom posted:And those sorts of courses apparently were never profitable or sustainable as independent business ventures to begin with. Instead just being built to inflate the value of the houses in those communities. yeah, golf course communities are the funko pops of rapidly aging white guys who retired and moved to the sunbelt so they could golf every day big suburban boomer mansions are breaking even at best in terms of retaining value but if your subdivision has a big failing golf course attached to it, woof. the best course scenario is that the golf course is turned into greenspace/garden
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selec posted:We get paid in rubles to screw with the rubes, right? Jesus get it together. Nobody's saying that you disingenuous poo poo. What they are saying is it's very weird to call Glenn Greenwald a leftist when he goes on a white supremacist's show on a white supremacist-run network and agrees with him. It's also weird to act like Glenn Greenwald acts in good faith when he has frequently lied his rear end off if he thought the news would damage the West, and his two-faced-ness and hypocrisy. (see: his complete denial of Bashar Al-Assad's chemical weapons use. See: his defense of Operation Iraqi Freedom that, unlike a certain Presidential Candidate, he has never admitted that he ever had that opinion to begin with. See: his defense of anti-immigration policies. See: Backing the loving Oath-Keepers. See: his defense of Citizens United. See: burning Reality Winner. See, using illegal wiretaps). It is further weird to not think for a second that it's super odd that Glenn Greenwald completely agreed with a summary filed by a Trump-appointed-AG whose previous big claim to fame was "Covered up Iran-Contra". EDIT: Seriously, other journalists rightly get lambasted for doing half the poo poo Greenwald has done but he gets a pass? Angry_Ed fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Apr 4, 2019 |
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skylined! posted:Remember Cain is a sexmonster. It might be quicker at this point to name the members of this administration who aren't
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DaveWoo posted:Donny's upset (again) Oh I've missed whiney baby about the investigation Donny  Victory lap Donny was insufferable luxury handset posted:for what it's worth, herman cain served on the board of the fed reserve kansas city branch for like six years I read that as "human cain" and got an lol TulliusCicero fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Apr 4, 2019 |
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Spiritus Nox posted:It might be quicker at this point to name the members of this administration who aren't Oddly enough, the surprisingly scandal-free Rick Perry. I don't know how a man so widely known to be corrupt as gently caress has managed to basically be the least hosed up person in this administration. I keep forgetting he even exists.
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ReidRansom posted:Do you know anyone your age who golfs? Because I don't. The only person I know who golfs regularly is my future FiL, and he's 77. There has been a decade long fight in Austin over a golf course hogging up 141 acres about a mile from downtown. The university owns the property and wants to build facilities and housing there but it is also in the richest area of town and holy poo poo the lengths to which those fucks will go to block the change are astonishing. Notably absent from their efforts though is putting up the money needed to take the University up on their offer to continue the lease at full market rate.
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FilthyImp posted:Golf is a very fun low key fuckoff "sport" that can either be an excuse to walk around some greens for a few hours and shoot the poo poo, to meticulously hone your form to make marginal improvements, or to just have a reason to get some drinks and drive an electric version of the jumpy-rear end truck from the Halo games. It's also a very viscerally satisfying game. I like going to driving ranges occasionally because hitting golf balls has that same meaty feeling that hitting baseballs does. Not to mention that it's a lot of high drama while the ball is flying and you get nearly instant feedback. On top of that it's a "low score" game like hockey which means that each win or loss is really felt. Golf would be a great game if it wasn't so incredibly classist.
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i live on a golf course. golf stinks! https://twitter.com/desiderioDC/status/1113830165291970567
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CuddleCryptid posted:It's also a very viscerally satisfying game. I like going to driving ranges occasionally because hitting golf balls has that same meaty feeling that hitting baseballs does. Not to mention that it's a lot of high drama while the ball is flying and you get nearly instant feedback. There are parts of the country with public courses and Goodwills selling sets of used clubs for nothing. It's possible for golf to be cheap and accessible, but rich people are reclusive assholes.
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ReidRansom posted:Oddly enough, the surprisingly scandal-free Rick Perry. I don't know how a man so widely known to be corrupt as gently caress has managed to basically be the least hosed up person in this administration. I keep forgetting he even exists. Perry and a few other Trump appointees seem to have gone in with a "I'm going to take down this overreaching government once and for all" attitude and months later had an epiphany of "Oh poo poo. What have I done." It's too late to actually fix the damage, of course. Zapf Dingbat posted:This sounds like what would happen if you put a kid in charge or something Seriously, this is how you scam your way into a lot of things. People aren't on the look out for someone walking up to the front door and going, "Hi, I'm supposed to be here. Could you let me in?" On top of that, minimum wage security guard at Mar-a-Lago is definitely warned that he'll be canned if he "inconveniences" a member. That's kind of situation that leads to huge blind spots. And since Trump is definitely preventing the secret service from doing their job since he wouldn't be able to channel money into his club if he didn't, the result is security that's not really there.
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mango sentinel posted:There are parts of the country with public courses and Goodwills selling sets of used clubs for nothing. It's possible for golf to be cheap and accessible, but rich people are reclusive assholes. Also there's no reason it needs all that land. We could do just fine with driving ranges, Par 3 pitch-and-putts, and mini golf.
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To me, golfing is like shooting. I love going to the range to plink at paper zombies with a .22 rifle, it's fun as gently caress. And there was a par 3 by my house that was dope because it was cheap and hitting the golf ball on a nice Florida day is fun with a buddy. But my life would not be changed if either of these things went away forever, and I'm certainly not going to stand up for any of them.Angry_Ed posted:Also there's no reason it needs all that land. We could do just fine with driving ranges, Par 3 pitch-and-putts, and mini golf.  Pitch-and-putts rule. There was a massive (for mini-golf) course by my grandparents' old house that was meticulously maintained, it was a great time and really challenging. They had two courses - one in the front that was wacky-times with clowns and windmills, and this serene, quiet course that had real grass and was challenging like a real golf green.
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selec posted:We get paid in rubles to screw with the rubes, right? Jesus get it together. It's real hard to take your purity police act seriously due to your other shitposting. I would go into more detail but we both know you're real sensitive about it.
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Since at least one of you is saying they live near a golf course, I really want to know how often someone there has to replace windows.
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ReidRansom posted:Do you know anyone your age who golfs? Because I don't. The only person I know who golfs regularly is my future FiL, and he's 77. There are four golf courses (I think) in my town of ~50,000 people.
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every advantage golf has is shared by frisbee golf, it depends on if you can tolerate the hippie crust factor better than white boomer men can
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Sinister_Beekeeper posted:Since at least one of you is saying they live near a golf course, I really want to know how often someone there has to replace windows. Every time I play there. luxury handset posted:every advantage golf has is shared by frisbee golf, it depends on if you can tolerate the hippie crust factor better than white boomer men can They frown on you beating the frisbee with a club.
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Critical posted:Tiger absolutely innovated fitness in golf. I was about 10 feet away from him at a tournament last year and he's still built like a brick shithouse. his dad was Special Forces in the military, and Tiger obsessively chased his dad's legacy and basically destroyed his back by going through "navy seal training." Pretty sad story actually - http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/15278522/how-tiger-woods-life-unraveled-years-father-earl-woods-death Shifty Pony posted:There has been a decade long fight in Austin over a golf course hogging up 141 acres about a mile from downtown. The university owns the property and wants to build facilities and housing there but it is also in the richest area of town and holy poo poo the lengths to which those fucks will go to block the change are astonishing. I don't know anyone in Austin that actually wants to get rid of Lions Muny, even people that aren't from Terry Town. UT isn't going to build housing for normal people or students, they're going to build $1500/month 1br apartment complexes on the land. I dont think paving over a big rear end open space in the middle of austin which sits on the aquifer and is close to the green belt and barton springs would be a good idea personally.
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There's a public golf course here in pittsburgh that's frequented by the blue collar steel mill types, of both races... But they're all old as hosed.
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twice burned ice posted:Do you think milk toast is a breakfast item or something? We had to do something after Trump closed the border and we ran out of avocados. E- didn't we just have golf chat like 2 weeks ago? ummel fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Apr 4, 2019 |
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mango sentinel posted:There are parts of the country with public courses and Goodwills selling sets of used clubs for nothing. It's possible for golf to be cheap and accessible, but rich people are reclusive assholes. Though you're right, if you're looking hard enough you can find a way to play.
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Kerning Chameleon posted:turns out most sports are classist (either the players are privileged and the sport is gatekept, or are lower classes expected in engage in bloodsport for the privileged set), terrible for the environment, and effectively hazardous to your health The NFL is modern day slave trade. And I agree to stop idolizing sports.
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Gatts posted:The NFL is modern day slave trade. I thought that was prison
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Shifty Pony posted:There has been a decade long fight in Austin over a golf course hogging up 141 acres about a mile from downtown. The university owns the property and wants to build facilities and housing there but it is also in the richest area of town and holy poo poo the lengths to which those fucks will go to block the change are astonishing. We have a golf course near the middle of Des Moines where they started building houses assuming it would be yet another successful gated golf community. It didn't work at all, houses sat unsold, construction stopped and that whole area just sat mostly unused for years, other than some big charity golf tournament that happens there one weekend a year. It took them the better part of a decade to finally sell the few homes they did build. Unfortunately they haven't given up on it yet. Golf is, if not dying, then at least seriously declining. Very few people who are buying homes today care about golf.
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ReidRansom posted:Do you know anyone your age who golfs? Because I don't. The only person I know who golfs regularly is my future FiL, and he's 77. The marketing manager I hired at the mobile game company I was at (2010-2016) was a 20-something who nailed a job at "Taylor Made Golf" and basically gets paid to play, interview players and talk about their stuff. I don't play golf but I have to say that is a heck of a job.
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FilthyImp posted:The Goodwill sets I've seen are usually in the $30-50 range (bag included). It's not a several-hundred dollar set of Titanium Graphite clubs, but that's still pricey. Considering most of the courses I've seen have the caveat that each player needs their own set, it can be daunting to get into. There's also a bit of keepaway due to dress codes and whatnot that newbies can find offputting. There's a course near me that is next door to a superfund site, costs about $10, you can rent clubs for like $1 and they sell $2 beer. I'm pretty sure there's no dress code, and it regularly floods, making the game even more interesting. The course is cheaper than playing Golden Tee at the local brewery. So yeah, ymmv.
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Kerning Chameleon posted:turns out most sports are classist (either the players are privileged and the sport is gatekept, or are lower classes expected in engage in bloodsport for the privileged set), terrible for the environment, and effectively hazardous to your health This is basketball is the best sport
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