136 points

The original game as invented by bored semi-drunk Scots was, I’m sure, a good laugh several hundred years ago with wee sticks and a random round thing.

The modern game and all its hideous capitalist/ classist cultural connotations is fucked.

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The original game as invented by bored semi-drunk Scots was, I’m sure, a good laugh several hundred years ago with wee sticks and a random round thing.

Robin Williams did a great bit on this.

https://youtu.be/14NQIq4SrmY?si=kv-5NtoSsdtBs3p0

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Thanks I’ll have a look.

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I have it on good authority that golf was in fact invented by Bandrobas Took during the Battle of Greenfields.

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🙄 modern home is just as accessible as any sport that requires gear eg hockey. Even more so. You folks just looking for enemies.

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-79 points

Cope harder

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-191 points

Tell me that you’re poor without telling me that you’re poor.

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118 points

Tell me you’re an asshole without telling me you’re an asshole.

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Tell me you’re American without telling me you’re American.

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65 points

How dare someone be poor! Anyone who makes that choice is doing it to be offensive!

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43 points

Why does it matter if they’re poor or not?

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Didn’t you know? If you’re poor, you’re supposed to be ashamed of it because it means you didn’t try hard enough to not be poor.

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Basically what they’re really saying here is that anyone with money would agree with them and have no issues with the negative impacts of golf because it’s something that all financially well-off people enjoy. Therefore, if you have any issue with golf in any way, it must be because you don’t have the money to enjoy it, because every single person that ever lived is in love with golf, and the only reason anyone might have for not golfing is lack of funds.

Of course the nonsense needs no explanation, but that’s the angle they were going for, and why they’re rightly being ridiculed for it.

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28 points

For someone who spends so much time talking about growing up in poverty, this is a surprisingly callous thing to say.

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Poverty sucks. Don’t be poor.

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tell me you’re a classist prick with more money than sense, oh no, wait, you’ve already done so.

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76 points

Well, I recently learned of the existence of Excel competitions, so I’m not sure about the ‘most boring’ part.

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Some people really excel at spreadsheets.

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Jus’ gonna leave this here:

https://youtu.be/xubbVvKbUfY

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If you don’t see the beauty in the orchestrated beauty of Excel macros and formulae, then there’s no helping you.

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What about VBA? Remote data? Python?

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That’s horrifying, if you have the forbidden knowledge of what people only program in excel is capable of

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I don’t know if there still are, but back when you texted on a 12-button phone keyboard, there were texting competitions.

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64 points

Mini-golf is actually kind of fun.

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Mini-golf is actually kind of fun.

It’s a lot of fun, and you don’t need any nukes to enjoy it either.

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12 points

Maybe not need

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Maybe not need…

True enough.

There’s always that one hole where you have to hit the ball hard enough so it goes around the vertical loop ramp but not too hard so that it then bounces at the right angle to get anywhere near the area of the hole that’s blocked by a whole bunch of strategically placed pieces of wood.

On that hole I would consider using a nuke.

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Speak for yourself

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The mini-golf nuclear proliferation organization has spoken.

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Mini golf is superior and should be the default golf. As in, it shouldn’t have a descriptor. It should just be called golf.

And what is called golf now should be called big golf or field golf or something like that to show how nonsensical it is.

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Most of the times I played it, my group is enjoying themselves on holes 1-5, is getting tired of being held up by the group in front of us for holes 6-12, and is getting noticeably bored by hole 13, but feel like we have to finish it. It’s a game that starts fun and becomes obligation.

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I’m told Top Golf is fun too.

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Wait until you hear about the laws in place that guarantee them access to water their fields no matter the drought. Nobody has heard of an unkempt golf course.

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Not just that, but I found a few golf courses in my city where natural habitats used to be. These place could have easily been changed into nature parks for the local residents to go wind down a bit, but noooOOOooo. Some rich assholes had to buy the land and destroy the ecosystem so they could whack a ball around some fucking grass into a little hole.

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Would there be a difference to the sport if a part of the land was just left natural? I expect it would make the sport more interesting, atleast to the spectators.

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It was invented in Scotland. Where there’s grass everywhere and almost no trees. Why not just play in natural landscapes that are suited for the game?

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