I hate golf
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all that, and regular golf is incredibly wasteful with water. it's sickening. plus the fact that it's a historically racist as fuck sport, fuck golf, fuck golfers. Oh and they expect their neighbors to subsidize their hobby (see muni golf courses) - get fucked
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Feel free to form your own opinion, but I've only ever heard good things about Top Golf and it's not a massive drain on resources or space like traditional golf courses are. But I also enjoy golfing at public golf courses from time to time. It's fun to get out on the course with 3 of my buddies to whack a ball and have some beers outside. Never will consider a private membership or course though. Private golf courses can be burned to the ground for all I care.
But I also enjoy golfing at public golf courses from time to time.
like saying "I also enjoy sticking the public with the bill for my hobby"
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Worth trying disc golf. Most courses are built on under utilized park land funded and maintained by local volunteer clubs. You can get three discs for $30-40 or most loan some from somebody who plays (we all have too many) and get started!
Most courses are free to play.
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all that, and regular golf is incredibly wasteful with water. it's sickening. plus the fact that it's a historically racist as fuck sport, fuck golf, fuck golfers. Oh and they expect their neighbors to subsidize their hobby (see muni golf courses) - get fucked
Boomers when someone wants to build a playground or a skatepark: "Noooo, that's communism!"
Boomers asking the local government to subsidize their useless ass golf course:
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all that, and regular golf is incredibly wasteful with water. it's sickening. plus the fact that it's a historically racist as fuck sport, fuck golf, fuck golfers. Oh and they expect their neighbors to subsidize their hobby (see muni golf courses) - get fucked
What sport isn't historically racist?
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What sport isn't historically racist?
Roller derby?
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I don’t play except once every couple of years... and poorly. But it isn't as wasteful on water as you think. They often use some form of recycled water, and once it is on the ground it doesn't just go away. Much of it goes deeper into the ground, getting filtered naturally, and ends up back in an underground aquifer. The "loss" is just in evaporation. Which of course eventually comes back as rain. Some percentage of that ends up in the ocean. That part is more or less lost as drinkable water. But recycled water often wasn't drinkable to start with.
It's really the fertalizers that are the problem I believe.
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What sport isn't historically racist?
Ullamaliztli?
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But I also enjoy golfing at public golf courses from time to time.
like saying "I also enjoy sticking the public with the bill for my hobby"
I’ve never seen a free golf course, the public/municipal courses all cost money to play.
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Golf is so fucking dumb.
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I’ve never seen a free golf course, the public/municipal courses all cost money to play.
well then let me introduce you to the wonderful world of municipal courses - they charge a nominal fee that's offset by taxpayer funds. there are two ENORMOUS ones here in Seattle. They each get millions of taxpayer dollars so they can waste water and runoff fertilizers into the water table.
and invariably, the people I see (my local skatepark is across from one) are lilly fuckin white rich assholes. lot is full of BMWs and mercedes. So glad we can't take care of kids, but we can make sure these assholes have a cheap place to play. fucking bullshit
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What sport isn't historically racist?
Oh so sports in general being chock fulla racist fuckheads makes it ok that golf courses were often segregated until the 80s?
Oh ok. Yeah.
Nah. Get fucked with that. But to answer your question, I see zero racism in curling.
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I don’t play except once every couple of years... and poorly. But it isn't as wasteful on water as you think. They often use some form of recycled water, and once it is on the ground it doesn't just go away. Much of it goes deeper into the ground, getting filtered naturally, and ends up back in an underground aquifer. The "loss" is just in evaporation. Which of course eventually comes back as rain. Some percentage of that ends up in the ocean. That part is more or less lost as drinkable water. But recycled water often wasn't drinkable to start with.
It's really the fertalizers that are the problem I believe.
There’s no point trying to be rational, whoever made this meme clearly has no idea about actual golf. Most golfers aren’t rich, most golf courses are pretty cheap. It’s just a way for people to drink and have fun with buddies.
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If I remember George Carlins bit correctly the amount of golf courses in the US took up two rhode islands and a delaware worth of space once counted up. He argued we should turn it into homeless shelters and public housing, and to let the golfers test actual skill at the mini-golf.
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I don’t play except once every couple of years... and poorly. But it isn't as wasteful on water as you think. They often use some form of recycled water, and once it is on the ground it doesn't just go away. Much of it goes deeper into the ground, getting filtered naturally, and ends up back in an underground aquifer. The "loss" is just in evaporation. Which of course eventually comes back as rain. Some percentage of that ends up in the ocean. That part is more or less lost as drinkable water. But recycled water often wasn't drinkable to start with.
It's really the fertalizers that are the problem I believe.
Lots of golf courses also use or are part of the waste water system in the area.
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But I also enjoy golfing at public golf courses from time to time.
like saying "I also enjoy sticking the public with the bill for my hobby"
Sorry you hate golf. Public pools and libraries are also heavily subsidized by tax payer money. Parks for that matter are too. Sometimes it's just a good thing to provide your citizens with something to do outside. I'm certainly not a rich white asshole that drives a BMW or Merc. I drive a 2019 Hyundai Santa Fe with 130k miles on it.
I no longer live there but in the 4000 population town I grew up in, the only tax funded public entity that turned a profit for the city budget was the golf course. The public pool never showed profit in the 8 years I was a lifeguard there. The best it ever managed to do was about a $6k loss. The library lost money because of building maintenance and after school programs. And the parks district was the biggest drain on public funds due to recreational sports for kids and an outdoor theater production for local kids to act in. If anything, the golf course helped fund other local programs.
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I don’t play except once every couple of years... and poorly. But it isn't as wasteful on water as you think. They often use some form of recycled water, and once it is on the ground it doesn't just go away. Much of it goes deeper into the ground, getting filtered naturally, and ends up back in an underground aquifer. The "loss" is just in evaporation. Which of course eventually comes back as rain. Some percentage of that ends up in the ocean. That part is more or less lost as drinkable water. But recycled water often wasn't drinkable to start with.
It's really the fertalizers that are the problem I believe.
I was an irrigation tech at a 27 hole golf course a while back. We had the reclaim system you're talking about and a retention lake that we would pull from. During the winter (Florida) it was pretty close to a stable system. There wasn't much loss to evaporation and our lake didn't need to be refilled. During the summer and especially in droughts, more than half our water was city water supplementing our lake.
We would pump about 1 million gallons of water per night normally. In the summer and drought seasons it could be closer to 2 million per night and half of that was city water. We were a smaller course too, some of the PGA 36 hole courses could easily double those numbers. Golf courses are a blight on the land and a giant waste of all kinds of resources. -
There’s no point trying to be rational, whoever made this meme clearly has no idea about actual golf. Most golfers aren’t rich, most golf courses are pretty cheap. It’s just a way for people to drink and have fun with buddies.
Probably true. The courses I have played on were far from high end. And of the ones I know of around me, there is like 8 budget places for each "nicer" one. And I think there is only 2 super high end ones on my side of portland.
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Oh so sports in general being chock fulla racist fuckheads makes it ok that golf courses were often segregated until the 80s?
Oh ok. Yeah.
Nah. Get fucked with that. But to answer your question, I see zero racism in curling.
Pretty sure I didn't say it made it ok. Just that it was a pointless statement because it is true of all sports that I know of.
