A poll to gauge the popularity of golf

[kabbes]

Oh, he loves it really.

I particularly love the "using up a cuntish amount of water and land" part. Because this country is packed nose to tail with people -- there's not a spare acre of land that can be used anywhere. Great stuff.

I am a cunt though. Can't get him there.

 

[tarannau]

You make me want to play it more.

To be fair, that's only because you're shit at darts and own many a pair of bad shoes already.

 

[Dillinger4]

Oh, he loves it really.

I particularly love the "using up a cuntish amount of water and land" part. Because this country is packed nose to tail with people -- there's not a spare acre of land that can be used anywhere. Great stuff.

I am a cunt though. Can't get him there.

There is a point, about the water at least, when you look at other places like Spain, or Dubai.

In fact, If I remember correctly the proliferation of golf courses in the south of Spain has caused a small political crisis, as there is not enough water, and Andalusia and Murcia are asking the northern communities like Catalonia and Aragon to divert the Ebro in order to water the golf courses.

 

[kabbes]

There is a point, about the water at least, when you look at other places like Spain, or Dubai.

In fact, If I remember correctly the proliferation of golf courses in the south of Spain has caused a small political crisis, as there is not enough water, and Andalusia and Murcia are asking the northern communities like Catalonia and Aragon to divert the Ebro in order to water the golf courses.

Yes, but I play in Britain. Where they pretty much don't even bother watering the courses I play on because it is always so fucking wet anyway. What people get up to in Dubai or Spain isn't really my fault.

 

[tarannau]

I particularly love the "using up a cuntish amount of water and land" part. Because this country is packed nose to tail with people -- there's not a spare acre of land that can be used anywhere. Great stuff.
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What about places like Portugal where drought conditions are proving difficult for farmers and water quality an issue for many. So bad is the problem that areas face desertification http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/how-british-golfers-and-tourists-are-turning-spain-and-portugal-into-dust-497399.html

Yet, remarkably, new golf courses catering to fat expats and the holiday spring up with relentless ease. See also numerous impoverished countries where water is in short supply, yet greens remain verdant for the golf playing elite.

 

[kyser_soze]

It's a middle-class non-sport but essesntially harmless

Only the 'club' bit is really m/c, most of the peeps I know who play golf are 'w/c'...certainly not yer Surrey brokerbelt types...

 

[kabbes]

What about places like Portugal where drought conditions are proving difficult for farmers and water quality an issue for many. So bad is the problem that areas face desertification http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/how-british-golfers-and-tourists-are-turning-spain-and-portugal-into-dust-497399.html

Yet, remarkably, new golf courses catering to fat expats and the holiday spring up with relentless ease. See also numerous impoverished countries where water is in short supply, yet greens remain verdant for the golf playing elite.

I have not and almost certainly never will play in Portugal. This also applies to pretty much everybody else I know that plays. So how is that our fault?

Love the "fat" bit, by the way. I can see where you're coming from, alright.

 

[Dillinger4]

What about places like Portugal where drought conditions are proving difficult for farmers and water quality an issue for many. So bad is the problem that areas face desertification http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/how-british-golfers-and-tourists-are-turning-spain-and-portugal-into-dust-497399.html

Yet, remarkably, new golf courses catering to fat expats and the holiday spring up with relentless ease. See also numerous impoverished countries where water is in short supply, yet greens remain verdant for the golf playing elite.

Indeed.

And to see golf courses in Dubai or Saudi Arabia is almost obscene.

 

[Kanda]

What about places like Portugal where drought conditions are proving difficult for farmers and water quality an issue for many. So bad is the problem that areas face desertification http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/how-british-golfers-and-tourists-are-turning-spain-and-portugal-into-dust-497399.html

Yet, remarkably, new golf courses catering to fat expats and the holiday spring up with relentless ease. See also numerous impoverished countries where water is in short supply, yet greens remain verdant for the golf playing elite.

Don't give a fuck. What Kabbes said, I'd play in the UK, where it's wet most of the time anyway

 

[kabbes]

Of all the things that they do in Dubai and Saudi Arabia, this is the thing that you want to raise as an issue?

 

[kyser_soze]

Indeed.

And to see golf courses in Dubai or Saudi Arabia is almost obscene.

Not as obscene as the Middle East's biggest water and Snowparks, both in Dubai.

Because an indoor ski resort is exactly what you want in the middle of a desert...

 

[Hi-ASL]

Only the 'club' bit is really m/c, most of the peeps I know who play golf are 'w/c'...certainly not yer Surrey brokerbelt types...

Yes, I know, I know. Everything's been democratised these days and I just don't know who to hate any more. Can all you poor scruffers stop getting ideas above your station, please? Golf is not for you and never will be. I wish life to be simple again. I blame the footballers.

 

[Dillinger4]

Of all the things that they do in Dubai and Saudi Arabia, this is the thing that you want to raise as an issue?

No, no.

I just want to make the point that a Golf course in a desert is kind of obscene. Wherever it is.

It doesn't affect you, playing golf in this country.

 

[tarannau]

Don't give a fuck. What Kabbes said, I'd play in the UK, where it's wet most of the time anyway

Ok, I take your lack of concern and raise you this man

http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/donald-trump-2005-vanity-fair-oscar-party-0AnPWg.jpg

Who wants to build a whopping golf course right on an area of scientific and natural interest.

Besides, all those golf courses abroad are often designed with fat British golf patsies in mind.

If golfers and Trump have their way, there'll be fewer rivers for fishing gnomes, and won't someone think of the elves and their diminishing woodlands.

 

[kabbes]

Only the 'club' bit is really m/c, most of the peeps I know who play golf are 'w/c'...certainly not yer Surrey brokerbelt types...

I live in Surrey brokerbelt and I have just joined a club (that costs me a whopping tenner a week, for which I can play for free whenever I want, incidentally). The three chaps I played with the other week included a plumber, a builder and a guy that I don't know what he does.

 

[Santino]

Ok, I take your lack of concern and raise you this man

http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/donald-trump-2005-vanity-fair-oscar-party-0AnPWg.jpg

Who wants to build a whopping golf course right on an area of scientific and natural interest.

Besides, all those golf courses abroad are often designed with fat British golf patsies in mind.

He's got you there. Logically, you can't enjoy golf without supporting these things 100%.

 

[kabbes]

Ok, I take your lack of concern and raise you this man

http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/donald-trump-2005-vanity-fair-oscar-party-0AnPWg.jpg

Who wants to build a whopping golf course right on an area of scientific and natural interest.

Besides, all those golf courses abroad are often designed with fat British golf patsies in mind.

If golfers and Trump have their way, there'll be fewer rivers for fishing gnomes, and won't someone think of the elves and their diminishing woodlands.

Yes, yes, people are shits. Of course they are. You think this is the only thing being proposed that will crap all over the environment? The answer is to have proper planning laws that stop it happening.

Personally, I play in a club that was established in the 19th century and fills in a neat little gap between three A-roads. I don't think that it is causing any massive loss of wildlife habitat.

 

[Dillinger4]

Not as obscene as the Middle East's biggest water and Snowparks, both in Dubai.

Because an indoor ski resort is exactly what you want in the middle of a desert...

Indeed.

I passed by an indoor ski slope near the Trafford Center in Manchester, recently, and it occurred to me that it is just an enormous freezer.

It just seems kind of wrong. Even in this country.

 

[kabbes]

He's got you there. Logically, you can't enjoy golf without supporting these things 100%.

It's true. I hope that he doesn't ever enjoy football, for example, with all the things that have been known to go on under that broad banner.

Or ever fly or drive. Or do anything, really.

 

[Kanda]

Ok, I take your lack of concern and raise you this man

http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/donald-trump-2005-vanity-fair-oscar-party-0AnPWg.jpg

Who wants to build a whopping golf course right on an area of scientific and natural interest.

Besides, all those golf courses abroad are often designed with fat British golf patsies in mind.

If golfers and Trump have their way, there'll be fewer rivers for fishing gnomes, and won't someone think of the elves and their diminishing woodlands.

What the fuck has that got to do with me playing on my local municipal golf course???

Ah, you can find a cause in anything, well done.

 

[Dillinger4]

It's true. I hope that he doesn't ever enjoy football, for example, with all the things that have been known to go on under that broad banner.

Or ever fly or drive. Or do anything, really.

You must cease all activity.

 

[Santino]

It's true. I hope that he doesn't ever enjoy football, for example, with all the things that have been known to go on under that broad banner.

Or ever fly or drive. Or do anything, really.

I heard that the internet is sometimes used by criminals.

 

[kabbes]

Incidentally, I love how the poll goes straight from enjoying golf to declaring it shite. Are you no longer allowed to just not do something yourself without having to have a negative opinion on it too? And "all aspects of it", to boot. Blimey.

 

[Dillinger4]

I heard that the internet is sometimes used by criminals.

I heard bad things sometimes happen and our existence is only endorsing them.

 

[tarannau]

Aye, but football's provides a far more economical use of space and enjoyment to far more. It provides a degree of physical fitness which golf patently lacks - hell, the lazy game's even blighted by lardarse mobility wagons.

Just play it on wii and let the land look more interesting than artificially maintained greens and daft sandtraps.

There is no excuse, at all, for outfits like this:

Clearly they need a giant course, security and public access restrictions to stop tasteless idiots like this from receiving a justified kicking.

 

[strung out]

Incidentally, I love how the poll goes straight from enjoying golf to declaring it shite. Are you no longer allowed to just not do something yourself without having to have a negative opinion on it too? And "all aspects of it", to boot. Blimey.

there is only black and white

 

[Santino]

Incidentally, I love how the poll goes straight from enjoying golf to declaring it shite. Are you no longer allowed to just not do something yourself without having to have a negative opinion on it too? And "all aspects of it", to boot. Blimey.

It's what we have instead of personality and character these days, when being interesting is equated with what you hate, whether that be marmalade or advanced capitalism. See, for example, some recent advert in which the narrator is defined by the fact that he always has brown sauce, never red, and other similar foibles that are dressed up as quirky and interesting and not at all banal.

 

[kabbes]

I took a GPS watch with my whilst playing once. I walked 10km during a round. Steep hills, too, with a heavy bag. And hacking at the ball about 100 times, 'cos I'm crap. I know people that think they have really achieved something worth being sponsored for because they managed to walk 5km on a flat road. 10km up and down hills is most definitely something requiring physical effort. It takes 4 hours, ffs! I challenge you to play a full round and still say that you don't need to be physically fit. Jon Daley notwithstanding, 'cos he's clearly a freak (and doesn't have to carry his clubs either).

And as for this: "but football's provides a far more economical use of space and enjoyment to far more." Well, firstly harm is harm. You can't excuse it just because more people enjoy it. And secondly, since when did "harm" just come down to physical space? There are lots of other ways that football has caused problems over the years.

I insist that you cease all activities forthwith, as somebody is bound to have done something at some point under that activity's umbrella that was bad.

 

[Iam]

I did attempt to play it, ages ago. One of the only things my old man and I ever struggled to do together.

It was ok.

Watching it is possibly the most boring thing on the planet, I'd rather have open-knife brain surgery.

 

[Santino]

I took a GPS watch with my whilst playing once. I walked 10km during a round. Steep hills, too, with a heavy bag. And hacking at the ball about 100 times, 'cos I'm crap. I know people that think they have really achieved something worth being sponsored for because they managed to walk 5km on a flat road.

I challenge you to play a full round and still say that you don't need to be physically fit. Jon Daley notwithstanding, 'cos he's clearly a freak (and doesn't have to carry his clubs either).

And as for this: "but football's provides a far more economical use of space and enjoyment to far more." Well, firstly harm is harm. You can't excuse it just because more people enjoy it. And secondly, since when did "harm" just come down to physical space? There are lots of other ways that football has caused problems over the years.

I insist that you cease all activities forthwith, as somebody is bound to have done something at some point under that activity's umbrella that was bad.

The alphabet, industrialism and the existence of train timetables all contributed to the Holocaust.