Rant: Golf

[Freed Roger]

Why are there so many [expletive] golfers when you go golfing?. If not for all the [expletive] douchebag golfers, I just might be able to tolerate it...
If I had time, money, and the need to compensate for a lack of manliness[

[jim]

I have a theory that is based on the 80/20 rule about people. No matter what walk of life, 80% of the people are going to be cool and decent and 20% are going to be ass holes. 80% of golfers and fisherman and garbage men and lawyers and teachers are cool. Ok, not lawyers, but most of the time that formula works. The 20% that make up golfers are douchebags beyond belief, some of the worst 20%'ers in the world.

[stlouie_lipp]

I have a theory that is based on the 80/20 rule about people. No matter what walk of life, 80% of the people are going to be cool and decent and 20% are going to be ass holes. 80% of golfers and fisherman and garbage men and lawyers and teachers are cool. Ok, not lawyers, but most of the time that formula works. The 20% that make up golfers are douchebags beyond belief, some of the worst 20%'ers in the world.

Tell how you really feel about me. It's OK, I'm a big boy...I can take it.

[jim]

I have a theory that is based on the 80/20 rule about people. No matter what walk of life, 80% of the people are going to be cool and decent and 20% are going to be ass holes. 80% of golfers and fisherman and garbage men and lawyers and teachers are cool. Ok, not lawyers, but most of the time that formula works. The 20% that make up golfers are douchebags beyond belief, some of the worst 20%'ers in the world.

Tell how you really feel about me. It's OK, I'm a big boy...I can take it.

80 percenter all the way lipp.

Seriously think about that, because you will find it's true. Rich, poor, ugly, big house, living in the ghetto ... it's true across the board. 80% of the people are decent, and 20% are ass holes. In every walk of life.

[docellis]

Golf, to me, is like a slightly more active video game. In order to be good at it, you have to devote such a ridiculous amount of time to it - you essentially spend so much time with other people with that goal that you have to sacrifice being a kind of normal social person to be good at it.

[Freed Roger]

I thought golf was just something young guys did at bachelor parties before heading to strip clubs.

[JackofDiamonds]

Golf, to me, is like a slightly more active video game. In order to be good at it, you have to devote such a ridiculous amount of time to it - you essentially spend so much time with other people with that goal that you have to sacrifice being a kind of normal social person to be good at it.

Or you could just be athletic and coordinated.

[haltz]

I thought golf was just something young guys did at bachelor parties before heading to strip clubs.

the last time I played was at a bachelor party. Arrived hammered in an RV stocked with booze, wrecked a cart, and the marshall told us that they received numerous complaints about our group. I wore plaid pants and stopped actually playing after 7 holes. It was a great time.

[stlouie_lipp]

Golf, to me, is like a slightly more active video game. In order to be good at it, you have to devote such a ridiculous amount of time to it - you essentially spend so much time with other people with that goal that you have to sacrifice being a kind of normal social person to be good at it.

Or you could just be athletic and coordinated.

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I can't tell you the last time I practiced.

But, doc's right about some people. I think this guy I work with goes out every night after works and beats balls to death, takes lessons, etc. and has maybe gone from shooting high 90s/low 100s to mid 90s. I don't know how he does it.

[Freed Roger]

oh boy, we've got a golf spat. What ? did someone ding the others beemer at the club's parking lot

And that golf website. Awful.