Not even joking about this lmao let’s set all the golf courses on fire
all golf course are now disc golf. :back-to-me: You may picnic. :back-to-me-shining:
Please clean up after your dogs. :weird-bolshevik:
:geordi-no: Supreme Court home adresses
:geordi-yes: Supreme court justices' favorite golf courses
I hate Golf as an idea. It's such a ecologically violent, materially demanding, and class exclusionary game. Every golf course on the planet could be a nature reserve, or a public farming, or a myriad of other uses. But instead they seize up inordinate amounts of land, water, and resources to maintain to keep a few jackoffs entertained for an afternoon while they have an army of servants at their beck and call back at the club house. Not to mention the bonkers amount pesticides on golf courses is environmentally harmful and a major public health risk. I think sport and competition are important parts of a healthy society but Golf is just such an exclusionary game I don't think it has a right to exist. A regular person can't "just" play golf. The amount of initial startup capital to even play the game is absurd. Every Golf club should be metaled down and put into fixing our roads and bridges. It's such a exemplar of suburbia.
It's just a terrible display of how capital seeks what is profitable today, never thinking of the effects or impacts of those choices. No rich cultural advancement has come from Golf. If anything it's literally designed to be a bastion for the wealthy. A walled enclosure that has actively excluded women, minorities, the working class. I hate that we have a society saw that and rather wanting to destroy it made people yearn to be in it. It's just a sport that should not be.
WHY THE FUCK DOES A REGION LIKE THE SOUTHWEST EVEN ALLOW THEM TO BUILD!?!? THE AMOUNT OF WATER NECESSARY TO MAKE A "WORLD-CLASS" GOLF COURSE IS BONKERS! ITS A FUCKIN' DESERT! GOD MADE THEM HOT SO WE WOULDN"T BUILD GOLF COURSE THERE BECAUSE IT'S A DUMB IDEA!
It's just one of the many things I think about. It's so very interesting to think about how the world could be different if we designed it for the fulfillment of everyone's needs rather than the wants of the few.
The funny thing is; Golf doesn't have to suck. Apparently the Scots would just play in whatever grazed over field they happen upon with no special preparation, using rocks and a bent stick. On paper it should be a cheap sport; One club, some balls, and a flag to aim at.
In the middle of Edinburgh there's a public links in the park when you can just rock up and play 36 pitch and putt holes. The nearest pub will lend you clubs and balls when you get a pint. The only thing you have to worry about are dog walkers and the occasional picnickers. It's tight as hell.
this is why disc golf is the superior sport at this point
it's usually played on some natural land with minimal trails and a few meadow-like open sections
there are some golf courses that have tried to use native grasses and such, but the dang ball is so tiny it basically requires giant monoculture lawns across acres of land
yeah theres a big forest nearby to me that has it. i noticed a couple of trees with dinged up bark from repeated blows to it but that is ostensibly better than clearcutting it for a golf course. guy who runs it is a socialist and apparently did some sort of project to crowdfund buying the land and donating it to the parks service on special provisions, which was apparently wildly popular and worked out great for little cost to himself
Turn golf courses into public parks with bicicle lanes, basketball courts and secret orgy groves
The Secret Orgy Grove actually has a full-time attendant who provides condoms and dental dams and makes you sign a "don't be an asshole" paper.
Nah just turn them into parks and make possession of golf clubs or golf balls punishable by :gulag:
Death to America
Make minigolf the only legal form of golf and have reasonably sized courses built on reclaimed parking lots.
The obstacles can be animated statues of famous revolutionaries and thinkers
Imagine trying to putt your ball onto Stalin's big spoon so he'll eat it
Mini golf is 100x more interesting as a game than normal golf is anyway. Normal golf is just whacking a ball through mostly empty fields of grass. Minigolf requires design and obstacles, and can have fun secret paths and shit. Plus it’s on a scale you can actually understand what’s going on.
Here, a heartwarming story about a couple who bought a failing golf course to prevent it from becoming a park. Death to America indeed.
https://sports.yahoo.com/ohio-couple-saw-neighboring-golf-152742217.html
Excerpt
Columbus and Franklin County Metro Parks were in contract to buy the course at 6300 Bent Grass Blvd. for $1.8 million earlier this year and planned to turn it into a park.
That didn’t sit well with neighbors — including the Wallakes — in the nearby Villages of Westchester, a development of about 900 homes whose owners had paid premium prices to live near the course.
In fact, the Wallakes had just built a home near the 16th green.
“I was ready to walk away from my house,” Bryan Wallake said. “A lot of people were concerned about their property values. We were hearing they could drop by 20 percent.”
His wife learned of Metro Parks’ plans while browsing through comments on the Canal Winchester Connection Facebook page.
“I said, ‘Oh, my gosh! They’re turning the golf course into a public park!’ ” she said.
Concerned residents created online petitions and informational websites to inform the community as to what was happening.
Oh my god fuck these people and their property values so much. Let's burn this one first.
No
The time for vigilante justice against g*lfers is NOW. Direct action gets the goods! /Fedpost
Death to America
Steal golf balls from golf course in industrial quantities.
Deliver to local protest line being confronted by police.
Just quietly distribute seeds of endangered plants on the golf course so the owners have to lawyer-talk their way out of destroying them
I say convert them to communes, use all that space and unobstructed sunlight to grow crops. but fire is cool too I guess
Hmm, maybe a book called Caddy Union 101 - Teen Lit to Radicalize Boys
There's a disc golf course in a park I sometimes bike through. The people playing look like they're having fun.
With the exception of the ones wading in a pond at 23:30 on a weekday fishing for a lost disc
Disc golf is basically the peoples golf, pretty low environmental impact and is much more accessible and cheap
those can go ANYWHERE, so Yea, you don't need to obliterate 2 square miles of otherwise useful community land
Disc golf is cool. You can just set the target baskets up in any old park or open space. They're not obtrusive, then don't need any special lawn care. you just need discs and a target to throw them at.
Actually, disc golfers taking over golf courses would be a cool revolutionary act that could potentially draw normies in. Like a flash mob but every single weekend at every golf course all over the country.
critical mass disc golf take-overs sounds awesome - golf cart paths are also pretty awesome as bike paths btw
I always thought a good way to sabotage a golf course would be to salt the earth so all the grass dies. Inexpensive, non-toxic and effective.
:wtf-am-i-reading: it is toxic. thats why the grass would die. itd be very bad for the surroundings unless its built in the middle of a desert
I meant not poisonous to people and animals like weed killer or something. Safer than burning it and starting a wild fire.
folk put some salty potatos in their gob and assume salt just a cute lil nummy rock they dont gotta worry abt.
industrial amounts of salt are extremely deliterious to the environment. you cant put salt in the damn ocean willy-nilly. its bad for fish, its bad for plants, its bad for animals. you put salt on the ground that salt gets in the drainage system when it rains and salts everything downstream
i mean its not as bad as a defoliant probably but brush-burning a golf course'd be more of a pain than just letting nature take its course
It is toxic for animals, including humans, as well. There's a reason you aren't supposed to drink soy sauce straight from the bottle. Salting land the size of a glf course would affect the birds and fish and insects, which will affect larger animals as well. There is no way to effectively kill a ton of plants without killing a lot of other things too.
Nobody’s salting an entire golf course from tip to taint. I’m talking about fucking up some putting greens, which would just get re-sodded anyway, not engineering an ecological disaster. And yeah, salt is toxic to people if you eat too much, I don't people are eating golf course soil.
What if we get 6,000 gophers and release them on the green? Let the furry little insurgents do the job for us?
Would you need to set them on fire before you start planting shit or what?
In eastern US a controlled burn would work. In the west just cut off the water supply for a few years.
just leave it. grassy fields are unnatural and will be conquered by the natural biome
allegedly they just keep zapping it with some sort of ultrasonic wave and it kills bug eggs and bacteria which allows them to make a giant pool for the same cost of a small pool. also apparently some chemicals that inhibit evaporation that rests on top of the water. has apparently something like 400 light sources per olympic sized swimming pool and a bunch of high powered vibrators that create instantaneous ultrasonic waves in the water. apparently it leaves no smells on you or skin irritation like chlorine does. really doubt thats true on skin irritation but who knows. i do think its smart to be able to clear the pool and just zap a ton of high powered lights through the pool, thats a good thing and definitely would work given proper coverage.
theyre super fucking vague with it all which makes it sound sus. all their first projects were in like, egypt and saudi arabia which is very sus too
Yeah as a kid I'd swim in some nasty shit. I got leeches, pink eye, a mystery skin infection, and saw some human poop floating by once. Didn't deter me lmao. Good thing I grew some sense. Got stung by something swimming in the sea once too. No clue what that was
I was just a really good swimmer I naturally float with little effort so it was fun to me
