I'm just linking this to share the hilarious comment section, the article itself is boring, irrelevant, but the comments are hilarious. I've noticed this subspecies of golf haters, which range from claiming how ''USA has so many huge golf courses taking up so much space, instead of using it to house all of the homeless!!!'' to these climate/environment doomsday preachers
Some gems:
17000 golf courses in the US. ALL polluting water/ground so one clown dressed in funny clothes can ride a toy cart to hit a little ball on 750 acres then lie about how many times he hit it. ALL while drinking/gambling. Golf is the easiest grown up game ever. Yea- so you hit the ball a few times less than the other guy. ha ha ha get a life.
Just big mini golf- no more.
We don't need grass and golf there. Just let the cactus grow.
And get a load of these 2 retards
I've long been disturbed that hundred of golf courses are built in desert areas. It just seems humans aren't very bright. Why was L.A. built in a desert with no water supply unless it's stolen from far away? All of our lawns should be non-grass using native plants in clusters and wood chips in between. It's a little late now but we all need to conserve water more. I've been doing it for a couple of decades and it's not difficult or burdensome, it's just a new way of thinking, part of a new way of life.
''Stolen'' from far away? I believe it's transported from far away? Ancient Egyptians are praised for their ingenuity, how did they drag those stone blocks from far away, but when modern humans figure out a way to solve the water problem in a desert, and make it work, they're somehow, not bright? Very interesting. And I am sure the decades of this guys ''water conservation'', whatever the fuck that is supposed to be, has made absolutely 0 difference to this planet.
This one reads like a WEF speech
This is too little, too late.
It's the masses of people who need to change their habits and wants, not the businesses.
Individual people use way more combined than any business.
So, when the people decide to stop having grass in their yards, then you've made real progress
Progress is when no grass in the yard of your selfish house, everyone should live in concrete buildings to save the planet!!!
Actually the Ur example of Anti-Golfers might be in communist China, where golfing is seen as a wasteful extravagance of the wealthy. Chinese businessmen relish the opportunity to go overseas to play golf because they can't do it much at home.
This is such an oddly specific hot take that I can only imagine Carlin (and all the other anti-golfers) picked up the idea during his morning reads of The Daily Worker.
Probably reasonable to assume that random comments on an English Yahoo! article are Chinese communist agents too.
It always astonishes me how one of the most famous people on earth with a net worth of several million dollars managed to trick two generations into thinking he's "just like them" simply because he put his hair in a ponytail. The man's entire act was "how do you do, fellow proletariat?"
where golfing is seen as an wasteful extravagance of the wealthy
The thing is, it kind of is. Simply because the amount of space and upkeep it takes to keep one running, but the game itself requires extremely small amounts of players on it at any certain time to function.
I live out in a drought prone county with plural golf courses and its a constant problem of "well rich retirees and tourists deserve the water more than our ranchers and farmers" to keep them running.
Regardless of that. One provides a pretty necessary and important service, while the other is requiring a significantly larger investment to provide leisure to the upper class. Especially when the ranchers have been here for generations and settled the land, while the golfers came in recently and our loving government decided to give it to them.
Especially as most of ours is in horses and meat, less in crops. Most of which are native to the land anyway.
I'm just linking this to share the hilarious comment section, the article itself is boring, irrelevant, but the comments are hilarious. I've noticed this subspecies of golf haters, which range from claiming how ''USA has so many huge golf courses taking up so much space, instead of using it to house all of the homeless!!!'' to these climate/environment doomsday preachers
Some gems:
And get a load of these 2 retards
''Stolen'' from far away? I believe it's transported from far away? Ancient Egyptians are praised for their ingenuity, how did they drag those stone blocks from far away, but when modern humans figure out a way to solve the water problem in a desert, and make it work, they're somehow, not bright? Very interesting. And I am sure the decades of this guys ''water conservation'', whatever the fuck that is supposed to be, has made absolutely 0 difference to this planet.
This one reads like a WEF speech
Progress is when no grass in the yard of your selfish house, everyone should live in concrete buildings to save the planet!!!
Actually the Ur example of Anti-Golfers might be in communist China, where golfing is seen as a wasteful extravagance of the wealthy. Chinese businessmen relish the opportunity to go overseas to play golf because they can't do it much at home.
This is such an oddly specific hot take that I can only imagine Carlin (and all the other anti-golfers) picked up the idea during his morning reads of The Daily Worker. Probably reasonable to assume that random comments on an English Yahoo! article are Chinese communist agents too.
George Carlin wasn't above class warfare to win friends and influence people.
It always astonishes me how one of the most famous people on earth with a net worth of several million dollars managed to trick two generations into thinking he's "just like them" simply because he put his hair in a ponytail. The man's entire act was "how do you do, fellow proletariat?"
The thing is, it kind of is. Simply because the amount of space and upkeep it takes to keep one running, but the game itself requires extremely small amounts of players on it at any certain time to function.
I live out in a drought prone county with plural golf courses and its a constant problem of "well rich retirees and tourists deserve the water more than our ranchers and farmers" to keep them running.
My counter point about the farming is maybe you shouldn't farm super water intensive crops in a desert.
See also, most of ca.
Regardless of that. One provides a pretty necessary and important service, while the other is requiring a significantly larger investment to provide leisure to the upper class. Especially when the ranchers have been here for generations and settled the land, while the golfers came in recently and our loving government decided to give it to them.
Especially as most of ours is in horses and meat, less in crops. Most of which are native to the land anyway.
We have the same campaigns here (Australia), too. Particularly in cities…
Funny that.