Nevada golf course replaces grass to conserve water
Persistent drought has been hitting the Rockies, and it's pushing businesses to make some long-term adjustments. One such business is golfing. A Nevada golf course is replacing their grass to conserve water. So far, they've converted 39 acres of cool-seaso...
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.
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?"