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[–] 139 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The original game as invented by bored semi-drunk Scots was, I’m sure, a good laugh several hundred years ago with wee sticks and a random round thing.

The modern game and all its hideous capitalist/ classist cultural connotations is fucked.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The original game as invented by bored semi-drunk Scots was, I’m sure, a good laugh several hundred years ago with wee sticks and a random round thing.

    Robin Williams did a great bit on this.

    https://youtu.be/14NQIq4SrmY?si=kv-5NtoSsdtBs3p0

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  • [+] -191 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Tell me that you're poor without telling me that you're poor.

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  • [–] 118 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Tell me you're an asshole without telling me you're an asshole.

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  • [+] -123 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Tell me you're American without telling me you're American.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Why does it matter if they're poor or not?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Basically what they're really saying here is that anyone with money would agree with them and have no issues with the negative impacts of golf because it's something that all financially well-off people enjoy. Therefore, if you have any issue with golf in any way, it must be because you don't have the money to enjoy it, because every single person that ever lived is in love with golf, and the only reason anyone might have for not golfing is lack of funds.

    Of course the nonsense needs no explanation, but that's the angle they were going for, and why they're rightly being ridiculed for it.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    For someone who spends so much time talking about growing up in poverty, this is a surprisingly callous thing to say.

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  • [+] -35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Poverty sucks. Don't be poor.

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