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[-] WashedAnus@hexbear.net 45 points 10 months ago

IMO people who get into golf have petit bourgeois aspirations. Of course there are exceptions, but everyone I've met who's into golf is either PMC, petit bourgeois, or aspires to be.

[-] autismdragon@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

Yeah when my mom signed me up for golf camp she said it was because successful men play golf and id need to do it to integrate.

Of course i sucked at it like i did every other sport so i ended up just using it as another excuse to do what i really like to do: work with younger kids. (I was assigned as a "peer mentor" by the directors but i was the only kid in that group that actually helped out with the younger kids.)

I got volunteering hours for my college aps from that peer mentor thing though so that was cool. Even if i ended up going to a sure thing i barely needed qualifications for and then flunked out, lol

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 41 points 10 months ago

As I grow older my hatred of golf grows strongeranakin-padme-3

[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

I used to hate golf because it was boring and heralded the end of Saturday morning cartoons. Now I hate golf because it's a waste of good land that could be a nice park, instead maybe a dozen rich guys discussing how they're going to dump toxic waste in a river or whatever

[-] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 29 points 10 months ago

Honestly I don't care about golf as much as my firm belief that every country club deserves to be burned to the ground.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 29 points 10 months ago

Golf is a bourgeois "sport" and I'm tired of pretending it's not joker-troll

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[-] autismdragon@hexbear.net 27 points 10 months ago

Ive concluded that we are allowed to have the pieces golf (mini golf and driving ranges) but not the whole thing.

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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago

Golf is walking around shooting the shit with your friends, being outside, drinking, and enjoying the sun. Stripped of it's social and ecological implications i get it. You're just fucking around, being outside, being with friends. You've got a skill based game with lots of doodads you can build mastery in, or you can just say fuck it and hit the ball.

I think the appeal is similar to mini-golf, just on a macro scale.

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 23 points 10 months ago

Just gonna call golf, Macro Golf from here on out

[-] beef_curds@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago

That's why disc golf is kinda a good replacement. It's a walk outside with friends, but it can be in smaller spaces, doesn't need reserved space, and can even be in places where it's lightly wooded.

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[-] ThanksObama5223@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

I think you've got the right idea. A lot of the people I know that are into golf just like hanging out outside with friends. Sure a few of them are well off, but I think the appeal as you age and have kids has more to do with being the 'third place'.

[-] TrudeauCastroson@hexbear.net 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Public courses in places where you're not fucking the water cycle by transporting water from far away are pretty cool.

Country club culture and having pristine grass in deserts suck, if hedge fund managers want to play a sport where they shut out the poors then they should stick to squash at expensive fitness clubs.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago

It's funny because as I got older I enjoyed Bocce Ball more but miniature golf is still fun.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

Bocce Ball

Petanque is pretty cool too, the france-cool version basically

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago

What if instead of golf guys played wolf and they went out into the woods at night, howl for a while and then sleep in a big pile in a burrow?

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[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 21 points 9 months ago

Golf is evil. It's a climate-destroying bourgeois sport for porkies to talk about their unspeakable crimes far away from microphones while acting abusively towards caddies and servers.

Think of the millions of gallons of water used to keep this grass in Las Vegas green. All that water wasted and not a single ounce of edible vegetation comes from it.

all so that the-boys-lthe-boys-r can get tipsy while trading stonks on their phone.

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

get wasted at a cheap local course and try to play

or sneak onto one at night

great fun

we only made it 4 holes before we lost all our balls

it's fun to smack a few balls as hard as you like on a range too, or set markers with your friends and see who can get the closest

none of us have ever played golf more than 5 times in our lives

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

It's a way to casually compete with the fellas and and drink before noon on a Saturday without having to tell your wife/gf you are going to the bar at 9AM. My cousins who are union members golf, just at public courses instead of country clubs.

[-] poppy_apocalypse@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

My brother sold both his motorcycles in order to afford to buy one of those golf simulators they have at the big sporting good places. He can go in his garage and hammer away into a screen. It also came with a computer program that allows you to download every course on the PGA tour. Him and his buddies play every weekend.

[-] Hohsia@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

We need more people like your brother

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 10 months ago

I think it isn't getting older, it rises with level of desire to be petite bourgeoisie.

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago
[-] Yurt_Owl@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've never been to a big golf course but my dad would take me to this small pitch and put which was a lot of fun when the weather is nice.

It was a small place as well generally just normal meadow like grass and trees with some small patches of green and holes to hit the ball into. Nothing like the grandiose insults to nature like the rich people have.

Was £5 a go round and there were no golf carts cos it was all walkable like corner to corner in a minute or so. Also so many abandoned golf balls we grew quite the collection. Lose one in a bush and come back with 10.

[-] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago

in a work situation, it's a way to network with people who come from money like skiing

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago

Why don't people who come from money like cool shit like BJJ or taking edibles and hiking? I should be allowed to do axe throwing with the heir to Tyson chicken and convince them to loan me a communism (when I'm in power I won't pay them back)

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago

Why don't people who come from money like cool shit like BJJ

It's both a display of wealth and, more crucially, a good filter to keep the poors out. Not a lot of infrastructure required to do BJJ or edibles

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[-] showmustgo@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago

Where does disc golf fall in all this

[-] blakeus12@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago

disc golf is chill. my local park has some signs and baskets laying around and it doesn't disturb the environment

[-] showmustgo@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago

Sweet, my latest obsession is in the clear

[-] BingoBangoBongo@midwest.social 10 points 9 months ago

Disc golf doesn't clear cut, waste fresh water, burn tons of fossil fuels, promote monoculture, saturate the ground with toxins, etc...

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

Disc golf doesn't require grass that's 1.5 (+/- 0.2) inches long

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[-] AlpineSteakHouse@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago

Golf is fun, low-effort sport to do an a nice sunny day.

It sucks that it requires so much land but it is fun as hell. Plus you can go putting at a mini-golf course and get a similar experience.

[-] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

How about you golf down my balls

[-] JCreazy@midwest.social 14 points 10 months ago

I don't know very many people that like golf but the few that I do know also look up to Andrew Tate so that should give you kind of an idea.

[-] ChapoKrautHaus@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

My opinion on golf, golfing and golfers is identical to what D-Fens says and does to that golfing asshole in Falling Down.

[-] buttwater@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago

i'd love to have a day with the fellas, participating in low stakes competition, light exercise, talkin shit, gettin fresh air, having some drinks. waiting in line, paying a bunch of money to walk on grass, being bad at hitting a ball with a stick, wearing dockers and polos, being surrounded by nerds. i'd like the first sentence without the second sentence

[-] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

Lemme tell you about frisbee golf

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 14 points 10 months ago

Its kinda why some people prefer top golf over regular golf. Its a much more casual setting of people trying to have fun and just hitting the ball and letting the automated system score you.

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[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Golfers deserve to be hunted on their country club lawns like foxes

The worse part is that golfers are pussies. They refuse to play in regional environments. No, it HAS to be grass. Go fuck yourself

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[-] BigBoyKarlLiebknecht@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

I am open to the idea of communally owned natural links courses, as their impact doesn’t seem to be horrid - and they’d be rare:

Sir Walter Simpson, a 19th century Scottish philosopher who wrote the book “The Art of Golf” defines links as, “The grounds on which golf is played are called links, being the barren sandy soil from which the sea has retired in recent geological times. In their natural state links are covered with long, rank bent grass and gorse. Links are too barren for cultivation: but sheep, rabbits, geese and professionals pick up a precarious livelihood on them.”

Aside from that, I want to build communally owned Laser Tag on top of all existing golf courses sicko-laser

[-] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

I enjoy golf, play maybe once a year on public courses. I would never call it a sport and would gladly trade all golf courses for public land or housing. But it is a treat I will occasionally indulge in.

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

There's regular golf and mini golf, but is there like a mid-sized one that's entirely 2 and 3 par chip holes? There should be.

[-] red_stapler@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago
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[-] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 9 months ago

Golf is cringe. The only fun activitity golf courses make easier is driving around drunk on a golf cart, which still isn't worth making them for.

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I dislike golf, but I love driving ranges. Top Golf, shitty small ones with the dude in the fur suit, the one in the alley...somedays you need to blow off steam and hit some balls.

Fuck Golf as a sport. Its boring as fuck. Too much outdoor time hitting balls and getting stuck in the sand trap. Fucking hell.

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