You ask for low content we provide low content take yes for an answer imo

https://www.thoughtco.com/do-singles...-right-1563910

Actually I was quoting the official rules (pre-2004).

You continue to make assumptions unfavorable to the women despite the evidence that the people reporting unfavorable facts are not likely to be reliable.

What evidence is that?

I have an ACist friend who never ceases to turn every conversation into how big the body count is of The State, most recently minimizing the sovereign citizen movement's impact by contrasting its death toll with that of the state.

It's a terrible argument but I think I can possibly checkmate it permanently by having him identify what that death toll is then contrasting THAT with the number of lives SAVED by state involvement; thinking specifically of moneys spent on disease prevention / immunizations.

Anyone have any ideas on how to quantify that figure, lives saved directly or indirectly by state intervention? Or ideas about what the biggest lives saved numbers would be attributed to? Flu vaccines? Idk. I don't think he'll see that counter coming the next time we chat and hope the number will be astronomical lol

Idea: don’t converse with morons about topics they don’t understand

That should work beautifully until he reverse double-checkmates you with the billions who caught autism from vaccines.

Pulling this out of my ass, but I think clean water and sanitary sewerage would have more "leverage" than even immunizations. Can't quickly Google up anything succinct and authoritative however.

Remember when Obama asked for Dijon mustard?

The part where the group behind made the turn and instead of using the open 10th tee chose to call the police. First, that's a crazy choice. That decision raises the stakes tremendously. It also reduces the odds they will be truthful when everything blows up afterwards.

Well, that is how it is now, and the fury that the current system causes you and the other gentlemen seems to be right at the surface. Yeah, ridic that they have to start 2 HOURS later with my first suggestion, but bro, if you get caught behind the 6-hour group you are still going to be done at the same time, except you won't be sitting there ruining your day or calling the cops for two of those hours.

I don't play golf with my friends, I have only played with corporate jobs when I previously had to suffer that **** as team building or as a performance "prize". There was zero question to anyone involved that I was new and would suck, and with all of the verbal instruction being given all along, from renting clubs to how many balls to buy, checking out the rules on the back of the scorecard was never brought up. Obviously this was not serious golfing, but had I known how much my very existence as a slow ass noob was likely tilting serious golfers I would have enjoyed it more. In fact I have a free round certificate somewhere. I may just give it another shot.

Can we just ship this thread to the golf forum and start a new LC thread?

EDIT: Actually, it looks like the Golf forum has been through this incident and come to a consensus in about 4 posts. So the level of golf discussion ITT would be way out of line even over there.

LMAO Need numbers!

Can we add complaining about topics they are not particularly interested in being discussed by those who are to this list? Holy crap.

Life expectancy has roughly doubled over the last 200 years , population is 300 mil, claim the State has saved 150 million lives. Can't argue with math.

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Need moar ridiculous life saving figures

It's occurred to me that the opposite angle could be equally effective. I'm assuming there's been more death at the hands of empires and other feudal warlords that predate nation states, and which are very akin to what ACville ends up looking like after the dust settles.

This article details some pretty scummy lobbying efforts paying off for Major League Baseball

Teams routinely **** with players being sent to the minors in order to delay their ability to become free agents:

But the money shot is that they successfully got Congress to enshrine their shady **** into federal law:

Yet you're a moderator here.

I believe that is both check and mate.

The podcast is largely about tax scams created for LA golf clubs so they can afford to exist. He starts the podcast by saying he hates golf and hopes to convince you to hate it too, so I think you'll enjoy it. It's S2 Episode 1, "A Good Walk Spoiled".

I have not read the golf content. (Pro tip, solid choice.) That said, I listended to Gladwell's podcast a while ago and think he's a bit unfair to the country club. Many big cities (and CA generally) have issues where property appreciation can be so extreme that property taxes basically eliminate most uses after some period of time. I don't think Proposition 13 (lock in rate at current levels for current owners forever) was the right solution, but it's definitely an issue that policy should recogize and deal with in a manner between, pay tax on current value vs pay tax on value of purchase for forever. However, the only thing more boring than golf detrails is property tax assessment derails.

https://twitter.com/samstein/status/989094409181499393

Mitch McConnell being a secret Chinese agent would actually go a long way to explaining the steady dismantling of democratic norms under his leadership. I buy it.

I just can't take anyone with the name "Blankenship" seriously after watching Most Extreme Elimination Challenge.

Quality thread:

One complaint from some podcast that I have stuck in NY head about the movie Crash was that its depiction of racists has wrong and one specific example given was Brendan Frasier saying "Omg I ran over a Chinaman!".

I guess that criticism has been disproven.