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Is it still shameful if you were an all around athlete too (I’m old now, so I’m no longer the animal I was)?

I used to make fun of golfers as a kid and joked it wasn’t a sport but loved it once I tried it. Is it shameful that Steph Curry, Romo, Larry Fitzgerald, etc. are all good - excellent golfers?
 
Is it still shameful if you were an all around athlete too (I’m old now, so I’m no longer the animal I was)?

I used to make fun of golfers as a kid and joked it wasn’t a sport but loved it once I tried it. Is it shameful that Steph Curry, Romo, Larry Fitzgerald, etc. are all good - excellent golfers?
This is like people that join a cult "yeah I thought it was fruity and weird too at first but you should really try it"!

Just messing with you
 
This is like people that join a cult "yeah I thought it was fruity and weird too at first but you should really try it"!

Just messing with you
Lmao it can be totally cultish btw
 
@Rod1 Have you ever visited the States and tried Mexican cuisine here?

I have lived in a few Mexican-American neighborhoods and have a lifelong love of Mexican food, and I think Mexican immigrants to the States have created some of the most dynamic cuisine in the world.

As far as I can tell, there are at least 10 subsets of Mexican cuisine in the United States:

  • Type A - Authentic Mexican - Pretty much only found in somewhat dense Mexican-American neighborhoods; owned, staffed, and mostly patronized by Mexican Americans; most common drinks are natural juices, sodas, and beers, with margaritas and cocktails being rare

  • Type B - Semi-Authentic "Americanized" Mexican - Found in most towns and cities; comparable to type A but with more cheese, more flour tortillas, more sour cream, and less onions and way less cilantro; also, margaritas; still owned and staffed by Mexican Americans but mostly patronized by non-Mexican consumers

  • Type C - Semi-Authentic High-End Mexican - Exclusively found in big cities; generally operated by a Mexican American chef that seeks to experiment more with his cuisine, accentuate lesser known Mexican dishes, and maybe borrow some dishes from other Latin American countries; smaller portion sizes and less reliance on beans and rice

  • Type D - Semi-Authentic Fast Casual Mexican - Found in medium-size cities and up; generally mission-style restaurants, offering burritos and bowls; generally staffed by Mexican Americans but owned by non-Mexican investors

  • Type E - Semi-Authentic Mexican Fusion - Found in medium-size cities and up; Mexican cuisine mixed with other national cuisine, most commonly Korean, but still generally staffed by Mexican American workers

  • Type F - Non-Authentic Fast Casual Mexican - Found everywhere; mission-style restaurants in the vein of Chipotle and Qdoba. Not overtly inauthentic like true fast food, but little to no effort is made to retain real Mexican ingredients.

  • Type G - Non-authentic Mexican Fusion - Found in medium-size cities and up; purely non-Mexican cuisine using Mexican cuisine vehicles, mostly tortillas; not staffed by Mexican Americans

  • Type H - Non-authentic High-End Mexican - Found in big cities; similar to type G, but instead of other immigrant cuisine, it's mostly hipster urbanites putting weird shit into tacos but also accentuating random Latin American items like yucca. Portion size is tiny and price is high. Not owned, staffed, or generally patronized by anyone but young white people

  • Type I - Non-authentic Mexican Fast Food - Taco Bell has pretty well cornered this market on a national scale; not authentic by any means but still some attempt to retain references to Mexican cuisine even if in name only

  • Type J - Non-authentic American Mexican - Not authentic at all and very little attempt to appear otherwise; ballpark nachos, "totchos," and fast food tacos from Burger King and Jack in the Box.
And all of them are awesome. Even the shitty ones.
I visited a type c in a city of 300,000 a few months ago
 
In theory that is the case but in practice I think there are legitimate grievances against the sharia courts. Of course mouth breathing right wingers pretend like they're sowing the seeds of separatism and that's overstating the case. But since these courts service immigrant communities, many of which are recent and poorly educated, they are not always aware of their rights and alternatives when it comes to these court. I remember reading a report about these courts in the UK and funny enough its the sharia courts with more official weight behind their decisions that tend to be less, though still somewhat, problematic since they tend to have more oversight. But sometimes these courts overstep their bounds such as when they treat domestic violence as under the scope of marriage law when in fact its a criminal offense.

I was talking about in Australia versus Singapore and Malaysia. We don't have Sharia courts in Australia, but many of the same provisions are made within our legal system by explicit contracts and financial institutions which cater to Muslims. They can also use the alternative dispute resolution systems which are available to us all (external to the courts).
The same systems of divorce, inheritance and "No Interest Loan Schemes" that are covered in Singapore by their "Syariah Court" (which is essentially a Family Court) are provided here within our legal system without any explicit legislative provision.
In Malaysia it is different of course. The term "Shariah" there is nebulous and can refer to anything from Hudud punishment (technically passed by Kelantan and Terrenganu state governments, but never actually applied), public humiliation ("caning", but not the sort of caning they use in prisons as corporal punishment. Again in Kelantan and Terrenganu) for breaking "public morality", through to the more typical Family Courts and laws about not serving alcohol to those with ID's which state their religion as "Muslim". In all cases these are 100% a product of Muslim identity politics and only actually applied to Muslims.
 
They should turn golf fields into wildlife reserves, but granted I feel that way about almost everything.
I see deer and rabbits and geese on my golf course all the time, and I’m not allowed to shoot them. I did see a bull snake straight frag a rabbit once. though. Jumped out of hiding and wrapped him up mid bounce, coolest thing I’ve ever seen.
 
Happy years bizaches
 
You didn’t but George included that point in the case he made.

What is your point then? Why pick on golf?
Although lack of land does not cause homelessness, turning golf courses into low cost housing* would help solve it, wouldn't it?
But fair enough, wet lands, forest, that would be fine instead.
Point is, fuck golf. I actually it a bit but look at how much real estate it takes up, how much water they use, ditto other resources and chemicals, and look at who mainly can afford to take up the game. Still want to ask, why golf?
 
They should turn golf fields into wildlife reserves, but granted I feel that way about almost everything.
Exactly. Any place that has ever had a flood due to diminishing wet lands, looking at you, Houston, should not be allowed to have even one.
So what’s the connection then ?
Didn't see your replies before writing the post below.
Although lack of land does not cause homelessness, turning golf courses into low cost housing* would help solve it, wouldn't it?
But fair enough, wet lands, forest, that would be fine instead.
Point is, fuck golf. I actually it a bit but look at how much real estate it takes up, how much water they use, ditto other resources and chemicals, and look at who mainly can afford to take up the game. Still want to ask, why golf?
And again, I'm not particularly good but I like golf so take this as an objective opinion. There's just no case for permitting any other than those on the arse end of no where from a land use perspective, IMHO.
 
Would you sacrifice a good year for us to have a good one?

I would not do that for you guys. But somebody has to step up and be than hero.

I would gladly sacrifice a good year to have a great one instead.
 
Although lack of land does not cause homelessness, turning golf courses into low cost housing* would help solve it, wouldn't it?
But fair enough, wet lands, forest, that would be fine instead.
Point is, fuck golf. I actually it a bit but look at how much real estate it takes up, how much water they use, ditto other resources and chemicals, and look at who mainly can afford to take up the game. Still want to ask, why golf?
We don’t need to do anything other than make the decision to solve homelessness. Most homelessness occurs in cities and they don’t have golf courses anyway. It’s entirely about political will power and distribution of resources. It has nothing to do with peoples hobbies or preferred sports.

Next, most douchebag asshole business people make deals in offices and over extravagant dinners. Maybe you’re also against expensive steak and $500 bottles of wine. Fair!! But that should be a bigger target if your angry with rich guys getting together. And until recently (and the law change was poorly written and not likely to be effective imo) businesses can deduct half the cost of such meals. Now they can no longer be extravagant, but it’s poorly defined from what I’ve seen. Now that’s something we should be mad about. (I don’t think entertainment should be deductible at all)

And now we’re there - fuck golf. Ok, cool man, we all like different stuff. Your point about environment impacts is perfectly reasonable (I think it’s outrageous that areas of the country experiencing water shortages allow golf courses to run). But I love playing and people who have a problem with that can suck a nut. I can afford to play and there’s nothing wrong with that. (And the game is more accessible than people give credit. Public course costs $25 on Long Island and that will give you hours of fun. Quite a bargain)
 
We don’t need to do anything other than make the decision to solve homelessness. Most homelessness occurs in cities and they don’t have golf courses anyway. It’s entirely about political will power and distribution of resources. It has nothing to do with peoples hobbies or preferred sports.

Next, most douchebag asshole business people make deals in offices and over extravagant dinners. Maybe you’re also against expensive steak and $500 bottles of wine. Fair!! But that should be a bigger target if your angry with rich guys getting together. And until recently (and the law change was poorly written and not likely to be effective imo) businesses can deduct half the cost of such meals. Now they can no longer be extravagant, but it’s poorly defined from what I’ve seen. Now that’s something we should be mad about. (I don’t think entertainment should be deductible at all)

And now we’re there - fuck golf. Ok, cool man, we all like different stuff. Your point about environment impacts is perfectly reasonable (I think it’s outrageous that areas of the country experiencing water shortages allow golf courses to run). But I love playing and people who have a problem with that can suck a nut. I can afford to play and there’s nothing wrong with that. (And the game is more accessible than people give credit. Public course costs $25 on Long Island and that will give you hours of fun. Quite a bargain)

Now gives us your defenses of water polo and jousting
 
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As a kid Spike was my favorite character while Faye was my least favorite. But after rewatching it once I got older I think I changed my mind and Faye became my favorite while Spike become my least favorite(he's still awesome though). I just like that her backstory takes more advantage of the futuristic sci-fi setting while also making her very relatable while Spike's is to me a bit more of a generic gangster backstory that doesn't even need the sci-fi setting to work.
I honestly love all of the characters from the crew of the Bebop. Champloo is the same way where the main 3 people in the group are all great characters.

Spike isn't super relatable but you can empathize with the fact that a person he viewed as a friend betrayed him and basically left him for dead.

Ed is just a goofball with Ein that doesn't quite fit which if you were a kid growing up in the 90s that liked Anime... well, that's basically you.

Faye is probably the most relatable because of how out of place she is in the setting (especially when you get the flashback of the nurse that took advantage of her) as well as her issues with maintaining an even keel/keeping track of money.

Jet to me was always the most generic but the way he's the "old man" of the crew is great.



If you haven't, the Netflix Castlevania anime is actually pretty fun.



"Eat shit and die" -Trevor
"Yes fuck you" -Alucard
 
Anyone watch homeland? Is it worth it to watch past season 3. Need something to binge for the rest of the week
 
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