Golf Random Irritations

[Slab]

The fact that I could have a nice little side hustle flogging Pink Castle tees that I find around our golf course but when I’m low on orange ones I cant find one anywhere.

You are weclome

 

[Tashyboy]

Have decided to leave a big golf WhatsApp group as some members (one being one of the lead members) persist in posting utter political jokes.

And notwithstanding that in my eyes golf and politics shouldn't mix (as we know on here) - they most certainly shouldn't be mixed on this particular WhatsApp group. I could post my own retorts - but I'm then just contributing to it. I've complained to the group admin - but to no avail - I guess they are of a similar mind as those posting the rubbish and so find it funny. But I don't - I find it very irritating. So leave I shall just have to do - which is a pity.

So done. Where there were 71 there are now 70

There’s probably 30 folk in our whattsapp golf fuddle. It is 90% golf related around booking tee times etc. it works very very well. The other 9.9% is wishing folk well in there recovery’s. One has had two knees replaced, one nearly went blind, one has his bladder removed in Jan/ Feb, one his wife was seriously ill in hospital, one has a camera going up the North Pole tomorrow.Etc etc. you get the picture.
Anyway the club pro asked us to help a guy integrate into the fuddle so he could get to know a lot of lads. He had been at four courses in four years since joining our place. He was a royal PITA. I never actually got to play with him but those that did said it was 4 1/2 hours of him talking about me me me.
He started putting jokes on the whats app group and it didn’t go down well. I pm’d him on the quiet but it went in one ear and outta the other. He took to me because we both followed City. The final straw was when the guy whose wife was seriously ill in hospital. We were all sending best wishes, thoughts, good luck and all that messages. The new guy in the middle of all this decides to post a joke about an Englishman an Irish man and a Scot’s man are in plane that’s going to crash and there’s only two parachutes and one of them is going to die. The group went ballistic.
One guy put it quite bluntly. He told him he had been welcomed to the group and all he was done in that time is talk about himself, and it is time he went forth and multiplied as he is not welcome. He asked the group if anyone disagreed. I lost count the amount of people who gave the thumbs up to his message. The guy who posted that message had already lost his wife to breast cancer. He wanted to throttle the new guy. Said new guy got the message and left.
I don’t think anyone in our group would tolerate a group that was full of random rubbish.

 

[LincolnShep]

There’s probably 30 folk in our whattsapp golf fuddle. It is 90% golf related around booking tee times etc. it works very very well. The other 9.9% is wishing folk well in there recovery’s. One has had two knees replaced, one nearly went blind, one has his bladder removed in Jan/ Feb, one his wife was seriously ill in hospital, one has a camera going up the North Pole tomorrow.Etc etc. you get the picture.
Anyway the club pro asked us to help a guy integrate into the fuddle so he could get to know a lot of lads. He had been at four courses in four years since joining our place. He was a royal PITA. I never actually got to play with him but those that did said it was 4 1/2 hours of him talking about me me me.
He started putting jokes on the whats app group and it didn’t go down well. I pm’d him on the quiet but it went in one ear and outta the other. He took to me because we both followed City. The final straw was when the guy whose wife was seriously ill in hospital. We were all sending best wishes, thoughts, good luck and all that messages. The new guy in the middle of all this decides to post a joke about an Englishman an Irish man and a Scot’s man are in plane that’s going to crash and there’s only two parachutes and one of them is going to die. The group went ballistic.
One guy put it quite bluntly. He told him he had been welcomed to the group and all he was done in that time is talk about himself, and it is time he went forth and multiplied as he is not welcome. He asked the group if anyone disagreed. I lost count the amount of people who gave the thumbs up to his message. The guy who posted that message had already lost his wife to breast cancer. He wanted to throttle the new guy. Said new guy got the message and left.
I don’t think anyone in our group would tolerate a group that was full of random rubbish.

Seems clear why he's been at four courses in four years...

 

[Tashyboy]

Seems clear why he's been at four courses in four years...

It was mentioned as soon as that came out. Like I say i never had a round with him. The odd thing was that four of us in our group are City fans. I mentioned to one of them ( his daughter is one of the main reporters on women’s football for BBC) that I would love us four to have a game as a four ball. He said “ No you won’t, the new guy is a nightmare To play with”.
We went on an away day and he was drawn with him, he seriously wanted to pull out.

 

[timd77]

That's a weird thing to be irritated by.


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Yeh, I know it’s irrational. More aimed at UK YouTubers who will have gone to Blackpool as a kid and seen ‘the sea’ because it’s the Irish Sea, or over on the east coast they’ll have seen the North Sea. Even in southern Spain you know it the Mediterranean Sea!

Now, if you’re in west Scotland, Portugal, or the canaries, I’d be happy for them to say it’s the ocean because it is!

Feels like it’s them trying to appeal to the American audience, I don’t think they have sea over there.

 

[Orikoru]

Yeh, I know it’s irrational. More aimed at UK YouTubers who will have gone to Blackpool as a kid and seen ‘the sea’ because it’s the Irish Sea, or over on the east coast they’ll have seen the North Sea. Even in southern Spain you know it the Mediterranean Sea!

Now, if you’re in west Scotland, Portugal, or the canaries, I’d be happy for them to say it’s the ocean because it is!

Feels like it’s them trying to appeal to the American audience, I don’t think they have sea over there.

I very much doubt it's anything as conscious as that, they just see water and call it whatever word springs to mind. Or if it's part of the course they might just be bigging it up for comic effect - like saying you've stuck it 'on the beach' when in fact it's just a large bunker.

 

[sunshine]

There’s probably 30 folk in our whattsapp golf fuddle. It is 90% golf related around booking tee times etc. it works very very well. The other 9.9% is wishing folk well in there recovery’s. One has had two knees replaced, one nearly went blind, one has his bladder removed in Jan/ Feb, one his wife was seriously ill in hospital, one has a camera going up the North Pole tomorrow.Etc etc. you get the picture.
Anyway the club pro asked us to help a guy integrate into the fuddle so he could get to know a lot of lads. He had been at four courses in four years since joining our place. He was a royal PITA. I never actually got to play with him but those that did said it was 4 1/2 hours of him talking about me me me.
He started putting jokes on the whats app group and it didn’t go down well. I pm’d him on the quiet but it went in one ear and outta the other. He took to me because we both followed City. The final straw was when the guy whose wife was seriously ill in hospital. We were all sending best wishes, thoughts, good luck and all that messages. The new guy in the middle of all this decides to post a joke about an Englishman an Irish man and a Scot’s man are in plane that’s going to crash and there’s only two parachutes and one of them is going to die. The group went ballistic.
One guy put it quite bluntly. He told him he had been welcomed to the group and all he was done in that time is talk about himself, and it is time he went forth and multiplied as he is not welcome. He asked the group if anyone disagreed. I lost count the amount of people who gave the thumbs up to his message. The guy who posted that message had already lost his wife to breast cancer. He wanted to throttle the new guy. Said new guy got the message and left.
I don’t think anyone in our group would tolerate a group that was full of random rubbish.

ok, but who got the parachutes? Don't leave us hanging

 

[sunshine]

That's a weird thing to be irritated by.


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I wasn't irritated with this, but I am now irritated that wikipedia states sea and ocean are interchangeable when clearly they are not.

Even my kids know the difference between the ocean and the sea:

 

[timd77]

I wasn't irritated with this, but I am now irritated that wikipedia states sea and ocean are interchangeable when clearly they are not.

Even my kids know the difference between the ocean and the sea:

Thank you for your support, good to know I’m not alone!

Just wait until you watch Rick Shiels playing st Anne’s or birkdale, he’ll walk up to a tee box and say ‘look at this view, the ocean looks spectacular’ or some such!

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

There’s probably 30 folk in our whattsapp golf fuddle. It is 90% golf related around booking tee times etc. it works very very well. The other 9.9% is wishing folk well in there recovery’s. One has had two knees replaced, one nearly went blind, one has his bladder removed in Jan/ Feb, one his wife was seriously ill in hospital, one has a camera going up the North Pole tomorrow.Etc etc. you get the picture.
Anyway the club pro asked us to help a guy integrate into the fuddle so he could get to know a lot of lads. He had been at four courses in four years since joining our place. He was a royal PITA. I never actually got to play with him but those that did said it was 4 1/2 hours of him talking about me me me.
He started putting jokes on the whats app group and it didn’t go down well. I pm’d him on the quiet but it went in one ear and outta the other. He took to me because we both followed City. The final straw was when the guy whose wife was seriously ill in hospital. We were all sending best wishes, thoughts, good luck and all that messages. The new guy in the middle of all this decides to post a joke about an Englishman an Irish man and a Scot’s man are in plane that’s going to crash and there’s only two parachutes and one of them is going to die. The group went ballistic.
One guy put it quite bluntly. He told him he had been welcomed to the group and all he was done in that time is talk about himself, and it is time he went forth and multiplied as he is not welcome. He asked the group if anyone disagreed. I lost count the amount of people who gave the thumbs up to his message. The guy who posted that message had already lost his wife to breast cancer. He wanted to throttle the new guy. Said new guy got the message and left.
I don’t think anyone in our group would tolerate a group that was full of random rubbish.

Unfortunately it's not random rubbish - I might tolerate that - but it's sarcastic political stuff, and I have no time for that whatsoever. I could post much to balance but I chose to just leave them to it.

 

[Slime]

Feels like it’s them trying to appeal to the American audience, I don’t think they have sea over there.

The Gulf of Mexico.

 

[timd77]

The Gulf of Mexico.

The don’t like to talk about Mexico…

 

[The Squirrel]

I wasn't irritated with this, but I am now irritated that wikipedia states sea and ocean are interchangeable when clearly they are not.

Even my kids know the difference between the ocean and the sea:

Ah but if they’re different then what about when bit of water is both a sea and an ocean at the same time, like the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic…….

And then what about the Sea of Galilee - which doesn’t seem to be a sea at all

 

[sunshine]

Ah but if they’re different then what about when bit of water is both a sea and an ocean at the same time, like the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic…….

And then what about the Sea of Galilee - which doesn’t seem to be a sea at all

I see

 

[Hobbit]

Yeh, I know it’s irrational. More aimed at UK YouTubers who will have gone to Blackpool as a kid and seen ‘the sea’ because it’s the Irish Sea, or over on the east coast they’ll have seen the North Sea. Even in southern Spain you know it the Mediterranean Sea!

Now, if you’re in west Scotland, Portugal, or the canaries, I’d be happy for them to say it’s the ocean because it is!

Feels like it’s them trying to appeal to the American audience, I don’t think they have sea over there.

To most Brits The Mediterranean Sea is that big lump of water off the southern European coast. But off the east coast of Italy it’s the Adriatic. Around the Greek islands it’s the Aegean. Off the west coast of Italy it’s the Tyrrhenian Sea. And even off southern Spain it’s the Alboran Sea… all part of the Med. Similarly, the North Sea & Irish Sea are parts of the Atlantic Ocean.

For me living here in southern Spain, it’s the Alboran Sea. I guess it’s just what you’re used to.

 

[SteveJay]

Thank you for your support, good to know I’m not alone!

Just wait until you watch Rick Shiels playing st Anne’s or birkdale, he’ll walk up to a tee box and say ‘look at this view, the ocean looks spectacular’ or some such!

He would do very well to see the sea from St Anne's Old Links! He would need to fly his drone to do so

 

[timd77]

He would do very well to see the sea from St Anne's Old Links! He would need to fly his drone to do so

I just picked a couple of courses off the top of my head I knew were up that way, it’s on the coast surely?

 

[irip]

Should I return the tickets I have to sea Billy Ocean (Joan Rivers is the warm up act). I don’t know water do now?

 

[timd77]

Should I return the tickets I have to sea Billy Ocean (Joan Rivers is the warm up act). I don’t know water do now?

When is it? Where is it? You need to be more pacific.

 

[irip]

When is it? Where is it? You need to be more pacific.

No need to get Crabby, The London Paddleidium, Ocean drive (you have to put Sea drive in your sat nav as it doesn’t recognise that as an Ocean).