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Random Irritations

Although I understand fully why, it was immensely irritating and frustrating to walk past the 10th tee today and not be allowed to contuine the round even though there was nobody booked to play it for the rest of the day.....

Not that I'd have played any better and may have been suicidal by the time I'd have finished....it was still irritating
 
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The poor sod they just showed hitting a tee shot on the BBC news. Top of his swing and the moron presenter calls out "no pressure". He hits a low duck hook and will now get slaughtered for it by his mates and fellow members.
 
Grown adults rejoicing that fast food chains and coffee shops are reopening and then queueing for hours (often blocking roads) for a crappy burger or a latte lol. Try supporting the local businesses that supported your community the last couple of months!!! Sadly so many will just revert to old habits

If the golf club caterer keeps it going after this is over I know where my meat and fish will be coming from in future. And the greengrocer in the high street will be getting more business.
 
This is something that clubs need to get to grips with. Playing through is all well and good but if groups are considerably slower then there is a risk of this causing delays back to the first tee and then causing unnecessary grouping around the first tee. The system is designed to stop groups waiting around in proximity and very slow play can be a risk to that. It is an ideal time for clubs to get to grips with some of the slower groups in their membership

I am hoping the use of a marshall (think our steward has volunteered given he can't serve drinks - not sure of the semantics regarding furlough and if he is or isn't) will ensure any groups that are causing a massive hold up are enforced to move aside if they don't do so voluntarily. It's going to be vital we don't have people congregating near tees
 
Despite members being told NOT to book to play consecutive days already a few are - every day in fact.

What is wrong with people?!
Can't your booking system block that?
Ours not only let me book (by accident) for TUESDAY when the course was still shut t, it then wouldn't let me book for Thursday because I'd "exceeded the limit for active bookings"
 
Can't your booking system block that?
Ours not only let me book (by accident) for TUESDAY when the course was still shut t, it then wouldn't let me book for Thursday because I'd "exceeded the limit for active bookings"

I don't think it can as they're just using the competition booking system. I have noticed that the names down to play every day have disappeared though so perhaps they introduced something similar or contacted the culprits.
 
My two cats. If they are outside they will come in to the house to take a crap beside (not in) their litter tray, even though I've dug over a secluded area for them to use outside. They absolutely will not go in the garden or in the litter tray. This evening one of them has just walked into the utility room and taken a crap right beside the litter tray. She has then looked directly at me and climbed into the litter tray for a wee.
 
My two cats. If they are outside they will come in to the house to take a crap beside (not in) their litter tray, even though I've dug over a secluded area for them to use outside. They absolutely will not go in the garden or in the litter tray. This evening one of them has just walked into the utility room and taken a crap right beside the litter tray. She has then looked directly at me and climbed into the litter tray for a wee.
Serious question, have you tried 2 litter trays, they might not like doing No1 & 2 in the same place.?‍♂️
 
Serious question, have you tried 2 litter trays, they might not like doing No1 & 2 in the same place.?‍♂️

They've got three litter trays. We've always had one more litter tray than we have cats. Until we lost our other cat in August last year we had 4 litter trays. Nothing seems to work for them. Even when I went out and bought three brand new litter trays in January and put fresh litter in all of them they would still come in from the garden to crap on the floor beside them.
 
Seems a bit harsh. Although I have been wondering recently if I could make them in to a decent pair of slippers. Only problem is that one is black with long hair and the other is white and grey with short hair so my slippers wouldn't match.
Sadly you just have to accept...
Cats are gits......
 
They've got three litter trays. We've always had one more litter tray than we have cats. Until we lost our other cat in August last year we had 4 litter trays. Nothing seems to work for them. Even when I went out and bought three brand new litter trays in January and put fresh litter in all of them they would still come in from the garden to crap on the floor beside them.
One of our cats (long gone) used to get in the litter tray but stick its bum over the side and miss the tray completely.
 
We have R2 on at work in our factory. It is easy going, suits most of us, similar ages, musical tastes. Zoe Ball is enormously irritating but it is too much faff to change between stations just to avoid her. On a Thursday morning they have started doing a link up between different BBC stations, 1, Xtra, Asian Network and some other Yoof channel. Each channel intoduces and plays a song from 9am onwards. If I wanted to listen to a hyper active, falsely enthusiastic, down with the kids presenter I would listen to one of those stations :mad:. I don't so stop forcing them on me.

Ken Bruce must love that segment, it makes him look even better and more in tune with the station and listeners than he already is.
 
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