Oddsocks
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I was actually editing my post on this. See original
Tiger, Thomas and the Tampon
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Haha. Saw that after I had posted. It gladdens me to see that you’ve got such a critical mind that you took that into account in the end. Good on you!
Is that even possible any more ? Does the Northern Ireland Brexit protocol allow it, or does it just mean more paperwork at the bar door ?
Maninblack4612
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If you joined our fourball you wouldn't get off the first tee. We joke about all aspects of human behaviour. Nobody is offended, nobody else hears what we say. I would never say anything I thought would be offensive to someone I didn't know well. There's one person who I sometimes play with who never swears. I wouldn't feel comfortable about swearing in his presence so I don't. Similarly, I am old fashioned & I, & the other members of my fourball, would never swear in front of a woman, unless she swore first. Despite being a dinosaur I think I've seldom offended anyone with an inappropriate comment.
As far as the Tiger thing is concerned, it was a childish joke. If anyone had done it to me I'd have laughed. My wife tells me that men often behave in a childish manner. I can't argue with that.
Barking_Mad
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Barking_Mad
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But I don’t think we’re allowed to mention that men hit it further
Stop being melodramatic.
Crumplezone
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No thanks. I've met a lot of people and don't like most of them much.
Crumplezone
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Alf Garnett was meant to show what idiots racists are, but some people didn't get the joke.
Crumplezone
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I wouldn't take offence. I would just think you're totally unfunny. I can't see how playing a bad shot is related in any way to being female. But I wouldn't be playing with you anyway.
Crumplezone
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It's nothing to do with woke or being upset. It's simply because it's not funny and totally unprofessional. Though 'woke' is defined as being aware of prejudice and inequality and acting to stop it. I can never understand why anyone would have a problem with that and use it as a negative term.
ColchesterFC
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Go compare fairways and GIR hit.
Why? The discussion is about distance not accuracy. Tiger gave him a tampon because he out drove him, nothing to do with hitting the fairway or the green in regulation.
ColchesterFC
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There's one common denominator in all these meetings you've had with other people when you've ended up not liking them.
Oddsocks
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@Crumplezone , I’m a little confused. You don’t like people, you don’t play golf and socialise with people at the risk of not agreeing with their views etc etc, yet your on a forum with peoples who’s views you don’t agree with and that you’ve never met.
evemccc
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In your opinion.
‘Woke’ to me implies people lapping-up American societal / cultural ideas and unthinkingly transplanting them across borders and in utterly different contexts.
The opposite of woke is certainly not an Alf Garnett type..
Grown adults in the UK who describe themselves as woke were probably swayed with whatever modes of thinking was on trend before that…loaded magazine lad-culture in the 90s no doubt..
And if you were to scroll-up you’d see my only comments on Tiger’s tampon was to see it as pathetic
Barking_Mad
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Because it's interesting to see how amazingly accurate female tour players are?
It's really no surprise that male golfers drive it longer that female ones. Didn't really need a tampon to make the point.
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Barking_Mad
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Just asked my wife who has no interest in golf, but had heard the story. Her reaction,
"Seems a bit pathetic that middle aged men are throwing tampons about as a joke. Aren't they supposed to be role models to kids? That Tiger Woods seems a bit unhinged."
"Seems a bit pathetic that middle aged men are throwing tampons about as a joke. Aren't they supposed to be role models to kids? That Tiger Woods seems a bit unhinged."
ColchesterFC
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Just asked my wife who has no interest in golf, but had heard the story. Her reaction,
"Seems a bit pathetic that middle aged men are throwing tampons about as a joke. Aren't they supposed to be role models to kids? That Tiger Woods seems a bit unhinged."
With his past history I think that Tiger joking with a mate about tampons would be the least of my worries if one of my kids was looking at him as a role model.
Barking_Mad
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Like I said, she doesn't follow golf. But kids do follow Tiger.
2blue
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This is it... ^^^.... the forum's anti-woke warriors in such a rush to show us all what knobs they actually are if ever there was a doubt.
Smiffy
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That's why I loved him, desert head
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