Comment on Does trump know he cheats at golf?

ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How boring would you be if you didn’t have some cringe stories! They prove you really lived life to the full. You can’t get 100% correct in a fallible meat suit and the fickle, gatekeepy, hot or not, societal mind.

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  • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m just glad I’m too old to have the cringe moments recorded for all time. Poor kids these days.

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    • LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah! Same! I say that all the time. Although the cringe policing wasn’t as hard core before days of constant public documentation of all of the things. You kinda just drifted away from people who were cringe, and they had to figure it out without anything being spelled out for them. At least kids nowadays have a very complex and comprehensive guide to follow. Kinda. I’m still glad I’m pre, all of that.

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• stickyShift@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ELI5: what does it mean to cheat at golf? I’ve only golfed about 6 times in my life, and everyone I’ve golfed with does a Mulligan on every other hole, tosses a ball hit into tall grass onto the fairway, throws out a new ball if they hit it into the woods, etc. They’ll usually add another stroke to their score for these, but what does it matter if you’re only playing against yourself?

  Obviously if you’re playing in a tournament or professionally, doing the above would count as “cheating”, but it’s not clear to me where the line is

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  • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean, you’re still playing with 3 other people, so if they’re watching you breaking the standard rules without agreeing from the start things like “everyone gets a mulligan per 9” or “take a free drop if you shotgun a beer”, that’s a poor reflection on your honesty.

    That’s why these stories of Trump ring true, because it really doesn’t matter and if you cheat when it doesn’t matter, then what do you do when it does?

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• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t be so hard on yourself. It is a bit cringy but who cares? It’s a game where you basically just play against yourself for fun. You fill out your own score card and you can write down any number you want without affecting anyone else in any real way. I’d find someone getting upset at your cheating at golf when you were a kid even more cringy.

  When I was a kid, I played t-ball one year. My only memory from it was one time I was on defense but was more interested in drawing in the sand than paying attention to the game.

  Or when I was a bit older, I was playing softball (parenta really wanted me to be interested in some baaeball variant I guess). I was on 2nd base and the pitcher missed catching a throw from the catcher and it rolled towards me. Instead of stealing 3rd, I stepped off the base and stopped the ball with my foot to be helpful. Lol the 3rd base coach wasn’t impressed. Technically I should have been out, but it was just a recreational game so they let it slide. I was really embarrassed at the time and would remember that moment for years with regret. But eventually I realized it didn’t matter in the slightest bit and I can laugh at how much of a dork I was.

  Because the reality is all kids are dorks and doing stupid shit is a part of growing up and learning to be a bit less of a dork going forward.

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  • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I just stopped playing, I figured if I had to cheat to make myself feel good then I was never going to be good enough to stop.

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    • Sirdubdee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      When you cheat, you only cheat yourself.

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