I’ve seen Obsession and I don’t get the “parody”
As of earlier today it had been deleted from YouTube, but the Callaway ad is still featured in its entirety in the original story link.
Eh, if the woman had responded by getting back up and shoving the man, and they ended up in an all-out brawl over who got to use the Great and Mighty Club, then… Well, OK, it probably would have still been stupid, but it wouldn’t have been so offensive that I’d swear off ever using any of the company’s products.
That would be better yeah.
Still stupid but better.
Oh, my God! Muslim girls are getting Muslim awards! The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
And when shown facts, she immediately apologized. Oops! I thought today is Opposite Day. Here’s the bigot’s reaction to fact.
If you’re going to be packing a guillotine in Washington D.C., don’t be stupid have a parking violation. Especially if it’s clearly visible in the truck bed.
The United States Capitol Police (USCP) seized a guillotine, which was spotted in the bed of a pickup truck along the 100 block of East Capitol Street.
Just after 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, August 25, USCP officers noticed the pickup truck, which was illegally parked.
The suspect 35-year-old Philan-Tam-Duy Le of Julian, CA, was arrested for Carrying a Dangerous Weapon for being in possession of the guillotine.
How TF is a guillotine a “dangerous weapon”? It’s impossible to hurt someone with it unless they’re trussed up like a Thanksgiving turkey. At that point, a plastic grocery bag is equally hazardous.
The story I read said that guillotine guy drove from California, and I wonder if he had the guillotine standing in the bed all the way to D.C.
I mean, it’s not legal like gallows at a rally.
Yeah, somehow Twitter thinks I’m into golf - I’m seeing a handful of spats around this.
And the other thing I learn from golf Twitter is that most of them make Catholic converts and baseball purists look like pikers when it comes to following unwritten rules.
If he explains that he was just a bit late to the January 6th rally, he’ll be in line for a pardon by Trump.
Hey, if it stops one person from taking up golf, that commercial was worth it.
You are right and I am wrong.
I was guilty of relaying very obsolete news from the last few years pre-COVID. With a side order of regional chauvinism. Here in SoFL we’ve had a bunch of golf course condo / HOA communities either give or sell their course to the local city / county to convert it to public use because they don’t have the player headcount to support the maintenance costs. When most condo / HOA members don’t play golf, they’re unlikely to be happy about a sizeable fraction of their monthly condo / HOA fees going to maintenance of a golf course they don’t use. Whether from lifelong disinterest in golf or having aged out of being able to play.
The other thing going on around here is golf condo / HOA communities selling the course to a housing developer who threads a whole new neighborhood of streets & houses or apartments into the footprint of the old course.
So locally around here we see courses disappearing, not being built.
In contrast, Google AI informs me golf is really doing excellently these days. An interesting and perhaps ominous development is that fully 40% of all golf participants in 2025 play only on simulators or gamified driving ranges like TopGolf; they don’t play traditional courses at all. IMO that’s the outdoor counterpart to Bowling Alone. If your business is selling clubs and accesories, you don’t much care where the players use them. Conversely, if your business is building and maintaining golf courses you sure do.
Google AI response to prompt: Is the golf industry thriving, or is it dying out for lack of young players?
Which now makes the collaboration between Callaway and Good Good Golf and their attempted “edgy” ad make a bit more sense. Aiming for the irreverent youth market, poking fun at the stodgy traditionalist white-shoe market. They were just totally tone deaf about acceptable forms of irreverence; especially for young people.
Dude, you’re a Doper. I presume you vet anything any AI says, right?
Did you read the citation list it provided?
Perhaps; the sense I get is that those are popular golfing activities for groups, as well as people going by themselves.
There had been a steady decline in the number of golf courses in the U.S. after the Great Recession in 2008, which also coincides with the end of the Tiger Woods-fueled golf boom. That decline continued until a few years ago, but the number of courses has stabilized (source below).
OTOH, as I understand it, municipal courses and less-expensive public courses are becoming harder to find, and going out to play a round of golf at a course seems to be an expensive outing in many areas now.
What triggered that, now? Girl Scouts (and Boy Scouts) have had those badges for decades at least.
Some R strategist got the idea the public is tiring of trump’s antics.
So they need another fresh culture war moral panic to rally the R voters around the R cause. You know: ignorance and bigotry.
Jack Miladan is a conservative Florida businessman who calls himself a “child of God”. He posts messages online, including this new one:
Had Canada been treating us fairly, this would never have happened. So, buckle up Canada, you’re taking on Goliath.
Apparently this self-professed Christian has never actually read 1 Samuel 17 and doesn’t know how the story ended. Or started I guess.
Canada says: BAM, here’s a a stone smashing your forehead! That’ll teach you your Bible!