Feel free to ignore the posts that conflict with your tunnel vision, including mine, where I stated that I move my umbrella out of the way whenever it might inconvenience someone.
I’m 6’3" tall, so most of my space is over your head. Jump up and grab it if you want, but don’t complain about the occasional umbrella rib end you encounter.
And feel free to do the same. Honestly, if everyone were as thoughtful and competent as you claim to be*, I don’t imagine I’d be complaining. The fact that I AM complaining, and complaining loudly, would seem to indicate that the vast majority of people who use these things are, at best oblivious, and at worst, assholes.
*And tall, which I concede makes a difference. Heh, for what it’s worth, I thought of including in an earlier post “assuming you’re not well over 6 feet tall”, but I left it out.
Whatever information I may or may not have glossed over, it has not led me to calling you an asshole on scant evidence.
She didn’t call you an asshole either. In fact she’s going on the assumption that you are not one.
How come you’re taking this whole thing so personally? Do you feel like it’s an attack on your being?
It’s an unwarrented attack on his umbrella. I understand how he feels.
Ah. Gotcha. You can insult a man’s penis, you can insult his car, and you can insult his mother. But insult his umbrella? Them’s fightin’ words! 
No problem at all with people insulting my penis and my mother. Insulting my umbrella and my car is insulting my freedom, which is much worse.
In NYC, there’s been something of an arms race going on for at least a dozen years. In the mid-90s, I vividly remember a coworker describing how she was considering sharpening the little nubs on the edges of her umbrella because she wanted to escalate it. I’m sure she was being facetious.
Personally, I don’t remember to take my umbrella with me half the time because I’m disorganized and forgetful, and most of my commute involves trains and subways, so there’s very little time I’m actually out in the open. That said, there have been many occasions on which I’ve been poked, prodded or forced off the sidewalk by careless umbrella-wielders. Let me also say that I don’t think it’s confined to golf umbrella enthusiasts. There are plenty of folks walking around with their umbrellas blocking most or all of their forward vision. Thus, they’re running into people and things.
Maybe the OP noticed some sort of correlation between these idiots and folks who carry oversized golf umbrellas. From my vantage point, though, he/she might have pitted careless umbrella carriers rather than folks carrying the oversized kind. We might have avoided some flaming along the way.
You consider your car, and even your umbrella, more important to your freedom than your penis is? :dubious: Seriously now, if you actually had to give up one of them…?
For some of us, owning a penis is a sort of prison.
No, I consider my penis more important to me. But I couldn’t care less if you insult it, as I didn’t choose my penis. If you insult my car or umbrella then you are insulting my freedom to make decisions about cars or umbrellas.
Read the quoted portion of post #101. She says if I have a golf umbrella, I’m an asshole. And not only when it rains.
While it is a tiny bit vague, imo “tips” in this case refers to the ends, or tips, of the spokes. Here is the first sentence:
“Penetrating orbitofacial wounds inflicted by the sharp metal tips of umbrellas may go unrecognized.”
This is from a medical abstract. Are you seriously suggesting that a doctor wrote about not overlooking a facial stab with the spike at the top of an umbrella? I’m pretty sure most doctors recognize the gravity of someone being stabbed by a 2" long spike in the face. So are you being willfully obtuse, or is your own reading comprehension maybe not all you think it is?
No
The tip of the spoke would find its way into someone’s eye through careless use.
The point I made, grumpy, was that umbrella tips can be dangerous because some people are useless tools. Giving these folks larger umbrellas is a bad idea. People are venting a little bit and you are spazzing because of it. It is quite funny, but we’re not laughing with you.
I did. It was actually a generic “you”, but since the genre was golf umbrella owners, I can see why you’d take offense.
So howsabout this… if you happen to be an exceptionally thoughtful and aware person who is also over 6’2" tall, you MAY not be an asshole for using a golf umbrella on a crowded city street.
I say “may” only because never having encountered that person, s/he is an urban legend until I’m convinced otherwise.
He did not say “unnoticed.” He said “unrecognized.” Are you seriously suggesting that the two words mean the same thing? Here’s a clue. Many many many many things are noticed, but unrecognized. Precious few are recognized, but unnoticed.
Again, the gravity is not in question, only the cause.
As could the tip of countless other things. Careless use is the problem, not the golf umbrella.
The point of this thread, shit for brains, is that people who own large umbrellas are jerks. Or assholes. Your point is blindingly obvious. And it is not about golf umbrellas, but regular umbrellas, which the OP et. al. think are just peachy keen. No problem at all. Regular umbrellas? God’s gift to the working man. Golf umbrellas? Hell spawn.
For the third time, do you have *anything at all that suggests that golf *umbrellas cause eye injuries, and at what rate? That was the original point, and I have seen nothing on it. So far, all you’ve done is argue that umbrellas are dangerous. And that rather poorly, as you have absolutely no numbers to suggest how many incidences occur. No one has argued that getting poked in the eye with an umbrella is not a bad thing. You don’t need to prove that getting poked in the eye with an umbrella is a bad thing. You need to prove that golf umbrellas gouge out human eyeballs at a significant rate. That is what you responded to with your first cite. A cite about umbrellas, not golf umbrellas. As was your second cite. Got anything on golf umbrellas? Anything?
That’s good enough for me. How about drinks later?
Sure, as long as it’s not raining.
So are you arguing against this premise, proving its truth, or some combination of the two?
Good Lord. Can you not even answer one of my questions?
I’m done with you.
OK, asshole.