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Re: *** CHANGES in the Coffee Corner ***
« Reply #160 on: October 29, 2017, 08:39:13 pm »

Truth to tell, I don't do sport at all. That said, if had to choose, I think I'd opt for golf. It would have been nice to be a wonderful player and roam this world making millions and, best of all, it would all have depended on oneself! No clients to find, no models to get to do something great... all your own work!
Ah, Rob. Now I begin to understand the Higher Calling of Mankind. It must be this: endlessly trying to put a small round ball into a slightly larger cup from great and increasing distances. Sounds sort of Buddhist to me.
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« Reply #161 on: October 29, 2017, 08:56:50 pm »

Dawson City in Yukon boasts the northernmost golf course with greens. The best thing is that the golfers get a 9 months winter respite.
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« Reply #162 on: October 30, 2017, 05:04:39 am »

Ah, Rob. Now I begin to understand the Higher Calling of Mankind. It must be this: endlessly trying to put a small round ball into a slightly larger cup from great and increasing distances. Sounds sort of Buddhist to me.


Well, Eric, it has to be admitted, man is a simple creature: ask any woman.

But (as always there is one - the so-called alternative perspective held by the same enquiring mind), the positive spin to put on the "sport" in question is this: that little cup also represents the fabled pot of gold, whose quest is eternal; so yes, perhaps the Buddha was onto all of this eons ago. I didn't, however, suspect golf was that ancient - I'd imagined it to have started on a cold, Scottish field soon after a retreating river flood had left the thistles flat and smooooth in the mud when a young oaf accidently banged a little stone with his crook and was amazed at how far it could fly without wings!

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« Reply #163 on: October 30, 2017, 07:02:58 am »

Ah, Rob. Now I begin to understand the Higher Calling of Mankind. It must be this: endlessly trying to put a small round ball into a slightly larger cup from great and increasing distances. Sounds sort of Buddhist to me.

Trying to put one round thing into another is the reason of life... the sadness of the metaphor of golf is the proportion of time trying for so little putting.
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« Reply #164 on: October 30, 2017, 07:16:32 am »

Trying to put one round thing into another is the reason of life... the sadness of the metaphor of golf is the proportion of time trying for so little putting.

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« Reply #165 on: October 30, 2017, 02:31:45 pm »

That's why I have never played the game. However, in its favour - as compared with most other outdoor sports - it does free one from dependency on others that team sports inevitably impose. Hell, if you liked, you could play it all alone and still have the pleasure - inasmuch as solitary ball games permit - and even break records! Isn't that what games are supposedly about? But in my original championing of it - the game - the point was that it would allow success or failure to depend on the self. I like those odds; always have. Suppose I'm slightly anti-social somewhere deep down, not that anyone would notice, of course.

Furthermore, it also provides a pleasant view as one exercises, which beats working out in gyms, not that I do that either, I have to own.

Rob

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« Reply #166 on: October 30, 2017, 02:38:51 pm »

If I played golf, any time I didn't get the results I wanted I would put the blame on Adobe! Or maybe Canon, Nikon, or Sony.    ::)
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« Reply #167 on: October 30, 2017, 03:06:24 pm »

If I played golf, any time I didn't get the results I wanted I would put the blame on Adobe! Or maybe Canon, Nikon, or Sony.    ::)

If you were a professional golfer, you might have a point, what with all of those non-rangefinder alternatives churning and grinding and whirring away so distractingly in the wings. Bring back the Big Bad M, I say!

Rob
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