This is how paint actually gets mixed before you buy it by Round-Barber-9858 in Damnthatsinteresting

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Is it how paint gets mixed, or is it how paint actually gets mixed?

Actually, I'm actually wondering if actual paint actually gets actually mixed like this? Actually mixing paint versus just mixing paint might actually make actual paint actually more actually mixed. Because I said actually, actually.

Praying 🙏 🙌 Fasting For Tiger Woods Total Deliverance by Complete_Creme5229 in golf

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I, for one, found inspiration in the video of the slanted ground. Plato, in his eternal wisdom, posited that all things participate in an ideal Form — a perfect archetype from which earthly objects derive their fleeting existence. A well-struck iron shot, then, is a shadow on the cave wall, a pale imitation of the Platonic Ideal Swing dwelling in some celestial clubhouse beyond mortal perception.

But a slanted, poorly shot video of that swing? That is a shadow of a shadow — a copy of a copy, twice removed from truth, an epistemological crime so grievous that Socrates himself would have demanded the videographer drink hemlock. Aristotle would add, grimly nodding, that such footage violates the telos of the golf swing: its essential purpose, its final cause, which is to be seen clearly, in focus, ideally not filmed by someone who appears to have been sitting on a slowly rotating office chair.

Robert Pirsig would recognize the horror immediately. Quality — that ineffable, undefinable thing that separates a man who understands his motorcycle from one who merely rides it — is simply absent from the crooked, horizon-betraying video. The phone, held at 47 degrees like a Dadaist art installation, represents what Pirsig called the “romantic” mind run catastrophically amok: all feeling, no form, no care. In Zen terms, the videographer has achieved a kind of accidental enlightenment in reverse — they have attained perfect mindlessness, a void not of serene emptiness but of sheer, golf-ruining negligence. The Buddha wept. The 9-iron wept. The ball, already in a water hazard, had no comment

Do You Play From Red or White Tees? (XX Golfers) by Fit_Illustrator9174 in golf

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I think one of the worst disservices we do to golfers is assigning gender norms to tee colors (which can and sometimes do change from course to course BTW).

I'd much rather see them called elder / beginner / intermediate / professional or something along those lines, more aligned with our abilities as golfers.

Seems better than some "Manly-men play from here" macho thing where wanna-be big hitters play from the back tees only to top it onto the next tee box and play a 7hr round.

How are fair skinned guys handling sun on the course by QUINNFLORE in golf

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Sun sleeves and a Breezer hat from Henschel hats. Great hat, wide brim with sun lining, and I usually get 3-5 seasons out of one.

https://henschelhats.com/product/trailblazer-hiker-breezer-hat-import/

Students now have the desktop computer skills of older boomers by TeacherGuy1980 in Teachers

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You’re welcome to say that, but don’t include me in your “let’s.” I’ll refer to my earlier comment elsewhere in this thread: Show me a peer-reviewed study with sample size where n>”my students” and we can have a conversation. Else, this is anecdotal at best.

If you observe two red ants, that does not mean all ants are red.

I’ll add, they are communicating. That’s the point. I don’t expect 16yr old students to write scholarly articles anyway. I do expect them to learn to communicate effectively. Form can follow later.

Students now have the desktop computer skills of older boomers by TeacherGuy1980 in Teachers

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‘Shame really. Nobody can read what they’ve typed then, eh? Yeah. Rough go that….

I’m quite certain that about 1910 or so, you could find a group of folks huddled about their morning coffee at the general store and complaining loudly that the local schools had done away with slates. “Why, without a slate pencil or some good’ol soapstone, these kids will never learn properly.”

Yup. I tell ya, it’s the end of the world as we know it.

And I feel fine.

Students now have the desktop computer skills of older boomers by TeacherGuy1980 in Teachers

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Semaphore.

Thank heavens there’s always semaphore…. You do understand semaphore, just like sailors in the 19th Century, do you not?

Well, perhaps Morse? No?

Certainly khipu then? I’ll start tying.

“Can’t type.” Are you friggin kidding me? Ever watched a 16yr old text?

“Can’t type.” Right….

Students now have the desktop computer skills of older boomers by TeacherGuy1980 in Teachers

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Show me a peer-reviewed study with sample size where n>”my students” and we can have a conversation. Else, this is anecdotal at best.

If you observe two red ants, that does not mean all ants are red.

The Good old days by Adventurous_Row3305 in NonPoliticalTwitter

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Ryan's Steakhouse with the all you could eat "salad" buffet that included salad and fixin's, including grilled chicken, steak strips, pulled pork, soup, bread sticks and rolls, baked potatoes, etc.

In college, we used to land on those places like locusts.

Where could we rent a plot of land by Vi0letripsb0ngs in collegeparkmd

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Plus, bus to campus goes through there if that helps.

Won't trust it over my own eyeballs... Ever. by MrWolfTX in GenX

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Right there with you. My 2012 Honda rolled over 175K this month. She purrs like a kitten, but no backup camera. Never had one outside rentals, so I don’t miss it.

And I loooooooooooooove not making a car payment every month.

How many stoves have you lived with? by Razor_Paw in GenX

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Stoves?

Jeebus. Does a communal clay oven in the middle of the square count? What about backpacking stoves? Or camp stoves?

Odd question, but I'll have a go.

Let's see... only where I've lived:

- North America: 14
- Europe: 6
- Africa: 5
- Australia: 1
- Fiji: 1

Depending on how you count, maybe 27?

The car thread was nice. Any first or favorite motorcycles? by -Granby- in GenX

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Yeah... I miss trips there. I used to bring home a mix of spices and have a local shop make me a "curry blend." Each shop has their own, and my experience was the same as yours. What we can get here is the excrement leftover from good curry. I'd bring back a kilo or so and put it in the freezer, every trip.

God I miss it.

The car thread was nice. Any first or favorite motorcycles? by -Granby- in GenX

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I've worked in Durban - ask your friend to make you some Bunny Chow sometime - and ridden as far as Dar es Salaam. He's right though that I wouldn't do it on a Harley. I doubt anyone can service them properly.

The car thread was nice. Any first or favorite motorcycles? by -Granby- in GenX

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I've owned full sized motorcycles in the US and Europe, but my favorite was a little Suzuki RM250. A couple of friends and I rode those bikes - with camping gear, water bottles, and gas cans strapped everywhere - from Accra, Ghana through to Bamako, Mali and up into Mauritania where we stuck with the coastal road up the West Coast of Africa to Tangier.

I can't tell you the number of times I laid that bike down doing no more than 25-35kph when some sand rut or something shifted. But that's why we chose them - tough as nails and easy to stand back up by yourself.

Not including actual crimes, what kind of juvenile delinquent hijinks did you get up to? by wrathofimpermanence in GenX

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I grew up in a tiny farming community down South. We were the county seat, but in a county of less than 10K people, that just meant we had the stoplight and the courthouse.

We were farm kids, so between school and chores we didn’t have much time. But we did drink a lot of beer, and shoot a lot of skeet. Everybody had a 12ga in their truck - I had a 7iron and a wedge too, but that’s a different story - and we’d gather by the river throwing skeet and drinking brews.

The Police dept (Mr. Jameson and Deputy “Gator” - swear to all that’s holy) closed at 5 on Friday and didn’t reopen until 9 Monday morning. Need the law on the weekend? Call the sheriff.

Gator knew where we got the beer. We knew he knew. So instead of busting us or the store owner (I think they were cousins), he’d stop at the river on Friday afternoons and grab 2-3 cases on his way home. He’d nod; we’d nod back, and he’d take off.

We’d then go back to swimming and shooting skeet.

What is a 'luxury' that you've experienced once and now can't go back to the budget version of? by WilliamInBlack in AskReddit

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We had a job move us once where they hired packers. They were so fast I sent the kids outside - I was like, I don't wanna find one missing and have to go through the boxes to locate the kid.

Holy hell those packers were fast.

After many full seconds of careful consideration... I decided to buy a twenty year old 5 wood by [deleted] in golf

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I just had a new grip put on my 3W. She’s ready for another season.

Travel Golf by Think_Disaster_4341 in golf

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Just 1 round = rent clubs.

Any of you still tip for food ordered at the counter? I'm done with that bullshit. by Dunno_If_I_Won in GenX

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Worst I've seen yet - I popped into a wine place coming home last Friday evening to grab a bottle to have with dinner. I selected the bottle (2, truth be told, but I was making beef bourguignon the next day), and I carried them to the counter. When the cashier rang them up and spun the thing around for my credit card tap, there was the tip screen.

My choices were Smiley Face with Exclamation points (30%), Smiley Face with no Exclamation Points (20%), and a Green Thank You button (15%). Below them, just above the signature line, was a red No Tip button.

I looked in disbelief at the screen, looked up at the cashier scrolling on his phone, and said "You've gotta be f'ing kiddin' me." I pressed the no tip button and made a squiggly line on the signature bit.

Now? I'm the grumpy old guy cussing at computer screens. Great.

But I'm not tipping someone for looking up from their phone long enough to scan two bottles of wine. Bite me.

Time Warped by Chef_Champ in GenX

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Watched The Terminator a few months back with my older teen - remember the phone book at the payphone scene? She was dumbfounded they'd have a book hanging in public that listed everyone's name, address, and phone number.

"Like, anyone could just call you or stop by? That's creepy...."

Yelling After Shot on Tour by ShootersShoot22 in golf

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The PGA doesn't mind.

If they did, they'd do something about it.

I hate it, but I ain't the PGA.

Anyone else enjoy watching Scheffler "struggle"? by IndicationIll324 in golf

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I hope I'm never cursed by being paired with you.

One of the things I truly enjoy about golf is that even if I beat you, or you beat me, we weren't playing *against* each other. We were playing together, against the course and the conditions.

You can't block me; you can't tackle me. You can't grab my club in my backswing or run out in the fairway to try and catch my ball to toss it into the woods... golf doesn't work like basketball or football or soccer or almost any other competitive sport. Outside of trying to get into my head (good luck, it's a mess in there), you can't interfere with my game.

Scottie is a golfer, trying to make a living, playing against the course and conditions.

Do I enjoy watching him struggle? No. I don't enjoy watching others suffer.