• Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    Yeah what other sport lets its players use servants to carry their equipment and little electric cars to haul their fat asses between swings?

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      It’s not a sport, it’s a game, like darts.

  • OwOarchist@pawb.social
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    Forget leveling the land, we do that for all kinds of dumb reasons, some of them even worse than golfing.

    But what about the massive fresh water usage?

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      I mean, there’s plenty of low-effort, high-accuracy sports. Pool, darts, bowling, curling, bocce, pétanque, archery, shooting… A lot of them have an old-man, alcohol-fueled vibe, not unrelatedly

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      Darts is a sport. Sporting is the act of doing an activity against an opponent. Gaming is basically a sport.

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        No, sporting is defined: Sport is a physical activity or game,[1] often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills.

        So yes gaming is a sport, but no it is not simply an activity against an opponent.

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    6 days ago

    What bugs me is that there are driving ranges which includes all the actual swinging, but for some reason rich people don’t like something that isn’t exclusive.

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      What are you trying to say here?

      There’s no difference between playing golf and hitting balls on a driving range?

      Only rich people play golf?

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        A lot of people in this thread, just trotting the all their basic bits, sound like they’ve never even played golf.

        Golf is bad because it’s incredibly wasteful of space to build and of resources, to maintain. Not because the game is bad.