• @BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
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        121 year ago

        Mini golf is the shit, you ought to get out to a real one with a friend or two some time. Guaranteed you’ll enjoy yourself

        • @cordlesslamp@lemmy.today
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          41 year ago

          My friends said mini golf is for children and laugh when I asked to try it out. I’m 30yo tho, so yeah they might be right about that.

          • Krzd
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            131 year ago

            naahh, they’re wrong. Tipsy mini golf is the shit, especially if there’s a theme (darkroom/pirates/whatever)

            • A Phlaming Phoenix
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              81 year ago

              For real, get high and go to a glow in the dark mini golf course. There’s one in every failing mall in the USA.

          • @BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
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            71 year ago

            You need a better friend! I’m 28 and still go mini golfing on every now and then. Let your inner child free, life’s too short to worry about the acceptable age range of mini golf

      • the argument is: a single game requires a minimum of 200 acres of sculpted fancy gardens, non-native plants, little help to polinators, a fuck ton of water, fertilizer and pesticides, and is protected from the general public not only with a fee but also a vetting process, often built at huge expense in an area that would be better served with affordable housing, transport and public amenities.

        And it’s entire purpose is to extract money from already rich people and enforce a class culture of haves and have-nots while essentially turning the land into a green desert.

        • @Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca
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          21 year ago

          There are a few pitch and putts in public parks around Vancouver. I can get behind those because they are only 11 dollars to play and 5 bucks to rent 3 clubs. It isn’t prohibitively expensive and expands the green space for wild animals that use the greens during night time like bats.

          But yes to taking down large exclusive courses that should have parklands with high density public housing built in it.

  • @tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
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    91 year ago

    I know we can joke about how this is a good thing. But isn’t it much more likely that the State would own the courses?

    Or just that there would be less of them and anyone could do it instead of the “elite?”

    • Cowbee [he/they]
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      31 year ago

      It’s more that golf courses are generally wastes of land, and unless the proletariat deemed them necessary, golf courses would be either given back to the environment or repurposed for public housing or other such socially beneficial projects.

    • Dippy
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      41 year ago

      I don’t follow your thoughts here.

      But. The state would likely regulate them away except maybe in climates that aren’t very burdened by golf courses, if that’s even a thing. Communist governments don’t inherently take full control of all businesses. They simply eliminate private property, which is not to be confused with personal property.

      A communist golf course might look like this. You roll right up to the course. You either pull out your own clubs or borrow some from the facility. Someone maybe informs you which courses are more or less busy, helps you understand how to play and what etiquette is expected for the pleasure and safety of yourself, other active and future golfers. And then someone maintains the courses when… whenever they’re maintained now probably.

  • @Hootz@lemmy.ca
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    Golf = The game of the bourgeoisie. Mini Golf = The game of the proletariat.

    • nifty
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      False! Mini golf is the game of the savant and the cultural elite 🧐

      Edit doubly so if it’s at night and there are glowing things involved

    • @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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      351 year ago

      Golf isn’t the problem, it’s golf courses

      If you took any random forest or mountain and put a cup at one end then just said go things would be fine

      (I know foot traffic is bad, it’s better than bulldozing the whole thing)

    • @Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca
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      31 year ago

      I like the driving range and I like mini golf but it’s the middle game I can’t be bothered with playing.

      So I nail 120 balls at the driving range then play a round of mini golf.

    • Cowbee [he/they]
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      91 year ago

      Eh, I can see the Proletariat deciding to direct the vast amounts of land destroyed for golf being used for public housing or returned to nature, rather than being a wasteful hobby for the elite

  • @blarth@thelemmy.club
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    401 year ago

    Funny, because where I live, municipal tax dollars have been repeatedly used to save a golf course that doesn’t bring in enough revenue to sustain its own existence.

  • Manucode
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    811 year ago

    Damn communists stop me from watering my golf course near Phoenix