TGIF! One week down in ’24. The year is just flying by!
Survival – Personal Edition
The PGA off season has officially ended this week. That means it’s time to start thinking about your upcoming golf season. Of course, not being a pro, you may find yourself playing from less than ideal lies frequently. Let’s go over one: playing from a water trap.
- First let’s assess the situation and determine if you can play from the trap or not. Look for any signs or notes on the scorecard that reference course rules that may prohibit playing from the water. Then check the depth. If there’s more than an inch of water above the ball, just take the penalty or else you’ll be playing your next shot from the water too. Lastly, check what’s under the ball. If it’s sand you’re good to go. If it’s rock, you’ll want to be very careful. Striking a hard surface can easily cause significant damage to your hands, fingers, and wrists. (And your club, but that won’t matter since your broken wrist won’t allow you to play anymore anyway)
- Now adjust your expectations. The deeper the ball, the less accurate you’re going to be, and the less likely you’ll execute a shot well enough to get it out of the water. Sometimes it’s fine to take the penalty and play from a much nicer lie.
- Figure out your stance. Ideally you’ll be able to stand on the bank and play it from there. Find good footing and a comfortable stance on the bank that allows you to make a good swing. Otherwise, remove those socks and shoes, roll up your pants, and setup your stance in the water directly. Also, if you have rain gear you can put that on to avoid getting drenched in water and mud.
- For the actual swing, you’ll want a tighter grip on the on the club. All that loose hands teachings are correct, but in this situation you’re swinging through water, not air. The water will try to grab the club face and cause it to twist on impact which is very bad for your accuracy.
- Also in that vein, open the club head slightly. When the club face hits the water it will naturally close despite your super strong firm grip.
- Next, aim your swing. You’ll want to strike the water about one ball length behind the ball. And yes, you in the back, that’s correct. That’s exactly like a green side bunker shot. And the reasoning is exactly the same: Your club is going to hit the water, and the water is going to push the ball out, just like a sand shot you hit the sand and the sand pushes the ball out.
- Finally, swing. You want to be swinging downward and hard at the water right behind the ball.
Now you’re out and ready to totally not mess up the rest of the hole. Towel yourself off, get those socks and shoes back on, and hurry up. You’ve already held up the group behind you enough.
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Survival – Species Edition
Time to put the sexy in Friday!
Enjoy the weekend, folks! Alright, now let’s get to the comments!
Frankie and Ellie, 2005
They were both good doggies
17 year locust
Arlington, Virginia
I like his attitude.
Apollo 11 Command Module
Chantilly, Virginia
San Pedro, California
Looks like 7th st. Sixth Street doesn’t have as much room.
Directly across from the Warner Grand Theater (6th Street).
My favorite coffee shop in Los Angeles County is right there.
Sacred Grounds?
I just watched Saltburn and I liked it.
Subversive and easy to look at but there were two major problems near the end.
One was during a traumatic but uncomfortable scene late in the movie that was a blatant rip off from Philip Roths Sabbath’s Theater and the other was the Paul Thomas Anderson ending.
Other than that, super fun.
I hated it. Kept waiting for it to get good, and it just continued to suck.
When American GIs were ‘oversexed, overpaid, and over here’ I wonder how much sex they were actually having?
With the locals or with each other?
Whichever
Probably exaggerated. Initially housing was locally contracted so families in need of extra money would house GI’s. Once bases were built that ended in most areas for enlisted men. So by proximity impressions and speculation added to the real relationships that developed.
Kind of what I thought. By modern standards it mostly sounds quite wholesome
This may come as a shock, but soldiers will sometimes exaggerate. A girl smiling at them may turn into a story of a torrid affair.
Sorry, but someone needs to put things in context.
You wouldn’t know her.
She lives in Buffalo.
It ain’t gay if you’re underway.
It’s great that Tubi is free and I don’t mind seeing a commercial or two for a free service, but maybe don’t cut into a show mid-word? Seems not that hard to put the commercial break between sentences even, so splitting a word is just silly
Youtube does that to. No natural segue just cut at a specific time.
Nailed It!
Also, Step #3 was very clear about finding solid footing on the bank.
It’s probably for the best that we don’t use the name Muriel anymore
The Episcopal Diocese in WV is doing the Lord’s work in combatting the sin of mayo on a pepperoni roll.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE387jVHti8
I’M NOT A SIN!
You are a delicious condiment who really knows how to pull a sandwich together. I love you, my versatile friend. You’re my favorite. Don’t tell the others.
I can’t look at deviled eggs without screaming out his name!
That’s totally normal, and totally healthy. Won’t be thinking about this at all.
Thank you, and I won’t!
I mean, I wasn’t looking to convert to anything, but…
I may have done this iceball thing wrong. It’s got a strong nipple for something that’s advertised as a sphere
Try tovolo molds
I just put too much in the hole and wasn’t prepared when it expanded
That’s what he said!
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I have that problem a lot.
While I love my bidet toilet seat, I’m too impatient for the drying breeze of warm air to do its work. Still use a bit of paper to blot
No, you’re doing it correctly. The point is the wash, the warm air is a nice supplement, then dab for full dryness.
Hopefully, your seat is also heated.
Oh it is and it is lovely. I put it on power save when I’m out of town although I doubt it’s a huge electricity drain
As Queen Elizabeth II neared the end of her long and wealthy life, I always wondered how many years or even decades it had been since she had last wiped her own ass.
Clean up on aisle (lady) number 3…
I’m on it!
And retro lady here will tell ya, it’ll leave her smelling like roses.
I’m always surprised that my favoUrite picture is never mentioned.
You should somehow mark it.
Welcome to 2Pack’s advice column on how to get banned!
Mamma Mia
Am I the only person who hates the term ‘adulting’?
I don’t even know what it means
Me neither.
As far as I can tell it means being base level responsible. The sort of thing plenty of people do from way before they are officially an adult and yeah it’s not the most pleasant thing but there’s nothing exceptional or even particularly laudatory about it
I think it’s a consequence of the everyone-gets-a-trophy mentality.
“Give me praise for successfully having paid my utility bill!”
There are just so many new words out there that I refuse to play along with.
I’m still in awe of picture #2…
I can’t imagine why.
It’s almost like he enjoys the butt!
Aw, David Soul gave up on us baby.
I didn’t need to remember that song.
Someone has to.
Beats Muskrat Love stuck in your head.
Hush, you. Don’t give my head any ideas!
There goes my dream of Soul II Soul featuring Soul singing Soul Man on Soul Train.
Day #15
I missed the morning cocktail thread so I will use this excuse to put my martini thoughts here:
If you just want a shot of gin chilled and up, just say that. Perfectly fine drink, but there’s no need to call it a martini.
These days I go with about a 3:1 gin:vermouth ratio. Either St. George or Hendrick’s gin. I’m not fussy about vermouth but currently have Dolin. I go with one olive and a cocktail onion as a garnish, which I like to think makes it a “Half Gibson”
Don’t tell James Bond, but I stir my martinis. I don’t actually believe there’s any way in hell I could tell if vermouth was “bruised,” but shaking does tend to produce ice chips that are harder to strain out.
I agree with everything except the vermouth. I’m also not picky, BUT, I only use it to rinse the glass before adding the gin.
I will allow you to call that a martini. A rinse does leave something in the drink — the absinthe rinse makes a sazerac what it is.
Concur
Ha, you don’t have to call it a martini. I mostly do that because I don’t like vermouth, and if the Gin isn’t good enough then there’s always tonic.
Eh, yes but. Yes, but shitty gin is not redeemed by even great tonic. Vermouth is meant to enhance the herbals, and shitty vermouth doesn’t do that. I think that any vermouth you wouldn’t drink straight isn’t worth using in a martini. Not quite the same for G&T since the whole point was to make quinine palatable so really you want good or at least strongly flavored gins there. If you really have crap gin then it’s the Snoop Solution
No, you’re right! I don’t do crap Gin. I do great, drink straight great Gin (Monkey 47, The Botanist, Hendricks), then I do not quite great Gin (St. George, Bombay Sapphire) with tonic.
Sapphire was my G&T gin of choice in college, and I still say that or Plymouth or mayyyybe Beefeater as the best traditional gin. Damn. I really shouldn’t since I started the night on whisky, but I absolutely want a G&T now
I dislike rinses because it wastes precious alcohol. Use a spray bottle.
Vermouth is not precious and that would be a wasteful use of spray bottle.
Spray bottles are not exactly efficient, and I also kind of hate the idea of the flavor just being draped over the drink although I acknowledge this isn’t actually that different than a rinse even when you take density into account
You can re-use the “run-off” when making the next round. This, of course, obligates you to have another round.
Agree. It’s not a martini if it doesn’t have vermouth. Even the Atacama gets occasional rainfall, so even an Atacama martini isn’t so dry as to be a cup of gin. And despite a vodka company sponsoring the original Bond movies and popularizing the idea of a ‘vodka martini’ no, gin is the default.
I should also say that I’m a fan of bitters and a lemon peel in my martinis so nawt wedded to tradition, but gin and the presence of dry vermouth are my baseline
Can’t keep talking about this without having one.
Yeah now I want one too.
I wonder if my former methhead neighbors ever fulfilled their ambition of moving to west virginia and becoming a coal miner/housewife couple
I mean, that’s probably a pretty good use of tweaker energy?
I know several. He’s out of his mind.
On the plus side, it’s a very achievable ambition and it would make the methhead part understandable or even sympathetic, on the minus side, it’s coal mining, one of the deadliest, most exhausting, and least pleasant jobs there is
Just imagine how high the life insurance rates must be, for a methhead/miner combo pack!
Going to WV to look for work is probably not the wisest move one could make.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTA-82c7jh8&ab_channel=GeographyKing
“dirtier than a badger’s bottom”
The advice above on golf is hitting out of water, but can we do, like, hitting off the Tee and fairway next.
/snowmen all day
/snowmen all day
“I hear you loud and clear.” – Eli Manning, checking the weather forecast
You’ll lower your scoring and handicap way more if you work on chipping and putting.
The easy part is getting near the hole, the hard part is getting it in the hole. /phrasing
See, I’m, like, 7 to the green and then 2 putt. Cannot hit for distance at all.
Also I’m using my dad’s clubs that, literally, the woods are made out of wood, so I’m sure that’s not helping me at all
4 sessions with a proper golf instructor will get your wood and iron play within range. But yes, you need newer clubs also.
Once I was able to hit straight, my scoring improved. I would say to just focus on that.
In my ideal life I would drive a Peel P50 and have some sort of machine that automatically makes all the food I buy randomly into a pizza or curry.
If you make eye contact with that, it gets diarrhea.
It’s no P45 though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFdBcYN3sNw
That sounds like the distinguishing characteristics of a side character in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
I want this Messerschmitt.
What does the term ‘codpiece’ say about cod?
Or were dudes stuffing fish down their pants?
This is why men started all that talk about vaginas smelling like fish; they were feeling defensive.
It’s also good cover if you’re having an affair with a fishwife
We’re all pantless around here so we have no idea.
Like a rhinestone cowboy!
I don’t know why I said that
https://i.postimg.cc/L6W02pzP/RDT-20230918-144740495475542608452752.webp
Dude, you can have the Sexy Friday beat anytime
Conscripted content miner turns tables??
That’s the dream!
Tell that tramp to get off of my Ferrari.
In true Yinzer fashion, Turner’s memorial service will be on Wednesday. It could have been this weekend, but, Stillers playoff game implications were taken into account.
I have no comment on this, outside thanks for Wednesday off, Uncle Turner. And NFL schedule makers, I suppose.
Coach Epps appreciates your dedication. He’ll leave your eyelids on. FOAR NOW.
Doesn’t PA have a law that you can’t have a funeral or burial on a Sunday? I’m sure they used to.
If that was the case (not inconceivable!), it was probably lifted when they allowed beer to be sold on Sundays.
In 2008.
Yeah, I think it was part of the blue laws.
Still plenty of blue laws around, they are awfully odd
https://twitter.com/s8n/status/1743450143494467877
Loving everyone is kinda gay when you think about it. 50% gay to be exact.
That’s gayer than 4 guys blowing EIGHT guys!!!
Probably gonna be a little pedo in there as well.
I bet it’s fun to worship gay other gods
This tangentially reminds me that Christians don’t swear. And the funny outshoot of that was a friend that shouted “4 letter word” instead of swearing.
And, yes, I have adopted that phrasing.
Damn protestants ruined it for everyone. Catholics only gave a shit about religious swears like goddamn, no worries about anatomical swears like fuck shit ass cock cunt
Ewwwwww, GOLF! But the pics made up for it. Especially #3…
Here’s tonight’s Carlin bit (paraphrased, despite the quote marks):
I always wanted to work in a butcher shop, just so that one day a woman would come in and ask me for some tongue. And I would reply “I don’t get off until 6 o’clock.” And she would respond “Well, I don’t get off at all, that’s why I’m looking for some tongue!”
I love sunsets
This is extremely good advice. Yes, I do read the words!
Should we start calling you ballsofsteelfuryandgolf?
Golfballsofsteelandfury
Ooh that’s good
Yeah, that’s the winner.
¡Jesus #2!
Double shot!
It’s a good thing I’m not doing dry January or trying to diet. Job interviews are no place for sober skinny people
Oh that reminds me. Going to resume my Gin Advent calendar this evening.
Enjoy! I still have one Scotch left, but I’m saving it
Hope the interviews went well
Oh not this one, but it’s all good! This one was totally different than what I prepared for. Chalk it up to experience and it’s the next one I care about it
Go kick some ass in the next one
Thanks and cheers to that!