Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[Eck]

Does anyone know what Wynne Evans said?

Probably stop hitting the driver too much at the driving range...pretty controversial stuff 

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I have to do something to improve my driving Eck. I used to have a terrible slice but now I just spray it around liberally in all directions.

Some wag who thinks he's funny said I could record the number of times I hit the fairway during a round on the back of a postage stamp.

[doubleup]

It's almost def the clubs fault. They are very badly designed imo.

[tikay]

I have to do something to improve my driving Eck. I used to have a terrible slice but now I just spray it around liberally in all directions.

Some wag who thinks he's funny said I could record the number of times I hit the fairway during a round on the back of a postage stamp.

Can't imagine who that was...

It's actually a Jack Spratt & his Wife situation. Tom hits it miles but is "somewhat wayward". We have to use mats from the fairway at this time of year, & he's now gone 3 rounds without having to use his mat. Meanwhile, I've at long last become a straight hitter off the Tee, but my average drive (with a very decent Callaway Driver) averages about 160 yards, if I'm lucky. Most players hit a 7 Iron further than that.

It's pretty embarrassing, I can tell you, on a 160 yard Par 3 when the other lads all debate whether to hit a soft 7 Iron or a full 8 when I step up to the Tee with Driver in hand.

And of course, when we play as a 4 ball, & we are waiting for the group in front to clear, some wag (usually named Tom) always says "you can go Tony, you won't reach them". Thanks lads.  

Bastards.    

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What a story this is.


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[Eck]

Loving all the tormented golfers. Have you had any lessons?

I play with a few guys who similarly took up the game late and they are obsessed and really good company. To listen to them you would think they were scratch but most have got swings like an octopus putting up a deckchair yet don't get a lesson as they will probably have to change everything.

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Loving all the tormented golfers. Have you had any lessons?

I play with a few guys who similarly took up the game late and they are obsessed and really good company. To listen to them you would think they were scratch but most have got swings like an octopus putting up a deckchair yet don't get a lesson as they will probably have to change everything.

Haha, great line.

Yes I'm having lessons. tikay, bookiebasher Typhoon Trev and Jakally take my money and say, "That will teach you".

[typhoon13]

McKibbin bows to the big Bucks

[booder]

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Haha. Excellent.

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Trump blames the air crash on hiring disabled and "Inferior" people, including dwarfs. 

Where have we heard that sort of sentiment before?

[Kev B]

Trump blames the air crash on hiring disabled and "Inferior" people, including dwarfs. 

Where have we heard that sort of sentiment before?

As usual he announced it without any research. Are you suggesting he's a Nazi Red 🤣🤣🤣

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This was forwarded to me.




It started with a plane crash. A fiery wreck over Washington, the kind of tragedy that demands real leadership, real answers, real action. But what did we get? Donald J. Trump—our twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, spray-tanned emperor of grievance—pointing a greasy, ketchup-stained finger at “diversity.”

Never mind the grueling, years-long training required to become an air traffic controller. Never mind the chronic staffing shortages, the overworked employees grinding six days a week, and the outdated facilities running America’s airways into the ground. No, according to Trump, the real problem was that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had dared to hire people who weren’t white enough.

"This is just one reason why our Country WAS going to hell!!!" he screamed into the digital void, frothing at the mouth like a man who just discovered his Diet Coke button had been disabled. He ranted about “brilliant people” being replaced by “diversity hires,” as if air traffic control is some kind of woke art project instead of an actual life-or-death job.

And if that wasn’t enough, Trump took things further—because he always does. Like a vengeful god with a grudge against history itself, he unleashed a sweeping executive order banning the federal government from acknowledging that different kinds of people exist. Black History Month? Gone. Martin Luther King Jr. Day? Paused indefinitely. Juneteenth? Don’t even think about it. Holocaust Remembrance Day? Erased faster than a sticky note on Ivanka’s burner phone.

The message was clear: America’s government is now a safe space for people who want to pretend diversity never happened.

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) dutifully fell in line, scrubbing its calendar of anything remotely inclusive. The Pentagon followed, declaring that "cultural awareness months" were now a thing of the past. The Office of Personnel Management sent out a grimly efficient memo ordering every department to purge “gender ideology” from public-facing websites by 5 p.m. sharp. No more pronouns in email signatures, no more employee resource groups, no more recognition of anyone who isn’t a straight, white, God-fearing man in a flag pin.

And just to hammer the point home, the Justice Department released a victory lap memo declaring DEI programs “shameful” and a “waste of taxpayer dollars.” Because apparently, nothing wastes money like hiring people who can actually do the job.

Even the CIA—an agency that relies on diversity for its literal survival—jumped on board. Former intelligence officials warned that strangling off diverse talent pipelines would cripple national security, depriving the U.S. of much-needed language skills and cultural knowledge. But who needs informed spies when you can have a monoculture of aging white men grumbling about the good old days?

All of this would be laughable if it weren’t so terrifying. This isn’t policy—it’s a tantrum. It’s Trump waging a personal culture war against reality, trying to bend the world back to a time when no one questioned his place at the top. He doesn’t want to govern; he wants revenge. Revenge against the ghost of Barack Obama, against the progress made under Biden, against the idea that America belongs to anyone other than the angry, paranoid voters who put him back in power.

And what about the people who actually keep the country running? The air traffic controllers working under brutal conditions? The intelligence officers risking their lives abroad? The civil servants trying to hold together a government that’s rotting from the inside? They get nothing. No support. No respect. Just a government-issued decree that their identities no longer exist.

Meanwhile, Trump is still expected to sign a proclamation for Black History Month—because nothing says deeply held values like banning an event on Monday and celebrating it on Tuesday. It’s a grift, a con, a flimsy cover for the fact that his only real goal is to make America feel like one of his golf courses: exclusive, overpriced, and entirely staffed by people he doesn’t have to think about.

This is the new reality. The federal government is no longer allowed to recognize the diversity of its own citizens. The air traffic controllers who keep our skies safe are being thrown under the bus in the name of racial resentment. And Trump, as always, is playing to the cheapest seats, hoping his base is too blinded by rage to notice that none of this actually makes their lives better.

America isn’t going to hell. But under Trump, it’s going somewhere worse: backward.

[Kev B]

Goodness, he really is a dreadful human being g isn't he. 🤬

[StuartHopkin]

The man is clearly a loon but the above is also misleading.

He passed that executive order a week before the plane crash.

Not that it makes it any better.