No "Brandon" on balls

[George K]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/titleist-blocks-customers-from-personalizing-golf-balls-with-lets-go-brandon

Customers attempting to print the popular anti-Biden chant "Let’s Go Brandon" on Titleist golf balls were given an error message and told their orders could not be completed.

"So @Titleist has now banned the phrase ‘Let's Go Brandon!’ on their golf balls," social media strategist Caleb Hull tweeted Thursday, adding that he had been able to print the phrase on golf balls in the past.

On the website, part of those Terms and Conditions reads, "Acushnet Company reserves the right to reject orders for imprints on our products that may, in our sole discretion, be inconsistent with our company values or brand identity, including, but not limited to logos, designs and/or personalizations that are negative in nature, advocate violence or illegal activity, or are slurs, hateful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene or pornographic."

Certain political and vulgar messages that Fox News Digital tested on the website did not receive the same error message including "F Trump", "ACAB", "Antifa", "Kill Cops", "Impeach Trump" and "Kill Trump."

[Copper]

Golf balls are made in Acushnet, MA.

It is kind of blue around there, not far from JD.

[Doctor Phibes]

@george-k said in No "Brandon" on balls:

social media strategist Caleb Hull

a/k/a pointless twat Caleb Hull.

Get a fucking proper job or STFU about your fucking golf balls you bloody wanker.

[George K]

@doctor-phibes

IOW, "I'll attack the messenger," right?

[Doctor Phibes]

@george-k said in No "Brandon" on balls:

@doctor-phibes

IOW, "I'll attack the messenger," right?

Well, not really. I couldn't care less about the story, TBH - who cares about what people can and can't write on golf balls?

I just find the term 'social media strategist' annoying beyond belief. Why use 21 letters when 4 would do?

[George K]

@doctor-phibes said in No "Brandon" on balls:

Well, not really. I couldn't care less about the story, TBH - who cares about what people can and can't write on golf balls?

Obviously Titleist.

But only in some cases.

I just find the term 'social media strategist' annoying beyond belief. Why use 21 letters when 4 would do?

On that, I'll agree. It's almost as bad as someone who gets a degree in something that ends in "studies."

[Doctor Phibes]

I also find this whole ‘let’s go Brandon’ thing very tiresome. It was funny for about a week, but now it’s like an obnoxious drunk telling the same joke over and over and over. The people who do it have this stupid self-congratulatory smirk when they do it, as though they’ve just thought up the joke to end all wars.

I found the ‘fuck Trump’ signs really obnoxious, too, and as everyone knows I can’t stand that guy

[George K]

@doctor-phibes said in No "Brandon" on balls:

I also find this whole ‘let’s go Brandon’ thing very tiresome. It was funny for about a week, but now it’s like an obnoxious drunk telling the same joke over and over and over.

Agreed. It's way past it's "sell-by" date.

I found the ‘fuck Trump’ signs really obnoxious, too, and as everyone knows I can’t stand that guy

Agreed as well, I have no fondness for "that guy" either. But, then, policy ≠ personality.

But, you're not addressing the point: "Fuck Trump", according to Titleist (as quoted by the story) is OK, but "Brandon" isn't, because it's hateful.

You really don't see a disconnect there?

[George K]

[Doctor Phibes]

@george-k said in No "Brandon" on balls:

But, you're not addressing the point: "Fuck Trump", according to Titleist (as quoted by the story) is OK, but "Brandon" isn't, because it's hateful.
You really don't see a disconnect there?

Well, they're not consistent, clearly, but they have that right. I guess it's the free market at work. Or something. Companies frequently do a lot shittier things than this, and nobody worries about it.

To be honest, I didn't think it was possible to make golf even more tedious, but somehow they've managed it.

[George K]

@doctor-phibes said in No "Brandon" on balls:

I didn't think it was possible to make golf even more tedious, but somehow they've managed it.

Indeed, LOL.

[89th]

Pretty dumb for Titleist to censor that phrase. Slippery slope and all that. Plus their demographic of rich white guys may have a nice venn diagram overlap with those what want Brandon to go.

Also, I cringed when I saw a church chanting "Let's go Brandon" the other day. It's a replacement for "Fuck Joe Biden" so a bunch of Christians essentially telling people to fuck off... good example for the kids.

[Axtremus]

Whatever you cannot get a company to print on your golfballs, you can always write onto the goofballs yourselves with a marker.

[George K]

@axtremus said in No "Brandon" on balls:

you can always write onto the goofballs yourselves with a marker

Excellent solution!

And when the golf club won't let you in with that written (ahem) on your balls, you should build your own golf course.

That'll show 'em!