No "Brandon" on balls

[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!