henchman21
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Shane Diesel
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Horrifying and disgusting. It's never ending and absolutely unacceptable from American society.
Vaslof
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There are prominent people in America who are advocating for these values. I won't get more into it because no politics allowed here, but the reasons for this happening are political.
shadow1
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There are people in this country (USA) who are legitimately questioning if this attack was really a hate crime. The corrosion is too deep here.
henchman21
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HF golfers... an issue I'm having in my game is getting stopping power on shots from the 200-225 range. I play a 3 wood adjusted to ~4 wood territory (16.5). I hit this about 235-240 off the deck (and this is my main driving club as I can reliably get 250-265 and find fairways). 2 Hybrid that is 15*. This is really just an off the tee club when it is windy and from the side or into the wind(nearly all the time in Wyoming). Off the deck I don't hit this great but 215-230. I have a 4 Hybrid that is 22* and I hit off the deck really well and can push to 220, but is more 210 for me. The issue with any of these clubs is that I can't stop a 215-220 shot with any sort of regularity. I normally resort hitting a 4H and trying to roll it up or leave a chip from the front side of the green. If I'm into the wind, I'll try a light faded 3 wood and knock off 15 yards... but the roll is too strong. I don't have enough power in my game yet to really hit a 5H or 5 iron in to the 225 point.
Now getting to my thought... my buddy has a very old school 7 wood (has to be from the early 90s) and is 23*. I can really get a nice high flight and landing with the club. Being 23* and with old tech, I can't really get it much past 215 off the deck. But I'd imagine a newer tech 7 wood and maybe one more in that 21* loft range would get me to the 225 I want with a better flight for stopping than my 4 hybrid. Am I on the right path?
Now getting to my thought... my buddy has a very old school 7 wood (has to be from the early 90s) and is 23*. I can really get a nice high flight and landing with the club. Being 23* and with old tech, I can't really get it much past 215 off the deck. But I'd imagine a newer tech 7 wood and maybe one more in that 21* loft range would get me to the 225 I want with a better flight for stopping than my 4 hybrid. Am I on the right path?
henchman21
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SaltySkywalker
Bushes of Love
You need to hit it with more greedment.
MaKarter
Big Game Bo
Yeah you are on the right track. This time of the year in Colorado the ground/greens are so hard I cannot get anything to stop either. Once the grass softens up balls start spinning and sticking more for me.
But I am all for customizing your bag to fit what you need. Don't try to copy what the pro's carry because we are not pro's.
The hard part is finding a way to test the clubs you think you need to see if it works for you. But nothing wrong about hitting a 7 wood like a 5 iron.
henchman21
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My back hurts reading this.
Yeah I don't care a lick about what the pros use... I simply want good options from 200+ to have a chance sticking on a green (which your point on softening up is good... I may just need to wait until actual summer). Right now, I'd kick the driver out of the bag to have a better option there since I can get enough out of my 3w to score well for me. Ideally I'd probably kick one of the hybrids to the curb though.
Legitimately today it cost me 2 strokes on one hole today
... I hit my 3w off the tee on a par 5 nearly 270 and had a 220 slightly down hill into the green on a par 5. I tried to go soft with a 4H (hindsight 5H and roll was the better play), hit the green about 25% in (pin was about 80% back) and went through the green into the trees where I just had to find a chip onto the green. I then two putted from 23'. If I could have stuck, with the line I had, I would have had a ~5' put for eagle.
ASmileyFace
Landeskog Replacement
I mentioned on here like a month ago that my custom ski boots had been stolen by my roommate when she moved out to spite me.
Well almost a month later I finally got them back! I ended up finding the boots for sale online where my roommate had moved 10 days after she stole them, contacted the police eventually and was going to press charges after a friend of hers admitted she had threatened to steal them. They ended up showing up "randomly" under the deck of the house we shared the day I was going to press charges. Thing is, I checked under that deck a bunch of times while I was searching for them initially, so I'm pretty sure she just drove them back when the consequences were finally imminent.
Luckily the cops in this tiny mountain town don't have anything better to do then actually try and get stolen items back to their owners!
Well almost a month later I finally got them back! I ended up finding the boots for sale online where my roommate had moved 10 days after she stole them, contacted the police eventually and was going to press charges after a friend of hers admitted she had threatened to steal them. They ended up showing up "randomly" under the deck of the house we shared the day I was going to press charges. Thing is, I checked under that deck a bunch of times while I was searching for them initially, so I'm pretty sure she just drove them back when the consequences were finally imminent.
Luckily the cops in this tiny mountain town don't have anything better to do then actually try and get stolen items back to their owners!
Ceremony
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ASmileyFace
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Jesus, where to begin. We never really saw eye to eye. She was a terrible roommate, and I didn't hesitate to call her out on her bullshit.
She openly mocked a dead close friend of mine to "win an argument", she hid that she owned a mean, reactive dog until moving in and then said it was an emotional support animal to avoid being kicked out of the house, let her dog piss and shit inside and wouldn't take responsibility when my other roommate and I called her out on it, never picked up a single one of her dogs poops in the yard for 6 months, would purposely bang pots and pans in the morning when I/my other roommate would have friends stay with us, told people at our work that I was, "depressed and she was worried she might come home to a dead body," when I was totally fine, lied to coworkers that she was an athlete for a snowboard team then got mad when I called her out for lying in front of some friends, and on and on and on....
I challenged her on these issues pretty consistently. I think she struggled to live with someone who she couldn't just run over with her endless bullshit. I've since heard from other who lived with her that she was a terror to them too, but for some reason I just got under her skin and she wanted to get back at me.
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Damn bruv, next time you think you're going to do an interview before taking someone in as a roomie?
ASmileyFace
Landeskog Replacement
Had that thought a lot these last few months
I've had really good luck with roommates through the years, but this was the first person since college that I had not at least met before we moved in together. I had like 5 people vying for the spot but I felt obligated to give it to her since she also worked at the ski area I had found the housing through. It went downhill pretty quick when she showed up with a dog that growled and tried to bite my gf's dog within 30 seconds of them meeting.
Either way I let my work know what happened so she won't be getting a job around here anytime soon.
Sadly the US is too far-gone. As soon as nothing was done in response to children being slaughtered in their elementary school the fight for gun control was won by the NRA and the politicians they own. We're simply at the mercy of good luck when visiting public spaces at this point.
McMetal
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You want a crazy roommate story? I had this happen last year. Buckle up:
My old roommate was moving out at the end of December 2020, and I was having a terrible time filling the space. Finally resorted to a Facebook ad, and got a guy who seemed to be pretty quiet. I figured he was a young kid, his dad was with him when he did the interview/inspection, and he said he had been in a car accident and was on disability, and worked part time at Wendy's, so he would have no problem making the rent. I took him in, and he was a kind of shitty roommate for about six months. Left trash everywhere, spent most of his time chain smoking on the patio, which stunk up the house a bit. I suspected he was smoking inside, which was against the lease terms, but couldn't prove it.
And then, about six months in, the screaming started. One day he was out on the back porch just screaming obscenities at the top of his lungs. One of the neighbors called the cops, and when they arrived and tried to talk to him he ran off. I talked to them for a bit, gave them some info, but they said he wasn't breaking any laws so they couldn't chase him down. Well, a week later, the screaming started again, eventually getting to the point where he spent all day (and all night) pacing around the condo yelling at people who weren't there. "SHUT UP! F*** YOU, YOU'RE WRONG, LEAVE ME ALONE!" I tried to talk to him, because around this time he stopped paying the rent, too, but he acted like I wasn't there, didn't even acknowledge my existence. I ended up putting a lock on my door and sleeping with mace next to my bed because I didn't feel safe living with him.
Apparently he didn't tell me that he was schizophrenic when he moved in, and he was either off his meds or never on them to begin with, and he had a psychotic break. The cops were called multiple times for wellness checks, but he always ran away from them when they came, and since he wasn't violent (yet), they couldn't forcibly detain him. This went on for weeks, until finally the landlords gave him an eviction notice to move out by the end of the month for violating the noise complaints clause of the lease. One day, I came home from work and all his stuff was gone, but he left an ungodly mess in his room, and especially his bathroom, which was gag worthy. I had to hire professional cleaning services to deal with all of it.
Thankfully, for the last year now I've had a very quiet college student living in the space, who pays the rent on time and never screams. But that was the last time I will ever get a roommate without Googling their name; turns out this dude was actually in his 30s, and had spent some time in jail for taking his girlfriend and her friend hostage with a knife, apparently during another schizophrenic episode in PA. So I had a psychotic man who had been jailed for knife crimes living in my house for six months. That was an adventure.
My old roommate was moving out at the end of December 2020, and I was having a terrible time filling the space. Finally resorted to a Facebook ad, and got a guy who seemed to be pretty quiet. I figured he was a young kid, his dad was with him when he did the interview/inspection, and he said he had been in a car accident and was on disability, and worked part time at Wendy's, so he would have no problem making the rent. I took him in, and he was a kind of shitty roommate for about six months. Left trash everywhere, spent most of his time chain smoking on the patio, which stunk up the house a bit. I suspected he was smoking inside, which was against the lease terms, but couldn't prove it.
And then, about six months in, the screaming started. One day he was out on the back porch just screaming obscenities at the top of his lungs. One of the neighbors called the cops, and when they arrived and tried to talk to him he ran off. I talked to them for a bit, gave them some info, but they said he wasn't breaking any laws so they couldn't chase him down. Well, a week later, the screaming started again, eventually getting to the point where he spent all day (and all night) pacing around the condo yelling at people who weren't there. "SHUT UP! F*** YOU, YOU'RE WRONG, LEAVE ME ALONE!" I tried to talk to him, because around this time he stopped paying the rent, too, but he acted like I wasn't there, didn't even acknowledge my existence. I ended up putting a lock on my door and sleeping with mace next to my bed because I didn't feel safe living with him.
Apparently he didn't tell me that he was schizophrenic when he moved in, and he was either off his meds or never on them to begin with, and he had a psychotic break. The cops were called multiple times for wellness checks, but he always ran away from them when they came, and since he wasn't violent (yet), they couldn't forcibly detain him. This went on for weeks, until finally the landlords gave him an eviction notice to move out by the end of the month for violating the noise complaints clause of the lease. One day, I came home from work and all his stuff was gone, but he left an ungodly mess in his room, and especially his bathroom, which was gag worthy. I had to hire professional cleaning services to deal with all of it.
Thankfully, for the last year now I've had a very quiet college student living in the space, who pays the rent on time and never screams. But that was the last time I will ever get a roommate without Googling their name; turns out this dude was actually in his 30s, and had spent some time in jail for taking his girlfriend and her friend hostage with a knife, apparently during another schizophrenic episode in PA. So I had a psychotic man who had been jailed for knife crimes living in my house for six months. That was an adventure.
That's some scary shit. I probably wouldn't even be able to sleep at night know a crazy person was that close to me.
henchman21
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My worst roommate story is one that loved to have sex with her boyfriend in public areas of the house that you'd walk into randomly.
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henchman21
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McMetal
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Yeah, between that and just the goddamn screaming and yelling it was not easy to sleep. I had several 3AM visits from the cops, too, that I had to get up for and deal with. I ended up encouraging my neighbors to call in when he was screaming, just so we'd have incident records to use against him in an eviction proceeding.
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