Whatever your politics, I generally enjoy HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" show because it is always politically incorrect and calls them as he sees them, often with a sort of brutal honesty.
One segment he has at the end of each show is called "New Rules", where Maher essentially proposes how things "should be" if he were king of the universe, which serves to poke insightful and humorous criticisms of politics and people in the news. His barbs hit their target with pretty consistent accuracy, and it's hard to take umbrage with many of his jabs.
In that regard, I'm thinking it's time we come up with some "New Rules" for GCA, and all opinions are welcome, particularly if they are funny and poignant.
I'll start with a few to get the ball rolling.....
New Rule - If you post more than three times consecutively to the same thread without response from another participant (and aren't posting pics), you're a "fluffer" and a self-possessed bore, and no one wants to listen to your drivel.
New Rule - If you dig back beyond the front page to resurrect a dying thread more than two days in a row, you're playing with yourself and engaging in "thread-jerk", which most of the rest of us don't want to watch for obvious reasons.
New Rule - If you look back and over 90% of your posts are spent in argumentative, sustained disagreement with others, you may want to consider that everyone thinks you're a very unhappy, disagreeable person who probably needs some qualified professional help. After all, deep down you have to know there's very little chance that you're right and everyone else is wrong, don't you?
New Rule - Golf courses are not museum pieces to be "studied" using remote control. Part of the real value of this site is that people are speaking and posting from experience, and describing their opinions from actual experience of "being there". GOLF IS AN INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE THAT REQUIRES PARTICIPATION OF THE SENSES. Unless you are physically unable to leave your house, or unless you're watching a course on HD television, you need to realize that your opinion about any course you haven't actually seen isn't worth squat to anyone and you should spend less time typing and more time playing.
New Rule - (and I'm guilty of this one) No posting after midnight, or after a second drink. What seemingly eloquently rolls off a lubricated tongue at 3am often reads like malarkey in the harsh light of day. While acid and pot may have added to the Beatles creativity, and the bottle may have inspired Hemingway's words, generally the rest of us make much LESS sense after a few than before.
New Rule - (and I'm probably guilty of this one, as well) Making a point for the 3rd, or 5th, or 5,000th time doesn't make it any more valid. We get it, we understand your agenda, were really not
that slow on the uptake, and there is nothing more boring than a one-trick pony who can't talk about anything else but their "cause". There is a reason that Billy Joel wrote "Angry Young Man" to poke fun at that sort, and personal crusades are usually only interesting to those personally invested in the same dogmatic (and usually unrealistic) belief.
Fire away...
