Another Drive4show 'Anything goes' thread

[JAS]

First topic message reminder :

Well done Jas, I've done it a few times and have applied too. Not heard back yet though.

I did it in 2008 Super and was disappointed not to break 4 hours (I ran Glasgow 3 times in the mid 80s with a PB of 2.52) Huge difference in running marathons from early to mid 20's and late 40's/early 50's though. I said in 2008 that I had one more left and it WOULD be sub 4 hours!! I've applied 3 times without success since but I'm in this time.

Nice one JAS...trust all that training won't interfere with the golf schedule too much!

In reality and coupled with the Captaincy it probably will knock my game backwards a bit. C'est la vie :-/. Ideally the day I'd want to be doing my last long training run is the day of the Captains drive in.

Didn't Kirkygolfer run in it - think some of us helped him raise money?

I'm sure somebody from the boards did Kwini, cant remember the name though.

[SmithersJones]

A bit like the Columbus weather: Nicklaus's bad.

Why are weather forecasters so incompetent? Chance of rain at Muirfield Village for Friday was recorded by pgatour.com as being 30%, and it's tipping it down.
Forecast for Sunday is 80% chance of rain, but by Friday's logic perhaps that should about 300% chance. Doesn't sound good.

Sorry Kwini, I'm the first in the queue to cast aspersions on the intelligence of our transatlantic cousins but a 30% chance of rain is exactly that. If I offered you a 30% chance of winning the lottery, you'd bite my hand off.

[kwinigolfer]

Ah ha,
Looks like a 100% chance of resumption in play so that's all good.
Not so good is that this will hose up the schedule for the weekend. Monday finish anyone?

Smithers,
Where they are NOT intelligent is in using the best forecasting models available, technology about 40 years out of date compared to Europe, for instance. Lack of investment in forecasting here is mind-boggling. (But they DO invest heavily in lottery software.)

[SmithersJones]

One thing I've noticed watching all of the radar shots in the weekly weather delays is that the storms invariably approach from the south west. Does the wind ever blow any other way over there?

[kwinigolfer]

Unfortunately, YES! But prevailing wind is almost invariably a westerly; anything else the forecasters tend to shoot blanks at. Here in the North-East, incredibly, weather systems affecting us from Canada are seldom taken into account in forecasts.
 
Just as an example, although not from Canada, this time(ish) last year there was a devasting storm called "Sandy" which went up the Atlantic Coast and took a hard left turn and hit the Jersey Shore and New York City like a freight train. The European models had been predicting this unusual left-hand turn for days before the Americans realised it was actually going to happen. Too bloody proud/stupid to admit that their models were relatively unsophisticated, the Americans wouldn't change their forecasts and all the emergency planning and resources were deployed too late to avert a catastrophe.
 
The extent to which anything "European" is used as a swear word in the States is quite extraordinary - not to say extremely insulting.

[SmithersJones]

That's ridiculous. I can well believe it though. I read a really good article the other day about the shutdown which was written in the style of a US report about foreign affairs. I'll try to find it for you.

[Davie]

I can back up what Kwini says. Ten years ago (and for about 5 years from there) I had friends living in the New Orleans area. Every year when hurricane season came around I was naturally worried about them and followed the met predictions from all sorts of sources. I even downloaded a "storm watcher" program that gave predicted paths of tropical storms from a variety of meteorological sources. The Euro source was always different to the others .. and at least 90% of the time was the most accurate

I actually find it amazing that a country so much at the mercy of extreme weather has such poor met services

They even got Hurricane Katrina wrong (I was there about 3 months before Katrina). The met services had it down as a direct hit on N'Awlins. In fact Katrina turned right at the last minute and dumped all over the wetlands of Mississippi; N'awlins got off relatively lightly from the storm itself. What did the real damage was the poor condition of the levees being unable to cope with the after-storm swell

[JAS]

I actually worked at the Met Office (as a freelance I.T. Consultant) about 9 years ago. I was well into surfing at the time and so hurricane swells and their after effects were important to me. I distinctly remember how much better the Met Office were at predicting hurricane paths and intensities then their North American counterparts.

Also had friends in the Bahamas in the early 90's and they bore the brunt of hurricane Andrew which totally decimated the island my friends lived on before it caned Miami. They got very little warning of Andrew's arrival. The coverage of Andrews trail of destruction barely mentioned the Bahamas either focussing instead on the destruction and cost to the Miami area.

[SmithersJones]

Here you are. Can't remember how I happened across it, so if it was you that linked to it apologies - my memory is sh1te. Link

[Davie]

One for Halloween...

Spoiler:

Or how about this one?

Spoiler:

[super_realist]

Christmas stuff in the shops already. Disgrace.
Bloody hate Christmas.

[McLaren]

Christmas stuff in the shops already. Disgrace.
Bloody hate Christmas.

I guess you would considering you spend it alone.

[mystiroakey]

Humbug!!!

BUt yes i saw it in sainsburys yesterday- It made me smile!!

[incontinentia]

Christmas stuff in the shops already. Disgrace.
Bloody hate Christmas.

most heretics do

[navyblueshorts]

Quite like Christmas me (I'm definitely an atheist/heretic) but I hate the outright commercialisation of it which means that as soon as September arrives, the shops are putting out the Christmas bunting and playing shoite compilation CDs of so-say 'Christmas hits'.

[Roller_Coaster]

It's days off work and generally gatherings of mates you've not seen for a while. I like Christmas.

Its ridiculous proliferation of perfume adverts and a quarter of a year build up on the other hand I despise.

[mystiroakey]

Its funny though!

Infact i was thinking of buying this nordic thing in sainsburys. I dont know what it was but i liked it- Then i thought what am i doing and walked away!

shops need to make money- they are trying to make us spend early again!!

[MustPuttBetter]

I'm not too sure what there is to dislike about Christmas. As Roller says, you usually end up going for a drink with a few mates and seeing family, you get some time off work. Yes there are a bunch of Christmas adverts but if they weren't on there would be adverts for something else equally annoying

I like it

[navyblueshorts]

...shops need to make money- they are trying to make us spend early again!!

Maybe. Unfortunately for them, it just makes me refuse to buy anything with them.

[MontysMerkin]

Simple - don't go into shops. Saves a fortune.

[mystiroakey]

Are you self sufficient monty?

[MontysMerkin]

No, shop online, saves time and money.  

[mystiroakey]

you spend even more doing that.

I allways shop based on what i can carry in on one trip from the car!!

[MontysMerkin]

I've stopped buying no ends of crap by shopping online. All those 'offers' and cd's ps3 games, magazines and pot noodles that I don't need - reckon it saves me 100 quid a month!

[mystiroakey]

I remember buying some canned olives on a previous online shop- and i just thought sod it as i dont have to carry them i will order 50 tins!

I think i still have 20 that are out of date!

[MontysMerkin]

I'm afraid nothing can help you mysti.

And don't shop drunk!

New thread - sh!t I bought p!ssed

[beninho]

For most of us Christmas is paid time off work, what is there not to love about it!! Christmas parties are good aswell.

Love it!

[navyblueshorts]

I remember buying some canned olives on a previous online shop- and i just thought sod it as i dont have to carry them i will order 50 tins!

I think i still have 20 that are out of date!

I can just picture that. I hope you have a lot of storage at your place...

[navyblueshorts]

For most of us Christmas is paid time off work, what is there not to love about it!! Christmas parties are good aswell.

Love it!

Ah yes. The source of endless laughs and embarrassments! Just stay away from the photocopier.

[super_realist]

Christmas stuff in the shops already. Disgrace.
Bloody hate Christmas.

I guess you would considering you spend it alone.

I actually did spend last year alone due to illness and liked it much more than normal.
Might contrive to be "ill" again.

[JAS]

Due to "cash-flow issues" I'll be spending Xmas in a non-tropical location this year...Not looking forward to it at all...family - yes ok plus point!! Poopie weather and dreary commercialism...yuk....motivational exercise in sorting out my cash flow issues!! Bah Humbug!!

[McLaren]

Jas

I will give you a tenner to wash my bike, if you are up for it?

[mystiroakey]

Is that your idea of cash flow Mac?

[dynamark]

Xmas itself never good now kids away and no family to speak of but for me it signals the start of a new year.I always set a project to do and of course a few visits to the golf course

[McLaren]

Mysti

Yes. Why would it not be?

Dyna

Do your kids not come back for Christmas?

[incontinentia]

worst thing about xmas is the golf courses usually turn into frozen tundra, hope we get a mild one this year.

[McLaren]

The worst thing about christmas is golf gifts.

[navyblueshorts]

The worst thing about christmas is golf gifts.

There are certainly some bad ones out there, that's for sure.

[SpacemanSpiff]

The worst thing about christmas is golf gifts.

There are certainly some bad ones out there, that's for sure.

 
 
For sure. Once got a plastic putting aid with a compass style needle, you placed it on the green and the needle pointed the way the slope went..

[navyblueshorts]

The worst thing about christmas is golf gifts.

There are certainly some bad ones out there, that's for sure.

 
 
For sure. Once got a plastic putting aid with a compass style needle, you placed it on the green and the needle pointed the way the slope went..

And all after you'd dropped hints you'd really quite like a nice Scotty Cameron...

[kwinigolfer]

From the Daily Mirror:
"Lothar Matthaus . . . . . has angrily hit back at claims that he is dead."

Reminds me of an Onion headline a few years ago:
"Bush: Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is over."

and:
"Hijackers surprised to find selves in hell: 'We expected eternal paradise for this,' say suicide bombers."

[McLaren]

A little like;

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Although I am sure there is something about him not actually saying that.

[McLaren]

pretty cool watch

[super_realist]

Why did you post that mac?

[McLaren]

I thought people would be interested to see it.

[navyblueshorts]

Ah, ha ha ha ha ha!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24489512

[MontysMerkin]

Ahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahaha!!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24487746

[Roller_Coaster]

Ah, ha ha ha ha ha!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24489512

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[Roller_Coaster]

Ahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahaha!!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24487746

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[Roller_Coaster]

Sorry - nothing cerebral or amusing to add, but they are both funny.

[super_realist]

I thought people would be interested to see it.

I always think you do such things to show how "right on" you are.
Probably my cynicism.

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