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Apple Valley, MN
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Roy Hanson retweeted
Like so many great courses in Great Britain and Ireland, one of the coolest parts about Lahinch is that it sits right in town.
That means the walk from P.Frawley Bar to the first tee of the Walker Cup is wonderfully short.
Naturally we had to find out just how long it takes.
(Note that the pub also has phenomenal Guinness which was ultimately finished 😂)
Lou I love you my favorite follow but your weakest post. By some shorts. Just not an interesting story – at Apple Valley, MN
Damn it's crazy how some people don't realize there are two waves and you either get am/pm tee times, or pm/am tee times.
He had pm/am tee times and probably didn't get back to his hotel after round 1 until 8-9pm, and then had to be back at the course no later than 615am for round 2 tee times.
But yeah, go on with what you know.
Roy Hanson retweeted
All other supermarkets should go there to restock. 30 percent improvement in margins!
Or he earned it and can facilitate a transfer of money by using services…. Sounds like a win win…. – at Minnesota, USA
Rich people are a different species, I need you to understand this.
Couple months back we're at a neighborhood barbecue. My wife's friend brings her new boyfriend, nice enough guy, works in finance, makes disgusting money.
At some point someone hands him a pair of tongs to flip burgers. He's holding them like chopsticks, can't figure out the hinge, just standing there clicking them sideways.
My wife's friend eventually takes them from him and handles it.
Later, his car battery dies in the driveway, my neighbor walks over with jumper cables, the guy stands there watching like he's observing wildlife. My neighbor asks him to pop the hood, he doesn't know where the latch is. On his own car.
Then he says something that made me laugh for three days straight:
"Shouldn't someone come do this for us?"
His CAR, His BATTERY, In his DRIVEWAY.
The guy makes probably 400k a year and cannot operate a pair of tongs or find the hood release on a vehicle he purchased.
There's something about never having to figure things out yourself that just... rots a certain part of the brain. Not all rich people are like this obviously. But the ones who grew up with drivers and gardeners and someone handling every single task? Yikes.
Of all things jj….”musk is what’s wrong with the world.” Semi- smart? I’m semi - smart. He is the Einstein of a century….. – at Apple Valley, MN
Makes no sense. Different states can afford different salaries based upon economies and cost of legislation example 60k starting salary in Los angels hits different than same salary in rural North Dakota…. – at Apple Valley, MN
So worth it….
James Sexton (America’s top divorce lawyer) said something pretty sobering on Diary of a CEO:
If you get married, there’s roughly a 56% chance it ends in divorce.
Add in the people who stay together but are miserable (for the kids, money, etc.), and he estimates the “failure rate” jumps to 70-75%.
Yet here’s the wild part: 86% of people who get divorced remarry within five years.
Marriage is one of the biggest decisions we make, but the odds aren’t great — and we keep rolling the dice anyway because humans are wired for connection and partnership.
It reveals something deeply philosophical about human nature — our almost stubborn optimism and longing for connection. Even after pain and failure, most of us still choose hope and the possibility of love over permanent solitude.
What’s your honest take — is marriage still worth it in 2026, or are the stats too discouraging?
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Cole Caufield’s dad? He’s the ultimate hockey dad: “We grew up in Wisconsin, and if you don’t know much about American hockey, then you probably think, ‘OK, so that’s like Minnesota and Michigan, right? Powerhouse.’
But in terms of hockey culture, at least at that time, if you were a Wisconsin kid, everybody kind of looked at you like, ‘Ehhh. I dunno.’
The competition just wasn’t the same. If you wanted to make a name for yourself, you had to go to play in tournaments in Chicago or Minnesota or Detroit. So that’s what we did. We drove. Or I should say, that’s what my parents did. I didn’t do jack s***! Hahahah. They did all the work. I sat in the back and watched movies and tried to hold my pee like a hero. As I got older — around 12 or 13 — I got a chance to go play for Team Illinois. Without blinking an eye, my dad was like, ‘Let’s do it.’
An easy weekend was a 4-hour drive. But sometimes we’d have games in Detroit, and it was 8 hours each way. We’d hit the road after school on Thursday and be gone til Sunday. My mom was a third grade teacher, so she couldn’t leave her class. It would just be me and my dad, and my dad…. Well, he’s a wildman. He coached and ran our local rink. Kind of like the ultimate Hockey Dad. I could talk for hours about him, but this is him in one image…..
You know those old-school hand gripper things that are supposed to make your forearms huge? He had one from like 1982. He would be cruising down the highway gripping the wheel with one hand and crushing sets with the gripper in the other hand. Maniac. And the funniest part was that he loved listening to 80s on 8 on Sirius. So he’s blasting Phil Collins with the windows rolled down, just crushing sets with the gripper. Then he’d hand it over to me.
‘Your turn.’
‘Come on, guy. I’m 12.’
(He flips into coach mode.)
‘Shooting is all about the forearms. That’s what people don’t understand....’
‘Dad, I can’t feel my thumbs.’
(Ultimate coach mode)
‘Alright, go ahead and take it easy. But there’s another kid out there somewhere working twice as hard as you.’
‘There’s a kid out there with … two grippers?’
(This whole conversation takes place while ‘I Can Feel It Coming In the Air Tonight’ is blasting).
Brutal. But hey, I guess it worked. I was an undersized kid, so we were always looking for any kind of edge. My dad had this saying, and it still sticks with me now….
He said, ‘Once you’re satisfied, it’s time to quit.’
He never made me do anything, but he was always there on Thursday afternoon, behind the wheel, just ready to roll. It’s crazy to me that he never complained about having to drive 60 hours a month so I could have a chance to play against better competition. If it wasn’t for my dad, I never would have made it to the NHL. At my size, coming from a football town in Wisconsin, there’s no way. To be honest, the NHL wasn’t really even my dream at first. It didn’t seem realistic. My dream was to get a free college education and play for the Badgers.” playerstribu.ne/Caufield
@colecaufield | @CanadiensMTL
Nope…… I don’t believe that’s the deal…. – at Apple Valley, MN
Wow: Colorado HC Deion Sanders says that people are "uncomfortable" because he's a confident Black man and has a 75% African American locker room.
“We’re doing things that have never been done. When you see a confident black man, talking his talk & walking his walk, coaching 75% African Americans in the locker room, that’s kind of threatening; they don’t like that.”
😳😳😳
I saw it with my mom - it’s brutally exhausting being a caregiver….. add on the emotions in the relationship and it is easy to see where one simply gets some rest upon losing a spouse…. – at Apple Valley, MN
🚨 DOCTOR STUNS INTERNET: PATIENTS START “AGE-REVERSING” RIGHT AFTER THEIR SPOUSE DIES — AND NO ONE CAN EXPLAIN IT
A surgeon just went on camera and admitted something he’s seen over and over again.
Patients in long marriages… dealing with chronic issues, low energy, constant symptoms.
Then their spouse passes.
And instead of declining… they start reversing.
• “10–15 years younger” in appearance
• Energy comes back
• Medical conditions start fading
• Movement, voice, even mood shifts
He says he’s witnessed it at least a dozen times.
People say they’re devastated… but something in their body is doing the opposite.
Like the system finally… let go of something.
So now people are asking questions no one wants to say out loud:
• Was the relationship quietly draining them?
• Stress they didn’t even realize they were carrying?
• Or something deeper happening under the surface for decades?
Because this doesn’t look like grief breaking someone.
It looks like something being released.
What do you think this actually is… grief hitting differently… or proof some relationships slowly wear people down?
“That’s exactly why you will never ever be good at this.” – at Apple Valley, MN
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So you are getting paid or paying for a lack of diversity? – at Apple Valley, MN
My nephew makes €3,000 a month in Berlin as an engineer
"Congrats Wilhelm, you must be proud of yourself" I told him
"Not really uncle, my friends in the US make over $20,000 a month" he sighed
I smiled and took out a piece of paper
"Let's adjust this for quality of life, shall we?" I said
First I deducted $6,000 from his friends' salaries for health insurance
Then $4,000 for gun violence anxiety
Another $3,000 for having no paid vacation
Then $2,000 for lack of cultural diversity
"Your friends make $5,000 a month" I showed him the napkin
"But uncle that still leaves them with $5,000, and I only make €3,000" he said
"Yes but now we adjust yours upward" I told him
+ €6,000 for free healthcare
+ €4,000 for work-life balance
+ €2,000 for excellent public transport
+ €2,000 for racially diverse society
"You actually make €17,000 a month Wilhelm" I said
"I never thought about it like that" he said quietly
"Nobody does" I said
"That is the tragedy of American propaganda"
He called his friends in New York that same night and told them he felt sorry for them
European salaries are much higher once you remove the American brainwashing
FACT! I wasn’t any good and was appropriately light on all semblance of swag. – at Apple Valley, MN
Players: I'm all for guys wearing drip, playing with swag, and having a little flair.
I get it...I was all about the glove hand arm sleeve, double wrist tape, eye black, Oakleys on the hat (even during night games), always a 3/4 under the jersey, etc.
Look good, feel good, play good.
With that being said, if you're going to be wearing all that you better play your ass off and be a dirtbag.
You can't be dripped out and suck. 😂
Have thought about this for 40 years…. It is because everybody has hit something with a stick……. And most have attempted to hit a moving object with a stick….. find, hockey, football, basketball….. none compare . – at Apple Valley, MN
I can’t for the life of me figure out why youth baseball (Little league age, travel ball, high school) is one of the only arenas where people with absolutely no experience have the strongest opinions. Stay with me here. Like adults that know for a fact they never played baseball ever stand at sporting events criticizing coaches or kids for making mistakes while also knowing virtually nothing about the subject matter. It’s the most ignorant, lacking any self awareness things in society. Do you also walk in the kitchen during dinner service and question the executive chef or ask the roofing professionals if they’re replacing your shingles correctly knowing you have no idea what you’re talking about it’s such an insane concept to me. Yelling at children knowing you trip over your own feet mowing your lawn. just be positive and encourage the kids, thank the coaches for doing the job you can’t even come close to doing. Stop embarrassing yourself and your kids.
And that’s how I ended up with Lebanese friends in the United States… – at Apple Valley, MN
"Lebanon was so multi-faith and multicultural. So, we had Jews, Muslims, Christians, Protestants. The majority were Christians.
We were over almost 70% Christians when we got our independence in the 40s. But because of the way Muslims multiply, you know, with the multiple wives and multiple kids, in 30 years they became the majority. Once they became the majority, they were no longer tolerant of the people who took them in and accepted them and included them in the country.
They felt they were not a part of the country. They felt they were a part of the Islamic ummah or the Islamic nation. So when they turned against their brethren, Christians who lived in the same country, and Jews, but specifically the Christians, they began massacring us in large numbers because they thought we are in power now and therefore we set the rules on how things should be.
And that's really what drove the country into war."
