smol

small pencils surrounded by multi-color golf balls and tees

yes i do not play golf so this was my TIL

  • @[email protected]
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    416 hours ago

    How else are you supposed to keep score? Half the time there’s a few spares sitting in the golf cart.

  • @Noite_Etion
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    317 hours ago

    Last mini golf place i went to wanted me to download an app to track my scores… My wife had a pen and paper, so we made our own

  • @Broadfern
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    I love this.

    Relevant XKCD:

  • HubertManne
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    191 day ago

    This is one of those TIL’s were im trying to figure out if its a joke or what. They provide them for you at many mini golf places.

    • @ElectroVagrantOP
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      01 day ago

      I phrased it to read as a joke at a glance, but it’s genuine! I’ve never gotten into any form of golf.

      • @Dasus
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        71 day ago

        How is it surprising in any way?

        “TIL that most grocery stores sell or even give you a packaging bag you can pack your shopping into.”

          • @Dasus
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            41 day ago

            Sooo… never been to an Ikea either, I take it?

            • @ElectroVagrantOP
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              01 day ago

              Do they give snack-sized bags to put shopping into?

              • @Dasus
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                The bags you get are actually huge as. Yellow for the ones to use inside the store, blue for ones you can own.

                But the reason I asked should be pretty clear, given the topic.

                https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_pencil

                • @ElectroVagrantOP
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                  31 day ago

                  Oh! I mistook it as a continuation of the general store example, as I haven’t been to a physical IKEA store (there aren’t any all that nearby).

                  Today I’m learning many little things! (Some stuff going on so between here and watching Attenborough documentaries.)

    • NegativeNull
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      61 day ago

      It’s not about the size of the pencil…

    • @wjrii
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      31 day ago

      Indeed, but the ones who do probably don’t see much need to boast about it.

  • @shortrounddev
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    131 day ago

    You never been to a mini golf place either?

    • @ElectroVagrantOP
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      51 day ago

      If I have it was so long ago I completely forgot, or may have been too young to remember.

  • Golfnbrew
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    91 day ago

    Most of them don’t have erasers, though. I have several in my bag

    • @[email protected]
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      41 day ago

      Yeah I’ve never been able to afford to go to a course that gives you pencils with erasers. That’s some 1% luxury.

      • @11111one11111
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        218 hours ago

        I know these are all playing off the original comments joke of needing erasures in his bag, but for the sake of the newbie golfers, the pencils don’t have erasures to prevent score changing without initializing. If you play for money with friends or in amateur tournaments, when you have to make a score correction after it’s written down, you should have your cart buddy initial it. Noone wants to pay someone on a scorecard with erased scores on it lol.

  • @[email protected]
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    31 day ago

    Not really “may” I think you would be hard pressed to find a golf course that didn’t provide you with a pencil and score card

    • @ElectroVagrantOP
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      31 day ago

      Standard sized writing utensils, if I had been prompted to.