#they're at a golf course

[f1-birb]

lnfour Spotted Lando at the MTC 👀

#lando norris #HE HAS RETURNED #the curls #they're looking beautiful #but why do they look like golf trousers and golf trainers... #did you come straight from a golf course or is that your next stop

[iceeericeee]

Golf courses should not exist. You agree. Reblog

#first of all: they're terrible for the environment #second of all: they're fucking USELESS #golf #golfing #golf course #golf courses

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#man ive never seen an eating disorder kill someone else besides a parent infecting a child but my nana is really trying #shes like 1000% orthotexic. will not eat anything not filled with vegetables or fat. and my grandpa is 87yo with a heart condition currentl #in the hospital for covid bc thry went to Christmas church and dont believe in being vaccinated and my dad is so frustrated #bc he knows his mom is not gonna give his dad hearty foods. he needs to eat like protein shakes and meat and ice cream. anything thats not #her cooking which sucks on top of being extremely healthy. except its not healthy bc they dont eat a balanced diet #so its my nanas eating disorder killing her husband and shes so fucking frustrating. im like 99% sure she has obsessive compulsive #personally disorder bc she fits to a T and has zero insight. she may have full on 0cd bc talking to my dad he has more obvious 0cd #compulsions than i do. he used to say phrases before going to bed and would take 2 steps across the floor to prevent bad things from #happening. so like im pretty sure my nana is where i get my perfectionism and 0cd. god. i wish i could express how fucked up she is #like my dad said at least he had a stable home to grow up in but like she has zero sympathy for other people. cannot look past herself. wil #not wear a mask bc she doesnt care enough abt other ppl. my dad was like: u would not have survived in that house. which is fair bc i am #barely keeping it together coming from a stable home with two sympathetic parents who i know love me #and like its sad that they're suffering the effects of buying into the fox news bullshit and its killing them #but also. genuinely. i think theyre not very good ppl. theyre the type of people who think they're better bc they're religious. white. and #thin. and theyre not better thsn anyone. their grandchildren cant stand them. well cant stand her at least. papa is just quite so its hard #to say what hes thinking. apparently he was confused last night and saying something about eating dinner on the golf course. which sounds #nicer thsn being in the hospital lol. ugh. he seems not long for this world tbh. may he pass peacefully to b with his 1st wife who died of #brain cancer at age like 20 or something. so it goes. bleh. how many funerals are intended for me in the next 5 years? hopefully none but #that seems improbable with the unspoken drain circling that seems to b going on in this family. old age and like almost 10 years of cancer #defying the stats but for how much longer? #i dunno. its just so weird to watch these things happen and not talk about it directly to the other ppl who see it #i worry that ill come off as too callose or inappropriate bc i have that tendency when something bad is happening but thats everyone else #excuse? idk i just feel like its better to talk abt things #unrelated #ed mention #i tell u this so i can say these things to someone and also bc if i were u. i would like to hear the drama #bc im nosey and i assume other r too ;-]

[necromancy-savant]

Anyone else have frequent dreams of being at a mall but it's an absolute labyrinth with the weirdest stores and restaurants?

#I guess they're not that weird like some are clothes stores and pizza places #but then others have just the biggest most random menus #or weird electronics that don't exist in real life #the latter are definitely from my memories of some science store in the mall when I was a kid #because everything there was a fantastical magic device to me #and I also have dreams about being at restaurants that double and triple as all kinds of arcades and golf courses #and swimming pools and rides and #in mall dreams I can never find my way back the way I came though #it's always twisting and turning into new stores #I dream about buffets an awful lot come to think of it #it's because I get hungry in the middle of the night but not hungry enough to actually wake up so I dream about buffet restaurants

[babylonbirdmeat]

Spicy take but the main reason that you see a lot of leftists be Anti-Golf but not Anti-Waterpark is that they're just way more likely to have fond memories of Waterparks from being kids

We've gotta snuff those things OUT

#I'm fine with pools they're not nearly as bad but fucking WATERPARKS #Maksim Howls #But like don't think of this defending Golf Courses those suck too

[snallavanta]

sometimes i forget these people are rich rich

#victoria nadine #just for context: sentosa is one of the most expensive places to visit in singapore #let alone going to the fucking golf course #literally only the elites and rich go there to play golf #and not anyone who plays golf can go to sentosa #you need to already be a part of a well-known golf club before you can even be CONSIDERED to join the sentosa golf club #anyway yeah my knowledge on golf is limited but this is a super expensive sport not even considering that they're playing at SENTOSA

[thedreadpiratematt]

Marx forgive me for I went to the driving range with Republicans today

#lol #the Republicans in question being my dad and brother in law because it's family vacation week #and they're not the kind to rub the Roe overturn in my face or anything #we are a polite and VERY conflict avoidant family #though BIL and i did have a friendly debate/discussion about socialism last night #also I'm bad at golf in case anyone is wondering #BIL says i could be great and i have a naturally powerful swing #but he doesn't need to know i think golf courses should be reclaimed for public housing :)

[botaniqueer]

Land Back and the dismantlement of the US is something I do feel that reasonable* (to-be-former) Americans will end up feeling positively about eventually, even if they have to be dragged kicking and screaming through it.

Living under the US empire and capitalism is one of those things that you won't realize how bad things really were (even if you already know they're bad) until after you've left the situation, and in that theoretical future we're going to look back and see a lot of absolutely nasty stuff in hindsight and how much better things are.

(Also emphasis on that it's primarily about Indigenous folks and not us settlers, and it's about doing the right thing.)

*White supremacists and capitalists aren't going to be happy of course, but I mean the very general public :P

#I also can't wait to help the tribes Murder all the golf courses #I hate them so much!! They're just black holes for resources

[corvuscorona]

the proble m with that post about how "americans will just declare any old european building aesthetically haunted, we should start doing it to them" and then it has a picture of a random subdivision like "ough it's so haunted" is that. we also call those haunted. American subdivisions are cursed as hell have you ever walked a dog in one you don't know very well????? you can get LOST

#there's one of these stupid things across the STREET from us #it has a GOLF COURSE. IN IT. and all the streets wind like they're trying to confuse you on purpose!!!

[woodnrust]

OKAY so I finally found out the reason why I've been seeing more white people around here lately so I looked up the housing market here and that lead to an article about how certain places around here are being gentrified which in turn is causing rich white people to move in. Which wouldn't be so bad if they had basic manners like literally I can spot which white people are new around here because they're the rudest people ever. Um. Pack up and leave? <3 that's an order.

#jelly.txt #not only do none of them wear masks but i saw a guy start hacking before spitting on the ground and then just. walking along #like?? ew?? and then that lady in the store with no mask who was glaring at everybody and chewing her gum loudly with her mouth open #but anyway genuinely i do want them to leave they're messing up the vibes around here. they're the reason a golf course is being built

[regallibellbright]

Last Time On Birdie Wing

Love (or, deepest of sighs, possibly long lost siblings) at first Golf occurred!

Eve was challenged for golf supremacy for the first time in memory (except maybe her teacher,) and described it as Aoi’s golf and smile “piercing her heart through” because bullet metaphors.

We meet the Golf Mafia!

I realized just how THOROUGHLY dedicated Rose Aleon is to The Aesthetic, and then considered things and went “You know that checks out.”

Eve continued to be a drama queen about her new crush rival and made a deal with the Golf Mafia! This will be fine and nothing at all is being foreshadowed!

And now, we return to Birdie Wing. Venus Line!

#incest mention #Let's Rewatch Birdie Wing #I'm probably going to try and get through Vipere tonight #so I will not tag AS heavily #just to keep things from being overwhelming in the tag #look even if Eve and Aoi turn out to be sisters - and I'm reasonably hopeful the show won't be THAT tacky #I am still shipping it because the show knows damn well what it's doing #it only gets MORE BLATANTLY SHIP BAIT from here. #if it does go that route I may just ignore it in favor of writing a fix it fic #where we keep the 'Eve and Aoi's worlds were never supposed to intersect at least not like this where they're Golf Soulmates' #so that CEO Mom is left with no other choice but to try and have Eve assassinated. as one does. #(because if they ARE siblings then also. She's just gonna try to turn Eve into Aoi 2.0. And that is obviously Less Birdie Wing) #and it all climaxes in that rain of bullets Golf Char promised - both Rainbow and literal - as they return to Nafrece #and the golf course where all of this started and so we have corporate assassins vs the Golf Mafia's hitmen #while our golfers just continue on their merry way because you know it's not just Eve and Aoi #NONE of the serious golfers we've seen would let a little thing like lethal peril interrupt their game #they're all just looking at the bullets riddling the green and effortlessly accounting for how this changes the trajectory #oh and Ichina and Lily get to sync up and nerd over Gundam together.

[headspace-hotel]

Researching herbicide resistance in weeds.

A decade ago, everyone said rotating applications of different herbicides was key to stopping herbicide resistance.

Then, around 2015, evidence from a large study emerged saying that this actually causes weeds to be MORE resistant, so the best thing to do is to spray a combination of multiple herbicides mixed together at once.

Now that is being called into question too. Whoda thunk it...

Herbicide resistance among weeds is only getting stronger. Recently, scientists found an annual bluegrass (Poa annua) on a golf course that was resistant to seven herbicide modes of action at once. Seven. SEVEN. Amaranth plants been found with resistance to six herbicide modes of action at once. Twenty years ago, the narrative was that resistance to glyphosate (Roundup) was unlikely to become widespread; today it's the second-most common type of resistance.

What's more, plants are developing types of herbicide resistance that are effective against multiple herbicides at once and harder to detect. Instead of changing the chemical processes within them that are affected by the herbicides so the herbicides don't work as well, they're changing the way they absorb chemicals in the first place. Resistant plants are producing enzymes that detoxify the herbicides before they even enter the plants' cells.

It took Monsanto ten years to develop crop varieties resistant to Dicamba (after weeds made 'Roundup Ready' crops pointless). Palmer amaranth evolved Dicamba resistance in five years.

So I asked, "Why are all the proposed solutions dependent on using more herbicides, when we know damn well that this is going to do nothing but make the weeds evolve faster?"

The answer is that chemical companies have the world in a death grip. They can't make money off non-chemical solutions, so chemical solutions get all the funding, research, and outreach to farmers.

But why do chemical companies have so much power?

One of the biggest reasons is the U.S. military.

In the Vietnam war, all of Vietnam was sprayed with toxic herbicides like Agent Orange, which was incredibly toxic to humans and affected the Vietnamese population with horrible illnesses and birth defects. Monsanto, the company that made the herbicides, knew that it did this, but didn't tell anyone. The US government didn't admit that they'd poisoned humans on a mass scale until Vietnam veterans started dying and coming down with horrible illnesses, and even then, it took them 40 years. (My Papaw died at 60 because of that stuff.) And the soldiers weren't there for very long. As for the Vietnamese people, the soil and water where they live is contaminated.

Similarly, during the "war on drugs," the US military sprayed Roundup and other chemicals on fields to destroy coca plants and other plants used in the manufacturing of drugs. This killed a lot of crops that farmers needed to live, and caused major health problems in places such as Columbia. The US government said that people getting sick were lying and that Roundup was just as safe as table salt. (A statement that did not age well.)

So chemical companies make money off arming the USA military. The American lawn care industry, and the agricultural system, therefore originates in more than one way from the United States's war-mongering.

The other major way is described in this article (which I highly recommend), which describes how after WW2, chemical plants used for manufacturing explosives were changed into fertilizer producing plants, but chemical companies couldn't market all that fertilizer to farmers, so they invented the lawn care industry. No exaggeration, that's literally what happened.

This really changes my perspective on all the writings about fixing the agricultural system. The resources are biased towards the use of chemicals in agriculture because the companies are so powerful as to make outreach and research for non-chemical methods of agriculture really hard to fund. All the funding is in finding new ways to spray chemicals or spraying slightly different chemicals, because that's what you can actually get ahold of money to look into. It is like the research has to negotiate a truce with the chemical companies, suggesting only solutions that won't cause lower profits.

Meanwhile my respect for Amaranth is skyrocketing.

Who would win: The USA military-industrial complex or one leafy boi

#military industrial complex #plants #agriculture #environment

[patsmassivekeychain]

Ok more coherent thoughts now. I can already see how this ending is probably going to be divisive and to an extent I understand why. Before it aired, I wasn't keen on the idea of the show ending like this. People don't like endings where the found family go their separate ways, except that isn't really what's happening here. And I think the way they did it was perfect.

Alison has come in and completely turned these ghosts' unlives around. She's given them purpose, connections with the outside world and each other, and above all a lack of boredom. Boredom is one of the main existential challenges the ghosts face. Alison isn't abandoning them to what they had before she came - she's leaving them with the tools to actually live rather than just exist after her.

And she's not gone forever! Families don't have to live together to be family. She comes back and visit them regularly! Maybe it's just because I moved out from my parents' in the last few years and I'm back for Christmas, but her being a regular at the hotel, coming back and visiting them at least every Christmas (maybe more) was very moving to me. Just because she's moved out doesn't mean they're not still family.

Having it become a hotel is a nice bookend and I bet it's improved the ghosts' quality of unlife a lot. As I said, their biggest challenge has always been boredom. A hotel/golf course probably isn't at all boring. How many affairs do you think Julian has watched? It's perfect for them, with all the people coming and going. I bet they even stage the odd haunting for fun. A constant, varied existence is a great fate for them.

Ending the episode with the plague ghosts was PERFECT. Obviously, it was great to see them again and it was hilarious as they always are. But it struck me just how much this decision has improved their situation - they've gone from dingy cellar to sauna. And that's the analogy of how much things have improved for all the ghosts.

Change is scary. It's sad when things come to an end. But sometimes it's for the best. And an end doesn't always mean a closed door.

#bbc ghosts #ghosts spoilers #ik i said more coherent and then just wrote a blob of steam of consciousness #but this episode WAS sad and devastating #i hope this makes people feel a bit better about it #if at least one person feels better ill be happy

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

I think part of the reason why I find Max and Charles' dynamic so fascinating is because if anybody created original characters with their basic backstory they would be called out for pushing the narrative too hard but it's literally just basic well known facts about them and things we've seen happen, it's insane like

They're born sixteen days apart.

Their star sign is Libra, the sign of balance, equilibrium.

A complete and utter coincidence and Charles of course had his own personal reasons for choosing his number, but his number also happens to be the same about days that separate their birthdays.

They literally grew up racing each other.

They hated each other as kids.

"I am just as good as him/we're equals in experience etc"

The way they talked about each other to journalists and in their blogs while they were karting lmao.

The incident!

The comparisons since the beginning to Senna and Prost, two of the sports goats and one of the greatest rivalry in F1's history.

Max recommended Charles to be his replacement when he left his team to move onto to the next stage.

There's something poetic about them being born in the year of the ox and Max driving for red BULL. Also 2021 in which Max won his first championship was also the year of the ox and I am completely normal about it after just finding out about five minutes ago -

The slowburn of the relationship, lifelong rivals but friends now too.

The way they talk about each other.

The fact they're each other's biggest defenders.

I am sorry but Charles running off track after getting distracted by Max and then hitting his head on a golf cart again after getting distracted by Max is something I expect to see in romcom or a fic but no both of these things actually happened in Abu Dhabi 2021 on the same night lmao.

The fact they don't follow each other on Instagram and yet interact with posts about the other that someone else posted.

The reason why they don't follow each other lmao, I still cackle thinking of Charles - literally on Max's freaking plane going home to Monaco after Austria 2019 - looking over at Max to see if he noticed that he'd unfollowed him.

Max was known as the inevitable. Charles is the predestined one. Like hello?!!!

There's more but like??!!! The fact this is real life and not a movie is insane sometimes - Guess it's true what they say, truth is stranger than fiction

#f1 #max verstappen #charles leclerc #lestappen

[elainemorisi]

ooooo, am I just woefully out of the loop or is brewery in a former corporate campus a great reuse of late 20th century sprawl idea

#drove past one today #I... love those corporate campuses in an unacceptable manner #they look pretty on par (yukyuk) with golf courses as far as appropriate land use go #but they're in the same bucket as Las Vegas in the sense of being just #such lavish misuse of resources #and they ARE beautiful in that late 20th century preapocalyptic whatever it is #y'know the ones that are like headquarters for a single company I mean #like definite architectural + landscape-architectural talent went into that #nonetheless not in a way that actually invited say even the employees to step outside even at lunch #ANYWAY the point being brewery seems like a real smart use of both #what I presume is unfillable quantities of former office space #and the in fact very beautiful landscaping #but with an actual outdoor activity

[vivwritesfics]

Lando Norris HC's

I'm burnt out and exhausted and I just want someone to love me haha

Masterlist

Lando

Where to begin?

He's... something else

Don't get me wrong, he's amazing

What's not to love?

High performance athlete who also streams on Twitch

Every bit the golden retriever boyfriend everybody wanted

Every bit the golden retriever boyfriend Y/N got

This man? Attention WHORE

He doesn't stop

Comes out with the weirdest stuff

It's so much fun

Wants his girlfriend with him for race weekends

Because he hates going a long time without pissing her off

Very important that his girlfriend gets along with Carlos

She's there when they're pissing about

During their McLaren days?

Mayhem

You kind of have a love every minute of it if you're dating Lando

Sitting in while he streams sometimes

Not every time

But being in the room, doing something while he streamed

Y/N could be doing her own work while Lando gamed and streamed

Chief cuddler

But can't sit still long enough for them to properly cuddle

Loves getting his hair played with

Oooooo running your fingers through Lando Norris' hair? Literally can't imagine anything better

Stealing hats and hoodies purely because they smell like him

Lando loves snogging

Kissing by lamp light, hands on her hips, grip almost bruising

Or his hands would be on her face, pushing away her hair

Man loves marking up

Marking up his girl and being marked up

Aka, hand prints, hickies, scratches down his back

Lando loved that the most

Feeling her nails raking down the skin of his back

Plus, it was easy to hide

Unless he was participating in an ice bath

Then he'd mark her up twice as good, since she couldn't leave marks on him

Out in the club, Lando is very touchy

Aka, doesn't let go of her

Holding her hand

Holding her hips or her ass as they danced

Y/N becoming one of the more photographed WAG's

Simply because she didn't want to stay hidden

She wanted the world to see her with Lando

She wanted the world to know how much she loved her man

After a race, when Lando was in the top three, he'd climb of the car, wave to the crowd, run over to the McLaren team at the barriers to celebrate

And then he'd pull Y/N against the barrier and she'd kiss his helmet, where she'd think his lips would be

Holidays with Lando!!

Oh my god, literally the best

Fancy hotels and Yachts

Adventuring together

Holidaying with other drivers

There was one particular holiday

It was very spontaneous, they hadn't booked anything

Just hopped off a plane and off they went

To the Canary Islands

It was difficult to get a hotel

When they landed, they could only get one

It was... hell

Kids everywhere, booming music like baby shark playing around the pool all day

It was all inclusive, with drunk, neglectful parents spending every minute getting burnt on the sun loungers or around the buffet

Y/N and Lando found themselves as far away from the pool and buffet as they possibly could

Y/N would be reading her book as Lando did... something

When parents came and took their kids for dinner, they got a break from it

They could go in the pool without kids swimming into them

The hotel had crazy golf

Happy Lando

Happy Lando dragging Y/N around the crazy golf course, giggling like a child

Driving with Lando

Ugh, simply the best

Driving around Monaco in the Fiat Jolly (before he sold it) with his hand on her thigh

Driving in any vehicle with Lando's hand on her thigh

Hitting every red light

Kissing at the stop signs (darling)

Lando belting out the lyrics to any song that comes on

Having a car playlist so that the both of them could sing along

Going to Lando's parents for Christmas

Traditional British Christmas

Aka, roast dinner, pulling crackers, drinking, playing board games and ending the night with a cheese board

Taking his girlfriend around Guildford while they're in the UK

(I'm pretty sure it's Guildford - a youtube video from five years ago just popped up which said Guildford)

(Guildford is the halfway point between where I live now and where I actually live)

After a year and a half, Lando asks her to move in with him

Six months after that, they get a dog

A Doberman, collie, or golden retriever, I think

The name? Badger

Why? Daniel

Aka, Daniel knew the couple were going to adopt a dog

He had to get himself involved somehow and

He placed a wager - if Lando finished below P5 he'd get to name the dog

Y/N readily accepted

Lando DNFed that race

And so, the dog was named after the honey badger himself

To this day, Lando doesn't know

Lando is such a good dog dad

The dog doesn't come to the race weekends like Roscoe does with Lewis

Either Y/N stays home or the dog stays with a trusted friend if they had both gone

Lando's social media becomes a fan account for the dog

Having oh so many pregnancy scares with this man

Who doesn't love a late night run to the shop to get a pregnancy test or two?

They do eventually get pregnant

Y/N finds out on a race weekend

She was at home with Badger when she saw the pregnancy test in her bathroom cabinet

Video calling her best friend, Y/N took it

She waited the mandatory couple of minutes before she checked the little stick

She had to hang up on her friend

It was just meant to be for fun

Nothing serious

But then it turned serious

What the fuck was she going to do?

When the fuck would she tell Lando?

Should she tell him now, before he's about to go and race?

Yeah no, not a chance

Not with how much she was currently freaking out

She waits until he gets home from the race weekend

The test (and all of the others she'd done) had been thrown in the bin

All she had was herself

This was fine

She wasn't freaking out

(she was freaking out big time)

Y/N stayed up, waiting with Badger for Lando to come home

As soon as the door opened, she jumped up and faced him

Lando dropped his things when he saw her

He'd assumed she'd been asleep when he got in

But no, she was still awake

And he'd been waiting for him

Warmth spread through him

Normally, when Y/N waited up for Lando, she'd jump into his arms

But not this time

No

She just stood there, staring at him

"I've got something to tell you"

Anxiety spread through Lando

Y/N told him

He dropped to his knees

Well, his one knee

For the longest time Lando had been looking for a sign that he should propose

He wanted to, he desperately wanted to

He was just looking for some sort of sign

This wasn't a sign, it was a slap in the face

With all of the racing, Lando hadn't yet managed to buy her a ring

He'd really meant to

When he got down onto one knee, it was at the very back of his mind

"Marry me?"

Yeah, that was how he asked

Of course, Y/N said yes

Lando began running around, looking for some rope or yarn or twine that he could wrap around her finger until he got a proper ring

#lando norris #lando norris imagine #lando norris x reader #lando norris fluff #lando norris smut #lando norris x reader smut #lando norris x you #lando norris x y/n #lando norris x female reader #ln4 #ln4 imagine #ln4 x reader #ln4 smut #f1 #f1 imagine #f1 x reader #formula one #formula one imagine #formula one x reader #formula 1 #formula 1 imagine #formula 1 x reader