Ally Bally

Scottish, n'at.

[Ally Bally @AllyShaw]

@BBGreatMoments Suspect first and only time the French national rugby team shirt was worn in a US sitcom

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@draper_rob @ItWasPod @MGrantScotland @jonawils @Mogstar

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@golfcourses101 is that @johnkrasinski behind you??

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@golfcourses101 Boringly, take your medicine.

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@jamierkennedy @evensongolf The revolution that is yet to come in golf TV coverage is footage that actually gives a sense of a course’s personality

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*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP*
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless or female – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and most are.
• You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

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@BBCJLandale @NickBryantNY Doubt he was the audience, it will have gone right over his head. The arguments sounded more like the ones you would make to a Congress that you want to hold him to account and help normalise relations post DJT

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@Channel4News His argument that hereditary peers are the only ones who understand history seems like a slight stretch

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@jamierkennedy @TheOpen Knightswood, surely

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@fried_egg_golf he's not wrong, you can scarcely believe it when you visit St A for the first time and realise you can stand literally next to the 17th green even when play is happening - must be wildest combination of status and accessibility

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@StifflinChad @TheStingisBack Ok cool, just checking someone was doing this Arrested Development reference 👍

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@ruth_deyermond A reverse Mike Tyson - amazing!

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@ruth_deyermond I think these Western leaders are done with him now, they have just accepted he’s an adversary

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@freddiejh8 He interprets everything through the lens of advancing or defending his own personal, pathological needs. To him, loyalty is binary: you are either with him or against him. There is no space for nuance - shared values, strategic interests, or common ground do not register.

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@KVanValkenburg Same goes for the Postage Stamp, watched these top pros get into all sorts of bother there two years ago

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@jamierkennedy It's only when you play courses like the Celtic Manor 2010 that you start to realise the ridiculous ball control these guys exhibit

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@LissaKEvans @mrianleslie Been lobbying my brother in law to read it for months, he’s half way through it now and loving it

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@jamierkennedy Got a lot of sympathy with @ewenmurray77's argument that the game loses something when 350+ drives become normal. Can't imagine a modern-day Seve fizzing a downhill lie long iron onto a green with Trevino's 'Touch of class' in today's game

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@mrianleslie Favourite Sinatra story

https://t.co/zvd93qEUdp

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@jamierkennedy @PGATOUR and basically dared Fitzpatrick into playing a driver he probably wouldn't have played otherwise, forcing the error