Jon A thon

Good warm up tool when I can get to the range before a round. Will swing it when something feels off as I feel it exaggerates whatever I'm doing. But it's not some magic fix or anything for me.

Zyn was the right amount of flavor for me. Most others just had an overpowering wintergreen (or whatever) flavor.

I am 1 week into quitting after a few years of basically having one in anytime I was awake. Using non nicotine alternatives (Ultra for now) to wean off. It's been a tough week.

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AE has come out with a Reserve line that has Alden prices and is supposed to be Alden quality.

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I think I have 6 pairs of AE's. After the last pair I bought, I don't think I'll ever buy another pair. Admit they were the tennis shoe version and have never had issues with their dress shoes, but I can't stand those particular shoes. I have enough dress shoes I don't really need more. But if I do get another pair, I'll spend a little more.

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Maxfli Tour X has been the right move..

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I don't fully understand the Maxfli Tour ball differences. Admittedly haven't spent much time researching.

By that I mean I prefer the TP5x over the TP5 and the ProV1 over the ProV1x as I don't have issue producing spin with my longer clubs. The opposite designation of 'x' in those brands is confusing enough.

Maxfli has the regular, 'S', and 'X' types. If I've read correctly, is the Tour S the lower spin ball for irons and off the tee?

I live in the Houston area. If I have to be anywhere by a certain time, I usually turn on maps to keep an eye on traffic.

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I actually looked at how these guys make their money. The YouTube revenue is only a fraction of what some of them make. The merchandise and sponsorship money is where the real money lies.

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I saw Grant Horvat did a whole video on his Yellowfin. The Yellowfin team delivered it to him, etc.. My immediate thought was how good of a deal did he get on the nearly $500k boat. I know he's apparently invested in not only Primo, but Takomo as well. Along with his Youtube and ad revenue. So, I'm sure he's making a ton. But on top of that, just how much can he leverage for things like that?

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So no to the Foresight GCQuad??

I have the MLM2Pro I’ve like it. Only draw back is the lack of spin numbers without the special balls

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I've got one of these with a dozen ProV1 balls made for it. If someone in the Houston area wants one....:lol:. There's nothing wrong with it, I just have a membership now and prefer to go to the range. Only thing I don't like is that to get the full experience, you need to pay for the yearly or lifetime subscription. So it's like $600, but an additional $200 per year or $500 lifetime (I think that was the cost). You can still get numbers with no subscription, but you can't see live shot shape or play courses.

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where they think it's "fair" to merge

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It's not about where it's fair to merge. It's about where you have the opportunity to merge without a massive disruption to the flow of traffic. Yes, if everyone left huge spacing, you will end up with an opportunity further down. But you know that rarely ever happens. So when you pass up a clear spot to merge when you know the lane you are in closes in a quarter mile just because you think you know better, then you are the problem as you now cause everyone to slow down to let you in. But good on you for making it 5 spots further up.

And this whole using more of the available lane for longer thing is BS. As with any flow dynamics, you are restricted by the smallest choke point. If the speed limit is 70 (and assumed to be followed) and the min lane is a single lane, only so many cars per hour can pass. Whatever is happening upstream of that cannot go faster past that point with either option. So the name of the game is do whatever it takes to reduce the friction (slow down) getting into that single lane. And reducing that friction in real world application is getting over as soon as you know it's coming and have a smooth chance to merge. Obviously in very heavy traffic that this may happen with little to no options for the smooth merge. But many, many times the traffic is created by those waiting until the last minute because they feel they have the right to merge at the very end, but no smooth merge opportunities exist and someone must brake, creating a chain reaction reducing space between cars behind them and further limiting opportunities for smooth merges for following cars. And it snowballs. Just get over at your earliest convenience and everyone will be better for it. Your need to go 5 mph faster for another .5 miles just caused everyone to slow down by 30 mph for 10 minutes.

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With a 30k/year job in 2000 and never getting a raise it would be worth 600k today. I bet lots of gen x would be ecstatic with that number.

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While true, employers are going to pay you less (takehome pay) if they are forced to offer more retirement benefits than they currently do. Let's use 100k salary for example since it's easy. My employer will currently match up to 5%. So, their total cost of employing me is 105k (plus all other benefits, but ignoring those). My take home before taxes is still 100k and I can save more if I please. If they are forced to put 12% away for retirement, and want to keep the same cost of employment, then ~12k of that goes into retirement and my take home before taxes is now 93k. I'm fine with that because I'd be saving that anyway. All those who aren't prepared for retirement and living paycheck to paycheck are going to be up in arms about that. They want the extra money to come out of thin air. This is basically forcing people to invest in retirement not forcing employers to provide more benefits. I'm all for it, but you know damned well that wouldn't fly with the average American who's got nothing prepared

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You can feel it in your hands... although you hit a great shot according to the launch monitor.

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A decent launch monitor should show much less spin and distance on a fat shot, even off of a mat. It won't be as bad as on turf because it doesn't slow your club head speed as much, but it's a noticeable difference.

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Something tells me this wasn't his first run in at that address

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While a agree this is probably the case. Instead of walking up ready to throw packages at a dog that is on someone's private property, then go straight into I'm ready to fight you mode...how about you just refuse to deliver there and when they inquire as to why they have to drive to UPS to pick up their package, you let them know they need to control their dog.