What is more of a "Wasteland"?

[Chizzang]

I voted for wise open rolling hills. Not so much as I dislike or cant find beauty in it. But because I live in blighted urban area, or very close to US Route 40. ECB, this thread is just a way of making the 20% of the population feel better about them selves. Fuck you and Carol Bickens!

Who's trying to feel better about themselves?

And I live in a metropolitan area with a population of almost 2.5 million people and moved here from the 3rd most populous metropolitan area in the US.

Sue me for finding subdivisions of cookie-cutter homes a depressing wasteland. And I don't care if those homes are on a fraction of an acre or a full acre+ and cost a million dollars, mcmansions are customized monotony.

Dude..!!!

[89Hen]

Sue me for finding subdivisions of cookie-cutter homes a depressing..

Stopping there makes your statement valid. Including a word of which you continue to ignore the definition is where you go astray.

[UNI88]

Sue me for finding subdivisions of cookie-cutter homes a depressing..

Stopping there makes your statement valid. Including a word of which you continue to ignore the definition is where you go astray.

Merriam Webster defines Wasteland as
1: barren or uncultivated land
2: an ugly often devastated or barely inhabitable place or area
3: something (such as a way of life) that is spiritually and emotionally arid and unsatisfying

I find cookie-cutter, suburban homes to be spiritually and emotionally arid and unsatisfying. Don't like it? Tough.

[CAA Flagship]

Stopping there makes your statement valid. Including a word of which you continue to ignore the definition is where you go astray.

Merriam Webster defines Wasteland as
1: barren or uncultivated land
2: an ugly often devastated or barely inhabitable place or area
3: something (such as a way of life) that is spiritually and emotionally arid and unsatisfying

I find cookie-cutter, suburban homes to be spiritually and emotionally arid and unsatisfying. Don't like it? Tough.

Thanks for the definition.
I stand by my choice, now for a different reason.

[89Hen]

Stopping there makes your statement valid. Including a word of which you continue to ignore the definition is where you go astray.

Merriam Webster defines Wasteland as
1: barren or uncultivated land
2: an ugly often devastated or barely inhabitable place or area
3: something (such as a way of life) that is spiritually and emotionally arid and unsatisfying

I find cookie-cutter, suburban homes to be spiritually and emotionally arid and unsatisfying. Don't like it? Tough.

I find it very interesting that you left out the entire entry.

1: barren or uncultivated land
a desert wasteland
2: an ugly often devastated or barely inhabitable place or area
3: something (such as a way of life) that is spiritually and emotionally arid and unsatisfying

[UNI88]

Merriam Webster defines Wasteland as
1: barren or uncultivated land
2: an ugly often devastated or barely inhabitable place or area
3: something (such as a way of life) that is spiritually and emotionally arid and unsatisfying

I find cookie-cutter, suburban homes to be spiritually and emotionally arid and unsatisfying. Don't like it? Tough.

I find it very interesting that you left out the entire entry.

1: barren or uncultivated land
a desert wasteland
2: an ugly often devastated or barely inhabitable place or area
3: something (such as a way of life) that is spiritually and emotionally arid and unsatisfying

I read that to be an example of something that could be considered under definition #1. A desert wasteland is not the only kind of wasteland no matter how much you want to fixate on it and limit the definition to your worldview.

[Gil Dobie]

Stopping there makes your statement valid. Including a word of which you continue to ignore the definition is where you go astray.

Merriam Webster defines Wasteland as
1: barren or uncultivated land
2: an ugly often devastated or barely inhabitable place or area
3: something (such as a way of life) that is spiritually and emotionally arid and unsatisfying

I find cookie-cutter, suburban homes to be spiritually and emotionally arid and unsatisfying. Don't like it? Tough.

Where would a golf course fit into the definition?

[kalm]

Merriam Webster defines Wasteland as
1: barren or uncultivated land
2: an ugly often devastated or barely inhabitable place or area
3: something (such as a way of life) that is spiritually and emotionally arid and unsatisfying

I find cookie-cutter, suburban homes to be spiritually and emotionally arid and unsatisfying. Don't like it? Tough.

Where would a golf course fit into the definition?

It wouldn’t.

[Winterborn]

Merriam Webster defines Wasteland as
1: barren or uncultivated land
2: an ugly often devastated or barely inhabitable place or area
3: something (such as a way of life) that is spiritually and emotionally arid and unsatisfying

I find cookie-cutter, suburban homes to be spiritually and emotionally arid and unsatisfying. Don't like it? Tough.

Where would a golf course fit into the definition?

Pasture.

[UNI88]

Merriam Webster defines Wasteland as
1: barren or uncultivated land
2: an ugly often devastated or barely inhabitable place or area
3: something (such as a way of life) that is spiritually and emotionally arid and unsatisfying

I find cookie-cutter, suburban homes to be spiritually and emotionally arid and unsatisfying. Don't like it? Tough.

Where would a golf course fit into the definition?

The epitome of wasted land thus wasteland.

[kalm]

Where would a golf course fit into the definition?

The epitome of wasted land thus wasteland.

Sigh....

Ever heard of urban open space designation?

[Gil Dobie]

The epitome of wasted land thus wasteland.

Sigh....

Ever heard of urban open space designation?

In today's world, it's taking up bike trail space.

[kalm]

Sigh....

Ever heard of urban open space designation?

In today's world, it's taking up bike trail space.

Shut up Gil! I trying to protect an industry here!

[Winterborn]

In today's world, it's taking up bike trail space.

Shut up Gil! I trying to protect an industry here!

Does that make you a lobbyist then?

[CAA Flagship]

Sigh....

Ever heard of urban open space designation?

In today's world, it's taking up bike trail space.

Is that why those fucktards clog up roads with their peleton?

[CAA Flagship]

In today's world, it's taking up bike trail space.

Shut up Gil! I trying to protect an industry here!

Republican

[Winterborn]

Shut up Gil! I trying to protect an industry here!

Republican

A lobbyist and a Republican. The true Kalm is starting to come out and all it took is to go after golf courses....

[89Hen]

I find it very interesting that you left out the entire entry.

1: barren or uncultivated land
a desert wasteland
2: an ugly often devastated or barely inhabitable place or area
3: something (such as a way of life) that is spiritually and emotionally arid and unsatisfying

I read that to be an example of something that could be considered under definition #1. A desert wasteland is not the only kind of wasteland no matter how much you want to fixate on it and limit the definition to your worldview.

Why would they use that as an example? Perhaps it fits the definition most closely.

[kalm]

Republican

A lobbyist and a Republican. The true Kalm is starting to come out and all it took is to go after golf courses....

160 acres of urban wetlands and native prairie grasses hosting a variety of species from threatened yellow headed blackbirds to, great blue herons, to badgers, to waterfowl nesting, to various aquatic invertebrates. Less chemical per acre input than the average lawn. Serves as a giant water filtration system\swale for surrounding developments.

It's very close to becoming residential.

[kalm]

A lobbyist and a Republican. The true Kalm is starting to come out and all it took is to go after golf courses....

160 acres of urban wetlands and native prairie grasses hosting a variety of species from threatened yellow headed blackbirds to, great blue herons, to badgers, to waterfowl nesting, to various aquatic invertebrates. Less chemical per acre input than the average lawn. Serves as a giant water filtration system\swale for surrounding developments.

It's very close to becoming residential.

Fuckers....

[UNI88]

I read that to be an example of something that could be considered under definition #1. A desert wasteland is not the only kind of wasteland no matter how much you want to fixate on it and limit the definition to your worldview.

Why would they use that as an example? Perhaps it fits the definition most closely.

It's an example of the first definition. There are two other definitions.

The first definition is also probably a pre-Industrial Revolution definition when anything that wasn't cultivated was considered barren. Congratulations on being pre-Industrial!

[kalm]

Why would they use that as an example? Perhaps it fits the definition most closely.

It's an example of the first definition. There are two other definitions.

The first definition is also probably a pre-Industrial Revolution definition when anything that wasn't cultivated was considered barren. Congratulations on being pre-Industrial!

BOOM!

[UNI88]

A lobbyist and a Republican. The true Kalm is starting to come out and all it took is to go after golf courses....

160 acres of urban wetlands and native prairie grasses hosting a variety of species from threatened yellow-headed blackbirds to, great blue herons, to badgers, to waterfowl nesting, to various aquatic invertebrates. Less chemical per acre input than the average lawn. Serves as a giant water filtration system\swale for surrounding developments.

It's a refuge for effete wannabe one-percenters who don't care about the proletariat and their limited access to open lands.

Now you're getting it.

[kalm]

160 acres of urban wetlands and native prairie grasses hosting a variety of species from threatened yellow-headed blackbirds to, great blue herons, to badgers, to waterfowl nesting, to various aquatic invertebrates. Less chemical per acre input than the average lawn. Serves as a giant water filtration system\swale for surrounding developments.

It's a refuge for effete wannabe one-percenters who don't care about the proletariat and their limited access to open lands.

Now you're getting it.

Son of a bitch!

Golf in Spokane ain’t like Chicago, ya newb. I have people bitching over $24 senior rates. It’s a jeans and t-shirt, Miller Lite affair. The surrounding development consists of military, teachers, and dry wallers.

If the course goes under it will become a 800 unit mixed residential development that destroys habitat and will use 3 times the water.

I am the Lorax, I speak for the.....turf grass?

[UNI88]

Now you're getting it.

Son of a bitch!

Golf in Spokane ain’t like Chicago, ya newb. I have people bitching over $24 senior rates. It’s a jeans and t-shirt, Miller Lite affair. The surrounding development consists of military, teachers, and dry wallers.

If the course goes under it will become a 800 unit mixed residential development that destroys habitat and will use 3 times the water.

I am the Lorax, I speak for the.....turf grass?

What kind of grass? Is it native?

We've had this conversation. We agree that golf should be more accessible so I will concede that public golf courses might be acceptable. It's the private ones with socioeconomic barriers to entry that are really wastelands.