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You've Been Trumped

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  • 21-10-2012 11:48pm
    #1
    FixdePitchmark
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    Anybody see it or watching it BB2.


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    #2
    PARlance
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    Just switched it on now, ta


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    #3
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,768 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    Golf is evil (lol)


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    The Royal Scam
    Registered Users Posts: 983 ✭✭✭The Royal Scam


    FixdePitchmark wrote: »
    Anybody see it or watching it BB2.


    Yeah , just finished watching it. Some nasty stuff happening right there. I can't see something like that being popular with all the amazing old style courses in the area.


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    m r c
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    FixdePitchmark wrote: »
    Anybody see it or watching it BB2.

    Seen the start, set to record and went to bed ;-)


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    FixdePitchmark
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    m r c wrote: »
    Seen the start, set to record and went to bed ;-)

    It is a shocker what went on. Money talks man.


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    FixdePitchmark
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    The Royal Scam wrote: »
    Yeah , just finished watching it. Some nasty stuff happening right there. I can't see something like that being popular with all the amazing old style courses in the area.

    It is meant to be unreal good. Stunning.


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    MP62
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    FixdePitchmark wrote: »

    It is meant to be unreal good. Stunning.
    The best course in the world perhaps?!.


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    FixdePitchmark
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    MP62 wrote: »
    The best course in the world perhaps?!.

    Who says that ?


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    FixdePitchmark
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    Don't think I would play it after watching this.


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    m r c
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    FixdePitchmark wrote: »

    Who says that ?


    Wait till he gives golf digest a few million to go higher than Augusta :-)


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    FixdePitchmark
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    Great Doc - Too one sided , but that is what it is about.

    Fair play to that lad who did it, so much of his own time, for very little - but the truth.


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    MP62
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    FixdePitchmark wrote: »
    Don't think I would play it after watching this.
    +1
    I always thought he was an arrogant juan ker, now I know for sure he is and definitely wouldn't play it now.
    Also has to be said his head green keeper Paul o Conor came across really badly, and it wasn't a great advertisement for Sol construction either, both Irish btw.


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    FixdePitchmark
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    MP62 wrote: »
    +1
    I always thought he was an arrogant juan ker, now I know for sure he is and definitely wouldn't play it now.
    Also has to be said his head green keeper Paul o Conor came across really badly, and it wasn't a great advertisement for Sol construction either, both Irish btw.

    The Irish are up to their eyes in this.

    Real questions about the Police coercion too - Jaysus this is like Ireland under Fianna Fail.


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    FixdePitchmark
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    **** me - the fence - (lol)

    This is more like Citzen Kane now.


    Donald, where is your Rosebud.


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    fullstop
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    Comes across as an absolute wanker, Trump.


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    Lapin
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    "Who cares, who cares - Just get rid of those houses". :eek:

    What a prick !

    I definitely wouldn't play this course after seeing this.


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    FixdePitchmark
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    Lapin wrote: »
    "Who cares, who cares - Just get rid of those houses". :eek:

    What a prick !

    I definitely wouldn't play this course after seeing this.


    Lol,

    I swear if you read that in Dickens you would laugh, he said that.


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    SnowDrifts
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    Some pics in this thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=79705351


    Trump really is some pr*ck. And trying to charge for the fence! :eek:


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    #20
    FixdePitchmark
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    Braveheart needed.


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    Lapin
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    Good documentary, but that final piece (the maker of the film trying to call Trump from a phonebox) was just silly. No need for it.


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    maringo
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    Money talks, corruption rules. Sickening to watch Trump's operation intimidate to force those people from their homes with the help of the local council it appears. Trump later made a statement that he wouldn't be looking for CPOs on the houses but whats the betting he would have got them :mad:


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    MP62
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    FixdePitchmark wrote: »
    Jaysus this is like Ireland under Fianna Fail.
    Not even trump could trump that.


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    FixdePitchmark
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    Lapin wrote: »
    Good documentary, but that final piece (the maker of the film trying to call Trump from a phonebox) was just silly. No need for it.

    It was a reference to a famous add (I think ?).

    Or some deep symbolic ****, the hopelessness of coins versus an evil empire , (no drink tonight :p), real golf in am.


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    WoundedRhino
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    I'm from Aberdeenshire, the course is about 20 miles from where I grew up. I lived in Aberdeen up until last year, nobody I know wanted the thing built, the whole project was hugely unpopular and there was massive public opposition, but Trump had everyone bought. All the local papers did was report about how great it was going to be and run smear stories about the protesters and the local residents. Loads of people reported rough treatment from the security staff or even from the police if they went near the site. People who were just out walking on public ground were quickly intercepted by guys in dark Range Rovers and warned not to go near it or face reprisals. Well shady.

    Just FYI, the first course was opened but the hotel and villas still haven't been started. Trump is holding off on it until the Scottish Government agrees to cancel plans for a windfarm just off the coast, which knowing Alex Salmond and his cronies, they will probably do. Oh yeah and the course costs £195 for a single round, which means that the vast majority of local golfers can't even afford to play on it.


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    Kevinmarkham
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    WoundedRhino wrote: »
    I'm from Aberdeenshire

    Interestingly, WoundedRhino, I've received some unpleasant comments (on my blog) from golfers in Aberdeen who all swear blind that everyone in the area was 100% behind the course and, clearly, I didn't know what I was talking about - I've put up three separate blogs about the Trump's course.

    It may well be one of the best in the world (golf mags are raving about it) but it was a disgrace how it was developed and no respect for the environment (nothing new there).

    I haven't seen the programme yet, so will have to make do with this personal favourite Trump video from YouTube


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    WH BONNEY
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    Any idea where I can get to see this programme ?


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    ThunderCat
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    Watched this last night, and all throughout construction I knew there was opposition from the locals but it really was an eye opener seeing all the underhand tactics used by trump and his entourage. The treatment of the locals was nothing short of disgraceful and very little if anything at all was done to help them. No doubt that trump has a world class course there but the damage to the locals lives and livelihoods should be worth more. It goes to show that if you throw enough money at any problem, it goes away. And talk about not being sympathetic to the land - other course architects (namely greg norman at doonbeg, mc clay-kidd at macrihanish dunes) were not allowed to touch certain dunes due to their flora and fauna etc. yet trump completely levels the ones at his site. His workmen wildly deviated from the plans and the mounds of sand put up in front of that womans house blocking her view was terrible. The model for all them villas just looks completely out of place on that land and countryside and with a bit of luck they don't get built. Judging by the reviews and the photos, the course looks amazing but I think if I was in that neck of the woods, after what I'd seen last night, I'd keep on going up the road to Cruden Bay.


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    #29
    mike65
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    Its on again tonight at 00.20 am on BBC2


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    #30
    MiniGolf
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    mike65 wrote: »
    Its on again tonight at 00.20 am on BBC2
    Except BBC2 Northern Ireland!! :mad:


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    FixdePitchmark
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    Sort of on topic -

    Stick with this , some job done on Trump by Obama and his team - was pay back for questioning his Nationality.



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