Overheard at the LFGSS golf club bar

I knew someone on here would know! That rather ruins my planned career as a ptarmigan startler.

Ha, sorry. I'm a dream smasher.

I can't find a source for this so no idea if it's actually true, but a Swiss twitcher I know told me that Ptarmigans can be so low on energy on their winter snow holes that being startled is enough to kill them! Murderer!

I’ll keep an eye out for them whilst I’m here, wouldn’t want to startle one as I roll through the undergrowth with my bike bouncing along behind me.

Ptarmigan are legal to shoot between August 12th and December the 10th however I doubt anyone actually does.
My comment was based around the absurdity of naming a product "Ptarmigan Pro" when the number of professional ptarmigan shooters in the world is almost certainly zero.

I associate with a lot of Shooters and a lot of Golfers and the overlap is zero btw maybe we need a country sports thread to discuss Barbours etc.

'sports'

lol

Probably best not, it would give some dazzling urbanite an excuse to get REALLY angry. Around here, if I didn't associate with shooters I would have nobody to talk to.

I came for the discussion of "pt" stayed a bit too long for the "discussion around shooting".

Ban shooting, requisition the grouse moors and rewild them. And then I guess guillotine the landowners whilst you're at it. You know, for sport.

requisition the grouse moors and rewild them

That's basically what Anders and Anne Holch Povlsen are doing. 80,000 hectares and counting.

If I were a billionaire, I'd be doing the same.

guillotine

Sounds a bit foreign and not very sporting.

I'm sure you could make it a sport

A bit like the hurdles, except you have to stop every 10 metres to lop some pointless aristo's head off.

requisition the grouse moors and rewild them

That's basically what Anders and Anne Holch Povlsen are doing. 80,000 hectares and counting.

Careful now... We're getting dangerously close to a debate on the highland clearances with this type of talk.

News just in:

**LFGSS.COM Backs the Death Penalty **

Metropolitan elite lifestyle website lfgss.com's Overton window has taken a surprise shift to the right....

When you go left enough, you end up going right.

See for e.g. Spiked/Living Marxism and that bloke with the massive forehead, Miss Mirza etc.

Deep.

And a nice nod to the forum's fixed gear origins.

guillotine

guilloptine, shirley?

What's he ever done to you?

excellent callback, 10/10

no it's p10/p10

Now we're fucking talking.

In the birding community, twitcher is a derogatory term. Check your privilege.

The equivalent of 'shit fixie skidder'?

More that I think "twitcher" implies an unreasonable degree of obsession. I've been corrected by birding friends more than once.