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• #1202
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!
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• #1203
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.
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• #1204
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.
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• #1205
'sports'
lol
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• #1206
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.
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• #1207
I came for the discussion of "pt" stayed a bit too long for the "discussion around shooting".
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• #1208
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.
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• #1209
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.
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• #1210
guillotine
Sounds a bit foreign and not very sporting.
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• #1211
I'm sure you could make it a sport
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• #1212
A bit like the hurdles, except you have to stop every 10 metres to lop some pointless aristo's head off.
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• #1213
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.
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• #1214
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....
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• #1215
When you go left enough, you end up going right.
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• #1216
See for e.g. Spiked/Living Marxism and that bloke with the massive forehead, Miss Mirza etc.
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• #1217
Deep.
And a nice nod to the forum's fixed gear origins.
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• #1218
guillotine
guilloptine, shirley?
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• #1219
What's he ever done to you?
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• #1220
excellent callback, 10/10
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• #1221
no it's p10/p10
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• #1222
Now we're fucking talking.
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• #1223
In the birding community, twitcher is a derogatory term. Check your privilege.
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• #1224
The equivalent of 'shit fixie skidder'?
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• #1225
More that I think "twitcher" implies an unreasonable degree of obsession. I've been corrected by birding friends more than once.
I knew someone on here would know! That rather ruins my planned career as a ptarmigan startler.