Overheard at the LFGSS golf club bar

That's a few hours on a Sunday you're less likely to be run down by a gammon in a Flange Rover.

Until they drive home from the clubhouse with a few pints on-board

Single malts more like.

I now have the image of Vinny Jones standing on the open boot of a range rover shooting stuff in front of the range rover.

Is it golf club/shootie club if you inherited your shooters and shootie things such as cartridge press? Or does that make it more golf/shootie club.

I don't think I've ever actually done one of those shooting galleries. Cynical me assumes they're all rigged.

The air rifle ones at fairs aren’t rigged as such they are small targets with knackered guns and the ratio of entry cost to prize is poor so the house is always going’s to win.
My Grandfather was a very good shot and he would do ok but not win every time. As teenagers we used to have an extra pellet in our pockets but it wouldn’t guarantee a win it would have guaranteed a kicking if we got caught.

onos is good not bad imo

Including their past efforts to brick functional equipment to make sure it can no longer be used? Good if you run a landfill site. Not so good otherwise.

I would say B&O, but whatever...

People who think Analog HiFi is better than 1's and 0's has its own thread.

It's the one listed as 1001011001110111001010101

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We aim to please. :)

sonos is good not bad imo

That's the point. It's not bad but it's still middle of the road shit that's installed all over the average golf clubbers mock tudor shithole.

Inheritance makes you entirely blameless, whatcha got to flog geez?

I would cheerfully disagree with @Aroogah and @andyp. I went to school in Norfolk and the only break to the wheat, pesticide and barbed wire monoculture were the shooting estates with their woods, game crops and hedgerows. Guess where the wildlife lived. I have lived in the wilds of Sussex since 1987, almost everyone involved in shooting is disturbingly normal and of average means. It's probably a bloody sight cheaper than, say, cycling.

It's a trap!

Inheritance makes you entirely blameless

That's what the Royal family would have you believe. Starts off with shooters, ends up with mummy and daddy running an empire

The sights are off.
I once won a massive teddy bear at a fair in Battersea Park. I saw that my first shot was about an inch off target diagonally. So I just aimed the same amount the other direction and the next however-many-I-had-left shots went through the bulls eye.
Probably they have got smarter now at not letting you see where your initial sighter goes.

I reckon that by choosing to murder something for a hobby you're automatically not "normal", maybe just disturbing. Can't they just do cheese rolling or morris dancing or whatever else it is people get up to in the countryside?

So many humans have been content to take lives, animal and human, for so long. I think a lot of people are desensitized to it to some degree.

Hope you're not implying cheese rollers and morris dancers are normal?

You know how to trigger me, don't you?

Monoculture is bad, clearly, and leads to large swathes of land that is impoverished with wildlife. But shooting estates are equally bad as they encourage one species over all others, which has a devastating effect on biodiversity. Over 40 million pheasants are released into the UK countryside every year and any animal that is deemed a potential predator is shot, trapped or poisoned to ensure that there are enough pheasants left for the uber-rich* to shoot.

In Wales, Scotland and the Pennines huge swathes of uplands have been stripped clean of any biodiversity either by grazing sheep or deer, or to allow grouse to flourish, the latter two again providing entertainment for the uber-rich.

*my dad goes beating on a local estate, a day's pheasant shooting for a party of eight costs approx £25k, that is not something for anyone of average means.

You know how to trigger me, don't you?

at least someone does

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Most droll

Now, how do I convince them to remove the 2.2 litre diesel and fit a 6.3 litre petrol V8?

To golf bores, I guess the climate crisis means the Old Course playing more like Pebble Beach

£25k straight into the rural economy..

cunts

a day's pheasant shooting for a party of eight costs approx £25k

ha

Would you feel safe shooting with this lot? Maybe a ND as Andrew walks past is planned for Boxing Day?

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