kevin55 Posted October 18, 2021 Report Share Posted October 18, 2021 https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/18/rhik-samadder-tries-clay-pigeon-shooting-i-am-a-townie-holding-a-little-gun-dressed-as-rupert-bear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted October 18, 2021 Report Share Posted October 18, 2021 A very interesting article, thank you for the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Shot Posted October 18, 2021 Report Share Posted October 18, 2021 It read to me like an article written by a staunch meat eater who has just tried a Greggs vegan sausage roll or a Mc Vegetable burger and found it to be 'ok actually'. I thought it was quite condescending and patronising. It was almost as if the author found the activity to be beneath him and he was trying to identify exactly what us hairy knuckled Neanderthals got out of shooting and why on earth one would enjoy such an activity? It will almost certainly make his readership tut audibly at breakfast table while tucking into their smashed avocado and rye bread toast. Perhaps I read it wrong but I don't think publishing that in the guardian will have shown shooting in a positive light. He can be forgiven for mixing the 12 and 20 bore guns though. You don't often (in modern times) have scales in which the size of the item increases as the description number decreases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rewulf Posted October 18, 2021 Report Share Posted October 18, 2021 1 hour ago, Poor Shot said: I thought it was quite condescending and patronising. It was almost as if the author found the activity to be beneath him and he was trying to identify exactly what us hairy knuckled Neanderthals got out of shooting and why on earth one would enjoy such an activity? I think he was trying very hard not to like it, either that , or he was using irony to make it sound more interesting ? Either way , he enjoyed himself, a lot, when he didnt expect to, which is good. Next week hes going to try other Neanderthal activities to see what they are like , hes going out on the beer, and he may try sex, with an actual woman.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wylye Posted October 18, 2021 Report Share Posted October 18, 2021 I thought it described perfectly the experience of a novice trying clay shooting for the first time. Maybe some of it was a bit flowery but I really can't understand your objections to the article. Would you have preferred it not to have been published? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokersmith Posted October 18, 2021 Report Share Posted October 18, 2021 As above .... it's the Guardian remember ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted October 18, 2021 Report Share Posted October 18, 2021 2 hours ago, Rewulf said: I think he was trying very hard not to like it, either that , or he was using irony to make it sound more interesting ? Either way , he enjoyed himself, a lot, when he didnt expect to, which is good. Next week hes going to try other Neanderthal activities to see what they are like , hes going out on the beer, and he may try sex, with an actual woman.... thats how Kate Hoey started clay pigeon shooting.BASC arranged a day for her...she really enjoyed it and started shooting clays regular...and was a member of the Labour cabinate....until they found out and sacked her........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Shot Posted October 18, 2021 Report Share Posted October 18, 2021 5 hours ago, Wylye said: I thought it described perfectly the experience of a novice trying clay shooting for the first time. Maybe some of it was a bit flowery but I really can't understand your objections to the article. Would you have preferred it not to have been published? It really came across as a 'look at me, an intellectual, taking part in a clay pigeon shoot. This is purely the reserve of the toffs and the proletariat" type article. Incredibly patronising, especially turning up in a Sherlock Holmes fancy dress. Unless the article has been edited he still stated his position for further gun control at the end of the article. I certainly didn't see the article as a good thing for shooting or any fieldsports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rewulf Posted October 18, 2021 Report Share Posted October 18, 2021 2 hours ago, ditchman said: thats how Kate Hoey started clay pigeon shooting.BASC arranged a day for her...she really enjoyed it and started shooting clays regular...and was a member of the Labour cabinate....until they found out and sacked her........ I thought they sacked her because she refused to become a lesbian 🤣 Only joking, Brexit cooked her goose, but she was ready anyway, plus the Labour Party doesn't like its MPs to have independent thought, they prefer the hive mind mentality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Townie Posted October 19, 2021 Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 'Rhik Samadder tries clay pigeon shooting'. I've been poking away at my phone for the last 10 minutes trying to attach a link, but I'm too old or too thick to manage. It's in the Life section anyway. Undoes a few Guardian reader misconceptions I'd imagine. I'm sorry to mention that newspaper, but Mrs T is a retired primary teacher and I think it's compulsory reading for that lot. I try to rinse it out of my head by buying the Telegraph on Saturdays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted October 19, 2021 Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 Already running in the Clay Pigeon Shooting Section! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Townie Posted October 19, 2021 Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 1 hour ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: Already running in the Clay Pigeon Shooting Section! I'm not the only closet Guardian reader then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted October 19, 2021 Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 Apparently not! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HantsRob Posted October 19, 2021 Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 17 hours ago, Poor Shot said: Unless the article has been edited he still stated his position for further gun control at the end of the article. He did reference he hoped there were no home made varieties and I think it just claimed gun control rather than more gun control. I also think it was mostly said for the "gun control, pun control" joke. However it was still a positive post compared to bang bang sticks being bad. A few things to cringe on, but if it raises peoples thoughts to try it, it wouldn't be a bad thing... ideally not in tweed.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wylye Posted October 19, 2021 Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 12 minutes ago, HantsRob said: He did reference he hoped there were no home made varieties and I think it just claimed gun control rather than more gun control. I also think it was mostly said for the "gun control, pun control" joke. However it was still a positive post compared to bang bang sticks being bad. A few things to cringe on, but if it raises peoples thoughts to try it, it wouldn't be a bad thing... ideally not in tweed.... +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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