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Britain's most prolific egg collector, reoffends again. (2 Viewers)

The best jokes are the ones that you have to explain to people (insert self-depricating sarcasm here).

Imagine an old, cartoonish, and slightly senile person making the statement in my post, while shaking his gnarled cane at the young 'uns and a wistful twinkle in his eye for the selectively remembered good old days (apparently in Tudor times) and you'll have a better appreciation for it. Do keep in mind that this curmudgeonly gentleman would be bewildered by Ebay.

But I do appreciate that you've introduced the topic of replica eggs. I'd never thought of it, but it would seem that woodworking and painting accurate replica bird (or other!) eggs could be a pretty engaging hobby - somewhat similar to fly fishing lures or miniature vehicle replicas, but perhaps more beginner friendly. And as a bonus it can be done legally.
Probably wouldn't even need to use woodworking. 3D printers are good enough and cheap enough now that you could easily generate a bunch of fake eggs, and just paint them.

Actually, I kind of wonder if the type of folks into egging in the past haven't been converted to other collecting hobbies. I am just imagining the modern "egg collector" type sitting in his den and painting warhammer miniatures instead...
 
The best jokes are the ones that you have to explain to people (insert self-depricating sarcasm here).

Imagine an old, cartoonish, and slightly senile person making the statement in my post, while shaking his gnarled cane at the young 'uns and a wistful twinkle in his eye for the selectively remembered good old days (apparently in Tudor times) and you'll have a better appreciation for it. Do keep in mind that this curmudgeonly gentleman would be bewildered by Ebay.

But I do appreciate that you've introduced the topic of replica eggs. I'd never thought of it, but it would seem that woodworking and painting accurate replica bird (or other!) eggs could be a pretty engaging hobby - somewhat similar to fly fishing lures or miniature vehicle replicas, but perhaps more beginner friendly. And as a bonus it can be done legally.
 
Probably wouldn't even need to use woodworking. 3D printers are good enough and cheap enough now that you could easily generate a bunch of fake eggs, and just paint them.

Actually, I kind of wonder if the type of folks into egging in the past haven't been converted to other collecting hobbies. I am just imagining the modern "egg collector" type sitting in his den and painting warhammer miniatures instead...
Andy's link above has some resin eggs - those would be higher quality than generating plastic ones - due especially to the textures you'd be forced to deal with. But as a broader point, yes there would be various levels of craftwork to meet anyone's hunger for hobbying skill.

Did you see the replica Great Auk eggs! I think I'd be by far more excited to own one of those than to smuggle away some poor bird's breeding attempt.
 
Andy's link above has some resin eggs - those would be higher quality than generating plastic ones - due especially to the textures you'd be forced to deal with. But as a broader point, yes there would be various levels of craftwork to meet anyone's hunger for hobbying skill.

Did you see the replica Great Auk eggs! I think I'd be by far more excited to own one of those than to smuggle away some poor bird's breeding attempt.
My wife actually bought me a couple of those, sadly, they got broken when we moved house.
 
Oh no! Before just now I had no idea about this reprehensible hobby. Now I know about it and it breaks my heart. Humans are a scourge.
 
Oh no! Before just now I had no idea about this reprehensible hobby. Now I know about it and it breaks my heart. Humans are a scourge.
Only the bad ones though. I was thoroughly shocked when I found out this was even a thing, let alone to this extent.
 
Back in my day, we had wooden eggs and had to go uphill both ways in the driving snow to get them for a nickel.
"You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt."
 
The problem with harsh sentencing for things like this is that it would imply even harsher sentencing for more serious crimes - I mean surely, it's not nice to the birds, but no humans were harmed here. Some level of harm due to human insanity simply has to be expected.
 
The problem with harsh sentencing for things like this is that it would imply even harsher sentencing for more serious crimes - I mean surely, it's not nice to the birds, but no humans were harmed here. Some level of harm due to human insanity simply has to be expected.
Maybe time to update civilisation's anthropocentricity and sentence crimes against nature relatively more harshly than those against the fast-breeding invasive planet-wrecking apes.

John
 

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