The red sock brigade AKA ramblers

[The Duncan 802]

I love it when you see ramblers or 'Nordic walkers' in town. Pmsl as they use their Nordic sticks to negotiate tricky pavements

[gnasher16 31,602]

Cant see anything wrong with them myself not everyone wants to spend their time in the countryside hunting or fishing some folk just want to admire it and be around it seems perfectly natural to me.......

[Nik_B 3,791]

My experience many times has been that they think they own the countryside and aren't so understanding about other peoples activities.

[Ossie n Arch 1,683]

This topics quite funny as i'm on a walking forum as well as this one. They post exactly the opposite views as we all have. They don't like to meet dogs out walking, they hate Cows in the field, they dislike barb wire across footpaths, blah, blah, blah.

 

http://www.walkingfo...p?topic=21424.0

 

http://www.walkingfo...p?topic=21393.0

[Ossie n Arch 1,683]

..........Oh, and i haven't got any red socks either.

[rob190364 2,594]

..........Oh, and i haven't got any red socks either.

just a big f**k off woolley hat and a kagool?

 

on the subject of ramblers, it makes me laugh when they have super expensive walking bookings, a massive rucksack, those walk stick things and all the clobber, and then they got on a 2 mile flat walk around the local woods

[RossM 8,149]

And they crop up at exactly the wrong time, had a group of around 12 of them come around the corner one morning to see my old bitch box in and take a hare a fair few years ago!!

[The Duncan 802]

The worst I've experienced with walkers is them coming over to talk when Iv'e been pigeon shooting and show interest - fair enough, but vexing when the flight line is busy!

Times like these gives a great opportunity to be an ambassador for field sports.

[albert64 1,882]

iv'e met some right moaning t***s, and some very pleasant, interested ones

 

i was coming of the land last week and 4 were passing and i heard one of the women saying to her husband

that mans got rabbits, so over he strides and i'm getting ready to f**k him off

when he says excuse me could i buy some rabbits off you please....result

i had 12 asks him how many he wanted could i have 4 but iv'e only got a £20 note

so we both went away happy he was telling me how he did a bit of ferreting when he was younger

[gnasher16 31,602]

iv'e met some right moaning t***s, and some very pleasant, interested ones

 

i was coming of the land last week and 4 were passing and i heard one of the women saying to her husband

that mans got rabbits, so over he strides and i'm getting ready to f**k him off

when he says excuse me could i buy some rabbits off you please....result

i had 12 asks him how many he wanted could i have 4 but iv'e only got a £20 note

so we both went away happy he was telling me how he did a bit of ferreting when he was younger

 

Fiver a head he was just showing off to his bird acting like he,s " one of the lads "............probably slung them out the car window after he dropped her off home

[albert64 1,882]

iv'e met some right moaning t***s, and some very pleasant, interested ones

 

i was coming of the land last week and 4 were passing and i heard one of the women saying to her husband

that mans got rabbits, so over he strides and i'm getting ready to f**k him off

when he says excuse me could i buy some rabbits off you please....result

i had 12 asks him how many he wanted could i have 4 but iv'e only got a £20 note

so we both went away happy he was telling me how he did a bit of ferreting when he was younger

 

Fiver a head he was just showing off to his bird acting like he,s " one of the lads "............probably slung them out the car window after he dropped her off home

 

he was an older bloke so dont think he was trying to impress

 

hope i see him again.....

[The Duncan 802]

iv'e met some right moaning t***s, and some very pleasant, interested ones

 

i was coming of the land last week and 4 were passing and i heard one of the women saying to her husband

that mans got rabbits, so over he strides and i'm getting ready to f**k him off

when he says excuse me could i buy some rabbits off you please....result

i had 12 asks him how many he wanted could i have 4 but iv'e only got a £20 note

so we both went away happy he was telling me how he did a bit of ferreting when he was younger

Result!

[paulus 26]

bumped into a couple christmas day afternoon, we get loads round the lanes, the bit that makes me smile is they have maps theres a signpost on every junction

[The Duncan 802]

Last sunday at the end of a pigeon shoot with Bruno22rf, I had a rambler from London (60 miles away) who asked me if I can pinpoint his location on his map. He looked like an exRAF type and I pointed out a shortcut for him as he seemed to be against the clock and nightfall. He didn't seem against our guns etc, like he accepted that being out in the country means coming across country based activities.

Odds on the next 'ramblers' I meet will be total anuses.

[littlefish 598]

Manchester Rambler

• (Ewan MacColl)
  I'm a rambler, I'm a rambler from Manchester way
  I get all my pleasure the hard moorland way
  I may be a wage slave on Monday
  But I am a free man on Sunday
  I've been o'er the Snowdon, I've slept upon Crowden
  I've camped by the Wain Stones as well
  I've sunbaked on Kinder, been burnt to a cinder
  And many more things I can tell
  My rucksack has oft been my pillow
  The heather has oft been my bed
  And sooner than part from the mountains
  I think I would rather be dead
  The day was just ending as I was descending
  By Grindsbrook, just by Upper Tor
  When a voice cried, Eh you, in the way keepers do
  He'd the worst face that ever I saw
  The things that he said were unpleasant
  In the teeth of his fury I said
  Sooner than part from the mountains
  I think I would rather be dead
  He called me a louse and said, Think of the grouse
  Well I thought but I still couldn't see
  Why old Kinder Scout and the moors round about
  Couldn't take both the poor grouse and me
  He said, All this land is my master's
  At that I stood shaking my head
  No man has the right to all mountains
  Any more than the deep ocean bed
  I once loved a maid, a spot-welder by trade
  She was fair as the rowan in bloom
  And the blue of her eye matched the June moorland sky
  And I wooed her from April to June
  On the day that we should have been married
  I went for a ramble instead
  For sooner than part from the mountains
  I think I would rather be dead
  So I walk where I will over mountain and hill
  And I lie where the bracken is deep
  I belong to the mountains, the clear-running fountains
  Where the grey rocks rise rugged and steep
  I've seen the white hare in the gulley
  And the curlew fly high over head
  And sooner than part from the mountains
  I think I would rather be dead