"In a rage, Lord Walter Rothschild left the British Ornithologists' Union and teamed up with a sinister one-eyed reverend to found the Jourdain Society, a rogue league of aristocratic egg collectors who operated outside the law. It was theoretically a charitable society, formed to lobby against the evil influence of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSBP), but it was widely accused of being at the center of a wave of egg theft sweeping the country. The Society held formal gatherings, where tuxedo-clad egg collectors admired antique display cabinets full of rare eggs and competed to produce the rarest specimen. The police regularly raided these meetings, held in swanky hotels across the country, and fully half the members had criminal convictions as late as the 1990s. Again, for egg crimes. But stealing wild eggs is pretty draining (several poachers fell to their deaths, while another was so overcome with egg madness he charged into an osprey reserve with a chainsaw and was arrested trying to saw down trees) and the thieves soon realized there was an easier target: museums. Britain's natural history collections were soon hit by an epidemic of theft."
Jesus Christ they even look like birds
>>5163891Based, the world needs more eccentric people like this.
>>5163891>>5163894Of course you mean eggcentric.
>>5163891I don't see the big deal as long as they aren't hunting anything down to extinction and pay good money to the continued existence of falcons.
>>5163892This guy lives near me he's an absolute madman who's been in jail twice for his egg obsession.>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx8qg4z0gl4o
>>5163891>In a rage, Lord Walter Rothschild left the British Ornithologists' Union and teamed up with a sinister one-eyed reverendKek
>>5163909My brother in Christ they are contributing to the extinction of endangered birds by preventing their births. Their theft culminates in the “de yolking” which kills the life inside.
>>5163909Birds are absurdly protected to the point picking up a feather near an ornery game warden is a felony because birds go extinct over literally nothingFucking housecats, dumbed down by 10,000 years of selectively inbreeding them to be retarded, have caused bird extinctions
>Lord Walter Rothschild left the British Ornithologists' Union and teamed up with a sinister one-eyed reverendI'd like it to be known that the good reverend My Penis has never been involved in any egg theft, just egg fertilisation.
It’s the egg madness y’all
>>5163909They kill the eggs nigga
>>5163909Do you know what they do to those eggs, anon? It’s not pretty…
They also dare to call themselves "Oologists", a scientific designation and title, whereas their activities have little or nothing to do with actual science.
>>5164288Tell that to the cosmetologists, astrologists, numerologists and coprastastologists. Bitch.
>while another was so overcome with egg madness he charged into an osprey reserve with a chainsaw and was arrested trying to saw down treesHow exactly do you arrest a chainsaw wielding poacher?>>5164288If it's counted as a science, Oology is one of the only sciences that doesn't involve calculus.Truly a joke discipline.
>>5164339>How exactly do you arrest a chainsaw wielding poacher?In America? Gun. In the UK? Idk.
>>5163891Is like a Captain Planet supervilliain.
>>5164484Rescue Rangers actually had a villain like that. Not a supervillain though. Just an obsessed egg collector whose face, body, house and belongings all had an egg motif.
>>5164490Incredible stuff
>>5163891they have the EGG MADNESS
>>5164595I thought it was just a joke. But it’s real.
Bunch of eggheads
Imagine getting so little pussy in yo life you turn into an evil dandy who secretely presidents an association of rich cartoonish scrooge type egg collectors holy shitMost interesting text Ive read all week
>>5163891I could have swore I saw a movie about this kind of thing
>>5163992you can't even point a camera in their general direction because it might stress them out and cause them to abandon a nest or something
>>5163891This is quite frankly hilarious
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jourdain_Society>The Jourdain Society is or was a controversial society based in the United Kingdom>is or wasIs this the fucking Thieves Guild?
>>5165112Yes.
>>5165112From that article:>Egg-collecting is the removal of intact, unhatched eggs from a birds' nest, followed by drilling out the contents to keep the egg intact.I assumed that they wanted the eggs exactly as they are, with the dead embryo inside it. I figured there must've been at least some kind of scientific value to an egg that contained the embryo of a rare bird. Maybe you could look at it with X-ray or something.But no. It's just the eggshell with absolutely nothing inside it. That's the only thing they want.It feels kinda like buying some expensive thing, opening its package, throwing away the expensive thing, and keeping the package instead.
>>5165121You just wouldn’t understand. All that matters is the shell. The contents ruin everything.
>>5165143Like as if collectors bought rare Star Wars figures, threw away the figures, and just kept the blister cards.
>>5163891Egg collecting isn't "illegal". The unhatched eggs are not technically a living animal yet, so collecting them isn't technically poaching.
>>5164490>>5163895kek
>>5165121>>5165315I think they just really, REALLY like the shape of an egg.
>>5163891Did he eat too much eggs and his intestines burst? What’s that bandage?
>>5165584According to old news articles, he was hiding 19 eggs inside that sling. >>5165324It's not "illegal". It's just plain illegal, without quotation marks.
>>5165324LMAO
Don't forget the guy who held an egg in his mouth to climb down the tree and ended up sacrificing his teeth.>one famous collector, Charles Bendire, was willing to have his teeth broken to remove an egg that had become stuck in his mouth after he had placed it there for safekeeping after climbing down a tree.Also, reminder that if this was a hobby of mainly nonwhites or women, the thread would be about how egocentric and superficial that group is, but since it's not, everyone just goes "haha funny weird individuals"
>>5166016Well, in this case, it's anglo aristocracy so everyone knows how egocetrnic and superficial that group isA whole fucking country was founded on the basis of not wanting to have anything to do with them
>>5166016fuck off to /pol/ or something nobody wants to hear ur pish>>5166041aye exactly man its a given when talking about these cunts lol
>>5166016Lol ok buddy
>>5163891BahahahahahahaGreatest thing I’ve read this year
Why eggs? Why not skulls?
>>5166887You just wouldn’t understand
>you will never be a decadent tophat-wearing egg obsessed maniac Why even live
>>5167739Would be pretty sick.
>>5165324>Egg collecting isn't "illegal"....Yes, yes it is
COMMODORE!
>>5167739Halloween is right around the corner…
