why are egg collectors so insane

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Anonymous09/26/26, 22:17No.5163891Why are egg collectors so insane
"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."
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Anon09/26/26, 22:18No.5163892
Jesus Christ they even look like birds
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Anon09/26/26, 22:23No.5163894
Based, the world needs more eccentric people like this.
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Anon09/26/26, 22:35No.5163895
Of course you mean eggcentric.
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Anon09/27/26, 01:45No.5163909
I 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.
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Anon09/27/26, 14:23No.5163990
>In a rage, Lord Walter Rothschild left the British Ornithologists' Union and teamed up with a sinister one-eyed reverend Kek
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Anon09/27/26, 16:47No.5163999
>Lord Walter Rothschild left the British Ornithologists' Union and teamed up with a sinister one-eyed reverend I'd like it to be known that the good reverend My Penis has never been involved in any egg theft, just egg fertilisation.
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Anon09/27/26, 23:01No.5164068
It’s the egg madness y’all
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Anon09/28/26, 21:43No.5164288
They also dare to call themselves "Oologists", a scientific designation and title, whereas their activities have little or nothing to do with actual science.
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Anon09/29/26, 15:57No.5164484
Is like a Captain Planet supervilliain.
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Anon09/30/26, 00:36No.5164595
they have the EGG MADNESS
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Anon09/30/26, 15:07No.5164743
Bunch of eggheads
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Anon09/30/26, 15:37No.5164747
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
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Anon09/30/26, 15:54No.5164751
I could have swore I saw a movie about this kind of thing
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Anon10/01/26, 13:49No.5165074
This is quite frankly hilarious
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Anon10/01/26, 17:27No.5165112
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jourdain_Society >The Jourdain Society is or was a controversial society based in the United Kingdom >is or was Is this the fucking Thieves Guild?
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Anon10/02/26, 09:11No.5165324
Egg collecting isn't "illegal". The unhatched eggs are not technically a living animal yet, so collecting them isn't technically poaching.
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Anon10/03/26, 17:51No.5165584
Did he eat too much eggs and his intestines burst? What’s that bandage?
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Anon10/05/26, 02:04No.5166016
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"
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Anon10/07/26, 21:09No.5166656
Bahahahahahaha Greatest thing I’ve read this year
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Anon10/08/26, 21:29No.5166887
Why eggs? Why not skulls?
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Anon10/12/26, 11:31No.5167739
>you will never be a decadent tophat-wearing egg obsessed maniac Why even live
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Anon10/15/26, 13:28No.5168531
COMMODORE!
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Anon10/22/26, 13:40No.5169980
Pablo Escobar wasn't a thief
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