Oh good heavens, the "Usual Suspects" have had their ignorance, misrepresentations and myths exposed on another thread so comprehensively that they now are reduced to personal insult, so the Gnome who opened the thread is now pleading for it to be closed to save them from further embarrassment.

- "Farmed" Grouse
- Over-fed until they can barely fly
- "Harried" and "terrorised" by beaters (who basically just walk in a line across a section of moorland - just as walkers and ramblers do)
- packs of vicious dogs rampaging about amidst
- "flocks" of grouse
- "Hooray-Henry" shooters (That it would appear no-one has spoken to)
- Shooting for pleasure (All birds are gathered, sold and eaten - economically it is a business worth between £106m and £115 each year to the UK, in Scotland alone £30m is paid in wages)

The thread was opened as a vehicle whereby the "Usual Suspects" could take a pop at one of their mythical ideological stereotypes - Tell you what Gnome, it failed spectacularly.