BS: Keep Larysa Switlyk out of Scotland

Subject: RE: BS: Keep Larysa Switlyk out of Scotland
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Oct 18 - 02:05 PM

Larysa Switlyk seems to have an online blog or webpage.

Subject: RE: BS: Keep Larysa Switlyk out of Scotland
From: Senoufou
Date: 29 Oct 18 - 02:45 PM

Sadly Gallus I'm a bit too long in the tooth to make the journey, and I'd need a rather large bucket as I get terribly seasick just looking at the sea!
I seem to remember that in addition to the unique species there, there's a St Kilda wren found only on the island.

Subject: RE: BS: Keep Larysa Switlyk out of Scotland
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Oct 18 - 10:48 AM

Keberoxu, that's not a bagpipe hanging out in her backpack, is it? She'd be better occupied blowing her own brains out learning to play such an instrument.

Subject: RE: BS: Keep Larysa Switlyk out of Scotland
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 30 Oct 18 - 11:09 AM

"oops - I think I was mistaken re wild sheep - - when I visited St Kilda I seem to recall the sheep there were left to their own devices presumably since the people left in (1928 or 29?) Think they are studied in the same way as the deer on Rum, but not interfered with in any way - -- "

Those are Soay Sheep, and they do indeed fend for themselves - I found them very skittish and wary of humans when I was on St Kilda, back in my sea-going days. I visited as a member of the crew of a schooner and our Navigator was an ex-Colonel. . The army presence there were reluctant to allow us to land, however upon hearing the ex-Colonel's name, they welcomed us ashore, pointed out the 'good bits' to take a look at, advised us to beware of the Fulmars nesting up on the hill, and entertained us right royally (and alcoholically) that evening in their mess.

Senoufou - St Kilda is a wonderful place, with an amazingly spiritual, 'other-worldly' feel to it. A definite Bucket-List item, if you can possibly manage it.

Subject: RE: BS: Keep Larysa Switlyk out of Scotland
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 30 Oct 18 - 11:10 AM

And it was August 1930 when the St Kildans abandoned Hirta. The last native St Kilda died a couple of years ago in, I think, Glasgow.

Subject: RE: BS: Keep Larysa Switlyk out of Scotland
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Oct 18 - 06:43 PM

Stilly River Sage,
I see what you mean --
it DOES look like a bagpipe sticking out of the backpack ...

Subject: RE: BS: Keep Larysa Switlyk out of Scotland
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Oct 18 - 07:46 PM

How did she get guns and things into Scotland to hunt with? Was it a guided hunt? Did she eat what she killed? Why would she want to do that in the first place?

(I never heard of her before and I'm reasonably well acquainted with the US outdoor scene.)

Subject: RE: BS: Keep Larysa Switlyk out of Scotland
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 06 Nov 18 - 10:01 AM

pfr
ok, not instant but I'd still go for the bear rather than an hour on a line then being gloated over by some human.
https://youtu.be/TSSPDwAQLXs?t=80s

Subject: RE: BS: Keep Larysa Switlyk out of Scotland
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 06 Nov 18 - 11:42 AM

My dad was a keen angler when he was a teenager during WW2;
catching pike and other fish to supplement rationing for the family table
He was also an enthusiastic chemistry set hobbyist maker of explosives and small bombs...

[different standards of health and safety way back in the 1940s...]

All his dreams came true when he witnessed locally stationed American GIs
down at the river fishing with hand grenades...

Subject: RE: BS: Keep Larysa Switlyk out of Scotland
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 10 Nov 18 - 07:19 AM

Yon lunatic goes from bad to even more illogical!
She has been pictured wearing a self promotional Tshirt saying 'don't let me get your goat' - a percentage of which goes to 'conservation of world's Capra species'!!!!
Better if ars*hol*s like her just stopped killing them?!

Subject: RE: BS: Keep Larysa Switlyk out of Scotland
From: Mossback
Date: 10 Nov 18 - 10:48 AM

Better that arseholes like her killed themselves.

Subject: RE: BS: Keep Larysa Switlyk out of Scotland
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 24 Dec 18 - 05:20 PM

News today...Laryssa Switlyk age 33 and a male companion age 41 have been reported to prosecutors over alleged gun offences. Police said she and the man had been reported for alleged fireams offences.
Interesting development!