Just to be clear though that, in this example, if you're using a bothy you are accepting that there may be dogs there, because dogs are allowed in bothies
100%. 👍🏼👏🏻
Claiming that, being a Buddhist, a person shouldn’t have a dog as a pet, is a pretty flimsy argument - I’d want to check the bloke over in case he had lice or ticks, in which case he was carrying his pets with him. 🤷🏼♂️
Dynamics will depend entirely on the woman, her dog & the men. Some very sexist & presumptive comments on here.
Now, i am clearly not an expert on the matter.
But while the intentions of these two knob heads might have had nothing to do with gender their behaviour is not supportive is it. It is not inclusive, and it paints a picture of bothies being an unwelcoming or possibly even unsafe place. That is most likely to be felt in the less well represented groups who have historically had more to be concerned about.
That could be gender, colour or sexuality.
Is that not the point people are making not rather than "all women are wee defenceless soles that need need internet hard men to defend them"
Very happy to be corrected on that, lot's to learn as i have no frame of reference...
Gorton with a fireplace because the folks in there were already asleep (it was late to be fair) but I was wet and cold and could REALLY have done with getting a fire going.
Which is really the purpose of a bothy, primarily being a shelter not a free hotel room you can have dibs on.
I think the plot just seems to get lost nowadays and TBH they are always going to be places where dogs are likely to be as travelling on foot in the middle of nowhere with a dog has sort of happened for the last 13,000 years give or take a thousand.
Claiming that, being a Buddhist, a person shouldn’t have a dog as a pet, is a pretty flimsy argument - I’d want to check the bloke over in case he had lice or ticks, in which case he was carrying his pets with him.
Not only that, but their pets are going to be getting jiggy with each other all night long.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-61894186
Out of interest, what is a 'flag waver' what people are referring to above?
I think I referenced it first so I guess I should account for it.
"Flying a freak flag" used to mean an oddball that gave off enough vibes you could got an early warning 'flag'.
And I suppose it was in this old skool context I used it. The crank in the local pub who is a permanent resident who everyone trys to avoid getting stuck talking to.
More recently it's been 'reclaimed' as a positive to mean to be different and proud of it.
That's not how I intended it...
Blimey. Guessing she was left to head out, with her dog, into the night to look for another bothy. What were they thinking?
Q - if it was a bloke with a dog, would they have done the same?
Do hope they get named and shamed.
Guessing she was left to head out, with her dog, into the night to look for another bothy.
And the next nearest one is several miles away at Glendhu, up a different sea loch altogether. Which is pretty much a non starter, no matter how youre travelling to a bothy. There's no arguing with the fact that this appears to have been disgraceful behaviour in all respects
More recently it's been 'reclaimed' as a positive to mean to be different and proud of it.
I always took it as sort of a positive thing, more in reference to hippies etc. Think Jimi Hendrix uses the phrase on Electric Ladyland, I forget which song though...
I think I referenced it first so I guess I should account for it.
"Flying a freak flag" used to mean an oddball that gave off enough vibes you could got an early warning 'flag'.
And I suppose it was in this old skool context I used it. The crank in the local pub who is a permanent resident who everyone trys to avoid getting stuck talking to.
More recently it's been 'reclaimed' as a positive to mean to be different and proud of it.
That's not how I intended it...
Where does flag shagger fit in here?
It was nothing to do with the dog and everything to do with them believing that it was their fiefdom as they arrived first. It was very bad form to leave the woman with no alternative but to retreat rather than facing a confrontation. I really do hope that this woman can put this behind her and not be put off from enjoying her hobbies in the outdoors.
Very poor behaviour by the two men. It wasn't up to them to tell the other hiker to piss off. I don't even like dogs...or people come to think of it.
Where does flag shagger fit in here?
It doesn't - different kind of flag.
Though I suspect your average flag shagger would find a modern proud freak flag flyer a bit too woke for their tastes.
