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Orange binos (1 Viewer)
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Gijs van Ginkel
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Pixel,
Do not care one second about the opinions of other birders with respect to your choice of binocular whether it is purple, green, red or orange. It is simply not their buisness, it is your own choice.
Gijs van Ginkel
Do not care one second about the opinions of other birders with respect to your choice of binocular whether it is purple, green, red or orange. It is simply not their buisness, it is your own choice.
Gijs van Ginkel
Oh yes, I saw one birder get attacked by Jaffa Cake hooligans when he pulled out his orange NL's. !
No, they are your choice and let no one else tell you otherwise.
My wife likes them, I prefer the standard green, but if you should drop then in the woods, they will be a lot easier to find!
Just follow Jon Lajoie's very sound advice.
Burnt orange is a nice colour! Go for it if you like it and don't feel embarrashed.
It's not a very bright orange, so it doesn't give light when it's dark. In reallife it looks less orange than on pictures. It's leaning towards brown.
If I see someone out birding with the burnt orange, I think: cool! he/she has got taste.
I have the green one and still can't make up my mind if I regret it or not.
It's not a very bright orange, so it doesn't give light when it's dark. In reallife it looks less orange than on pictures. It's leaning towards brown.
If I see someone out birding with the burnt orange, I think: cool! he/she has got taste.
I have the green one and still can't make up my mind if I regret it or not.
crinklystarfish
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It'll be impossible to miss you.
Just wait until the Byekerslike Brass Band turn up as Pixel raises the Orange NL’s to his eyes and bust open their jackets to reveal their vests with that classic Yorkshire greeting…..
Jason Bugay Reyes
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Go for it 😍
Except in the autumn of course LOL
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The burnt orange ones are cool (my curios are that color), but the other ones ...
When I went to buy the Swaro ATC scope I was instructed to err towards the burnt orange version as my beloved hinted that she rather liked it and, as she was paying, it would be a good idea......but.
The demo one was to put it politely, minging.
It must have been handled by a travelling troupe of mud-wrestlers and the grained texture of the armour was filled with the detritus of the great unwashed. One stab at a first impression and all that.
My beloved said 'no way, that is gopping, get the green one'.
And so it came to pass that our brief foray into the world of the avant-garde, convention busting young(ish) things ended on the spot and we returned to the safe, and boring to some, green one.
(But WEX do have a used orange NL 8x32 which does look rather fetching).
Choice is wonderful thing and colour is, thankfully, one of those choices.
Military to civvyspeak translations:
Minging......somewhat less than pristine.
Gopping.....even more less than pristine, verging on vomit inducing.
The demo one was to put it politely, minging.
It must have been handled by a travelling troupe of mud-wrestlers and the grained texture of the armour was filled with the detritus of the great unwashed. One stab at a first impression and all that.
My beloved said 'no way, that is gopping, get the green one'.
And so it came to pass that our brief foray into the world of the avant-garde, convention busting young(ish) things ended on the spot and we returned to the safe, and boring to some, green one.
(But WEX do have a used orange NL 8x32 which does look rather fetching).
Choice is wonderful thing and colour is, thankfully, one of those choices.
Military to civvyspeak translations:
Minging......somewhat less than pristine.
Gopping.....even more less than pristine, verging on vomit inducing.
normjackson
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Made me think of this old confectionary advert in the UK; probably would be considered too indelicate today :
