Noticed what are probably a Helper Anon’s posts in bread 18284, including this one:
▶Anonymous 08/25/21 (Wed) 10:33:51 3ba86d No. >>14453639
>1st and 10 @ the 50 Gloves will be off Line of sight thread the needle type stuff
(Highlighted ID to see anon’s 4 posts, which are intriguing.)
Another anon’s post on The Hill story regarding CA. parents’ & students’ “summer trip” to Afghanistan: >>14453266 (PB)
Anon who appears to be a Helper Anon replied to a subsequent response:
>>14453623 (same PB)
>Did they go "partridge hunting"?
Partridge Fighting is a thing in AFG, but compare this to the world-wide violent dog & cock fighting. May be a stretch, but could the partridge question be Metaphoric?
MAY 12, 2002 12 AM PT KABUL, Afghanistan — KABUL, Afghanistan – There are many tricks and almost as many rules in the ancient Afghan sport of partridge fighting.
It takes a year to raise a bird that will fight perhaps nine or 10 times in its life if it’s a winner, and even fewer if it loses. So the bird men of Kabul do whatever they can to give their own partridgeor kawk, in Farsian edge.
The night before a fight, some feed the bird a scorpion with the sting removed and just enough residual poison to anesthetize the bird to pain and fear. Others use a peck of opium to do the same. Both are allowed under the rules… To an outsider, the competition looks almost comical, as the birds leap high into the air as if surprised, head-butt each other, run away and lock into a low, hunched stalemate…
Before the fight, owners sharpen their birds’ beaks with a knife and trim their claws with a nail-cutter so they don’t split. In the fights, the partridges peck each other with reasonable vigor, but blood is very rarely shed….
A week before the fight, the birds are weighed and the owners, or bird syndicates, put down an advance of $200 to $400 to fight. If the bird is injured before the fight or is ill, the owner either fights it or loses the deposit.
“If the two birds are fighting and one loses its nail or beak, the owner pays half the money because his partridge has not really lost. It faced an accident and was only half-defeated,” explains the gray-bearded Ghani, who knows everyone on the partridge-fighting circuit.
“It’s very difficult to train a bird. You have to take it high into the mountains to run like a sportsman, so that it develops its lung capacity,” he says, adding that this is done twice daily except for Tuesday, when partridges are usually given damp soil to play in.
After each fight, the birds get a special but unpleasant medicinal treatment that owners swear helps to ease the exhaustion of the fighting birds…
After a bird loses, it usually gets spooked and isn’t fit to fight for a year.
“This business doesn’t bring any money,” Ghani, who owns two birds, says glumly. “It’s fate–it’s a gamble.”
Whether Ghani makes more money gambling on the birds than he says, he, like most of the crowd, is clearly carried away by the thrill of the sport. His eyes light up as he launches into zesty descriptions of its intricacies, and he eyes a newcomer with a smile at any sign of appreciation of the game.
Perhaps what makes partridge fighting so addictive is the unpredictability, even as the match is underway. A smaller bird might appear to be losing, when suddenly the larger bird might turn tail and run, for no apparent reason. So gamblers constantly yell out new bets as the match unfolds…. https://archive.vn/s3am0
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-may-12-fg-partridge12-story.html