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I'm sure you aren't but apparently you find one of the terms offensive but not the other?
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I'm sure you aren't but apparently you find one of the terms offensive but not the other?
mudsticks
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You really are a context free zone aren't you..??
Whether on purpose or not, I can't even be bothered to speculate.
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Not at all,
I find it ridiculous that you get on your high horse because someone refers to you as a bird but wouldn't care less about being called a c*nt?
but thats the type of mentallity we are dealing with here........
mudsticks
Squire
Well it's just as well I never said that then, isn't it 👍🏼
Where did I say I couldn't care less.?
theclaud
Reading around the chip
Do you live at the end of a pier?
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Totally of topic....but someone recently told me about the lens function on my phone.When we'd go walking my partner would sometimes try and identify birds/plants etc.....feel like I found a miracle with lens.
Although she took a picture of me and said I came up as a Sloth 🙄
BoldonLad
Old man on a bike. Not a member of a clique.
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Seriously have a soft spot for seagulls...everyone hates them ! I might have been slightly put off a few times when I've seen them eating other dead birds and their own roadkill.But I soon get over it when I see them helping themselves to someone's chips....people fear them here,even my cats hesitant !
AndyRM
Elder Goth
Sadly, I do not. I do live near-ish The Baltic, which has the largest inland nesting community of kittiwakes. They smell awful.
Ian H
Legendary Member
Most if not all seabirds are foul fowl.
'The Countryman's Cookbook' by WFW Fowler
This is my favourite recipe of the year, and I just know you will ALL love it. Many Thanks to my chum James for drawing my attention to it. Wonderful!
First, shoot your cormorant.
Having shot your cormorant, hold it well away from you as you carry it home . . . these birds are exceedingly verminous and the lice are said to be not entirely host-specific.
Hang up by the feet with a piece of wire, soak in petrol and set on fire. This treatment both removes most of the feathers and kills the lice.
When the smoke has cleared away, take the cormorant down and cut off the beak. Send this to the local Conservancy Board who, if you are in the right area, will give you 3/6d or sometimes 5/- for it. Bury the carcass, preferably in a light sandy soil, and leave it there for a fortnight. This is said to improve the flavour by removing, in part at least, the taste of rotting fish.
Dig up, skin and draw the bird. Place in a strong salt and water solution and soak for 48 hours.
Remove, dry, and stuff with whole, unpeeled onions . . . the onion skins are supposed to bleach the meat to a small extent so that it is very dark brown instead of being entirely black.
Simmer gently in seawater - to which two tbsp of chloride of lime have been added - for six hours. This has a further tenderising effect. Take out of the water and allow to dry. Meanwhile, mix up a stiff paste of methylated spirit and curry powder. Spread this mixture liberally over the breast of the bird. Finally, roast in a very hot oven for three hours.
The result is unbelievable.
Throw it away. Not even a starving vulture would eat it.
Bazzer
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I recall staying at a hotel near the kittiwakes, for work reasons. Outside the hotel was unpleasant.
Ian H
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The other house, which backs on to open fields, has house martins nesting all round the eaves. This one, despite being ideal for nest-building, has never attracted any. Perhaps the local urban seagull population frightens them off, or perhaps they just don't like urbs.
