personal stuff…oppressed geordie ducks demand more bread…
April 13, 2008 by sparklematrix
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Tho’ we know bread is not that good for them and we usually go and buy an out of date lettuce - but the shops were shut.
Is this a deleted scene from Hitchcock’s The Birds?
try the seagulls on the quayside in north shields - they mob you for your chips.
Indeed stormy. It was censored by MI6 as being a potential panic trigger. Even though Geordies are difficult to panic due to being very drunk and or stoned most of the time.
SW it’s not just the seagulls at N. Shields that will mob you for your chips…
Oh, the cute little duckies!
Quack, quack, quack.
Thanks for that funny video, Sparkle*Matrix.
I wish I could cuddle one of them. Do you think they let themselves be carried? Or do they panic and go berserk as soon as you catch them?
And how about the wee ducklings?
Thanks Maggie - Some of the younger ones are fine with being picked up tho’ the swans can be a bit techy (just for looking at them) - especially when they have their signets.
I’ve been visiting this pond for about 20yrs now from when the kids were little. Bag of bread and a lettuce = cheap day out with 3 kids and it’s only 10 mins away.
It’s only recently became protected and maintained by the Wildlife Trust as it has such a massive array of water fowl. If I had more time I would do some volunteering there.
Well, it sure looks like a great idea for a pastime!
We had killer swans at a park we used to visit.
They stole sarnies.
The boyz I was with were scared of the swans.
Luckily, they had me to protect them from the swans.
Srrrsly stormy, what would the menz do without our protection…against the SWANS!
P.S. this is troll bait, as I been kinda ‘troll lite’ recently.
ah yes - swans! boating lake at tynemouth; took small son out to make sure he was sufficiently cold. it was about 2 below without the wind and you are never ‘without the wind’ there.
a swan came up to have a peek at this small and interesting thing with multicoloured hands. multicoloured hand looked tasty. SNAP.
glove nabbed by swan who realises it’s not for eating and dumps it in the water.
small son cries profusely. father waits zen-like. all his life he has dropped things in this bloody lake and knows they are all blown to the shore and given the wind it’s a matter of seconds not minutes.
helpful kind woman goes to edge of lake to retrieve glove - falls into icy water. father also knows stones at edge slippy - tried it many times and found them so. ineffectual warning too late to help valiant (wet) rescuer who does indeed retrieve glove and present to bemused but grateful child.
man protected against swan by feminist self-sacrifice.
probably.
Ah yes, the boating lake at Tynemouth. My mother nearly fell in there once, when the boat and land decided to part company as she straddled the two in an attempt to board. Anyways, she was rescued by my grandmother who was always reliable in a crisis.
Actually we have another pond beside where I live but the TORIES have blocked off the public (riff raff not land owners) access. Because they don’t do pond share - or something.
You should tell the ducks to try pole dancing instead sparks. That would empower them. Sorry if I’ve nicked any of your trolls BTW, trolls are a valuable resource. Or maybe they’ve finally seen sense and been convinced by our eloquence.
This is what happens when empowerfulness gets out of hand and it fits in with your Sooty analogy. Scary prospects ahead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfrsJs_sQMc
I think the trolls are indeed convinced by our eloquence.
I’ll have to look at that when I’m not at work sparks. In the meantime I have Sooty on my screensaver and I feel I’ve somehow betrayed him.
…we all betray sooty sooner or later…
i think harold pinter said that.
and what are you doing with the trolls - converting to biofuel?
SW, judging by the amount of bio-essentialism that they spout then maybe it is time for them to put the bio in fuel.
Seriously though, I think they like us now.
Flippin ‘eck sparks that youtube thing reminds me of that famous HMHB song. “Rod Hull is alive - why?” Except he isn’t any more of course. But those of us who are very old can remember the Russell Harty incident (he’s dead too, of course).
PS I think I’ve obviously bored the trolls to death with Marxism. If only we’d known it was so simple….
You mean the Grace Jones incident?
No, I would never have thought of Marxism as a troll repellent…
Nah the Rod Hull and Emu incident… Grace Jones had a go at him as well of course. Whoops sorry it was Parkinson…
radicalfeministsummergathering.wordpress.com/
Whoops sorry wrong link. That’s what cut and paste does
Nah the Rod Hull and Emu incident… Grace Jones had a go at him as well of course. Whoops sorry it was Parkinson, could have sworn it was Russell Harty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqrg_VCPgAQ
I don’t think trolls like anything that taxes their little brains too much.
marxism and half man half biscuit - that’s why i love you, polly!!!
gawd I still laugh at that - sad…
Oh that is just a scream, especially the mic noise. Seemed just like hundreds of duck foots. Pumpf pumpf pumpf pumpf.
Your mallards are a wee bit ahead of ours. Did see 100s of wild geese going north this week though. And think I heard the sandhill cranes overhead during the dark. The geese honk. Sandhill Cranes gargle. It’s the neatest sound. They also fly much higher than the geese so you don’t usually see them, just hear; they’ve got to go much farther and they’ve no time to waste. Geese fly lower because they’re coming down more often. Not that they’re tired but to poop as much as poss everywhere.
To perform an effective political analysis you have to draw on a wide variety of sources SW. And HMHB are the primary one (can anyone beat the brillliant analysis of ‘Shit arm, bad tattoo?” I think not.). I’m sure Marx would have liked them too if he was still alive
indeed! was it not marx who first hypothesised that ‘when the workers control the means of production, everyone will be doing the len ganley stance’?
or maybe that was one of the bits he nicked from engels.
I think that in Capital he definitely said “If you going to talk about the book of Revelation, don’t keep calling it the book of Revelations. There’s no S it’s the book of Revelation”
Everyone else wonders WTF we are on about…
Ah, Sis knows her Ducks.
Honestly, I’ve visited this pond (only 10 mins away) for years and they they still have me laughing. Good therapy.
Wow, there must have been a hundred ducks there!