Sh4rkyBloke
Jaffa Cake monster
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I'm sure you'd feel the same way if you were a pigeon.. no, really.Ben M said:
Shouting at someone else's kids
- Thread starter Cathryn
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Cathryn
Squire
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- Marlborough, Wiltshire
I do realise chasing pigeons isn't the worst childhood crime ever (I used to pull legs off daddy longlegs which is MUCH worse). It just seemed mean and nasty and no parents were bothered and it annoyed me.
Anyway, thanks for the support (on both threads, oops). I won't make a habit of shouting at kids but it's made me think a bit.
Anyway, thanks for the support (on both threads, oops). I won't make a habit of shouting at kids but it's made me think a bit.
I once told a French woman that she was a cochon for repeatedly slapping her 14(?) year old daughter in a queue at a chateau. I felt very righteous for humiliating the woman in public but I worried afterwards that she may have taken revenge on her later in private.
It still bothers me a bit 15 years later.
It still bothers me a bit 15 years later.
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Cathryn
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- Marlborough, Wiltshire
International Activism. Like it!! 15 years later, I'm sure the daughter is getting her own back - sooner or later she'll need to choose her mum's care home, so try not to worry.
snorri
Legendary Member
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- East coast, up a bit.
Sittingduck said:God I sound old and boring
I'm sure in real life you're just a bundle of fun.
Mayniac
New Member
- Location
- Nottingham
We were having a conversation about pigeons and the various methods used to control them, including the way that some councils put out feed that's been dosed with contraceptives.
It was suggested that the same thing could be done with McDonald's....
It was suggested that the same thing could be done with McDonald's....
Joe24
More serious cyclist than Bonj
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- Nottingham
Mayniac said:
Isnt it if you give them refreshers or something or other, pigeons cant fart so they explode?
Can they not just do this?
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- The TerrorVortex
mickle said:
I agree, Mickle. They're just parasitic disease-spreading vermin and should be exterminated.
Cruelly.
And slowly.
Pigeons, OTOH, I quite like.
What?
Cubist
Still wavin'
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- Ovver 'thill
Think you're mixing them up with Eskimos here old love.Joe24 said:
We used to soak grain in vodka and leave it out on the lawn for the pigeons. A pissed-up woodpigeon was a delightful diversion in the days before colour TV.
An relative of mine, now departed, told me they used to put bits of Carbide from the bike lamps into bread and throw it to the seagulls. Apparently they exploded.
Joe24
More serious cyclist than Bonj
- Location
- Nottingham
Cubist said:
RACIST!!!
Its Inuit.
Can we all go into towns with vodka soaked bread and give it to the pigeons? Would police do them for being drunk and take them away?
Cubist
Still wavin'
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- Ovver 'thill
Seriously though Cathryn good on you for doing the right thing. The whole of society has gone mad. No one is allowed to tell anyone off anymore. I once told a little lad off for spitting at my daughter in a play gym. His mother literally started screaming and swearing at me, calling me all sorts of names and threatening to call her husband.
The fact is, when I was a child I respected all adults, and if anyone inthe village told us off we would accept the bollocking. Nowadays it leads to fistfights, calls to the police, parents assaulting teachers in school, neighbourhood feuds. No wonder society's in a bloody mess.
Good on you Cathryn. Challenge inappropriate behaviour.
The fact is, when I was a child I respected all adults, and if anyone inthe village told us off we would accept the bollocking. Nowadays it leads to fistfights, calls to the police, parents assaulting teachers in school, neighbourhood feuds. No wonder society's in a bloody mess.
Good on you Cathryn. Challenge inappropriate behaviour.
Cubist
Still wavin'
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- Ovver 'thill
Joe24 said:
Don't think it goes down well in towns. Besides, we used to get the woodpigeons pissed so we could eat them. Wouldn't fancy a Town-Hall Flying Rat in a pie!
Cubist
Still wavin'
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- Ovver 'thill
I'm not a racist. Some of my best friends are indigenous peoples.Joe24 said:
Joe24
More serious cyclist than Bonj
- Location
- Nottingham
Cubist said:
No, but might be a laugh to see them stagger around, and trying to fly off from kids that try and chase them.
Crankarm
Guru
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- Nr Cambridge
I don't know Cathryn you seem like a nice girl . One of my pleasures growing up was chasing pigeons in Trafalgar Square. Young kids like me loved it and so did the birds as they always came back. I have a pic of loads of them sitting on my arms and head. No harm done.
I suppose in your situation it was probably more the intent of the kids to try to do the pigeons harm that caused you to shout at them rather than being a kiljoy.
Today I was in a small local hardware store in town and there was a chap about 30 yo with his hands full of gardening lawn stuff asking for advice from the elderly shop assistant. Anyway his little brat of about 4 or 5 years picked up a pair of shears nearby and then thrust them into a few grow bags and compost bags taking great delight. The Dad said "Oh, darling, put the shears down...." in half hearted couldn't be bothered voice while he continued to look for lawn feed along the shelf. Having taken on board what her Dad had just told her she then shoved them deep into a stack of bags of plaster nearby then started waving them around. The old bloke helping didn't know what to say and the kid was getting nearer to me as she swung the shears indiscriminately. So I said quite loudly "You won't actually take them off her until she has demolished the place and cut our legs off will you?" The bloke just glowered at me. He didn't need to take the shears off her as she then dropped them on the floor and he then said "Lets go" and they both walked off. I heard her say to her dad "Was he a horrible man daddy?" WTF! Some people are just brain dead they shouldn't be allowed to have kids.
. One of my pleasures growing up was chasing pigeons in Trafalgar Square. Young kids like me loved it and so did the birds as they always came back. I have a pic of loads of them sitting on my arms and head. No harm done.I suppose in your situation it was probably more the intent of the kids to try to do the pigeons harm that caused you to shout at them rather than being a kiljoy.
Today I was in a small local hardware store in town and there was a chap about 30 yo with his hands full of gardening lawn stuff asking for advice from the elderly shop assistant. Anyway his little brat of about 4 or 5 years picked up a pair of shears nearby and then thrust them into a few grow bags and compost bags taking great delight. The Dad said "Oh, darling, put the shears down...." in half hearted couldn't be bothered voice while he continued to look for lawn feed along the shelf. Having taken on board what her Dad had just told her she then shoved them deep into a stack of bags of plaster nearby then started waving them around. The old bloke helping didn't know what to say and the kid was getting nearer to me as she swung the shears indiscriminately. So I said quite loudly "You won't actually take them off her until she has demolished the place and cut our legs off will you?" The bloke just glowered at me. He didn't need to take the shears off her as she then dropped them on the floor and he then said "Lets go" and they both walked off. I heard her say to her dad "Was he a horrible man daddy?" WTF! Some people are just brain dead they shouldn't be allowed to have kids.
