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Do you want to know a secret?

190 replies

TwoTribes · 24/06/2020 20:24

It is something that once known cannot be unknown.

Do you want to know?

For those that need a bit more. It is related to spring/summer and birds. If you know it you will regret knowing it. Do you still want to know?

OP posts:
Institutkarite · 24/06/2020 21:59

@TwoTribes
The thighs are a group of unusual posters, I can't remember any of their names but they're all a bit strange.

MrsPworkingmummy · 24/06/2020 22:00

I can't hear that at all Hmm. I can, however, hear 'bucket of coal' when pigeons coo.

TwoTribes · 24/06/2020 22:00

[quote Institutkarite]@TwoTribes
The thighs are a group of unusual posters, I can't remember any of their names but they're all a bit strange.[/quote]
Oh, ok.

Are they affiliated to pigeons or other birds?

OP posts:
jumbodumbo · 24/06/2020 22:01

Nooo it's "ive been sick Betty"

rosegoldwatcher · 24/06/2020 22:02

Please don't tell me anything disturbing about blackbirds OP - I love them!
(Wood pigeons? Pah!)

morethanafortnight · 24/06/2020 22:04

Is that all? Well I know a proper real secret, and I'm not telling anybody, so there. Grin

SauvignonBlanketyBlank · 24/06/2020 22:05

Reading this feeling like I'm on drugs

TwoTribes · 24/06/2020 22:08

@SauvignonBlanketyBlank

Reading this feeling like I'm on drugs
Grin
OP posts:
DarrellRiversTuckBox · 24/06/2020 22:10

Obviously none of you are Kate Bush fans...

VenusTiger · 24/06/2020 22:11

@ThickFast something to do with insects' pooing in them

VenusTiger · 24/06/2020 22:13

You haven't ruined it for me OP - my son 6 and I make up sentences every day for them during home schooling - great fun as it happens...

iamMadameX · 24/06/2020 22:14

No they coo 'your too late pigeon'

Well that's what I hear but the shorter coo is 'who's farted'

ThickFast · 24/06/2020 22:15

@VenusTiger it’s similar. Make you never want to eat another one.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 24/06/2020 22:16

That's WAY less disturbing than cute, cuddly sea otters stealing, drowning and raping the corpses of baby seals.

I mentioned that on a thread about otters a year or so ago and got a load of abuse piled onto me.

IT'S NOT OUR FAULT IF OTTERS AREN'T AS CUTE AS THEY LOOK!

PerkingFaintly · 24/06/2020 22:16

And people think they can hear the little sentences

Ah now, with the Mumsnet pigeon...

Can't remember her name, but she actually did speak in little sentences.

(This thread will now divide into people who go, "Oh yes, wonder how she is?" and people who go "DaFUQ? ConfusedShockConfused"

Bluewavescrashing · 24/06/2020 22:20

But why do they never finish the last sentence?? It drives me mad.

Bingowingslikeashieldofsteel · 24/06/2020 22:21

My wood pigeons (as in the wood pigeons that sit on my fence and torment my cat, not wood pigeons that I actively own) say 'the scarecrows are coming' in a somewhat sinister tone... and once it was pointed out to me I now cannot unhear it.

I'll listen out tomorrow to see if they are also friends of Betty and her toe Grin

Jux · 24/06/2020 22:25

Oh yes! I wonder how she is? Grin

SuburbanCrofter · 24/06/2020 22:32

It's 'my toe bleeds, Betty'

LilyLocket · 24/06/2020 22:34

Is this like the ‘is the dress blue or black?’ thing, because I hear nothing about any Betty in that Pigeon’s coo-ing. No Betty, no toes.

lazylinguist · 24/06/2020 22:37

I don't see why thinking a pigeon's call sounds like "My toe hurts, Betty" would be particularly annoying tbh. Confused

bibbitybobbitycats · 24/06/2020 22:38

I can totally hear it, in a Frank Spencer voice. Hilarious! Thanks OP, you made me laugh and goodness knows we all need a laugh right now.

BrandoraPaithwaite · 24/06/2020 22:48

I've been sick Betty is the best one so far

FlibbertyGiblets · 24/06/2020 22:50

I heart this thread. OP has found a new way to divide people: those who say YES WE TOTES GET BETTY (or similiar) and those who say ermmmm, who did a what now?

Grin
Serin · 24/06/2020 22:59

They say "Je vousdrais"
Greedy little fuckers are wood pigeons.

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