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to think that giant pandas are rubbish and deserve extinction.

305 replies

TeggieCampbeggBlegg · 24/03/2013 15:14

they only eat one food that is nutritionally crap and are no good at breedinh.

Admittedly they look cute but as a spieces they are completely rubbish.

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Cookethenook · 25/03/2013 13:55

I'm sorry if this has already been said, but i can't read through 11 whole pages of panda talk!

Someone, i can't remember who, describes pandas as an 'evolutionary cul-de-sac' i think it sums them up perfectly!

They are rubbish, but quite adorable... and look weirdly like humans dressed as pandas i always think (odd thing to say, i know!).

peeriebear · 25/03/2013 14:09

I think JC had looked at the ostrich's pint funny.
(Cash, not Christ)

EduCated · 25/03/2013 14:18

Worryingly, cookthenook, the human-in-panda-costume has already been established. Are we all being duped? Are those pandas that won't do the dirty actually a couple of teenagers from Scarborough 'avin a laff?!

ChunkyEasterChick · 25/03/2013 14:23

I swear I was going to post the exact same q in AIBU last wk.

Pandas really don't have a lot going for them do they? They choose to eat a food that is the nutritional equivalent of a riveta packet despite physically being able to consume alternatives. They forget how to shag, so on the rare occassion both male & female have the horn, they don't actually know how to do it. And they are loners. So they don't actually want to go near another panda given a choice.

Admittedly humans haven't helped by reducing their territory, so that they are a bit "cramped" & get horny even less frequently, & taking away their food.

But let's face it. It wouldn't take much...

YANBU :)

ChunkyEasterChick · 25/03/2013 14:25

And I agree with the whole "is-it-a-panda-or-a-man-in-a-costume" thing.

I clearly haven't had an original thought in my life.

StuntNun · 25/03/2013 14:29

Pandas are bears, they're omnivores. What's with this holier-than-thou we only eat bamboo shoots attitude? I'm so glad to see this thread, I thought I was the only one that hated giant pandas.

EduCated · 25/03/2013 14:30

Pandas really are the lentil weavers of the animal world.

SadGiantPanda · 25/03/2013 14:33

Hmm I might start eating Easter chicks soon. And nuns. Maybe even cateds, whatever they are.

:(

SadGiantPanda · 25/03/2013 14:34

Have you tried weaving lentils? It's bloody hard. Especially with big paws.

:(

UnChartered · 25/03/2013 14:35

i've just seen Panda on another thread, she can't use a keyboard effectively, never mind weave lentils.

Panda is that why you don't have sex? if you get upduffed you don't HAVE to knit baby panda clothes

you can buy them - in shops

UnChartered · 25/03/2013 14:36
Grin x-post Grin
SadGiantPanda · 25/03/2013 14:37

I can use a keyboard properly! It just takes a long time. That's why I don't have time for much else. Like that procreation thing you can't spell.

Knitting baby panda clothes? You must be joking. They can bloody well knit their own.

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 25/03/2013 21:23

Did you miss the giraffes on Africa? One fights all dirty, sort of staggers off to one side, the other's all smug thinking he's won when WHAM! the first one hits him right in the solar plexus with his horns.

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 25/03/2013 21:29
. Gentile they are not!
LadyBeagleEyes · 25/03/2013 21:37

SadGiantPanda.
I'm about to start the Giant Panda and Giraffes support group.
Sign up here.
sloths and slimy uncute things not included thank you very much

RubyGates · 25/03/2013 21:53

Gentile they are not
Jewish Giraffes Now? Oy Vey!

digerd · 25/03/2013 22:01

All baby creatures are cute, except for that disgusting grub of the LILY eating red beatle< yuck>.

BiteTheTopsOffIcedGems · 25/03/2013 22:09

I always liked pandas. Now I had read all this I hate them. I am glad they are dying a slow and painful death.

ThePathanKhansAmnesiac · 25/03/2013 22:12

Camels go in 101, rude spitey humpy things.
Wasps we need.
Crows, bully boys, they go in.

Pandas, would you wanna shag with a few billion perves watching? Thought not.

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 25/03/2013 22:12

Oops, fat fingers there... I was aiming for gentle.

Although I now have a picture in my head of a giraffe wearing a kippah with two little holes cut out for its horns to poke through Grin

LadyBeagleEyes · 25/03/2013 22:18

BiteTheTops Shock
Strikes Bite off the Panda support Group immediately.

Maat · 25/03/2013 22:18

Why do we need wasps? Why?

They ruin summer. Get high on sugar in the autumn and have some kind of wasp rave where they go around stinging people for fun.

They are nothing but evil body snatchers.

PurpleStorm · 25/03/2013 22:23

I also don't know why we need wasps.

Bees, yes, we'd be stuffed without bees - but wasps? What are they good for?

LadyBeagleEyes · 25/03/2013 22:27

Oh Maat, and midges too.
They fuck up every highland summer
And they don't come under the LBE Useless But Cute And Loveable category.
Room 101 you fuckers.

Thumbwitch · 25/03/2013 23:19

Wasps are needed to control the grain pests - they eat the grubs of these pests. But when all the grubs are gone, they should just DIE, not fecking hang around waiting for dessert! In the late spring, early summer, wasps are after protein foods, especially stinky ones - so take a piece of high smoked salmon or similar on a picnic and place it about 20 feet away from you - the wasps will go to that. LATE Summer they want dessert, so go for sweet fruity stuff instead. THIS is when they should just be dead.

"What's with this holier-than-thou we only eat bamboo shoots attitude?" - perhaps pandas have all gone zen Buddhist?