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To think swans have no business having teeth?

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ArsenicFaceCream · 10/01/2015 19:27

Well?

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ArsenicFaceCream · 10/01/2015 21:52
Grin

I've had worse images than that to explain after threads here Blush

I'm growing concerned about your swan shagging preoccupation though...

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IHaveBrilloHair · 10/01/2015 21:55

Is it just swans or do all birds have teeth?
Why did I not know this.

As an aside, I've always wanted to cook a swan, and serve it fancily.

Honeydragon · 10/01/2015 21:57

I used to feed the swans in the same park as Olivia after theatre trips, probably at the same time. But I was a state school brat so they got left over chips from my McDonalds.

I used to LOVE going to,Stratford McDonalds it was vair classy.

CalamitouslyWrong · 10/01/2015 21:57

I think I'm more horrified at the idea of the discussions about how exactly the researchers were going to determine which swans were shagging each other.

CalamitouslyWrong · 10/01/2015 21:59

Thankfully, most birds do not have "teeth".

I'm just disappointed that swans don't have orange "teeth", to go with their fluffy fur. I would so have loved that little boy (I think) to have been completely right.

ArsenicFaceCream · 10/01/2015 21:59

As an aside, I've always wanted to cook a swan, and serve it fancily.

Why!? Think of the plucking!

But I was a state school brat so they got left over chips from my McDonalds.

Grin

calamitous I am trying SO hard not to let my mind go there Smile

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CalamitouslyWrong · 10/01/2015 22:01

I read the summaries of the research, which gave me far too much methodological information. I'm scarred for life!

One of my friends once got told to re-do a risk assessment for a DoE trip of some kind because she'd forgotten to include the bloody swans.

ArsenicFaceCream · 10/01/2015 22:05
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CalamitouslyWrong · 10/01/2015 22:07

Someone should ask aldi to stick some swan in their multi-bird roasts next christmas.

CalamitouslyWrong · 10/01/2015 22:09

Think of all the 'will Jamie's make ahead gravy be ok with my aldi swan?' Threads we'd get.

Donnadoon · 10/01/2015 22:12

Aldi swan Grin spits wine on keyboard

Honeydragon · 10/01/2015 22:15

It would have to be a magic Aldi swan and feed nineteen people over six days though.

TheOnlyOliviaMumsnet · 10/01/2015 22:16

@Honeydragon

I used to feed the swans in the same park as Olivia after theatre trips, probably at the same time. But I was a state school brat so they got left over chips from my McDonalds.

I used to LOVE going to,Stratford McDonalds it was vair classy.

We used to go to Stratford McD's too.
Wonder if we were there at the same time.

EatingMyWords · 10/01/2015 22:18

I was a volunteer at an RSPB reserve eons ago and the meat eaters ate a swan that had died by flying into power lines. The fridge was full of swan for days Hmm Apparently it tastes like beef.

Honeydragon · 10/01/2015 22:20

Well I was back and forth over the same time and used to have a standy by ticket too, so it's likely Grin

To this day the highlight of enforced Shakespeare watching was when I saw John Nettles (aka Bergerac) in Caeser.

ProudAS · 10/01/2015 22:22

Interesting article here.en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan

In some ways they are like humans abd have their own personalities. I know a female swan who is one her fourth mate (previous 3 died of various causes). Swan rescue friend told me about bigamist swan who had two females (mother and daughter) on the go. Apparently there us a gay pair at Abbotsbury swannery!

MoreBeta · 10/01/2015 22:22

Swans do not eat fish. They eat weeds.

Gripping a wet weed with your mouth while upside down underwater definitely calls for some sort of 'grippiness'

Cows do it with very rough tongues. Getting licked by a cow is like having your skin rubbed with Velcro.

CalamitouslyWrong · 10/01/2015 22:22

Of course it would be a magic aldi swan. What else?

It'll also be alarmingly cheap.

Lweji · 10/01/2015 22:30

Swans have "teeth" though. Wikipedia says so.

You should read Wikipedia more carefully.

ghostspirit · 10/01/2015 22:36

of course they were not stuffed. but i did not know they had shark teeth or that they could break my arm. they used to hiss like a cat. i used to hiss back. pretty sure we were good friends though :P

aldi swan ? wtf.... greggs swan yes

Honeydragon · 10/01/2015 22:44

Cows eats under water weeds,how do they do that?

Honeydragon · 10/01/2015 22:46

Who knew?!

Beta obviously did, that's who.

To think swans have no business having teeth?
Lweji · 10/01/2015 22:48

Is it just swans or do all birds have teeth? Why did I not know this.

Because NO living bird has teeth.

ghostspirit · 10/01/2015 23:02

bird teeth

To think swans have no business having teeth?
ghostspirit · 10/01/2015 23:04

smoking bird

To think swans have no business having teeth?