To think that daffodils are a bit thick really?

[justcly]

Six inches of snow, and there they are, poking their heads through, in full bloom. Clearly they will have frozen in no time. Is it asking too much to expect them to think it through?

Hey! I was defending the daffodils! They are probably all growing there rolling their eyes at us.

Humans are really, really smart but actually really thick. Daffodils are just innocent victims of their circumstances.

I've never seen one on University Challenge or Question Time.

God can't anyone be witty/pithy/ironic/frivolous any more on MN without people a) not getting the joke b) wading in with a cold bucket to throw all over it.
Apparently not. Sadly, threads like this are few and far between these days.

My daffs are open in glorious sunshine, behaving like a northern sunflower. That got the date wrong.

ChickenyChick stole my joke about them being narcissistic rather than daft. Too late, again ...

We are on the South Coast so lots here ,but really cold here today .Like me really :Endless optimism ! Lovely sign that spring is on the way even though the woods here represent the Arctic in wind chill factor!A few daredevil daffs waving around saying" look at me "!

ShesGotBetteDavisEyes

Daffodowndilly is a poem by AA Milne of Winnie the Pooh fame, I think it came from a collection called 'When we were very young'.

She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She turned to the south wind
And curtsied up and down.
She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbour:
‘Winter is dead.’

I haven't thought of that poem in years - thanks for a real blast from the past.

I love daffodils, they’re such happy flowers

I’m way down south and we have only got buds at the moment. There’s a bank absolutely covered in them next to the livery yard where we keep my daughter’s pony. Pony is completely and utterly terrified of them when they’re in flower 🤦‍♀️

I have a random primrose in my garden which is in flower

I've seen daisies and dandelions in bloom today. Mad, I tell you.

Well, for what it's (words)worth, I love 'em. Cheery little blighters.

Cutted up Pear would have never been treated like this.

She shouldn’t have cutted that pear! I feel a tantrum coming on!

Cookie, I love that poem, thanks for posting it. Here’s one from Robert Herrick (I looked it up - wish I could memorise like I did at school!)

Fair Daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attain'd his noon.
Stay, stay,
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the even-song;
And, having pray'd together, we
Will go with you along.

We have short time to stay, as you,
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay,
As you, or anything.
We die
As your hours do, and dry
Away,
Like to the summer's rain;
Or as the pearls of morning's dew,
Ne'er to be found again.

I have that book cookiesue - I actually bought it because there is another poem in it that my grandad used to sing to me that begins “little boy kneels at the foot of the stairs” about Christopher Robin - grandad must’ve been an AA Milne fan! Il have another look at it - thanks.

ShesGotBetteDavisEyes - I love that one too, along with most of the others in the book.

Vespers
Little Boy kneels at the foot of the bed,
Droops on the little hands little gold head.
Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares!
Christopher Robin is saying his prayers.

Think theres quite a few verses after that.

Thinkingabout1t - another beautiful poem about daffs - they may be a bit thick, but were well loved by the poets.

I think we are the thick ones. Fucking the planet and ruining the climate, yet we just can't stop.

Why should we? Mother Earth is a smug bitch, all "Ooh look at me orbiting the sun." Calm down love it's only gravity, we've all got it. And "One moon should be enough for any planet, think of the planets with no moons." And boasting about her "lovely atmosphere". Well you'd be surprised what I can do with 6 metres of silk and some scented candles. Cunt.

@DioneTheDiabolist

LOL!

@SoundofSilence:

Bluebells, eh? Proper rude they are.

'Smug Bitch' how very dare you @DioneTheDiabolist?

I'm sending the boys round.

Should've known you'd be a Mnetter.

I'm in Canada. We get daffs in May

I had a girl arrive in my lesson yesterday with a daffodil in an opened water bottle, she said she had been given by a boy. It was quite cute really. Another boy was sat next to her in the lesson bit the head off the daffodil and ate it! I think I know who was the thickest one in that scenario.

But I'm too busy being Child Transport Services right now to get my dark green boots on .

Theres an entire flower bed full of them near dd2s school.

The only thing saving them from total humiliation in their premature arrival is the idiotic rogue crocus that's joined them.

Maybe he identifies as a daffodil who knows

Expect the bees have told them to fuck off though.

I read earlier that we share 35% DNA with daffodils. Weird.

We had snow today ,quite a lot and I love their unwavering optimism even though they’ll be dead in a few weeks

Fizzy, surely that's suicide? I bet their life insurance will be invalidated.