Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

What do pigeons say?

61 replies

Budapestdreams · 03/07/2021 17:29

I think they say "my feet hurt Sally" rather than my work colleague who thinks they say "I don't want to know". Am I unreasonable? Do they say something different to you?

OP posts:
toomanyplants · 03/07/2021 18:05

@HermioneGrunger I too have sex pest pigeons!
There's one always trying to hop on to the other one, shes 100% saying
"Fuck off, I'm trying to eat here"

Frownette · 03/07/2021 18:05

@buckleten Shock

Is your nan a pigeon?

Sciurus83 · 03/07/2021 18:13

My toe bleeds Betty

Vanishun · 03/07/2021 18:14

They're very dim creatures. It's actually "a pidgggggeon, a pidggggeon".

Lockheart · 03/07/2021 18:26

I read (in a very old observers guide) that it was "take two cows, Taffy" but I like some of the other suggestions!

Mollypolly2610 · 03/07/2021 18:28

My 2 daily visiting collared doves say “let’s shit here Paul all over this new decking. “

Whatthechicken · 03/07/2021 18:37

We have a random one who I think lost his mate either on the road or to a fox. He’s always trying to win another’s fair maid and constantly fighting her mate. All day, every day - I’ve taken to telling them off and throwing a badly aimed missile. If he put as much effort into finding another lonely traveller as he did fighting, he’d be a happy dad by now.

Downsize2021 · 03/07/2021 18:38

I taught my class in forest school to listen for them saying 'hello there children' but I'm pretty sure they're actually saying "hello miss ... ...." I have some in my garden and they're definitely saying my name...

motherofsnortpigs · 03/07/2021 18:40

I can’t come to tea

boysarethebest · 03/07/2021 18:40

Take ten cows taffy is what my dad always said when I was little and its what I always hear.

Downsize2021 · 03/07/2021 18:40

They're better than the seagull that's trying to break into my home through my window so they can say what they like as loudly as they like frankly.

Nohomemadecandles · 03/07/2021 18:42

My nose is bleeding

Ozberry · 03/07/2021 18:42

You stoooopid pigeon, you stoooopid pigeon

DontBiteTheBoobThatFeedsYou · 03/07/2021 18:44

There's a small bird that I used to what growing up that used to sound like he said a southern

"Wanker. WANKER. Wanker. Wanker."

JofraArchersFastestBall · 03/07/2021 19:36

'Take two doves, Taffy' is what my mum taught me.

ghostyslovesheets · 03/07/2021 19:58

It's pancakes susan

Marmite27 · 03/07/2021 20:01

Australian seagulls say ‘mate’. I saw it on a documentary (Finding Nemo).

Wilkolampshade · 03/07/2021 20:19

Nicest thread ever.

Wilkolampshade · 03/07/2021 20:20

Which bird is it then that says " a ittle bit of bread and chee-eese"?

Habergaast · 03/07/2021 20:24

You mean the Wood Pigeons OP? They say (and have always said, since I was a child), "I love you [Habergaast]*"

*Substitute my RL name

experimentnumber626 · 03/07/2021 20:26

Let me drive the bus?

Lockheart · 03/07/2021 20:28

@Wilkolampshade

Which bird is it then that says " a ittle bit of bread and chee-eese"?
A yellowhammer, I think.
Theluggage15 · 03/07/2021 20:29

Take two cows Taffy is what I’ve always thought they said

LostThings · 03/07/2021 20:30

I love this thread.

Agree with PP who said Woodpigeons say "you bastard, you bastard".

Gatekeeper · 03/07/2021 20:33

Its more of an oohh sounds so what they are actually saying is "my toe hurts Judy, my toe hurts Judy, my toe hurts Judy, oh"