Marthamoo thinks penguins can't get up if they fall over

[Twiglett]

can someone else convince her that they can please

I'll be back when the kids are in bed to sort you out, young lady.

They can. But they will fall over if over flown by an RAF Tornado!

ooo am looking forward to that

Dh say that they do, and can I go now, as he would like to talk to me for a change!!!

If snopes says it's false (and I saw your link saying so), that's good enough for me. Snopes is FAB! I send it to everyone who sends me blinking spam emails telling me that some poor kid in some poor place will get Microsoft to send them Coke cans or something if enough people reply. Deluded souls

They must be able to. Otherwise the world would be full of prone rolypoly penguins.

The Antarctic, anyway.

I'd pay good money to see one get up.

ha ha MI has a point. You don't hear a lot about 'the prone penguin problem' do you?

haven't youseen thefilm of them toboggoning down a snowy hill on their tummies? (in the antarctic obv, not surrey.) unless there is a pile of prone dead penguins at the bottom of the slope of jollity which they don't show us in the film...

...bit like the Uplifting Film of Swedish Breastfeeders they show you at King's Hospital, where they get to the bottom of the slope and rip off their reindeer sweaters and nourish their rosy toddlers....

LMAO. You are all quite, quite mad!!!!

The male King pengiuns look after the eggs through the freezing arctic winter. Many of them starve or freeze to eath. The mothers bugger off to where it is warmer and there is more food. We can all learn from this girls!

Nooo, not the Antarctic, it was Falkland Islands, penguins and the falling over was a myth but they do get upset when low-flying planes go over (and I sympathise, I don't like it either!)

Ah, so it was reported as fact in the Daily Mail? Ah, all becomes clear!

Can they even fall over? Do they not need to be pushed?
Their feet are so huge they shouldnt have any problems staying upright!

Trouble is, they are like dominoes - push one and they all go over

Their feet are only big in front, Louise! According to the plane story they look up and lean back and then keel over like skittles. Poor lambs.

pmsl at that thought!!!

pmsl!!! gay penguins

How po-faced is JanH's link? We are Penguin Conservationists and we have no sense of humour.

OK, maybe it's not true.

Still prepared to give Twig a good spanking though (I hear she likes that kind of thing)

The funniest bit is "Patron: HRH The Duke of York CVO ADC" who I understand was one of those pilots who did it to the poor dears, lol lol lol!

(Nearly said poor buggers but stopped myself just in time )

ooooops

oh, what will the neighbours think?!

"there feet are only big in front" PMSL

OMG can't even quote properly

'their feet'