Cuckoos in a red nest

[Yspadadden]

Have you ever watched a little bird who's been duped by a cuckoo? She won't notice that her eggs have been pushed out and smashed. She won't notice that 'her' baby is towering over her whilst she exhausts herself feeding it. If you try to relieve her of that cuckoo, she'll fight for it as though it were her own.

That's nature. Cuckoos have not (as far as I know) taken over the world and driven sparrows and tits to extinction - but in hard times, they sure as heck don't help, and I see a sci-fi plot developing. What if you realised an aggressive alien group making Progress (note capital 'P') by strategically planting cuckoos in all the places little birds are threatened?

You'll have to box clever to deal with it - remember, if you attack the cuckoos, the little birds will turn on you and injure themselves the worse and anyway, a baby cuckoo has not done anything wrong. It really is not your enemy. something else is.

Here we go..

Do we have a birdwatching board?

Should this be in it?

Ok.

I take it you’re drawing a parallel with the trans movement’s invasion of women’s spaces, OP?

It's a bit early. I'd take more water with it love

Oh i see

Thats an unfortunate comparison bearing in mind the two different meanings of the word cuckoo

Snort rufus

We've had this many times before, including "the colonisation of America by non-natives" theme and other analogies.

I mean, yeah, analogies don't really help it's better to communicate directly.

Cuckoos are actually becoming an endangered species while many of the littler birds are not. I ♡ the cuckoo

I really enjoyed "The Midwich Cuckoos" by John Wyndham. I listened to an excellent radio adaptation recently.

Very clever. (But only if you're 10-and-3/4 and are looking for a gold star on your creative writing homework).

top tip

if you want to persuade people, actually say what you fucking mean

you're welcome

A parasite cannot kill it's host. If a cuckoo completely kills off sparrows it will die shortly after.

What if you realised an aggressive alien group making Progress (note capital 'P') by strategically planting cuckoos in all the places little birds are threatened?

Have you been reading the David Icke forum OP? If you start banging on about the Annunaki, that's just plagiarism.

Anyway, I thought schools were back today. Do some have an inset day?

Is this the inspired kind of literature that the GWL are looking for ?

I’ve always wanted to see a cuckoo, even in a clock... 😭

I got my brother a cuckoo clock as his wedding gift. I meant it as a bit of a joke but he loved it.

Is this the inspired kind of literature that the GWL are looking for

Do tell us the end of the story, OP. How are we to deal with the cuckoos?

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To get the baby cuckoo looked after the parent bird kills the foster mothers child.

So you are asking for us to accept death of say “sparrows” to make room for “cuckoos”?

This is about a lot of things, and no, I did not mistake it for literature. Yes, it's about Labour Women's Conference. I was more concerned by Dawn Butler's confident statement that there's no institutional racism in the party to be honest. It was a great conference, the best yet - but there were many enemies of socialism there, and more than a few who have no idea that they are enemi
es of socialism. When people come in under a special banner, and/or for a single issue, you really do need to take a good look at where they're coming in from.

I'm quite fond of cuckoo clocks - but naff but they remind me of my childhood.

Re cuckoos, v sad to hear they are endangered. We used to walk a lot on the nearby moors as a family when a kid and the first cuckoos in the spring was always magical (even my brother who hated walking loved that)

It really is not your enemy. something else is.

OOh. How mysterious.

This is about a lot of things, and no, I did not mistake it for literature.

OOH HOW MYSTERIOUS.

Yes, it's about Labour Women's Conference.

Oh. Never mind.

Right, must go and plant some anemones that we soaked yesterday.

I quite liked the movie ‘Enemy of the State’. You never know when you are...