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Cuckoos in a red nest

174 replies

Yspadadden · 25/02/2019 08:22

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.

OP posts:
ErrolTheDragon · 27/02/2019 22:46

Yup. Liable to snipe.

That may be as many bird puns as I can swallow for this evening.

hipsterfun · 27/02/2019 22:49

It’ll be a terrible wren-ch if you leave the thread, Errol...

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 27/02/2019 23:18

Thats funny sack

Thats exactly what DH said Shock

Youre all robin the best puns !!!!

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 27/02/2019 23:19

Dont all crow about it!!!

(These are dhs Grin)

I'll be raven about this tomorrow

ErrolTheDragon · 27/02/2019 23:44

I hope no one starts to grouse about the knot we got into on this thread.

I'll feel ruff if I don't get my head down soon, so I'll swan off now.

MargueritaPink · 27/02/2019 23:48

Oh you are all sooooo funny. I'm splitting my sides at this.

Actually in case the sarcasm escapes me I'm not. I think it is pathetic actually. You could have responded to the OP's follow up point but it's always much more fun to have a pile on.

ErrolTheDragon · 28/02/2019 00:08

Some people did respond, mostly to say it was still too cryptic.

I must admit I accidentally joined the thread when someone started talking about cormorants.

FloralBuntingIsObnoxious · 28/02/2019 00:10

Sorry, MargueritaPink, I actually didn't really follow the gist of either of the OP's posts. Bit hard to respond to two cryptic posts with no other follow ups. Puns seem as apt as anything when there isn't much to go on.

NeurotrashWarrior · 28/02/2019 05:37

I couldn't make head nor tail of the op or second post; I'm better at ornithology.

If you could translate them I'd be very grateful Margarite, and then I'd happily respond and debate.

NeurotrashWarrior · 28/02/2019 05:38

That pun wasn't intended. Whoops.

Anlaf · 28/02/2019 07:40

"PATHETIC" writes Marguerita on the whiteboard

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 28/02/2019 07:42

Some people did respond, mostly to say it was still too cryptic

Yep

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 28/02/2019 07:43

If i dont like a thread, because the OP has left, or doesnt want to debate, or its been derailed or people are being pathetic

I tend to not read it

FemalePersonator · 28/02/2019 07:49

I don't engage with people who don't participate in a thread constructively and / or who get out their scoldy finger.

A word of advice: the scroll button is (generic) your friend. Either that or find another thread in which to make sarcastic, scoldy posts.

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 28/02/2019 07:56

anlaf

Mine were from dh

So its his fault....

NeurotrashWarrior · 28/02/2019 08:15

Mine were my own.

dudsville · 28/02/2019 08:19

I like birds, but i didn't understand the point of your story.

NeurotrashWarrior · 28/02/2019 08:23

Maybe the op felt a bit hen pecked?

Sorry op.

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 28/02/2019 08:24

neuro

I rarely do pun threads...or threads that have evolved/devolved to punning

My mind goes blank under the pressure

So last night i was sat there ......going ' bird, bird, bird, bird' in a panicked sort of way

NeurotrashWarrior · 28/02/2019 08:28

I like the idea of a handful of women, scattered around the country with an open browser set to "crazy bird names."

ErrolTheDragon · 28/02/2019 08:30

I couldn't make head nor tail of the op or second post; I'm better at ornithology.

Me too. (Doing conservation work at a local nature reserve yesterday - one of those unlikely areas close to the centre of a city - we saw over 30 different species including my first willow tit. ) . I guess an analogy needs to be comprehensible and also not use a metaphor more interesting to some than whatever the subject is really meant to be.

sackrifice · 28/02/2019 08:33

You could have responded to the OP's follow up point but it's always much more fun to have a pile on.

So could you. You could have responded but it's always more fun to tell other people off for not doing what you want them to do.

sackrifice · 28/02/2019 08:45

So last night i was sat there ......going ' bird, bird, bird, bird' in a panicked sort of way

I can tell you were not emused. I'm glad you didn't quack under the pressure, and you swallowed your pride, came back and took your tern.

Always remember 'once bittern, twice shy'.

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 28/02/2019 08:50

I might actually hate sack Grin

Mocking the afflicted...

And dont be looking for a bird in that sentence cos there isnt one

BernardBlacksWineIcelolly · 28/02/2019 08:51

I think it is pathetic actually. You could have responded to the OP's follow up point but it's always much more fun to have a pile on

women of FWR! absurdity is not a matter for levity. seriousness at all times

we mustn't finch from taking life seriously

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