# Fucking Birds **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 21, 2002, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-birds/115263 "2002-06-21T13:21:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-birds/115263/21 "2002-06-23T01:45:06Z")
Speaking of seagulls and Scotland… We were at the Castle Rock B&B in St. Abbs last summer. The weather was cool enough that it felt really nice to have the windows open as we went to bed. You could hear the water, and the gulls… I wrote in my journal that the sound of the gulls was so peaceful… …about 5am I woke up and made another entry in my journal: “THE FUCKING SEAGULLS WON"T SHUT UP!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Chagur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Chagur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chagur)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-birds/115263/22 "2002-06-23T06:21:22Z")
THE goofyfish? ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-birds/115263/23 "2002-06-23T18:02:50Z")
Amazing…I live exactly a block and a half from the lake, and never see a seagull…until I drive to a grocery store three miles south of the lake, where the parking lot is covered with seagulls all the time. No water anywhere around there except a small pond across the road, but the seagulls don’t go there…just the parking lot. One day when I got there a low-flying seagull dropped something sparkly near my car. It was a round crystal, about a half-inch across, with the letter W on one flattened side. I still have it…but I had to fight the bird for it…he swooped at me several times trying to get it back. ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-birds/115263/24 "2002-06-23T19:00:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Broomstick \* > **Actually, some of us featherless bipeds CAN fly…** Read that, read your nick, and immediately thought you were speaking of a witch flying on a broom. Then I remembered your spectacular small plane and pilot rants, and it made more sense, but was a bit less funny. ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-birds/115263/25 "2002-06-23T19:25:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ultrafilter \* > \*\*I hate birds. Always have. I’m not afraid of them, like some people. I just hate 'em. > > \*\* God, sorry for the “me, too”, but **ME, TOO**! The only reason I have any respect for the flying rats is because they eat insects, and that is something I just _cannot_ deal with. I don’t have much of a problem with birds around my house, because I think they’ve gotten word around that I own six cats. Of course, they don’t know my cats are strictly indoors, but let’s keep that under our hats for now. If a bird shit in my husband’s beer, however, I would laugh until my jaw broke. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-birds/115263/26 "2002-06-28T02:48:01Z")
Does anyone remember that “Farside” cartoon about the world as seen from the viewpoint of a bird? Everything like cars, peoples heads, statues, etc, had targets on the top of it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Wrong_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-birds/115263/27 "2002-06-28T03:04:34Z")
I love all of these “seagulls in Scotland” references. The only time I’ve ever been shit on by a bird was in St. Andrews. A big white spot, right on my boob. It looked great. I, too, have heard that it’s good luck to have a bird poop on you. But maybe not in your beer. It’s an odd tradition–I bet medieval moms just told their kids that to make them feel better. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-birds/115263/28 "2002-06-28T03:25:56Z")
I had a bird poop on my face once. It actually hit my forehead and splatted down onto my cheek. I was walking to school at the time. Ick. ---
**Author:** ![ratty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ccd318/32.png) [@ratty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratty)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-birds/115263/29 "2002-06-28T15:02:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by London\_Calling \* > \*\*Ah, I popped by in the hope of discussing transient heterosexual encounters but I find it’s something else all together. > > I did once go to a fancy dress party with a girlie in ostrich costume but I don’t think even that’s relevant. > > Tally ho. \*\* I like you. You’re funny. Will you be my friend? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ratty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ccd318/32.png) [@ratty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratty)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-birds/115263/30 "2002-06-28T15:06:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by partly\_warmer \* > \*\* > > Speaking of bird hates…if gunshot wasn’t illegal in my city…I’d for sure take out the mockingbirds. All of them. \*\* It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-birds/115263.md?page=1)