• dilawarB
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    92 years ago

    This should be told to all seagulls… Is he also a Florida man?

  • @[email protected]
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    782 years ago

    People really argue about which birds are the best birds, but everyone can agree that seagulls are the worst.

    • mihnt
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      192 years ago

      Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs described them best. Rats with fucking wings.

        • @[email protected]
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          92 years ago

          Plus, it’s kinda our fault that they’re everywhere, since city pigeons are actually dometic animals that have gone feral

      • @[email protected]
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        2 years ago

        Everything we complain about regarding pigeons are traits humans intentionally bred into them across millenia.

        Pigeons did not invade cities. We abandoned them there, after they helped us coordinate building and connecting them. And we inexplicably treat them like the invaders after abandoning them the second they were no longer deemed useful.

    • @[email protected]
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      82 years ago

      Wait. Are seagulls worse than black swans? Are they worse than Australian Magpies? I mean these surely got to be the top three worst birds, personally I’d prefer a seagull to a swan, but I’ve met enough magpie haters so I wouldn’t be so sure everyone agrees

      • @[email protected]
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        32 years ago

        Never seen neither of those, but I’ve seen enough seagulls to not be sad if one day they all be deleted off this fucking planet

      • Rose Thorne(She/Her)
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        52 years ago

        Turkeys are stupid and angry. I think the only bird less intelligent than a turkey would be a guinea fowl, but they have the edge of just being suicidally dumb. I’ve had a Guinea run away from my car and then back in front of it in confusion, but never have I had one openly charge my vehicle. I’ve had a turkey do that, though.

  • @[email protected]
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    52 years ago

    How the fuck are you going to define someone by a pension? Seems like a lot of assumptions and prejudice goin in that definition. Is Pension like a town or something too?

        • DessertStorms
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          132 years ago

          I know some safety nets are better than none (and that this is a meme thread I’m dragging down), but don’t fool yourself - millions of older people in the UK go hungry and cold because they can’t afford the basics.

          • Gamey
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            22 years ago

            I think we got a similar situation all over europe, maybe not as bad and certainly better than most of the world but still shitty!

      • DessertStorms
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        92 years ago

        This is correct.
        Still completely irrelevant to the story though (but that’s to be expected in tabloid territory).

    • ZyQo
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      92 years ago

      Same in Sweden/norway. Pensionär/pensjonist are synonyms for retiree.

    • @[email protected]
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      122 years ago

      It is my understanding that it is common in NZ/AUS to leave the “that” out which is implied.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 years ago

          To expand further the implication is that the whole proposition is simple and ‘Simple As’ is the end of the conversation, much like ‘End of’ which likewise suggests that no further analysis is needed.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        Having known a few Aussies, I have never heard them leave out “that”. It fits in though with some of the other oddities in dialect they have.

  • @[email protected]OP
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    62 years ago

    I thought Lemmy was left leaning, but the Grammar Nazis, Meme Division are apparently alive and well.