Seagulls

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, Strontium said:

For legal reasons, we should point out that all gull species in the UK are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and anyone killing or attempting to kill them is committing an offence.

Are we allowed to call them nobheads?

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, Strontium said:

The two closely related species you're likely to encounter in the city centre, herring gulls and lesser black-backed gulls, are both declining in numbers in this country. One of the reasons for that is over-fishing. We've been stealing their food so it's not a surprise that they would be forced to resort to stealing ours.

I used to work in an office that actually had opening windows (bloody luxury). One of my mates would always collect the leftover biscuits at the end of meetings and put them on the window ledge for the gulls. It got to the point where one particular herring gull would regularly turn up and start tapping on the window, looking for bickies.

[Barrington Womble]

4 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

I used to work in an office that actually had opening windows (bloody luxury). One of my mates would always collect the leftover biscuits at the end of meetings and put them on the window ledge for the gulls. It got to the point where one particular herring gull would regularly turn up and start tapping on the window, looking for bickies.

A load of people in the royal last week feed them through the windows. There's millions of them and despite food times being all over the place, as soon as the trolley would come out on the ward, they'd be swooping to the windows. 

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

My office now is down by the docks. When the dock waters drop, it exposes all the mussels clinging to the dock wall. That turns into a gull feeding frenzy. That wouldn't be a problem, but the way they get into the mussels is by dropping them from a height onto the pavement: tough shit if you're trying to walk around there.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

3 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Are the seagulls in Town getting worse? I keep hearing about people with takeaway food getting dive-bombed. The technique is not to swoop for the food, but to slap them around the head, then eat the food that they've dropped in shock. 

 

It's a proper scally bastard's trick.

I can confirm that this is accurate. 
 

Me and my brother took my ma and his kids down to the Pier Head a few weeks back to go on the ferry and that. We got some grub from Greggs and the seagulls got onto it. One of them was sneaking closer in the background and then flew into my ma’s face and grabbed her butty when she dropped it. 
 

At least, I think that’s what happened. I was too busy pissing myself laughing to take it all in. 
 

They’re bad cheeky bastards. 

[Strontium]

1 hour ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Are we allowed to call them nobheads?

 

Nothing in the rules to say you can't.

 

1 hour ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

I used to work in an office that actually had opening windows (bloody luxury). One of my mates would always collect the leftover biscuits at the end of meetings and put them on the window ledge for the gulls. It got to the point where one particular herring gull would regularly turn up and start tapping on the window, looking for bickies.

 

What were his favourite biscuits though?

[dockers_strike]

Hard to believe seagulls are protected birds. Fucking rats with wings, more like!

[Babb'sBurstNad]

I don't mind the smaller ones, and the nice ones often pair up.

 

One good tern deserves another.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

2 hours ago, Strontium said:

 

What were his favourite biscuits though?

@Tony Moanero would approve of his preference for custard creams.

[RJ Fan club]

Shitehawks. They’re fucking massive down here and a menace on flat roofs in Brighton. 

 

In my old office we had a building user group, a rep from each team would meet to discuss building users issues, vendor stocking, stare of the loos and that kind of thing.
 

in one meeting the team rep from a team on the ground floor asked if our team on the first floor if we would stop throwing tea slops over the flat roof of their part of the building.
 

They were a little disgusted to be told the slopping noise was a lot of seagull shit landing at regular intervals. Not sure you’d ever sit comfortably at your desk again tbh 

[manwiththestick]

I've got a lot of time for the Everton seagull, you know when you see it's business as usual.

[Bjornebye]

Strontz is right, if we invade on their shit and cause them to fight back at us then who are we to complain. 

 

Good luck to the flying bastards 

[Mike D]

They will eat any old shite but I’ve never seen one eat beans.

[dockers_strike]

14 hours ago, Mike D said:

They will eat any old shite but I’ve never seen one eat beans.

 

[Bjornebye]

On 24/01/2022 at 15:04, Strontium said:

The two closely related species you're likely to encounter in the city centre, herring gulls and lesser black-backed gulls, are both declining in numbers in this country. One of the reasons for that is over-fishing. We've been stealing their food so it's not a surprise that they would be forced to resort to stealing ours.

So you're in favour of them fighting back when faced with oppression? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Roll up roll up...... 

[Pureblood]

On 24/01/2022 at 15:04, Strontium said:

We've been stealing their food so it's not a surprise that they would be forced to resort to stealing ours.

Like when Charles Manson stole Helter Skelter and U2 stole it back.   

[Pureblood]

On 24/01/2022 at 20:42, Babb'sBurstNad said:

I don't mind the smaller ones, and the nice ones often pair up.

 

One good tern deserves another.

This represents a decent return to form. If the Hungary joke was your The Prodigy Experience, this is your Fat of the Land.