once i thought it would be quite cool to keep a couple of peacocks one day
but the unearthly fucking racket would put you off. the farmer who lives next door to my best mate's dad breeds them, and occasionally they escape into her garden. it's quite a surprise to open the curtains after crashing out on your mate's floor to see a peacock staring back at you.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 5 May 2015, 9:50, 1 reply, 10 years ago)

They are the stupidest fucking birds in the world
one of our neighbours had some, they'd get in the garden and stand there looking at you dumb. Any other bird if you throw a stone near it will fuck off pronto as soon as it sees your arm twitch. Peacocks will stand there and watch the stone fly past them. Noisy pointless dumb as fuck blingy pheasants, need shooting the lot of em, guv.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 5 May 2015, 10:04, Reply)

I've got a photo of one stuck in a bucket somewhere ... howd up.

(lol man river definite greek god, Tue 5 May 2015, 10:07, Reply)

I'd quite like to see this.

( Slippery Mick ‏, Tue 5 May 2015, 10:17, Reply)

I'd also quite like to see this
I thought it was on flickr but it ain't.

Imagine a peacock stuck head first in an old tin bucket.
(lol man river definite greek god, Tue 5 May 2015, 10:19, Reply)

well look at the size of their heads
they can't have very big brains.

i agree, but i think pheasants are dumber. and these things... which by the way, it is illegal to release into the wild if you catch one (as apparently there is only one left in the wild in britain, see also - and more realistically - grey squirrels):

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Lady_Amherst_Pheasant_SMTC.jpg
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 5 May 2015, 10:12, Reply)

Close run thing with the pheasant on the brain front
given that more than once I've watched one get to the edge of a road, look both ways and *then* run out and get splatted by a car.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 5 May 2015, 10:21, Reply)

one once broke its neck on the side of my mates fluorescent van
it was delicious
(lol man river definite greek god, Tue 5 May 2015, 10:23, Reply)

Ostriches are supposed to be thick as shit as well.
Their added strength allows them to go full-Lenny.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Tue 5 May 2015, 10:23, Reply)

ostrich going menkle

(lol man river definite greek god, Tue 5 May 2015, 10:38, Reply)

BIGUR!

(lol man river definite greek god, Tue 5 May 2015, 10:39, Reply)

www.exoticmeats.co.uk/images/uploads/ostrich_burgers.jpg
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 5 May 2015, 11:29, Reply)