I'm embarrassed that I got the iphone 4. I love it but whenever I get it out I look around to make sure noone can see
Manly Q: A magpie.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 11:39, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Any problems with reception?
Or has this been resolved now?
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 11:43, Reply)

Mine and my friend Matt seem to be fine and we're on vodafone
another friend who is on Orange is having a nightmare even with the bumper. I still love it though. I put inception and the dark knight on it last night its ace.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 11:46, Reply)

I may be trying to find fault seeing as I just ordered a Desire
but there's something not right about watching a film on a tiny phone display.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 11:51, Reply)

Its cool, I have a little stand as well so I'm a right gayer

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 11:57, Reply)

Haha
that does seem strange. Probably works better in practice than the way I imagine it..
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 12:00, Reply)

it's a little gay but no worse than the cretins on the bus
blasting out tinny renditions of Ndubz

just realised it's you I'm bickering with in the other thread. I don't really thnk you're a pedantic bumder.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 12:19, Reply)

I am and I'm going to get Bert Monkeysex to enter your backside.

( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 12:32, Reply)

I'd forgotten about him, little gobshite.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 12:59, Reply)

YOU KILLED A CORVID?
I'm sorry, I've just lost any respect I might have had for you, ever. You are dead to me.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 11:47, Reply)

look all I say is he started it

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 11:51, Reply)

My parents next door neighbours had a magpie trap in their back garden
my mum would climb over the fence and let them out
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 12:07, Reply)

there illegal now I think

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 12:29, Reply)

magpie pie traps - not parents

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 12:29, Reply)

magpie pie traps?
To catch the pies?
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 12:53, Reply)

yeah magpies are hungry and can't cook for themselves................

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 12:59, Reply)

Woah there Crowsie
Magpies are cunts. I saw two magpies bullying a beautiful crow in Sheffield.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 13:37, Reply)

Magpies and Carrion Crows are often seen competing for territory
and generally don't get on. However, they are all still corvids, and so I must show concern for the welfare of all of them. Because a crow would know.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 13:39, Reply)

No
They were bullying it.
They're eeeeevil.

Are Jackdaws corvids?
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 13:40, Reply)

They are.
Corvus monedula, so more closely related to carrion crows (corvus corone) than magpies (pica pica).

The one with the best Latin name is the Rook, however: corvus frugilegus.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 13:42, Reply)

Jackdaws are sexy

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 13:42, Reply)

With their cute, pert little beaks and grey facial plumage
I was given a book called Crow Country, ostensibly some photographer's memoirs about the time he spent in Norfolk watching huge flocks of jackdaws and rooks. You'd have thought such a book would be right up my alley. It's just a shame it was fucking boring.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 13:44, Reply)

And piercing blue eyes
I think they're humans turned into birds by witches.
Someone just saw me looking at Jackdaws and suggested I take a look at a grackle.
Not as sexy as a Jackdaw.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 13:46, Reply)

I'd never realised they had blue eyes before!
(Baby carrion crows also have blue eyes, which is very cute)

I agree about the grackle - pretty plumage, and very crow-like in appearance, but just not quite in the same league.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 13:48, Reply)

It says they're white on Wikipedia
but whatever, the overall effect is icy blue.
Look at this factoid:
The sentence "Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz" is a commonly used example of a pangram, (i.e. a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet), while the sentence itself is only 31 letters long.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 13:51, Reply)

The main picture on their wiki article is a particularly sexy specimen
I'm tenting just looking at it.

And the one further down the page, of the jackdaw in Bushy Park, is as good as any of those 'ORLY' owls.

Like the pangram. I shall have to find a way to use that more often in conversation.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 13:57, Reply)

Hoorah

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 14:02, Reply)

don't let crow see you write...
...oh too late.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 12:31, Reply)

Oh, it's too late alright.
His journey home from work is going to resemble that scene from Hitchcock's The Birds. Except they'll all be crows.

(And possibly an albatross to make up the numbers)
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 13:46, Reply)