Memes @lemmy.ml Godric @lemmy.world 11 mo. ago

The Chad English Gammon:

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People really argue about which birds are the best birds, but everyone can agree that seagulls are the worst.
- Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs described them best. Rats with fucking wings.
- You talk like a man who's never been attacked by a wild turkey.
  
  I haven't. But also that line is from a song.
  
  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.
- 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
  
  Throw the Canadian Goose in that mix. That bird is simply evil.
  
  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
- They may be the worst, but someone who kills out of annoyance needs to be on a watchlist.
- For people not in the proximity of water it's pigeons. Fuck pigeons.
  
  I love pigeons. They're like rats with wings.
  
  Fuck you bro team pidgeon over here
  
  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.
- I love seagulls
- I live by the bay of a freshwater lake with gulls so I call they baygulls
Luv me chips. Hate gulls. Simple as.
- So I turns around, and I sez...
I said seagull: Stop it now!
- Hm ha hm hm ha
*shouldn't have"
- I think it was intentional
- Shortened to “shouldnt’ve”, for those somehow still confused by this.
  
  Wouldn't it technically be "shouldn't've?"
- What is the point in jokes with some people
- Yes, that’s that’s issue with this sentence.
- Oy Wot?
- first off, in the politest way possible, fuck you
  
  'me chip' isn't correct either
  
  'simple as'... simple as what?
  
  they're not going for correct grammar, they're phonetically spelling the accent and slang
Anthony Fantano has fucking lost it
This should be told to all seagulls... Is he also a Florida man?
He should have eaten the seagull.
Fuck seagulls
Mom, Frank killed a Seagull.

Whole Kelly family screams
- Bad luck to kill a sea bird.
Simple as that*
- "Simple as" is british slang
- It is my understanding that it is common in NZ/AUS to leave the “that” out which is implied.
  
  It's from an English dialect.
  
  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.
I thought Lemmy was left leaning, but the Grammar Nazis, Meme Division are apparently alive and well.
- You think grammar nazis aren't found all along the spectrum? We're everywhere.
- Permanently Deleted
- Should have. Not of. Which language is your mother tounge? I see this more often. Is american school that bad?
  
  I may get down voted for this but... seems like nobody spells "tongue" right.
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?
- My understanding is that it's a British term for retiree. Basically just means elderly
  
  Oh I see because in the UK people actually get pensions
  
  This is correct.
  Still completely irrelevant to the story though (but that's to be expected in tabloid territory).
- Same in Sweden/norway. Pensionär/pensjonist are synonyms for retiree.

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