What I like about DUCKS

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if all ducks were polled, i would probably vote for the Shoveler

altho Mandarin wd clearly romp away with it

actually that's rubbish, i'd vote for some awesome crazy duck like the Red-Breasted motherfukken Merganser or the Eider

or shit the SMEW!!!

http://www.dungeness-nnr.co.uk/images/smew.jpg

hai

one time I was sitting in a park drinking and this baby duck just sat next to me

then it follwed me everywhere until I screamed at it so it wouldn't leave the park with me

I must have some weird double standard because even though I gave it a little bit of beer but I would never get my cats high because they're underage

you do realise you were that duck's chosen surrogate mum right

uh oh, are you Ziggy from the Wire?

yeah I felt horrible leaving the duck there but I just kind of thought a park would be a better place for it than an apartment.

I am ziggy from the hilarious ziggy comics

If you are a grown man and you make time in yr busy adult day to feed ducks, I love you.

There are ducks and moorhens and coots near work and I am probably officially a crazy lady as I save my sandwich crusts for them and bring in birdseed. Uh, sometimes. Ahem.

My friend challenged me to tell the difference between moorhens and coots. I totally could.

I am a proud supporter of amphibious winged beings.

lol totes wrote that before i read the xpost

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^^^ My FAAVOURITE oops childrens book. and the sole reason why i visited boston many years ago.

o haihttp://www.lifeontheslea.co.uk/lifeontheslea.co.uk_/images/uploads/todays-duckling.jpg

that being said nom: http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1525/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1525R-6900.jpg

N1ck I am experiencing the same conflict.

Last year the coots nested on the bank opposite my walk to work and you could see them bringing up their kid, it was A++++ cute.

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OH HAI I am a totally off-topic Eurasian coot chick, do you like my inexplicable scraggly orange/red fluff and incessant cheeping?

...and now I've killed this thread here is a crappy phonecam pic, even though the internet is full of better pictures, but those are not of MY coots:
http://www.low-fi.co.uk/randomness/coots.jpg

Maybe I just decided to like the coots more than the ducks because then I wouldn't have to feel so guilty about how delicious pi-pa duck is ;_;

Oh! Here is a 15th century song about a mallard, which you can hear once every hundred years! It really does happen, I saw the last one... (sort of, as much as you can see when you are one of a hundred or so people trying to watch a procession on the other side of a smallish gate in a large wall)

whistling ducks are the most underrated of all the Ducks. you can't find em in Boston Public Garden, but they have a shrill dignity that doddering New Englanders wouldn't even be able to appreciate, probably.

Ducks make funny noises. I would like to be able to vote for that.

duckhunt.jpg otm

one time I was sitting in a park drinking and this baby duck just sat next to me

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then it follwed me everywhere until I screamed at it so it wouldn't leave the park with me

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awww

what i like about ducks
is they really know how to quack

yeah

I saw some ducks doing intercourse smack dab in the middle of a bike trail the other week. Walked right up to them and they did not stop. At first I thought they might have been too into it to break it up. But then I realized they were probably just turned on by being watched by a human.

ducks whispering in my ear
quacking all the things i wanna hear

when they go up down, fly around, think about eating bread

yeah

Gotta go with Daffy on this one.

But I must point out, there are many more things to like about this, one of the Lord's grooviest creatures, than are listed or even possible to list here.

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This is the wrooooong poultry to fuck with.

what i like about ducks
they keep eggs warm at night

Oh come on, EVERYBODY does that nowadays.

As photographed by me yesterday:

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I have only ever seen mallards in person.

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http://www.ducks.org/media/_global/_images/waterfowlGallery/Hooded%20Merganser.jpg

Hooded Merganser!

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/smew.jpg : http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/icecube_011.jpg

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http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/HoodedMerganser.jpg : http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/crazyeyezkilla8ux.jpg

whoa! xp hahaha

Last summer in Montenegro, we were walking through the woods and came upon this isolated lake, on which there was one (1) lonely duck. How did he get there? Where are his family? His friends? What does he do for fun?

I thought about writing a children's book about that little fellow and I think of it still.

Ducks are great, I do not eat them ever.

if the ocean was whiskey and i was a duck, i dive to the bottom and never come hhhhhup

There's something about the facial expression of mallards that exudes peace and calm - they're very comforting to me.

Also a big fan of Donald and Scrooge.

When my family lived in Maryland my dad in his more sentimental moments would sometimes buy live ducks that were intended for eating and set them free at the Constitution Gardens duck pond.

Whenever a duck walks into a bar, hilarious results ensue.

the Smew is possibly the awesomest of the eurasian ducks but if you're looking for the genuine hardman, then his name is Eider

http://www.birdsasart.com/gregs-eider.jpg

also is that cyclops moose wearing uggs???

Also a scarf with fringe, ffs. I don't know what the accepted fashion wisdom is on fringe, but I'm personally dead-set against it.

Aw, I like fringe, but I'd never make a scarf with one (except the Dr. Who scarf, bcz it is a requisite).

I feel like a scarf is too utilitarian ('round these parts anyway) to be all gussied up like that. It's a scarf, wear it, be warmer, and get on with your shit.

(This from a man whose favorite scarf is a deliberately non-matching sky blue color. Don't ever listen to me.)

long ago, i made this thread:

Do ducks make you laugh? A thread for a Friday.

I don't know why I voted so quickly. We have five months to meditate on what we like most about ducks.

we'll all be sb'd by then, so make the most of this poll while you can imo

surfboarded?

actually, I will be hitting the waves in Puerto Rico by this September so, yes, actually I will be surfboarded by then (for realz, no joeks).

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

geese v ducks

ducks are comical. swans are snobs. geese just have a kind of confident assuredness.

Geese are damn aggressive and have no fear of cardboard coyotes:
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what I like about ducks
their toes feature webbing

Like almost any native of Oregon, I consider myself a duck, or in my case, a coot.

i have a video of just1n3 being chased by geese. they're not ducks, but it's close enough to mention.

other duck tidbits: a mallard's head is my favorite color in all of nature. also, when we went down to monterey, we saw ducks with blue beaks. i didn't know these existed.

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I am hoping for "feeding them" to do well cz I was doing that on the way to work this morning and then when I got here people were all "I saw you feeding ducks on the way to work" like it is not a thing for a grown woman to be doing at 9am on a Tuesday morning (admittedly I was already kind of late so should've been getting a move on)

much love for the ducks who have learnt to grab the bread-chunks out of midair before they hit the water, I like to find one who's good at that and pitch crumbs low at its beak to reward it for its skills... I don't know if they've learnt that it's a good trick for getting extra feedings, or if they just do it to get the food quicker

Where were you feeding ducks?

Ducks are awesome. Geese are surly little bastards. Swans are just rock hard.

I'm torn between 'feeding then' and 'eating them' on the original poll. Leaning towards feeding.

There is a kind of moral horror in that sentence.

They are tasty tho.

I would like to vote for:
Ducks are just great, I cannot choose one thing
but wouldn't that include hunting them? Not sure I can support that.

Plus Huey, Dewey, and Louie were right little fuckers iirc. Prob gon' have to be feeding them as well.

I was feeding ducks on "Osney Island" in Oxford (two blocks of residential-except-for-a-pub streets surrounded by the Thames and some small streams which meet up with it, though you could happily walk onto it and off the other side without realising that it was an island)

Ah, Osney. Don't think I've ever been to the pub there, even though one of my friends lived a few doors down for a year or so.

There are two pubs on Osney! (And the Osney Arms, which isn't on Osney itself.) The Hollybush, just off Botley Road, tries to be modern and around 6pm fills up with workers from the nearby industrial estate. The Watermans Arms, near the lock, is a more sedate old-man pub with a chips-with-everything menu; regulars may creak up to you and tell you how they are 91 and it's a very good menu not like in the city where it's all that foreign food now, I remember when the industrial estate was all fields, etc.

There was a bird out with the ducks which looked like a moorhen except grey and slightly too big/plump and no red or yellow on the face but still with the little white streaks on the wings, but the RSPB website is no help and my phonecam pics have come out very dark and look exactly like a moorhen. Oh well. Thought at first it was a half-grown moorhen but it was definitely an adult as it was fending for itself (though not very well against the ducks) and had its own miniature version of itself tagging along.

This thread is making me feel bad (worse) that we bought some shredded duck+pancakes last week and failed to eat it before the other half declared it too far past the use-by and binned it. ;_;

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

'Holden Caulfield shit' shoulda placed at least 2nd imo

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I hear the secrets that you keep, when you're quacking in your sleep.

do you like
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Where is Youtube of Bootsy's Rubber Band's "Rubber Duckie"?

they hold me TIIIIIIGHT
yeah

ahahahahahahaha
this one is very definitely NSFW
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apparently there's a bondage duck too as well as the devil one but i cant find a pic of it.

oh no tiny yellow wanger

actual duck wang

not safe for sanity

apparently female ducks can have several labyrinthine false vaginas

"duck genitals locked in arms race"

i think you know everything about ducks

That is some really weird stuff, right there, Abbott.

omg i just read the slogans on the packets of those bath duck vibrators

Dr Kevin McCracken of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and colleagues, report in this week's Nature that they have found a specimen of the Argentine lake duck (Oxyura vittata) that has a penis as long as its body - nearly half a metre long.

morelike Dr Cavin M'crackin, amirite?

if I was a female duck

that surname is interesting to say the least, eh, abbott?

Ha yes I am glad someone w/my last name is doing this...important research.

Stewart Lee did a routine on the mallard duck a scientist found outside his home, raping a dead male mallard. Lee left out the fact that the duck did this on & off for over 75 minutes & only stopped when the scientist removed the dead duck. This is how I found out British people (or at least Stewart Lee) say "mallard" differently than Americans do.

I feel kind of like a creep.

You really do know too much about ducks.