why do birds suddenly appear

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everytime you are near?

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 10:13 (twenty-three years ago)

is it cos your head is a birds nest? or is it cos you are in a hitchcock movie? or is it cos they think you look lovely?

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 10:15 (twenty-three years ago)

it's because I leave a trail of breadcrumbs behind me.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 10:16 (twenty-three years ago)

My 16-year-old 'punk group' Pink Flob (Devon, 1978) did a great 1-chord version of that song. Everything else we did was embarrassing.

― jon (jon), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 10:17 (twenty-three years ago)

surely it's because, just like me, they want to be close to you. (damn you for putting that in my head).

― angela (angela), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 10:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Because I'm an anti-scarecrow.

― Ess Kay (esskay), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 10:31 (twenty-three years ago)

cos my pockets are full of corn, everyone knows that!!

― katie (katie), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 10:44 (twenty-three years ago)

is it because Elisabeth is more radiant than a computer screen? more dashing than Mt Dasher?

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

She glows with a gentle brightness. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 11:41 (twenty-three years ago)

there's nothing sudden about it, it's a slow transition from birds being far away to birds being near. there is no magical point at which birds become suddenly near. are you mental?

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 11:44 (twenty-three years ago)

why do birds sing so gay?

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 11:45 (twenty-three years ago)

thats not true alan, sometimes really fast birds of prey just appear, as if out of nowhere. then there are birds that are camoflaged, and then just pop up out of nowhere. strictly speaking they were somwhere before, but then just appear, i suppose you could argue it was metaphorical, as thierry henry and nicole and papa did when they were trying to get across the idea of a renault as a symbol of fading individuality within a durkheimian framework of automatism, although i'm sure you could argue that that was being used ironically, as thierry is well aware of what the va-va-voom is, after all, hes been to potters bar

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 11:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Following Gareth's reasoning, they do so because I am a wounded rodent.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 11:53 (twenty-three years ago)

The Lynx Effect?

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 12:00 (twenty-three years ago)

that doesn't work:(

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 12:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I know, it's vile stuff.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 12:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know, but if anyone got the number of that damn pigeon that hit me across the face...

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 12:28 (twenty-three years ago)

We got chased by magpies yesterday, I think because we walked too close to their nest.

― isadora, Wednesday, 2 October 2002 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

one time in Auckland, a whole bunch of seagulls flapped at me and I didn't care for it at all. I asked Maryann to make them stop, but she just laughed at me cruelly.

― rainy (rainy), Thursday, 3 October 2002 01:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I've seen a woman in downtown Auckland's QEII square in the early mornings, feeding the pigeons w a smug grin, obviously flaunting all the "do not feed the birds" signage. Maybe you and her have similar shoes?

― petra jane (petra jane), Thursday, 3 October 2002 05:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Why is it that every time I see a post by Ned I always hear his voice narrating it? And he always chuckles charmingly at the conclusion of each witticism.

Not that this is a bad thing.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 3 October 2002 06:20 (twenty-three years ago)

'COZ I'M FAHKIN' HANGIN' ARAHND IN ME SEXY NEVER PAINTED WHITE MAN IN ME SEXY COME TO BED OVERALLS INNI U POOFY PONCES coz all the birds want me they want a REAL MAHHHN triple decker Porter Mango sandwich innit ouch bite bite internal coleslaw COZ I GET AHHT NOT FUCKIN' ABAHY slashrists to Coldcoral and Shakira Stevens an' Swervedriver WOZ U ON THAT CUNT ALIANCE MARCH they may be toffee nosed prats like me old mucker Vini Joans but they is stahndin' up for BRITAIN not poncy Blair turnin' Lahndan into Paris well if 'e tried that in Charlton 'e'd be 'ead first chucked off the Woolwich ferry inne?

so that is why birds suddenly appear when I iz near 'cos they fuckin' fancy me i'm the custardy cunt sauce to end 'em all inni 'ere wot abaht that Oxford and Nutrition record eh they is sayin' you is like mr blobby U CALLIN ME FAAAHT see that glass now you do 'cos it's in yer face HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

― Chingford Tor Ascender, Thursday, 3 October 2002 08:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Last time I fed the pigeons in QEII Square I got told off by the SPCA, for reals. It's because I am a total badass! Ask Andrew. I also hear Ned's voice in every message he posts. Such a lovely man, really...

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Thursday, 3 October 2002 09:09 (twenty-three years ago)

*blink blink, blush* Aw, yer both too kind. The chuckling is just an odd habit of mine, I don't know where it's from.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 October 2002 20:30 (twenty-three years ago)

on the day that you were born the angels got together and decided to create a dream come true.

― di smith (lucylurex), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:21 (twenty-three years ago)

wasnt there another "why do birds suddenly appear?" thread?

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 4 October 2002 23:27 (twenty-three years ago)

if so, i didn't start it.

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 5 October 2002 01:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn this thread, every time I read the title, the song gets stuck in my head for at least 15 minutes...

― nory (nory), Saturday, 5 October 2002 03:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Me too and then I start singing it and changing it like for my cat "why does Malkovich suddenly appear, everytime I am near?" It's because he wants to be fed.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Saturday, 5 October 2002 04:02 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

the birds are all suddenly getting friendly, mainly on my windowsill.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

god i lived in a place once where my room was on the third floor next to the deck. pidgeons are fucking LOUD, and they get up EARLY.

― f--gg (gcannon), Sunday, 27 February 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

I used to hear birds through the chimney when I would practice piano and stupidly wondered aloud to my friend if they might be singing in accompaniment. (NB: I was very bad.)

― youn, Sunday, 27 February 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

I missed Elisabeth explaining above that Malkovich was her CAT. So I had this alarming image of a bunch of Malkoviches suddenly appearing, at the windows and such.

Scary.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 28 February 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

Di invented a Tyrannosaurus Rex album title upon completion of her first post.

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:48 (twenty years ago)

twenty years pass...

so um

― Neanderthal, Thursday, 8 May 2025 19:31 (five months ago)

🎶why do birds suddenly appear🎶
🎶every time🎶
🎶I’m trying to reseed the back yard lawn so my landlord doesn’t get my digging dog impounded?🎶

― cat, I farted (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 9 May 2025 02:34 (five months ago)

Man, this song
Was a favorite of an ex

― calstars, Friday, 9 May 2025 02:59 (five months ago)

an old band I played in opened our first set with this song, albeit in a speeded-up hard rock version, though still with lots of pretty harmonies

― Lee626, Friday, 9 May 2025 05:53 (five months ago)

last time I tried to repair the damage done by the diggingest Doug was a few weeks ago. I was being surveilled by some rustlers in the hedge whilst sowing and raking the seeds. After I had finished watering them and went back inside. A gang of yobbish sparrows emerged from hiding and had a gleeful feast.

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 9 May 2025 13:36 (five months ago)

You know, there's a chap on Goodreads called (redacted), who seems to have posted thousands of reviews about fifteen years ago, so he often appears near the top of the review lists. He has floppy hair, and I was reminded of him because that post actually reads like one of his reviews! They're written in an allusive style that gives the impression (redacted) thinks that (a) books are beneath him (b) he's absolutely hilarious.

e.g. "So, Moby Dick. I read this book while feeding my cat. 'Fiddle-de dee', she said. I guess you could say that it's a cat's life!" That's what they're like. That's what they're all like. All of them. Every single one.

NB I'm not having a dig at you. I just needed to get that off my chest. I'm going to calm down now.

― Ashley Pomeroy, Friday, 9 May 2025 19:02 (five months ago)

(redacted) was brand-building. the brand was I'm Insufferable and Deserve Death

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 9 May 2025 19:20 (five months ago)

why do birds suddenly disappear?

(cars, housecats, powerlines, mirrored windows, wind turbine farms)

― imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Friday, 9 May 2025 19:49 (five months ago)

(redacted) was brand-building. the brand was I'm Insufferable and Deserve Death

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, May 9, 2025 8:20 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

why do projections suddenly appear

― five six seven, eight nine ten, begin (map), Friday, 9 May 2025 19:54 (five months ago)

thx for omitting the sticks and stones. it softens the antagonism

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 9 May 2025 20:00 (five months ago)

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