I have to keep opening the back door to shoo the woodpigeon off the bird table. I can bang windows or wave my arms but unless I go outside and actually pretend to throw something at him he won't budge an inch, and even then he just flies off to the neighbour's garden and comes back when I've gone inside. When it's cold like this I don't mind larger birds coming down for a quick mouthful of suet pellets but I'm not having that fat grubber stuffing his crop full while stopping everyone else having a turn. He's lucky he's got legal protection or he'd already be in the freezer
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I have to keep opening the back door to shoo the woodpigeon off the bird table. I can bang windows or wave my arms but unless I go outside and actually pretend to throw something at him he won't budge an inch, and even then he just flies off to the neighbour's garden and comes back when I've gone inside. When it's cold like this I don't mind larger birds coming down for a quick mouthful of suet pellets but I'm not having that fat grubber stuffing his crop full while stopping everyone else having a turn. He's lucky he's got legal protection or he'd already be in the freezer
We have exactly the same problem., do you suppose they are related? 😄
Legal protection, who's to know we won't tell if you don't 😉
I listened to the Chris Rock/Will Smith incident on the radio, some word bleeped out!! (Radio 4 of course) At first Will Smith laughed, for those who don't know, CR said, GI Jane 2nd. THEN after a few moments WS lept up on stage, and smacked CR open hand, but hard. A huge amount of journalists, (and others) believe the whole thing was a publicity stunt. Oprah W, (I didn't hear her interview, Hubby did) made references to the black man being picked on. Er, they are both black! It has escalated according to today's ITV news, CR getting soliitors involved. My youngest daughter lost a huge amount of her hair, head and body, eye brows eyelashes completely went early 20s, she was very upset, and Drs weren't interested! I said if she lost her head hair completely, I would buy her a good quality wig. The Smith's have enough money, we al know actors wear fantastic wigs during performances, (I can usualy spot them as I used to own a lot) Ms.PS could afford a shedfull of them if she wanted to conceal her own head, has always seemed "bald and proud", no reason why not.
I don't know why the press is so interested in this when there's so much else going on in the world. A millionaire narcissist had a tantrum and that's all there is to the story. It's got nothing to do with baldness and if WS had just let it go then the joke would have been forgotten instantly. If the press think it's a publicity stunt then they should stop giving it publicity. This is said with full sympathy for baldies. My hair started falling out as a teenager. I went to a gardening talk with Terry Walton a few years ago and he made a joke about my hair. I've told my wife I'm very upset now that she didn't slap him.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Was this legal protection voted in by the parliament of crows? Do they have jurisdiction in Wales? You may have to smuggle them over as pets and return with them as pie ingredients.
The joke was mean spirited and not funny and should either have been shrugged off or actively shunned. Had Will Smith and his wife got up and walked out, the whole story would be very different now and it would the 'comedian' (using the term very loosely in this case) and not his target who'd be being pointed at and censured
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
The whole thing is a storm in a teacup and founded on stupidity @raisingirl. Many men and women with naturally tight and curly hair - I've seen blondes with hair like that too, not just Africans - choose to cut it very short or wear a wig to avoid the maintenance and time needed to manage an "Afro" or do all the braiding or ironing or untangling serums they would otherwise need if they grow it longer.
The "comedian" should never have commented on anyone's grooming but I do feel some of the frocks and suits on display at such events are fair game.
Will Smith needs to grow up and rise above such comments which, as he says himself, are par for the course of being a celebrity of any kind, let alone a black American actor. He has at least apologised which t'other schmuck hasn't yet, as far as I know.
There are more important things to worry about even in normal times.
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Legal protection, who's to know we won't tell if you don't 😉
This is said with full sympathy for baldies. My hair started falling out as a teenager. I went to a gardening talk with Terry Walton a few years ago and he made a joke about my hair. I've told my wife I'm very upset now that she didn't slap him.
Do they have jurisdiction in Wales? You may have to smuggle them over as pets and return with them as pie ingredients.
The joke was mean spirited and not funny and should either have been shrugged off or actively shunned. Had Will Smith and his wife got up and walked out, the whole story would be very different now and it would the 'comedian' (using the term very loosely in this case) and not his target who'd be being pointed at and censured
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
The whole thing is a storm in a teacup and founded on stupidity @raisingirl. Many men and women with naturally tight and curly hair - I've seen blondes with hair like that too, not just Africans - choose to cut it very short or wear a wig to avoid the maintenance and time needed to manage an "Afro" or do all the braiding or ironing or untangling serums they would otherwise need if they grow it longer.
The "comedian" should never have commented on anyone's grooming but I do feel some of the frocks and suits on display at such events are fair game.
Will Smith needs to grow up and rise above such comments which, as he says himself, are par for the course of being a celebrity of any kind, let alone a black American actor.
He has at least apologised which t'other schmuck hasn't yet, as far as I know.
There are more important things to worry about even in normal times.