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Topic Originator: Raymie the Legend
Date: Sun 18 Jul 20:51
Hate them.
**** on your car. **** on tour windows. **** on you when they have chicks running around and wake you up early in the morning.
Running amok in towns all over the country.
Protected species, as well.
Wish I had a gun.
Discuss
It`s bloody tough being a legend
Ron Atkinson - 1983
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Topic Originator: The One Who Knocks
Date: Sun 18 Jul 21:19
I think what you`ve already said speaks for itself. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the gulls will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new avian overlords. I`d like to remind them as a trusted dot.net nobody, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground chip shop caves.
And although my eyes were open
They just might as well be closed
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Topic Originator: widtink
Date: Sun 18 Jul 21:28
Mon the gulls 😏
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Post Edited (Sun 18 Jul 21:34)
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Topic Originator: ipswichpar
Date: Sun 18 Jul 22:36
Pigeons are worse.That noise! Thick as two short planks as well.
Although a seagull in Eastborne stole a sandwich from my wife. Nasty pieces of work.
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Topic Originator: Berry
Date: Sun 18 Jul 22:53
Apt timing, lot of seagulls roaming around Duloch/Masterton at the minute, can’t play football with the boy out the front without dodging the birdsh!t.
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Topic Originator: PARrot
Date: Sun 18 Jul 23:31
I'm saying nuffin. I'd get done for racism.
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Topic Originator: Pars232
Date: Mon 19 Jul 00:29
Jeezo, seagulls :(
Seems to be a lot of chicks about just now. The parents make sure you know, swooping to protect their young. Feels extremely close when it happens to you.
Gulls can live up to 20 years.
I’m not a fan, especially at 5am when they wake me with their squawking :(
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Topic Originator: OzPar
Date: Mon 19 Jul 01:03
Mallaig pier, it`s the summer of 1966. I watch a fisherman sitting in the bow of his boat. By his side, he has a ball of string and the remnants of a loaf of Mother`s Pride.
He ties a large knot on the end of the string and kneads a piece of bread into a soft dough on top of the knot. Eventually, it is the size of a large marble...
The fisherman swings the string above his head and flings it high into the sky. A flock of seagulls give chase. The biggest and the baddest of them all wins the pursuit and instantly the ball of bread is down its gullet, reaching far into its stomach.
The fisherman laughs loudly and looks up at me...
"Would you like a kite, son?"
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Topic Originator: Buspasspar
Date: Mon 19 Jul 09:18
Cracking story Oz .. I remember as a boy on various Fife coast caravan holidays throwing bread onto other caravan roofs .. you can guess the rest :)
We are forever shaped by the Children we once were
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Topic Originator: MDCCCLXXXV
Date: Mon 19 Jul 10:11
This guy seems to agree with Ipswichpar
[URL]https://www.google.com/search?q=pigeon+wind+up&oq=pigeon+wind&aqs=chrome.4.69i57j0l4.8452j0j4&client=ms-android-samsung-ga-rev1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:66decc90,vid:RVf4ntke9q8,st:0[/URL]
 East End Park is a symbol of all that is DAFC.
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Topic Originator: Bouncer
Date: Tue 20 Jul 16:42
Sounds like the start of a joke but one of them actually walked in through the front door of the East Port a week past Saturday.
Got chased out but come back about 10 mins later.
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Topic Originator: londonparsfan
Date: Tue 20 Jul 17:13
There was a Facebook group many moons ago called Aberdeen Seagulls Are Big and Scary and it wasn't lying. Even by Seagull standards the ones up North were particularly psycho.
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Topic Originator: LochgellyAlbert
Date: Tue 20 Jul 17:32
Kirkcaldy High Street has been taken over by them, no shops, so they are having a great time!
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Topic Originator: OzPar
Date: Wed 21 Jul 02:01
My first memories of Kirkcaldy - going to see the Pars at Starks Park in the late sixties - is of the seagulls flying everywhere. You knew you were at the seaside the moment you got off the bus.
:)
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Topic Originator: Frank Butchers LoveHandles
Date: Wed 21 Jul 02:03
Quote:
londonparsfan, Tue 20 Jul 17:13
There was a Facebook group many moons ago called Aberdeen Seagulls Are Big and Scary and it wasn't lying. Even by Seagull standards the ones up North were particularly psycho.
Having lived in Aberdeen for 5 years I can vouch for that. Minding my own business outside Union Square eating a Sausage Roll one day when one of the buggers ripped it clean out my hand. Was an absolute whale of a size as well.
Awight Pat!
Post Edited (Wed 21 Jul 02:04)
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Topic Originator: dave67
Date: Thu 29 Jul 15:11
^^OK enough about the sausage roll. How big was the seagull 😀
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Topic Originator: londonparsfan
Date: Thu 29 Jul 19:46
Aye. All the videos of seagulls going into shops and stealing stuff are all filmed up North. FACT.
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Topic Originator: General Zod
Date: Fri 30 Jul 12:32
They made a nest slap bang in the middle of my neighbour`s roof. Now there are loads of them flying around making a total racket and we are all sick of them. Another two weeks of this and I`ll shoot them. Starting with the children and i`ll make the parents watch!!!
Post Edited (Fri 30 Jul 12:33)
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Fri 30 Jul 14:06
My office use the falconry folk fae Cluny Clays to clear the seagulls from the rooftops. They bring one or two kestrels. Such beautiful birds of prey.
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: The One Who Knocks
Date: Fri 30 Jul 15:10
Seagull and man, two species separated by sixty-five million years of evolution have just been suddenly thrown back into the mix together. How can we possibly have the slightest idea what to expect?
And although my eyes were open
They just might as well be closed
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Topic Originator: Gem 1977
Date: Fri 30 Jul 15:43
Nest on top of my work building every year. Constantly divebombing folk coming and going. Pain in the bottom !!
Here's to the first of the day, fellas! To old D.H. Lawrence.
Neh! Neh! Neh! Fuh! Fuh! Fuh! Indians
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Topic Originator: Jeffery
Date: Fri 30 Jul 15:44
My friend shot one on his roof as it was nesting and dive bombing his family. Unfortunately after being shot it flew up in the air and landed on his neighbours roof. Police were called.
So make sure it's a clean kill and you can dispose of the body.
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Topic Originator: MDCCCLXXXV
Date: Fri 30 Jul 17:17
Buffy are you sure it kestrals? I think kestrals are smaller than most breeds of gulls around here. I would have thought maybe a peregrine falcon or something bigger.
East End Park is a symbol of all that is DAFC.
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Fri 30 Jul 18:05
Did the kestrels (or whatever) not got the memo that seagulls were protected ?
Just curious to know why/how it`s legal to use captive birds of prey to eliminate them, but householders can`t shoot them ?
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Topic Originator: Gem 1977
Date: Fri 30 Jul 18:20
Quote:
veteraneastender, Fri 30 Jul 18:05
Did the kestrels (or whatever) not got the memo that seagulls were protected ?
Just curious to know why/how it`s legal to use captive birds of prey to eliminate them, but householders can`t shoot them ?
This explains it -
A popular method to get rid of seagulls can be to use falconry. These highly trained birds work to deter and disrupt seagulls from carrying out their normal behaviour. The constant fear of a predator in the area can scare gulls from the impacted location.
Here's to the first of the day, fellas! To old D.H. Lawrence.
Neh! Neh! Neh! Fuh! Fuh! Fuh! Indians
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Topic Originator: widtink
Date: Fri 30 Jul 19:12
Certain companies have a license to kill seagulls. Or they can resite them somewhere else if you so wish.
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Topic Originator: Buspasspar
Date: Fri 30 Jul 19:46
Certain Chinese restaurants have a license to serve seagulls as chicken
We are forever shaped by the Children we once were
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Topic Originator: jake89
Date: Fri 30 Jul 20:33
Idiot neighbour along from us must have left food out as there were a dozen or so of them swooping down.
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Fri 30 Jul 23:01
Quote:
widtink, Fri 30 Jul 19:12
Certain companies have a license to kill seagulls. Or they can resite them somewhere else if you so wish.
Thanks, the licence explanation answers it.
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Topic Originator: twin par
Date: Fri 30 Jul 23:32
Don't be tempted to kill gulls guys.They are protected, as are all sea birds.There are some cruel background suggestions here.Its not the gulls fault,they are only hunting for food,and protecting their young,is that not natural?
Post Edited (Fri 30 Jul 23:39)
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Sun 1 Aug 19:11
As Gem says they don’t kill the seagulls; merely frighten them.
I was told they were kestrels and yes they are small.
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: Grant
Date: Sun 1 Aug 20:23
Quote:
twin par, Fri 30 Jul 23:32
Don't be tempted to kill gulls guys.They are protected, as are all sea birds.There are some cruel background suggestions here.Its not the gulls fault,they are only hunting for food,and protecting their young,is that not natural?
How are seagulls protected? There seems to be plenty of them.
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Topic Originator: ipswichpar
Date: Sun 1 Aug 20:31
How? the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
Why? Feck knows.
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Topic Originator: The One Who Knocks
Date: Sun 1 Aug 20:38
A flock of seagulls has staked a claim to the skies of Fife. And they are going to continue to feed here as long as there is food in the area. What we are dealing with here is perfect engines, eating machines. It`s really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is fly and eat and make little seagulls. And that`s all.
And although my eyes were open
They just might as well be closed
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Topic Originator: Raymie the Legend
Date: Sun 1 Aug 20:47
Good 80s band
It`s bloody tough being a legend
Ron Atkinson - 1983
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Topic Originator: widtink
Date: Sun 1 Aug 21:18
Quote:
The One Who Knocks, Sun 1 Aug 20:38
A flock of seagulls has staked a claim to the skies of Fife. And they are going to continue to feed here as long as there is food in the area. What we are dealing with here is perfect engines, eating machines. It`s really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is fly and eat and make little seagulls. And that`s all.
Love a rehashed movie quote 👍
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Topic Originator: The One Who Knocks
Date: Sun 1 Aug 21:31
You`d love to prove that wouldn`t you? Get your name in the National Geographic.
And although my eyes were open
They just might as well be closed
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Topic Originator: Grant
Date: Sun 1 Aug 22:12
Quote:
ipswichpar, Sun 1 Aug 20:31
How? the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
Why? Feck knows.
Fair!
Living in Wiltshire there not a drama at all, always come as an unpleasant surprise when I'm back up in the Kingdom.
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Topic Originator: twin par
Date: Sun 1 Aug 22:26
Just because there are plenty of them,does not mean that they have to be persocuted. If you actually look at them closely, the are actually really intelligent, beautiful birds.
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Topic Originator: widtink
Date: Sun 1 Aug 23:04
Quote:
The One Who Knocks, Sun 1 Aug 21:31
You`d love to prove that wouldn`t you? Get your name in the National Geographic.
Laughs and walks away 🤣
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Topic Originator: P
Date: Mon 2 Aug 06:52
Quote:
twin par, Sun 01 Aug 22:26
Just because there are plenty of them,does not mean that they have to be persocuted. If you actually look at them closely, the are actually really intelligent, beautiful birds.
Apart from when they are dive bombing my 4 year old and my dogs (which they actually are connecting with now - dogs that is, not the bairn….yet)
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Topic Originator: MDCCCLXXXV
Date: Mon 2 Aug 10:43
You guys know there isn't a bird called a "seagull" , right?
The reason these birds are white is because when feeding at sea ,where food is more scarce, they are easy to spot and attract others to a food source. Hence where there is one there's a load
Ballingry for years was overrun with black headed gulls, but in recent years you don't see as much of them as they have been driven out the much larger Herring Gulls and Lesser Black Backed Gulls, both of which are very aggressive when protecting their eggs and young.
East End Park is a symbol of all that is DAFC.
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Topic Originator: P
Date: Mon 2 Aug 11:44
“You guys know there isn't a bird called a "seagull" , right?”
I think you will find most folk really could not care less
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Topic Originator: ipswichpar
Date: Mon 2 Aug 11:54
Everyone is a pedant until they get bitten by and angry aggressive bird. ;)
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Topic Originator: MDCCCLXXXV
Date: Mon 2 Aug 12:23
Glad to say I could care less p, nature especially birds has helped me immeasurably in the last 18months. Being stuck indoors and still being able to connect with nature has stopped me losing it
East End Park is a symbol of all that is DAFC.
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Topic Originator: General Zod
Date: Mon 2 Aug 12:24
Why is it that I only ever see Seagulls splattered on the roads? Never a Crow or Starling or something. Canny be that clever then, eh! Flying neds.
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Topic Originator: MDCCCLXXXV
Date: Mon 2 Aug 12:30
GZ, the reason that is they are bright white and stand out against the tar, the next most popular birds you see splattered is the magpie or pigeons, for the same reasons
East End Park is a symbol of all that is DAFC.
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Topic Originator: jake89
Date: Mon 2 Aug 12:52
No such thing as a seagull but everyone calls them seagulls so people know what's meant.
Same as how everyone knows what you mean when you say "Where's the doofer?" When you mean "remote control"
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Topic Originator: sadindiefreak
Date: Mon 2 Aug 12:53
Quote:
The One Who Knocks, Fri 30 Jul 15:10
Seagull and man, two species separated by sixty-five million years of evolution have just been suddenly thrown back into the mix together. How can we possibly have the slightest idea what to expect?
Last common ancestor between birds and humans is around 320 million years.
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Topic Originator: da_no_1
Date: Mon 2 Aug 14:40
Quote:
jake89, Mon 2 Aug 12:52
No such thing as a seagull but everyone calls them seagulls so people know what's meant.
Same as how everyone knows what you mean when you say "Where's the doofer?" When you mean "remote control"
I'm sure it was Socrates that said that first? Or Confucius
"Some days will stay a 1000 years, some pass like the flash of a spark"
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Topic Originator: MDCCCLXXXV
Date: Mon 2 Aug 15:29
I think it may have been sparrowstotle da-no-1
East End Park is a symbol of all that is DAFC.
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Topic Originator: Buspasspar
Date: Mon 2 Aug 15:45
Think it was Steven Seagal da-no-1 .. ok I`ll get ma coat :)
We are forever shaped by the Children we once were
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Topic Originator: MDCCCLXXXV
Date: Mon 2 Aug 16:48
Lol buspass
East End Park is a symbol of all that is DAFC.
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Topic Originator: jake89
Date: Mon 2 Aug 16:58
You guys are terri-gull.
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Mon 2 Aug 17:09
"All this machine does is fly and eat and make little seagulls. And that`s all."
And that`s all - eh ?
They crap all over the place for a start ....... my car attracts their nefarious attention on a regular basis.
In my next life I`m coming back as a sparrow hawk avenger.
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Topic Originator: Buspasspar
Date: Mon 2 Aug 17:36
What about a Hillman Avenger vee ?
We are forever shaped by the Children we once were
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Topic Originator: widtink
Date: Mon 2 Aug 18:46
Quote:
jake89, Mon 2 Aug 12:52
No such thing as a seagull but everyone calls them seagulls so people know what's meant.
Same as how everyone knows what you mean when you say "Where's the
doofer?" When you mean "remote control"
Exactly this.
Was at sea for years and even fulmars get called gulls... It's a generic term.
And I call everything a "doofer" 🤣
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Mon 2 Aug 20:07
"What about a Hillman Avenger vee ?"
On second thoughts - as a Hawker Hunter - could blast them gulls with the 30mm cannons !!!
Post Edited (Mon 02 Aug 20:08)
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Topic Originator: MDCCCLXXXV
Date: Tue 3 Aug 08:52
That's right widdy, fulmers do get called gulls not seagulls
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Topic Originator: The One Who Knocks
Date: Tue 3 Aug 09:42
I hope not by you as Fulmars aren`t gulls.
And although my eyes were open
They just might as well be closed
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Topic Originator: MDCCCLXXXV
Date: Tue 3 Aug 10:41
I know that towk, neither are terns, petrels or albatross
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Topic Originator: Parnott
Date: Wed 4 Aug 17:44
Rats of the sky
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Topic Originator: twin par
Date: Wed 4 Aug 22:14
Yes,they are scavenging,stop feeding them ! Lazy people who can't be bothered, chucking their rubbish, in a bin near where they are eating, are at fault !Lazy .
Post Edited (Wed 04 Aug 23:13)
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Topic Originator: AdamAntsParsStripe
Date: Wed 4 Aug 22:29
No problem with them. Yes. They defend their bairns as all animals do but I find in your house, they sit politely on your bin or shed and hope you feed them.
When you do, they will not bother you so much and get to know you each year they return.
I can't stand animal cruelty and some posters on here really get up my goat by advocating shooting them and other animals.
Zwei Pints Bier und ein Päckchen Chips bitte
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Topic Originator: twin par
Date: Wed 4 Aug 23:12
Agree 100%.
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Topic Originator: LochgellyAlbert
Date: Thu 5 Aug 09:11
Was down the Meadies last week with the grandkids and sat and watched 2 seagulls empty a rubbish bin, looking for food. They were quite skilful, managing to access through a 4 inch diameter hole, but what a mess they left!
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Thu 5 Aug 13:22
Dinnae get me angry Ipswich, I turn green an aw !
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: MDCCCLXXXV
Date: Fri 20 Aug 10:29
A decent read Oz, Did you look online for the orange Gull, or am I the only sad one
[URL]https://www.google.com/search?q=orange+herring+gull&oq=orange+herring+gull&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l2.17028j0j4&client=ms-android-samsung-ga-rev1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=yjozc-nmJL01EM[/URL]
East End Park is a symbol of all that is DAFC.
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Fri 20 Aug 16:49
Clocked in Anstruther last week.
An attempt to stop these menaces getting into the litter bins.
Post Edited (Fri 20 Aug 16:52)
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Topic Originator: The One Who Knocks
Date: Fri 20 Aug 21:42
Yeah, that`s real fine expensive gear. `Course I don`t know what those gulls gonna do with it, might eat it I suppose. Seen one eat a rockin` chair one time.
And although my eyes were open
They just might as well be closed
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