Left red-faced after confusing a rook with a crow?
How to sort yer jackdaws from yer choughs.
I've made a little jackdaw friend at work who hangs with me while I vape at the smoking shack in the car park.
NOTE: Mrs ACFC is away and I have been drinking heavily all (cough) evening. You have been warned.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Sat 18 Nov 2017, 20:01,
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There is always a spotty youth who finds ornithology amusing ina puerile way
You will not be joining the rest of the class when they get to stroke Miss Robotham's great tits.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Sat 18 Nov 2017, 22:02,
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This is very puerile
If a man wants to stroke his cock in the privacy of his own home he should be able to
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The_cold_stare Coming here only when very, very bored, Sat 18 Nov 2017, 22:50,
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Genius find
When the expert birder can identify a robin at a 100 yards by the way it drops off a fence, he's always using "jizz".
Edit (the non-puerile but quite interesting bit c&p from wikipedia:
Jizz or giss is a term originally used by birdwatchers to describe the overall impression or appearance of a bird garnered from such features as shape, posture, flying style or other habitual movements, size and colouration combined with voice, habitat and location. The concept is so useful however, that it since has been adopted increasingly widely by field biologists in referring to the impression of the general characteristics of other animals.[1][2][3] It similarly appears in such fields of observational biology as microscopy.[4] Ecologists and botanists may speak of "habitat jizz" or the jizz of a plant.[5]
Sean Dooley described jizz as "the indefinable quality of a particular species, the 'vibe' it gives off" and notes that although it is "dismissed by many as some kind of birding alchemy, there is some physical basis to the idea of jizz."[6]
Experienced birders can often make reliable identifications in the field at a glance by using jizz. Often jizz is useful for identifying to the family or genus level, rather than the species level. For example, "It definitely had the jizz of a thrush, but I couldn't see what kind."
The origin of the word is a mystery. There is a theory that it comes from the World War II air force acronym GISS for "General Impression of Size and Shape (of an aircraft)", but the birding term was first recorded earlier than that in 1922.[7] More likely, jizz is a corruption of gestalt, a German word that roughly means form or shape.[8] Other possibilities include the word gist, or a contraction of just is.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Sat 18 Nov 2017, 22:54,
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How informative and enlightening.
However, I shall continue to snigger.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sun 19 Nov 2017, 0:31,
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I always thought that the rude “jizz”
Had it’s etymological roots here anyway, since it kind of means “the essence”
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So the Germans gave us jizz?
Didn't know the German Goo Girls vids were that old.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Sun 19 Nov 2017, 19:07,
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I'm definitely getting a copy of this.
I was pretty sure I had a shag on my fat balls last week. But it's hard to tell from a distance.
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Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Sat 18 Nov 2017, 23:05,
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Excellent link
I assumed crow if lone, but no.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sat 18 Nov 2017, 22:23,
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moi aussi
There's a pair of ravens near the ACFC mountain fastness which I have named 'Cronk' and 'Ronk'. They hold incredibly long and -from my vantage point/understanding pointless -conversations of just those two words. They are destructive, aloof and my favourite two birds of the feathered variety of all time. They don't seem to get on with the other local corvids that well. Class thing, I expect.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Sat 18 Nov 2017, 22:59,
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