Oh yeah ? Big macs and chiko rolls.
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From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
Carl Clifford
Sent: Sunday, 2 August 2015 10:46 AM
To: Dave Torr
Cc: birding-aus
Subject: The dangers of (British) gulls..
They ate a natural, healthy diet, just as we did.
> On 2 Aug 2015, at 10:57 am, Dave Torr <> wrote:
>
> I wonder what gulls did before the advent of fast food shops?
>
>> On 2 August 2015 at 10:49, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
>> I sent a report on that gull misbehaviour to a birder friend in Cornwall.
>> His reply was, that if all those f****g tourists didn't go around dropping
>> the remnants of their fish & chips and pasties everywhere, and even feeding
>> the buggers, there would not be a problem. It seems that it is a human
>> caused problem. Also, my chum says, ¾ of the stories are bunk.
>>
>> Carl Clifford
>>
>>
>> > On 2 Aug 2015, at 8:48 am, Dave Torr <> wrote:
>> >
>> > From the "World Wide Words" newsletter:
>> >
>> > Reports in British newspapers these past few days have featured the
>> > menace from seagulls, particularly in Cornwall. Earlier this month
>> > a dog was killed
>> > <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-33534181>
>> > by a seagull in that county and a tortoise died
>> > <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-33547126> after
>> > being flipped over and pecked to death. The birds are brazen in
>> > grabbing food from visitors and in doing so have caused injuries.
>> > Young people have taken advantage by inventing a game called *gull
>> > running*. It’s said to have started in Whitby but has since spread
>> > to other seaside towns. One person holds food above their head —
>> > usually fish and chips — and runs a set course. The winner is
>> > whoever can run the furthest without a seagull grabbing the food.
>> >
>> > One correspondent to my newspaper was less concerned about the
>> > physical injuries the birds can cause than about the purity of
>> > language. There are no such things as seagulls, he argued. In the
>> > UK there are herring, great black-backed, lesser black-backed,
>> > black-headed and common gulls and the kittiwake, but something
>> > called a seagull doesn’t exist. A touch pedantic, perhaps? We may
>> > be sure it won’t change his view to be told that English has had *seagull*
>> > as a popular collective term since medieval times.
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