Random Rants LXXII - What is wrong with us?
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Ever hear of malaria and West Nile virus?
Pigeons have used my balcony for their bathroom, but at least they've never bitten me.
Snerk
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Why do so many people dislike pigeons? Sure they crap but so does everybody else. They look cool and even tastes good. The meat is lean and not too gamey. I've never met a pigeon I didn't like.
Well, calling those 'balconies' is really misleading. But pigeons don't care. They make a mess still.
For the record, two of the three 'balconies' are something like 1x2 metres^2, or smaller (actually one of them is more like 1x1,5). The third one is something like 1x4.
1. One pigeon wouldn't be so bad. But there are a lot of them here. They're noisy, and scare the cat.
2. Even the neighbor's cat didn't use my side of the balcony for a bathroom, back when I lived in a different suite and had to share the balcony (there was a partition that had enough of a gap underneath that their kitten kept sneaking over to my side). So yeah, everyone has to "do their business"... but nobody does it on my balcony except the pigeons.
3. We're not allowed to kill birds in the city.
And while I'm in the rants thread, the tree fluff is flying around outside. It's so thick that it looks like snow.
My allergies hate this time of year.
Snerk
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What's the deal with Southern Europe and numeral small balconies? Up here you either make single balcony (or grammatically correct equivalent) big enough for a solid bbq session, or you don't make one at all.
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Some of the old rural country houses in the Canadian Province of Prince Edward Island have multiple balconies, gables, and more doors than fire regulations demand. Quite a few are very notably elaborate.
There are balconies that are practical and meant to be used, and there are balconies that are just for decoration. The residents here seem to use them either for barbecuing or as an outdoor storage room (we're allowed to put bikes there).
I don't have anything on mine.
The balconies in this apartment are simply put: useless. I only have to clean them, from time to time. The apartment has a number of issues, but al least it is spacious inside (roughly 64 square meters, which is more than i need). On the downside: it is a very old building. I will be moving again, likely next Autumn.
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Still more useful than some of the decorative "balconies" i've seen. They are literally a door in the outer wall with a railing bolted to the front.
Like this but with a door instead of a window.
And i'm certain the pigeons still find a way to crap all over it.....
I've spent several hours drinking beer and watching stuff on Youtube with my laptop on my chest, while lying in bed with my head propped up with a pillow. A mixture of Yanis Varoufakis and Contrapoints, mostly. Now my neck hurts, and I've barely gotten into another 2-hour Varoufakis video.
So I put Icy-Hot with lidocaine on my neck and upper back. But it mostly just feels greasy without doing anything about my neck pain.
I might have also posted inappropriate things about how I didn't realize I had any gay in me, until I thought about how much I'd love to be Yanis's Athenian-style "student". I'd recycle his surplus...
Anyway, it's stupid that we're not designed to just lie down watching insightful youtube videos with our heads propped up by pillows for like 5 or 6 hours in a row. It's almost like that had nothing to do with our ancestral environment. I'd like to submit a bug report.
So I put Icy-Hot with lidocaine on my neck and upper back. But it mostly just feels greasy without doing anything about my neck pain.
I might have also posted inappropriate things about how I didn't realize I had any gay in me, until I thought about how much I'd love to be Yanis's Athenian-style "student". I'd recycle his surplus...
Anyway, it's stupid that we're not designed to just lie down watching insightful youtube videos with our heads propped up by pillows for like 5 or 6 hours in a row. It's almost like that had nothing to do with our ancestral environment. I'd like to submit a bug report.
I once had pigeons nest on my balcony. Brought up two chicks, iirc.Buildings in the north usually don't have balconies. Pigeons are a terrible bane if you have a balcony. I sadly have three (very small, but still).
Your cat should be ashamed of itself.
I feel your pain.
Why? She's been an indoor cat for most of her life, and has never had to hunt for her food. You can't blame a cat for being afraid of birds she's never seen, particularly when half a dozen of them start diving down very close to the window, flapping and making noise.Your cat should be ashamed of itself.
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Pigeons are underappreciated birds. I remember as a kid watching Sesame Street (the REAL Sesame Street from the '80's, before Elmo all but took over the show) where Bert was waxing poetic about the pigeons outside the window, even if Ernie didn't initially buy it and had to be brought around to realizing the beauty of this example of common urban wildlife.I once had pigeons nest on my balcony. Brought up two chicks, iirc.
Your cat should be ashamed of itself.
I feel your pain.
Strangely, in my neighbourhood near downtown Edmonton, Canada, about five big honking Canada Geese moved in to several empty lots when returning from their migration south. I've never seen them around here in those numbers and for this long (over a month or two now) before.
What are they good for? All they do around here is make noise and organic waste.
Their nests are protected by law, so if you have a planter on your balcony and a Canada Goose decides to nest there, it's illegal for you to destroy or even move the nest. You just have to put up with it, and not use your balcony until the chicks are hatched and able to leave on their own.
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Eagle Food, Fox food, around here at least...
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