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(Yahoo)   Ah, springtime in Australia: The flowers are blooming, the breeze is warm and fresh, and the birds are smashing into the backs of people's heads at random   (news.yahoo.com) divider line
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Alexandra
2006-09-05 4:52:13 PM  
That's right, spring starts in September for the Aussies and the kiwis.

Talk about backward...you even drive on the wrong side of the road.

/i keed, i keed
//has friends in new south wales
 
MorningBreath [TotalFark]
2006-09-05 5:10:44 PM  
that's nothing, you should here what the stingrays are doing.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-09-05 5:11:15 PM  
Well, of course the birds are running into people. Everything's upside down and they're all disorientated.
 
Taleya
2006-09-05 5:36:29 PM  
Gotta love Magpies. There's a daft one that sits there singing to his reflection in my garage window for around half an hour every day

/This is after he's spent the previous four hours attempting to viciously attack it.
 
Der Poopflinger
2006-09-05 6:07:12 PM  
as long as a beak doesn't get lodge in my heart
 
Throat Danger
2006-09-05 6:07:13 PM  
I would love to punch one of those Magpies right in the face.

/Jerks
 
Walker [TotalFark]
2006-09-05 6:07:23 PM  
Silly magpie hat with eyes on the back:
[image from abc.net.au too old to be available]
 
drew_that
2006-09-05 6:08:45 PM  
The Core anyone?
 
MutedDNA
2006-09-05 6:09:45 PM  
surfing and fosters?
 
kochier
2006-09-05 6:09:59 PM  
Birds eh?


[image from hitchcock.alienor.fr too old to be available]
 
WayneKerr
2006-09-05 6:10:17 PM  
I'd soooo welcome the opportunity to wear a plastic bucket with eyes.
 
tchamber
2006-09-05 6:10:43 PM  
I remember being terrorized by magpies as a kid in Tamworth, NSW. Nowadays they can't even win the footy.
 
Gsm136
2006-09-05 6:11:50 PM  
Taleya: Gotta love Magpies. There's a daft one that sits there singing to his reflection in my garage window for around half an hour every day


Yea those Newcastle Fans are nuts.
 
Keep Texas Zombie Free
2006-09-05 6:12:41 PM  
[image from img128.imageshack.us too old to be available]

Come and get it, punks!
 
Sirlan
2006-09-05 6:12:49 PM  
Stingrays?! and Now THIS?!
 
ga362
2006-09-05 6:14:19 PM  
Magpie. Yes, alamode please. And some cheddar on the side.

I am from Kansas after all.
 
Walker [TotalFark]
2006-09-05 6:14:22 PM  
"SAVE YOURSELF, IT'S TOO LATE FOR ME!"
[image from img.photobucket.com too old to be available]
 
Bexta
2006-09-05 6:14:31 PM  
yeah, in primary school I had a bloodied head daily from the plovers on the oval :(
 
lokidecat
2006-09-05 6:14:51 PM  
Steve Irwin joke in 3....2....1...
 
pink freud
2006-09-05 6:15:23 PM  
Now that Irwin is gone the wrath of Nature is upon us.
 
Tachikoma
2006-09-05 6:15:23 PM  
As long as there's no neurotoxin, I see no cause for alarm.

/aisle seat please
 
Bexta
2006-09-05 6:15:49 PM  
those hats just reminded me - they made us make "hats" out of ice cream containers, we had to draw eyes on the back to wear outside during recess.

You wouldnt get away with making kids do shiat like that now I bet.
 
lokidecat
2006-09-05 6:16:06 PM  
Okay, two people were lame enough before I posted...

Way to be predictable. AUSTRALIA! OMGZ! ONOS! I'm going to be relevant AND funny!

RARE!
 
snikrepkire
2006-09-05 6:17:30 PM  
"...SAW AN ANGEL STANDING IN THE SUN; AND HE CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING TO ALL THE BIRDS THAT FLY IN THE MIDST OF HEAVEN COME AND GATHER YOURSELVES TOGETHER UNTO THE FEAST OF THE GREAT GOD.
THAT YE MAY EAT THE FLESH OF KINGS, AND THE FLESH OF CAPTAINS , AND THE FLESH OF MIGHTY MEN, AND THE FLESH OF HORSES, AND OF THEM THAT SIT ON THEM AND THE FLESH OF ALL MEN BOTH FREE AND BONDED BOTH SMALL AND GREAT. ..."
 
Car_Ramrod
2006-09-05 6:17:56 PM  
The sky is blue, and all the leaves are green. My heart's as warm as a baked potato. I think I know precisely what I mean, when I say it's a Shpadoinkle day!

/tune got stuck in my head while reading the headline
 
ritalinchild 54
2006-09-05 6:20:35 PM  
I want a steve irwin joke site! ALA princess level humor
 
DustBunny
2006-09-05 6:24:18 PM  
heh we used to get dive bombed all the time walking to school
my GF got hammered last year at uni, they smacked her head, so she put her hand up to protect it and copped it a couple more times. ended up taking cover in the library with bleeding gashes on her hands.

australian wildlife rules...keeps you on your toes

wouldn't have it any other way

:-)
 
Smeggy Smurf
2006-09-05 6:24:49 PM  
Get these motherfarking birds off my motherfarking head!
 
BrotherTheodore
2006-09-05 6:25:04 PM  
CRIKEY!
 
CygnusDarius
2006-09-05 6:28:11 PM  
Yes, because it ain't spring if there are no birds splatting themselves in my head!
 
saintwrathchild
2006-09-05 6:28:54 PM  
img.fark.net
 
Gosling
2006-09-05 6:29:00 PM  
AHAHAHAHA! FLY, MY PRETTIES, FLY!
 
occasionalcontributer
2006-09-05 6:29:09 PM  
Great, now every time Australia and nature are mentioned, we're gonna get Steve Irwin jokes. I predict "crikey" as the next cliche.

/I'm farkin Nostradamus, I am
 
dj_bigbird
2006-09-05 6:29:58 PM  
Magpies? Hitting people in the back of the head?

Collingwood FC has no comment.

/obscure?
 
gatsome
2006-09-05 6:32:35 PM  
DNRTFA


[image from impawards.com too old to be available]
 
Howser
2006-09-05 6:33:17 PM  
You don't know funny till you've seen a magpie attack a kid on a pushbike
 
Whatever
2006-09-05 6:34:09 PM  
Just one more reason to add to my list of reasons why I will never visit the Land Down Under. Too damn dangerous.
 
MyNameIsMofuga
2006-09-05 6:34:59 PM  
Haha Dustbunny's girlfriend got hammered at uni last year!! Haha!!!
/by birds? Freeeeaakkyyy
 
CoRrUpTeDbUdGiE
2006-09-05 6:35:45 PM  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmsV1DrwALc

/this bird not responsible
//lives in Denmark
///would have to fly a bloomin' long way to attack anyone if it did
////my html skills elude me tonight :-p
 
vuclatond
2006-09-05 6:39:58 PM  
the hats sound like something out of montey python.
 
snuff3r
2006-09-05 6:42:02 PM  
Ahhh.. the memories come flying back -- no pun intended.

In primary school, it was always an honour to be the one selected to run to the main hall in the middle of the school to ring the "going home bell" -- the best behaved kid of the day from one of the grade 6 classes was always selected.

Except, getting to the hall required you to run across the playground, which consequently, meant dodging the magpies in summber. They knew it was bell ringing time, and would wait for the child at the same time every day.

In the end, ringing the bell in winter was a great honour, getting chosen to ring it in summer was like the kiss of death from your teacher.
 
nonstopcrunchy
2006-09-05 6:43:03 PM  
I love magpies, vicious little buggers that they are. They're smart, they love to play for it's own sake, and the song is just beautiful, beautiful. Can listen to them all day. Same with the related Kurrawongs and Butcher Birds.

Australian Magpies are no relation to European ones at all - ours are actually Bell Pipers, but the name has stuck. Bell Piper sounds so much better.

Of course, when I was around 15 or so I was actually knocked off my bicycle by a magpie. Cut scalp, big bruise, and a bice set of grazes on the palms of my hands. It's pretty scary being swooped, but the secret weapon is to where a hat with eyes painted on the back.

Or wear a plastic ice-cream tub.
 
KickahaOta
2006-09-05 6:45:57 PM  
Magpies in the back of the head? Meh. Could be worse, doood.

[image from lycanon.org too old to be available]
 
Smeggy Smurf
2006-09-05 6:49:32 PM  
[image from cnn.com too old to be available]

Unavailable for comment
 
ratman999
2006-09-05 7:09:30 PM  
Magpies in a motherfarking sky, and stingrays in a motherfarking ocean. The animals will have their revenge.
 
Mercenary Fox
2006-09-05 7:20:23 PM  
WAsn't this the opening scene to The Core?
.
..
...

EVERYBODY PANIC!
 
ForTheWin
2006-09-05 7:33:58 PM  
Nice, KickahaOta.

Man, now I really want to go to Australia. It seems like you and New Zealand get all the cool wildlife.

/Brother played a random Z word in scrabble once.
//It turned out to be a type of raptor in NZ that tears the back skin off of sheep to kill them.
///The more you know...
 
Burrito Grande
2006-09-05 7:34:31 PM  
The magpies are horny; it's just the birdies making sure you don't cop their WEENER farking in their nests.

/same thing happens on Guam with the Grakles...
//comes back from jogging with a bloody head...
///Mother Nature always wins...
 
tho_bal
2006-09-05 7:37:58 PM  
Like he couldnt avoid it!


giant freakhead
 
Azadeth
2006-09-05 7:52:13 PM  
KAMIKAZE PIDGEONS!!!!
 
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