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  • What is the purpose of the pigeon?

    I like to think most things in life have a purpose on the earth, "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly..." and all that, but I've been wracking my brain to work out what the purpose of the pigeon is.

    For many years I kind of fealt sorry for the pigeon - nobody really likes them. I don't hate them per se - (not like I hate bladdy flies that hover round your face anyway), but can someone explain the point of a pigeon to me? As I see it they serve no other purpose but to annoy people - pooing on their cars/heads/anything that sits still long enough, they cause damage to crops, they fly up at cars because they're too stupid to move sooner, but don't seem to do anything good...

    If one is to believe that we are reincarnated in the afterlife, I hate to think what pigeons did in a former life.

    Anyone?
    A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

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    Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.


    What would Vedder do?

  • #2
    They're not as bad as slugs though and people do race them?!?

    Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

    Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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    • #3
      The animal equivalent of the victoria cross, the dickin medal, has been awarded to 60 animals 32 of which were pigeons. These animals have marvellous skills, which we have used a lot in the past.

      A couple of very heroic pigeons and all the listed pigeons
      Last edited by Mikey; 17-06-2008, 11:59 AM.
      I'm only here cos I got on the wrong bus.

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      • #4
        Of course! Cheers.

        Knew they must be useful for something - arguably all things are.
        A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

        BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012

        Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.


        What would Vedder do?

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        • #5
          Pie !-)
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          • #6
            I was going to say pie too, i ate them in morocco (not knowlingly, only foundout afterwards what it was) but was quite nice, tasted a bit like rabbit.
            Jane,
            keen but (slightly less) clueless
            http://janesvegpatch.blogspot.com

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            • #7
              but I like pigeons!

              They are the starlifters of the bird world!

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              • #8
                have never tasted it!Daisy once asked if we could take a squooshed(very!)one home for tea!.A lot of the older boys at lottie are constantly moaning that the council have stopped them from being able to shoot them on plot..think like most sites we totally plagued by the bu***rs,&no matter how well i think i net my greens in they still find a way in!
                the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.

                Happiness is not having what you want,but wanting what you have.xx

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                • #9
                  I once saw a pigeon hit by a car and was stuggling in the road, I asked the chap with me to do the 'manly thing' - I meant for him to put the poor bird out of its misery.... the man in question said 'hang on, I'll get a baguette' .... bad man
                  aka
                  Suzie

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                  • #10
                    Wood pigeon

                    Diced into 1/2" cubes - and added to a stir fry - Delicious
                    My mind not only wanders - sometimes it leaves me completely

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                    • #11
                      they eat food waste in towns ..... and errrrrr well are quite cute really, like most wild animals, it aint their fault ....... my OH lives in Barrow and they get plagued by seagulls, the animals were all there first

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                      • #12
                        Pigeon Rights! I saw a lawsuit filed by the Racing Pigeon Union.
                        The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. -John Ruskin

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                        • #13
                          I suppose there is a place in this world and a purpose for every living thing if we could be bothered to work it out.
                          Pigeons,I think,are for pies. And rabbits!

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                          • #14
                            There must be a reason why they're called Sky Rats....
                            The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. -John Ruskin

                            http://wormsflowers.blogspot.com/

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                            • #15
                              Pigeon Pie Yum.Yum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
                              The greatness comes not when things go always good for you,but the greatness comes when you are really tested,when you take,some knocks,some disappointments;because only if youv'e been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

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