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I know it's the bird, but I will never stop laughing at these. Excerpts like "Great tits seem to do well in and among human-made habitats" are close enough to
by reincarnate0x14 6y ago
I know it's the bird, but I will never stop laughing at these.
Excerpts like "Great tits seem to do well in and among human-made habitats" are close enough to some sort of Monty Python-esque line that it gets me every time. I wonder if people do it intentionally, like how the downtrodden journalism majors that get stuck sexying up headlines can't resist horrible puns.
- ncmncm 6y agoAmericans insist on calling these things chickadees. This is usually interpreted by Brits as prudishness.
- peanut_worm 6y agoWe have a similar bird in America called a chickadee in the same family, but we also have another bird in the same family called “titmouse” so I really doubt it was due to prudishness.
- ncmncm 6y agoI bow to superior knowledge.