• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    I think I have to tell my favorite bird story.

    I used to have a glorious organic garden, and I would work in it almost every day. One day, as I was turning a bed for the next crop, a Robin sat on the edge of another bed watching me. When I stepped back to take a break, he hopped over to where I’d been working, and pulled up a big worm.

    I went back to work, and he continued to watch me. Occasionally I’d toss him a worm. After that, he’d show up whenever I’d work, for a free meal.

    One day, I got started, and my buddy showed up. He called quietly, in that little warbling chortle that they do, and a female robin hopped out from behind the neighbor’s fence. She spotted me, and became immediately agitated, but he chortled lightly, and she settled down, eyeing me warily.

    I got to work, and tossed him a worm, which startled her. He gulped it down as she watched. Then I tossed a worm to her, startling her again, but less. She carefully approached the worm and ate. After that she settled down, and enjoyed her dinner

    My Robin friend had gone out and got himself a date, and brought her to his favorite restaurant, where he’s friends with the head chef. What a BALLER move!

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      22 hours ago

      That is awesome, and it sounds like something I would totally do.

      …if I didn’t already have enough pets of my own that scare birds out of the yard, lol. Fortunately I have pets that will eat worms. I have been thinking of building a nice bird feeder just outside the fence though.

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      Oh my goodness, I love this! Thank you so much for sharing! :) Sounds like you had a kickass garden; you must be very talented and hard-working. I’m jealous!

      Just yesterday a friend mentioned that when he was a kid, there was a robin that would always show up while he was working in his garden, and it would sit on his shoe the whole time and pick out worms. It’s so cool to read this right afterwards! Such neat little birdies.

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        That garden was a masterpiece, I miss it. I eventually started a business, and some hobbies, like sports and gardening, had to step aside to carve out time for the business.

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        I like that you chose one of the few genres of metal where it does actually end up being about love… in the metaphorical, “love and kindness defeats evil” kinda way.

        The only more “love” genre would have been hair metal.

        Death metal would have been a better choice, but then that statement is valid most of the time…

        Until it starts bordering on goregrind, and ironically becomes about “love” of a different, one way kinda sense.

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        • Power metal : love in the romanticism sense, those on the side of love and good defeat those on the side of evil and hate
        • Hair metal : love between a man and a female * , or between a man and his money or love for hedonism
        • Death metal : the absence of love makes me want to die.
        • Goregrind : I love to fuck these corpses!

        * female as opposed to woman, since the hair metal guys are sometimes into under 18s.

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      I rarely listen to music and when I do it’s because someone else turned it on. But my kid absolutely loves music, so we take turns on when she can decide if the radio is on in the car.

      The last time I was just thinking, "why on earth is 95% of these songs about wanting a woman/man, romantically or sexually?

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        Check it out! Over there is an old matras covered in colourful pillows. Sorry if it’s a bit smelly. In that corner there’s a beanbag, with a sweet-ass lava lamp and an old record player next to it. The lava lamp works with tea lights, but the record player doesn’t work because there’s no electricity. In the other corner there’s a cardboard box full of old Spider-Man comics! Pretty cool, right?

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      Patti Boyd did go back & forth between Eric Clapton & George Harrison. Tragically by the time she finally settled for Eric Clapton, it was too late & he ended up treating her like trash just the way she’d treated him like trash all those years he longed for her.

      Did I get any of that right?, or please tell me if I’m showing symptoms of dementia. Sincerely please tell me.

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          He wrote at least two beautiful songs about her. Seriously the whole saga of both of those men being in love with Patty Boyd was heartbreaking on Eric Clapton’s end, Patty Boyd really did shatter his heart, maybe he was already a shitty person, I don’t know but having your heart broken probably wouldn’t make things any better.

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    I support the type of bird courtship where i ruffle the feathers on my body so y become a black flat screen shaped bird and start prancing in front of my potential mate