I'm not saying anything...

[Joe Chi Minh]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/07/28/shut-it-beaky-incredible-picture-of-the-male-sparrow-who-finally-had-enough-of-his-wife-s-nagging-115875-22445340/

In the paper, the accompanying caption was:

"This should stop your squawking...

There are times, it seems, when a chap can take only so much twittering", etc (as on URL).

Could there be a clearer case for the Court of Sparrow Rights?

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Typical male attitude.

[Bitwit1234]

2. Sometimes my husband had a non-stop non-stop

triad about sports etc etc I just gave up and left the room. SO it works both ways.

[Joe Chi Minh]

3. A terrific cartoonist in the UK, called Pugh. In one, he had this middle-aged

man sitting in his armchair, watching the World Cup, little Union Jack flag in one hand. His wife is walking into the room, eye-balling him, wearing a yellow sweater with the word BRAZIL emblazoned across it! A lot of funny cartoons on that kind of theme.

[Joe Chi Minh]

4. I suppose with so much disrespect and violence against women , the humour in it

possibly escapes many people. Not that the generalised violence in our countries is restricted to one category of person or another.

Jokes can be like that. They can chime with the malice of some individuals. Far from being a kind of music-hall joke, it would appeal to the malice of their personal character on a level a million miles from humour, so the joke would seem more of a liability. Which is a shame, since the difference in the ways in which we think and behave are part of the magic between men and women.

[Dr.Phool]

5. I have this nagging bitch bugging me right now!

She's an 11 month old Lab-Springer mix.

And she has this squeaky tennis ball that she keeps poking me with, so I will chase her and throw it.

Well, duty calls.

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Can't get photobucket to work on DU anymore, so here she is.

[Joe Chi Minh]

6. She looks a beauty, not like a termagent at all. Though I don't know. There's a

certain 'don't mess with me' hardness about those eyes, I suppose...

[Dr.Phool]

7. She's a tasmanian devil sometimes.

But, the best snuggler you'll ever find. She didn't get to go to the dog park this morning, so she's loaded for bear, and she wants to play. Now dammit!

[Joe Chi Minh]

8. I think animals are sent to us as a test of our empathy. You know, there are

indications, one way or another, that technically they are just kind of machines, as materialists, I believe, consider us to be. But I reckon that, as Pascal intimated, the heart is smarter than the head in the most important areas.

In one NDE account, before he was returned to the land of the living, who should come bounding towards to the guy having a sneak preview of the hereafter or, rather, its ante-room (up there in the sky, where the old guy with the long white beard sits on a cloud - for the sake of our militantly atheist friends), but all his deceased pet dogs and cats! I don't think he mentioned rabbits or budgerigars, etc.

[Dr.Phool]

9. Yeah, our dogs are family.

If I ever get reincarnated, I want to come back as MY dog.