Thunderbird Club

[GBassNorth]

Before anyone goes slagging bird brains, it's worth considering that corvids use tools, count and otherwise do stuff that many humans appear incapable of doing.

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Yeah, but can they count to 63?

 

[JIO]

Yeah, but can they count to 63?

AWWWKK - NEVER MORE - NEVER MORE!

 

[RedVee]

What's this about birds and their brains. A lot of birds are quite smart, hence the crow mentioned earlier, as well as parrots that have the ability to mimic the noises around them, and Drongos, who know how to hustle animals out of food, such as meerkats, by pretending to work with them as an alert system against predators, and uses that to take the food they found by faking the alarm now and again, the meerkats rarely suspect anything.

Plus the Grey Parrot, the Crow, and the Pigeon are on the top ten list of smartest animals... I think if we're "Birdbrains", then we must be pretty smart.

It's fun how one word can bring havok on this thread... ha ha .
Also on a similar note, I fed a pigeon some crumbs from my lunch today, which turned into 28 pigeons and a wren going mental (actual number, I counted ).

Australian Magpies (different species to UK) are supposed to be intelligent also.
Evidently they can remember faces

 

[kat888]

Australian Magpies (different species to UK) are supposed to be intelligent also.
Evidently they can remember faces

As the song goes:

"Am I ever going to see your face again?
-- No Way, Get Fvcked, Fvck Off"

 

[theFixer]

Australian Magpies (different species to UK) are supposed to be intelligent also.
Evidently they can remember faces

Then they apparently have great taste in music as well!

 

[hillerup]

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Yeah, but can they count to 63?

Wasn’t it 62?

Australian Magpies (different species to UK) are supposed to be intelligent also.
Evidently they can remember faces

Yes, we’ve had this subject up before - The magpies are apparently the smartest bird species in the world, with the Eurasian Magpie being the smartest... And also one of the prettier ones...

 

[kat888]

 

[RedVee]

As the song goes:

"Am I ever going to see your face again?
-- No Way, Get Fvcked, Fvck Off"

That’d Be a magpie all right!

 

[RedVee]

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My Brother in Law supports all the Magpid teams. West’s in the old NSWRL, Collingwood in the AFL. I have previously told him to support Newcastle in the ESL.

 

[RedVee]

Then they apparently have great taste in music as well!
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Very good Fix

 

[RedVee]

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The Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen) is a medium-sized black and white passerine bird native to Australia and southern New Guinea. Although once considered to be three separate species, it is now considered to be one, with nine recognised subspecies. A member of the Artamidae, the Australian magpie is placed in its own genus Gymnorhina and is most closely related to the black butcherbird (Melloria quoyi). It is not, however, related to the European magpie, which is a corvid.

(From Wikipedia)

 

[Feral Feline]

Magpie singing in the dead of winter
Take those broken baubles back to your nest
All your life
You were taunting dogs 'til sunset in the west

Magpie singing in the dead of winter
Eat those mulberries fermented from the frost
All your life,
You were only waiting for the moment to be fecked'n'sloshed

Magpie fly, magpie fly
Into the leave-less forest trees of the solstice's dark black freeze


With apologies to Sir Paul

Black-billed Magpie, scourge of Alberta, and particularly Edmonton.



Actually, it was more the Cardinals (typically) that got schlitt-faced — every fall these prairie-poulet'd smack right into our kitchen window after imbibing frost-bitten fermented berries from the back yard.


Here in HK we've got several Magpies...

Eurasian Magpie (Magpie, Black-billed Magpie, Common Magpie):

Oriental Magpie-Robin:

Azure-winged Magpie:

Red-billed Blue Magpie (Blue Magpie)

And of course, the Orange Magpie Moth...

I'm still waiting for the right '66 T-bird to come along...

 

[Kieran McGhee]

My Brother in Law supports all the Magpid teams. West’s in the old NSWRL, Collingwood in the AFL. I have previously told him to support Newcastle in the ESL.

Newcastle United are in the Premiership in the UK.
They're my team.
They currently hold the highest individual goalscoring record in Premiership history.
Like the magpie, they play in black, white and blue.

 

[Basvarken]

Geez, has this thread been hijacked by the bird spotters club?

 

[kat888]

Newcastle United are in the Premiership in the UK.
They're my team.
They currently hold the highest individual goalscoring record in Premiership history.
Like the magpie, they play in black, white and blue.

Howay the Lads!

 

[hillerup]

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The Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen) is a medium-sized black and white passerine bird native to Australia and southern New Guinea. Although once considered to be three separate species, it is now considered to be one, with nine recognised subspecies. A member of the Artamidae, the Australian magpie is placed in its own genus Gymnorhina and is most closely related to the black butcherbird (Melloria quoyi). It is not, however, related to the European magpie, which is a corvid.

(From Wikipedia)

Black Butcherbird - I like that... Will use that name for my future modded Goth...

 

[hillerup]

Geez, has this thread been hijacked by the bird spotters club?

That's only because of the lack of gorgeous pictures of rare Gibsons posted by you...

 

[Dadagoboi]

Awesome, thank you for the information. I just found a quick demo online of the pickups. It's not great but I got an idea. I really like the sound of them. I do love the Lull's but sadly I just don't think I can part with that much cash, especially considering nickel rings and spacers add an extra hundred bucks to an already pricey set of pickups. I also really like that the bridge pickup is more powerful with the Thunderbuckers. At this point I think Im going to buy some Lollar and Thunderbuckers and see which one floats my boat more. Any suggestions on internal hardware to accompany the pickups? What pot values, etc?

CTS 500k V 250k T. .047 cap of your preference for ThunderBuckers.

My current fave ThunderBucker set is a 63N at the neck with a 66S at the bridge and stacked V/T pots. That gives the maximum in tone variation, especially when the bridge pup is moved 1/2" closer to the bridge than the stock 60s location. That's what's going in this with the Fiver configuration to cover all 12 strings.

 

[ThunderFox]

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Wasn’t it 62?



Yes, we’ve had this subject up before - The magpies are apparently the smartest bird species in the world, with the Eurasian Magpie being the smartest... And also one of the prettier ones...

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Magpies here in the U.K. are one of my favourite bird. I see them most days where I live, nice blue tinge on their backs looks gorgeous, a few of them are green too. Definitely a jewel when it comes to British birds.

 

[Dadagoboi]

Very true in the optics/telescope equipment market as well. Especially occulars and mountings. Everything is an off brand clone and many times done on the side by the same OEM. Copyright and trademark and intellectual property in general is not valued in a communist country that practices state capitalism.

England was making a similar complaint about US products in the 19th Century.

US intellectual property laws have been twisted by corporate influence to defeat their original purpose, i.e. to give LIMITED protection to new ideas. They now serve mainly to give big business an unfair advantage lasting decades or forever beyond what were supposed to be around 20 years of protection.

Why should China or any other country play by US rules? I had China design patents on my stuff that was knocked off by Target and Walmart. No way could they be enforced against the US legal system.