Magpie map

Donga Wrote:
[snip]

Patrick, I conclude that your magpies are gay compared to ours. So are
your football players.

Donga

I can't speak for the footballers, or the orientation of the magpies,
but I remember that absolute pr$ck of a bird when I lived in brisvegas
five years ago. I wonder if it is the same one or just an angry
relative. It was not only super aggressive, but it seemed to have a
very long range compared to others... the thing wouldn't leave you
alone!

Ritch - now in Melbourne where the Magpies are more rabid than the
magpies.


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ritcho

On Sep 13, 11:42 pm, ritcho ritcho.2wu...@no-
mx.forums.cyclingforums.com wrote:
Donga Wrote:

[snip]

Patrick, I conclude that your magpies are gay compared to ours. So are
your football players.

Donga

I can't speak for the footballers, or the orientation of the magpies,
but I remember that absolute pr$ck of a bird when I lived in brisvegas
five years ago. I wonder if it is the same one or just an angry
relative. It was not only super aggressive, but it seemed to have a
very long range compared to others... the thing wouldn't leave you
alone!

Ritch - now in Melbourne where the Magpies are more rabid than the
magpies.

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ritcho

Yeah that would be the one. I just saw that the officials are
capturing him and keeping him until after breeding season is over,
then will release him elsewhere. IMO that's missing a perfectly good
opportunity to execute the f*cker. It's not as if they are in
shortage.

Donga

Donga Wrote:

Yeah that would be the one. I just saw that the officials are
capturing him and keeping him until after breeding season is over,
then will release him elsewhere. IMO that's missing a perfectly good
opportunity to execute the f*cker. It's not as if they are in
shortage.


I'm with you on this one... too much PC/savetheworld/tree hugging going
on these days.. rip its f'ing head off!!


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gplama

Patrick Turner Wrote:

Goodness me man, where is your OOMPH?
Have you ever played football?

I was well into body contact Rugby Union, where guys attack each other
at speed,
and sometimes break necks in scrums.


Ahh yeah speaking of MAN-ly, football where you regularly shove your
head up between someone else's leg...... doesn't get more MAN-ly than
that, I love those I played Rugby Union and I am STRONG arguments.

I don't think anyone is saying a magpie strike itself is going to kill
you, however, after living and cycling in Brisbane at some point in my
life and going through 2 magpie mating seasons, those things up there
are absolutely f*ckin NUTS and turn themselves into missiles, the first
time I rode down the airport road during magpie season, I had a magpie
following for at least 1 kilometre and not like down in here Melbourne
where they bump into, I mean turning themselves into a missile and
diving at SPEED, I also had a run in with the magpie or relative of the
one these guys are talking about. Thats the only time I decided to ride
that road during mating season, I almost got knocked off my bike that
day with cars doing 100+ out to the airport a little more than 2 metres
from you, constant traffic.

I was swooped here in Melbourne on Wednesday.... literally I was having
fun with the thing


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MikeyOz

Ok the very rough first cut is ready for perusal and comment.

Here's the map. http://magpiemap03.googlemashups.com/

What i really want at the moment is locations of some known pesky birds.

Aims moving forward a
- different coloured icons depending on how nasty the bird is
- ability for people to add their own birds or updates
- fix the secondary map used to find co-ordinates so that it stops
changing values when you click the map.

DaveB

gplama wrote:
Donga Wrote:
Yeah that would be the one. I just saw that the officials are
capturing him and keeping him until after breeding season is over,
then will release him elsewhere. IMO that's missing a perfectly good
opportunity to execute the f*cker. It's not as if they are in
shortage.


I'm with you on this one... too much PC/savetheworld/tree hugging going
on these days.. rip its f'ing head off!!



Almost sounds like a car driver talking about cyclists.

Dorfus

Hooray, finally solved problems I was having with IE by getting the
Magpie Map off googlemashups and onto my Optusnet account. New url is
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~dbue...piemap04a.html

or http://tinyurl.com/34dvc2

DaveB