The Magpie Salute?
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I'd never heard of that, so I googled it, and apparently it's been a regular thing for years,
also, bizarrely IMO, it's done when an ambulance goes by as well.
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If people followed every superstition then nothing would ever get done. Good job the gullible only cherry pick the ones which suit them. It's almost like a religion to some. My manager's mother is apparently a white witch. She practises homeopathy. There is so much material there for p taking that I often get myself in trouble.
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It's rather ironic that people ridicule religion yet salute a magpie
as always, it's everyone else who is weird!
Hello Mr Magpie, how's your lovely wife?
Yes, I do this...
You got to say Hello Mr OR Mrs Magpie. It may be a female you are speaking to
It's rather ironic that people ridicule religion yet salute a magpie
Exactly! I was going to stick religion in my quote, but felt I might have been being a little too strong.
Eh? But that's nature for you. Would also kill off Wolves, Whales, Sharks, Lions, Owls, Eagles, Humans etc?
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Dunno - We do it all the time at work. Kinda unavoidable.
Most have some base in sense, such as not walking under a ladder as peope up them are likely to drop things.
No, they do it to ward off bad luck.
But it's not nature for most birds is it, this particular bird is a horrible animal that deliberately kills newborn chicks most birds don't do that.Eh? But that's nature for you. Would also kill off Wolves, Whales, Sharks, Lions, Owls, Eagles, Humans etc?
Most don't you're correct, but many animals do. Birds of prey pick on young, as do even Crows, Blue Jays and reptiles seek out new borns.
If I were you, I'd stay away from the discovery channel, you might curl up in the corner and have a fit.
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Didn't take any google time to add all corvidae, the great spotted woodpecker, the coot and the humble sparrow to the murderer list. I suspect it's more common than you think. Even more so if you allow for siblicide which is rife amongst birds.
I still salute magpies - I suppose it came from the superstition, although I have no belief in that. I still do it because they are cool birds - it's in the same way I say hello to all dogs
We've had magpies here for years and they love to mess with humans - every time my neighbour is in the garden, they mimic his phone so he'll go back in
. They like to mimic car alarms too and do a pretty good baby crying.When my dog got too old to chase them off, they used to bully her to get fur for their nests - one would work out how close they could get before she'd react, then would hop around just out of that reach - the other would sneak up behind and pluck the fur straight out. They torment the cat too and stop her hunting in our garden. You have to have respect for any bird that will take on a predator and win every time
