Misunderstood Birder Underwear
Wow, that was a title I never thought I would write.
Playing around on Magnificent Frigatebird, I found some underwear that might be confusing if you were dating a non birder. I should mention that all of these are available as either boxers or thongs.
First, in England, birders are called twitchers and instead of birding you go twitching. So, if you didn't know that, the following underwear could be interpreted as a warning label:
Something else is that in England, bird is another name for woman. So, this could be considered a bit randy:
I bet we won't be seeing that at a Wild Birds Unlimited any time soon. Also falling under the category of "you're just asking for it" would be this:
I'm just sayin'.
In some circles pishing can mean something other than making a "pish sound" to attract birds. It can be slang for urination. So this underwear might also be interpreted as some kind of odd warning or declaration of strange ability:
That's great. You go with your ability to pish anywhere. Or then there's this:
No, I don't want to hear a big pish story! Yikes! And then there this:
If you don't know what the device is pictured in the silhouette, this could be especially frightening underwear to a non birder. And let's not forget about the life list, not everyone knows what that is, so this could imply an entirely different meaning:
And it would just get worse as the number goes up:
Just kind of makes it sound like you've been around the block way too many times. Here's another:
Let's not beat around the bush on the above underwear, it kind of makes the wearer sound like a lot of birders have had a good time in that area. 'Nuff said. I think the following would go one step further for causing a non birder to run screaming from the boudoir:
The above is technically bird bander underwear, but terrifying to anyone not in the know to see that on a pair of panties.And then this pair. Well this pair might make the person think that you want to do things with birds that you only read about certain movies stars doing in tabloids:
Just a warning to all you birders out there from someone who has been married to a non birder for a long time. Careful about your choice of underwear.Labels: Gifts
posted by birdchick at 2:53 PM
17 Comments:
Still drying tears, hilarious!
Oh my gosh, my sides hurt!
lol!
Don't the Brits call bird banding "ringing"? That might lead to some interesting lingerie as well.
I'm so happy others share my thoughts on birder underpants!
And there is "ringer" underwear on the site. There were only so many thongs and boxers I could put in one post.
Now, if they could just come out with a shag thong (shag is British for cormorant), everyone would be happy.
Oh, I would totally buy the ones that say "Birding Slut". That's MY kind of underwear.
But not a thong. I do have priorities.
My word verification: cronch.
Weird, my word verification: TRAMP.
Nice pants (that's british for lingerie as opposed to septic for trousers ;) ) but I've got to correct some of the english birding lingo being thrown around
"First, in England, birders are called twitchers and instead of birding you go twitching."
twitching is a very specific type of birding; chasing rarities someone else has found, hence many british birders strenuously object to being called twitchers.
a shag is one species of cormorant so you'll hear birders reporting shags and cormorants separately.
The thong with the pliers on it is a little intimidating!
OK, sort of an "insider" comment, which in a way is appropriate for undies:
Which is better for bander underwear, size 0A or size 9?
I can already see where Thursday's Birds and Beer is going...
Now, it's not the size of your band that counts...it's whether or not it gets recovered!
Umm,so what is that device in silohoute, silowhote,silo..... shown on those pishing boxers?
I don't know if you really want to use the phrase "beating around the bush" when discussing a thong, particularly when you end the sentence with "in that area."
I wonder who would win in a battle--the pishing boxers or the banding thong?
That was the great giggling moment I needed so badly.
Thanks.
After cleaning up the coffee that I spit all over my keyboard, I will forward this post on...
The device is an Audubon bird call--a wooden cylinder with a metal plunger that squeaks in a quite birdy manner when twisted. My cats think so anyway. It doesn't have much of a repertoire, and I've never actually used it birding, but it's cheap.
I have to say that I find those little Audubon squeakers mostly useless. The only time I've found them to be kind of helpful is when we are up at Frank's hawk trapping blind. Sometimes a sharp-shinned or goshawk will perch in a tree right above the blind. Playing the squeaker like it's an injured bird or animal sometimes stimulates accipiters into diving down towards the pigeon and into the nets.
Just wanted to say what tai haku already said, we do call birders birders over here.
A twitcher is one of those birders that hears there's a rare bird somewhere and goes to find it (or "twitch" it). Some of them travel hundreds of miles for one bird! And another bit of lingo - if you're trying for a particular bird and you don't see it, that's known as "dipping".
I tend to be a "ooh I haven't visited *insert name of place here* before, wonder what birds I might see there?" type birder myself.
I love the knickers. Great stuff. I want a T-shirt that simply says "I like looking at birds" or "I like birds" because of the whole bird/woman ambiguity thing.
And incidentally, "bird" is an old English word meaning "woman".
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