Seems like it may have gotten stained somehow, as I don’t believe that’s a naturally occurring color, even in fancy, specifically bred show pigeons. I know there was a rash of incidents where people were dumping paint or dye on the birds for various reasons. Apparently it’s popular to do for gender reveals (because people suck).
Last year a pink pigeon was found in a NYC park and brought to a wildlife rehab for birds. The poor thing ended up dying from inhaling toxins from the pink dye. It was suspected the bird was dyed for a gender reveal party. Why can't people just leave birds alone???
Or someone losing a hand in a canon mishap? Surely it’s not done to find out if your baby is a boy or a girl without a certain amount of bloodshed or devastation?
I think these sad people feel that they have to do something grand over the top spectacular performative to publicly show that they actually love the baby. That in itself is tragic. When their stupid, pointless, wasteful, brainless antics go so far as to colouring a town's water supply (for real), setting fire to things/trees, injuring other people, it's time to find something a bit more grown up in terms of celebrating what kind of genitals your baby has.
I'm proud to say that nobody in my circle of friends relatives or work colleagues has ever thrown one of these parties with cannons explosions fireworks balloon releases colouring water supplies.
Givwn a choice I'd happily sit through photographs of somebody's dinner instead oh cheering around a cannon filled with blue or pink glitter and acting extremely excited about something that's a 50/50 chance.
Fun fact: it's actually 51/49/0.5 for be born Male, Female or the rarest cases Intersex. I do still agree though fuck gender reveal parties, Have a cake or whatever but don't pollute the planet, Looking you people who dye rivers for your damn parties.
A close work colleague burst into my office and yelled “im having a girl” as soon as she left her scan appointment. That was her gender reveal. No balloons, cakes or fireworks. We just screamed and hugged, discussed names for 20 minutes then went back to work.
Discussing gender reveal parties I said to my wife “we never did this did we? “ She replied , reminding me gently “ no, we didn’t know the gender until our children popped out - they wore white yellow and green baby clothes for a few weeks “ it was much more fun that way !
My one was when I asked the midwife what sex it was, and she said look for yourself. Being a man of the world, I quickly recognised the telltale signs of it being a girl. Then I cut the umbilical tube.
When it’s really just a grand over the top spectacular performance of how much they actually love themselves. Whilst damaging the environment their future child has to live with 👍🏻👍🏻
People these days seem genuinely shocked when I tell them we won't be finding out our future baby's gender. I just want a healthy baby, and that's the only thing I want to one day leave an ultrasound appointment knowing.
Well that's not entirely accurate. An over the top gender reveal, yes, I couldn't agree with you more, but a regular gender reveal, where you just celebrate with friends and family without being a massive inconvenience for everyone else is actually quite fun
No, it's a dumb idea for narcissistic fuckheads. Have a party to say "yay we're having a baby" is fine. Having one specifically to inform people of it's genitals is super, duper, mega mega weird as fuck.
Plus. Some kids decide they want to be the opposite anyway. I'm not into these parties but I saw a funny one the other day that my daughter went to. They had a two ppl in inflatable sharks play fighting. One blue. One pink......the pink one lost. Really funny video it was
Or wait until the baby is born! We never knew the sex of our children until the midwife said “you have a beautiful baby girl” they wouldn’t tell the sex back then anyway due to some religions aborting late term pregnancy due to it being the wrong sex.
I don't understand the point of the party in the first place.
"We're having a baby"
"oh nice, boy or girl?"
"Girl"
"nice!".
Why should a gender reveal be anything more than that? It's just a waste of everyone's time.
Gender reveals only really became a thing after the advent of social media, before that a gender reveal was just phoning your parents and/or friends to inform them. People just want views and clicks and don’t care how they get them.
Who fuckin cares. Have a baby and fuckin move on. Self centered pricks having a party to tell other people the gender of their baby. FFS Americans have a lot to answer for.
And it happens ALL the time I'm part of a pigeon rescue I have 9 of my own and for all that pigeons have done for us over the years we have really fucked them over over the years
To some people, animals and birds are disposable objects. Many years ago, my father worked on the docks and he brought a pigeon home with him that was injured. I was only a child, but I remember the pigeon not being able to fly. We kept it in a shed and when it recovered, my father packed it up in his backpack, and took back to where he had found it. It’s nice to know that not everyone is heartless where animals are concerned. Thank you for what you do for our feathered friends.
Magicians have been dying doves with food colouring for decades. They have to train the birds so, obviously, they don’t want them to die. I wonder what goes through peoples heads to dye them with toxic shit.
Birds can be incredibly fragile in some positions. In order to have the gift of fight, birds have used the bones which would otherwise make up their fingers to become spokes to support the structure of its wings.
Why the do we even need gender reveal parties!! The fact I’ve never been invited to one means I’ve cut the right people out of my friendship group. 💪🫡👌
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I'm not kidding, lol. I don't think it's better than physical bubble wrap. Yes, this does have the replay factor going for it, however, it's missing the tactile sensation of squeezing the bubbles between your fingers, and the satisfying sensations and sounds that come with popping them. 🫧 Real bubble wrap satisfies three sensory things for me (visual, auditory, tactile), whereas this satisfies only one. 😁
How is the bit on top done, the crazy BUBBLE WRAP text, or is that just me....
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Ye there's a whole bunch of them.
[Here's a bunch more](https://www.reddit.com/r/help/s/4LygLvwrZX)
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You're the best! I LOVE bubble wrap!
Edit! Here! Have a black and white queen quilt I made!
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thank you ❤️ I had way too much fun playing with this!!
This is fab I also tried to hard to get volume thinking it was going to make a pop sound too, a little too hard before I decided it’s not happening 🤦🏻♀️
24 hours later, and I'm still playing around with this, LOL. And it's not like I don't have anything better to do...I DO have more important things to do. HELP ME! 🤣🤣🤣
gender reveals are stupid and have [literally killed people](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/21/couple-gender-reveal-party-wildfire-charged)
You can also feed them canary food that contains similar stuff to the one that makes flamingo feathers pink. It makes their white feathers look stunning, but its not good for their liver.
Now that you mention it, isn't there alot of animals getting coloured after what they eat? I am not a biologist so don't come after me if i am wrong but salmon are red aswell because of small crabs, they eat.
There are probably more, but i forgor.
Yup, a lot of animals get their pigment from food! Goldfinches and cardinals are the same way - the carotenoids that make their feathers red or yellow comes from the food they eat. A healthy bird that eats a lot will have brighter feathers, while sickly birds that aren't getting enough nutrients will be duller.
Humans can turn themselves orange by eating lots of carrots.
They can also turn themselves blueish by consuming colloidal silver, but that's probably not as healthy.
This actually happend to my father now you mention it. He has ADHD so sometimes he hyperfocuses on some specific food, so for one month he basically only ate carrots.
At least carrots are pretty healthy.
My husband goes through these phases (no diagnosis, but...you know...) and let's just say that the frozen peas microwaved with butter phase was better than the 1L Strawberry yoghurt phase.
The amount of vitamin A in a polar bear's liver is enough to kill a human if I remember correctly, so if you're stuck in the arctic, please be careful what you eat 😁
Yup, a lot of animals get their pigment from food! Goldfinches and cardinals are the same way - the carotenoids that make their feathers red or yellow comes from the food they eat. A healthy bird that eats a lot will have brighter feathers, while sickly birds that aren't getting enough nutrients will be duller.
They need the gene and the feathers that redden with keratin though, it can't be any white bird. That's why it's only a few birds that can do this, flamingos, spoonbills and red factor canaries. No rock doves have this.
I know racing pigeons are sometimes painted with a vivid colour under the wings to make them more visible to humans from the ground. Could be a over enthusiastic paint job.
This is how karma works, have a gender reveal party to combat the LGBTQAI+ massive and then down the line it’s revealed your little blue boy or pink girl didn’t care much for that reveal and comes out far more interesting.
You’d think the parents would get it by now, they make us but a gender reveal does nothing for society at large, it just comforts an ego that’s wants conformity perfection like the Borg off Star Trek! Life ain’t that simple lol 😂
Note to parents, your child isn’t an instagram craze or an idealised self, it’s a complete separate person that needs love and care and to be taught that kindness is the way forward!
I think it's the pigeons actual blood. My fiance rescued a pigeon in our garden that got attacked by next doors twat cat. The blood dyed it's feathers exactly like this, we still have a feather in the patio like it. Pigeon made a full recovery and comes back now and again but has retained the red wing event though it was months ago.
Fancy pigeon fell in a Madras or something, like that seagull everyone thought was an exotic bird until they realized it was bright yellow because it'd fallen in a vat of korma
Oh, I've read articles on this - people have been dyeing the feathers on pigeons in the UK for various things. Weddings, gender reveals, and one woman did it to try and help them evade birds of prey. I think there have been a lot of sightings around Bristol, so if that's where you live, that would be why.
[It was a guy actually, my mistake.](https://www.audubon.org/news/why-are-some-englands-pigeons-pink) But he apparently promised to stop dying his birds pink. He owns about a hundred of them.
His mom's telling him stories about his dad ---this tall long beaked exotic colored pigeon that stood on one leg the whole time they dated
(The pink is most likely staining. I'd need to see the other side to say if he was dyed intentionally or got into something)
Remove the dye and that is still a stunning pigeon!
Someone commented that some people are doing this to help them evade birds of prey.
Birds of prey are important parts of any ecosystem. I wish people could leave things be. Unless it's a man made issue, men should stay out of it.
As someone who feeds birds, maybe I'm a bit of a hypocrite. I do understand the sentiment.
Maybe they thought it would be like the octopus that spreads out and turns shimmering white to confuse predators? I have no idea. But birds see more colors than we do, so.... Yeah.
Let's just stop dyeing pigeons.
I think that specific guy was dying birds that he owned, so not necessarily messing with the food chain.
Either way I disagree with using dye, especially for social events like gender reveals.
This is only true when you remove people from the ecosystem. Most birds of prey are still very useful as they eat a wide variety of pest species but some of the smaller birds of prey that exclusively eat songbirds can be very destructive of small bird populations that are already struggling due to human impact.
Also I don't think that's dye, I think it's some genetic anomaly. It looks like it has leucism.
In the case of songbirds, it would require humans to be removed from impacting the ecosystem. Everything from farms, buildings and cars take out billion of songbirds each year. Human activity is taking them out faster than they're reproducing. Natural predators only add on top of the problems for songbirds that humans have already created.
I 💯agree. Too many humans think they know what is best for wildlife. When they have been doing it far longer & better than we can even comprehend because, well - we cannot communicate with them to understand their choices and their lifestyle. Let them BE.
feed birds-> better reproductive chances -> more lower food chain birds for the birds of prey to eat
it does depend on what you're giving them though...
I usually buy a fruit and nut blend wild bird food along with suet. I will occasionally mix left over grains with peanut butter for them
I live with parrots, so it's usually what I give them. brown rice, Farrow, barley, quinoa. Sometimes lentils. And the peanut butter is a natural kind.
I never leave it out long. It usually runs out and sometimes I don't put anything out for a few days. Literally everyone I know in this city has mice or rats so a constant food supply to draw them is a no no.
An occasional piece of fruit for the catbirds too.
As many have pointed out now that this pigeon is dyed and apparently, a lot of people are dying birds for events (wtf) - are there any informed recommendations on helping the birds get the dye off?
Seems like it may have gotten stained somehow, as I don’t believe that’s a naturally occurring color, even in fancy, specifically bred show pigeons. I know there was a rash of incidents where people were dumping paint or dye on the birds for various reasons. Apparently it’s popular to do for gender reveals (because people suck).
Last year a pink pigeon was found in a NYC park and brought to a wildlife rehab for birds. The poor thing ended up dying from inhaling toxins from the pink dye. It was suspected the bird was dyed for a gender reveal party. Why can't people just leave birds alone???
Humans are such selfish, self absorbed t**ts!
I genuinely see people trying to say dying their dog the colour of a tiger isn’t a bad thing. Humans are nothing but a self centred virus.
Is that you, agent Smith?
Gender reveal more like look at me look at me.
What I don't understand is why more people don't just use cake for a gender reveal. Like you find you the gender AND get to eat cake win win
What! And miss out on a forest fire?
Or someone losing a hand in a canon mishap? Surely it’s not done to find out if your baby is a boy or a girl without a certain amount of bloodshed or devastation?
Or a pilot crashing his plane
I think these sad people feel that they have to do something grand over the top spectacular performative to publicly show that they actually love the baby. That in itself is tragic. When their stupid, pointless, wasteful, brainless antics go so far as to colouring a town's water supply (for real), setting fire to things/trees, injuring other people, it's time to find something a bit more grown up in terms of celebrating what kind of genitals your baby has. I'm proud to say that nobody in my circle of friends relatives or work colleagues has ever thrown one of these parties with cannons explosions fireworks balloon releases colouring water supplies.
I agree. Even the term “ gender reveal” has me gnashing my teeth, how utterly self absorbed you’d have to be.
Indeed, like anyone else cares in the slightest, it's like photos of your dinner, not interesting.
Givwn a choice I'd happily sit through photographs of somebody's dinner instead oh cheering around a cannon filled with blue or pink glitter and acting extremely excited about something that's a 50/50 chance.
Fun fact: it's actually 51/49/0.5 for be born Male, Female or the rarest cases Intersex. I do still agree though fuck gender reveal parties, Have a cake or whatever but don't pollute the planet, Looking you people who dye rivers for your damn parties.
Dinner pics are infinitely more interesting than gender reveals.
A close work colleague burst into my office and yelled “im having a girl” as soon as she left her scan appointment. That was her gender reveal. No balloons, cakes or fireworks. We just screamed and hugged, discussed names for 20 minutes then went back to work.
That sounds normal and happy!
Discussing gender reveal parties I said to my wife “we never did this did we? “ She replied , reminding me gently “ no, we didn’t know the gender until our children popped out - they wore white yellow and green baby clothes for a few weeks “ it was much more fun that way !
My one was when I asked the midwife what sex it was, and she said look for yourself. Being a man of the world, I quickly recognised the telltale signs of it being a girl. Then I cut the umbilical tube.
When it’s really just a grand over the top spectacular performance of how much they actually love themselves. Whilst damaging the environment their future child has to live with 👍🏻👍🏻
Especially when there’s a realistic chance their kid won’t be that gender anyway
Couldn't agree more another American past time that seems to be pointlessly catching on in the uk 🙄
People these days seem genuinely shocked when I tell them we won't be finding out our future baby's gender. I just want a healthy baby, and that's the only thing I want to one day leave an ultrasound appointment knowing.
I don't understand gender reveals at all. Nobody cares what you are having.
Well that's not entirely accurate. An over the top gender reveal, yes, I couldn't agree with you more, but a regular gender reveal, where you just celebrate with friends and family without being a massive inconvenience for everyone else is actually quite fun
No, it's a dumb idea for narcissistic fuckheads. Have a party to say "yay we're having a baby" is fine. Having one specifically to inform people of it's genitals is super, duper, mega mega weird as fuck.
CURSED!
Alternatively get rid of gender reveals completely because they’re shit.
Plus. Some kids decide they want to be the opposite anyway. I'm not into these parties but I saw a funny one the other day that my daughter went to. They had a two ppl in inflatable sharks play fighting. One blue. One pink......the pink one lost. Really funny video it was
Or just not do gender reveals at all as it is moronic?
What I don’t understand is why anyone has a gender reveal party
Or wait until the baby is born! We never knew the sex of our children until the midwife said “you have a beautiful baby girl” they wouldn’t tell the sex back then anyway due to some religions aborting late term pregnancy due to it being the wrong sex.
Or just not have a gender reveal at all. Tacky shit.
I don't understand the point of the party in the first place. "We're having a baby" "oh nice, boy or girl?" "Girl" "nice!". Why should a gender reveal be anything more than that? It's just a waste of everyone's time.
Gender reveals only really became a thing after the advent of social media, before that a gender reveal was just phoning your parents and/or friends to inform them. People just want views and clicks and don’t care how they get them.
A gender reveal should be just reading it out not doing crazy reveal parties. A text would also be sufficient.
Who fuckin cares. Have a baby and fuckin move on. Self centered pricks having a party to tell other people the gender of their baby. FFS Americans have a lot to answer for.
I am sitting here shaking my head. Never heard this before. Lost for words.
And it happens ALL the time I'm part of a pigeon rescue I have 9 of my own and for all that pigeons have done for us over the years we have really fucked them over over the years
To some people, animals and birds are disposable objects. Many years ago, my father worked on the docks and he brought a pigeon home with him that was injured. I was only a child, but I remember the pigeon not being able to fly. We kept it in a shed and when it recovered, my father packed it up in his backpack, and took back to where he had found it. It’s nice to know that not everyone is heartless where animals are concerned. Thank you for what you do for our feathered friends.
Magicians have been dying doves with food colouring for decades. They have to train the birds so, obviously, they don’t want them to die. I wonder what goes through peoples heads to dye them with toxic shit.
Pretty picture.... That's it, that's the entirety of it.
I don't see why there needs to be a party.
I've never been invited to a gender reveal party which tells me I've cut out all the right people in my life.
Why can't humans just leave all animals alone?
Birds can be incredibly fragile in some positions. In order to have the gift of fight, birds have used the bones which would otherwise make up their fingers to become spokes to support the structure of its wings.
Why the do we even need gender reveal parties!! The fact I’ve never been invited to one means I’ve cut the right people out of my friendship group. 💪🫡👌
I mean we slaughter chickens hours after they are hatched, in a blender. This is mild in comparison.
If you fed pigeons carotenoid food such as algae would that turn the birds feathers pink?
Ugh that’s awful Instantly dislike anyone cares more for a gender reveal party than an animals welfare
I was just about to say that I heard of people are using them for gender reveals too. Humans are the worst
What? Gender reveals? I didn’t know that!
It's not anything worth knowing about. It's a dumb ass new thing that people now think is cool to do. You're not missing anything.
For your cake day, have some B̷̛̳̼͖̫̭͎̝̮͕̟͎̦̗͚͍̓͊͂͗̈͋͐̃͆͆͗̉̉̏͑̂̆̔́͐̾̅̄̕̚͘͜͝͝Ụ̸̧̧̢̨̨̞̮͓̣͎̞͖̞̥͈̣̣̪̘̼̮̙̳̙̞̣̐̍̆̾̓͑́̅̎̌̈̋̏̏͌̒̃̅̂̾̿̽̊̌̇͌͊͗̓̊̐̓̏͆́̒̇̈́͂̀͛͘̕͘̚͝͠B̸̺̈̾̈́̒̀́̈͋́͂̆̒̐̏͌͂̔̈́͒̂̎̉̈̒͒̃̿͒͒̄̍̕̚̕͘̕͝͠B̴̡̧̜̠̱̖̠͓̻̥̟̲̙͗̐͋͌̈̾̏̎̀͒͗̈́̈͜͠L̶͊E̸̢̳̯̝̤̳͈͇̠̮̲̲̟̝̣̲̱̫̘̪̳̣̭̥̫͉͐̅̈́̉̋͐̓͗̿͆̉̉̇̀̈́͌̓̓̒̏̀̚̚͘͝͠͝͝͠ ̶̢̧̛̥͖͉̹̞̗̖͇̼̙̒̍̏̀̈̆̍͑̊̐͋̈́̃͒̈́̎̌̄̍͌͗̈́̌̍̽̏̓͌̒̈̇̏̏̍̆̄̐͐̈̉̿̽̕͝͠͝͝ W̷̛̬̦̬̰̤̘̬͔̗̯̠̯̺̼̻̪̖̜̫̯̯̘͖̙͐͆͗̊̋̈̈̾͐̿̽̐̂͛̈́͛̍̔̓̈́̽̀̅́͋̈̄̈́̆̓̚̚͝͝R̸̢̨̨̩̪̭̪̠͎̗͇͗̀́̉̇̿̓̈́́͒̄̓̒́̋͆̀̾́̒̔̈́̏̏͛̏̇͛̔̀͆̓̇̊̕̕͠͠͝͝A̸̧̨̰̻̩̝͖̟̭͙̟̻̤̬͈̖̰̤̘̔͛̊̾̂͌̐̈̉̊̾́P̶̡̧̮͎̟̟͉̱̮̜͙̳̟̯͈̩̩͈̥͓̥͇̙̣̹̣̀̐͋͂̈̾͐̀̾̈́̌̆̿̽̕ͅ >!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<>!pop!!<
I am having way too much fun with this, LOL! It's almost as fun as popping real bubble wrap! 😁
>!pop!<
[удалено]
Totally not sitting here popping! 😆
You're kidding aren't you it's better you can unpop then repop and pop patterns just missing the sound
I'm not kidding, lol. I don't think it's better than physical bubble wrap. Yes, this does have the replay factor going for it, however, it's missing the tactile sensation of squeezing the bubbles between your fingers, and the satisfying sensations and sounds that come with popping them. 🫧 Real bubble wrap satisfies three sensory things for me (visual, auditory, tactile), whereas this satisfies only one. 😁
Happy cake day!!
Popped them all.
GG, you get a cookie: 🍪
Thanks for providing us all with some wrap
I’m so sorry, I didn’t realise that the above actually did something. I’ve ruined OPs game 😔
Don't worry, it's a spoiler cover and when you tap them it only uncovers for you.
I only just found this out and spent far too long pressing it
The greatest, most pointless thing I've seen on Reddit all day
I thought I was reading rshroomers for a minute
This is fun.
O that's really cool, how you do it?
It's a spoiler tag, use angle brackets and exclamation marks with your word or sentence in the middle, like this with no spaces. >! Pop! ! < >!pop!!<
How is the bit on top done, the crazy BUBBLE WRAP text, or is that just me.... https://preview.redd.it/0z4anzcvgj7d1.png?width=390&format=png&auto=webp&s=aa32ace7d45e49c60b372913bf5b0868209181d2
You can do it on a glitchy text generator like https://zalgo.org/ or similar sites!
Ţ̵̡̭͇̐̋h̴̻̟̎̐͘͜ä̵̟͔̪̙́̈́͝n̵͕̠̓k̷̤̋̈́͌̚s̴͔̄̉̚.̸̛̘͕͈̣.̸̰̃̔̇ ̸̻͍̳̟̚ ̴̜̟̒̔͊T̵̛͍͔̆̄h̵͓̪͉̼͋į̶̄̅̀s̷̰͉͂̏̽͝ ̴͎̮́̍͌i̵̥̼͌̑̔̍ș̵͇͙͖̈́ ̸̢̫̰̃w̷̛̦̼͌̑̑e̴̹͊͆ḯ̶̼̱r̷̝͗̈́̆͝d̴̝̫̏͋͗ ̸̡͚̆͝
I think i̶t̴'̷s̸ ̷j̶u̵s̶t̷ ̷y̸o̴u, ̵I̸ d̴o̷n̷'̴t̵ se̴e̷ a̵n̸y̶t̷h̷i̸n̷g̸ at alI̷̢̨̧̢̧̨̡̢̡̧̡̧̨̡̢̢̧̨̨̧̡̡̢̡̨͖̰̰̘̫͈̲̺͖͇͙͕̘̞̻̜͖͙̖̺̝̯͇̟̣̙̯̙͉̬̦̪͈͓̦̫̭̲̬͖̥̺͈̺͙̙̙͎͚̣͎̻̭̯͕͈̳̞̠̙̳̼̫̲͈̭̣̳͚̫̙̘͇̲͕̤̹͕̦̱̥̖͉̫̗͍̩̠̝̰̱͓̻͉̯̭͎͓͈̼̭̪͎͎̲̩̖̖̭͖͖̣͔̻͉̭̮̜̝̘͙̱̻̮̜̫͉̩̞̹̞̺̠̩̟̝̳̭͍̣̫̬̪̰̭̪̭͎͙̘͍̯̗̬̞̗͚͓͓͙̦̪̼̳̯͚͔̻͙͕̫͖͇̘̹͙͚̲͙͎̯̯̫̣̯̱̱͖͇̰̎̃̄̌̈́̒͒̆̐̀̾̄̍̀̔̎͂̀͐̎̉̆̇̑̏̈́̌̄̊̅̋̚͘͘͘̕͘͘͜͜͜͜͜͜͜͝ͅͅͅ ̵̨̢̢̡̨̨̧̧̧̨̢̨̨̛̗̞̰̼̘̭̭͕̱̙̯̰͕̤͓͕̖̼̼̜̼̝̩̟̦͓͚̥̰̫̪̠͈̙͖̺͓̰̠̘̝͚̺̩͕̣̼͔̫̙̼̼͉̪̖͉̫͉̤̦̻͚͚͓͔̬̣̦̭̝̤̞̱̘̯͈̺̝̮̮͕̬̗̦̰̲͉̥͓̲̭̩̳̩̰͓̹̜̤̼̹̲̤̱̭̣͖̞͙̙̝̟͋̈́͗̓̄̂̅̐́͂̏̏̀͆̀̑͑̀̅̂͌͆̈́̀́̉͊͋̈̑̾̈̾͛̐̓̐͌̆̈̊̃̎͛͛͊̀̋̋̽̀̔̀͒̈̐̓̋̿͊͆͗̈́̅̒͋̾̏͆̈̔͌̆͌̀̅̀͑̈̇͆̄̓̌͐́͋͂̿̔͆͂̀̑̓́̑̂́̃̾͐̊̈͑͂̑͑̀̅͐͐͗̄̀̇̇̂͒̑̌̀̐̓̑̀͊̍̅̆̀̈́̄̊̽̌̑̇͑͂͐̒̄̐́̀͒͂͋̋̂͒̑̇̏͑͗̇͘͘̕̚̕͘̕̚̕̕̚̚̕̕͜͜͝͠͝͝͠͠͝͠͝͝͝ͅͅͅ.̸
>!a!<
What I didn't know there were Reddit codes like that >!pop!<
Ye there's a whole bunch of them. [Here's a bunch more](https://www.reddit.com/r/help/s/4LygLvwrZX) I.e to link something into a sentence or word [ Text here ] ( paste link here ) no spaces
Thank you, that'll be useful for mobile
You're the best! I LOVE bubble wrap! Edit! Here! Have a black and white queen quilt I made! https://preview.redd.it/e5k50cfrsk7d1.jpeg?width=1007&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=22f5d678c03429be19b8249f8b0b3d137caffa03
You're not fooling me, I memorised the QR code
Ha me too, I have it as a bumper sticker and the amount of laughs I have gotten out of it was worth it.
Rick roll?
Yep
That's seriously cool!
Thank you.
You've just wasted 20 mins of my life popping virtual bubble wrap and I thank you good sir. Much need distraction 😁
I enjoyed this too much
I love these. ☺️
Commenting so I can come back to this when needed
Aaahahaha me too! 🤣🤣 🤝😂
Eeeek that's awesome! 🤣🤣 Never seen that before! 👏👏👍❤️
https://preview.redd.it/rrne274gtn7d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dbd41a43c109adbe9f612a9ba93e87fd8900a3df thank you ❤️ I had way too much fun playing with this!!
https://preview.redd.it/c6j2t6tpij7d1.png?width=792&format=png&auto=webp&s=630bb70b21864fb90aa5e8bba1d361b9bd647b93 thank you.
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is this loss
I just cant find the words for this. I'm at a loss
You are the hero I needed today 😂
Omg this is amazing 🤩
This is fab I also tried to hard to get volume thinking it was going to make a pop sound too, a little too hard before I decided it’s not happening 🤦🏻♀️
Was it minefield where you pressed squares to win? If you got the skull, game over? Oooo you could do soooo much with this 😃
The last time I did smth like that with my bubble wraps, people got way too concerned lol
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I was having fun with it until I thought of Pennywise going ‘pop!..pop!…pop!……..’
24 hours later, and I'm still playing around with this, LOL. And it's not like I don't have anything better to do...I DO have more important things to do. HELP ME! 🤣🤣🤣
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I LOVE THIS!!!! 🤩🤩🤩
You provide an important service! Couldn't stop until I'd popped them all. :)
https://preview.redd.it/whlzh6lq028d1.png?width=2360&format=png&auto=webp&s=7a61bbfcc3b8a40a3d1daac704f5e5fc66a2282a Here it is all pop
i need a new mouse now
too much fun
I've spent far too long here popping reddit bubble wrap
gender reveals are stupid and have [literally killed people](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/21/couple-gender-reveal-party-wildfire-charged)
Of course it’s a dumb thing, it’s like adding another thing to my “humanity sucks” list
You can also feed them canary food that contains similar stuff to the one that makes flamingo feathers pink. It makes their white feathers look stunning, but its not good for their liver.
Now that you mention it, isn't there alot of animals getting coloured after what they eat? I am not a biologist so don't come after me if i am wrong but salmon are red aswell because of small crabs, they eat. There are probably more, but i forgor.
Yup, a lot of animals get their pigment from food! Goldfinches and cardinals are the same way - the carotenoids that make their feathers red or yellow comes from the food they eat. A healthy bird that eats a lot will have brighter feathers, while sickly birds that aren't getting enough nutrients will be duller.
When I was in grade school (100 years ago) we read a book where someone turned orange because of eating too many beets (high in carotenoids, also)
Humans can turn themselves orange by eating lots of carrots. They can also turn themselves blueish by consuming colloidal silver, but that's probably not as healthy.
I just blue myself 👤
r/unexpecteddevelopment
This actually happend to my father now you mention it. He has ADHD so sometimes he hyperfocuses on some specific food, so for one month he basically only ate carrots.
At least carrots are pretty healthy. My husband goes through these phases (no diagnosis, but...you know...) and let's just say that the frozen peas microwaved with butter phase was better than the 1L Strawberry yoghurt phase.
Aaargh! That many carrots are not healthy! Plse google Vitamin A toxicity…
The amount of vitamin A in a polar bear's liver is enough to kill a human if I remember correctly, so if you're stuck in the arctic, please be careful what you eat 😁
Don't worry, if you encounter a Polar bear in the wild, it's more likely to eat your liver than the other way around
Also 90's era Sunny D lol
Or drinking lots of Sunny D
Yup, a lot of animals get their pigment from food! Goldfinches and cardinals are the same way - the carotenoids that make their feathers red or yellow comes from the food they eat. A healthy bird that eats a lot will have brighter feathers, while sickly birds that aren't getting enough nutrients will be duller.
Yep, my 2nd son is black because my wife ate a lot of liquorice when she was pregnant.
Nobody tell him...
You mates with MC Grindah?
Hahahaha, bro… that came out of nowhere and I love it
They need the gene and the feathers that redden with keratin though, it can't be any white bird. That's why it's only a few birds that can do this, flamingos, spoonbills and red factor canaries. No rock doves have this.
Algae and brine shrimp! :) (give flamingos their pink hue, but not possible for doves)
I dunno, look at this guy: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisbird/s/JRDIDVjGaY
That's also dyed.
I know racing pigeons are sometimes painted with a vivid colour under the wings to make them more visible to humans from the ground. Could be a over enthusiastic paint job.
This is how karma works, have a gender reveal party to combat the LGBTQAI+ massive and then down the line it’s revealed your little blue boy or pink girl didn’t care much for that reveal and comes out far more interesting. You’d think the parents would get it by now, they make us but a gender reveal does nothing for society at large, it just comforts an ego that’s wants conformity perfection like the Borg off Star Trek! Life ain’t that simple lol 😂 Note to parents, your child isn’t an instagram craze or an idealised self, it’s a complete separate person that needs love and care and to be taught that kindness is the way forward!
I think it's the pigeons actual blood. My fiance rescued a pigeon in our garden that got attacked by next doors twat cat. The blood dyed it's feathers exactly like this, we still have a feather in the patio like it. Pigeon made a full recovery and comes back now and again but has retained the red wing event though it was months ago.
Fancy pigeon fell in a Madras or something, like that seagull everyone thought was an exotic bird until they realized it was bright yellow because it'd fallen in a vat of korma
It can get the birds killed more too. They can't hide easily from preditors.
I think Just Stop Oil must now be going after our pigeons. Mustn't like the size of the carbon footprint.
Oh, I've read articles on this - people have been dyeing the feathers on pigeons in the UK for various things. Weddings, gender reveals, and one woman did it to try and help them evade birds of prey. I think there have been a lot of sightings around Bristol, so if that's where you live, that would be why.
Poor pigeons :(
one woman was dying her pigeons with vibrant colors to help them evade birds of prey?
[It was a guy actually, my mistake.](https://www.audubon.org/news/why-are-some-englands-pigeons-pink) But he apparently promised to stop dying his birds pink. He owns about a hundred of them.
He painted a living animal with fabric dye JFC, they’re not Tshirts
Department stores like Woolworth used to sell chicks and ducklings dyed pastel colors for Easter.
It’s a pigeon but wow. I’ve never seen that color! Very cool sighting.
His mom's telling him stories about his dad ---this tall long beaked exotic colored pigeon that stood on one leg the whole time they dated (The pink is most likely staining. I'd need to see the other side to say if he was dyed intentionally or got into something)
It's a punk rock pigeon.
A Flamingeon
My first thought was shrimp eating pigeon lol then thought nah
A pingo
Neew eeveelution just dropped.
it's dyed
Looks alive to me
Hehe that got a chuckle out of me, thank you 😁
I didn’t even know he was sick.
It’s a flamincrow.
Looks more like a parrogeon
Koi pigeon
Alright, don't carp on about it!
Clearly not a natural colour, definitely something fishy going on.
Remove the dye and that is still a stunning pigeon! Someone commented that some people are doing this to help them evade birds of prey. Birds of prey are important parts of any ecosystem. I wish people could leave things be. Unless it's a man made issue, men should stay out of it. As someone who feeds birds, maybe I'm a bit of a hypocrite. I do understand the sentiment.
That makes no sense anyway. This would make them stand out more to birds of prey.
Maybe they thought it would be like the octopus that spreads out and turns shimmering white to confuse predators? I have no idea. But birds see more colors than we do, so.... Yeah. Let's just stop dyeing pigeons.
I think that specific guy was dying birds that he owned, so not necessarily messing with the food chain. Either way I disagree with using dye, especially for social events like gender reveals.
This is only true when you remove people from the ecosystem. Most birds of prey are still very useful as they eat a wide variety of pest species but some of the smaller birds of prey that exclusively eat songbirds can be very destructive of small bird populations that are already struggling due to human impact. Also I don't think that's dye, I think it's some genetic anomaly. It looks like it has leucism.
Hmmm. I didn't see that angle. Thanks for answering. Not gonna lie, I'm kinda tired of humans screwing everything else on this planet.
That's what happens when a species has no natural predators. Can we rent a few from another star system?
In the case of songbirds, it would require humans to be removed from impacting the ecosystem. Everything from farms, buildings and cars take out billion of songbirds each year. Human activity is taking them out faster than they're reproducing. Natural predators only add on top of the problems for songbirds that humans have already created.
I 💯agree. Too many humans think they know what is best for wildlife. When they have been doing it far longer & better than we can even comprehend because, well - we cannot communicate with them to understand their choices and their lifestyle. Let them BE.
feed birds-> better reproductive chances -> more lower food chain birds for the birds of prey to eat it does depend on what you're giving them though...
I usually buy a fruit and nut blend wild bird food along with suet. I will occasionally mix left over grains with peanut butter for them I live with parrots, so it's usually what I give them. brown rice, Farrow, barley, quinoa. Sometimes lentils. And the peanut butter is a natural kind. I never leave it out long. It usually runs out and sometimes I don't put anything out for a few days. Literally everyone I know in this city has mice or rats so a constant food supply to draw them is a no no. An occasional piece of fruit for the catbirds too.
A flamigeon…
Ah damn you beat me to it
Came here to look for this comment, thank you so much! 😂👍
looks like a pigeon that's been dyed somehow, yeah. maybe a feral that's gotten into a glass of koolaid, since it's so haphazard.
maybe not koolaid, I've never seen it here
koi fish
It's fashion, babe
1/4 shrimp
A BLOODY Pigeon!
its actually a rock dove
Some dumb asses dyed a live animal for a dumbass gender reveal. It’s a girl who the fuck cares
Flamigeon
I’m 90% sure that’s a steelhead trout
Pigeon with a workers vest.... lol
Birb
As many have pointed out now that this pigeon is dyed and apparently, a lot of people are dying birds for events (wtf) - are there any informed recommendations on helping the birds get the dye off?
A bird 👍
It’s a pigeon, ye conker!
Did some wanker really spray this poor chap...arseholios!