‘Bessie’ is a preposterous name for a chicken.
Everyone knows the proper name for a hen is Henny Penny.
Kylo Hen?
Be me: has chickens
Also me: is a surburbanite
#restingchookface
Is it weird to say that your chicken looks straight gangsta? Like I’d invite that chicken to my smoke circle
Not at all, she seriously is. She will steal your lit cigarette or joint and run off with it. Look at this chook, she’ll cut a bitch.
It was 42°C out so I had them inside to cool off.
Edit: Also, that is my smoke circle in the first pic haha
Love it! You seem like good people, take a cool person puff for me today ✌️👍
Awwh! Thank you for saying so ✌️
I think birds are just kind of smug and self assured in general.
We evolved anxiety and they evolved flight. I’d be smug too.
i just want to thank you for starting a thread of people posting their chickens im the midst of a bunch of debatelords being debatelords.
the internet is a better place with you in it💗🐔
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Same. Four hens and this big bastard.
The suburban council area I live in doesn’t allow keeping roosters. Probably a valid rule to have.
What’s their stance on dogs that bark all night?
Because this guy shuts up between the hours of 7 pm and 6 am.
That it’s against the noise curfew? Which ends at 7am on weekdays and 9am on weekends and public holidays. There are ~12 dwellings within 50m of my backyard. I would be an arsehole to all of those people if I kept a rooster. In fact, Void, the black chicken in the picture, has a brother named McFly. When he started crowing at around four months, we drove him out to my friend’s place in the country. He can be as noisy as he wants out there, and is living his best life.
You have a beautiful huge cock.
Same.
Omgosh, your lovely lady looks very very similar to my old lovely lady that passed last year!
She was a rescue Issa Brown, we think she was a former farm layer due to the clipped beak. Absolute badass too tho.
…wizard, time traveller, man who lives inside a clock made of chickens
God I wish. I live in an American city, so it’s too dangerous to walk along the 4 lane stroad to get to the grocery store a block away
my condolences:(
When I look at those neat American suburb grids and imagine to be a shop owner, I would love to put my store directly into the grid. Is it just not allowed to have a shop in those neighborhoods? Isn’t that anti-capitalist lol?
That’s correct, suburbs are the product of the worst housing experiment in the US, in which racists fled from cities to suburbs. They were designed to benefit white people in the aftermath of WW2, because white people were more likely to afford a car. More racism prevented POC from buying in the suburbs or qualifying for housing loans. A second layer of racism came when the Department of Transportation intentionally used Emminent Domain to design the highway network for disrupting and dividing neighborhoods of black people. The whipped topping of this racism pancake came from an unassuming supreme court case, which allowed for municipalities to “preserve the character of the community”, which cemented racist single family zoning into city ordinances and prevents literally anything other than a single family home from being built
Suburbs without cars are food deserts. No shops, no public transit. Only single family homes, schools and pedophile shuffling services (churches). If I had to walk to buy any food (even fast food) it would be a 45 minute trip minimum.
Imagine being able to walk or cycle to a store in a few minutes while also not being in some dense urban hellscape 🇳🇱🇪🇺. Hopefully the US will learn to build better cities someday.
while also not being in some dense urban hellscape 🇳🇱🇪🇺
Fun fact: Although Amsterdam (~5,000/km2) fails to match the population density of New York City (~11,000/km2), similarly-human-scale Paris manages to almost double it (~20,000/km2) despite not having skyscrapers. Because of things like progressive setbacks and the need to build parking decks to comply with minimum parking requirements, NYC-style skyscrapers really don’t buy you as much extra living space as you might think, compared to mid-rise apartment buildings that can use the entire city block curb-to-curb.
That’s already how my life is in the USA. I live in the woods, and I can get to 2 grocery stores within 5-10 minutes.
The most frustrating thing is being in a place with dense outwardly building urban development. Watching more and more copy/pasted strip malls go up with plans for “Subway. Smoke shop. Nails. Maybe gas station.” (Yes, every time)
Aside from copy-paste labyrinthine housing developments.
You just wish you could shout loudly enough “You’re doing it all wrong and there’s still a chance to make this better!”
But it keeps on going.
The most frustrating thing is being in a place with dense outwardly building urban development. Watching more and more copy/pasted strip malls go up with plans for “Subway. Smoke shop. Nails. Maybe gas station.” (Yes, every time)
If it’s a strip mall with a surface parking lot (as opposed either having a parking deck, or having very little parking at all because it’s TOD), it categorically doesn’t count as “dense.”
Unironically agreed. Suburbs suck and apparently they’re also bad for the environment.
almost: car-centric suburbs suck, other kinds are generally perfectly fine.
Like there are many suburbs throughout the world built around public transport and they’re great, my fave is one to the northeast of gothenburg that is just a bunch of high-density housing and a tramline slapped into the hilly forest. Same population as my town and everyone living there has like a 10 minute walk to the forest at worst, and most people have a 5 minute walk to the tram.
the president still doesnt make the gas prices
that’s the joke i think
Suburbanite: Child, go open the instacart app on my phone and have some eggs delivered by an underpaid driver for $35.
Fuck suburbs, probably the one thing rural and urban people can agree on.
Yep, it’s their fault for living in a food desert and not the fault of the corporations that made it a food dessert 👍👍👍
Food deserts are mostly not the fault of corporations; they’re the fault of zoning. Some of that blame admittedly rests on misguided (to say the least) modernist urban planners back in the '30s, but most of it rests squarely on the shoulders of NIMBYs.
Neither of you seem to know what a food desert is.
Yeah. “I have to drive for 15 minutes to access an endless range of fresh produce. Food desert!”
When the store is 100 mile/160 kilometer round trip, you either figure out a substitute or do without. And if you don’t know what else to use, your favorite search engine is only seconds away from helping you with your problem. It ain’t rocket surgery.
Just eat something else?
Like a poor person?
Fucking hell who has time and energy to hunt down one in the suburbs?
In California they come to you! Usually begging for avocado toast and affordable real estate…
Bessie the chicken huh
if i’m feeling restless i’ll just bike 20 minutes to the local egg farm and buy the eggs directly from their little unmanned shop, for a hilariously low price.
i have a lot of complaints about sweden but god damn stuff like this is nice
Same here. Living in the boonies in Germany. The shop is a freezer sitting outside under their carport and a tin can for the money. And it works.
it’s such a good business model, provided you can trust people not to steal
effectively 0 overhead and people can go there whenever they want, everyone wins except big companies, which means everyone else wins EVEN MORE
here in sweden we have an app called Swish which makes it trivially easy for anyone with a smartphone to send money to anyone else, so these places will just have a sign with their QR code that you scan and it automatically inputs their account number and the cost of the item. I want to live in a world where this is the standard way to sell things.
For the vast majority of my suburban life, whenever I needed eggs mid-recipe I just walked across the street to either the local grocery store or local convenience store to get eggs.
Not your neighbor?
