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The bird lady is a menace


The film clearly encourages us to support the bird lady and to be deeply moved by her kindness, but most or all of the birds to which she is throwing bread are pigeons - aka rats with wings. Having lived in London for many years, I can attest that pigeons are vermin and this old bag is encouraging the things to flock in Westminster.

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Having lived in.London all my life I disagree!

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I agree with the OP. I don't even call them pigeons, I call them skyrats, and am frightening individual ones every time I come across them in the street. I would go after a group of them, but not when other people are present. I wouldn't want to be responsible for such vermin to fly into my fellow humans' faces.

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