'Great tits cope well with warming'

It's beers all round for the BBC this morning who've outregged El Reg leader writers with this deliciously suggestive offering: BBC headline: Great tits cope well with warming Of course, ornithology is a fertile area for schoolboy innuendo. Readers may recall the flap down at the RSPB's website where moderators clamped down …

[Anonymous Coward]

BBC Correspondent

I thought the BBC Nature Correspondent was one Drew Peacock?

[Anonymous Coward]

Urgh

Not too sure about the picture, though. Surely there must be a scientific name for the Great Tit, that the BBC could use (along the lines of the weird way that people nowadays pronounce the planet "yarranus")?

[Dominic Kua]

Schoolyboy innuendo?

Why limit it? I'm still giggling at great tits, sniggering at shags and having a discreet snurge at the blue legged booby.

Ah what a wonderful language we speak.

[pastamasta]

I don't get it

Perhaps someone will explain it to me when I'm older.

(The one with Bob the Builder on the back, please.)

[Steve]

@ Ashley

I still pronounce it "your anus" and if anyone argues they get a clout with one of my physics degrees.

On the same lines, I also spent about 5 years referring to university as "school" to annoy arts students.

[supermeerkat]

What does Frank have to say?

http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/images/celebs/c/crawfm.jpg

[PaddyR]

titter titter fnarr fnarr

I had these two for the most read on the BBC site

1: Great tits cope well with warming

2: Europeans get drunk 'to have sex'

of course it doesnt beat the google ads i got on the reg with the three step plan

1: Photos of cute girls

2: Sex Offender Registry

3: Sex Offender Database

a natural progression presented by Google

[Anonymous Coward]

Oooooh Missis.

Great title, although I would have thought with all the pictures of tits on the internet you might have come up with something errm 'else'.

I couldn't agree more, as the weather has got warmer I've seen loads of great tits eerrm .. mainly in the park... errmm ..

no matter how you read that its going to sound rude.

anyway what a fun way start to a friday. Top marks to you and the girls on the train this morning that had a tops (barely) on that left nothing to the imagination.

Brentonian

[Sweep]

I love tits

....oh, sorry, what was the story about again?

[Rob]

I bet it makes the BBC's most read list this morning.

I know I clicked it after reading the headling :)

[Marc Lawrence]

Aberdeen

Aberdeen in winter is often a great place to see blue legged booby's.

[Anonymous Coward]

Hur hur hur

I am sure I can see a pair of great tits in that photo.....

[Mark]

Re: Hur hur hur

Yeah, but their young great tits. Paedo! Burn him!!!

<fair cop>

[Anonymous Coward]

Doesn't this contravine...

the Extreme porn bill...I guess there's even innuendo in the use of the word "bill".

I'm right now writing a letter to my MP about the BBC dangerously flouting the law like this....

Paris...well...oh damn, I've just contraviened myself...

[Anonymous John]

Presumably

blue tits don't cope well with the cold. How else could the headline have been phrased?

Paris, because she's got..........

[Adrian Pickering]

My favourite headline

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6283494.stm

One to tell your wife:

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/04/michael_whites_political_blog_126.html

[Colin Guthrie]

It's even got....

.... pictures of naked birds on it!

[Neil Porter]

Eggsellent

I said Egg! Bring back TMWRNJ!

In South Africa they have a bird called the Secretary Bird which has long legs and eats snakes. I've seen one, and they swallow!

[Adrian Pickering]

Neil Porter

Best post ever.

Hens lay eggs!

[Pete]

Our wonderful language

According to that ever-useful source of information, Wikipedia, in the South West of England the Blue Tit is nick-named "Little Billy Biter". It's fortunate that I have a big billy.

[Slaine]

avian coastal alternative

rather fond of the ocassional "shag" myself.

[Les Matthew]

Raised a chuckle

when I saw it listed in last nights BBC RSS feed.

[Cherry Black]

@Neil Porter

You want the moon on a stick! The MOON ON A STICK!

[Neil Porter]

Yay

All this TMWRNJ talk has got me in a flap. Flap like a birds wing.

Mines the one with a Corrs shrine in the inside pocket

[Anonymous Coward]

OMG climate change is doing this

Few seem to have remarked on what AGW might do for beach life.

// I'll just get my thong

[Sweep]

Bunch of bustards

Wind-fucker is an old country name for the kestrel, apparently. I always thought mouse-fucker would be more appropriate.

[Anonymous Coward]

I saw this on the BBC yesterday...

...and immediatly new I'd be on El Reg today. Good work.

[Richard]

Reading further down the article...

there is a subheading: Different strokes

Surely they're taking the piss!

[Eponymous Cowherd]

Stupid

This from a channel that created a kids TV programme featuring a character called 'king stupid.

[Tkirk]

You dropped these...

Hands Jezza a bag containing an 'e', a 'k' and a 't'

My hubby was slightly disappointed when he clicked on that headline. At least he got a chuckle out of it :)

[J]

Cope well?

Damn, they CAUSE warming, I'd say!

Hers are not really that great, but will do in a pinch...

[DAN*tastik]

It's Britney

...female of the canine kind!

ps: let me ask you again - when are we getting our Britney icon???

[Anonymous Coward]

It makes a change...

...To see a BBC News Site headline that makes sense.

I wish they would employ journalists and editors that actually speak English.

Rant over, going back to sniggering now ...

[Steven Swenson]

Great Tits,

Make bird watching fun again.

[Mr Larrington]

Not quite up to the standard...

... of "Dr Fuchs off to Antarctica", but still pretty good.

Pasris, because, well, obvious really.

[Danforth]

Another BBC headline...

...that made me laugh - in reference to two government ministers:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7358335.stm

AFAIK the headlines used on the website are the same as the ones used on Ceefax so perhaps there's a character limit that occasionally throws these up by accident... but personally I suspect someone at the BBC is trying to sneak silly headlines past the editor.

[Mr Larrington]

BBC Devon...

...had one which read "Mass debate over mobile phone masts". Sadly it didn't stay there long.