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RIP Trevor

  • 28-01-2019 9:21pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,593 ✭✭✭✭


    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47024682

    Trevor, once dubbed the world's loneliest duck, has died after being attacked by dogs on the remote Pacific island he called home.

    Trevor was something of a local celebrity in the tiny nation of Niue for being the only bird of his kind living on the island.

    He had arrived in 2018, but it's unclear how he got there.

    He lived in a roadside puddle during his short life, where he was regularly fed and taken care of by locals.

    "He showed up in Niue in January last year after a big storm, we think he flew or blew here," said Rae Findlay, Niue's Chamber of Commerce chief and the person behind Trevor's Facebook page.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 498 ✭✭Muckka


    Rip Trevor.
    He's certainly made an impact of we're reading it on board's


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    You know your PMS has reached a critical point when you find yourself crying over the demise of a lonely duck called Trevor, because he sounded like ever such a lovely duck and had his own little puddle, and people loved him and he didn't deserve to die. Poor little Trevor.

    I need some chocolate and toast if I'm going to get over this.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    Gone 2 soon, God only takes de best, luv ye Trev xxxx


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,593 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Crinklewood


    Candie wrote: »
    You know your PMS has reached a critical point when you find yourself crying over the demise of a lonely duck called Trevor, because he sounded like ever such a lovely duck and had his own little puddle, and people loved him and he didn't deserve to die. Poor little Trevor.

    I need some chocolate and toast if I'm going to get over this.


    No chocolate or toast....I can do you a Duck Spring Roll?


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    No chocolate or toast....I can do you a Duck Spring Roll?

    *sobs* :(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,359 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    Duckin hell Im quackin up over Trevs demise :(

    RIP Trevor


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    Trevor, i never knew you but I am sure we could have been great drinking buddies and we could have put it on your bill.
    The greater duck community is feeling our loss.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,973 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    Poor mite. RIP Trev.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Noveight wrote: »
    Gone 2 soon, God only takes de best, luv ye Trev xxxx

    He's with the angles now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,898 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    That's so sad, Oh Trevor waddle I do now that you're gone. I hope they can find a replacement that fits the ''bill'' . I suspect Fowl play in his death. I just hope the funeral goes swimmingly. He was such a funny duck, he would always quack me up

    R.I.P
    Trevor


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  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    sligojoek wrote: »
    He's with the angles now.
    Right!
    But that's a bit acute or am I being obtuse. :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,359 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    I cant drake much more of this..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭howdoyouknow


    Damn you 2019 it's like 2017 all over again


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    This thread is eider a pıss take or you're all too sensitive. One ruddy dead duck shouldnt get anyone down...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,359 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    This thread is eider a pıss take or you're all too sensitive. One ruddy dead duck shouldnt get anyone down...

    Its a deduckation to his memory


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,815 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Is Trevor ever getting up?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,416 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    It’s unclear how he got there?!

    He was a ****ing duck! Maybe he took the overnight ferry from the mainland.


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,211 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    A puddle of plum sauce?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    His goose was cooked, poor guy!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Hammer89


    I spent time on a farm in America and I became quite fond of ducks, particularly two of them. They were Muscovy ducks and interestingly, the only ducks which aren't related to the mallard. The girls were beautiful. They were mostly white from the breast up, and a dark sort of green on the back and arse.

    It constantly looked like they were smiling because the line on each side of their beak slightly curved upwards.

    The girls would spend their days running away from their dad, Hughie. I'm not joking. Every minute spent outside his coup would be spent in pursuit of his girls, because Hughie was a rapist duck.

    I don't know the mechanics of duck sex, but he used to literally climb on top of them and because he was massive, they couldn't move. He'd also bite the sh*te out of their necks during the event, to the point it bled, whilst his claws would be tearing apart the beautiful feathers. I'd often be there splitting wood with an axe and thinking, 'I'd love to chop his head off'. Problem was, he had a neck like Brock Lesnar, so decapitation attempts would've resulted in a broken axe, and other problem was that Hughie was well liked by the couple who owned the farm.

    There was quite a few ducks on the farm in total, but he was the only one who had a name. The rest were either meat ducks, who are all completely white and segregated, and the others were simply known as 'brown duck' or 'black duck' or 'grey duck'. Well maybe they didn't 'like' him, but they certainly needed him. He was the only male and if your goal is to breed, then being the only male carries with it a certain comfort. I think fat Hughie knew he was indispensible too.

    I do admit, sometimes Hughie would make you laugh. Ducks will do that occasionally. They're funnier than, say, chickens. A chicken has never once done anything funny or endearing, whereas Hughie did have a certain je ne sais quoi in fairness to him. Both girls will be dead now, like young Trevor, but they made a bit of an impression on me.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    ^^^^^^^^^^^

    Je ne sais quack


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭johnayo


    Quack.... Quack


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Hammer89


    sligojoek wrote: »
    ^^^^^^^^^^^

    Je ne sais quack

    Another thing about the Muscovy is that they don't quack really. They sort of squeak, which is a problem because if Hughie is having his way with one of them then you don't necessarily hear distress.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,316 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Candie wrote: »
    I need some chocolate and toast if I'm going to get over this.
    Spreadable chocolate on toast.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    sligojoek wrote: »
    ^^^^^^^^^^^

    Je ne sais quack

    That quaked me up.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4 Ned Gerblanski


    Is Trevor ever getting up?

    Never in the month of Sundays.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭Tuco88


    I am genuinely gutted, the poor fella.

    I want revenge. Surely there be a terminator style duck wearing glasses and that rides a chopper we can call up? Ffs this an't on.

    I'm takin dustin the turkey style gangsta ****z... Dogs gota pay...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭Tuco88


    I am genuinely gutted, the poor fella.

    I want revenge. Surely there be a terminator style duck wearing glasses and that rides a chopper we can call up? Ffs this an't on.

    I'm takin dustin the turkey style gangsta ****z... Dogs gota pay...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 111 ✭✭turdball


    Now someone just ordered him from a Chinese more than than likely


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    poor Ian will never get over it, Trevor, Trevor, Trevor...




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 498 ✭✭Muckka


    poor Ian will never get over it, Trevor, Trevor, Trevor...



    Wymes with twevowh


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