Talk:Shite-hawk

Previous discussion
See Talk:Shithawk for discussion of this topic prior to the creation of this article. BabelStone (talk) 14:47, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

US Navy nickname
The nickname "Shitty Hawk" was also given to the USS Kitty Hawk by the sailors who had to deal with her, before she was scrapped, since she was extremely old and falling apart. I wanted to throw that out there and leave it to the judges to decide if that's relevant enough to include. --Raulpascal (talk) 16:36, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Give us a source, and we'll add it. BabelStone (talk) 18:24, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Whoooo!
This page is a prime example of why I love Wikipedia!!! Many moons ago a friend of mine naughtily (and I stress, totally baselessly) told his ageing mother that the stone eagles on top of the gate pillars of posh houses were technically known as 'shite hawks'; she regularly informed all and sundry of this fact whenever they passed a set, much to his amusement.86.137.138.243 (talk) 17:42, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
 * LOL ! Glad you enjoyed the article. BabelStone (talk) 18:26, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Another usage
The term shithawk is used as a sort of Canadian Boogieman on the popular TV show Trailer Park Boys: see Shithawks are going to get you and Shithawks aren't real! Chrisrus (talk) 16:37, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Hmm, interesting. Urban Dictionary says that in the context of the show it "refers to watching someone as they do criminal acts or causes shit to happen". I can't find a reliable reference for this usage, but I'll keep an eye open. BabelStone (talk) 20:23, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, but please ignore anything you find in UrbanDictionary. Anyone just puts anything there and no one checks or reverts or edits anything.  Hundreds of entries seem just made up.  The reliable reference for this information is the show itself: it was used this way on this show, that's all we can cite reliably.  We don't know if it's used in the Boogieman way anywhere else, but this is at least as significant a usage as the time some British celeb used it for her boyfriend.  Again, see see Shithawks are going to get you and Shithawks aren't real! Chrisrus (talk) 20:49, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

"Reintroduction of the Red Kite into the United Kingdom"
Well, I know from personal experience that the Red Kite was not reintroduced into the "United Kingdom"! Indeed, the article that the phrase links to says "By the 20th century the breeding population was restricted to a handful of pairs in South Wales, but recently the Welsh population has been supplemented by re-introductions in England and Scotland."

I've altered the phrase in line with the information linked to. It's still a bit clumsy in my opinion, but at least it is not factually inaccurate. Ceiniog (talk)


 * Thank you for making the correction, the original text was an inadvertent oversight. BabelStone (talk) 19:35, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Pigeons
When I was young (in Hampshire, UK, in the 1960s), this term was in common usage for pigeons, and sometimes for gulls, because of the mess they made on buildings, statues, etc. However, I can find no published reference to this. Can anyone else? Perhaps it was a very local expression.  Tony Holkham   (Talk)  10:26, 27 October 2018 (UTC)