People go around calling other people cuckoo to mean they are nuts but they never really know why a cuckoo is nuts.
I figured you are too caught up with new year resolutions to check, so I did you a solid.
First, for those who are wondering, a cuckoo is a bird. It looks harmless but it’s a real piece of work.
It will have sex but not take responsibility when it falls pregnant. [Of course, all cuckoo males are deadbeats.] What the female cuckoo does is that because she couldn’t be bothered with babies and diapers and shit, she sneaks into another bird’s nest when they are out doing what birds do and lays her eggs in her nest because she is the kind of bird that tricks other birds to raise her children.
Once the egg is in the nest she doesn’t stick around, she sods off, never comes back to see what happened, she just leaves and goes back to partying and drinking and kissing other strange birds on the beaks.
You think you are YOLO, you haven’t met a cuckoo. No frrrks at all. She never checks if her eggs hatched or they fell off a tree.
What happens with the egg is that it hatches faster than the other eggs in the nest and then grows faster than other chicks, eating all the food, sending the smaller chicks to their early deaths.