If I go to a zoo and the parrots don’t curse me out I’m asking for a refund.
Be ungovernable
Submitted 3 weeks ago by phudgins@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
Zier@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
African Grays are complete assholes. One of the worst birds to own.
atomicorange@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I have an African Grey. She’s quiet and gentle and obsessed with climbing under blankets and she’s dumb as a rock. Truly a model specimen.
Here she is climbing the stairs one by one instead of flying.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Glass houses. I don’t see you flying up the stairs.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I demand more photos of your parrot
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
BEAUTIFUL PLUMAGE
Zier@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Sadly they can be very good for a very long time, but once they become obsessed with something, the horrid noises they make are utterly exhausting. I have lived with 3 that have been utter nightmares. The Timneh's are worse than the larger Greys.
marcos@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
All parrots are great trolls.
All corvids are humorless vengeful beasts.
Both families coexist around Australia. I’m really curious of how they do it. I imagine they have some kind of unstable feud.
El_Scapacabra@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Agreed on the parrots but a lot of corvids I’ve encountered were absolute trolls as well. Very intentional and calculating, they clearly had fun antagonizing other animals. Don’t get me wrong, they’re assholes. But they’re funny assholes.
Maybe European corvids aren’t like Australian ones. I’ve heard stories about your magpies.
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
squaakkkk!!! you’re a dick!!! squaaaakkkk!!!
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
How about a Norwegian Blue?
foo@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Norwegian Blues are quiet and chilled out, so I hear.
FreeLikeGNU@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lovely plumage!
El_Scapacabra@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
There’s a zoo near me that started out as a rescue park for abandoned parrots. One enclosure had all the potty-mouthed parrots in it and they hung up a sign saying
“If the parrots shout insults, they’re (usually) not directed at you personally”
That always made me laugh.
Also don’t buy parrots as pets. They’re notoriously difficult to keep and most people get in way over their heads while the parrots live a miserable and depressed (and very long!) life.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I’ve heard that having a parrot for a pet is like having a perpetual 3 year old that can fly. Sounds like literal hell to me.
El_Scapacabra@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Don’t forget they also have bolt cutters for a face.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Menace 2 Society
kaulquappus@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
“Do it!”
thefluffiest@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Just in: parrots invent the internet
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
These are my kinda birbs.
zo0@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Me and the boys at work
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Reminds me of Eric the Legend
diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Thats socialism
uranibaba@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
cbsnews.com/…/parrots-separated-england-zoo-cursi…
😂
GeriatricGambino@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Narrator: >they did end up with 250 swearing birds>
shneancy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
then you make it a feature! “visit the swearing parrot enclosure! be cussed at by various birds! we’ve tried stopping them, but they didn’t care”
fartographer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Our parrots are perfect for a pirate, but swear like a sailor!
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
… You don’t know what to do with 250 swearing birds?
You start a comedy act, or show, is what you do.
Do a mockumentary.
… what do they mean ‘don’t know what to do’?