If I go to a zoo and the parrots don’t curse me out I’m asking for a refund.
Be ungovernable
Submitted 2 months ago by phudgins@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 2 months ago
Zier@fedia.io 2 months ago
African Grays are complete assholes. One of the worst birds to own.
atomicorange@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Glass houses. I don’t see you flying up the stairs.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I demand more photos of your parrot
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
BEAUTIFUL PLUMAGE
Zier@fedia.io 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
squaakkkk!!! you’re a dick!!! squaaaakkkk!!!
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
How about a Norwegian Blue?
foo@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Norwegian Blues are quiet and chilled out, so I hear.
FreeLikeGNU@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lovely plumage!
El_Scapacabra@lemmy.zip 2 months 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 months 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 months ago
Don’t forget they also have bolt cutters for a face.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Menace 2 Society
kaulquappus@feddit.org 2 months ago
“Do it!”
thefluffiest@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Just in: parrots invent the internet
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
These are my kinda birbs.
zo0@programming.dev 2 months ago
Me and the boys at work
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Reminds me of Eric the Legend
diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Thats socialism
uranibaba@lemmy.world 2 months ago
cbsnews.com/…/parrots-separated-england-zoo-cursi…
😂
GeriatricGambino@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Narrator: >they did end up with 250 swearing birds>
shneancy@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Our parrots are perfect for a pirate, but swear like a sailor!
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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’?