Given the life span of Parrotts and similar exotic birds, I think the entertainment value would pretty quickly exhaust itself. Then you are stuck with the burden of a fowl (ha) mouth that cannot be reasoned with or disciplined into better behavior for decades to come. Maybe it can be retrained, but if not, do you really want that in your house 24/7 for an untold number of years? Once it ceased being funny, I think it'd get old real quick. It's a serious commitment for whoever decides to adopt him.
My younger brother is like that. Every third or fourth word out of his mouth is a cuss word, mostly f-bombs. It is tiring. I cut him out of my life a few years ago due to his overwhelmingly negative attitude. I have never regretted that decision and my propensity to cuss is much less now.
School friend grew up with a green-head parrot, we were in 2nd or 3rd grade when they got it, we are 67 now and she still has it... It has to have coffee and toast in the morning or it throws a fit.... It has a large vocabulary and it's looking like her daughter will be taking care of it soon... JD
I used to be a trucker, there was a small truck stop south of Atlanta that had a guy on site that polished the aluminum fuel tanks and wheels, he had an old Dodge Dually with huge mirrors and he had a parrot just like this that sat on the mirror, the guy would solicit customers on the CB radio, so the parrot heard all the language on the CB, all day every day, and every person that walked by the truck, the parrot would let loose with the most hilarious insults that he had heard on the CB.
A priest walks into a pet store and asks the owner if he has any parrots. "I just got some in" says the owner and leads the priest to the back where the birds are, but they're all cussing up a storm. "Well I can't have a parrot like that," says the priest "Isn't there anything you can do?" The owner asks to give him a little time to train the parrots, and the priest agrees.
About a month goes by and the priest is back at the pet store. The owner greets him and brings him back to the birds. This time, all the parrots are quietly sitting on their perches. The priest marvels at how well behaved they are compared to the last time, when he notices there's a string tied to each leg of every parrot.
So he asks the owner about the strings, and the owner smiles and says "Pull one." The priest goes up to a beautiful red and gold parrot and pulls the string on it's left leg, to which the parrot recites the Our Father. Amazed, the priest pulls the string on the right leg and the parrot recites the Hail Mary. Thrilled, the priest buys the parrot and takes him back to the rectory.
Well that evening, the housekeeper is making dinner for the priest and comments on his new friend: "It's a lovely bird you have, Father, and so well behaved, but I want to ask you what the strings are for?" Smiling, he says "Pull one and see." So she pulls the string on left leg and sure enough, the parrot recites the Our Father. And when she pulls the string on the right leg, the parrot recites the Hail Mary. "That's incredible, Father, but tell me, what would happen if I pull both strings at the same time?" To which the parrot replied "I'd fall on my ass, you dumb shit!"
So, a guy walks into the kitchen and says, this is is the ugly thing I have to sleep with. His wife says, ahhh, she isn't ugly, she cute. Guy says, I wasn't talking to you.
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I want him! I could teach him so much more!
ReplyDeleteGiven the life span of Parrotts and similar exotic birds, I think the entertainment value would pretty quickly exhaust itself. Then you are stuck with the burden of a fowl (ha) mouth that cannot be reasoned with or disciplined into better behavior for decades to come. Maybe it can be retrained, but if not, do you really want that in your house 24/7 for an untold number of years? Once it ceased being funny, I think it'd get old real quick. It's a serious commitment for whoever decides to adopt him.
ReplyDeleteYou show em how a frying pan works and they'll STFU
DeleteGiven the life span of Parrotts...
ReplyDeleteIt Is "Adjustable""
My younger brother is like that. Every third or fourth word out of his mouth is a cuss word, mostly f-bombs. It is tiring. I cut him out of my life a few years ago due to his overwhelmingly negative attitude. I have never regretted that decision and my propensity to cuss is much less now.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a case of "Voluntary Tourette's Syndrome" (f*ckin' idiot)- oops, sorry about that- I too suffer from VTS-
DeleteSchool friend grew up with a green-head parrot, we were in 2nd or 3rd grade when they got it, we are 67 now and she still has it... It has to have coffee and toast in the morning or it throws a fit.... It has a large vocabulary and it's looking like her daughter will be taking care of it soon...
ReplyDeleteJD
I used to be a trucker, there was a small truck stop south of Atlanta that had a guy on site that polished the aluminum fuel tanks and wheels,
ReplyDeletehe had an old Dodge Dually with huge mirrors and he had a parrot just like this that sat on the mirror,
the guy would solicit customers on the CB radio, so the parrot heard all the language on the CB, all day every day,
and every person that walked by the truck, the parrot would let loose with the most hilarious insults that he had heard on the CB.
Reminds me of a story:
ReplyDeleteA priest walks into a pet store and asks the owner if he has any parrots.
"I just got some in" says the owner and leads the priest to the back where the birds are, but they're all cussing up a storm.
"Well I can't have a parrot like that," says the priest "Isn't there anything you can do?"
The owner asks to give him a little time to train the parrots, and the priest agrees.
About a month goes by and the priest is back at the pet store. The owner greets him and brings him back to the birds.
This time, all the parrots are quietly sitting on their perches. The priest marvels at how well behaved they are compared to the last time, when he notices there's a string tied to each leg of every parrot.
So he asks the owner about the strings, and the owner smiles and says "Pull one."
The priest goes up to a beautiful red and gold parrot and pulls the string on it's left leg, to which the parrot recites the Our Father.
Amazed, the priest pulls the string on the right leg and the parrot recites the Hail Mary.
Thrilled, the priest buys the parrot and takes him back to the rectory.
Well that evening, the housekeeper is making dinner for the priest and comments on his new friend:
"It's a lovely bird you have, Father, and so well behaved, but I want to ask you what the strings are for?"
Smiling, he says "Pull one and see."
So she pulls the string on left leg and sure enough, the parrot recites the Our Father. And when she pulls the string on the right leg, the parrot recites the Hail Mary.
"That's incredible, Father, but tell me, what would happen if I pull both strings at the same time?"
To which the parrot replied "I'd fall on my ass, you dumb shit!"
-lg
My scarlet MaCaw, Kula, has got quite a potty month. Wonder where in the hell she got that from? Had her 20+ years and she's going strong
ReplyDeleteSo, a guy walks into the kitchen and says, this is is the ugly thing I have to sleep with. His wife says, ahhh, she isn't ugly, she cute. Guy says, I wasn't talking to you.
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