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on Saturday October 03 2020, @02:54PM
from the should-have-gotten-a-dead-parrot dept.
from the should-have-gotten-a-dead-parrot dept.
Parrots removed from British wildlife park after swearing at visitors:
Five parrots have been removed from public view at a British wildlife park after they started swearing at customers.
The foul-mouthed birds were split up after they launched a number of different expletives at visitors and staff just days after being donated to Lincolnshire Wildlife Park in eastern England.
"It just went ballistic, they were all swearing," the venue's chief executive Steve Nichols told CNN Travel on Tuesday. "We were a little concerned about the children."
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Snotnose on Saturday October 03 2020, @03:00PM (2 children)
If they're 8 years old they already know every word those parrots were, um, parroting.
Me? I'd love to visit those parrots. Might learn a new phrase.
I came. I saw. I forgot why I came.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 03 2020, @04:16PM
"Heaven for climate, hell for company."
- Mark Twain
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 03 2020, @06:30PM
So are you saying that you know less than an 8 year old?
(Score: 2) by looorg on Saturday October 03 2020, @03:02PM (11 children)
They had to learn it from somewhere. Either staff or visitors. Staff has a lot more access to them and can better program them then people that just have a look. But I guess it could also be the children they were so worried about, like kids these days don't know all the words that parrots just parroted (?).
That said was he called a fat twat or a fat tit? So we know. For research. Or was it that Poly just wanted another fucking cracker?
But lets not forget what it's important here. The poor children. Think of the children.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 03 2020, @03:37PM (9 children)
From TFA, all the parrots were "donated" to the park after COVID-19 started.
That is, owners thought these birds were cute, until they were penned up in the house with the potty-beaked creatures all day long.
So, all the birds were taught vulgarity because bird owners require the birds to be vulgar and shocking.
Hail to the Nibbler in Chief.
(Score: 3, Informative) by sjames on Saturday October 03 2020, @04:38PM (8 children)
At least one of the owners anyway. Parrots will teach each other, even in the wild.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 03 2020, @05:30PM
Actaully they got worst at the park, since they would cross "talk" and adult visitors though they were hilarious. They just need to open an Audlt/xxx/18+ section for the brids hand out. Think Disney's Tiki crossed with a strip club!
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday October 04 2020, @05:26AM (6 children)
Or the birds just heard it somewhere and repeated it. My sister had a parrot, never tried to teach it any words, but it copied all sorts of household chatter. In particular it liked to give orders to the dog and 'answer' the phone.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Sunday October 04 2020, @03:58PM (1 child)
Now I'm curious - did it seem to give the dog orders that were relevant to its interests, or just to get the dog worked up?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Reziac on Sunday October 04 2020, @04:24PM
It was jealous of the dog. So it would call the dog: "Jaz, come!" Jaz would obediently come and sit in front of the parrot's cage. The parrot would then yell, "BAD DOG!" and poor Jaz would wilt. But after a few iterations the dog got wise to this, and while he'd still obey the parrot, when the parrot berated him, he'd look around for a human and wag his tail like "Silly bird..."
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 3, Funny) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday October 04 2020, @10:10PM (3 children)
I knew a guy who owned a budgie who learned "fuck off" which made it very difficult to give away when he decided to move to another country.
Hilarious little bird though. He was given it and never quite got around to getting a cage for it, so it slept with the dog.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday October 04 2020, @11:00PM (2 children)
That is hilarious. Weird little brains they have...
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by PartTimeZombie on Monday October 05 2020, @12:28AM (1 child)
I think the budgie learned "fuck off" because Kevin (the owner) had a big workshop, and the budgie was always stealing small shiny things, like little spanners or what have you.
Also, the budgie's name was "the budgie".
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Monday October 05 2020, @01:02AM
Hmm. Wonder if I can teach that to the magpies...
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 03 2020, @03:40PM
The parrots had recently been fired from Fok Snooze for using teh N-werd.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday October 03 2020, @03:13PM
Have they moved on... (what's it name?)... Gab, now that the mainstream SM cancelled their freeze peach? (large grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 03 2020, @03:13PM
Why are British people allowed to visit a wildlife park where they could give / receive a Covid-1984 infection? Do they want to kill grandma? And why on Earth would they bring their children outside with them? Not just does that put them at risk of Covid, they could also be exposed to parrots swearing.
(Score: 4, Funny) by RS3 on Saturday October 03 2020, @03:32PM (1 child)
They should teach them to do the Dead Parrot Sketch.
(Score: 2) by leon_the_cat on Saturday October 03 2020, @05:10PM
That parrot is definitely alive and well.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 03 2020, @03:41PM
yeah .. somebodies went thru alot if trouble to f..k up those birds.
i wonder if these 'em same somebodies also do similar stuff to their non bird environment ...
(Score: 3, Funny) by SomeGuy on Saturday October 03 2020, @03:56PM (3 children)
I think someone missed a golden opportunity to teach these parrots some goatse quality phrases that would melt peoples minds - regular Soylantnews visitors probably know what I mean. These things are British, so they could have at least taught them "Bollocks". Or perhaps have them deliver a simple, factual, message what would destroy most idiot's world, like "There is no such thing as god". Then they would have had to put the parrots to death for blasphemy.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 03 2020, @03:59PM
If their owners had them in front of the TV back in March, they may have learned "Masks are useless!"
That would melt some people's minds today.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by deimtee on Saturday October 03 2020, @08:03PM (1 child)
Make England Great Again.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 05 2020, @05:10AM
Epstein's Billionaire's Club's mission lives on in England: Giving them all the tasty hebes they can get their paws on.
Of course they will have to compete with Parliament/MI5 for the honors :)
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 03 2020, @06:18PM (1 child)
Send them north of the border, the foul-mouthed feathery wee bastards will fucking well fit right in...
There was a pet shop locally which had a rather old (40-50 years) resident scarlet macaw, it had spent about half of it's life in a dockside pub in a shipbuilding area, now, could it swear?, in multiple languages?, in different accents?, have a guess....
The number of offers the owner had to buy him because of his repertoire, £1500, the largest offer I heard about, in the late 70's wasn't chickenfeed..but for a bird that could (and would constantly) swear in English, Gaelic, Welsh, French, German, Spanish, Portugese, Norwegian, Polish and Russian..it still wasn't enough..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 05 2020, @01:55AM
Can I get one to talk to telemarketers?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 04 2020, @12:14AM (2 children)
Leave the swearing to Prince Harry.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 04 2020, @01:27AM (1 child)
The little ginger nazi? He is Americas problem now.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 04 2020, @10:04AM
Yes, yes, yes, and the yanks are welcome to host the Hewett boy and his wannabe-Wallis Simpson..etc. etc.
You have to marvel at the apparently overt idiocy displayed by Markle, she sets out to hook a Royal prince, achieves her objective, marries the 2nd prize possibly-bastard-cuckoo-edgy-bad-boy-prince-with-the-dead-possibly-murdered-by-family-sloaney-slapper-mother-issues-as-an-excuse-backstory, then, apparently, umm, royally fucks it all up...
Bread and circuses folks, bread and circuses: the next generation...
The royal soap opera (formerly Circus, but times change..) rolls on, 21st Century Hollyweird style, it's continuing mission, the tiny minds of the English, Unionist and monarchist hoi polloi: the next generation, to keep distracted with this ongoing badly scripted dreck..
The Russians had the right idea in how to deal with these cultural infestations, pity there's too many of these Saxe-Coburg parasites now to do the same with them
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