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If you had a talkative parrot

10 replies

littlebilliie · 03/02/2025 21:20

What would it say?

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SushiSheep · 03/02/2025 21:23

Pieces of eight!

littlebilliie · 03/02/2025 21:23

Our ^imaginary parrot 🦜would say
"put the heating on"
"Where is my keys? "^
"That tw@t next door"

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Newuser75 · 03/02/2025 21:29

Our parrot would say..
Hurry up we are going to be late
(To the dogs) stop barking!
Be kind to your brother

Revavalley · 03/02/2025 21:32

Mine would say "For Fuck Sake" mainly

catin8oots · 03/02/2025 21:41

My friend had a (horrible) African Grey and it used to mimic the smoke alarm.

Awful creature. And it would spit and hiss at me when I had the audacity to go within 3ft of its cage. I hope it's dead now but sadly I hear they can live to up to 80 years.

DiscoBeat · 03/02/2025 21:42

I had a great aunt who had a minor bird and some workmen taught it to say 'fuck off'. She was mortified!!
Mine would say 'come on, we're late!!!' it's like living in a house of sloths here!

Southwestten · 03/02/2025 21:49

We have got a parrot which can mimic virtually anything from a dripping tap to a phone ring in to copying speech accurately enough to identify the speaker. She often says ‘mum’ in dd’s voice which is unnerving as dd lives 70 miles away.

Slightly off topic, but I don’t think they are suitable as pets as they are sensitive and intelligent creatures which must be let out of the cages most days and also they are flock creatures and shouldn’t be left alone for more than a few hours.
Ours comes out for a few hours a day and has done a lot of damage to our house - pecking at picture frames, door jambs and so on, and if we forget to shut the kitchen cupboard doors she will chuck out china in order to hear the satisfying sound of it breaking on the stone floor.
Because of this people tend to keep them in cages all the time.

Anon501178 · 03/02/2025 21:51

I was chatting to a parrot at a local zoo once, and it told me to 'fuck off'

True story! 😅

CMOTDibbler · 03/02/2025 22:01

My dad used to parrot sit for a friend. His dogs were not allowed in the sitting room where the parrot was, and it would call them in using dads voice, then tell them off and send them out.
A former colleagues parrot would do the car alarms of the different family members to get them to come to the front of the house where it was. Similarly the house phone

Gloriainextremis · 03/02/2025 22:33

'Dreamies!'. It would wind the cats up no end.

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