MajorSlapshot
Talyaa 🦋If you have a parrot and you don’t teach it to say, “help I’ve been turned into a parrot” you’re wasting everyone’s time.
IainMac9 🇦🇺🏴🇸🇩@Talyaa I have been saying that for years. All I get is funny looks.
Handmaiduns
Forex Streaks
Ged|Net@Talyaa 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
mjbatty@Talyaa love it love it love it 😂
Yahia Lababidi@Talyaa @Talyaa You are funny 🤪
Here are some #photos I took of #parrots , in #colombia & #usa 🦜
#bird #birds #birding #photography #photo #nature #naturephotography #tuesday
Frank Cote@EgyptianAphorist @Talyaa they're so beautiful they don't seem real.
@Frankc1450 @Talyaa Nothing is more Beautiful than the Real 😇
@EgyptianAphorist amazing. No parrots where I live (except I guess living indoors in people’s homes), so they seem exotic to me.
@Talyaa The green couple in the bottom right picture are in #Florida, the rest I saw in #Colombia — so they are exotic 😊
As a younger man, my folks had in #Egypt an African gray parrot which roamed around our home and so I’m used to them.
Lately, I’m just mad for all types of #birds ! Here are some more winged beauties that I’ve been fortunate to be around.
@EgyptianAphorist these are wonderful! Who’s the beauty with the large yellow feet?
@Talyaa That’s a mystery! Was outdoors by the water at a restaurant, in Miami, when this fantastic creature materialized by our table. When I was alone, let it hop *on* table for leftovers 🤪
@EgyptianAphorist how awesome!
Anya 👁️
Siim@Talyaa are you the one that has been doing this all along? You don't know how much heartache you've caused!
Cynder@Talyaa I have prankster parakeets that don’t speak but do imitate the chime telling me the refrigerator door was left open. LOL
Eleanor LNR Blair@Talyaa I would also teach mine to say "pieces of seven!"
Tigerfort
Winwaed
Simon 🪗@lnr @Winwaed @Talyaa ha - came here to post that joke, and have been telling it just as long ..
My variant is 'what goes "pieces of nine, pieces of nine", because I'm assuming an eight bit word and single parity bit.
I do take great delight in finding new victims who will understand it - sadly a reducing number :-(
Jackie ❤️☮️🇵🇸🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧@Talyaa
The best parrot-speaking sketch has to be this one. It's a very old one, so not just done for youtube. I think it's because of the bird's northern accent. The ending is hilarious.
https://youtu.be/2hUS73VbyOE
The best parrot-speaking sketch has to be this one. It's a very old one, so not just done for youtube. I think it's because of the bird's northern accent. The ending is hilarious.
https://youtu.be/2hUS73VbyOE
Swearing Parrot
Magick Man@Talyaa that is excellent! Haha.
Jesse@Talyaa @bethsawin And as we've seen from OpenAI, convincing everyone that a parrot has the mind of a human can be very lucrative!
Jojanneke van den Bosch
hedwyg@Talyaa Many years ago, we had a friend of the family whose girlfriend had a budgie. He said birds aren't _real_ pets and taught it to say "Bow wow, I'm a doggy."
DoctorOctothorp@Talyaa LOL!
Brought to mind the story of Alex the parrot who had a large vocabulary, taught other parrots to speak, and even coined new words (cork-nut for an unshelled almond)
https://www.npr.org/2009/08/31/112405883/alex-me-the-parrot-who-said-i-love-you
star@Talyaa well now I suspect you've turned someone into a parrot and are trying to cover up your tracks with false positives
and on the one hand, going along with your plan and enabling you would be reprehensible
on the other, I don't want to cross you and get turned into a parrot...
and on the one hand, going along with your plan and enabling you would be reprehensible
on the other, I don't want to cross you and get turned into a parrot...
British Tech Guru@Talyaa "Help me find the witch that turned me into a parrot"
Mary M. Redoutey@Talyaa I am remembering the story about a magician aboard a ship whose pet parrot upstaged him nightly by giving away the tricks, saying "the card is in the pocket" etc.
One day the ship sank mid act and the parrot and magician wound up floating on some luggage.
The parrot looked around in confusion and finally said to the magician, " What did you do with the ship?"
One day the ship sank mid act and the parrot and magician wound up floating on some luggage.
The parrot looked around in confusion and finally said to the magician, " What did you do with the ship?"
Kelly Guimont
Michael Thériault@Talyaa I regret to say our macaw has taught us to imitate her, and not the other way around. It is possible that, translated, we are saying, “Help, we’ve been turned into humans.”
@mtheriaultsf @Talyaa just to make the other macaws laugh
carol@Talyaa Well, now that's an idea! Mine just says totally judgy things like, "Stop it. You're being annoying."
David Bowman@Talyaa I'd teach it to say "And another thing. John Silver is a prat and I don't care who knows!"
@problemsdog When my dad was little, my grandparents had a parrot who'd yell 'Muum! Muuum!' loudly. When they were all out. The neighbours were very concerned. Think they even rang the police.
@Talyaa When I was a kid there was a parrot in a pet store who would talk constantly and when anyone would talk to him he would say "Birds can't talk". I also worked in an office next to a marina where a parrot would hang upside down by one foot from the top of his cage and yell "help" after witnessing a person who was hanging from rigging on a tall mast yelling help.
Chief@Talyaa My parrot says, "Don't be ridiculous, birds can't talk."
Waoac PNWI had a sulfur crested cockatoo named Pee Wee. I taught him to say "Who is it?" and "What are you doing?" so he could keep me company and I could feel fine about conversing with him because, hey, he asked me, didn't he? You have to be careful, because whatever you choose to teach them, you will hear A LOT. Oh, he could also say his name and would trail off when he was sleepy. "Pee wee,
pee wee, pee wee, pee wee...💤 💤
Adamas Nemesis
Derek Brauders@Talyaa 🤔.......😂😂😂
@Talyaa "I can talk! Can you fly?"
MichiganReadingTeacher ☕️@Talyaa just spit coffee out my nose. I hate you. 🤣😅🤣😅
@MichiganCJ I…hate you too? 😂😂😂
Aviva Gary@Talyaa lol I like it
Gary Gough@Talyaa
How about "Here kitty kitty" ?
How about "Here kitty kitty" ?
@GaryGough that would only happen once in my house (two bird-hungry cats who have never tasted a bird) 😹
mathew@Talyaa The SubGenius Parrot and Parakeet Training Tape featured the training sentences "I understand what I'm saying!" "I have a mind!" and "They torture me!"
(I taught one of my parakeets to say "Tweet", which amused me.)
CTrevethan🐡🥣@Talyaa better toteach it to ask, “what did the effing chicken do?”
Stella@Talyaa brilliant.
Roob@Talyaa "don't walk there! It will turn you into a parrot"
Riaz Ur Rahaman
Kayla Hicks
Polly Springhorn (she/her)@Talyaa or I AM NOT A CAT
Antonio@Talyaa No, you are not wasting anyone's time. Teaching your parrot to say certain phrases is a fun activity, but it is not necessary. You can still enjoy the companionship of your parrot without teaching it any words or phrases.
Deji
Phlawless@Talyaa Here's one I prepared earlier: https://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/ears/soundz/06HOLE/POLLY05.wav
Clinton Anderson SwordForHire@Talyaa In the old Made For TV movie "Mazes & Monsters" (the Satanic Panic in the early 80s, in retrospect, is hilariously sad) the character played by Chris Makepeace owns a bird that he has trained to respond to anyone asking "Hey, nice bird... Can it talk?" by saying "Birds can't talk"