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A man was regretting being given a parrot as a gift. The bird was extremely bad tempered and used a lot of awful language. Every second word was an expletive and those that weren’t were rude.
He tried retraining it to use better language, played soothing background music and even repainted the room the bird was in with calming pastel colours. He even shifted the television into another room in case that was having a negative effect.
Nothing seemed to work. After weeks of trying different methods the man eventually resorted to shouting at the bird. It responded with an even louder, foul-mouthed torrent of abuse.
The man, at wit’s end, grabbed the parrot and shut it in the kitchen freezer. After a few seconds of muffled curses all was silent in the freezer. Concerned, the man quickly opened the freezer door.
The parrot hopped out onto his arm and remorsefully said, “I’m terribly sorry to have been so bad tempered and used so much bad language. You have my word that I will behave much better from now on.”
The man was about to ask what had brought about such a dramatic change in attitude when the bird continued, “By the way, what did the bloody chicken do?”
He tried retraining it to use better language, played soothing background music and even repainted the room the bird was in with calming pastel colours. He even shifted the television into another room in case that was having a negative effect.
Nothing seemed to work. After weeks of trying different methods the man eventually resorted to shouting at the bird. It responded with an even louder, foul-mouthed torrent of abuse.
The man, at wit’s end, grabbed the parrot and shut it in the kitchen freezer. After a few seconds of muffled curses all was silent in the freezer. Concerned, the man quickly opened the freezer door.
The parrot hopped out onto his arm and remorsefully said, “I’m terribly sorry to have been so bad tempered and used so much bad language. You have my word that I will behave much better from now on.”
The man was about to ask what had brought about such a dramatic change in attitude when the bird continued, “By the way, what did the bloody chicken do?”