My dad had a friend who was a psychotherapist who taught his parrot only one phrase: "Birds don't talk."
I always felt like his profession made this diabolical.
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2025
418 points (98.4% liked)
Microblog Memes
9988 readers
2068 users here now
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
Rules:
- Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
- Be nice.
- No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
- Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.
Related communities:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Be careful picking your bird. At least some parrots will learn sounds and phrases that you did not intend to teach them.
For example I had a friend with a parrot who would very convincingly make noises like somebody having a low conversation on the phone in the next room.
Funniest once is my friend's parrot making the microwave "done" sound
When I was a kid, the parrots of our neighbor learned the crying of my baby sister
Took way to long for my mom to realize why my sister was asleep in her bed, every time she got up to check
Mother in laws parrot would copy the sound of the house phone ringing. Not quite right, but from just far enough away to be heard it was very convincing
Holy shit, seriously? That's enough to make someone paranoid
Transcription
Tweet by "Ꮍᴀᴇʟ" @elle91:
I'm going to buy a parrot and only teach it to say 4 phrases:
-I miss my hands
-Never break a promise to a witch
-There's only one way to lift the curse
-I just want to hug my kids again
Don't forget the fifth phrase. "Break the curse. Become a parrot. Repeat after me."
I've actually seen this on Pushing Daisies. The 2 weird aunts said they scare trick-or-treaters off by spreading a rumour that they will turn them into animals, then their parrot says something along those lines.
Also remember that your parrot will likely outlive you.
I hope this person achieve his dream!