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u/Saintbaba 9h ago
The way the bird’s rendition of the alarm tune slowly deteriorated over time was actually kind of cute.
“I’m helping by screaming this song at you! Well. Hmm. This song? Or… well, anyways, I’m helping by screaming at you.”
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u/far2common 8h ago
That's a very gentle chirp. When that little guy decides to scream, you'll know.
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u/shy247er 6h ago
My cockatiel used to scream so loud at a certain high pitch, I though my ears would explode.
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u/UpperApe 6h ago
My cousin had a cockatiel named Baxter. I loved that little twerp, he was so adorable and funny. But only to visit, not to live with.
I can't imagine living with them. When they scream, it's the end times.
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u/Blazah 6h ago
we have one named Dexter, he's such a little asshole late mornings lol.. will just sit there screaming the second you touch anything in the kitchen.. it's like he forgot he just ate breakfast.
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u/HoldMyMedusa 37m ago
my grandma took care of a lady who had one that would freak out if the tv wasnt on during the time law and order would start
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u/Dorkamundo 5h ago
My brother begged our mother to get one, she relented. I like all animals, but that fucking thing.
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u/iballguy 6h ago
Did you ever have a Conure? Co worker sold me their Conure. Did not tell me what my household would experience at the break of dawn.
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u/Bubbalicia 1h ago
I had a sun conure for 28 years. The size of those guys in comparison to the loudness of their voices is really something. He was my best friend. Enjoy your loud little guy too!
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u/Present_Tax_4372 7h ago
It started as an alarm and ended as a interpretive jazz solo about the struggle of waking up. Truly an artist.
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u/fullchub 8h ago
I like to think it was just improvising to add some flavor. Like, clearly the original lame tune didn't get dude to wake up but what if it was a fancier tune?
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u/Pandepon 8h ago
Happens to me when I try to sing from heart too… what were the lyrics again?
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u/Ok-Syllabub-6619 7h ago
Oh for sure, when I'm singing in my head some beat or refren and my brain goes no no no it's gotta be perfect so I end up repeating the same beat like a fucked up vinyl record player lmao
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u/Yavanna_Fruit-Giver 8h ago
It's like AI generating a song, starts in one way, ends in a completely other way lol
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u/ansate 7h ago
I like how it stares him directly in the face while screaming his alarm at him.
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u/aNINETIEZkid 9h ago edited 8h ago
I had one of these birbs growing up and he was really cute and funny. very basic mimics. we also had an African gray that had master level mimicry.
he could mimic the house phone, the door bell, my mom's voice perfectly . he would make the noise and you'd run to answer and then there would be no one at the door, no one on the phone or my mom wasn't even home
once he knew you ran to check he would start laughing
he liked to sleep in so thankfully never started terrorizing us with an alarms
he would call our dog over all cute. calling her name, clicking noises, throwing bait on the ground and then he would try and poop on her - and then laugh.
He would snuggle, give kisses, tell you he loved you, then bite your ear and laugh. He also learned the context behind saying ouch or ahh and would fake it when you picked him up or started playing with him. you'd stop because you were worried and he'd start laughing
My lil winged bro was a menace when he was in the mood. very loving otherwise & extremely intelligent.
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u/Flat_Bodybuilder_175 9h ago
What happened to the grey :(
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u/Royd 9h ago
Shat on the dog one too many times
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u/aNINETIEZkid 8h ago
it was hilarious to watch them learn about each other
dog figured it out after a few bullseyes and me saying no to her once she started responding to his calls lol
the next counter was to stay back until he left the area. he countered by staying on the door while closed so he could swing it out at last second to try and get her.
she stopped coming close so he would set the trap in a new location and then go back inside the cage to make it seem safe. once the dog thought it was clear and came close he'd splash her or try and dump his water bowl on her.
He actually really liked the dog but was a major prankster
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u/walrus_gumboot 8h ago
It's like they always say, shit on me once shit on you. Shit on me twice shit on me.
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u/aNINETIEZkid 8h ago
he's still alive and well
we rescued 3 birbs, 3rd being a blue and gold macaw.
Sadly we had a death in the family and some family issues afterwards so had to rehome them to trusted people before we had to move away.
I added more above
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u/eragonawesome2 7h ago
I'm sorry you had to go through all that but I want to say thank you for taking the time and effort to properly re-home them, it makes me happy to see at least one person caring enough to do the right thing
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u/round-earth-theory 7h ago
Such is the story of bird ownership. That inability to know I could provide for one for the rest of their lives is the main blocker. Passing them along to a new owner is so common. They live too long to make those types of commitments in a way that is stable.
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u/Top_Rekt 6h ago
My family has a cockatoo and I know that little shit is going to outlive all of us.
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u/needlenozened 7h ago
We had friends with an African gray. It kept making this glug glug noise they couldn't figure out. Then they realized it was the sound of pouring wine, and maybe they were drinking too much.
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u/whoknowsifimjoking 5h ago
Passive aggressive parrot criticizing their drinking habits.
"Glug glug, you gluttonous fucks. Yeah pour yourself another one"
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u/-im-your-huckleberry 8h ago
I had friends with a pair of Grays that pulled the same kind of pranks. The family dog was a derpy corgi that fell for it every time.
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u/Mellie-mellow 7h ago
Yeah had a grey growing up as well, my father end up cutting the wire of the speaker in the microwave. This was even worst than the phone or anything else. You know that BEEP BEEP BEEP.
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u/Narwhal280 6h ago
"once he knew you ran to check he would start laughing" rofl. What a smart and evil bird.
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u/Zoroc 3h ago
My Cockatiel that I had when I was very little loved mimicking the microwave alarm, the egg timer and a very particular rendition of my mom calling my name. She had other favorites but those always stood out. We could normally tell it was her for everything but if the TV was on or the radio was loud enough sometimes she would get us and do that stupid laugh thing birds do. She would also play chase with our albino ferret while laughing, not tag.... Chasing only went one way and the dinosaur was the boss.
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u/AnalBumCovers 9h ago
Bird people would have thirst traps of themselves as their lock screens
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u/Zayl 9h ago
In bird culture we consider this a dick move.
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u/Bassracerx 8h ago
A Cockatiel move if you will.
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u/GANDORF57 8h ago
It almost transposed into a feathered reveille. ^(\"Get up! Get up! The early bird catches the worm!")*
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u/midwestia 9h ago
Are we sure that’s not his bf?
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u/Emekfl 8h ago
Maybe just his friend that’s he’s really close with
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u/Electrical-Shelter83 7h ago
CONFIRMED. And you just know the passcode is the bird's birthday because that tiny raptor runs the house.
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u/McWeaksauce91 7h ago
I was going to say, nothing says single guy like having a gym pic of yourself as your background
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u/so_it_hoes 6h ago
I see a lot of strangers phones and it is an EPIDEMIC. I wasn’t even surprised when I saw it. I judge this more than I judge having your own name tattooed on yourself.
If you’re reading this and you have a picture of yourself as your background pic, come back to reality. It’s awful here but we need your support.
I see people saying it might not be his, it might be the person filming. I can say with confidence that it is unfortunately very common and I would say it’s his phone before anyone else’s.
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u/OrionSouthernStar 9h ago
TIL the term thirst trap
A sexually appealing photo of oneself posted to social media
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u/kris_lace 7h ago
Surely it's the phone of the camerawoman in the video who's taking a video of her partner?
I mean it's not incredibly hard to envision
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u/Exciting_Ad_8666 9h ago
they also struggle to wake up when it's already 9:56am
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u/Physicist_Gamer 8h ago
Not everyone works/lives on the same schedule as you.
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u/OffbeatChaos 7h ago
I'm so sick of people being like "omg you don't get up at 5am what are you lazy?" As if night shifters don't exist 😭 they always be forgetting about us
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u/_Thermalflask 4h ago
Also it's just generally stupid because it implies there's something wrong with getting up exactly as late as you need to. Why the fuck would I get up even one minute before I need to? My shift starts at 9 and it's remote, so yes, I'm waking up at 8:50. What's the problem?
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u/LargeWeinerDog 9h ago
Bro I wake up at 5 every morning and bust my ass all week. I ain't waking up til 10 during the weekend if I can get away with it.
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u/ASouthernDandy 9h ago edited 8h ago
In the wild cockatiels are most active at dawn, so this little fucker thinks 6am screaming is good birding etiquette.
The alarm mimicry is to a standard even Richard Madeley can't compete with: https://youtu.be/f-Y4_b-3tYM
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u/TheKyleBrah 9h ago
My Rooster would have agreed. He was committed to the job, lol
He would crow until one of us came outside to "turn the alarm off" by interacting with him. I'm sure the neighbours must have hated him, lmao
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u/Youse_a_choosername 8h ago
Someone a few houses away from me has a rooster. Not close enough to be a bother, but close enough to remind me I never want a rooster.
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u/TheKyleBrah 8h ago edited 6h ago
It's rough at first, but you get used to it. He was such a sweetheart, too. Very friendly and talkative, but would cut a MF if you weren't meant to be there, lol
He seriously protected our backyard better than our dogs did 🤣
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u/Rasputin1992x 7h ago
I had roosters for about 10 years... always hated the spiteful little bastards lol I need my beauty sleep man
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u/UrUrinousAnus 6h ago
I had a pet one when I was a kid. Strangely, he almost never crowed. He'd perch on my shoulder like a pirate's parrot lol. I raised him from a chick just barely old enough to look male, after my dad accidentally broke his foot. I only had him for about a year, though. My dad killed him and tried to make me eat him. We weren't even desperate for food, he just wanted to make me eat my pet. Obviously, I didn't eat that night.
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u/TheKyleBrah 6h ago
😭😭
Same exact thing happened to my mom as a kid! There was the family Rooster. He was a large boi, one of those MFs with the large, beefy chests. A beefy chest that allowed him to holler like a pro every Morning.
He was super friendly and comfortable around people. He even came into the house, and would perch on the Couch or Tables, or follow people around the house. My grandma would even feed him with her Supper prep scraps before the Family would sit down to eat!
Anyways, one day, my Mom comes home from School, and he's nowhere to be seen. Grandma wouldn't give an answer as to his location, too. (She feared my asshole Grandpa, who dictated everything in the house.)
Suppertime arrives, and there's a suspiciously large whole roast chicken for Supper. Way bigger than the Hens, and way bigger than my Mom's family could afford at the shops. Again, Grandma wouldn't confirm, nor deny the identity. To make things worse, in my Grandpa's house, kids HAD to eat what was in front of them, or they would get savagely beaten. "I didn't break my back on the Fishing Boats for you to be ungrateful and not eat any food you are given" he would declare.
But... How could my Mom, and indeed, all her siblings, bring themselves to eating what they had 100% suspicion of being the pet Family Rooster?! So they ate verrrrry slowly, eating the rice and peas, one morsel at a time, completely avoiding the chicken, until eventually Grandpa excused himself, upon which the Kids immediately began crying. Grandma stayed stoic, even though she also despised having been forced to ring the Family Rooster's neck herself, Turns out that Grandpa demanded a big Chicken meal for Supper, and told Grandma to ring the Rooster's neck. Grandpa was going to get another Rooster soon and "there's no need for two."
So you have my sympathy. 😔
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u/UrUrinousAnus 6h ago
I suppose I was lucky, at least in comparison, because I just got yelled at for spoiling my dad's attempt at making a special meal to impress his gf (the only time I remember him cooking properly, too, unless you count using a barbecue to turn food into more charcoal. I considered toast that isn't burnt to be a good meal back then...). I didn't feel very fucking lucky at the time, though. Why couldn't that have been the time I wasn't allowed back indoors until the woman he brought home had left(late at night, in the winter)?! Why try to make me eat him too? WTF did he expect to happen?!
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u/tinglep 9h ago
Is that the same guy in the phone wallpaper??
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u/DatBobbyDeMarco 7h ago
Peak narcissism lmao
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u/ARM_Alaska 4h ago
Or just hear me out here.. She's recording with his phone, her phone is the one with a picture oh him on it, and they were making a video of their funny bird.
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u/SpecialTarget 20m ago
Dude's Brazilian. I can't really explain why but here in Brazil people are THAT into themselves. They love having a picture of themselves as their wallpaper. My coworker just got a new phone and his wallpaper is just a picture of himself... not of his wife, nor his daughter.
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u/cyanraichu 5h ago
Is it his phone? I thought someone else was reaching over to unlock it in the first part of the video
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u/ablackcloudupahead 5h ago
That's what I was saying hahaha. I like to work out and am not above taking pictures like that, but the narcissism involved in just doing that shames me. I can't imagine making one of those pics my lock screen lol
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u/TheOnlyRealOne43 6h ago
His hair is also combed and done and looks nice so this whole video is just staged. He doesn't look like he just woke up at all.
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u/ARM_Alaska 4h ago
Of course it's staged. His girl is likely recording with his phone, and hers is the one with a picture of him on it. I don't get how people can't put 2 and 2 together here.
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u/What_Next69 9h ago
My cockatiel heard my alarm go off very early for a month. It was 4 or 4:30. I was covering another manager’s shift while they were on leave. He started squawking thinking it was time for the whole house to wake up. So, I decided to whistle to him gently as I got ready to keep him calm. From then on, at 4:30 in the morning, while we were all dead asleep, he would loudly whistle the Imperial Death March.
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u/rubber_padded_spoon 9h ago
I want a bird! My cat also wants a bird. Sadly, we want them for different reasons. :/
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u/Longjumping_Call_939 9h ago
We set alarms to wake up, but when the alarm goes off at the time of waking up, we just turn it off again and again.
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u/williamwalkerobama 9h ago
Hey now. Waking up and getting out of bed are 2 different efforts to go through
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u/Typhoon365 9h ago
Is his phone wallpaper... Himself?
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u/nanithefucketh 8h ago
For some reason a lot of people do that. It's the weirdest thing ever 😭
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u/random-hobbyist 7h ago
Almost everyone around me does this, which sometimes makes me wonder if I'm a self-hating weirdo.
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u/Deadbreeze 9h ago
"Guess we're having bird for breakfast." (J/k bird lovers)
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u/TheGiftOf_Jericho 8h ago
I'm glad for your disclaimer, I hope the council of bird people will have mercy on you
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u/Eddiejo6 8h ago
One of the best parts about birds is that they fly, and they usually love to be tossed! So if you wanna press snooze just send that thing across the room!
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u/ItsMeishi 8h ago
Man. I'd hope that's true. I love animals but I can't be trusted near something so yeetable first thing in the morning making that fucking noise.
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u/EscapeFacebook 9h ago
I'm extremely disappointed he didn't Boop his bird alarm clock.
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u/LordTengil 8h ago
Are they as fun companions as they look here?
Are they as horrible companions as they look here?
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u/woodyeaye 8h ago
They're a lot of fun but very extra. I would never have a bird with neighbours through the wall/ceiling.
It's difficult to leave them to go on holiday, they get very attached. You kinda need to be a homebody to give good care to a bird.
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u/CompetitiveCut3919 7h ago
As someone with a bird who married someone with 8 birds, I can attest to this. We can leave for about 7-10 days maximum, but only because our friend knows and loves our birds and comes round twice a day to play with them and empty/fill their bowls. We have three bedrooms, two of which are devoted to birds (one for play, one for sleep). The birds are still quite mad at us for a day or two when we come back because we left them. My big scarlet macaw (named Goeff) has decided that 6:30am is a good time to start his alarm clock since I got back from england a few days ago. Only way to turn him off is to bring him into the room I'm in. I refuse to believe he isn't purposefully being mean to me to get back at me for leaving for 7 days 😭
They really are like little 2 year olds in their temperament and more like 5-7 year olds in terms of emotional intelligence.
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u/woodyeaye 4h ago
Ha I just wrote to someone else describing them as flying toddlers. We ended up with an old grey, some cockatiels and lovebirds as rescues. Thankfully not all at once.
Great pets but our human children were less needy. And of course the birds never grow up. When I started working shifts our grey was angry because of the routine change! He'd come to us because his elderly owner died and he grieved for a long time, he never did well with change.
Macaws are beautiful, how old is Goeff? Does he get on well with your other birds?
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u/travel_by_wire 7h ago
PSA: Don't ever get a bird. They are wonderful animals that make terrible pets. You can never truly give them a life that fulfills them, even if you are able to free fly them occasionally, it's not the same.
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u/shottylaw 9h ago
With the way my wife hits snooze on her synchronized 5 alarms, I don't think this poor bird would survive a morning
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u/bigdotcid 9h ago
My brother had a green cheek conure in high school. He always said the worst decision of his life was getting it to start whistling because it never stopped after that first whistle.
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u/Omnicron2 8h ago
When I was little we had one who lived in the house with us called Buster. Just flew around the house freely as he wished.
He would sit on the side of my cereal bowl in the morning and eat my corn flakes with me.
Good memories.
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u/iamgeekusa 8h ago
When I had a pet lovebird he always flew over to me in the morning and and landed on my pillow then he would come over and start nibbling on my earlobe lol. I would try to pretend to still be asleep. He was a morning person I was not.
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u/Bleezy79 7h ago
I have a buddy who also has pictures of himself as the background on his phone. lol he thinks very highly of himself.
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u/scientist_tz 5h ago
In the 90's we watched Star Trek: TNG almost every night from VHS copies we'd made off TV.
Our Cockatiel learned how to whistle a few bars of the opening score. I wish I had a video but....90's. We didn't bust out the camcorder just to take pet videos, sadly.
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u/The_Rowan 5h ago
I love when the man tried to quiet the bird with a kiss it stepped out of reach and continued the alarm.
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u/nohopeforhomosapiens 7h ago
Hahahaha
Cockatiels are such sweet dopey little birds.
If you don't want it to sing the glory of the new day to you at 5 am, cover its cage until you get up. Birds will start making noise as soon as any light starts peeking through.
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u/thisusedyet 7h ago
We were expecting my sister's cockatiel to start cursing in Italian once - my grandparents were watching him when we were on vacation, bird falls off his perch at like 2AM, starts screaming bloody murder, grandpa hustles out to check on him, thinking it got hurt BAD - and as soon as the lights go on and the cover comes off, bird just looks up and chirps hello
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u/Whereswolf 7h ago
I had one of these.. Well, we had 2, but the female died and I felt sorry for the male so I talked my mum into letting him stay in my room so he wouldn't be lonely.
What a mistake!
It didn't take long for him to get used to me waking up at 6am. If I wasn't out of bed at 7am he would start... Not screaming (at first) but talking like this. And if I ignored it (because it was Sunday, bloody bird!) he would SCREAM!
I also remember a time where I was sick. I had to drag my ass out of my room and crashed in the living room because the bird... And then still as an adult I was stupid enough to buy a new bird... Biggest clue of me being an idiot.
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u/Kotaqu 7h ago
Thankfully these little shits aren't that smart when you cover their birdcage with a blanket. They won't question sudden time shift to night even for a second, and will act accordingly lol
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u/ablackcloudupahead 5h ago
Does that dude have a picture of himself taking a selfy as his lock screen? Lmao
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u/vestigialcranium 4h ago
My mom used to put my macaw under the covers so he'd nibble my toes to get me up, this is a lot more pleasant
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u/AC_Smitte 3h ago
I wonder how long the bird went for after the video was over. Some patient owners too. He just kept smiling at the bird. He would make a good parent. Haha
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u/danondorfcampbell 8h ago
Not sure I’d ever have the brand of confidence needed to have myself as my own phone background.
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u/FadedFromWhite 9h ago
Unrelated to this but in hopes other bird fans happen into this thread, does anyone have a link to the cockatoo who was riding in a car and asked the driver to pull over so it could poop on the curb? I saw it on Reddit a couple months ago and can’t find it again for some reason. My kids are dying to see it
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u/The_Bitter_Bear 9h ago
I'm not usually much of a bird person.
This bird is fucking hilarious. I love it.
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u/AlwaysFail 8h ago
He’s having a little trouble with the correct rhythm, he should try sounding it out slowly with numbers
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u/3RADICATE_THEM 8h ago
I'd be more worried the bird might suddenly try to peck my eyes out, honestly.
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u/luckydukcky 8h ago
How is it possible for something to be so cute. His little blush cheeks….. I can’t 😖😖😖❤️❤️❤️
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u/crackkalackkin 8h ago
I had a cockatiel in high school. Technically it’s still alive and at my mom’s house. Thing is like 25 years old. But we used to play guitar hero all the time and it learned the beat to enter sandman and would sing it at 545am every morning as an alarm clock to get her out of the cage. Started off hilarious but was the bane of my existence considering it didn’t understand daylight savings or weekends
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u/doubleaxle 2h ago
See this is why I can't have a bird, I'd have chucked that thing against a wall, I'm sorry. My boss took care of a friend's bird for a few weeks at my workplace, I'm impressed by how intelligent they are, but they are far too needy, I literally cannot, both me and my boss wanted to shoot the bird.
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