kimilseung

dbd33

Eight pounds in kilowotsits, innit. A reference to how, although everything here is metric, nothing is.

Novocastrian

I sort of enjoyed that, so thank you, but what in the name of Parrot is the relevance?

kimilseung

The guy behind the curtain was Freddie "parrotface" Davies, could not find any video of him doing his budgie jokes.

Novocastrian

Aha. This is something I alluded to earlier and is based on the concept of wave- particle duality. A thing can be metric and imperial at the same time, it's just a matter of having a flexible view of perceived reality.

For example, the OP's reality is one that prevents her from emigrating to Canada (except as per your original suggestion on the QE2), without subjecting her parrot to cruel and unusual punishment. Everyone else's reality is the she's, err, wrong-headed?

It's all quantum physics at the end.

Novocastrian

I see. My bad. But I'm not a great fan of such things. I'll try do do better.

dbd33

It has emerged, perhaps coincidentally to this thread, that the neighbour here keeps a parrot. I wonder if all this concentration on parrots of late caused it to like, molecularly compose, on their daughter's shoulder. I hadn't heard a squawk before.

Novocastrian

Apologies for the hiatus, doggy time again. It was a perfect example of duality. As always, I turned to the right on exiting the driveway. Geordie, inexplicably decided to turn left and follow a couple of passing pedestrians (who weren't at all pleased at being followed by a sniffing unleashed dog).

As a student of alternative realities, I whistled in the dark, and eventually broke into the dog's foggy consciousness.

All's well that ends well, but I was forced to speculate on many deep matters, such as parrots.

Aviator

If the parrot escaped his cage, at 36000 feet, traveling at 500mph, could he have flown fast enough not to have been squashed into the back end?

The4BellsLondon

Does it matter - surely they are emigrating "for the parrot'??

Cheetah7

My cat threatened to take his own life if we didnt bring him to Australia with us, seriously wanted to slit his own paws and did so.

However, with your parrot, I would recommend having him killed, stuffed and moved by animatronics, that way he will live on in your heart forever, he will never die because he is already dead and you wont have to worry about him going in the hold of the plane as you can pop him in your hand luggage.

Honestly, stuffed is the way to go - my cat is now stuffed, I allowed him to slit his own paws - you are right about animal depression, Gordon got so depressed he slit his paws with the lid of a Whiskas can, so we got him stuffed and he now takes pride of place on the mantlepiece along with our stuffed dog from London.

Stuffing is the only option and I hear parrots stuff rather well.

luvmeboys

yeah, its got rights you know - Its your dream, not its

Greenhill

Unlucky Alf and his parrot sketch... classic

luvmeboys

Sue

Ok, ....... there is such a thing as taking a joke a little too far

It was funny at the beginning but OP did start this thread with a question and as the "helpful" stuff is no longer forthcoming I'm going to close the thread.