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@%#@%! my parrot pulled the keys off my laptop keyboard

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schneiderguy said:
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HAL9000 a parrot... suddenly everything makes much more sense.
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that explains why he likes nibbling on nuts
 
I had a red lore and an ag, as well as a blue and gold macaw. Bastard macaw took it upon himself to eat all of the moulding around my closet, in about 30 minutes. I had an umbrella cockatoo and was amazed and a bit scared watchng him demolish a 2x4 in about 10 minutes. Turned into wee tiny toothpicks really quick. I can imagine how easy it would be for an amazon to annihilate a keyboard!


Peace


Lounatik
 
Lounatik said:
I had a red lore and an ag, as well as a blue and gold macaw. Bastard macaw took it upon himself to eat all of the moulding around my closet, in about 30 minutes. I had an umbrella cockatoo and was amazed and a bit scared watchng him demolish a 2x4 in about 10 minutes. Turned into wee tiny toothpicks really quick. I can imagine how easy it would be for an amazon to annihilate a keyboard!


Peace


Lounatik
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cockatoo's beak strength is scary as hell. my amazon can bite like a mofo but not like cockatoo or macaw. i have couple of scars on my hand when he was going through his bird PMS and decided that my finger was a damn worm and bit the living shit out of me. no stitches but holy shit did that hurt it throbbed for hours. shortly after i found a woman who trims birds beaks and nails. his top beak was like a damn dagger and his bottom beak was as sharp as a razor. if he didnt get you with the dagger you can bet he would work his bottom beak and shave a few layers of skin off.

I had her come to the house, i was still new to him and did not want to get bit again. she was a complete pro and know exactly how to handle him. when she pulled out her towel and approached his cage he knew what was up and went nuts. his pissed off squawks sounded just like a monkey. she had him captured and all nails done with a dremmel and his beak done with a funky looking nail file in about 5 minutes.
 
OutHouse said:
cockatoo's beak strength is scary as hell. my amazon can bite like a mofo but not like cockatoo or macaw. i have couple of scars on my hand when he was going through his bird PMS and decided that my finger was a damn worm and bit the living shit out of me. no stitches but holy shit did that hurt it throbbed for hours. shortly after i found a woman who trims birds beaks and nails. his top beak was like a damn dagger and his bottom beak was as sharp as a razor. if he didnt get you with the dagger you can bet he would work his bottom beak and shave a few layers of skin off.

I had her come to the house, i was still new to him and did not want to get bit again. she was a complete pro and know exactly how to handle him. when she pulled out her towel and approached his cage he knew what was up and went nuts. his pissed off squawks sounded just like a monkey. she had him captured and all nails done with a dremmel and his beak done with a funky looking nail file in about 5 minutes.[/QUOTE

Heh, been down that road many a time. I lived in Florida any years ago and I did some work
for a woman who was on her second Moluccan cockatoo. I inquired about the first one she
had and she told me that it got ahold of her index finger at the knuckle and split her finger
in half all the way to the fingernail. She had surgery on it with screws to hold her finger

together. She said the bird did it so fast, she didnt have time to react. I asked her how come she didnt kill the bird, and she said she just couldnt do it.

I remember bagging my macaw for a trimming and he turned his head exorcist style to try and bite me, but bit his wing instead. Fucking room looked like a slaughterhouse aftr we let him go and he flapped his bloody wing everywhere. I forget, why dont I have birds anymore?
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feralkid said:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/fragments.htm
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Fragments are accepted in certain forms and applications of writing. His usage of quotes is not. I abuse quotes often myself, but never like that. That was just awkward.

He could have used the following to emphasize almost or the first syllable:
ALmost works.
ALMOST works.
Aaaal-most works.
Almost works.
Almost works
Almost works.
Almost works
Almost works.
Almost works

Any combination of those would work as well.
 
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OutHouse said:
my amazon like to sit on the monitor and just chill while i neff. so I went to take a deuce and when i come back i catch him in the act of going demolition man on my keyboard. i got the keys back in place buy my escape key doesn't work and several keys are flaky now. Grrrrrrr
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Laptop keys are a bitch to get in place correctly. Last time I did it, it involved two pairs of unusual tweezers and a couple regular head electronics screwdrivers.
 
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