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Martin Atkinson — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:31:14 GMT

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Same thing for my daughter at the age of 2. We got cut up by an overtaking driver and my wife and I looked at each determined not to swear in front of her. We then heard a "Furrkin helllll" from the back. I blamed my wife (she has a long-standing and hard won reputation when behind the steering wheel) but the next day I hit my thumb with a hammer and said exactly the same much to her delight and relief.

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I was equally careful not to swear in front of my children but the odd one escapes occasionally. I had an incident where I'd overtaken someone doing 30 in a 40 limit to which he took offence and deliberately sped up to stop me which caused me to cut him up to avoid an on-coming car. At a level crossing a couple of miles further on he got out and started f'ing and blinding while I calmly explained, with no bad language because my other daughter was sat in the passenger seat, why I thought he was wrong. Because I didn't lose my temper it made him worse and he continued the foul mouthed tirade as he stormed back to his car. At this point said 6 year old daughter opened her door and shouted at him, 'and you can f off too'. I didn't tell her off too much because she thought she was defending her dad, but I did try to explain that we were now as bad as him because up to that point we had held the moral high ground and by losing his temper he had lost the argument. I think the trouble is that however well you try to bring your own children they hear far worse than we ever use at school and on TV. It's just trying not to normalise it that is important.

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Robert Lowe — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:28:26 GMT

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My contribution was not a bird but my daughter, who at an age when she could say little more than mumma, dadda and JCB (for some reason she had a fixation for the yellow diggers), we were sat being someone wallying about and a perfectly formed, 'move it arse hole' emanated from the child seat in the back. I was of course blamed by Mrs A who sees it as point of embarrassment when the tale is recounted rather than a big hoot by said daughter and myself. For better or for worse she continues to show as much road rage as her father now she drives herself. Nothing to be proud of really.

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Charlotte Marshall — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:04:19 GMT

Not quite as funny but amusing for the nurses was the cockatoo who kept saying 'Good Boy' as he tried to bite my fingers off.

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Martin Atkinson — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:41:27 GMT

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Mark Rowland — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:33:29 GMT

We have a practice parrot who hates me and thinks Im his nemisis. One of my assistants gave him the nickname "the evil chicken" which sums him up nicely.

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Claire Fisher — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:16:48 GMT

We have a parrot that comes in and like to shout "Rafa, you bastard!"

We're in Liverpool - guess his owner is an Evertonian!

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Thomas Johnson — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:10:53 GMT

We occasionally look after a parrot for a client at the surgery, it does a very convincing imitation of the xray machine beep!

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Rob Davis — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:30:34 GMT

A little while ago we took on a parrot after his elderly owner passed away. It was intended to be a practice pet. It had to be rapidly removed from the waiting room when it started shouting at clients with particularly colourful language!

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Hannah Wynne Richards — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:28:31 GMT

The best bird noise I've come across was a parrot which imitated a reving-up motor bike-terrifying if you didn't know about it-and you were standing with your back to the cage

Wynne

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Clive Ansell — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:14:42 GMT

I have been told many times that my great grandfather had a jackdaw that used to say "bugger the parson" if he saw a gent wearing a bowler hat.

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Cat Henstridge — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:02:23 GMT

I helped at a home PTS as a student and just as the needle went into the moribund GSD, we had our sad faces on and the owner was weeping into the dog's fur, a loud F@*K OFF!! came floating in from the other room and continued throughout the procedure. It was a man's voice but afterwards the owner admitted it was the parrot, which had learnt the phrase from her husband while he was watching the Grand Prix and if that, or any motoring show, came on the TV, the parrot would start and not shut up until covered over!

The vet and I managed to get out of the house and down the drive before collapsing with laughter!

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Lorna McHardy — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:35:08 GMT

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Fishing, Ms McHardy? OK, I'll bite. I enjoy your posts enormously.

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LOL! I wasn't. Honestly, I wasn't... oh, er, and thank you

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Priceless ... and had us all laughing here at HQ

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Aye, the nurses, reception staff, clients in the waiting room, and window cleaner all also thought it very entertaining l

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Arlo Guthrie — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:27:14 GMT

[quote user="Lorna McHardy"]Strikes me I've been a bit moany lately, so I thought I'd post some good stuff... [/quote]

Fishing, Ms McHardy? OK, I'll bite. I enjoy your posts enormously.

[quote user="Lorna McHardy"]anyone else been called a bitch in furious tones shrilling all over the surgery and halfway down the street by a cockatiel getting its nails clipped? [/quote]

Priceless ... and had us all laughing here at HQ