There’s a zoo near me that started out as a rescue park for abandoned parrots. One enclosure had all the potty-mouthed parrots in it and they hung up a sign saying

“If the parrots shout insults, they’re (usually) not directed at you personally”

That always made me laugh.

Also don’t buy parrots as pets. They’re notoriously difficult to keep and most people get in way over their heads while the parrots live a miserable and depressed (and very long!) life.

Looks like you just handed me a new Rabbit Hole to dive into, lol.

Oh, I didn’t know that, what are they most closely related to then?

Agreed on the parrots but a lot of corvids I’ve encountered were absolute trolls as well. Very intentional and calculating, they clearly had fun antagonizing other animals. Don’t get me wrong, they’re assholes. But they’re funny assholes.

Maybe European corvids aren’t like Australian ones. I’ve heard stories about your magpies.

Username checks out, I guess?

Recently I had a guy deliver a new appliance. The hallway still reeked of his cologne two hours after he left, when he hadn’t been in my house for more than 5 minutes. I didn’t even think that was possible.

I have a personal vendetta against OneDrive because it literally holds your files hostage. It uploads your data without your consent and then threatens to cut off access to your own files unless you pay up. It actively fights you when you try to regain control, up to and including reinstalling itself once you finally manage to uninstall it.

It’s the main reason I finally got serious about switching to Linux (which I have and it has been amazing)

I’m still mad though, fuck Microsoft. Evil assholes.

Deutschland, sounds like what we should call Netherlands

Until you then find out that the Netherlands is actually called “Nederland” in the Netherlands. And the reason they’d called “Dutch” in America is due to an archaic mix-up between the two nationalities.