The Taliban were in sore need of being toppled but we could have put a bit more thought into the consequences or indeed any thought to the consequences would have been good. I’m assuming the farmers just can’t make the same kind of money with other crops.

That would have been a much better picture but I think the real issue here is you not appreciating how very traumatic it is being Justin.

I’m learning many new canary facts thanks! Your original canary may have stopped singing but I bet he liked his new friend :) Lots of stuff to think about.

I wish I could lay claim but if very hazy memory (I’m not religious) serves it’s from the Bible originally possibly something to do with Daniel. It’s a good image I agree.

A bunch of people have said that if you want to interact with them and form a bond it’s better to get one because they’ll form their own flock and ignore you otherwise. I don’t want a lonely budgie though :/

It is very sad and yeah the more people hear from the more out of control prescription seems the issue. The whole idea of tv adverts and public sales pressure for serious prescription drugs is very odd to me.

I was a bit worried that one would be lonely but everyone says that and you say it with gusto. I would like to train it and be able to be reasonably friendly so theoretical budgie will be a singleton though I’m assuming the odd bite will prob be involved!

I didn’t know that well that does make a certain amount of sense then. I get that particularly if you were a big fan, it’s never fun to see your idols clay feet.

On a general noise scale are we talking express train? I don’t want my neighbours cursing too much, I’ve been reading up on training! Apparently boys tend to be more sociable and training friendly, maybe you had some independent women?:) I hadn’t heard about mirrors, great tip thanks.

I was looking at canarys as well but as you say they seem to need more flight space and I don’t have a big flat plus budgies seem to be generally more sociable did you interact much with your canary? Excellent care tips thanks :)

You should put that on a T-shirt. An excellent philosophy my compliments :)

I think a socialpet might be good for me :) I’ve been told that if you want to try and hand train it and interact a lot you should just get one but that seems a bit mean for a social bird, was yours happy on his own?

Well that’s disappointing I agree but she was a born inthe 1830’s so I’m going to cut her a bit of slack and hope that if she was around now she’d have a clue and even if she didn’t well she did a lot of really good work it seems wrong to ignore it because she was out of line on one point.

I agree that a really restrictive set of rules is massively unsustainable and not that healthy something a bit more moderate maybe? Are there obvious not helpful things in your diet? Personally I eat way too much chocolate and don’t buy multipacks of things anymore because I have no self discipline :) Anxiety must…

Being a registered member of the perpetually single club I don’t have helpful anecdotes, I do have every confidence that you’ll find your feet and kick your prefered brand of ass.

This is a pleasing thread, I’ve only vaguely heard of Mother Jones before and I had no idea how much she kicked ass.

:)

A touch yeah. It does sound like he’s going to be lucky to come out of this but I’ve had trouble switching to the past tense when people are actually dead this seems oddly smooth.

Major points for Sophia :) Who as always has the correct reaction, I’m not feeling a great deal of affection for the creepy dolls.

Gah! You’re a genius! that’s how we get him out of politics. Instead of all this live action Peter Pan nonsense live action, I want to say Bluebeard wasn’t Blackbeard the pirate, cast Donald.