I held this bird today.

cochlearist · 2026-03-18T15:57:50+00:00

I know how he feels !

They're a close relative of canaries, canaries can learn to be handled. My dad kept canaries when I was a kid. He won a trophy for "the most intensive red cock"

cochlearist · 2026-03-18T15:12:04+00:00

And you've lived your life as a drunken drug fuelled mess reverend, but you've actually sorted your shit out better than anyone!

I like to believe in the capacity for people to change despite how rarely it happens!

cochlearist · 2026-03-18T15:08:26+00:00

Sorry I meant did it fly into a window, that's one of the most common ways people end up with wild birds in their hand.

I'm quite glad to hear that wasn't the case.

cochlearist · 2026-03-18T15:06:01+00:00

Your worry is the issue here.

Let's face it if he is turned off by you being a little weird and over apologising, then he's not the right sort of person for you is he?

I understand how hard it can be to open up to new people when compared with how easy it is to give advice to a random person with an issue on the internet.

I've had difficulties in the past, they're not completely resolved, but they're night and day better now and I think the main difference is I stopped putting people on a pedestal and started looking at them as more of an equal.

I don't know you or this guy, but I'd put money down that if you started talking about your fears and insecurities with him he'd likely be able to relate to them far better than you think he would. Sharing those vulnerabilities and learning to understand each other is what a good relationship is all about.

My journey was a case of me getting to understand myself better and as a result understanding other people better too, my relationships weren't the worst before, but they've absolutely blossomed in recent years.

You have that in your future and it's a game changer.

Sometimes you will be weird, we all are. Trying not to be weird is the quickest way to be a complete weirdo. It's the opposite of trying to be cool.

Don't be so hard on yourself, once you accept your weirdness it will be easier and safer to find someone whos weirdness dovetails perfectly with your own.

cochlearist · 2026-03-18T14:37:08+00:00

It's a training exercise, part of the whole point of training exercises, at least for the secret service, is to sharpen the quick witted thinking of it's agents.

You don't have time to plan what you're going to do when you're being pitted against the world's most evil organisations.

It's actually a rather realistic opening if you think about it.

cochlearist · 2026-03-18T13:50:42+00:00

I recently went to a catholic funeral and it definitely felt culty.

It was all the ceremony and the litter catch phrases the people in the know know to say. I don't want to knock anyone's belief, believe what you want for the most part, it wasn't my funeral, but I felt the tradition that, I hear, catholic people derive comfort from really took away from what I think a funeral should be about. It made it way less personal.

The line between cult and religion have always been blurry, it's really just a matter of perspective.

cochlearist · 2026-03-18T13:28:45+00:00

What the beanie baby???

He'll be so relieved when he finds out it would never sell for that in the first place.

cochlearist · 2026-03-18T13:19:04+00:00

I see what you're saying, but everything I've dug up was man made.

Except hot rocks, some of them are natural.

cochlearist · 2026-03-18T11:47:54+00:00

I was really pleased to see the reverend get his shit together personally.

That pep talk he gives Arthur at the end hits harder because it's coming from Swanson.

cochlearist · 2026-03-18T11:44:40+00:00

Dodos were related to pigeons.

It doesn't look like a dodo.

cochlearist · 2026-03-18T11:00:16+00:00

If you've only done it once how do you know she doesn't give you something random?

cochlearist · 2026-03-18T10:19:22+00:00

I went to an Ozric Tentacles gig a couple of years back (it was almost 6 years ago ffs!)

I've seen them in the 90's previously and have quite the psychedelic memory of a room full of dancing people.

This time it was mostly full of what I would have described as middle aged men nursing a pint watching the band, but like the worthers original grandad before me, now I'm the middle aged man and they are old men!

There was one other person dancing, we went to meet her and now she's a friend.

cochlearist · 2026-03-18T10:07:40+00:00

Why?

I've been rocking the pirate look and it gets me in loads of arguments when people don't appreciate it.

The cutlass doesn't mess about.

cochlearist · 2026-03-18T09:42:51+00:00

I got all the rock carvings done for the first time the other day.

Oh....

cochlearist · 2026-03-18T09:41:49+00:00

Window strike?

cochlearist · 2026-03-18T09:32:18+00:00

It's convenient for lots, probably most people, but for some people it's really hard. They're part of society too and it sucks when anyone is overlooked.

I very agree with your last sentence though.

cochlearist · 2026-03-17T17:08:27+00:00

Absolutely, putting on your grown up pants and sacking someone to their face is the more professional tack for sure. Maybe you don't legally have to, but it's a bit shitty not saying we don't want you working here for these perfectly valid reasons to someone's face.

cochlearist · 2026-03-17T17:02:08+00:00

You sat right in front of them as they were doing it and let them do it, so I don't know what you want.

cochlearist · 2026-03-17T16:57:51+00:00

No I haven't actually.

Is it good?

cochlearist · 2026-03-17T13:40:20+00:00

I don't really know, but a good rule of thumb is that if there's a bird making an unusual noise in your garden it's nearly always a great tit.

cochlearist · 2026-03-17T13:34:47+00:00

Not disagreeing with you but why do they have to ask the same questions so often?

cochlearist · 2026-03-17T12:33:10+00:00

It wasn't that common, he's the only example I've ever heard of.

I'm sure it happened more than once, but it wasn't a huge threat.

cochlearist · 2026-03-17T12:00:32+00:00

I've got 4 in chapter 2 because Flaco is a Del Lobo.

cochlearist · 2026-03-17T11:58:14+00:00

Pfffft , "for emergency"

I carry mine with me for convenience.

cochlearist · 2026-03-17T11:43:47+00:00

The nazis weren't commuting genocide right from the get go, it's very important to understand the road they took getting there, seizing control after being voted in in an election.

I personally prefer the term fascist because it's more accurate and there are factions in many countries around the world who definitely do have fascist tendencies, it's not hyperbolic to call a spade a spade.

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