I’m a pub landlord and I’m convinced my sweary pet parrot has Tourette’s – he calls the bingo caller a kn*****d
A PUB landlord reckons his parrot has Tourette’s — as he loves to swear at punters.
Louie, an African Grey, is always squawking expletives when it gets quiet at the bar, reserving particular avian venom for the “knobhead” bingo caller.
Andy Ashby, 50, has put a sign up next to the five-year-old bird’s cage warning customers of his potty mouth — though he says most love his foul-mouthed pet.
He said: “He’s got Tourette’s, bless him.
“He swears the most when he wants to be noticed.
“If it’s all quiet he’ll go on a massive rant and start bouncing up and down and nodding his head.
“He says, ‘Come on, come on, you f***ing knobhead, f***, f***, f***, f***, f***.
“It comes over him in the spur of the moment. He just goes on one.
“We had bingo the other night and when Legs Eleven came up he whistled.
“The bingo caller told him to shut up and he told him to ‘f*** off’.”
However Andy says Louie has brought some personality to the Nailmakers Arms, the Sheffield boozer he has run for the past eight months,
He added: “Years ago pubs used to have parrots or budgies at the bar – it’s only been in the last 50 or 60 years that that’s stopped.
“I thought we needed a bit of personality and Louie is quite the character.
“He’s a reason for some of the older punters to come in.”
The dad of two reckons Louie picks up rude words from TV.
He said: “The punters have really taken to him but I know we have to be careful because families come in.”