University College, Oxford:  Parrot Training


My family had a marvelous green parrot. He was multi-lingual.  He would call the cats: "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty!"  Exclaim, "Oh La La!"  Rattle off a few words in Spanish.  He was known far and wide for his quaint little words. And he cackled all day, imagining that he had common sense. But then again, he was just the average bird.

His entertaining life was the sum total of our training and he had us (!) to thank for his careful introduction to... things not involving quantum mechanics, string theory, the periodic table, or simple logic.

Apparently,  Oxford also does parrot training.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15336349/Ousted-Oxford-Union-president-elect-apologises-Charlie-Kirks-family-celebrating-assassination.html

George Abaraonye is the best that Oxford has to offer!  And in a mere forty-eight seconds, he parroted the following words:  oppresses, oppresses, oppression, oppresses, oppression, misogyny, and misogynistic.

His fellow parrots all flapped their wings with glee at the one minute mark. The thought of it is really quite loathsome.  

Oxford is not educating to the half-life of radium-226: producing the next Augustine of Hippo, someone who will also be read for the next 1,600 years.  They are educating to the half-life of Fentanyl.  I can barely remember what George Abaraonye said even now, as I write this.  But I know a parrot when I see one.

Bonus content: Antonyms for "wordsmith".   My favorite is "flat-earther".

https://www.powerthesaurus.org/wordsmith/antonyms

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