Reader-added tags include "Not going to be shown", "Accumulated filth", and "Sanae: 'Toss it!!'"

Shouldn't "inko" be translated to "parakeet" or "budgie" instead of "parrot"?

How the heck can he not clean the keyboard more often. Even reading it sends chill down my spine.

Darkagma said:

Shouldn't "inko" be translated to "parakeet" or "budgie" instead of "parrot"?

According to my dictionary sources, it translates as "true parrot (esp. small parrots such as the parakeet, lory and conure)", so either is acceptable. "Parakeet" would probably work better in context, I imagine. (I'm no ornithologist, of course.)

Okay, I thought the keyboards of cigarette smokers were the worst. Bird owners is a new low.

Valentine322 said:

How the heck can he not clean the keyboard more often. Even reading it sends chill down my spine.

Kogasa-san said:
The parakeet we owned way back when would perch on the keyboard to groom and poop and so on...

Some keyboards simply cannot be cleaned. Scissor switch keyboards and ergonomic keyboards with split keys are the most common culprits.

He's lucky to be using a mechanical keyboard where popping off the keycaps is trivial, and even luckier to still be alive given that bird doo is toxic.

Etnaz said:

Some keyboards simply cannot be cleaned. Scissor switch keyboards and ergonomic keyboards with split keys are the most common culprits.

He's lucky to be using a mechanical keyboard where popping off the keycaps is trivial, and even luckier to still be alive given that bird doo is toxic.

I'd wager he cleaned the upper surfaces of the keys at least every time the bird pooped on them (and thus avoided direct contact with the droppings), but never popped off the keys to clean underneath them. (I'd have thought that much accumulated filth would have significantly affected the keys' ability to depress, and thus the keyboard's functionality, forcing the issue sooner.)

Moonspeaker said:

(I'd have thought that much accumulated filth would have significantly affected the keys' ability to depress, and thus the keyboard's functionality, forcing the issue sooner.)

Mechanical switches do not require 'bottoming-out' to actuate.