Open thread 6/3/22
This can’t be a real live monkey. It’s got to be a child in a costume – right? Right??
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This can’t be a real live monkey. It’s got to be a child in a costume – right? Right??
Where’s the organ music?
Where are his cymbals?
Speaking as someone who had a pygmy chimpanzee for a couple of years when we lived in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, I’d say that is not a human child in that clip. Very human-like, though.
Let’s see; since I am not a biologist / veterinarian I will guess the furry life form in the video is a yak.
This can’t be a real live lion…right?…
https://www.firstpost.com/world/white-lion-in-china-zoo-becomes-internet-hit-over-unique-hairdo-pictures-go-viral-10748471.html
File under: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMQ0Ryy01yE
A rather bizarre article by someone who actually believes that President Joe Biden exists…that he is actually “a thing”:
“There Is No Plan;
“…The closer attention you pay to Biden, the less he has to say”—
https://freebeacon.com/columns/there-is-no-plan/
H/T Powerline blog.
The main problem I have with this is that while I generally respect the writer’s analytical abilities, in this case 1) there is indeed a PLAN and 2) there is no President Joe Biden involved in it….
To clarify, there is no President Joe Biden…but there most definitely is “Biden”.
One might think that this should have been obvious since before the inauguration…
Oh well, maybe it’s just me….
File under: Sigh…
P.S. Here’s the PLAN:
https://nypost.com/2022/06/02/the-week-in-whoppers-bidens-bald-faced-baloney-and-more/
Daniel Greenfield: OUR ECONOMIC MISERY ISN’T AN ACCIDENT, IT’S THE PLAN
Naive Republicans will say that, “Biden is not paying enough attention to the border” or “Biden is not paying enough attention to inflation”.
That’s like saying Jack the Ripper wasn’t paying enough attention to cutting up prostitutes.
The monkey’s cute but I’d stay away.
Ever since Charla Nash had her face ripped off by her friend’s chimp, I’ve been wary of all monkeys.
Then there’s this story:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-13-me-rbriefs13.1-story.html
“The attacking chimps chewed off most of St. James Davis’ face, tore off his foot and attacked his limbs and genitals.”
Who leaked the Justice Alito draft of the majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization?
Ours is a risibly unserious nation.
It’s an ewok!
There was this guy named Orville. And he needed a job. As he was walking down the street he saw a sign in front of this building. The sign said “BE RICH BE A SALESMAN.”
So Orville went into the building and said “I’m the best salesman in the world.” The manager replied “Well then if that’s the case I’ll give you the job. “First we have a large supply of toothbrushes that need to be sold. Do you think you can handle that?”
Orville said ” Of course.”
So Orville went out on the streets to sell his toothbrushes. A week went by and Orville’s boss wanted to see him. He asked Orville how many toothbrushes he had sold. Orville replied “I only sold twenty.” He said.
“Orville if you want to keep this job you will have to sell more than that.” Orville walks out with his briefcase full of toothbrushes. This time instead of selling them on the street he went down in the subway. Another week went by and Orville’s boss called him into the office for another weekly report.
His boss asked him how many toothbrushes he sold this week. Orville replied ” I only sold fifty this week.” “Not enough,” his boss said “I’ll give you one more chance.” So he went out again to sell toothbrushes, and this time he went to the airport.
Another more week had passed by. Orville’s boss called him in. He said ” How many toothbrushes have you sold?”
Orville replied, “I sold 47,391!”
His boss goggled, “Holy COW! How did you sell all of those?
Orville answered, “Well you see I was at the airport selling these toothbrushes and I brought chips and dip. And when the people walked by I asked them If they wanted some chips and dip. They said “sure.” After they tasted it they said ” This taste like shit!”
Orville replied “It is! Want to buy a toothbrush??????????????”
Speaking of apes and being around them, I strongly suggest this is a Very Bad Idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pjGPQwl6Dk
😀
SMH. Some people are remarkably stupid.
>> I’ve been wary of all monkeys.
Don’t blame the monkeys, Chimps are apes – notoriously sadistic apes.
That snub nosed monkey looks like a tree dweller with his long fingers and toes & his nose suggests that he’s adapted for colder climates – so maybe a mountain monkey.
He looks a bit like Moe Howard.
Tyro, I never knew there was a distinction. Learned something new (which for me isn’t hard) today.
ObloodyHell, what a great video. It was all fun and games until the shooting started.
Jane Goodall, noted expert on chimpanzees, discovered a vicious war between two chimpanzee groups and was horrified. As I recall, she did not publish her findings immediately.
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The outbreak of the war came as a disturbing shock to Goodall, who had previously considered chimpanzees to be, although similar to human beings, “rather ‘nicer'”.[14] Coupled with her 1975 observation of cannibalistic infanticide by a high-ranking female in the community, the Gombe war revealed the “dark side” of chimpanzee behavior.[14] In her 1990 memoir Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe, she wrote:
For several years I struggled to come to terms with this new knowledge. Often when I woke in the night, horrific pictures sprang unbidden to my mind—Satan [one of the apes], cupping his hand below Sniff’s chin to drink the blood that welled from a great wound on his face; old Rodolf, usually so benign, standing upright to hurl a four-pound rock at Godi’s prostrate body; Jomeo tearing a strip of skin from Dé’s thigh; Figan, charging and hitting, again and again, the stricken, quivering body of Goliath, one of his childhood heroes. …[15]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
Apparently apes don’t monkey around.
I hope some comic relief (of sorts) is okay here– namely accounts of humans with objectophilia (romantic attraction to inanimate objects). One is a guy in Arkansas who has a relationship with his car, which he’s named Chase:
https://nypost.com/2022/06/03/im-in-a-relationship-with-my-red-chevy-heres-how-i-have-sex-with-the-car/
And there’s a German woman who hopes to marry her toy airplane:
https://nypost.com/2022/05/31/woman-sexually-attracted-to-planes-wants-to-marry-toy-boeing/
Only a matter of time until Ozzy Man picks up on people transported by transport vehicles.
PA+Cat, what if someone falls in love with one of the Platonic solids?