JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! I’m well aware that bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and humans are all great apes, you fucking moron! That’s why I fucking posted that fucking disclaimer in the goddamn sentence! The whole fucking comment was content based. See that part that says “humans who are technically great apes”? That should be your fucking clue that I know that, you fucking blind fuck. The original fucking remark was “apes cannot read”. The context of that fucking remark was goddamn movie quote where some nincompoop states that apes can read, they just can’t goddamn understand! Then Czarcasm used that line to slam mswas. My purpose for that whole parenthetical was to state that the context referred to the non-human categories of great ape, precisely because I knew some fucking dickweed was going to come in and say “but humans are apes, too”. NO FUCKING SHIT!
Based upon this sentence, it appears as if you’re making a distinction between the first three and humans by specifically stating that humans alone are great apes.
Heh. I let my kids watch that movie. Did they want to read Nietzsche, learn Russian, study angelfish? No. They went around sniffing their armpits for weeks.
Maybe I should have just put “no biology lectures” and left it at that. Still, that comment annoyed the fuck out of me. You can’t drop the word “ape” in a thread without someone taking it to mean just gorillas, and someone else having to point out that humans are apes, too. I was trying to forestall that.
I attempted a ATMB-acceptable version that registered my annoyance, but decided I was too close to the line. So I vented here.