Hey - cool pics! I love the first one especially - that’s a really great shot of the …clouded leopard?
[sub]Which if it is, I think it might be the one that passed away just the other day… 
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>> some people are nothing but the intellectual equivalent of masturbating chimps. They accomplish nothing real or substantial in their lives, content only to benefit from the hard work of and efforts of others.
This is way too deep for me, especially on a very hot summer day. i think I’ll go masturbate for a while. Now, where’s my tree? (I keep forgetting which one it is)
This is the funniest thread I’ve read in weeks, despite poor Anthracite’s intending it to be a Deep Social Metaphor.
(Ike: “What’s a metaphor?” Mike: “To keep the cows in!”)
I took my sister in law and her daughter Ann, who was 16, to the Zoo when they were in town a couple years ago. We’re standing at a window, looking in on a smallish habitat for some type of new world monkey–spiders maybe? Anyway, it’s the three of us and a woman with her six year old daughter. Ann bends down and is making coochi-coo noises and one of the monkeys ambles over and presses it’s face to the glass. We all oooh and ahhh and then notice that as he stares out at us with his forhead all smooshed to the window, his hand is very busy down below. Ann looked up at us like she was going to pee her pants and we all ran out laughing. As the door cloesed behind us, I could hear the little girl saying…
“Mommy, what’s that monkey doing?”
I wish I could have heard her answer. 
bella
oh my gawd…I’m laughing my ass off…tears running down my face…sides hurting…lungs…wheezing…
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
I don’t quite know why, but I clicked on this thread expecting it to be about Uekte.
I don’t quite understand your contempt and disdain for these people. The poor monkey has no privacy (not that he would want any) and humans are social creatures and are quite understandably fascinated by the sight a close relative “takin’ care of business”. Why does inter-species social voyeurism cause such a hostile reaction in you? How about a group of Girl Scouts watching in fascination as two horses mate. Is that also contempt worthy?
And how do you come to the conclusion that everyone watching the chimp was some kind of social parasite? Did you do a poll of the assembled? Who made you God’s little red hen?
It is. And about us. Nicely done, too.
I had the same reaction to the OP, astro. The chimp was just doing what comes naturally. He’s not socially programmed to consider masturbating “dirty” or “private” behaviour. What’s contemptible about watching him? You could make the case that the reaction of the spectators was crude, but so what? Does that make them social parasites?
Great, just great.
Now when I’m at the Zoo on Friday with my daughter, I stand no chance of keeping a straight face as we get to the monkey house.
There better not be any chimp choking going on, that’s all I’ve got to say.
It’s not contemptible to watch him, but it seems to me to be rather unneccesary to cheer him on. We (well, most of us) were watching Uekte, but it just seemed to get stupid after awhile. Sure, flaming someone can be fun, but not when he’s such an easy target, and isn’t listening to anything you say anyway.
It goes beyond DNFTT, because I didn’t see Uekte as a troll. I just didn’t see what was so satisfactory about posting 500 word treatises on what an idiot he was. It’s just too easy. Sure, he sucked, but was it really necessary to tell him so and then keep doing it? Do you really think he’s going to get the message?
/off topic hijack that is actually on topic
My friend once met a girl who collected pictures of zoo animals having sex. She had amassed a collection of about 100 pictures. :eek:
/othtiaot
“They continue on and on and on in the same manner, contributing a plethora of nothing worthwhile, yet always amusing themselves greatly in the “contributing”.”
I dunno, maybe it’s just me but I didn’t take this to only be a post on Uekte.
from the above quote it seemed, to me, to be referring to people who have posting diarrhea.
the ones who feel compelled to be in every single thread (or so it seems).
The ones who simply must put their two cents, regardless.
OP: South American Mangos
(a thread follows with all discussing Mangos)
and then BLAMMO:
Obsevive Compulisve poster:I had a dog named Mango, once.
The ones who must share every facet of their personal live.
The ones who have become so used to posting everything personal that it becomes a second nature.
The ones who might as well be in a cage for they never leave the computer for long.
(sigh)
and the crowd watching and cheering on …
well, that would be us.
The ones posting appreciative threads.
The ones reading, yearning for more.
I dunno.
like I said,
maybe it’s just me.
He didn’t get the message, but he did the next best thing: he went away. Sufficient justification, in my opinion.
Yeah, he did go away, but that didn’t stop people. They kept posting after he said he was going to go away (earlier in the thread). People just had to keep getting their digs in, and kept that thread up at the top of the BBQ Pit, which, in my opinion, is part of the reason that he re-emerged.
I remember a friend talking about visiting the Columbus Zoo one day and seeing a huge group of people taunting a chimp. He said that the monkey finally had enough, picked up a choice piece of poo, and slung it through the grating at the throngs. Monkey doodoo sprayed all over the front, a just reward for reprehensible behaviour.
My friend was far away at the time, thank goodness.
is this the correct thread to post the story about our 20 pound masturbating Siamese cat who would wait until my very proper mother had guests and then come out into the middle of the living room and masturbate???
No???
Ok, sorry then.
I don’t get how a prurient peachtree-pounding primate can be equated to a social parasite. It sounds like hard work to me. You try and climax with treebark and splinters in your bacon strip.
Technically, he wasn’t even masturbating. He was making sweet love to a plant. The guys who warm up a watermelon in the microwave and engage in sexual relations with that hot fruit know what I’m talking about.
Just for the fuck of it, why not let’s tweak the metaphor a little. I need to as-simile-ate it to my own world view.
A chimp in the zoo is caged and deprived of a jungle home. Like a cubicle drone, walled on three sides and greeted by a fluorescent sunrise.
So he flings feces and flings beads. Like a cubicle drone sleeping/masturbating in a bathroom stall or slumming on the internet all day.
So the zoo visitors cheer him on as he achieves carnal bliss with a willing sapling. Like the corporation rewarding the drone with incidental incentives and casual Fridays, and throwing bullshit celebrations to recognize all of the drone’s hard work.
When I get sad about cubical hell I go watch the dolphin show and it makes me less sad. Now I know I need to incorporate a monkey house into my routine.
BTW, in all of my zoo metaphors I am the walrus.
:eek:
Oh my god! Do guys actually do that?! I consider myself pretty worldly but…oh my!
bella–who will be looking at men a bit differently now
:eek: :eek: forget the men, I’ll never look at watermelon the same way again…
Why didn’t you tell the chimp to fucko off?