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I'm proud to be descended from apes and stuff

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20:41 / 30.01.07

And Princess, if your momma is indeed a low-browed, hairy-knuckled French imagist poet.. I mean, how cool is that? It's like baking a cake without baking it, and then eating it. I think.

20:47 / 30.01.07

Not. Eating. My. Momma.

You Oedipal nutjob!

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20:52 / 30.01.07

Oh princess, my princess... Hu-what. The. Fuck? I'll certainly work on the nuts, just let me finish my cuppa Green T'n Kahlúa!

PS.. Very, and I mean very, NSFW.

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21:00 / 30.01.07

Kali- you want a monkey knife fight... you GOT one.

I shit you not, one of my mates is getting a tattoo of this very picture across his back within the month. I shall provide a photo when possible.

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21:02 / 30.01.07

My ermine friend. Where the fuckety fuck do you find this stuff? I do not for the love of sweet baby Dubya believe my own I's.

21:10 / 30.01.07

toksik:

It sort of depends on what you mean by apes. Apes in general are in the superfamily Hominidea. The way I'm learning it this semester is that Hominidea are split into three families: Hylobatidae (small bodied-apes like gibbons); Pongidae (large-bodied apes like gorillas); Hominidae (hominids, including modern humans). Genetic evidence has pretty much conviced anthropologists that we're not different enough from pongids to be in a separate family, and as of next term at my school, and certainly within the profession, the family Pongidae is going to be eliminated, the members classed as Homindae, and the split will occur lower down the taxonomic scale, at the tribe level.

Though there's variation among species (for example, baboons have a long snout, not generally seen in primates, let alone Hominoidea), the general marks of apes are:

5y m1 and m2 lower molars (the first two molars in the lower jaw have five rather than four cusps), and the absence of a tail.

21:34 / 30.01.07

i guess i was curous for a few reasons.
i figure we desended form animals a lot like apes, and wondered if they were apes, albeit a different ape to the one most of us think of when we hear the word.
i was alos wondering how far we are from apes ourselves, and if the term could be used to describe us.

so, basically, reading between your lines, we arent really, and we didnt really.

it's a shame, because i do love anything that feeds into my 'all just hairless talking, dancing monkeys really' meme.
i mean, apes, obviously, but monkeys sounds funnier.

i saw a documentary that attempted to disabuse me of this notion with science, buit my denial system kicked in and made sure i was convinced the science-monger was ebeing a bit too tetchy about it.
i think he was uncomfortable with being as vague as to call us all apes.
i mean, they started off sking about monkeys, and we arent monkeys, are we?

i mean, i don't know that it matters all that uch for the survival of my teory, but it would be nice to have some sciencey words to back it with.
y'know, like the creationists do.

21:45 / 30.01.07

Thanks SonMontes

Whilst I am unemployed and shameless, you might want to stick a NSFW next to that for our office bound cousins.
Now, I've got my evening sorted out. What do you all intend to do?

22:23 / 30.01.07

That's more of a monkey rapier fight though, isn't it?

22:47 / 30.01.07

Monkey raper fist? No, I think it's a shortsword. One of my favorite videos includes references to simians and swordplay and you can watch it here. You might need to know the history behind the premise, but maybe not.
I truly believe many of humanity's problems are caused by the refusal to understand that we are, fundamentally , animals.
Are any of you familiar with the psuedo-science concept of the monkeysphere?

23:38 / 30.01.07

page one post one of the youtube thread, man.
alternatively, search for ernie cline and monkey slam for a longer version.
if you can be bothered, i'd recommend the googlage.

23:43 / 30.01.07

I wouldn't mind being an ape. A big, silver-back gorilla, for instance. But being a bonobo would be better: a major improvement on my sex life, fo'sure.

23:50 / 30.01.07

page one post one of the youtube thread, man.
What's there? I see the first post has a reference to humans=monkeys and some of the links are done broke.

23:55 / 30.01.07

ah, that was the one.
hang on.

23:59 / 30.01.07

not the best delivery he's ever done, but still.

ah, wait...
this is the one i saw originally.

on reflection i'd say go for the second one, or at least go for the second one first. it's way better, and i think it may be live.

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09:18 / 31.01.07

That's more of a monkey rapier fight though, isn't it?

Dude. Small monkeys. Big knives. Get some perspective.

12:35 / 31.01.07

monkey knife fight!

"Furious George, what happened?!"

"He ain't pretty no more.."

/Simpsons

15:01 / 31.01.07

Small monkeys. Big knives. Get some perspective.

But they're wearing people clothes too, and tophats. I think they're fairly big monkeys. Unless, of course, they had hats and suits tailored specifically for their small monkey bodies.

15:01 / 31.01.07

Second one is the live one, t.

Some college student made the animation for it as part of his flash course, but the comedian didn't think it was very well put together, and re-recorded it for his own nefarious purposes.

That is all.

All Acting Regiment

17:51 / 31.01.07

Those duelling animals are baboons, are they not? So yeah, they're using big knives.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

17:53 / 31.01.07

Stoatie: your mate married? Cause that will be the sweetest tattoo ever.

11:54 / 03.02.07

We have a large picture of a Giraffe with the word MELLOW underneath and we call her Gertrude, she is most useful when external influences of simian mentality obfuscate office calm, she has certainly prevented drugworker knife fights.

I belive Bust is so pro manifiest destiny because of his striking genetic throwback to monkey behaviours and intelligence, shame he has such a big knife!

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