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This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« on: October 17, 2011, 06:36:49 AM »
What do you do when someone brings a monkey to your office?
http://phlegmfatale.blogspot.com/2011/10/in-which-mattg-said-with-simian-zeal.html

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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2011, 06:53:50 AM »
I am not sure which bothers me more - that someone would have such an experience on their bucket list or that they would presume that others did as well. [tinfoil]

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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2011, 07:04:27 AM »
Sounds like a normal day at my office.
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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2011, 07:05:04 AM »
This Capuchin monkey thing is just creepy.

I saw a Discovery show a while ago where they treat these things like children, and call them 'forever babies'.

They belong in zoos, period.
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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2011, 07:09:04 AM »
As an honorary [sic] member of monkey kind, I take offense to the tone of this article toward my simian brothers.
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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2011, 07:15:12 AM »
This cracked me up:
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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2011, 07:28:09 AM »
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If we have a monkey board at the shop, I think i'll call in sick that day.

I am also of the opinion that such creatures belong in zoo's only.
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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2011, 07:33:43 AM »
If there was ever a monkey that needed a spanking...
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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2011, 07:43:14 AM »
I have heard/read of them being trained to assist the handicapped.
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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2011, 07:59:20 AM »
I have heard/read of them being trained to assist the handicapped.

So have I, but I don't recall wanking as one of the required skills.  Then again, someone who is sufficiently handicapped might need some assistance...

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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #10 on: October 17, 2011, 08:46:17 AM »
Leave it alone with a canister of tear gas and wait.
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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2011, 11:24:13 AM »
Leave it alone with a canister of tear gasfragmentation hand grenade  and wait.
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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2011, 11:28:11 AM »
Masturbating Capuchin monkeys are why God created BB pistols.......
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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2011, 11:50:20 AM »
They belong in zoos, period.

I am also of the opinion that such creatures belong in zoo's only.

How about in the wild?

The Capuchin service critters I have seen, one in person and a few others on film, have been amazingly disciplined, focused very tightly on their task, and not a problem.
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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2011, 11:54:48 AM »
"No matter how responsible he seems, never give your gun to a monkey"

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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #15 on: October 17, 2011, 12:02:47 PM »
I, too, have a monkey story I may regale y'all with later.  I hate the little effers.

Me: Ma'am, please control your pet.
LM: <prattles on and does nothing to restrain monkey>
Me: Ma'am, restrain your monkey or I will tack it to my desk with my utility knife. <takes our folding knife>
LM: <excited squawking, but no monkey-restraining>
Me: <follows through>

I have, of late, encountered owners who deign not to control their nasty little pets around my kids and let them chase and menace my kids on sidewalks, streets, and on to my own property.  Next time, Fluffy gets a steel toe to the ribs and (hopefully) an abbreviated time on Earth.

Damned illegals and their retarded culture.
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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #16 on: October 17, 2011, 12:06:34 PM »
I, too, have a monkey story I may regale y'all with later.  I hate the little effers.

Me: Ma'am, please control your pet.
LM: <prattles on and does nothing to restrain monkey>
Me: Ma'am, restrain your monkey or I will tack it to my desk with my utility knife. <takes our folding knife>
LM: <excited squawking, but no monkey-restraining>
Me: <follows through>

I have, of late, encountered owners who deign not to control their nasty little pets around my kids and let them chase and menace my kids on sidewalks, streets, and on to my own property.  Next time, Fluffy gets a steel toe to the ribs and (hopefully) an abbreviated time on Earth.

 ???

I was with you until here:
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Damned illegals and their retarded culture.

How's that related?

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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #17 on: October 17, 2011, 12:09:00 PM »
The obvious answer is that the monkey in the story was NOT a service monkey. The lady was lying.
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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #18 on: October 17, 2011, 12:21:25 PM »
Just depends on what corner of the country you live in, Chris.

I've been chased by a little $hitbag yappy terrier while out for a morning run a couple times.  Damned annoying.  I'm running, listening to my mp3 player, then all of a sudden yippie the fleabag is yapping at my ankles trying to bite my shoelaces.  I turn to kick and yippie is faster than my reflexes.  I can't outrun it, and I can't kick it because it's faster than me in every possible way.  Ultimately it left me alone after about 2 blocks of this behavior.  Tempted to pull the PF9 on it, but didn't want the hassle.  If I were a kid, I'd be terrified, though.  

Dog belongs to a Mexican household that doesn't do a good job keeping it inside or in the backyard.  No tags on it.  I know which house.  Got money for rims for a flashy SUV, but not enough to license the dog and repair the hole in the fence from whence it emerges.  

Illegals?  Probably.  It's Mesa (damned close to a sanctuary city as far as AZ is concerned), they're hispanic, and it's about a 30% shot that any hispanic person in AZ is an illegal alien (there's about half a million in our State as residents, and untold numbers "passing through" to the north).  There's 6.3 million people in AZ, and 29% of them (1.8 million) are hispanic.  

Source:  http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/04000.html

And that's out of people that bother to answer the census, and aren't just migrating through AZ on their way to CO/UT/NV/OR/WA/ID/etc.  Never mind that many (most?) illegals don't answer the census, and that number could be 40-50%.  Arizona is one of 4 gateway States for the entire illegal immigrant train, and those 12 million illegals came through one of four States at some point.



Might not run into that in VA or wherever it is that you live, but illegals bring poorly maintained lives with them.  Nasty anklebiting dogs being one of those things.
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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #19 on: October 17, 2011, 12:24:49 PM »
The obvious answer is that the monkey in the story was NOT a service monkey. The lady was lying.

But it could be a servicing monkey.  [barf]
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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #20 on: October 17, 2011, 12:50:07 PM »
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Might not run into that in VA or wherever it is that you live, but illegals bring poorly maintained lives with them.  Nasty anklebiting dogs being one of those things.

Interesting.  We have a ton of Hispanics, legal and otherwise, in my area, but they all seem to keep their dogs on leashes.  I seldom (ie once or twice a year) see unleashed dogs about.  Of those, only two in the ten years I've been here were not with their owners.

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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #21 on: October 17, 2011, 01:04:33 PM »
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The obvious answer is that the monkey in the story was NOT a service monkey. The lady was lying.

Absolutely.

But the "service animal" thing is easy to get away with. When I worked at Wal-Mart I was specifically briefed that if somebody said an animal of ANY type was a service animal, we could not question them. So someone could bring their pet in and say it was a service animal and we couldn't say boo. We didn't really have any problem with it because that was not widely known. I don't know if there was a similar policy at other big box stores.

We do have a real problem at work with people bringing their dogs into the visitor center. Generally it's the people who think their little ratdogs are like their children.

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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #22 on: October 17, 2011, 01:21:56 PM »
Could always get a Vietnamese family to move in.  Take care of stray animal problem for you.
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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #23 on: October 17, 2011, 01:29:09 PM »
AZR44 could have been describing both my area and the family/families cohabitating with the ankle biters in question. 

Two mini-dachs and one fluffy critter, all of which are brought out into the un-fenced front yard without a leash.  No biggie for a well-behaved dog, but these regularly make a bee-line for folks walking by on the sidewalk. 

A couple times when my kids & I were walking by.  Once when my daughter rode by on her little bike with training wheels, once when my son was scootering by on his...scooter.  This last time, fluffy dog chased him back to our yard and the beast suck its head through my picket fence to yap and snarl.  I could have ended it right there with one kick to the side of its head & snapped its neck on the picket, but I am too much a softy.  Next time, Fluffy gets to meet its Dear and Fluffy Lord.

This household has adults & near-adults without English skills, not to mention the human ankle-biters, and exhibits other traits common (if not solely peculiar to) illegal aliens.  This is not the first time with dog-control problems for this household and other similar households regularly show such traits(1).  No, not every dog problem is the fault of illegals 'round here, but illegals' have a disproportionate number of them. 

This is most likely a cultural artifact brought from Mexico.  If you have spent time down by the border or with many Mexicans near their homes, you would know what I mean.

I have no problem criticizing such "diversity" as culturally retarded.  Putting a man on the moon and shoving a bone through one's nose are not equivalent.

Funny thing is, if I were expressing disdain for white trash culture instead of brown trash culture, nary a peep would have been made about my commentary on their culture.

Could always get a Vietnamese family to move in.  Take care of stray animal problem for you.

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(1) One of many for this household: they get a cutesy APBT pup.  Through their TLC, it grows into a nasty, vicious SOB and menaced their next door neighbor through/over 4' chain fence.  Neighbor calls cops and tells them next time, he shoots the nasty SOB, as he is on blood thinners and can not risk getting bit and bleeding out in record time.  Cops & animal control examine the situation and tell them to deal with the dog, RFN.  The APBT was lucky, as half of their dogs never make it to adulthood, dying off due to preventable disease, getting out and getting lost (and likely eaten by coyotes).
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Re: This is why monkeys aren't allowed in polite society
« Reply #24 on: October 17, 2011, 01:46:43 PM »
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This is most likely a cultural artifact brought from Mexico.  If you have spent time down by the border or with many Mexicans near their homes, you would know what I mean.
Manassas is about as heavily Hispanic a town as you're likely to get outside of the border areas.  My daughter's 3rd grade class is probably 75% Hispanic.

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Funny thing is, if I were expressing disdain for white trash culture instead of brown trash culture, nary a peep would have been made about my commentary on their culture.
True.  In my 38 years on this earth, including all the time spent biking, the vast majority of loose dog incidents have been with dogs owned by 'po white trash'.  I don't know what makes the Hispanics in my area better about this, but they either don't let their dogs run loose or they're extremely well behaved.

I was attacked by a pit bull/boxer mix 30 years ago and still carry scars on the front and back of my head.  I have two small children and a small dog.  I'm *always* on the lookout for dogs on the loose.  In fact, one of the driving forces behind me getting my CCW for the first time over 10 years ago was for protection against feral dogs while out in the woods.  While out for a long walk with my family (and dog) yesterday, I saw 5 dogs, every one on a leash.  Unrestrained dogs just aren't an issue in this heavily Hispanic area.

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