November 21, 2005

Finding Prosperity by Feeding Monkeys. [Via MeFi]
posted by homunculus 19 years ago
  • Cheese on wheat with a little vinaigrette, please.
  • This guy is an idiot.
  • I think it's quite sweet of him. If he were Chinese, of course, he could get around the problem by feeding someone born in the year of the Monkey (^_^)
  • i wish i had some ritual every birthday.
  • Why do you think he's an idiot Chyren? I think the reasoning and feeling behind what he does is lovely. I also like the idea of a tradition. As Pilgrim says, it's nice have a ritual. There are not enough rituals in our lives anymore.
  • Ehh, I just find it stupid when people are *bound* to something and superstitiously don't break it. It's like he *has* to do this every year, and he makes a big thing over his narrow escapes. I would consider it cute and nice if he didn't believe it was so strictly applicable, and just fed monkeys now and again. To believe that his family's good fortune comes from him feeding gibbons is rather.. silly. I should think it has more to do with hard work and being in the right country.
  • I agree with Chyren - the irrational superstitious clap-trap that this deluded fellow believes will be his downfall, as is the case with every Scorpio born with Saturn in the house of Taurus.
  • True dat.
  • every Scorpio born with Saturn in the house of Taurus Just repeating this for anyone who was wondering.
  • No, you are repeating that because you are a Ceasarian born in the year of the paramecium, you disgusting occularist. It's all in the stars dear boy - such as Bruce Willis and TV's Sarah-Michelle Geller.
  • The guy is an idiot, but he's an adorable idiot. But the monkeys are happy, and that's the important thing.