April 10, 2006

• Anything that inches forward humanity's unfathomably ignorant attitude to the emotions & sentience of animals is a good thing.
• I don’t know Chyren. I think it’s more than ignorance. There seems to be a willful and persistant lack of empathy. The difference between an alert and a depressed monkey is pretty damned obvious. Everybody plays the fool, sometime  There's no exception to the rule, listen monkey It may be factual, it may be cruel, I ain't lying  Everybody plays the fool 
• To a certain extent I'm sure the unconscious reason people want to continue to think of animals as dumb beasts is because the realisation of the truth makes us all as hideous mass murderers. I agree that my first reaction to the article was 'Duh'. But we're dealing with humans.
• Well, as soon as you correct that unfathomably ignorant attitude, you can no longer do research to correct it. So this study wouldn't even be possible. Ethically, we now have to get those monkey into treatment programs.
• "Well, as soon as you correct that unfathomably ignorant attitude, you can no longer do research to correct it." That is a consummation devoutly to be wished.
• What we humans are afraid to accept is we're just specialized animals. We're up a couple rungs on the ladder, but that's it.
• *eats bush meat*
• Don't talk about your wife in that way.
• *stubs out cigarette in gorilla-hand ashtray*
• *prods Wolof with ivory-tipped cane*
• *does a jig in seal skin slippers*
• *puts on leather dom outfit, picks up rhino tail whip*
• What we humans are afraid to accept is we're just specialized animals. We're up a couple rungs on the ladder, but that's it. Therefore, I have as much of a right to eat a yummy steak as the wolf has to eat a slow hare, right? 'Cause I'm hungry like the woooooollllf!
• Thinking about sad monkeys makes me a sad monkey. I sort of want to give the depressed ones a hug, but I don't think it would cheer up the monkeys. I think it might possibly result in the loss of my nose, but the monkeys will continue to be full of ennui. I don't think the aforementioned persistent lack of empathy will change until, first of all, the heads of evolution deniers are persistently and repeatedly yanked from the sand, and second of all, dominion theology dies of either old age or its own stupidity.
• Yes, but who knows what lies in that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler ere returns. Pretty soon we'll all be eating legumes and turn into eloi. The morlocks are where its at, yo.
• *stares slack-jawed at Gram'ma in a leather dom outfit* *isn't sure how to feel about it*
• *Becomes visibly aroused. Faints*
• *adopts submissive position* I've been a baaad monkey, GramMa...
• People, people, people. Must EVERY thread around here devolve into perverted, hot, sweaty, possibly leather or latex-clad monkey sex acts?
• Yes.
• *fetches collection of floggers and riding crops* did someone say submissive????
• I think this monkey has been eating too much asparagus, and he has to pee really badly. Yep, pretty sure.
• Medusa: I hope your floggers and crops are manufactured from all natural fibers and materials. I wouldn't want to have to chastize you for using an inferior product. *places booted foot on Flag's back *cracks loooong whip
• Chy - now, you shouldn't ask questions for which you don't actually want the answers. (The totally obvious answers.)
• Alpha, Bravo, Charlie!
• Roger (me senseless).
• I can't believe this ended just when you preverts were getting warmed up. Heh heh--warmed up.
• We're all over in the Capts Mills & Boon thread, getting our jollies 'watching'...