December 22, 2004

A test for monkeys If you were in the following situation, what would you do, and why?

Let's say you take out a colleague from work and during the course of your lunch, your perversity addled mind picks up that this female colleague is not happy with her marriage? Discuss. Where does your mind go next? Now, I'm sure that not all of you have a perversity-addled mind. Some of you are quite nice. Hell, some of you may be vegans and against all moral impurities, and therefore safe from situations, but I digress. Discuss. I would like to put out a morally-tinged suggestion every week, if I may be so allowed.

  • I know where my mind would go - it's only natural to consider the possibilities, and it is not necessarily a sign of moral instability or weakness. However, it would take an extraordinary confluence of events to go where I know I oughtn'ta. I tend to view the inability to control the expression of one's lustful feelings as a failure and lest anyone get too upset, I am much, much harsher on myself than anyone else.
  • I do the bar salon. I run off with her and her daughter, but she leaves me stranded in an hotel room when she leaves with my car and her child. I come home to my wife, my tail between my legs.
  • i'm probably thinking about if the food is as good as i'd hope it would be.
  • I would like to put out a morally-tinged suggestion every week, if I may be so allowed. With respect, this appears to be an all but meaningless question with a link to a Hong Kong community blog with no explanation whatsoever. This isn't a site for people to do vague moral research on our community, it's supposed to be a site about interesting links. So with respect I'd be grateful for some more information about what your story is and why you think that this is appropriate.
  • I would avoid taking a colleague from work out in the first place, since I could not trust myself not to follow any impulse my perversity-addled mind might ..uh.. induce. If I actually was in that situation, I might well follow any impulse my perverted (yes, its so perverted) mind would come up with. Just use your perverted imaginations.
  • Also, what quidnunc said. Somebodies' perverse mind is at work.
  • Curious George: do you prefer Coke, or Pepsi? Why? Please tell me your age and zip code as well. Curious George: do you like Asian people, or think that there are too many in your town? Please tell me whether you are a UK male over the age of 40. Curious George: Are you heterosexual male? What do you think about having sex with a work colleague? Why? BULLSHIT INTERNET BULLSHIT
  • I'd hit on the husband. Oh, and what quidnunc said. I want a hefty dollop of meaty circumstance with my moral tinging.
  • Let's say you take out a colleague from work and during the course of your lunch, your perversity addled mind picks up that this female colleague is not happy with her marriage? Two words: TABLE VAULT
  • This post is total pants.
  • delete this... and one of his previous posts (to the blog) is probably a self link as well..... (very similar e/mail address, one yahoo, one gmail).... not interested in participating, thanks for asking!
  • Sharpen your knives, my friends. We will feast on man-flesh tonight.
  • A test for Starc If you were in the following situation, what would you do? Let's say you decide to fill up a website full of your own feces and during the course of it, your scat-addled mind picks up this website is not happy with your feces? Discuss. Where does your feces go next? Now, I'm sure that not all of your mind is scat-addled. Some of your mind not be shit and against all scat, and therefore safe from responsiblity from the actions of the rest of your shitty head, but I digress. Discuss. You would like to put out a scat-tinged suggestion every, if you may be so shitty.
  • We will feast on man-flesh tonight. Nah! I'm still thinking of hitting on the woman.
  • i'm with quid. monkeybashi, please deleteabashi.
  • My mind may be perversity laden, but it's not perversity addled.
  • Four posts to your name, two of which are self-links back to your Hong Kong-based discussion site? No bananas for you.
  • I would ask her to consider what Jesus would do.
  • Jesus would turn the links into wine.
  • We ARE whining.
  • Chinese communist cell brainwashing monkeys into screwing their co-workers. Discuss: The similiraties between lab-monkeys and lab-rats. Discuss: The Obvious: WTF do dirty minds have to do with a Hong-Kongonese website? Discuss: are you a homo?
  • I would eat her out, right there in the restaurant. I mean really, wouldn't you?
  • Actually this post had nothing to do with a link back to the Hong Kong website, I was just curious how the community would answer such a question. would you like a link to monkeyfilter instead? Everyone seemed to like the previous links to the website. One was intentionally meant to provoke your thoughts about how Hong Kong is undergoing the beginnings of a very interesting cultural revolution. No pun intended. This was the first group blog I have really belonged to, so I thought I'd see if I could generate some community spirit. My apologies. In my next post, I will be sure to give some interesting site that you will be profoundly awed by. And might I suggest that you all take the promotion of one's blog a bit too seriously? I could care less if this blog or the other blog was promoted. Thank you.
  • Mmm. I likes my man-flesh with jelly.
  • What evidence do we have that the link is a self-link? Before we pile on Starc, what transgression has been committed? Would this post be acceptable if it didn't have a link and was preceded by the words "Curious George"? Some of the early comments didn't mention anything about possible self-linkage, and were along the lines of "I don't like this post...delete it!", which is a MeFi attitude I'd rather not see over here.
  • quidnuc is a whiny biatch! :)
  • rocket, it is a self-link, and a fairly confusing one at that. I didn't click on the earlier postings of this link, not for any particular reason, but when I was directed to this monkey's site on this occasion, I honestly thought it had something to do with the question, and was a mite confused when I couldn't find anything on this topic. I just chalked it up to a accidental posting of the wrong link, and checked in here for a correction (at least I found the explanation). That said, I think that had it been prefaced with a Curious George, which I think was inherent in it's topical explanation, it is an interesting question. If I was single, I'd entertain the thought of hooking up about twelve seconds before I ran like hell. I've seen the fallout of people getting involved with married folk, and it sho' ain't pretty.
  • "Adulterous George: If you were in the following situation, what would you do, and why? Let's say you take out a colleague from work and during the course of your lunch, your perversity addled mind picks up that this female colleague is not happy with her marriage? Discuss. Where does your mind go next? Now, I'm sure that not all of you have a perversity-addled mind. Some of you are quite nice. Hell, some of you may be vegans and against all moral impurities, and therefore safe from situations, but I digress. Discuss. I would like to put out a morally-tinged suggestion every week, if I may be so allowed." There. All done. Starc explained himself and apologized. I, for one, am satisfied and accept his apology. His response was a bit snarky, but look at what we did to him.
  • And might I suggest that you all take the promotion of one's blog a bit too seriously? Says the guy that shows up here promoting his blog. Without the self-link, maybe this post wouldn't be feces. People have made some interesting what-if posts. But you used this place to promote your blog. If you can't create a FPP that isn't so self-link addled, then tough titty for you.
  • OK then...on to the question: Pursuing anything would violate two personal convictions for me: getting involved with a married woman (a strong one) and getting involved with a co-worker (a weak one). I would probably help her, by way of support and advice, with her marriage issues, especially if she was inclined toward separation/divorce, as I have been through that myself. If she left her husband then I'd go for it, because, as I said, the co-worker thing is a weak conviction, and I am a weak man.
  • And might I suggest that you all take the promotion of one's blog a bit too seriously? Before we pile on Starc, what transgression has been committed? I wasn't upset that it was a self-link, I just wanted to know what the fuck it was about. I was also not too keen on fairly random non-questions being asked without any context whatsoever and a link that seems totally irrelevant to that question (although not in itself uninteresting). I would simply much rather the front page http://www.monkeyfilter.com were full of genuine questions from community members and interesting links. That way third parties won't stumble onto the site and think that its entirely appropriate to ask the quidnunc fucking dipshit kid to be a part of their focus group, relgious rant, self-promotion or googlebomb. It would also keep that front page an interesting thing to read. But of course I say this with respect to fellow Monkeys especially those that disagree with me and thus I remain, sirs and madames, your humble assmuncher etc etc.
  • frankly, i felt duped. i had clicked on the link to find a discussion of some related issue, and ONCE AGAIN found this person's hong kong web site. or SOMEONE'S hk web site. the same one i've seen over and over again here lately.
  • Hasn't it only been posted twice? I don't want to get involved in anything, but that's hardly over and over, unless I'm mistaken.
  • I was confused by the link as well, and even browsed through it looking for a related article. I didn't recognize it as the same one posted earlier. Hopefully Starc has learned a lesson from this and it won't happen again. (Advice to Starc: when you've transgressed the community rules, try to keep your apology snark-free)
  • Oh wow, I missed this thread entirely. Since Starc continues to post nonsense, I would request our esteemed admin to wield the banhammer. MoFi is no place for soc.culture.* flamefests.
  • debaser, even twice would make it a double-post at the very least. a purposeful double-post.
  • true...sidedish...hadn't thought of it like that
  • here, have a nana
  • To address the question at hand (if for novelty purposes only), I wouldn't do anything. Not out of self-superiority or anything, but simple self-preservation. In my limited world-view, things like this spiral into sexual-harrassment situations very quickly, and it's just not worth it. Now, if I were working with Catherine Deneuve, it would be an entirely different answer. But for most instances, I'd do my best to ignore it, and wonder what the dessert options are. Situations like these is what masturbation is for.
  • We ARE masturbating.
  • Is that the royal we, quid?
  • oh right sorry i misunderstood
  • "I AM masturbating"
  • I once tried to make a list of situations that are not appropriate for masturbation. It was a very short list.
  • Funerals
  • No, I think we can make that a 'we'...
  • Job Interviews
  • Court appearances.
  • Not that I did.
  • While accepting the 'Presidential Medal of Freedom' from His Royal Highness, King George II.
  • Job Interviews That depends on the job.
  • I agree, Capt. Renault, that a court appearance would be an inapporpriate place to masturbate. Unless, of course, you are a judge.
  • While accepting the 'Presidential Medal of Freedom' from His Royal Highness, King George II. Hey, if he can be President AND King, I get to jerk off a little.
  • Well, sure, bernockle. It's why justice is blind.
  • In church.
  • "I AM masturbating" No, you are Masturbating. As in the Platonic ideal of Masturbating. Which partakes of the ideals of Boredom and Internet Porn.
  • oh yeah plato baby keep talking oh god yeah so good so socratic oh yeah
  • Man, these always happen while I'm asleep. I'm going to stop sleeping. Seriously. Starting from now. It seems that quid said best what I would have said - in fact, said it better than me. MoFi and Curious George are not so much the place for vague moral debate. Ideally it's the place for people needing genuine help to ask for advice, and I'd like to keep it that way rather than let it slip from that any further than it already has. Secondly, Curious George posts require no links, so self-linking there was both unnecessary and self-promotional, something you've quickly learned is inappropriate. Thirdly, if you are indeed posting self-links to MoFi's front page, you will be banned. Of course, reading the FAQ or posting guidelines would have told you all of that. Dammit.
  • cautiously offers monkeybashi a niiiiiice banana.......
  • Meh, I need to take a break. I'll be back later when I've had coffee and/or sugar. *takes banana, goes for a walk*
  • "I AM masturbating" No, you weeeeereeee right theee first timeeeeeeeee.
  • It's why justice is blind. This whole putrid thread was worth it for that. Otherwise, what the quid kid said. And of course tracicle. tracicle? Somebody go find tracicle and pour coffee into her!
  • Please excuse shaky typing.
  • That's strange. A Catherine Deneuve reference mere hours after I had a dream about Catherine Deneuve having it off with Peter Tork. It had something to do with a tiny pterodactyl and other actors slagging off Edward Fox for some reason.
  • Discuss: Is this silly?
  • Is this silly? Seven elderly elephants in chantilly lace practicing proprioception.
  • Next, I would attempt to ascertain whether she was hot or not. Then, I would try to calculate how much work would be required to remove her clothes in my mind (should she be hot).
  • The preceding constitutes irrefutable proof of why I am a contributing member to this site.