How To Fight Monkeys

[Captain Trips]

* My comments in red between stars.

I thought this might come in handy here. *

How To Fight Monkeys

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What should you do if monkeys are picking on you?

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To diffuse the situation, don't make eye contact or smile with your teeth showing—in the nonhuman primate world, these are almost always signs of aggression.

* In other words, don't offer a strong reaction. *

Monkey attacks are extremely rare in the wild; the creatures tend to be scared of us and often scamper away when a person gets within 100 feet. As monkeys lose their habitats around the world, though, they've started to live in closer proximity to humans, and that causes conflict.

* Now they're even getting online *

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Rhesus macaques, the aggressive monkeys that cause a lot of the trouble in Delhi, will then warn you with a grunt.

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....they'll grab at your knees and legs, and put their mouths on you so that you can feel their teeth. Finally, if you still won't cooperate, they'll sink their canines into you.

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....What if you can't or won't appease the monkeys ....

You can try to chase them off by shaking a stick at them, but they might get violent if cornered. If they don't budge, bop 'em on the head; visitors to temples in India sometimes carry a stick for just this reason.

* Of course the monkeys we have here, you cannot "bop 'em on the head". Only figuratively can you "bop 'em on the head" by reporting their nastiness to a moderator:

drgoodtrips

MattLarson

Speakeasy

Crystal

O'Sullivan Bere *

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. ...But whatever you do, don't freak out; those who scream, wave their arms, and run away are only going to make the macaques even more aggressive.

* Offer little or NO reaction :-) *

What to do if you're attacked by monkeys. - By Michelle Tsai - Slate Magazine

[moon]

Those who vote for anthropoids must expect primates as bedfellows.

[Captain Trips]

Originally Posted by moon

Those who vote for anthropoids must expect primates as bedfellows.

Sure.

However what choice do we have when our choices ARE only between one orangutan or the other chimpanzee ?

We have to vote for ONE. Either WAY we're going to get a chattering monkey of one type or another.

Suggestions ?

[Jason Marcel]

Ron Paul, the only chimp who isn't in anyone's pocket. His only special interest to date is Freedom.

You'll get more unnecessary wars with everyone else.

[moon]

I'm afraid that Ron Paul, gifted though he may be, serves only to attract the overtly optimistic and the disillusioned .

We have to vote for ONE. Either WAY we're going to get a chattering monkey of one type or another.

Suggestions ?

Yes. Vote for neither. Vote for no party. Vote for no individual.

Far from suggesting abandoning democracy entirely I suggest giving democracy the kiss-of-life.

Make an individual's vote worthwhile again. Construct a system wherein that individual votes for an idea, not some toothy and/or hirsute 'personality', a system that encourages that individual to vote, not once every 25th of a century, but to vote frequently on a range of suggestions, ideas, possibilities.
We are nearly all computer literate. If we aren't today then we will be tomorrow. We could vote monthly, weekly, daily on a range of issues from the local to the national to the international.

What is offered to us today as 'democracy' is an 'opportunity' to cast a symbolic vote. We choose the least-bad option and suffer, again and again, a government which governs without us.

Fuck them. Dump them, all of them. Stay away from ballot boxes until eDemocracy overthrows the tyranny of what 'representational democracy' has become. We don't need another millionaire 'leader' to disenfranchise us for four more years. We need to be active ourselves and we need to govern ourselves according to the strengths of an empowered population. Say NO to the tyranny of the minority. Have the balls not to vote.

[Si modo]

Yes, as Moon said...nobody vote. Then my vote will be the only one that counts and I will get who I want in office. Thanks for the suggestion, Moon. You rock.

[moon]

Yes, as Moon said...nobody vote. Then my vote will be the only one that counts and I will get who I want in office. Thanks for the suggestion, Moon. You rock

The timid see 'Don't vote at all '. The progressive see ' Don't vote for nothing '

[Captain Trips]

Originally Posted by Jason Marcel

Ron Paul, the only chimp who isn't in anyone's pocket. His only special interest to date is Freedom.

You'll get more unnecessary wars with everyone else.

Hmm. So you say something I can agree with.

Maybe.

I'm not as sure as you are that he isn't just another shit flinging monkey in the primate house of our political zoo :-)

[Captain Trips]

Originally Posted by moon

The timid see 'Don't vote at all '. The progressive see ' Don't vote for nothing '

And a band (Corrosion of conformity) sees "vote with a bullet"

YouTube - Corrosion Of Conformity-Vote With A Bullet

[TheLastBoyScout]

Originally Posted by Captain Trips

Sure.

However what choice do we have when our choices ARE only between one orangutan or the other chimpanzee ?

We have to vote for ONE. Either WAY we're going to get a chattering monkey of one type or another.

Suggestions ?

Are we talking about monkeys, trolls, or presidential candidates here?

I suppose in every case, if we over-react to their girations, it only makes it the situation worse.

[Government Man]

Wow moon, you sured walked into a closed door with this one

[moon]

Wow moon, you sured walked into a closed door with this one

I'd try to work out what the hell you were blathering about but I know from experience it would be futile.

[jameskc]

Originally Posted by moon

Vote for neither. Vote for no party. Vote for no individual.

If this, indeed, is your plan for the next election, I shall expect your bellyaching to cease. You will no longer have any right.

[moon]

Jameskc;

If this, indeed, is your plan for the next election, I shall expect your bellyaching to cease. You will no longer have any right.

Wrong. ( Get used to this word. You're going to be on the receiving end of it quite frequently, I can tell )

People that choose not to vote don't lose their right to vote. Right, James ?

[jameskc]

Originally Posted by moon

Jameskc;


Wrong. ( Get used to this word. You're going to be on the receiving end of it quite frequently, I can tell )

People that choose not to vote don't lose their right to vote. Right, James ?

never said you would lose your right to vote, I said you would lose your right to complain.

I would have guessed you as the type to forego the voting process. Your ilk usually do.