Comments on: Semen-eating monkeys aren't welcome on MetaFilter.

Semen-eating monkeys aren't welcome on MetaFilter.

Justinian — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:08:50 -0800

You knew it was coming, and here it is! Is this really what Metafilter is about? Matt almost got run out of town by a howling mob for allowing ads for a popular site with scantily clad women, but videos of monkeys eating their own semen is A-OK and best of the web?

By: Ryvar

Ryvar — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:14:18 -0800

scantily clad women . . . monkeys eating their own semen

I'm cool with exploiting monkeys of both genders, myself.

By: Hypnic jerk

Hypnic jerk — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:15:17 -0800

Yeah. Terrible post but amusing discussion that followed. It probably would have been, if not fine, but salvageable if brownpau hadn't put the thing in an animated gif and posted it in line.

By: 31d1

31d1 — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:15:21 -0800

It's the Snakes on a Plane of dumb threads. You see?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:18:07 -0800

Alright, I'll take that down. I was out all day. I'm not even going to watch it though.

By: Krrrlson

Krrrlson — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:18:41 -0800

Mushroom thread 2. A year from now we'll be donating to an AIDS fund in the name of Kraftmatic.

By: bob sarabia

bob sarabia — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:19:31 -0800

This reminds me a lot of Tony Danza's penis.

By: fandango_matt

fandango_matt — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:20:10 -0800

GOOD:
Fornicating & semen-eating monkeys
Fornicating & vomit-eating dogs
Tony Danza's penis

BAD:
Micturating elephants
Scantily-clad women
Cock puppets

The psyche of MetaFilter is a complex and fragile tapestry, Justinian.

By: glycolized

glycolized — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:20:43 -0800

Yeah, I deliberately did not click the link. I skimmed the thread to see what the reaction was. Good thing someone posted a gif of the whole movie. That was unnecessary. So if there is tasteless or NSFW content in a thread, I guess it's okay to just embed it in the thread now?

I guess this is why I don't always get to mefi every day after work anymore.

By: Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese

Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:21:13 -0800

I hesitated before hitting the submit button because I thought some people might react badly, and with all sincerity I'm sorry if I lowered the MeFi bar of acceptable standards, even for an afternoon. But as Hypnic pointed out, the resulting thread was pretty fun, at least until the animated gif showed up.

By: brownpau

brownpau — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:23:33 -0800

I hesitated before hitting the submit button because I thought some people might react badly

I've been there too, Kraftamatic, and you know what? Go for it anyway.

By: weretable and the undead chairs

weretable and the undead chairs — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:33:12 -0800

I thought it was both sickening and amusing. And the resulting thread was gold. I am a bit saddened that it was nipped before ceiling cat appeared in the thread.

Also it was better than another Iraq post.

By: Justinian

Justinian — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:36:38 -0800

The thread was amusing, but does every site have to end like Fark? Isn't there room for different standards? I browse Fark occasionally; ain't nothing wrong with that. But I don't think every site needs to be about amusing/disgusting videos of boobies or people getting kicked in the nads or monkeys eating their own semen.

By: Krrrlson

Krrrlson — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:38:30 -0800

By: TwelveTwo

TwelveTwo — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:39:42 -0800

Is it safe now?

By: Ryvar

Ryvar — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:41:19 -0800

But I don't think every site needs to be about amusing/disgusting videos of boobies or people getting kicked in the nads or monkeys eating their own semen.

I don't know which of the Internets you come from, man, but mine is a series of tubes containing nothing BUT the things you've listed.

By: dersins

dersins — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:58:07 -0800

This post was deleted for the following reason: people really don't like this.

.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:00:37 -0800

Well, its gone. And I did flag it. It was obviously posted in jest, which makes it somewhat OK. But frankly I just find that sort of gross-out for gross-out sake humor rather boring.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:04:08 -0800

Jeez, the video isn't that bad, really.

I'm trying really hard to have a balanced opinion about the deletion of monkey cum-eating from the front page of Metafilter. On one hand, it doesn't strike me as any less silly than X number of other short, nonsensical tidbits (some posted by mathowie, actually) that have been allowed to stay up, which means, I think, that the only reason this one was removed was because of the squick factor inherent in a monkey eating its own cum. But it's not like squickiness hasn't been a regular feature here for a while, and one *could* make the argument for some sort of redeeming social value in spreading the idea that cum-eating is a natural phenomenon among our primate relatives, so I'm not really sure the monkey cum-eating post deserved so much outrage. It's not like MeFi is a site with the Child-Friendly Seal of Approval or anything.

On the other hand, I suppose anything that helps distinguish a Mefi sensibility from a Fark or Something Awful sensibility is a Good Thing for internet diversity, and if deleting the occasional monkey cum-eating post works to make that distinction more clear, I guess I won't object.

*falls off balance beam*

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:05:38 -0800

now when people ask when western civilization jumped the shark, only a few will really know and generations of historians will wear out their chisels on clay tablets in vain

matt, what about your DUTY to HISTORY??

By: wendell

wendell — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:22:17 -0800

termite, that wasn't a shark the monkey was jumping...

(how would I know, I didn't click the link AND I NEVER WILL)

I'm so happy to see how far we've progressed since I INADVERTANTLY introduced MeFi to "t*bg*rl". At least, that transgression was forgotten (until I brought it up right now).

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:48:06 -0800

I INADVERTANTLY introduced MeFi to "t*bg*rl"

Uh, no.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:48:22 -0800

what's really good is if you mix a little tubgirl with some goatse and stir in a little jumped shark and jerked monkey it makes a delicious and hearty stew

By: Chuckles

Chuckles — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:50:06 -0800

Before I watched it, I was thinking it should win the $30, but it was really a lot less impressive than I expected.

By: mischief

mischief — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:52:37 -0800

Typical weekend crowd reaction. The weekday crowd would have loved it.

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:52:44 -0800

loquacious -

what's really good is if you mix a little tubgirl with some goatse and stir in a little jumped shark and jerked monkey it makes a debilitating and heartstopping spew

fixed that for you ...

By: nlindstrom

nlindstrom — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:24:56 -0800

Is the animated GIF everyone is yammering about?

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:32:10 -0800

I warned you people about this crap months ago.

It's a better, cleaner world when we're all uptight.

By: cortex

cortex — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:32:19 -0800

That isn't animated at all. I suspect the frog may be dead.

By: Krrrlson

Krrrlson — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:40:32 -0800

Autopsy of the frog pointed to semen overingestion as likely cause of death.

By: nanojath

nanojath — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:44:20 -0800

You know goddamn good and well an autopsy isn't how you know what killed that frog, Krrrlson.

By: jeversol

jeversol — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:55:29 -0800

I don't know if it makes it any "better" or not, but the video was from the BBC Motion Gallery. Link to the metadata page.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:56:58 -0800

....

By: Devils Slide

Devils Slide — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:03:50 -0800

Felchfilter.

By: caddis

caddis — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:10:45 -0800

Contest or no, this was one of the worst days of posts the site has ever seen. Uggggh.

(I know, I made a potty post, but it just seemed to fit in.)

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:11:40 -0800

I absolutely loved the resultant thread. The link? Didn't bother with it, don't want to see it. And were it not for the bandwidth error message, I'd be offering a hearty ol' fuck-you to who ever posted the GIF. Don't be a cock: give people a choice.

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:15:25 -0800

I can't believe there wasn't a single Brain Candy reference. This is how it's all going to end in tears, folks.

By: rob511

rob511 — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:26:30 -0800

Nostradamus Filter: Indeed you did, BB, and I believe I foresaw the thread in question on the previous day.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:38:52 -0800

what's really good is if you mix a little tubgirl with some goatse and stir in a little jumped shark and jerked monkey it makes a delicious and hearty...

...sauce.

By: LarryC

LarryC — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:48:56 -0800

Fark.

By: brownpau

brownpau — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:49:20 -0800

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:00:16 -0800

metafilter will be right back after these dancing kittens...

By: bob sarabia

bob sarabia — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:08:42 -0800

By: cortex

cortex — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:39:25 -0800

Contest or no, this was one of the worst days of posts the site has ever seen.

I like to think that August at Metafilter will end the way a good horror-thriller does—with what started as a bright and sunny set of possibilities crashing down below any depth forseeable, the protagonists and the antagonists ultimately married together in a swirling, agonizing psychological hell.

[Mefi webcomic]

I <3 brownpau

By: mediareport

mediareport — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:42:32 -0800

The spooge-eating monkey came from the fucking BBC? That's brilliant. The more I think about it, the less I like this callout and this deletion.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:02:30 -0800

Oh for Pete's sake. Like a spooge eating monkey is worse than tub girl or goatse? Give me a freakin' break. It's not like wild animals are supposed to have our weird unnatural laws of social etiquette.

"people really don't like this."

Guess I'm not a people then. Nor would I want to be. I'd rather see dancing kittens censored than spooge eating monkeys. I thought it was funny, and the kinda thing everything from Wild Kingdom to Crocodile Hunter would never have had to balls to show. We like to think we're above animals, but we are animals. Granted we have this weird unnatural tendency to avoid eating our own spooge and we wear clothing around one another and bathe regularly and we regularly shave and if we don't have sex inside a bedroom we think we're being kinky. We frown on nudists and make fun of them, but most other animals have none of the limits we've placed upon ourselves. We're the unnatural ones. That spooge eating monkey is less stressed out and fucked in the head than any of us, and you know it.

By: jeversol

jeversol — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:04:36 -0800

They even were kind enough to place it in the disgusting category. :)

By: Balisong

Balisong — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:09:32 -0800

I blame Karl Rove, and his assault on everything that assaults our sences.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:31:35 -0800

Like a spooge eating monkey

That hyphen sure does make a difference.

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:40:15 -0800

Is it fair to say "people really don't like this" when 21 users marked it as a favorite? I mean, I think it's a wee bit horrific, too, but 21 users... that's democracy in action!

By: everichon

everichon — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:44:08 -0800

What's troubling to me is that, before today, "spooge eating monkeys" was not a category I had warehoused in the vast, end-of-Indiana Jones-movie storeroom of useless crap which is my mind. Now, it is. Yikes.

By: jonson

jonson — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:49:00 -0800

What's amazing is how little "democracy in action" has to do with the direction of the site. For example, two days ago, the post about the Foreign Service language files gets over 100 users flagging it as favorite in a single day. That has to be a record, or damn near one. But it's not even a runner up for best post of the day. Bizarre.

By: smackwich

smackwich — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:51:52 -0800

On the other hand, the cum eating monkey was a good excuse to abuse xanax.

By: palmcorder_yajna

palmcorder_yajna — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:16:57 -0800

I for one loved that post. I didn't click on the link, but I thought FPP itself had a charming, "Snakes on a Plane" sort of purity, and I'm sad that it's gone.

By: johnj

johnj — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:17:48 -0800

That spooge eating monkey is less stressed out and fucked in the head than any of us, and you know it.

Amen! Like some humans don't eat their or another persons "ejaculate." No wait . . . we're not really interested in admitting that, are we?

people really don't like this.

Sure, sure. No one at Metafilter EVER does anything remotely similar to the little monkey in the video. Not us. No WAY!

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:20:05 -0800

I thought the 15 second monkey-fucking video was pretty "eh" myself, but mathowie's right people really did seem to hate it.

By: Balisong

Balisong — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:28:06 -0800

Love it or hate it, at least it was passionate.

I can't wait to read what UU or Lenin has to say about it.

By: Sailor Martin

Sailor Martin — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:39:41 -0800

Jesus. I'm never buying a sandwich from a monkey again. Come to think of it, the last monkey-made sandwich tasted a little off.

By: MLIS

MLIS — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:49:45 -0800

Matt almost got run out of town by a howling mob for allowing ads for a popular site ~~with scantily clad women~~ offering prostitutes for hire

good times

By: c:\awesome

c:\awesome — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:56:28 -0800

Remember that comment with a link to a pic of a guy cutting off the head of his penis? If only I had a time machine...

DON'T CLICK THE LINK!

By: bob sarabia

bob sarabia — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:15:04 -0800

I'm really surprised that no one has mentioned this askmetafilter question: Do straight guys ever eat their own come after masturbating? Come on people, keep up.

By: Kwantsar

Kwantsar — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 00:24:39 -0800

but mathowie's right people really did seem to hate it.

Proof that dios controls Matt!

By: nthdegx

nthdegx — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 02:46:10 -0800

Something not being all that offensive frankly isn't reason enough to post it to the front page.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:53:42 -0800

I can't wait to read what UU or Lenin has to say about it.

Tell me what you think of Chomsky.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 06:50:52 -0800

Something not being all that offensive frankly isn't reason enough to post it to the front page.

Just thought that deserved repeating.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 08:00:18 -0800

Oh bob sarabia, I think I love you a little bit.

Or I'm just using you to get to that jaunty windmill cat. Sassy!

That said, I was a little surprised and dare I say somewhat disconcerted to see the Mr. Hands (I've only known it as 'Death By Horsecock') video linked to.
The identity of the linker was no surprise at all, however.

By: scarabic

scarabic — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 09:51:56 -0800

Is this really what Metafilter is about?

What IS MetaFilter really about? No one ever seems to know, until something comes along that definitely ISN'T it.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:19:19 -0800

I thought MeFi was all about the bling and the hos.

By: clevershark

clevershark — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:40:10 -0800

Meh, I didn't really care about that post until someone decided to be a dickhead and post the thing inline in the thread.

I have a feeling that if only that bit had been deleted someone else would have come around to do the same thing ad nauseam.

By: brain_drain

brain_drain — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:09:12 -0800

Given a computer and infinite time, a semen-eating monkey would recreate every post and comment on MetaFilter. It logically follows that we are all semen-eating monkeys. Just think about that.

By: TwelveTwo

TwelveTwo — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:16:43 -0800

So far, what do we know Metafilter is not about? We'll cross those off the list of all possibilities and come to a sound and reasoned conclusion!

By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:45:08 -0800

So far, what do we know Metafilter is not about?

Dun duh-duh DUN! Refi to the rescue!

By: bigbigdog

bigbigdog — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:53:05 -0800

I am just glad that I have learned over the past few years that I cannot un-see something once seen. So I did not click the link, and I am satisfied.

Ewwww.

By: TwelveTwo

TwelveTwo — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:56:52 -0800

cortex, you're a go getter. I like that!

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 23:54:20 -0800

"Something not being all that offensive frankly isn't reason enough to post it to the front page.

Just thought that deserved repeating."

And thirding.

People's logic in this thread is perplexing. If the post was all about the squick factor, then what makes it different than goatse or tubgirl? If the post was not all about the squick factor, then what exactly were its merits? That it was a video of a monkey?

It was nothing special. It didn't deserve to be posted, regardless of squick. But, given that it didn't deserve to be posted, the squick is then egregious. It offends people with very little intrinsic merit.

And, incidentally, as far as I'm concerned, "merit" in the context of MeFi posts does not include "educating the community about things they ought to know". Just in case you think that "monkeys eat their own spooge" is something we ought to know.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 06:12:53 -0800

I enjoy going, and I enjoy getting.

By: redteam

redteam — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:51:05 -0800

fandango_matt: where's this promised animated gif for pussies to cry about?