Monkey see, monkey do.

found a video this morning that showcases a few other parallels between man and primate.

These little bastards are the same variety that can be found most mornings at my house, tormenting the dogs, stealing fruit, pelting me and the neighbours as well as generally causing a fracas. Anyone that's actually ever sat and watched monkeys will agree that after about 5 minutes it starts to look like a little man in a suit with a funny gait.

That being said, watching this video could almost be any of the local weekend parties, and if i could, I'd tag myself, as well as a few others I can think of that are guilty of such behaviour.

8 monkeys

Put eight monkeys in a room. In the middle of the room is a ladder, leading to a bunch of bananas hanging from a hook on the ceiling.

Each time a monkey tries to climb the ladder, all the monkeys are sprayed with ice water, which, obviously irritates them. Soon enough, whenever a monkey attempts to climb the ladder, all of the other monkeys, not wanting to be sprayed, set upon him and beat him senseless. Soon thereafter, none of the eight monkeys ever attempts to climb the ladder.

One of the original monkeys is then removed, and a new monkey is put in the room. Seeing the bananas and the ladder, he wonders to himself, "...why the hell are none of the other monkeys going for those bananas?". But undaunted, he immediately begins to climb the ladder.

All the other monkeys fall upon him and beat the bejesus out of him. He has no idea why this is, but, he's not going to take the chance and re-attempt to climb the ladder.

A second original monkey is removed and replaced. The newcomer again attempts to climb the ladder, but all the other monkeys hammer the crap out of him.

This extends to include the previous new monkey, who, grateful that he's not on the receiving end this time, participates in the beating because all the other monkeys are doing it. However, he has no idea why he's attacking the new monkey.

One by one, all the original monkeys are replaced. Eight new monkeys are now in the room. None of them have ever been sprayed by ice water. None of them attempt to climb the ladder. All of them will enthusiastically beat up any new monkey who tries, without having any idea why.

This is a popular floating internet story that kind of puts policies (be they the ones set out within an office or legislative) into perspective.

Here we go again.............

Just when I thought the two salmon-tot retrievers at the house of T would keep them at bay, the monkeys have returned to my house.

Disturbingly so, whenever I utter the word monkey, people tend to associate them with adjectives such as cute, playful, funloving, jovial.

not me.

When I hear the word monkey I think the words thieving, vicious, useless, bastards pretty much sums it up correctly.

Take for instance, most people tend not to know that any attempts to chase away said green monkey by throwing any missiles e.g. 'bajan bullet' will result in the whole troop returning the favour plus VAT. These monkeys have also been known to attack small children for no apparent reason. Just this morning I was met at my car by one monkey who thought it was great fun to throw his leftover ackee seeds at my head.

So until I finally do come up with an effective method of getting rid of these bastards, the search is on.