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[valancystirling]

I have to thank enoelie for this.

ANYWYAY.

http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/monkeysphere.html

"Have you ever gotten pissed off in traffic? Like, really pissed off? I think we all have. We've thrown finger gestures and wedged our heads out of the window and screamed "LEARN TO FUCKING DRIVE, FUCKER!!" We've all pulled the gun out of the glove compartment and let a few fly at the offending car. Not firing at their head or anything. Just, you know, at their tires.

Now imagine yourself standing in an elevator with three other people, two friends and a coworker. A friend goes to hit a button and accidentally punches the wrong one. Would you lean over, your mouth two inches from her ear, and scream "LEARN TO OPERATE THE FUCKING ELEVATOR BUTTONS, SHITCAMEL!!"

They'd think you'd gone insane. We all go a little insane, though, when we get in a group larger than the Monkeysphere. You know the feeling, that invincibility of being an anonymous head in a crowd, screaming curses at a football player you'd never dare say to his face."

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[millennialhippy.livejournal.com]

You see, monkey experts performed a monkey study a while back and discovered that the size of the monkey's monkey brain determined the size of the monkey groups the monkeys formed. The bigger the brain, the bigger the little societies they built.


Is it sad I know who did this research and who has used it in their research? *facepalms*

Absolute best use of the research that I've seen though. Wish more people would figure out the "implications" of things in ways that actually provoke others.

And by provoke, I don't mean ripping their hair out and going partially blind from reading size 6 fonts courtesy of double-printing to "save money" on assignments for your next thesis paper.

[langwidere.livejournal.com]

Hopped over from the knitting community. Thanks for posting this. Fascinating read, though I kind of wonder what that sort of research would say about people like Mother Teresa and all. Hmmm.

[valancystirling.livejournal.com]

People like Mother Teresa make the rest of us look bad.

[langwidere.livejournal.com]

This is true. heh.