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      The cave of hopelessness!

      Why do they call it the cave of hopelessness?

      Oh dear not my lad, for it was named after its discoverer, Reginald Hopelessness. The first man to be eaten by the tunneling horror!

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    I went to a hiking trail today that has Taiwanese Macau monkeys living on it. I could only make a quarter of the trail due to some issues with my leg but I did get to see a baby Macau and mama.

    Also you are explicitly warned about interacting with the monkeys. You use the trail at your own risk. No jumping monkeys this time but one of them did try to pee on me from the canopy.

    Pics of the Warning Signs:
    https://ibb.co/VJyZyq0
    https://ibb.co/1ZwrJQC

    Bonus Pic of Mama and Baby:
    https://ibb.co/tzz95BJ

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      I assume this is Kaosiung. One time I was visiting a campus there that had these monkeys. It was hell and pure entertainment. These monkeys were on parked cars and people couldn’t leave for hours. If they tried to get in their cars the monkeys would attack. And couple came by and the girl had a water bottle so the monkeys attacked her and the boyfriend just bounced and ran off to the hills while his girl was having her hair ripped out.

      I saw this all while I was waiting for my bus. When the bus came and people got off, the unfortunate people on the bus didn’t know there were monkeys and many were carrying plastic stuff in their hands. The monkeys started attacking all the pasaangers getting off. Unfortunately we had to get on the bus and it was pure mayham trying to get on the bus during a monkey ambush.

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    “I hear we’re going to Ape Island.”

    “Yeah, to capture a giant ape! I wish we were going to Candy Apple Island.”

    “Why, what’s there?”

    “Apes. But there’s not so big.”

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    Going to a monkey beach after a monkey attack on that beach? To me that sounds crazy. You may also say its a little looney. Quite daft. A silly decision. And dare I say it? Bananas?

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      There was a series of movies about something similar, but with dinosaurs.

      Jurassic Park, et al.

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    Image Transcription:

    A world news article by Associate Producer Savannah Meacham titled Aussie family regrets visiting a beach notorious for monkey attacks after being attacked by monkeys at a famous monkey attack beach in Thailand. Below the title is a paused video with two photos side by side, the left one shows a person bent over with a long-tailed macaque running at them, while the photo on the right shows a woman with her hand over her mouth, looking shocked.

    [I am a human, if I’ve made a mistake please let me know. Please consider providing alt-text for ease of use. Thank you. 💜]

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    As someone from Thailand, monkeys here are no joke. They are mean and act like a mafia gang. There are many places like this; tour guides always warn you not to bring your bags down with you and leave them in the car. Monkeys will suspect you have food in your bags and snatch them away.

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    I have been to one monkey sanctuary in Thailand, exactly once. As the locals told me: it is fun for about an hour and you have no desire to ever do it again.

    Those monkeys are mean.