this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Was this author paid by the word?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Look, it's not Shakespeare, but you can only fit so many attack-monkeys with typewriters on a beach at a time before they begin unionizing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of SEO "experts" insist on certain lengths for titles and word minimums for articles, even though they generally don't matter, so we end up with this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I mean that could be the case but this kind of title is legit rhetoric, as in "obvious thing is obviously obvious". Journalist is doing readers a favour by making them less likely to be complete bellends when faced with a sign saying "beware of the attack monkeys".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I've been to that island years ago, but nobody has told me about the amount of monkey attacks. But they told us not to show teeth while laughing/smiling because monkeys may see it as aggression.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I was bit by a monkey waiter once.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Holy shit what happened?!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Now this is the type of content I come to this website for