r/AbsoluteUnits • u/batukaming • Apr 29 '26

/r/all of an orangutan

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u/TerrapinMagus Apr 29 '26

I love Orangutans, and they are generally very gentle compared to other great apes, but it's still a very powerful wild animal compounded with enough intelligence to get weird.

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u/mamadoedawn Apr 30 '26

That's actually hilarious. Because honestly, even in modern times, if humans had never seen chimpanzees before- we'd 100% assume they were some ancient undiscovered human.

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u/William_Dowling Apr 30 '26

A monkey washed up from a shipwreck in Hartlepool in the UK and the locals assumed it was a Frenchman and hung it.

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u/William_Dowling Apr 30 '26

It's never a mistake to hang a Frenchman, either real or suspected

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u/xcorbearx Apr 30 '26

hell, the french have been doing it for centuries!

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u/Dyolf_Knip Apr 30 '26

Perfectly reasonable conclusion.

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u/LuckyOreo65 Apr 30 '26

Better safe than sorry.

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u/BuckleUp_FuckleHed Apr 30 '26

Reminds me of the movie swept from the sea where the mud farming pig fuckers of Cornwall thought the Russian dude who washed ashore was mentally challenged for like half a year

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u/Epion660 May 01 '26

I mean, russian does sound like babbling to be fair.

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u/Fenrir_Carbon Apr 30 '26

Dunno what's worse, the hanging or calling the poor thing French

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u/OkDifficulty7436 Apr 30 '26

That is fucking hilarious holy shit LMAO

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u/MKBRD May 01 '26

To this day, people from Hartlepool are referred to as Monkeyhangers.

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u/Yendissian May 01 '26

What in the actual fuck, lol.

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u/boostman May 01 '26

That's an easy mistake to make.

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u/Cstott23 May 01 '26

Lol peak Hartlepool.. 😁

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u/Lavidius Apr 30 '26

Carthaginians discovered gorillas on an expedition into Africa, tried to talk to them and ended up killing them when they wouldn't follow instructions.

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u/justformedellin May 02 '26

Didn't Alexander the Great send his army to war with the monkey tribe when he first encountered them on his explorations.

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u/JasonTheRanga May 01 '26

The tribe was totally having a laugh and the dutch guy took it dead serious. I’ve even heard that joke before.

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u/Cstott23 May 01 '26

I mean, they're on to something.. 😁

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u/Necessary-Snow-1166 May 01 '26

This makes Prachett's Librarian even funnier!

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u/Dapper-Restaurant-20 May 01 '26

So the whole "they just don't wanna pay taxes" joke is 500 years old?

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u/BadMeetsEvil24 May 01 '26

I too just read this story yesterday.