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My wife hates this. I love it. (media.piefed.social)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by toynbee@piefed.social to c/pics@lemmy.world
 

edit: I showed my wife the comments on this post and she said "I like that everyone is agreeing with me."

I still love the monkey. Oh, and the wife.

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[–] toynbee@piefed.social 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I got it from Good Will. There are three things I got there that my wife hates and I love. I don't have an antagonistic relationship with her in general, but those three things were items I needed.

I'm willing to yield on almost everything else, but how can you say no to a creepy coconut monkey?

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] toynbee@piefed.social 12 points 3 months ago (5 children)

You're clearly a stronger person than I.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can keep it, but like in a closet 😁.

Pro tip: don't wish for things near it.

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I have yet to show this to anyone who doesn't respond by calling it something equivalent to "cursed." That fact really makes me wonder about the original sculpturist.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago

It IS the sculpturist...

[–] Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

I don't get everyone calling it cursed. It looks very cute to me. Lol

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 1 points 3 months ago

I was trying to paste an image of The Simpsons Olmec head given to Bart as a gift from Mr Burns, it won't let me a glitch or maybe that saw this community works. Here's a clip. Never mind, the internet is so enshitified I can't get the clip, what the fuck is going on with the internet.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can keep it but you're gonna get cursed

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh, of course. That's the point.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 points 3 months ago

Nice, I look forward to viewing the found footage film once the spooky events start going down.

[–] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 months ago

Your wife is a wise woman.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do you work at a desk in an office? You can keep it there, and then if someone comes in to talk to you, you can lean in to the monkey as if to listen to its whispers, and say "Monkey doesn't like that idea!" Lean in again. "Monkey is getting upset! You should go now. Bad things happen when Monkey gets upset..."

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Bonus points of you do a funny voice

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 6 points 3 months ago

She probably doesn't like it cause it looks like timothee chalamet. That's why I don't like it

[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Perhaps give it a baseball cap, a kids piano and some fancy lighting.

Or a manicure...💅

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I feel like if it weren't for the teeth it would be bearable

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

Oh fuck i didn't notice the damn teeth....

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, there's no accounting for taste.

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

True, I could never account for why my wife seems to like me.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 points 3 months ago

I feel like this is the first of three posts that end with you needing the services of a shaman.

[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The wonky nostrils add character.

[–] Gerblat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Wonky Nostrils new band name I called it

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] toynbee@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's why she hates it! The teeth, especially, I think.

[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yup, for me it's the teeth too. Without those it would be cute.

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

I showed my wife the comments and she said (among other things) that she agrees the teeth are the worst part. She doesn't like that they "don't look like teeth," they make it look like "a monkey who eats teeth."

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Fuck that. With the teeth it can look goofy. Without, it would look absolutely diabolical!

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did the vendor's shop disappear once you went back to return?

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, they were just twenty feet to the left.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago

Oh, so then the well willing Good Will cashier gave you a warning, and told you to pick something else but you insisted, and now you're bound forever. What becomes of "it", shall become of you, kind of thing?

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Have you ever watched Trilogy of Horror?

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago

Sorry, *Terror not Horror.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nMXo_moi5x8

Skip to the last 5 min of you want. Just reminds me of it for some reason.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think it is cute, it is kind eyes.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Back in, like, the late '90s, these things were everywhere.

So to me they're just perfectly banal.

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

I grew up in the nineties and never saw one before this. Maybe it was regional?

[–] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What exactly is it? And why were they ubiquitous in the 90s?

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

It's just a decorative item shaped like a monkey, usually made of coconuts.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah I hate it and not even going to show it to my husband, he would be looking to buy one.

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But do you love it because she hates it?

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago
[–] Tiral@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If it starts moving around at night, that's when you nope out.

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago

Strongly agreed on that!

[–] dusty_raven@discuss.online 1 points 3 months ago

I too love it. I would keep it on a stand next to the door and rub its head for luck.

In 3 years my wife would win it on the divorce (specifically because I would spend hours in the middle of the night rubbing its head and muttering to myself) and set fire to it in an act of rebellion.

The smoke released from the fire would take the form of a dark specter and haunt the world for 5000 years.

Or I would just keep it on the shelf and enjoy having something that I can tease my wife with. d:

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago
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