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My wife hates this. I love it. (media.piefed.social)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] toynbee@piefed.social 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

You're clearly a stronger person than I.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago

It IS the sculpturist...

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

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

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 1 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

You can keep it but you're gonna get cursed

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

Oh, of course. That's the point.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 month ago

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

[–] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

Your wife is a wise woman.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 8 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

Bonus points of you do a funny voice

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 6 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

Or a manicure...💅

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

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

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

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

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

Well, there's no accounting for taste.

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

The wonky nostrils add character.

[–] Gerblat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Wonky Nostrils new band name I called it

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

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

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

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

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 2 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

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

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

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

No, they were just twenty feet to the left.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 1 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

Have you ever watched Trilogy of Horror?

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think it is cute, it is kind eyes.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

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

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

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

But do you love it because she hates it?

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

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

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Strongly agreed on that!

[–] dusty_raven@discuss.online 1 points 1 month 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 1 month ago
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