Chimp in a ball pit

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/05/23/chimp-in-a-ball-pit.html

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I want to remember how to be that happy again.

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Hey! I don’t remember signing a release for my kids to appear in that video.

J/k my kids are much smellier and harrier.

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I betcha there’s a lot of saliva and fecal bacteria in there.

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Yeah, they better check those chimps over carefully. Every time my kid went in a ball pit, the next day he was at the doctor’s getting an antibiotic for pinkeye.

Every. Single. Time.

I hated those things.

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I’m ball pitting now.

(@Papasan must be out walking the dog.)

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I’m glad they had a nice time.

Myself, I was bothered by the immediate throwing of all the balls out of the pit. That’s mostly down to bad playspace design, but still, I think even very small bobtato would have a sense that you want to keep the balls in the pit because that’s where they’re fun.

Are chimps just more entropic than bobtata? Or is it like, the screws will either put the balls back or take them away, and you don’t get a say either way, so fuck it, just fling stuff wherever? It’s so political

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I think that part of the fascination with ball pits is that they are a sort of water analog. They behave like a fluid, but they are less dense and you can breathe “underwater” So it is no surprise that they were splashing the balls around in exactly the way that they would do with a tub of water.

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You should try and sync the chimp video, with the sound of this linked video. It works so much better :slight_smile:

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  • How are you feeling today buddy?
  • Like a chimp in a ball pit.
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What’s going on on the right edge of the video at :50? I feel like chimp butt is censored.

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“Walking the dog”…

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Chimpanzees are basically all politics, all the time. That humans aren’t was the brief highlight of our social and mental development. At least, until CNN and FaceF%¢& came along.

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I’m assuming this is an experiment where they prove that chimpanzees put fewer saliva and feces-based pathogens into the ball pit than human children.

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A new replacement for ‘Better than James Brown, thanks’.

Only because they make a brand new bed every day. If I did that I bet I’d have as clean a bed.

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That’s cute! They’re having fun.

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They could have simply taken the chimp to the next IKEA.

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That is funny - and scary!

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It’s a Brian Eno project from the 1970ies. They did a whole album. Their version of The Blue Danube is out of this world.