The MSFN café - A Penny for Your Thoughts

[msfntor]

If you love your job at the movie theater as much as this guy does you deserve a raise

Here: https://notthebee.com/article/if-you-love-your-job-at-the-movie-theater-as-much-as-this-guy-does-you-deserve-a-raise

[msfntor]

...shorter people are better because they have a smaller carbon footprint!

Here: https://notthebee.com/article/the-new-york-times-ran-an-op-ed-arguing-that-shorter-people-are-better-because-they-have-a-smaller-carbon-footprint-

 

Edited January 4, 2023 by msfntor

[msfntor]

Federal Judge Orders Arizona Child To Dismantle Border Wall He Built Out Of Legos

Here: https://babylonbee.com/news/federal-judge-orders-arizona-child-to-dismantle-wall-built-out-of-legos

[msfntor]

12 Alpha Male Tips For Getting Tons Of Women

Hey, loser! Are you tired of being a pathetic beta male? Are you tired of striking out with women because of your pitiful soy-boy incompetence? If so, it's time to take charge of your life and be an ALPHA MALE.

Here are our top 12 alpha male tips for attracting & retaining tons of hot women.

1. Never clean your room: Does a bear clean its cave?

2. Keep no books or written words in your home:Reading is feminine and will shrink your testicles.

3. Eat raw organ meat straight out of a freshly killed animal: Just like our ancestors.

... ...

MORE: https://babylonbee.com/news/12-alpha-male-tips-for-getting-tons-of-women

[XPerceniol]

2 hours ago, msfntor said:

 

I've just been watching this over and over and I LOVE it.

[D.Draker]

Hail His Majesty The King Charles III ! Long live thy King .

Edited January 3, 2023 by D.Draker
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[D.Draker]

22 hours ago, msfntor said:

In 1906, the Bronx Zoo Put a Black Man (Ota Benga) on Display in the Primates' House

By Bill DeMain

1906 photograph of Ota Benga, described as being taken at Bronx Zoo. / Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons

 

When the New York Zoological Park (now the Bronx Zoo) opened in September 1906, people visiting the Primates’ House encountered a startling sight. There, amid the cages full of exotic animals, they found a human: Ota Benga, a member of the Mbuti pygmy tribe from what was then known as the Congo Free State. Though he was just 23 years old, this was not the first time Benga had been publicly displayed as a curiosity.

Benga was brought to America by explorer and missionary Samuel Phillips Verner, who first exhibited him at the notorious “human zoos” of the 1904 World’s Fair. His life before the fair is largely a mystery—as Pamela Newkirk writes in Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga, “Given the various conflicting accounts offered by Verner as to how he acquired Benga, the true story will probably never be known.”

The Man With a Five-Cent Smile

A 1904 St. Louis Post-Dispatch article claimed a tribe had held Benga captive as a slave until Verner purchased him at a slave market. A 1916 New York Times article said Verner met Benga at a Belgian Army station, where soldiers had saved Benga from a cannibalistic tribe. And there were more variations in-between. Beyond that, it’s also thought that Benga had a wife and two children, who were killed either by Belgian forces looking for ivory or a hostile tribe.

In 1904, Verner brought Benga to the U.S., where he displayed him at the St. Louis World Fair (officially called the Louisiana Purchase Exposition). The main draw was his sharpened teeth, which he showed for five cents. Though newspapers at the time said they were shaped to facilitate cannibalism, tooth sharpening was a common form of body modification within Benga’s tribe, and did not indicate someone who noshed on human flesh.

After the fair, Benga returned to Africa with Verner, then later accompanied the missionary back to the United States. According to Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s African American Lives, “Otabenga married a second wife, a Batwa woman who died from snakebite soon afterward. The Batwa blamed Otabenga for her death and shunned him. That decision appears to have strengthened his relationship with Verner.” Though again, Newkirk points outthat Verner gave differing versions of events over the years.

By the time Verner brought Benga to New York City, the explorer was broke. Eventually, he contacted William Temple Hornaday, the then-director of what is now the Bronx Zoo, who agreed to temporarily loan Benga an apartment on the grounds. Whether Hornaday had ulterior motives from the start is unclear, but before long, he was displaying Benga as another exhibit.

"Is that a man?"

According to New York Magazine, in his first few weeks, Benga wandered around the grounds of the zoo freely. But soon, Hornaday had his zookeepers urge Benga to play with the orangutan in its enclosure. Crowds gathered to watch. Next, the zookeepers convinced Benga to use his bow and arrow to shoot targets, along with the occasional squirrel or rat. They also scattered some stray bones around the enclosure to suggest the idea of Benga being a savage. Finally, they cajoled Benga into rushing the bars of the cage and baring his whittled teeth at the patrons. Kids were terrified. Some adults were, too—though more of them were just plain curious about Benga. “Is that a man?” one visitor asked.

Hornaday posted a sign in the Primates’ House listing Benga’s height and weight—4 feet, 11 inches tall and 103 pounds—and how he had ended up at the zoo. “Exhibited each afternoon during September,” it read. If Hornaday’s attitude toward his new "acquisition" needed further elaboration, it was summed up in the tone of an article he wrote for the zoological society’s bulletin:

"Ota Benga is a well-developed little man, with a good head, bright eyes, and a pleasing countenance. He is not hairy, and is not covered by the ‘downy fell’ described by some explorers ... He is happiest when at work, making something with his hands."...

MORE: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/30399/1906-bronx-zoo-put-black-man-display-monkey-house

1900 - 1943 nice times, I'd want to live during that times.

[msfntor]

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[legacyfan]

@XPerceniol is also on eclipse.cx now if your looking for him (he got an invite from k4sum1)

Edited January 3, 2023 by legacyfan

[XPerceniol]

Yeah, wasn't sure that I needed another forum, but k4sum1 was nice to invite me over there. Thank you my friend.

[XPerceniol]

4 hours ago, D.Draker said:

1900 - 1943 nice times, I'd want to live during that times.

Yeah, I've always considered myself and "old soul".

[XPerceniol]

7 minutes ago, msfntor said:

 

 

**Listening** ..:)

[mina7601]

9 minutes ago, legacyfan said:

@XPerceniol is also on eclipse.cx now if your looking for him (he got an invite from k4sum1)

With the name xperceniol_sal, yeah, I noticed his existence there. I'm also planning to join eclipse.cx soon.

Edited January 3, 2023 by mina7601

[legacyfan]

2 minutes ago, mina7601 said:

With the name xperceniol_sal, yeah, I noticed his existence there. I'm also planning to join eclipse.cx soon.

ive been on there since a few months ago under @legacyfan

[XPerceniol]

6 hours ago, msfntor said:

Federal Judge Orders Arizona Child To Dismantle Border Wall He Built Out Of Legos

Here: https://babylonbee.com/news/federal-judge-orders-arizona-child-to-dismantle-wall-built-out-of-legos

Well that is lame :/