Author Topic: Why do you take a girl out to dinner, chaps? (Read 2629 times)

rogerzilla · « **on:** 08 April, 2009, 08:55:30 am »

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Chimpanzees exchange meat for sex

Rapples · « **Reply #1 on:** 08 April, 2009, 09:02:53 am »

Because Mrs Rapples asks too many questions if I bring them home to dine

nuttycyclist · « **Reply #2 on:** 08 April, 2009, 08:28:41 pm »

Because the oven's broken.

Cunobelin · « **Reply #3 on:** 08 April, 2009, 08:34:50 pm »

'cos they are hungry?

mike · « **Reply #4 on:** 08 April, 2009, 08:43:32 pm »

someone to drive me home, innit?

Sergeant Pluck · « **Reply #5 on:** 08 April, 2009, 08:46:38 pm »

When I saw this on the BBC at 7.30 this morning, one of my first thoughts was that I knew it would be Rogerzilla who very shortly would ensure that we of yACF are aware of the implications of this

Took you about an hour longer than I thought.

ChrisO · « **Reply #6 on:** 08 April, 2009, 08:49:19 pm »

Quote from: Rapples on 08 April, 2009, 09:02:53 am

Because Mrs Rapples asks too many questions if I bring them home to dine

Very good

GruB · « **Reply #7 on:** 08 April, 2009, 08:50:46 pm »

Because sometimes Mrs G can't be arsed to cook and I can't cook wont cook.

andygates · « **Reply #8 on:** 09 April, 2009, 12:31:43 pm »

As an excuse to eat somewhere posh. As a test of character (order something with shells and tentacles and antennae and gauge reaction).

Oh, and to get into her knickers, obviously.

Moloko · « **Reply #9 on:** 09 April, 2009, 12:41:47 pm »

Can you ride tandem?
Hey, I can ride like the f*ckin' clappers.

JohnP · « **Reply #10 on:** 09 April, 2009, 12:50:58 pm »

Been married for 39 years. Cannot remember why I used to take a girl out for dinner. These days it's because we can go out to dinner. A while back I took swmbo to Cafe de Paris in Casino Square for dinner. Quite a long round trip by car for a weekend but Route Napolean with the car hood down made it a pleasure.

токамак · « **Reply #11 on:** 09 April, 2009, 01:02:03 pm »

Last night I took home a monkey that I had ripped up, thinking "this'll do the trick" and the Mrs. called the police!

You just can't win...

Meat now, sex later for Ivorian chimps - environment - 08 April 2009 - New Scientist

oncemore · « **Reply #12 on:** 09 April, 2009, 03:35:02 pm »

PhD in the bleedin' obvious doesn't even come close in this "research" does it?

If THAT is already a cert, then to pay, obviously.

delthebike · « **Reply #13 on:** 09 April, 2009, 03:40:22 pm »

She won't let me eat it in.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #14 on:** 09 April, 2009, 03:42:11 pm »

Take one girl out to dinner? I'd not settle for fewer than three. But don't tell Mrs. Wow...

Bledlow · « **Reply #15 on:** 09 April, 2009, 03:49:59 pm »

Quote from: oncemore on 09 April, 2009, 03:35:02 pm

PhD in the bleedin' obvious doesn't even come close in this "research" does it?

Naah - it's been hotly disputed for years whether chimps do such a thing. Nobody had a problem with the idea of an immediate trade (meat now, sex straight away), & were puzzled when the studies didn't show it. It wasn't until someone followed chimps for a longer period, & recorded who gave meat to who, & who shagged who, that they realised it was "meat now, & you're on a promise for next week - or next month, or whenever she next feels like it". Rather more human than they were given credit for, in other words. Delayed gratification - tick. Buttering up women for the future - tick.

oncemore · « **Reply #16 on:** 09 April, 2009, 04:45:57 pm »

Sorry - I meant in the read across to (less sophisticated) humans!

Jon P · « **Reply #17 on:** 10 April, 2009, 11:29:05 am »

Seems like the Bard should have written it slightly different then:

"If food be the music of love, chew on.
Give her excess of it, that, sifflating,
She will thicken my trouser snake of one eye."

Jon P · « **Reply #18 on:** 10 April, 2009, 11:37:42 am »

Quote from: TOKaMaK on 09 April, 2009, 01:02:03 pm

Meat now, sex later for Ivorian chimps - environment - 08 April 2009 - New Scientist

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But don't call them prostitutes. "It's not like 'I give you meat and a few hours later you're going to copulate with me,'" says Cristina Gomes, a primatologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

That's clearly not why it's called "the world's oldest profession", then.

geraldc · « **Reply #19 on:** 10 April, 2009, 01:23:43 pm »

The scientists are studying the wrong chimps. They should look at Bonobos. They're the swingers of the monkey world. Anytime, any place, they're at it. Give them a piece of meat, and they'll probably hump it.

Author Topic: Why do you take a girl out to dinner, chaps? (Read 2629 times)

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