This BBC video is supposed to be about alcoholic monkeys:

(HuffPo) In St. Kitts, vervet monkeys have developed a penchant for alcohol by eating fermented sugarcane for the past three hundred years. Recently, the monkeys have started to scavenge local resorts and sip from tourists’ glasses to get their fix.

But the video is not really about drunken monkeys but a human garden of ripe rumps and sea-fresh flesh.

For example, beyond her ass, if you can get beyond her ass, the monkey drinks a stolen cocktail.

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In case you want to see the lovely face that goes with that delightful ass:

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(The edit has nothing to do with the whole silly monkey business.)

Another alcoholic monkey just happens to be next to a woman who’s “got legs and knows how to [cross] them.”

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Clearly, the video is aimed at the tourist industry. The idea (or the hope) is that after seeing it, the potential tourist will want to go to the sunny island of St. Kitts to see more of something that has nothing to do with a bunch of drunk monkeys.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...

15 replies on “A Garden of BBC Delights”

  2. @1 we agree. I just showed the video to my friend and we thought that the people in the excerpt were, like the beach furniture, more prop then “desire”. Obviously the filming of the monkeys stealing drinks was a staged sequence. And yes, St. Kitts appears to be lovely, but it is merely a back drop to the subject at hand–monkeys that steal drinks. In the end, it is probably best to consider this video within the context from which it came–a series of BBC shorts on animal behavior. If each short “happened” to occur in a tourist destination, then Charles Mudede might be on to something.

  6. I can’t wait until Mudede and Savage both analyze this story:

    http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid…

    http://tinyurl.com/mcaym4

    LDS temple in Nigeria closed due to violence

    August 26th, 2009 @ 3:49pm

    SALT LAKE CITY — Recent violence in temple in Aba, Nigeria has caused Latter-day Saint Church leaders to close their temple in that city.

    Four gunmen with AK-47s struck a building in the temple compound. No one was injured in that gunfire at the compound, but there is unrest in that area constantly.

    As the gunmen drove along the road that leads to the temple complex, they sprayed shots, and some of them hit the guardhouse at the entrance.

    LDS Church spokesperson Scott Trotter, confirmed the incident resulted in eight bullet holes in the doors of the guard house.

    Nigerian Church members say this was a crime incident and neither the temple, which is on a slight hill or rise, nor the Church was a target.

    This statement about closing the temple came from Church Public Affairs today: “The safety of our temple visitors and workers is always our first concern. Incidents of violence in recent months in the area where the temple is situated are not necessarily related to the temple but could put Church members at risk.

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was established in Nigeria in 1978. There are currently 88,374 members in Nigeria. LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley announced a temple would be built in Aba, Nigeria during General Conference in April 2000. Ground was broken for the temple on February 23, 2002. It took almost three and a half years to build the temple, which was dedicated by Pres. Hinckley on August 7, 2005.

    “As a precautionary measure, temple workers have been moved to other areas and the temple has been closed while the situation is being addressed.”

    Safety was the main concern four years ago when then-President Gordon B. Hinckley visited to dedicate the temple. He arrived and departed the area in a helicopter because bandits travel along that road daily.

    In 2005 the area president us they are urged to travel during the day, as there are fewer crimes then.

    Elder Sheldon F. Child at that time said, “When we run into difficulties is when we try to travel at night, but coming in the daytime, it’ll be save.”

    KSL spoke Wednesday afternoon with Church Public Affairs and there is no word yet on when the temple will reopen.

  7. First of all those are the least impressive monkeys I have ever seen.

    Not one of them has mastered drinking from a glass or cup…or using a straw or even using a bottle. That one monkey who pours the bottle on the table and laps it up? What kind of anthropomorphic impressiveness is there in that?

    None! All I can say, when it comes to mixed drinks, home sapiens reigns supreme.

    Also, as far as rear ends? Those on the beach could afford to skip a few sugary drinks.

  8. I always feel like I have to preface any negative comments with an avowal that I am not one of those anti-Charles haters, and I’ve never posted a “muh dik” comment. So, there you go.

    But, look: there’s a long tradition on various internet social spots (IRC, web forums, Usenet, listservs, what have you) of some slightly awkward individual repeatedly posting links to pictures of women he finds attractive — usually for no reason, other than that he found the woman in the picture attractive. Someone else then says “Wha? Why did you post that?” and the poster says “Cuz she’s hot! You don’t have to jump on me like that!”

    That, I believe, is basically what this post is. It’s sort of a wish to be exhibitionistic about your own voyeurism.

    Anyway, I watched the video, and the stuff about monkeys getting drunk was certainly more news to me than the fact that there are fit young women wearing bikinis on beaches in the Caribbean. Insofar as the video is “about” one thing or the other, I would say it is the former.

  11. Monkeys that are heavy drinkers make better leaders and are respected by others. I’ve been telling my girl and others that I didn’t have a problem, now here’s the proof, bitches.

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