The comments were far more entertaining.

The video is great, thanks superunique for the link.

@Santa's Knee I didnt see Angelina until you mentioned it then I so saw it. If you watch the video you can see a lot of her features are taken from an Angelina Jolie photograph so you were spot on there.

First off, great video, very entertaining, made me smile a lot.

What I really wanted to say though is that while I didn't read all the comments (have you seen how many there are? :O ) I did read a lot and its heart warming to see so many be so refreshingly decent, smart and positive about a subject that not that many years ago, most would not have dared to comment on in such a way.

I agree Takuan, given some time for reflection I'd probably have written something designed to persuade.

I didn't allow time for reflection and I'm still glad I didn't. I just wrote what I felt was true about my reaction and for better or for worse, there it sits above us.

"note to self: re-read how to win friends and influence people"

Takuan allow me to try and put things into some perspective here.

A video is posted of a monkey tied to a bike being dragged forcibly along a busy road back and forth for the amusement of onlookers. Clearly abusive to the animal, whether you want them in your house or not.

With that in mind you take issue with the reaction someone has to this, not the cruelty itself. I find that odd but then your light hearted comments about a monkey being abused also seemed odd to me.

I had a strong reaction to the posting and I stand by what I wrote. If it pisses anyone off that has the ability to delete these posts, then so be it. If anyone feels my words do not belong in these comments, please complain, I wont be offended if they are removed.

My intention was not to piss anyone off, just to write about my reaction to this video. If the posting had been about care bears looking for their magic rainbow, the tone in my comments would have reflected that. Animal cruelty posted as entertainment however will never earn my respect or garner a positive reaction from me.

#55 I'm not in the habit of writing in comments that I love websites and visit them daily just to be courteous. I wrote that because it was true.

I see no need to rephrase anything I've written. I wrote what I wanted to say and let it go be free with all the other comments that live up there in the cloud.

Perhaps you're just feeling a sense of guilt that you've done nothing but poke fun about the cruelty being shown in the video throughout the thread of comments.

#55 I think I already showed my appreciation of the site saying that I love it and read it daily.

I'm shocked boing boing would allow such animal cruelty to be shown as mere entertainment.

As much as I love this site and read it every day. I'm really close to dropping it. The only saving grace is the fact it seems to be a misunderstanding on the part of the poster believing it is just some kind of harmless entertainment, but then some people think putting dogs into rings to fight each other is harmless entertainment too but I'm damn sure I wouldn't read a site that was promoting it.

Monkeys like this are beaten and tortured so they learn to stand up straight and walk like humans and perform these bizarre acts.

Most unhappy you subjected me to this.

Signed up to comment on this one. I'm with Virgin and I thought the bandwidth throttling which gives you a quarter of the advertised speed from 4pm-12pm (often goes to 2-3am) was a compromise I could live with that still allowed me to download what I want.

This however is pushing things too far. I'm already fed up trying to stream video without constant pauses and now it seems that situation will not get better, but actually worse.

I'm going to wait and see how this one plays out but I will dump Virgin if this isn't addressed soon.

BT is no better, in fact I'd say they were much worse with real caps on how much you can download and I'm still stinging from being banned from their "Anytime" service for using it "Anytime I wanted" which was an abuse of their service apparently!

Still, staying on topic, this needs to be addressed with people voting with their wallets. Do not underestimate the importance of net neutrality I'd say.