The single most AMAZING thing I have EVER seen

Seriously.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7654267.stm

supercedes toothy bottle opener, i suppose.

It's monkeys! Working in a restaurant! Fetching people beer!

Monkeywaiter, monkeywaiter!
there's a fly in my soup
*nomnomnom*
Thanks, monkeywaiter!

Wait, why would I post that?
Damn monkeywaiter's got me under his spell.

That's it now!

They'll be knocking down the statue of liberty next!

Mmmm, hygienic.

Srsly Nick was your mind blown by the PG Tips adverts as well?

I've never seen the inherent humour in monkeys or the word "monkey" myself.

I'm sure Jim Davidson is preparing a considered response, however.

marcellotm. god, years of students shouting MONKEY or variants thereof and thinking it's funny, just die. (not the monkeys, the students. monkeys are great and mostly cute.)

also yeah i wouldn't take anything from a monkey waiter for hygiene reasons

those monkeys look a damn sight more efficient than the staff at [name of glasgow restaurant with ideas above its station removed, just in case], certainly.

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/p/j/pjm313/PirateMonkey.jpg

Srsly Nick was your mind blown by the PG Tips adverts as well?

Yeah, but THIS IS REAL. It's amazing. I'd totally go to a restaurant where I was served beer by a macaque.

Not sure how finding animals serving people beer amazing makes Marcello trot out the racist card yet again, mind

How do the monkeys know which table to go to?

I don't know! That's what's so amazing. They're just clever! I guess if the restaurant only serves one kind of beer, they can just go to any table they like, and if someone wants the beer they take it, and give the monkeys a bean.

I like that one of them is called Fukuchan.

Are they drawn in by the treats that patrons already have??

If nothing else it should put paid to the tradition of wondering whether or not the kitchen staff have masturbated into your food

If bears wank, monkeys DEFINITELY wank.

yeh, i assume DJM meant you can be 100% sure they have.

monkeys are funny

How do the monkeys know which table to go to?

there's a board in the back with a schematic of all the tables, which are numbered. it's near the large-pan sink. how it works is, the barkeep draws a beer, hands it to the monkey and says "this one's for table four, also table seventeen needs fresh towels" and then if the monkey's forgotten which is which he just checks the board.

Does the monkey do its own tax return as well?

yes and it often causes them a great deal of stress, as the monkey tax code is needlessly complicated. there is a movement afoot to simplify the monkey tax code, but it is opposed by a heartless political action committee made up of people who think the sight of a monkey working an abacus is just the dearest thing.

You pay peanuts soya beans, you get monkeys...

That video is first class. I especially like that the monkey is on his/her hind legs the whole time (like a little Rory Calhoun etc) and also the thoroughly dismissive manner in which it doles out the hot towel.

Also, J0hn's little table schematic and tax return reverie has brung much-needed cheer to the end of harsh workday.

Yeah, 20 seasons of Simpsons monkey humor is just exploding in my head right now. ("Yeah, well this 'filthy animal' made that orange juice you're drinking!")

I think I saw this monkey on the news (sigh) the other day - he also does karate!

Is there no end to the monkey's talents?! Does he like Elbow?

I wouldn't be surprised if he was in Elbow, inside Guy Garvey working the controls.

cmd-f "tip"

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no?

im suprised pp isnt on the next plan to japan

Is there no end to the monkey's talents?! Does he like Elbow?

I've heard he prefers Gorillaz.

or Simian Mobile Disco

wait no, that's ridiculous

please let this turn into a monkey-tipping thread
please let this turn into a monkey-tipping thread
please let this turn into a monkey-tipping thread

how many bananas is 18% of a 2000jpy lunch?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/njsouthall/4191230310/