I still remember, back when Bill O’Reilly still had an audience, that he became absolutely livid that some horrible person had called the Pope a “primate.” Oh, the horror! The insult!
This struck me as very odd. I am not a Catholic; O’Reilly supposedly is. But even I knew that “primate” was a reference to his role in the church, not to his place in phylogeny. Add to that the fact that the term “primate” was first applied to humans by Linnaeus, and the idea that this is an insult becomes doubly absurd. I am a primate in only one of these senses, but the Pope is a primate in both. And if it were an insult to say so, I wouldn’t say it, as he seems like a decent bloke.
I recall my amusement when, on returning from an overseas trip, I noticed on the customs form that among the items banned for import was “non-human primates.”
If you have human primates in your luggage, that also can be a problem at the border.
I’ll just leave this here:
Trump: “A friend of mine who is a businessman. Very very very top guy. Most of you would’ve heard of him. Highly neurotic. Brilliant businessman. Seriously overweight. And he takes the fat shot drug.”
So let me get this straight…he was concerned about how much his billionaire friends have to pay for the “fat shot” and NOT what everyday Americans have to pay for insulin and other medications for themselves and their kids.
Spot on.