# Sea Shepherds; Innefectual self-important dipshits **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 15, 2009, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-shepherds-innefectual-self-important-dipshits/506487 "2009-08-15T02:58:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-shepherds-innefectual-self-important-dipshits/506487/81 "2009-08-15T23:13:51Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Did anyone else want to grab a screen shot of Paul Watson and caption it? > Some of the suggestions in the OP have been addressed. They’ve tried prop fouling, and I think they were marginally successful once. (The fouled prop was cleared quickly and the harpoon ship went on its way.) The other attempts they’ve shown have all failed. I would guess that their failure here is not particularly indicative. They could try doing it well. I would think a thick wire would be a winner. For a kicker, you can put something one the end of it that would permanently screw the prop when it got pulled in. > [@](#): > > As far as shooting the stink-juice, that might be considered shooting at a commercial vessel; an act of piracy. Also, the Dutch government has forbidden anything from being thrown from _Steve Irwin_ at other vessels. On last nights episodes they were openly throwing acid from the deck of the Steve Irwin at the whaling vessel. > [@](#): > > The missiles have to be thrown from the inflatables. Again, they through them from the Steve Irwin last night. No question about it. [quote\I haven’t noticed the registration of the 300C, nor do I know where the pilot is licensed. (Anyone noticed that he’s the ‘Aviation Director’ and not ‘Helicopter Pilot’?) In the U.S., it is illegal to drop things from an aircraft that might cause a hazard to people below.[/quote] They’re not in the US. > [@](#): > > I’ll bet there are ICAO rules against it too. So aerial attack is out. Or… since you are in the Antarctic circle, you turn off the cameras and then drop the stuff. If the whalers can whale claiming they are doing research, I’m sure the helicopter can drop stuff and claim it fell out. Ooops. > [@](#): > > Contaminating the dead whales with butyric acid as they float in the water might work, but they’d have to get very close. Also, I don’t think the SS crew have the fortitude to do it. I agree. > [@](#): > > I’m all for ending whaling. But IMO Paul Watson is a megalomaniac who uses naïve and gullible people to make himself feel important. Hey! Write your own OP. Don’t steal my thesis or I’ll report you to the Panhandler’s Union. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-shepherds-innefectual-self-important-dipshits/506487/82 "2009-08-15T23:13:52Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > I’d treat it like pork. ‘You’re a farm boy. You remember this sound: Weeeeee! Weeeeeee! Weeeeee!’ Which reminds me of [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht-JWdN8VN0). (Warning 1: Probably NSFW.) (Warning 2: What has been seen, can’t be unseen.) ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-shepherds-innefectual-self-important-dipshits/506487/83 "2009-08-15T23:15:19Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > I’d treat it like pork. Okay, sounds yummylicious. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-shepherds-innefectual-self-important-dipshits/506487/84 "2009-08-15T23:16:56Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > Skip wine entirely, whale is actually pretty good with poor person blood. Tends to be a little thin. But then, bankers are a little too rich. The priest? Divine. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-shepherds-innefectual-self-important-dipshits/506487/85 "2009-08-15T23:19:10Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Tends to be a little thin. But then, bankers are a little too rich. The priest? Divine. :eek: Done surprisingly well: > **[A Little Priest Lyrics - Sweeney Todd Soundtrack Lyrics](https://www.lyricsondemand.com/soundtracks/s/sweeneytoddlyrics/alittlepriestlyrics.html)** > > A Little Priest Lyrics by Sweeney Todd on alittlepriestlyrics Soundtrack "LOVETT: It’s priest. Have a little priest. TODD: Is it really good? LOVETT: Sir, it’s too good, at least! Then again, they don’t commit sins of the flesh, So it’s pretty fresh. TODD: Awful lot of fat. LOVETT: Only where it sat. TODD: Haven’t you got poet, or something like that? LOVETT: No, y’see, the trouble with poet is 'Ow do you know it’s deceased? Try the priest! TODD: (spoken) Heavenly! Not as hearty as bishop, perhaps, but then again, not as bland as curate, either! LOVETT: And good for business, too – always leaves you wantin’ more! Trouble is, we only get it on Sundays!" ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-shepherds-innefectual-self-important-dipshits/506487/86 "2009-08-15T23:22:45Z")
I was expecting that someone would get the reference. I commend you 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-shepherds-innefectual-self-important-dipshits/506487/87 "2009-08-15T23:23:56Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > I was expecting that someone would get the reference. I commend you 🙂 Thank you. Clearly you are a man of… taste. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-shepherds-innefectual-self-important-dipshits/506487/88 "2009-08-15T23:25:43Z")
**Scylla** , I appreciate much of your OP, but I have a serious question to ask you: Why do you hate paragraphs? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-shepherds-innefectual-self-important-dipshits/506487/89 "2009-08-15T23:26:42Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > I would guess that their failure here is not particularly indicative. They could try doing it well. I would think a thick wire would be a winner. For a kicker, you can put something one the end of it that would permanently screw the prop when it got pulled in. Which points to their incompetence. > [@Scylla](#): > > On last nights episodes they were openly throwing acid from the deck of the Steve Irwin at the whaling vessel. > > Again, they through them from the Steve Irwin last night. No question about it. True. Which doesn’t change the fact that they had been warned by the Ditch government not to, lest they lose their Dutch flag. (If they are not sailing under a flag, then they become pirates when they engage in their activities.) > [@Scylla](#): > > They’re not in the US. I can’t find a handy cite, but I believe that U.S. regulations apply to U.S. registered aircraft and/or pilots holding a U.S. certificate no matter where they are. (Of course they have to comply with local regulations.) > [@Scylla](#): > > Or… since you are in the Antarctic circle, you turn off the cameras and then drop the stuff. > > If the whalers can whale claiming they are doing research, I’m sure the helicopter can drop stuff and claim it fell out. Ooops. The Japanese don’t have cameras? > [@Scylla](#): > > Hey! Write your own OP. Don’t steal my thesis or I’ll report you to the Panhandler’s Union. Meh. I posted the same thing in Cafe Society months ago. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-shepherds-innefectual-self-important-dipshits/506487/90 "2009-08-15T23:28:21Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > Wait, what’s this rumor about Smash stealing money from panhandlers at gunpoint and addicting them to cocaine so he can **pimp them out to corporate bachelor parties**?[bolding added]I am intrigued. Jeeze, corporate benefits have really gone down the tubes, haven’t they? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-shepherds-innefectual-self-important-dipshits/506487/91 "2009-08-15T23:28:25Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > **Scylla** , I appreciate much of your OP, but I have a serious question to ask you: > > Why do you hate paragraphs? Maybe. Because. People. Dont. Talk. That. Way :)… just my opinion mind you 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-shepherds-innefectual-self-important-dipshits/506487/92 "2009-08-15T23:30:13Z")
Well, I do, but nobody ever listens very long. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-shepherds-innefectual-self-important-dipshits/506487/93 "2009-08-15T23:30:50Z")
> [@SmashTheState](#): > > I’m sorry, was I mistaken? I assumed that you were confirming you didn’t intend to accuse me of embezzling funds from the OPU. Could you clarify the answer for me? I am aware you regard this as amusing, but our organization can’t afford to have an accusation of improper use of funds on a public forum. > > I’m asking again, will you confirm that you were just making a joke and didn’t intend to imply I made improper use of union funds? Given your lack of regard for the laws when it comes to setting policemen or the houses of telemarketers on fire, why wouldn’t you steal from your union? You seem like an ends justify the means kind of guy to me. **Therefore, I hereby formally accuse you, SmashTheState, of STEALING money from the OPU**! ::cue dramatic music:: I also accuse you of being a retard. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-shepherds-innefectual-self-important-dipshits/506487/94 "2009-08-15T23:30:59Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > Thank you. Clearly you are a man of… taste. Say that in Doctor Lector’s voice, and it would be perfect :eek: ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-shepherds-innefectual-self-important-dipshits/506487/95 "2009-08-15T23:33:11Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Jeeze, corporate benefits have really gone down the tubes, haven’t they? The economic troubles truly have hit everybody. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-shepherds-innefectual-self-important-dipshits/506487/96 "2009-08-15T23:33:39Z")
It’s no wonder that EatTheState feels a kinship to large bloated creatures that hippie douches feel some need to donate money to. Also, the TV show has made life even more dangerous for the Sea Douches. Now, the whalers could just torpedo the boat and machine gun the survivors, and everyone would just assume that they failed their own way to the bottom of the sea. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-shepherds-innefectual-self-important-dipshits/506487/97 "2009-08-15T23:39:30Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > The economic troubles truly have hit everybody. Don’t even ask what us temps get at OUR parties…I’d give my left nut to get pimped out panhandlers addicted to cocaine 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-shepherds-innefectual-self-important-dipshits/506487/98 "2009-08-15T23:39:58Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > It’s no wonder that EatTheState feels a kinship to large bloated creatures that hippie douches feel some need to donate money to. . Don’t be so damned mean. Whales are not bloated. They’re just big boned. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-shepherds-innefectual-self-important-dipshits/506487/99 "2009-08-15T23:46:21Z")
> [@SmashTheState](#): > > I am aware you regard this as amusing, but our organization can’t afford to have an accusation of improper use of funds on a public forum. Yeah, I’d be pretty pissed off if I gave a bum a couple of bucks to buy rubbing alcohol and roll-yer-owns only to find he’d squandered my largesse on a bunch of quixotic hippies. Please, please tell me you’re audited. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-shepherds-innefectual-self-important-dipshits/506487/100 "2009-08-16T00:00:50Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > **Scylla** > > Why do you hate paragraphs? How could you possibly suggest that? I love paragraphs. If you read my OP, than you should know that I love them so much I feel every sentence should have one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-shepherds-innefectual-self-important-dipshits/506487.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-shepherds-innefectual-self-important-dipshits/506487.md?page=6)