I like pie.
“I’ll come again when there is panhandler on the menu…”
Doesn’t quite scan.
Especially since us nearby Kanadians are eating seal, although mostly from the Atlantik and Artik Okeans.
Mmmmmm, seal.*
*actually, I’m not a big fan of seal-too fishy and too fatty. Still, I felt I should eat it when presented with it, little realizing I was potentially running afoul of the OPU.
I had come to post that if the Sea Shepherds actually had the courage of their convictions that they would do whatever they had to to save the poor whales and damn the consequences.
The only way they can accomplish their stated goal would be to scuttle the factory ship somewhere in the artic circle where salvage is not an effective option.
They would need to invest in some scuba tow devices and maybe a dozen limpet mines. Send the rafts in with divers and attach the mines to the ship. Then get on the radio and warn the ship that the engine compartment will be holed in 5 minutes and that they should evacuate the room and seal the hatches leading to it. Once that is done, get on the radio again to let the whaler know that the rest of the mines will be detonated in 2 hours so they really should get everyone off and onto the harpoon ships.
Obviously this is all just a mental exercise as there seems to be no one involved with them that could be trusted not to drop a mine on their foot and sink the Steve Irwin.
The surprise came when I went to get a link to limpet mines. In the section ‘Examples of use’
While it doesn’t say that SS was responsible, the implication is clearly there.
So apparantly the Sheperds weren’t always incompetent, impotent, media whores. Wonder what happened. Testicles got frozen off in the artic circle?
Mix some grain alcohol into melted whale blubber. It will taste horrible until you drink enough of it, and it’s certainly thick and rich.
Hmm crappy alcohol and whale. That would be blog. That explains much of the internet.
I haven’t read anything but the original post and I would like to say:
Scylla
You realize that air cannons are firearms and they still hang people for Piracy right?
Come on now. You know that’s not where the click is, ya fucking Hippie.
What amazes me is that, when the Whaling vessels start using the SS’s tactics on them, the folks on the SS acted all suprised and shit. They actually seem to believe that those they are attacking shouldn’t try to fight back in any way because that wouldn’t be fair and all.
Well, like Bro. GusNSpot has always preached, “The World is round, not fair.” That was the second thing I taught my son as soon as he showed he could grasp concepts (Root Hog or Die was the first).
I have to say that the Captain ordering folks to go out on deck and point Direct TV dishes at the Japaneese vessels in an attempt to make them believe that the SS had LRADs too was the most pitiful thing I’ve ever seen in my life. I can just see the conversation on the bridge of the Nisshin Maru…
Captain: WTF? They have LRADs?
Cabin Boy: (Looking thru even a cheap ass pair of binoculars) Nope. It looks like they’re cable has gone out and the Captain want’s to watch Wheel of Fortune.
Want to stop the Nisshin Maru? Let it ram you instead of running.
I hate to say “this,” but… this.
It’s like some panhandlers had gotten together and obstructed some people’s business to prove a point, then got surprised when those same people obstructed the panhandlers!
But… but… that’s not FAIR!
Its just like the panhandler that got aggressive with me last week. Him and his one and a half legs, sitting in his wheelchair, blocking the door of a diner next to the one I’d called my lunch order into, trying to intimidate folks into giving him money by playing on his missing leg, asked me for $5. When I walked by without acknowledging him, he said, “Cat got your tongue” I stopped and asked him, “Cat got your leg?”
I get the whole panhandling bit. But the fuckers need to learn to grow a little thicker skin. Especially when their breath tells me that the money I give them for gas will allow them to drive drunk.
Well, he ain’t driving stick, that’s for sure.
I’m broadly with you on the OP, but a 1975 built ex Scottish fisheries patrol boat is a big, old, comfortable, beautiful, nice, luxury boat? I’ve been on big, old, comfortable, beautiful, nice, luxury boats. I’ve been on ex-services patrol boats. I haven’t been on board the “Steve Irwin” but I’m having real difficulties reconciling my experiences and your comments in the OP.
That’s always been true - but it’s not because of how you talk.
Mswas–you find a cite yet for your strange distinction based on use of a firearm? When we last discussed this, it was all coming out of your pointy little head.
To re-iterate, you seem to think that throwing acid is A-OK in the eyes of “international piracy law” but shooting that same acid over with a firearm would make the SS subject to hanging. Also, an air cannon counts as a “firearm”? What about a slingshot?
I addressed this in the GD thread on this subject. Basically, the only countries that are in a place to enforce any laws are Australia and New Zealand, both of whom claim Antarctic waters as part of their territory. However, neither country has much love for whaling, so they aren’t going to go out of their way to do anything about it.
It’s clearly been overhauled and remodelled. It looked quite cushy on the show.
No. I didn’t know that. You got a cite for the air cannons are firearms under international law, thing?
Beats hell out of some I’ve been on. I spent a week on a Venezuelan frigate with no working evaporators. Kept “clean” with baby wipes, and there were no women around at all, let alone loose hippie chicks.
There was, however, a barrel with a hole in it on the deck; which you could use every day but Thursday.
OK, I’ll hate myself in the morning, but…why Thursday?
(Pssst, Moto! Cheap shot opportunity! Get it while you can!)