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If their captain wasn't such a mangina I'd root wholeheartedly for the Shepherd guys, although if you throw a line to foul my propeller in the Antarctic you're trying to kill me, and I'd ram you. Looks like they did.

Why the feth do those witches fly the dutch flag so proudly? Sons of bitches. Bah, registered or not, they don't deserve the right to fly it.

I've seen the show Whale wars which I think is on their flag ship the steve irwin? Either way I support what they do, but what they do is also by international law terrorism. I am a huge animal rights supporter, but the level that these people go to is crossing a fine line. Sonic weaponry is a less leathal that is incredably painful to the recipient. Also those "stink bombs" have hit japaniese sailors before, and sent them to the hospital. Legally as long as a nation says it's whaling to collect tissue samples it is legal, and however much I may disagree their is a fine line that these anit whalers cross. Just look at the symbol on their boat, pronouncing piratism!!!

They are doing this while flying the flag of my country, that just doesn't sit right with me. If these fethers are so hardcore they should just fly the black banner and do what they claim to be doing.

I am entirely against the hunting of these majestic and intelligent animals.

If this form of protest was actually effective then I commend the crew of the sea shepherd, perhaps the discussion and continued media interest is investment enough.

The hunt should stop. The notion of 'research' is highly insulting.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:I am entirely against the hunting of these majestic and intelligent animals.

If this form of protest was actually effective then I commend the crew of the sea shepherd, perhaps the discussion and continued media interest is investment enough.

The hunt should stop. The notion of 'research' is highly insulting.

Believe me I agree, and if I was rich ya I would donate money to fund their operations, but their is still a line that has to be drawn. I hate to think like that but the soldier in me see's the black and white, and says if we allow and support this then we support future actions like thi on other issues that some may not agree with.

BrookM wrote:Why the feth do those witches fly the dutch flag so proudly? Sons of bitches. Bah, registered or not, they don't deserve the right to fly it.

They have to. They are a flagged Dutch vessel.

They need a red or black flag too. They already have smelly guys with neckbeards. they just need some brass cannon and a parrot.

On the positive if you're going to be a er, whalers are the ones to be ers to. Its like watching Inglorious Basterds. If something really icky happens to the Nazis, its ok because they are, you know, Nazis.

I just want to see them go at it with hooks, cutlasses, and cannon, hopefully on the new Discovery 3D channel.

Might makes right. Until the underdog starts fighting back, anyway.

lord_blackfang wrote:Might makes right. Until the underdog starts fighting back, anyway.

Very true, only result from force is escalation of it.

This makes me laugh. I'm whole heartedly against the Japanese commercial whaling under the really flimsy guise of research, but the Sea Shepherd people are just such incompetent idiots that watching bad things happen to them is just good TV.

Empchild wrote:

lord_blackfang wrote:Might makes right. Until the underdog starts fighting back, anyway.

Very true, only result from force is escalation of it.

Except for Hitler and Stalin and Genghis Khan and Alexander and the Texas patriots and Father Hidalgo and US revolutionaries and Army of the Potomac and Wellington and all the others of course.

Violence is highly under rated as a problem solving measure.

i just found it funny how the whalers said the speed boat hit them. the speed boat was at a dead stop and was getting pounded to gak by those water cannons but yet they ran into them. nice PR spin on that one....

Must resist... must... can't... stop.... resist.....

FETH AROOO WHARRRRRRRRRRRRRRLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!
FETH AROOOOOO DORRRRPHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!

usernamesareannoying wrote:i just found it funny how the whalers said the speed boat hit them. the speed boat was at a dead stop and was getting pounded to gak by those water cannons but yet they ran into them. nice PR spin on that one....

ya I wraped that around my head a few times and still give a big ole HUH

I am just waiting for the whalers start to defend their ships with real firearms which by international law they are allowed to do. Now that will make for good TV.

If I were cynical, I might add...

There is also some wisdom in not playing chicken with the nation that invented the kamikazi...

Or a steel hulled ship with several hundred times the mass of your carbon fiber hulled one.

Did none of them watch PT109?

The worse that could happen with one of the activists were killed is a lengthy court battle that would amount to nothing and maybe even a stern warning or fine for the activists. Also, if they keep on attacking the Japanese Ships in international waters the Japanese nation can escort the whalers with military vessels. I do not think the activists would provoke a confrontation then.

Actually, there is video footage of the speed boat going to cut off the whaler. Regardless of how you try and spin it on either, that much is irrefutable. Maybe the whalers decided turning to one side would be a drag and should be condemned for it, but the activists were dumb enough to try and park their boat in front of them.

I suffer from whale guilt. By that, I mean I feel guilty I don't care as much as I should. Everyone tells me how amazing whales are, and how we should keep the sea teeming with millions of the buggers, but when the entire population of Africa is starving, there's suicide bombs and missiles going off across the Middle East, and countries like China are still oppressing free speech, I find it very difficult to work up anything more that vague indignation about whales. White horned rhinos, and other heavily endangered species, sure, but the Japanese industry isn't large enough to put a serious dent in the whale population of the world.

Ketara wrote:Actually, there is video footage of the speed boat going to cut off the whaler.

i guess thats in a different video from the one posted by the OP.

With a huge vessel coming at you no matter the angle the footage is taken it always looks like it is berring down. I use to cross the Hudson river and had to dodge huge cargo ships all the time. They all look like they are barring down on you till they pass.

usernamesareannoying wrote:i just found it funny how the whalers said the speed boat hit them. the speed boat was at a dead stop and was getting pounded to gak by those water cannons but yet they ran into them. nice PR spin on that one....

here's why,

Ships

Don't

Have

Brakes.


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Pipboy101 wrote:I am just waiting for the whalers start to defend their ships with real firearms which by international law they are allowed to do. Now that will make for good TV.

Exactly, but as noted, they need to employ brass cannon and carronade. There will also HAVE to be a boarding, complete with appropriate soundtrack, with guys with knives in their mouths swinging from ropes, and a parrot.

Frazzled wrote:

usernamesareannoying wrote:i just found it funny how the whalers said the speed boat hit them. the speed boat was at a dead stop and was getting pounded to gak by those water cannons but yet they ran into them. nice PR spin on that one....

here's why,

Ships

Don't

Have

Breaks.


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Pipboy101 wrote:I am just waiting for the whalers start to defend their ships with real firearms which by international law they are allowed to do. Now that will make for good TV.

Exactly, but as noted, they need to employ brass cannon and carronade. There will also HAVE to be a boarding, complete with appropriate soundtrack, with guys with knives in their mouths swinging from ropes, and a parrot.

LOOK OUT... OUR BRAKES ARE OUT!!!!

Some of the big container and crude carriers can take miles to stop from cruising speed. Miles. Now the whaling ships aren't that big but if the boat halted a hundred yards a head of them there's a good chance the whaling ship couldn't stop in time.

And as I said before, the Sea Shepherd people are just stupid and incompetent enough not to realize this.

Tyyr wrote:Some of the big container and crude carriers can take miles to stop from cruising speed. Miles. Now the whaling ships aren't that big but if the boat halted a hundred yards a head of them there's a good chance the whaling ship couldn't stop in time.

And as I said before, the Sea Shepherd people are just stupid and incompetent enough not to realize this.

look out!!! out steering AND our brakes are out!!! AHHHHH!!!

Remember Japanese whaling fleet, the important rule applicable here is:

double tap

You'd better turn around, head back, and see what that was you hit...

Here's an idiot.

If anyone in Texas can claim his head on my behalf, I'll shout them dinner.




He has much to say about the whale hunting and the Sea Shepherd.

You know I had always heard the stereotype that asians were bad drivers.......I just didn't know it was possible to be THAT bad to the point your making a name for yourselves at sea!

FETH YOOO WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALE!!!!!!!!


TBH, I really, really wish the Japanese would grow some goddamn balls and just shoot at the fethers. That would stop them within a week, and since it's international waters, the gloves are off.

Also "The brakes are out on the ship" is now a new Dakka meme. The Great Gwar decrees it

I mean, seriously, if they actually just shot these Terrorists to hell and back, what would happen? Nothing, that's what.