Dunga 1 Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 Australia is packed to the rafters with uneducated, selfish, hypocritical arseholes surfarthur. Why else would we have a PM like Tony Abbott if they weren't? Brilliant! Link to post Share on other sites
jacko 3 Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 Phhht. don't kill sharks. Kill whales. They're tastier. Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 Survival of the fittest and since they can't hold a gun, they are weaker than us......bye-bye dangerous animals Do you really think like that? It may well be essentially true, but I hope that our 'humanity' (trying to think of a better way to put it!) would make us somehow better than that. Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 And while you're at it, someone mentioned snakes, and a jolly good suggestion. Let's kill some snakes too. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 And while you're at it, someone mentioned snakes, and a jolly good suggestion. Let's kill some snakes too. Yep, kill them too.....crocs n jellyfish are also on that list.....sayonara Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 Survival of the fittest and since they can't hold a gun, they are weaker than us......bye-bye dangerous animals Do you really think like that? It may well be essentially true, but I hope that our 'humanity' (trying to think of a better way to put it!) would make us somehow better than that. Well not entirely, I was being a tad flippant but I have no truck with culling animals if it does improve people's safety. Using our "humanity" to shrug it off is wrong IMO. We have the tools to minimise the risk and we should use them. Although we can think for ourselves, we are still only a part of the natural world. Just because we have feelings isn't a reason for us not to protect ourselves if we can. Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 As much as we try to avoid it we are, in this enlightened age, still willfully driving animals to extinction. And there is nothing anybody can do about it. Nothing. Don't kid yourself. Link to post Share on other sites
Dunga 1 Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 I know this won't change most of your minds, but worth the read. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/the-great-white-maligned-and-misunderstood/5128194 Link to post Share on other sites
seemore 66 Posted December 4, 2013 Author Share Posted December 4, 2013 Thanks Dunga But it doesn't really make any sense "'If I’m free-diving I’m not worried about sharks because if I know I’m in an area where there’s bull sharks or tiger sharks or great white sharks, I will be looking out constantly them because I know their nature. They’re not going to come from the direction I’m looking at,' he said." Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Magnificent creatures. Link to post Share on other sites
cal 6 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 is this new? Sharks longer than 3 metres that get near popular beaches in Western Australia will be caught, shot and dumped back into the sea, in a series of measures aimed at reducing public anxiety over attacks. Details of the WA government’s controversial “shark management” strategy have been released, with sharks bigger than 3 metres singled out for shooting and then discarding offshore. A tender released by the government calls for an “experienced licensed commercial fishing organisation” to deploy and maintain up to 72 drum lines off popular beaches in Perth and elsewhere along the south-west coast. The drum lines, containing a hook with bait on them, will catch and, eventually, kill passing sharks that come within 1km of the beach. Should a live white shark, tiger shark or bull shark longer than 3 metres be found on the drum lines, they will be “humanely destroyed” with a firearm, according to the tender documents. Shark corpses will be then tagged and taken further out to sea and dumped. Other animals caught on the baited hooks will be released alive “where possible”. The drum lines will be patrolled by boats for 12 hours a day, seven days a week, until April. Only contractors’ vessels will be allowed within a 50-metre exclusion zone set up around the drum lines. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Why dump them offshore.......are they trying to send a Sicilian message to other sharks?! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 this is doing the rounds on Face Cloth at the moment.... Manhattan Beach in LA a mum took a photo of her two kids playing in the sea and uploaded to FB before she noticed the shadow in the wave behind her kids Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 I think that's a submarine. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 well technically it is sub marine......it lives under the water Link to post Share on other sites
seemore 66 Posted December 31, 2013 Author Share Posted December 31, 2013 is this new? Sharks longer than 3 metres that get near popular beaches in Western Australia will be caught, shot and dumped back into the sea, in a series of measures aimed at reducing public anxiety over attacks. Details of the WA government’s controversial “shark management” strategy have been released, with sharks bigger than 3 metres singled out for shooting and then discarding offshore. A tender released by the government calls for an “experienced licensed commercial fishing organisation” to deploy and maintain up to 72 drum lines off popular beaches in Perth and elsewhere along the south-west coast. The drum lines, containing a hook with bait on them, will catch and, eventually, kill passing sharks that come within 1km of the beach. Should a live white shark, tiger shark or bull shark longer than 3 metres be found on the drum lines, they will be “humanely destroyed” with a firearm, according to the tender documents. Shark corpses will be then tagged and taken further out to sea and dumped. Other animals caught on the baited hooks will be released alive “where possible”. The drum lines will be patrolled by boats for 12 hours a day, seven days a week, until April. Only contractors’ vessels will be allowed within a 50-metre exclusion zone set up around the drum lines. Yes Cal Very controversial but the majority I believe are happy with the outcome there are some pretty big scary sharks closing our beaches daily. Once they have caught a few I may be tempted to go diving again Link to post Share on other sites
kokodoko 67 Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 And while you're at it, someone mentioned snakes, and a jolly good suggestion. Let's kill some snakes too. yes, and spiders too. and while we are at it. lets kill some terrorists!! Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Sharks longer than 3 metres that get near popular beaches in Western Australia will be caught What if a shark is exactly 3 metres long? If the sharks get to know about this policy, they'll probably cut back on eating their crusts just so that they don't get to be 3m long. Intelligent sharks though would just jolly well not go near popular beaches. Not these sharks then, they're pathetic. Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 And while you're at it, someone mentioned snakes, and a jolly good suggestion. Let's kill some snakes too. yes, and spiders too. and while we are at it. lets kill some terrorists!! not just some. ALL. Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 this is doing the rounds on Face Cloth at the moment.... Manhattan Beach in LA a mum took a photo of her two kids playing in the sea and uploaded to FB before she noticed the shadow in the wave behind her kids Nightmare stuff. Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 On a lighter note, restaurants have pulled shark's fin from menus and are using vegetarian fins in the soup. Wedding banquet menus are trending to double boiled soup in place of fin. Now, lets have some dolphin. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Vegetarian's fins?!? Whoa!! How do they swim down the health club pool??!! Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 you'll have to ask your trainer to pump air up your ass sos you can fart propel yourself up the pool. Link to post Share on other sites
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