Posted on 07/26/2013 12:53:57 PM PDT by ransomnote
Edited on 07/29/2013 12:55:03 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
I do get your point about the Bambi crowd applying concepts of "nobility" or "honor" to animals. The same thing happens when they get all starry eyed about pre-Columbian America being inhabited by peaceful natives at one with nature. Entire Indian cultures, like the Pueblos, died out from over populating and despoiling their local environment as badly as any European might and tribes fought wars and took slaves as viciously as the rest of humanity.
But I would say that animals are no more "heartless" than nature is "cruel". Neither word really fits outside outside the human context. Animals, to survive, are efficient killers and nature just doesn't give a damn.
Mercifully, it is fake. The whale came up and grabbed a seal. The boy was put in the clip later.
I always wondered why cows look at me that way.
<Weemsco Tuna!
I swear that’s one of Rush’s funniest ‘commercials.’
A great white flipped on its back goes to sleep. Well, I learned something new today.
“Mom! My tuna doesn’t taste right!”
“That’s because it doesn’t have dolphin in it. I had to buy a different brand this time.”
“Mom! My tuna doesn’t taste right!”
I think we stink. At least I hope so. I feel the same way about bears.
“I brought you a tuna sandwich. They say it’s brain food. I guess because there’s so much dolphin in it, and you know how smart they are.”—Marge Simpson
Marge always had a very smart, down-to-Earth quality about her. Homer married up. As I did.
“I always wondered why cows look at me that way.”
When you are standing there eating an Arby’s sandwich, they will. Insensitive, to say the least.
;^)
“A great white flipped on its back goes to sleep. Well, I learned something new today.”
After the youtube with the Orca killing the great white by flipping it over on its back. A sick joke went around the kayakers, surfers and other humans doing their thing in great white territory:
“If attacked by a great white while in the ocean, just flip it over on its back, and it will go to sleep!”
An interesting sidebar re flipping water critters over on their back to calm them down can be used with most fish* of any size if you are try to catch and release.
Instead of grabbing them by the lip or under their bellies, just flip them upside down and hold them until you remove the hook. After removing the hook and put the fish back in the water right side up. Then grab them by their tail and push their head into the incoming or outgoing tide or upstream until they are breathing again. They will let you know when to release them.
*Don’t try this with large fish, over 20 pounds. Never try it with a big Artic halibut. They can break bones and destroy your boat.
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