'They tied you down with cables and towed you around the Jutland peninsula; when the seas got rough and you were battered against the sides of your sad bathtub, they tried to dump you out. You refused to swim away, clinging to your barge for dear life. Eventually the sailors dragged you to your death, and the wounds from the cables are still visible on your corpse.'
WTF. Proximity to the land apes is indeed bad for wild things.
I think it is rather the rule with nature filmers, that the crew does not interfere if animals are hurt and wounded. I saw several Tube films where animals got hurt, and no one stepped up. So, that is what should have happened here, too. Imagine a filmer and his crew trying to get a dying elephant back up.
This reminds me of a "situation" I encountered several years ago. Driving along a 4 lane road located right next to the pond "nature preserve" in our neighborhood.
I was not going to the nature preserve, just driving by... probably going to Homie Depot. Well, I stopped my car when I saw in front of me, a smaller stopped car, and some fuzzy beast right in the middle of the road.
I thought perhaps this person hit an animal and needed some assistance (which I certainly was not going to offer in any physical way, however my unsolicited advice is always free) I got out of my car, and realized it was a huge turtle grunting across the road (my distance vision is fuzzy). The turtle was huge! It was 13" wide and longer in length.
I had no advice.... but decided we needed to flag down someone to pick up the turtle and move it to the creek where it was headed for, except ?? I do not know how that turtle was planning to climb up that curb! I think the creek connected to the pond under the road... I believe. Anyway, I tried to wave down a car, many people coming from the opposite direction did not make eye contact and they drove on past 😂
Finally, there was a car coming in the same direction I had been going, I stopped this car, the poor guy. I TOLD him he needed to pick up the turtle and put it over the curb onto the grass. He looked like an obedient fool and accepted my demand. He picked up the huge turtle and the turtle started moving its huge legs and its tail was moving and its head was huge and it was looking around angry! and it was hissing! Yikes.
That is the end of the story. I had to leave.... ugh, just creepy. Huge huge turtle.
Last week we had a smaller one in the yard, probably coming to feast on the leftovers from salad greens and fruit I threw out. Only saw it 2 days in a row, then vanished. We have no pond or waterway anywhere near, river is 2 miles down the road, and a pond 1 mile or so, but in another neighborhood.
I have seen the smaller ones. Our old house, 5 miles up the road, we have not put on the market yet 😬 there are two turtles living and napping in the front bushes. They are kind of grey and yellow. They seem pretty docile and okay. They come and go, perhaps to the neighbors next door.
This huge turtle, years ago was very large and green and yellow. It looked like something that you might find in the ZOO it was so big 😂 I still can't believe I bossed that spindly young guy to move the beast. Of course he did not know how big it was until after he accepted and came to it... there in the middle of the road.
The one in our yard was dark and paler brown, with the characteristic shell design, about a large hand big, and surprisingly quick. Whoever thought turtles are slow has not seen much of them! See him one minute, look away, and he was gone.In the next neighborhood is a pond with a tree over it and on sunny days thee will be fairly large ones there. I also saw several large ones at a mill in Virginia (I forgot the name, it is a touristic place). I did not know they grew this big in colder climates like that. I hope the man did not keep a hernia to your slave job Rosemary !!!
Fairly common occurrence in my neck of the woods at this time of year. I have stopped a few times to pick a turtle out of the middle of the road and deposit it on the other side (I go in the direction it was pointing in... hoping that's right). You actually see road side "Turtle Crossing" zone signs.
Once, saw this taking place, but it was a huge snapper. Guy came on scene with a large plastic bucket and bravely picked up and got it inside before then moving it. Smart move... it was big enough to cause real harm if it got its beak on you.
there are so many retarded people. I am completely sick of them.
I am also sick of other people that may not be retarded but they annoy me.
Regarding Horstine, this is a humiliating abusive action directly related to the insane people who put windmills in the ocean, how many other whales are just lucky enough to die alone and in peace although probably do not know they are suffering greatly at the hands of windmills in the oceans ... and the retarded people that are somehow allowed to do these evil things!
Congratulations, your comment is censored in the UK. Honestly, I've scrolled through the comments and yours was invisible for me, replaced by a message that I'd need to confirm my age to see it. Of course that made me only more curious to read it. I didn't confirm my age because with two clicks, I set my VPN to Germany and could read it. Which makes me think that the Online Safety Act is really retarded. I used to download porn from Kazaa or Limewire when I was 14 or so, so I'm sure I would have figured out how to use a VPN too if that was necessary back then.
How the mighty have fallen. You used to fight the system to see pictures of naked people. Now your battle sharpened cyber skills are used to download a story, words, just words, about a dying whale.
Brothers and sisters, let us now join hands and wish our beloved Horstine Godspeed.
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And this reminds me of the fate of my FFFFG's sister's cat when he was dying of cancer. My FFFFG was recovering from an injury and therefore living at her sister's house and her sister was at work, and the unfortunate cat, sensing his end nearing, dragged himself slowly and laboriously many yards down the hallway in the hope of finding some small dark corner in which to prepare himself to meet eternity, and my FF found him and carried him back to where he'd started from.
With your community here, I hope that you are only referring to stupid, emotional, socialist people. Otherwise the small-minded may take offence and cancel subscriptions.
Some weeks ago I saw the video of the American explosive whale disposal with rotting blubber flying for miles. Be grateful that your Deutsch bimbocrats didn't recall that technique.
They do it to us also. I'm 87 with heart issues and going blind. I can see a future, being happy to just get in my bead and pass on. But no, "they" can't allow that. If something happened to my wife, they would be right here declaring that I needed to be taken care of and put me in a crappy nursing home so I could be happy. And of course, it's illigal for me to try and beach myself by taking my own life, so why would they let a whale do it. Or any animal unless they were hungry.
This is a story repeated over and over for decades at least. Man comes along with some unnatural abomination that disrupts nature to the extent that the animals go crazy and then comes back to inflict pain and suffering under the guise of helping/empathy until the beast passes on in agony.
I expect mankind to do the same to itself without a clue what happened. AI may push us over the edge.
It doesn’t surprise me that such a large number of people tuned in to the Horstine saga. While tuning in to her plight they were able to momentarily tune out of all the other bullshit that you write about. It must be frustrating to be German these days. You have my deepest sympathy.
Is there time for Sir David Attenborough of BBC fame ('Diddi Atters') to do some sort of 15 part TV programme charting how the 'Right' drove this innocent male / female / TBD to it's death?
This is my favorite of your always great posts, Eugy. I just wish I could be so bitingly, caustically eloquent with my Cambridge, MA neighbors, who would have applauded the idiotic treatment of that poor whale.
You know, you've said something very important here which just goes to show what morons all them marine biologists must be.
*All* those unfortunate beached whales and dolphins must be trying to save themselves from drowning as they near death. When dragged back into the ocean they take their last swim cursing all those idiots who'd been screaming "why won't someone do something?"
And undoubtedly the reason not *all *dying whales and dolphins beach themselves to achieve final moments of transcendent joy on terra firma is that it depends on what's bringing them close to death.
Incontinent empathy - I never heard/read this phrase. Maybe because until recent history it wasn't needed. In modern times it's excellent.
'They tied you down with cables and towed you around the Jutland peninsula; when the seas got rough and you were battered against the sides of your sad bathtub, they tried to dump you out. You refused to swim away, clinging to your barge for dear life. Eventually the sailors dragged you to your death, and the wounds from the cables are still visible on your corpse.'
WTF. Proximity to the land apes is indeed bad for wild things.
Makes me sad, nonetheless.
I love whales.
It’s people who suck…mostly.
yeah.
'a stupid media drama for a generally confused, rudderless and deeply naive public drunk on nature cartoons'
This tragically stupid episode inspires eugyppius to new, unparalleled heights of eloquent sarcasm.
Still, it's hard to view it as a silver lining.
I think it is rather the rule with nature filmers, that the crew does not interfere if animals are hurt and wounded. I saw several Tube films where animals got hurt, and no one stepped up. So, that is what should have happened here, too. Imagine a filmer and his crew trying to get a dying elephant back up.
You are correct. I saw a huge male water buffalo, fresh from a fight, blood streaming and staggering along. He was at the end in all ways. Horrible.
However, all life meets the end.
Will crayzee Zuck and Co understand this?
This reminds me of a "situation" I encountered several years ago. Driving along a 4 lane road located right next to the pond "nature preserve" in our neighborhood.
I was not going to the nature preserve, just driving by... probably going to Homie Depot. Well, I stopped my car when I saw in front of me, a smaller stopped car, and some fuzzy beast right in the middle of the road.
I thought perhaps this person hit an animal and needed some assistance (which I certainly was not going to offer in any physical way, however my unsolicited advice is always free) I got out of my car, and realized it was a huge turtle grunting across the road (my distance vision is fuzzy). The turtle was huge! It was 13" wide and longer in length.
I had no advice.... but decided we needed to flag down someone to pick up the turtle and move it to the creek where it was headed for, except ?? I do not know how that turtle was planning to climb up that curb! I think the creek connected to the pond under the road... I believe. Anyway, I tried to wave down a car, many people coming from the opposite direction did not make eye contact and they drove on past 😂
Finally, there was a car coming in the same direction I had been going, I stopped this car, the poor guy. I TOLD him he needed to pick up the turtle and put it over the curb onto the grass. He looked like an obedient fool and accepted my demand. He picked up the huge turtle and the turtle started moving its huge legs and its tail was moving and its head was huge and it was looking around angry! and it was hissing! Yikes.
That is the end of the story. I had to leave.... ugh, just creepy. Huge huge turtle.
Last week we had a smaller one in the yard, probably coming to feast on the leftovers from salad greens and fruit I threw out. Only saw it 2 days in a row, then vanished. We have no pond or waterway anywhere near, river is 2 miles down the road, and a pond 1 mile or so, but in another neighborhood.
I have seen the smaller ones. Our old house, 5 miles up the road, we have not put on the market yet 😬 there are two turtles living and napping in the front bushes. They are kind of grey and yellow. They seem pretty docile and okay. They come and go, perhaps to the neighbors next door.
This huge turtle, years ago was very large and green and yellow. It looked like something that you might find in the ZOO it was so big 😂 I still can't believe I bossed that spindly young guy to move the beast. Of course he did not know how big it was until after he accepted and came to it... there in the middle of the road.
The one in our yard was dark and paler brown, with the characteristic shell design, about a large hand big, and surprisingly quick. Whoever thought turtles are slow has not seen much of them! See him one minute, look away, and he was gone.In the next neighborhood is a pond with a tree over it and on sunny days thee will be fairly large ones there. I also saw several large ones at a mill in Virginia (I forgot the name, it is a touristic place). I did not know they grew this big in colder climates like that. I hope the man did not keep a hernia to your slave job Rosemary !!!
fwiw
Fairly common occurrence in my neck of the woods at this time of year. I have stopped a few times to pick a turtle out of the middle of the road and deposit it on the other side (I go in the direction it was pointing in... hoping that's right). You actually see road side "Turtle Crossing" zone signs.
Once, saw this taking place, but it was a huge snapper. Guy came on scene with a large plastic bucket and bravely picked up and got it inside before then moving it. Smart move... it was big enough to cause real harm if it got its beak on you.
except for my octopus friend which still ultimately ended badly
there are so many retarded people. I am completely sick of them.
I am also sick of other people that may not be retarded but they annoy me.
Regarding Horstine, this is a humiliating abusive action directly related to the insane people who put windmills in the ocean, how many other whales are just lucky enough to die alone and in peace although probably do not know they are suffering greatly at the hands of windmills in the oceans ... and the retarded people that are somehow allowed to do these evil things!
All of them should self abort.
Congratulations, your comment is censored in the UK. Honestly, I've scrolled through the comments and yours was invisible for me, replaced by a message that I'd need to confirm my age to see it. Of course that made me only more curious to read it. I didn't confirm my age because with two clicks, I set my VPN to Germany and could read it. Which makes me think that the Online Safety Act is really retarded. I used to download porn from Kazaa or Limewire when I was 14 or so, so I'm sure I would have figured out how to use a VPN too if that was necessary back then.
How the mighty have fallen. You used to fight the system to see pictures of naked people. Now your battle sharpened cyber skills are used to download a story, words, just words, about a dying whale.
Brothers and sisters, let us now join hands and wish our beloved Horstine Godspeed.
--------------
And this reminds me of the fate of my FFFFG's sister's cat when he was dying of cancer. My FFFFG was recovering from an injury and therefore living at her sister's house and her sister was at work, and the unfortunate cat, sensing his end nearing, dragged himself slowly and laboriously many yards down the hallway in the hope of finding some small dark corner in which to prepare himself to meet eternity, and my FF found him and carried him back to where he'd started from.
people are just insufferable. i can't stand people.
There are lots of sufferable people, even more so if you don’t take yourself too seriously. It is quite easy to become pompous.
Open joyous ridicule and mockery is healthy.
They redeem themselves slightly when they write bitterly funny articles
I won't take that second sentence to heart. Especially since my FFFFG has repeated that sentence since our childhoods. You ain't like her!
With your community here, I hope that you are only referring to stupid, emotional, socialist people. Otherwise the small-minded may take offence and cancel subscriptions.
Some weeks ago I saw the video of the American explosive whale disposal with rotting blubber flying for miles. Be grateful that your Deutsch bimbocrats didn't recall that technique.
"People are just no damn good."
And Old, Departed Friend
They do it to us also. I'm 87 with heart issues and going blind. I can see a future, being happy to just get in my bead and pass on. But no, "they" can't allow that. If something happened to my wife, they would be right here declaring that I needed to be taken care of and put me in a crappy nursing home so I could be happy. And of course, it's illigal for me to try and beach myself by taking my own life, so why would they let a whale do it. Or any animal unless they were hungry.
This is a story repeated over and over for decades at least. Man comes along with some unnatural abomination that disrupts nature to the extent that the animals go crazy and then comes back to inflict pain and suffering under the guise of helping/empathy until the beast passes on in agony.
I expect mankind to do the same to itself without a clue what happened. AI may push us over the edge.
It doesn’t surprise me that such a large number of people tuned in to the Horstine saga. While tuning in to her plight they were able to momentarily tune out of all the other bullshit that you write about. It must be frustrating to be German these days. You have my deepest sympathy.
Is there time for Sir David Attenborough of BBC fame ('Diddi Atters') to do some sort of 15 part TV programme charting how the 'Right' drove this innocent male / female / TBD to it's death?
After all 'Diddi Atters' is 100 years old.
Not much time left.
I’d like to commission you to write my obituary.
This is my favorite of your always great posts, Eugy. I just wish I could be so bitingly, caustically eloquent with my Cambridge, MA neighbors, who would have applauded the idiotic treatment of that poor whale.
We're from government and we here to help. Yah... no.
You know, you've said something very important here which just goes to show what morons all them marine biologists must be.
*All* those unfortunate beached whales and dolphins must be trying to save themselves from drowning as they near death. When dragged back into the ocean they take their last swim cursing all those idiots who'd been screaming "why won't someone do something?"
And undoubtedly the reason not *all *dying whales and dolphins beach themselves to achieve final moments of transcendent joy on terra firma is that it depends on what's bringing them close to death.
What a beautiful, tragic ode to Horst/Horstine. It shall forever remain engraved in my heart. ❤️