Japanese Whalers.....
POSTED BY: Calhoun
UPDATED: Friday, June 12, 2026 18:00
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Quote:I have, at times, been the recipient of the feline final end, and a forceful blow of super-breath seems to quickly cure my dilemma.
Originally posted by Bytemite:
Cat butt is less cute, and not the best part of the night.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Yeah, I won't abide cat butt.
I did used to have one cat, Cosmo, whose favorite sleeping position was wrapped around my head. I'd go to bed, he'd lay down above my head, on the pillow, and he'd curl himself from one shoulder, over the top of my head, and put his nose in my ear and purr himself to sleep.
Cosmo was an odd cat, to say the least.
Peedie's odd in his own way - he likes to wake me up if his food bowl goes empty. Or close to empty. Or if he feels there's less than a good, solid three days' supply of food in it. He meows, he mewls, he cries, and if that doesn't wake me up, he gets physical. He has resorted to getting louder, until I flop over and put a pillow over my head to try to drown out the sound, at which point he comes up and swats my chest, three times, fast. BAPBAPBAP! RRROOOOWWWWRRR. Short pause... BAPBAPBAP! RRROOOOWWWWRRR. Repeat until I give up and get up. Usually this happens around 5:00am. Who needs an alarm clock when you've got Alarm Kitty™?
And now, in the true fashion of slow threads everywhere, we've turned this one into a kitty thread!
Mike
Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
And now, in the true fashion of slow threads everywhere, we've turned this one into a kitty thread!
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let the dogs out to play
Either you Are with the terrorists, or ... you Are with the terrorists 
Life is like a jar of Jalapeño peppers.
What you do today, might Burn Your Ass Tomorrow"
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Either you Are with the terrorists, or ... you Are with the terrorists
Life is like a jar of Jalapeño peppers.
What you do today, might Burn Your Ass Tomorrow"
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That's my stand, except I would back them if they just got in the way as protest. But not violence.
On the other hand, if getting their boat smashed saves even ONE citizen of the ocean, is it not worth it? I wouldn't use their methods, but neither can I totally condemn them.Quote:
Well, I'm not one to talk, since I still occasionally eat red meat. And I'd swerve my car something fierce to avoid hitting anything. AND I had a four-foot-long tegu (too big for any cage I owned) who had the run of my bedroom, who used to crawl in under the covers from the bottom of my bed for warmth, and he DID nibble at my toes occasionally...and my huskies tend to pounce on my feet under the covers in play... Looks like Byte has some experience with that sort of thing, too... ah, and others; one reason I don't miss cats (too much, anyway).
But then again I'm one of those nutjobs that feel like we should not be killing mammals of ANY kind for food or fur. Only if they run out in front of your car. Or if they bite your toes late at night when you're trying to sleep.
Tho' dogs aren't much better. Our new pup has decided she likes to sleep ON my hip, which of course she slowly falls off, then wakes up and moves to right in front of my face. Usually I like it, but we're in "monsoon" season--hard rain for several days, and likely to continue through the week, and wet husky fur just isn't conducive to sleep... Have to train her (ever tried training a husky?), as the older one contents himself with laying up against my leg. Gonna be fun when she grows up; three dogs on a double bed...! At least when I wake up in the middle of the night I can kick the Springer off (not my dog, but I will care for her for the rest of her life...which, gawd willing, won't be much longer, as she's 15 and ailing).
By the bye, I have no problem with threads devolving into dogs and cats (and occasionally even tegus); they're always good to talk about and often offer humor, and IMHO this topic has exhausted itself.
Gino, I adore the pill bottle!!!
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Japan's new 9,300-ton whaling vessel sets sail on first hunt
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/22/japan/japan-new-whaling-m
othership-sets-sail/
This is Our Sea: Fukushima's Fishers after the Nuclear Accident
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/oursea/
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Japan is determined to keep hunting whales. And now it has a brand new ‘mothership’
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/world/japan-is-determined-to-keep-hu
nting-whales-and-now-it-has-a-brand-new-mothership/
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Strange how the Japan have been bleeding their own waters dry and follow endangered Whales so far they would invade Argentina, Chile and Aussie waters
some called the Whale guy an irresponsible, conman
but still should not be extradited
the Danish got him out of the way for a while, they are slaughtering Whales in the Faroe Islands
Island group is positioned between the North Atlantic Ocean and the Norwegian Sea and is situated exactly midway between the Nordic nations of the Kingdom of Norway and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are bordered by the Northern Isles archipelago and the Outer Hebrides Island chain of Scotland, the Faroe or Faeroe an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Denmark frees anti-whaling activist Paul Watson and refuses Japan extradition request
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/12/17/denmark-frees-anti-whali
ng-activist-paul-watson-and-refuses-japan-extradition-request
Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson was released from prison in Greenland on Tuesday and will not be extradited to Japan over criminal charges dating back to 2010, according to Danish authorities.
The US-Canadian citizen, 74, had been in custody in Greenland — an autonomous territory of Denmark — since July when he was arrested under a Japanese warrant after his ship docked at the island's capital, Nuuk.
Japan had issued an international arrest warrant for Watson, the founder and former head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, over an encounter with a Japanese whaling research ship in 2010. Watson was accused of obstructing the crew’s official duties by ordering the captain of his own vessel to throw explosives at the whaling ship.
Denmark's justice ministry said it had rejected an extradition request by Tokyo because it had not received adequate guarantees from Japanese authorities that the time Watson had already served in custody would be counted against any sentence he would receive in Japan. There was no immediate comment from the Japanese embassy in Copenhagen.
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Interpol takes Canadian anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson off its most-wanted list
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/interpol-takes-canadian-anti-w
haling-campaigner-paul-watson-off-its-most-wanted-list/
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