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GiantMonkeyMan
01-20-2006, 20:43
'A small whale swam up the Thames to central London on Friday, a rare event which drew large crowds of sightseers and brought traffic to a standstill.'
it beached several times but people helped move it on

link here (http://newsbox.msn.co.uk/article.aspx?as=adimarticle&f=uk_-_olgbtopnews&t=4023&id=2143462&d=20060120&do=http://newsbox.msn.co.uk&i=http://newsbox.msn.co.uk/mediaexportlive&ks=0&mc=5&ml=ma&lc=en&ae=windows-1252)

this is just class :laugh4: i wish i had been there to see it in 'person' but i live miles away

Devastatin Dave
01-20-2006, 20:45
Poor thing, I hope they can guide it back to the sea. The water is not a good quality for a mammal with this type of skin.:no:

GiantMonkeyMan
01-20-2006, 22:41
they think it is getting cleaner because there are more fish in the thames and thats why the whales and porpoises (sp?) are more commonly being seen further up the thames...

Big King Sanctaphrax
01-20-2006, 22:44
Yes, the Thames is getting much cleaner. There are salmon now, which haven't been around in that particular river for a very long time.

I hope the whale is all right.

Dutch_guy
01-21-2006, 15:28
Good story.

As said I do hope this tourist Whale, as he really has been behaving like a tourist, survives this ordeal.

:balloon2:

Mikeus Caesar
01-21-2006, 16:26
I doubt it will survive, but you really do have to wonder how it got past the barrier. After all, they knew the whales were coming up river before they reached the barrier, so why didn't they just close the barrier?

Btw, has anyone seen a drawing of what these things look like? Utterly bizarre. Like a decapitated whale with a dolphins head stuck on.

Beirut
01-21-2006, 16:55
I hope the whale is all right.

Word has it you were seen with a fishing pole last night. :inquisitive:

Ianofsmeg16
01-21-2006, 17:02
Word has it you were seen with a fishing pole last night. :inquisitive:
Cardiff is a long way from London....maybe it was some other Big King Sanctaphrax?:idea2:

Sasaki Kojiro
01-21-2006, 17:33
Cardiff is a long way from London....maybe it was some other Big King Sanctaphrax?:idea2:

It was a biiiiig fishing pole :2thumbsup:

Xiahou
01-21-2006, 21:20
The whale died (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060121/ap_on_sc/britain_whale).

Tribesman
01-21-2006, 21:37
I wonder how much this operation to try and save one marine mammal cost ?

InsaneApache
01-21-2006, 21:53
Damn, the poor thing must have been petrified. Just goes to show how helpless we are despite our technology.

Oh as an aside.....as it's becoming my avatar (in prose :laugh4: )

I blame Tony Bliar, he hates wales.......:oops: :embarassed: :idea2: :inquisitive: :laugh4:

Geoffrey S
01-21-2006, 23:09
In other news, John Prescott disappears after stating he was "going for a swim in the Thames".

King Henry V
01-22-2006, 00:23
:laugh4: I love John Prescott jokes!

Lentonius
01-22-2006, 09:57
yeah, when your bored, insulting mr prescott makes the pain go away:laugh4:

Mikeus Caesar
01-22-2006, 12:21
In other news, John Prescott disappears after stating he was "going for a swim in the Thames".

Alternatively - In other news, John Prescott disappears after stating he was "just going out for some fish and chips".

Now back to that Whale. An autopsy conducted on the Whale has revealed it died after losing large chunks of flesh from it's belly. We'll keep you updated on this story, but now for the weather...

Kanamori
01-22-2006, 14:35
Dang, I wish I would have gone to see it, but I figured it would long be sorted out~:(

By the way, who is John Prescott, or should I ask?

Mikeus Caesar
01-22-2006, 14:41
By the way, who is John Prescott, or should I ask?

:jawdrop:

Anyone from Britain who goes in the backroom and doesn't know who Two Jags Prescott is really need to read the newspapers and watch the news....

Marcellus
01-22-2006, 14:47
By the way, who is John Prescott, or should I ask?

He's our deputy Prime Minister!

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Politics/Pix/pictures/2002/09/30/prescottspeech372.jpg

http://newsfeed.tcm.ie/images/people/johnprescott1PA.jpg

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Politics/Pix/pictures/2001/05/17/prescott3.jpg

And author of the great speech contained in my sig.

Kanamori
01-22-2006, 15:37
Anyone from Britain who goes in the backroom and doesn't know who Two Jags Prescott is really need to read the newspapers and watch the news....

Well, I've only been here a bit longer than a week, now.

I really ought to pay more attention to local news, since I am a civil servant, though.:sweatdrop:

InsaneApache
01-22-2006, 16:24
If you want to wind up 'ol' thumper' Prescott then just ask him to bring you a G&T*, he'd beat the living crap out of you. :sweatdrop:

*He used to be a bar steward, some say he still is.:laugh4:

Paul Peru
01-22-2006, 16:52
I wonder how much this operation to try and save one marine mammal cost ?
My thoughts exactly.
And they knew in advance that the likelyhood of saving the whale was at best 5%. But they just had to try.
I couldn't believe the inane gibberish interviewees uttered on the TV news reports.

We know that the likelyhood of improving living conditions for a lot of people, all ogf them human beings, by giving a village somewhere in Africa a proper well are near 100%, and it's probably a lot cheaper. But we don't have to do that, do we. :furious3:

King Henry V
01-22-2006, 17:00
He's our deputy Prime Minister!

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Politics/Pix/pictures/2002/09/30/prescottspeech372.jpg

http://newsfeed.tcm.ie/images/people/johnprescott1PA.jpg

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Politics/Pix/pictures/2001/05/17/prescott3.jpg

And author of the great speech contained in my sig.
God help us if Blair gets suddenly "removed from office". He'll be leading the nation then!

Marcellus
01-22-2006, 18:11
God help us if Blair gets suddenly "removed from office". He'll be leading the nation then!

:end:

Oh please, please don't remind me of that!

scotchedpommes
01-22-2006, 19:15
:end:

Oh please, please don't remind me of that!

[Someone else just being reminded.]

https://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/ssneoperestroika/2f6f5ab7.jpg

King Ragnar
01-22-2006, 21:59
Shame the Whale died :(

KukriKhan
01-22-2006, 23:01
I blame Tony Bliar, he hates wales.......:oops: :embarassed: :idea2: :inquisitive: :laugh4:

You mean it's not Bush's fault yet? Right, these things do take time.

C'mon guys: Kyoto, Global warming, wiretaps, Katrina, Iraq, Tax Cuts, Cowboy Boots,...something he's done must have caused this tragedy.

Papewaio
01-23-2006, 00:45
The lengths whales will go to to avoid Japanese Scientists is amazing. :inquisitive: :dizzy2:

bmolsson
01-23-2006, 01:47
Are we sure that this is not a chinese minisub with ill intentions ?? ~;)

Just A Girl
01-23-2006, 08:19
im some what enticed to read this thread just to find out what could possibly have prompted so many pics of prescott.

P.s

You mean it's not Bush's fault yet? Right, these things do take time.


C'mon guys: Kyoto, Global warming, wiretaps, Katrina, Iraq, Tax Cuts, Cowboy Boots,...something he's done must have caused this tragedy.

I say its Bush's fault Becous. of:
Global warming and cowboy boots. (from choices listed)
And saying things like. "You have miss-underestemated us"
Pure class.

Geoffrey S
01-23-2006, 08:49
http://www.ad.nl/buitenland/article110937.ece

For those among us who can read dutch, I found the above article unintentionally amusing in the light of that whole sparrow affair. Jeez, talk about hypocritical. :wall:

Tribesman
01-23-2006, 10:36
You mean it's not Bush's fault yet? Right, these things do take time.

The Whale had a Bush moment , all the other whales said don't go up the river (apart from a few evil whales who were saying go on , there are some really big salmon up there ), he went up the river anyway and then found that all the other whales were right (though the slamon size is still disputed).
Due to its insistance of staying the course and not admitting that it had made a mistake the whale decided that despite all the signs of impending problems there was no need to turn around or reapraise the direction it had taken .

matteus the inbred
01-24-2006, 15:55
I wonder how much this operation to try and save one marine mammal cost ?

£300 worth of parking tickets, given to the guys who attempted to save the whale...!

seriously.

Ja'chyra
01-24-2006, 16:12
As far as I can remember it cost £100k, saw it on the BBC website, Link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4636278.stm).

I for one don't see any problem in spending the money in the attempt.

Byzantine Mercenary
01-24-2006, 16:22
well if you compare it with building a well in africa or giveing an orphan a goat, there are better ways to spend the money i think they should have had it put down

Ja'chyra
01-24-2006, 17:16
well if you compare it with building a well in africa or giveing an orphan a goat, there are better ways to spend the money i think they should have had it put down

Giving an orphan a goat? :inquisitive:

I take your point but I don't really follow the popular opinion that we are responsible for everyone else on the earth and, as I understand, it was tax payers money that was spent and I think it a worthy cause.

Byzantine Mercenary
01-24-2006, 17:22
yeah they give the goats to orphans and the goats provide milk and kids

Im not saying we are responsible, but thats no excuse not to help them out and you will do more good helpng them then a poor doomed whale.

Seamus Fermanagh
01-24-2006, 17:32
Clearly this poor whale's passing -- and the sad diversion of money from England's renowned "Give a new well to an orphaned African goat" program -- are part of the consequence of global warming. We merely await the pronouncement of this link from that most unbiased of sources, research scientists.

Therefore, you may all rest comfortably in the knowledge that it is the pig-headedly selfish and gluttonous use of power by U.S. citizens that is ultimately at fault. Though Bush is only symptomatic of this prodigal mis-use of energy, his failure to provide sufficient "lubricant" for Kyoto to be correctly "applied" to the U.S. of A certainly makes him culpable and therefore a ripe and legitimate target.

Huzzah!