whale swims up the thames!!
'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
this is just classi wish i had been there to see it in 'person' but i live miles away
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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.
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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...
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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.
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Good story.
As said I do hope this tourist Whale, as he really has been behaving like a tourist, survives this ordeal.
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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.
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Word has it you were seen with a fishing pole last night.
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Cardiff is a long way from London....maybe it was some other Big King Sanctaphrax?Word has it you were seen with a fishing pole last night.
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It was a biiiiig fishing poleCardiff is a long way from London....maybe it was some other Big King Sanctaphrax?
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The whale died.
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I wonder how much this operation to try and save one marine mammal cost ?
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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
I blame Tony Bliar, he hates wales.......
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In other news, John Prescott disappears after stating he was "going for a swim in the Thames".
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yeah, when your bored, insulting mr prescott makes the pain go away
Hey, Im back
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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...
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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?
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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....
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He's our deputy Prime Minister!
And author of the great speech contained in my sig.
"Look I’ve got my old pledge card a bit battered and crumpled we said we’d provide more turches churches teachers and we have I can remember when people used to say the Japanese are better than us the Germans are better than us the French are better than us well it’s great to be able to say we’re better than them I think Mr Kennedy well we all congratulate on his baby and the Tories are you remembering what I’m remembering boom and bust negative equity remember Mr Howard I mean are you thinking what I’m thinking I’m remembering it’s all a bit wonky isn’t it?"
-Wise words from John Prescott
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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.
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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.
*He used to be a bar steward, some say he still is.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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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.
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God help us if Blair gets suddenly "removed from office". He'll be leading the nation then!He's our deputy Prime Minister!
And author of the great speech contained in my sig.
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"Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication" - Lord Byron
"Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison." - C. S. Lewis
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Oh please, please don't remind me of that!
"Look I’ve got my old pledge card a bit battered and crumpled we said we’d provide more turches churches teachers and we have I can remember when people used to say the Japanese are better than us the Germans are better than us the French are better than us well it’s great to be able to say we’re better than them I think Mr Kennedy well we all congratulate on his baby and the Tories are you remembering what I’m remembering boom and bust negative equity remember Mr Howard I mean are you thinking what I’m thinking I’m remembering it’s all a bit wonky isn’t it?"
-Wise words from John Prescott
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[Someone else just being reminded.]
Oh please, please don't remind me of that!
it's the **** that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come
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Shame the Whale died :(
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You mean it's not Bush's fault yet? Right, these things do take time.I blame Tony Bliar, he hates wales.......
C'mon guys: Kyoto, Global warming, wiretaps, Katrina, Iraq, Tax Cuts, Cowboy Boots,...something he's done must have caused this tragedy.
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The lengths whales will go to to avoid Japanese Scientists is amazing.
Our genes maybe in the basement but it does not stop us chosing our point of view from the top.
Pape for global overlord!!
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Are we sure that this is not a chinese minisub with ill intentions ??
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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.
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.
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