Originally Posted by eodmatt

What I see here is a boat full of tofu munchers breaking the laws of the sea and then whinging cause the nippo's didnt give way as they had the right of way.

But, are the tofu munchers whinging?

All I've seen is a report saying their boat had an RTA with a FOGB Japanese whaler and came second.

ISTR that the Sea Shepherd organisation first came to the notice of the world's press when they took action against a 'pirate' whaler. These are ships that are hunting whales solely for the money and make no pretence of respect for any of the international agreements limiting or prohibiting whaling. One such boat had carried on whaling despite numerous tree huggers protesting, boarding, getting in the way of the harpoons, etc. Sea Shepherd pitched up with their newly acquired protest ship. They intentionally rammed the whaler and sank it, no fcuking about.


Edit; From Wikipedia;

"Sea Shepherd spent part of 1979 hunting for the whaling ship Sierra which was notorious for having undetermined ownership, ignoring whaling agreements, hunting indiscriminately, and using non-explosive harpoons.[78] To increase the effect of a ramming the bow of the Sea Shepherd was filled with approximately 100 tonnes of cement. In July, the Sierra was found off the port of Oporto, Portugal. Sea Shepherd put non-essential crew ashore and manned by three crew (Paul Watson, Peter Woof, and Jerry Doran), returned to ram and cripple the Sierra. The Sea Shepherd then made for England but was intercepted by the Portuguese navy and escorted back to Oporto. The ship and crew were not arrested but the ship was held for what was called an "informal inquiry."[79] The Sierra was able to make it back to port for extensive repairs.[33] In Oporto, Watson learned that one of the Sea Shepherd crew, Richard Morrison, had been beaten and left severely concussed by members of the Sierra crew[78] In December, Watson and Peter Woof returned to Portugal intending to steal the seized ship. They found the ship had been stripped of equipment and the Portuguese police advised them to leave as they could not guarantee their safety. Watson decided to scuttle the ship rather than have it be sold for scrap and potentially used to compensate the owners of the Sierra.[80]

While in Lisbon in February 1980, the Sierra was sunk with limpet mines.[81] The Sierra's chief engineer, Luis Mendes, told reporters that he believed "the blast was set by crew members of the Sea Shepherd."[81] In a 2004 interview Paul Watson said, "Meanwhile, the Sierra had been repaired and was ready to return to sea. It never did so: on February 6, 1980, my crew blew the bottom out of her and permanently ended her career. We traded a ship for a ship, but it was a great trade because we also traded our ship for the lives of hundreds of whales."
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These are tofu munchers, but not as we know them, Jim. More like bunny-hugging guerillas.

Originally Posted by Onetap

Originally Posted by eodmatt

What I see here is a boat full of tofu munchers breaking the laws of the sea and then whinging cause the nippo's didnt give way as they had the right of way.

But, are the tofu munchers whinging?

All I've seen is a report saying their boat had an RTA with a FOGB Japanese whaler and came second.

ISTR that the Sea Shepherd organisation first came to the notice of the world's press when they took action against a 'pirate' whaler. These are ships that are hunting whales solely for the money and make no pretence of respect for any of the international agreements limiting or prohibiting whaling. One such boat had carried on whaling despite numerous tree huggers protesting, boarding, getting in the way of the harpoons, etc. Sea Shepherd pitched up with their newly acquired protest ship. They intentionally rammed the whaler and sank it, no fcuking about.

Then it is true that what goes around comes around

Originally Posted by T_M_H

Don't really agree with commercial whaling, but hopefully the Captain of the Maru shouted "Ramming Speed" in a comical german accent as they closed on the hippy boat.

Hehehe

As he was Japanese it would have been "Lamming Speed!"
And on that note, as the protesters are called 'The Sea Shepherds' They would have understood completely...







Well, I thought that was quite witty, even for me, on a Friday afternoon after all...

Originally Posted by BarkingSpider

Originally Posted by DavetheApe

Originally Posted by littlejim

Fine. You like the Japanese. You think they've got a perfect right to come into Australian waters, sink Australian ships and slaughter the most magnificent creatures left in the sea. Australians think differently. And I hope you won't mind me expressing the hope that the next time you want any Australian help in your little wars, the Australian government invites you to take a flying fcuk.

Jim - catch yourself on, mate. You fcuking LOVE our little wars. Your enthusiasm since 1914 hasn't gone un-noticed, nor is it unappreciated....

Aussies are always up for a scrap. He's not kidding anyone is he?

Not in Afghan they aint. Even the supposed Canadian tree huggers are making the Aussie look like a bunch of fannys.

Originally Posted by mucus2

How much of Australia do the Japanese own?

Only the bits that the rest of the world doesn't own.

Originally Posted by sneeky_turd

Originally Posted by BarkingSpider

Originally Posted by DavetheApe

Originally Posted by littlejim

Fine. You like the Japanese. You think they've got a perfect right to come into Australian waters, sink Australian ships and slaughter the most magnificent creatures left in the sea. Australians think differently. And I hope you won't mind me expressing the hope that the next time you want any Australian help in your little wars, the Australian government invites you to take a flying fcuk.

Jim - catch yourself on, mate. You fcuking LOVE our little wars. Your enthusiasm since 1914 hasn't gone un-noticed, nor is it unappreciated....

Aussies are always up for a scrap. He's not kidding anyone is he?

Not in Afghan they aint. Even the supposed Canadian tree huggers are making the Aussie look like a bunch of fannys.

Next time you see a digger, ask him whose decision it is. I think you'll find that it's the Government's. The Australian Government is so pathologically casualty-averse that it leaves the heavy lifting to SF. The infantry, in particular, hate the imposed inactivity. Australian soldiers, like the Poms or anyone else, do as their Government tells them, whether they like it or not. In this case, they don't. Got it, cobber?

Originally Posted by auscam

Next time you see a digger, ask him whose decision it is. I think you'll find that it's the Government's. The Australian Government is so pathologically casualty-averse that it leaves the heavy lifting to SF. The infantry, in particular, hate the imposed inactivity. Australian soldiers, like the Poms or anyone else, do as their Government tells them, whether they like it or not. In this case, they don't. Got it, cobber?

Why not ship the Boongs in there??

A digging stick should find the IED's PDQ.

And it would confuse the bejaysus out of the locals.

Not as much as Dame Edna would!

Originally Posted by auscam

Not as much as Dame Edna would!

Dame edna would fix them.

Sir Les would end up as an imam

What about Russell Crowe?