All Creatures Great and Small

[Wysiwyg]

This is no joke...This company can take the BIG TOUGH HUMAN out to shoot and KILL some of Africas RARE and MAJESTIC CREATURES for TROPHIES.

If you have any compassion then tell me what you think after watching this you tube footage.Be warned.

Trophy Hunter....put down your gun and show all your mates how big and tough you are!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1FivamFXms

Did anyone digest these pathetic trophy hunters with too much money?

 

[2020hindsight]

Trophy Hunter....put down your gun and show all your mates how big and tough you are!

- really ... sad The lion is obviously wounded bigtime.
wonder those blokes didn't shoot each other - they remind me of the one about the Irish firing squad ... that stand in a circle.

In keeping with the sentiments of Adam Lindsay Gordon:-
https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=87800&highlight=slaughter#post87800

All as posted previously :-
Here's one about man's appetite for killing animals (Lex Talionis, A moral discourse)- and the challenge to man to give them a fair fight - like one bullet - a bit like the Deerhunter - but hunting a bear outside its cave.

LEX TALIONIS
Adam Lindsay Gordon.

To beasts of the field, and fowls of the air, and fish of the sea alike,
Man's hand is ever slow to spare, and ever ready to strike;
With a licence to kill, and to work our will, In season by land or by water,
To our heart's content we may take our fill of the joys we derive from slaughter..........

Shall we, hard hearted to their fates, thus soft hearted shrink from our own,
when the measure we meet is metred to us, when we reap as we've always sown,
Shall we who for pastime have squandered life, who are styled "the Lords of Creation",
Recoil from our chance of more equal strife , and our risk of retaliation?
....

But you've no remorseful qualms or pangs, When you kneel by the grizzly's lair,
On that conical bulllet your sole chance hangs, 'Tis the weak ones advantage fair,
And the shaggy giant's terrific fangs are ready to crush and tear.
Should you miss, one vision of home and friends, five words of unfinished prayer,
Three savage knife stabs, and so your sport ends
In the worrying grapple that chokes and rends :-
Rare sport, at least, for the bear!"

.......................................
Gee I like those words man being courageous for once. IMHO, part 1 of the poem ends here ... but he continues ... albeit excerpts given below....with some fatalism, and contemplation of a sudden death such as this, ("sunderings " = as in "rent asunder"), and perhaps man "in his blindness" doesn't understand that death is "less bitter" than he imagines - (incidentally Adam Lindsay Gordon finally killed himself with a bullet in a wattle grove, after being duped into believeing he could claim his father's inheritance back in England - and ending up broke) :-

Short shrift! sharp fate! dark doom to dree! (=endure)
Hard struggle though quickly ending!
At home or abroad , by land or sea,
In peace or war, sore trials must be,
And worse may happen to you or to me,
For none are secure and none can flee,
From a destiny impending.

..
Then those who listen to sinking ships
To despairing sobs from their lov'd one's lips,
Where the green wave thus slowly shatters,
May long for the crescent shaped claw that rips
The bison into ribbons and strips
And tears the strong elk to tatters.

Oh ! sunderings short of body and breath !
Oh! 'battle and murder and sudden death!'
Against which the Liturgy preaches;
By the will of a just, yet a merciful Power,
Less bitter, perchance, in the mystic hour,
(When the wings of the shadowy angel lower),
Than man in his blindnes teaches!

NOTES on ALGORDON 1833 - 1870

I can mimic the man as a writer, though I'm out of my class a a wit
though he'd give me black eyes as a fighter , though a far tougher student of "grit"
and his rhythms uplifting were lighter , and his syllables just seem to knit
and I find to upkeep with the blighter , that I need my infinitives split.

..
a giant of galloping rhymers, a legend of galloping steeds
forgive any awkward firstliners , and forgive him of any misdeeds
a champ of the prince and the peasant , a genius student of creeds
and Plato and Latin texts pleasant , - this planter of poetic seeds.

...
ahh to have half the skill of this master , or a fifth of his poetic brain
or to write as well slower or faster, or just have him around once again,
whilst most quotes like the breakers disperse, or they melt like sea froth in the rain
his bad and his worse and his worst , are beyond the best Ill attain.

from YE WEARY WAYFARER FYTTE VIII

Question not but live and labour, till yon goal be won,
helping every feeble neighbour, seeking help from none
Life is mostly froth and bubble , two things stand like stone
KINDNESS in another's trouble , COURAGE in your own.

 

[2020hindsight]

wysiwyg , another sad one :-
remember when he was accused of faking his emotions for animals
"what you see is what you get" with this bloke (as well)

ps unlike him, I think I love my wife more than I love this crocodile though lol

 

[2020hindsight]

Adam Lindsay Gordon , Lex Talionis

While all cultures have some system of social regulation and conflict resolution, law is a distinct phenomenon in that it is written and adminstered retribution and conflict resolution. The earliest human legal systems were almost universally forms of lex talionis, or "the law (lex) of retaliation." The lex talionis is a law of equal and direct retribution: in the words of the Hebrew scriptures, "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, an arm for an arm, a life for a life." ..

The Code of Hammurabi
The earliest written code of laws was the Code of Hammurabi, the most famous of the Old Babylonian, or Amorite, kings of Mesopotamia. Hammurabi's code of laws is almost entirely based on the principle of equal and direct retribution; it betrays the origin of law in retributive violence. Since the lex talionis is often the earliest form that law takes, from it we can conclude that the basic function of law is revenge and retribution. Unlike direct retribution, however, the law is administered by the state or by individuals that cannot be victims of revenge in return. While revenge and retribution threatens to break down society as people take reciprocal revenge one another, revenge as it is embodied in law and administered by the state prevents mutual and reciprocal revenge from tearing the fabric of society apart.

THE DAY OF RETRIBUTION

one day it will be retribution time
under lex talionis rules
and the croc will kill for the thrill of a dime
and the lion will turn on the fools

and an eye for an eye , and a scalp for scalp
and a measly man's skin for a hide
and there won't be a god to pray to or help
..........
cos he's changed to the animal's side

Gordon's full poem (I've only quoted excerpts) is Fytte 5 (of 8) found here :-
http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/ThePoemsofALAdamLindsayGordon/chap4.html
Here are a few extra verses - but it's worth reading the full poem (he tends to write in Starts and Fyttes )

And few, I reckon, our rights gainsay
In this world of rapine and wrong,
Where the weak and the timid seem lawful prey
For the resolute and the strong;
Fins, furs, and feathers, they are and were
For our use and pleasure created,
We can shoot, and hunt, and angle, and snare,
Unquestioned, if not unsated.


I have neither the will nor the right to blame,
Yet to many (though not to all)
The sweets of destruction are somewhat tame
When no personal risks befall;
Our victims suffer but little, we trust
(Mere guess-work and blank enigma),
If they suffer at all, our field sports must
Of cruelty bear the stigma.

PS apropo of nothing, but the second youtube on Steve Irwin is Josh Gruben singing "You Raise Me Up" , - I think he's touring Aus soon (?)

 

[2020hindsight]

this one concerns a bear allegedly shot in Alaska - it is seriously disturbing - don't go there (page 5) if you don't like blood. (and if you do go there , dont say I didnt warn you )

(You'll come out of this post feeling like you've been at the Colleseum
Lions 1 Christians Nil as they say )

however as for California.... I took the family to Yosemite, and we camped in a campsite ( bungalows) - good spot, ice skating nearby etc - anyway the fellow at the office advised us to be careful of bears - brown bears apparently (we subsequently went out with torches calling "here bear ! here bear!) . thousands of tales etc etc .

I asked him how long he'd been there , he replied "bout 5 years"
I asked " ever seen one?" , he replied "nope"

Maybe stick with either of these messages (similar but end happier)
Lions-vs-Zoo-Keeper, Wellington NZ
Small boy falls into the zoo's gorilla enclosure

 

[2020hindsight]

lol - Bindi "I make people step over the ant trail" lol - you gotta listen to this one..
Terri :- "I'm happy just to be known as "Bindi's mother"
8 year old Bindi Irwin - "Good days and bad days"
obviously the yanks love her / them - in Bindi's case, perhaps just as they liked Winston Churchill maybe ? - 50% american ?
"They don't come better - they come from :nono: .. good stock !!" :bier:

 

[2020hindsight]

there's a post I posted way back when
Although I was "right",
I have never underestimated a kid so much in all my life -
she's brilliant !
(and she sure as hell has gained more than she can ever lose)
https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=70016&highlight=sadness#post70016

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnah1HcnTjs&mode=related&search= Terri and Bindi Irwin on The Late Show With David Letterman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PZOUluzcXM&mode=related&search= Bindi Sue speaks at dad Steve Irwin's memorial service

 

[2020hindsight]

As you can see, Bindi's show starts next week - 4pm ABC
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/comingsoon.htm#?vid=bindi

 

[Kauri]

Something that just popped up on my desktop...

 

[2020hindsight]

you taking the piss there kauri ? lol
PS what the hell's going on with FMG lol
CFE next? - ahh back to stuff I can learn about with "accuracy" lol
(plenty of time for trading threads later)
Spider Eating A Mouse
PS if you suffer from "thingo-phobia" maybe dont look at this one ... (ahh found it, Arachnephobia

http://www.ojohaven.com/fun/phobias.html
Abluthophobia8: Fear of bathing.
Acarophobia: Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching. Fear of skin infestation by mites or ticks3
Acerophobia: Fear of sourness3.
Achluophobia: Fear of the dark or of night3. Synonyms: Nyctophobia, Scotophobia.
Acousticophobia: Fear of noise
Acrophobia: Fear of heights.
Aelurophobia: Fear of cats3. Synonyms: Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Felinophobia, Gatophobia.
Aeronausiphobia: Fear of vomiting due to airsickness3.
Aerophobia: Fear of fresh air - or flying. (also: Ancraophobia, Aviatophobia, Aviophobia, Batophobia, Hypsophobia, Hypsiphobia.

Agoraphobia[Web|Book]: Fear of open, public (sometimes crowded) places like markets. See also: Demophobia.
Agrizoophobia8: Fear of wild animals.
Agyrophobia: Fear of crossing streets.
Aibohphobia: Fear of palindromes. (from Best tag lines)
Aichmophobia: Fear of needles or pointed objects.See also: Belomophobia, Belonephobia.

Ailurophobia: Fear of cats. Synonyms: Aelurophobia, Elurophobia, Felinophobia, Gatophobia.
Algophobia: Fear of pain. See also: Odynophobia.
Altophobia: Fear of heights.
Amathophobia: Fear of dust. Synonyms: Koniophobia.
Amaxophobia: Fear of being in or riding in vehicles.

Ambulophobia: Fear of walking.
Ancraophobia: Fear of wind. - {Is that whay we should go easy with onions?}

Androphobia: Fear of men. - {most animals suffer from this }
Anginophobia: Fear of narrowness. Fear of quinsy or other forms of sore throat3.
Ankylophobia: Fear of stiff or immobile joints3.
Anthrophobia: Fear of flowers. {gotta be bs lol - so what's fear of bullsh1t? lol}.

Anthropophobia: Fear of meeting people or society.
Antlophobia: Fear of floods.
Anuptaphobia: Fear of staying single.
Apeirophobia: Fear of infinity. (and/or goggleplexes and stuff)

Aphephobia: Fear of touching or being touched4.
Apiophobia: Fear of bees. Synonyms: Apiphobia. {so what's "fear for bees" then?}
Aquaphobia8: Fear of water. {so what's "fear of droughts" then?}
Arachibutyrophobia: Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.

Arachnephobia: Fear of spiders.Synonyms: Arachnophobia.
Arrhenphobia: Fear of men6.
Asthenophobia: Fear of weakness.
Astraphobia: Fear of lightning. Synonyms: Astrapophobia.
Ataxiophobia: Fear of disorder3. Synonyms: Ataxophobia.

Ataxophobia: Fear of disorder3. Synonyms: Ataxiophobia.
Atelophobia: Fear of imperfection.{so what's "fear of perfection" then?, lol - think I've got that instead}

Atephobia: Fear of ruin.
Atychiphobia: Fear of failure.
Aulophobia: Fear of flutes.
Aurophobia: Fear of gold.
Automysophobia: Fear of being dirty. See also: Misophobia.

Autophobia: Fear of being alone.
Aviatophobia8: Fear of flying. See also: Aerophobia, Ancraophobia, Aviophobia, Batophobia, Hypsophobia, Hypsiphobia.
Bacillophobia: Fear of microbes.
Bacteriophobia: Fear of bacteria3.
Ballistophobia: Fear of missles or bullets.

Barophobia: Fear of gravity.
Basophobia: Inability to stand. Fear of falling.
Bathmophobia: Fear of walking3.
Bathophobia: Fear of depth.
Batophobia: 1) Fear of heights or being close to high buildings. 2) Fear of walking2.
Batrachophobia: Fear of frogs and toads3. Fear of reptiles7

Belomophobia8: Fear of needles.See also: Aichmophobia, Belonephobia.
Bibliophobia: Fear of books2.
Blennophobia: Fear of slime. Synonyms: Myxophobia.
Bogyphobia: Fear of demons and goblins3.
Bromidrosiphobia: Fear of bodily odors.

Brontophobia: Fear of thunder storms.See also: Astraphobia, Ceraunophobia, Keraunophobia, Tonitrophobia.
Cacomorphobia: Fear of fat people5.
Cainophobia: Fear of novelty3.
Caligynephobia: Fear of beautiful women.
Cancerophobia: Fear of cancer. Synonyms: Cancerphobia, Carcinomophobia, Carcinomat`ophobia, Carcinophobia.
Cardiophobia: Fear of heart disease3.

Catagelophobia: Fear of being ridiculed.
Cathisophobia: Fear of sitting.
Catoptrophobia: Fear of mirrors3.
Celtophobia: Fear of Celts3.
Cenophobia: Fear of empty spaces. Synonyms: Kenophobia.

Ceraunophobia: Fear of thunder3. Fear of thunder and lightning3. Synonyms: Keraunophobia, Tonitrophobia.
Chaetophobia: Fear of hair. Synonyms: Trichophobia.
Cheimaphobia: Fear of cold. Synonyms: Cheimatophobia. See also: Cryophobia.
Cheimatophobia: Fear of cold. Synonyms: Cheimaphobia. See also: Cryophobia.
Cherophobia: Fear of gaiety.
Chinophobia: Fear of snow.
Cholerophobia: Fear of cholera3.
Chorophobia8: Fear of dancing.
Chrematophobia: Fear of wealth3.
Chrometophobia: Fear of money.

Chromophobia: Fear of colors.
Chronophobia: Fear of time3.
Cibophobia: Fear of food. Synonyms: Sitophobia, Sitiophobia. See also: Phagophobia.
Claustrophobia: Fear of confined spaces.
Cleptophobia: Fear of thieves or loss through thievery3. Synonyms: Kleptophobia.

Climacophobia: Fear of falling downstairs.
Clinophobia: 1) Fear of going to bed. 2) Fear of beds2.
Cnidophobia: Fear of insect stings3.
Coitophobia: Fear of sexual intercourse.
Cometophobia: Fear of comets.- etc etc

 

[2020hindsight]

Lol, here's a beauty (imo) - just for the nZedders
this Kiwi decides he wants to fly lol
pretty clever / humourous

Kiwi animation

 

[BIG BWACULL]

This yesterday another little tike
Japan hails manta ray birth

Mantas are the world's largest rays, reaching 7m in diameter

Pictures of a giant baby manta ray, believed to be the first ever born in captivity, has been shown to the public from an aquarium in Japan.

Viewers saw the 1.9m new arrival being squeezed out of her mother's body rolled up like a carpet, before unfurling her fins and flitting gracefully across the tank at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in the south of Japan.

 

[noirua]

That Giant Manta birth is quite something.

Now for an animal that deserves a medal in the animal world: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/536332/leopard/

 

[BIG BWACULL]

That Giant Manta birth is quite something.

Now for an animal that deserves a medal in the animal world: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/536332/leopard/

heh heh lucky bugger, I like the title though "Leopard" Looks like a lion to me, any who good vid.

 

[BIG BWACULL]

All creatures GREAT and SMALL, Or was it SMALL and GREAT
heh heh

 

[noirua]

Today we are off to view the Sydney Aquarium and Animal World: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR5paiKmWYY

 

[2020hindsight]

As you can see, Bindi's show starts next week - 4pm ABC
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/comingsoon.htm#?vid=bindi

There are billboards at Aus Zoo for Bindi's birthday coming up - gonna be a big day there (although pretty much every day is - anyway good luck to her !)

 

[2020hindsight]

this one's a bit like the photo of the bear hybernating on his crossed paws - that I 've seen around here recently lol
and yep - go you good things go.

http://www.unoriginal.co.uk/footage112_1.html so sleepy

 

[noirua]

Should they eat them or not:

http://getsfb.wordpress.com/2007/06/16/he-fed-a-puppy-to-what-outrageous/

http://www.fox11az.com/news/topstories/stories/kmsb-20070614-apjc-maninjail.2d22095.html

 

[Smurf1976]

Walking on water! Well, walking on ice anyway. The ducks have trouble landing when it's frozen - basically just skid all over the place but there don't seem to be any injuries.

Photos taken 25th June at Browns River (about 15km from Hobart CBD).