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@taniwharugby Fucking Australians!
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@Mokey said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga I tell you what, one of the shows was a ladies night, and we got strippers who were all pro dancers/acrobats so cut af and very strong/flexible. I got led up on stage to rub oil on an ass so tight you could bounce a coin off it. One of my fellow ladies got 'married' but the ceremony was interrupted so she could give two dudes in leather and chains a flogging. Now that was entertainment.
And Captain Stubing approved such goings on?
Cruises seemingly aren't what they were in the 80s!!!
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Fascinating reading
Soldiers Inc: The lucrative, risky life of private military contractors
Hundreds of our best servicemen and women have taken the excitement - and cash - of private military life in the world's worst troublespots. These are their stories.
I love the passage where Kiwi soldiers describe their American counterparts. "The Americans, he says, seemed to have “a deep sense of insecurity and they address that by buying and carrying weapons”." The same could be said for many gun toting Americans at home too
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The same beach was shut on Christmas Day after reports of a 2 metre-long shark 500 metres off shore, and again two days later after the police helicopter spotted a 2-3 metre-long beast lurking around 200-300 metres out, with another further out.
"It was a good moment when the crowed cheered as they managed to refloat the shark," one onlooker told Stuff.
Shark expert and Department of Conservation marine scientist Clinton Duffy confirmed it was a 2.75 metre female.
"The general rule of thumb is from 2.8 - 3 metres is when they become the most danger to humans because they feed on marine mammals then."
People are weird.
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@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@Rembrandt no love for your fellow animals?
None for man eating fish.
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@Rembrandt said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@Rembrandt no love for your fellow animals?
None for man eating fish.
Lots of things can kill you.
Odds of getting killed in a shark attack, less than 1 in 264 million
I’d be more concerned about our fellow man. You are more likely to get run over, die in a plane crash or get shot and killed than end up dying like a Jaws extra
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@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@Rembrandt said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@Rembrandt no love for your fellow animals?
None for man eating fish.
Lots of things can kill you.
Odds of getting killed in a shark attack, less than 1 in 264 million
I’d be more concerned about our fellow man. You are more likely to get run over, die in a plane crash or get shot and killed than end up dying like a Jaws extra
On the other hand most man v man encounters result in no harm either way, whereas most man v shark encounters have different odds.
So fuck 'em.
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@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@Rembrandt said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@Rembrandt no love for your fellow animals?
None for man eating fish.
Lots of things can kill you.
Odds of getting killed in a shark attack, less than 1 in 264 million
I’d be more concerned about our fellow man. You are more likely to get run over, die in a plane crash or get shot and killed than end up dying like a Jaws extra
I don't think those stats are accurate, I'm sure theres probably dozens if not hundreds that happen in remote parts of the world that go unreported and if someone is listed as missing presumed drowned and the body is never recovered we'll never know what happened .
The chances are that shark was pretty fucked, to swim into the shallows like that and get beached is highly unusual and it would have been better to let nature take its course.
This shark was found to have a bunch of stingray barbs in it when it was autopsied , because it was so ill it cruised into the shallows for an easy meal and clamped on a kids leg. It was so fucked that it didn't let go of the kid and surf livesavers had to carried the kid and the shark up the beach and beat the shit out of the shark with surfboards to make it let go.
Coledale shark attack: the boy who survived
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Coledale shark attack: the boy who survived
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My brother in law worked for a wildlife charity after he retired, he was one of those people that thought that sharks don't really mean to attack people and its usually a case of mistaken identity which I'm sure is very comforting for anyone being chomped on. He even tried to get youtube to relabel shark attack videos as shark incidents. Eric Ritter was another sharks don't want to eat people arseclown, that worked out well for him.
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@Rembrandt said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
The same beach was shut on Christmas Day after reports of a 2 metre-long shark 500 metres off shore, and again two days later after the police helicopter spotted a 2-3 metre-long beast lurking around 200-300 metres out, with another further out.
"It was a good moment when the crowed cheered as they managed to refloat the shark," one onlooker told Stuff.
Shark expert and Department of Conservation marine scientist Clinton Duffy confirmed it was a 2.75 metre female.
"The general rule of thumb is from 2.8 - 3 metres is when they become the most danger to humans because they feed on marine mammals then."
People are weird.
Where's @Fullermorg ?
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@booboo said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@Rembrandt said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
The same beach was shut on Christmas Day after reports of a 2 metre-long shark 500 metres off shore, and again two days later after the police helicopter spotted a 2-3 metre-long beast lurking around 200-300 metres out, with another further out.
"It was a good moment when the crowed cheered as they managed to refloat the shark," one onlooker told Stuff.
Shark expert and Department of Conservation marine scientist Clinton Duffy confirmed it was a 2.75 metre female.
"The general rule of thumb is from 2.8 - 3 metres is when they become the most danger to humans because they feed on marine mammals then."
People are weird.
Where's @Fullermorg ?
Haha, that was my first thought too.
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@jegga NZ Orca feast on Stingrays, there was a big pod in Whangaruru Harbour yesterday, assuming it's the same pod, were in Whangarei Harbour on NY day.
Plenty of Ray's in there.
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@taniwharugby Yeah that pod has been hanging around the Gulf for a couple of weeks. One of them got caught up and they were asking people to take photos / videos to identify it and make sure that it is O.K.
Orca are on my cool animal list. Really rare for them to attack humans in the wild and the captive ones are justifiably fucked in the head and angry. The most danger in the wild is that you get a whack from them by accident.
We have had them come into the estuary in front of us chasing Orca biscuits (rays) and there is a local guy (who I have seen speak) goes swimming / diving with them and filming when they are around.
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga NZ Orca feast on Stingrays, there was a big pod in Whangaruru Harbour yesterday, assuming it's the same pod, were in Whangarei Harbour on NY day.
Plenty of Ray's in there.
They occasionally hit them in the lagoon by my house too, it’s full of rays - I saw three on the surface earlier this week. There was some great footage of mature orca teaching young orcas on tv last year .
Looks like the shark was caught in a net then attacked by ferals .
Shark attack - Wikipedia
