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Step forward the Whale. What have they ever done for us? Two things spring to mind; provide inspiration for the name of a country and allow us to produce cheap tapes and CD's that can be bought from New Age shops featuring dreadful Whale humping noises. What have they done against us? Systematically eradicated (without remorse) our Planktonian friends. Every day a Whale consumes enough Plankton, that could have produced enough Oxygen to keep a small village in Hampshire alive for one minute. In effect they have declared war on us.
The solution is simple. We should tear down every rainforest in South America and use the wood (Mahogany only- we should chuck the rest into the Sea or burn it in skips) to build long man-sized spears and hunt them to extinction. It's the only way to be sure.
I think that the two Whale Species that we shouldn't exterminate are Sperm Whales (because they have a funny name) and Killer Whales (because they are actually Dolphins and they enjoy swimming around in miniscule paddling pools performing degrading tricks to amuse the simple folk).
It's about time we realised that most the problems in this World are not man-made and we attributed them to the real culprits. Animals.
Because they can't fight back.
> Whales are just clinically obese tuna fish
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Heh, superb.
And keep taking those pills...
Whales are just clinically obese tuna fish, and their huge girths displace so much sea water that soon the UK will be drowned by the rising sea levels. Plus they contibute to the greenhouse effect... and soil erosion... and acid rain... and they smell of fish too.
Later his tabloid editor said he was gutted.
That said, there are only two confirmed cases worldwide of people dying at the hands of piranha, and none of people dying from Baracuda's. The biggest killers out there are still sharks. I recall an incident off the China coast in the 1940's where 4000 people crammed themselves onto a bout designed to take 1500. The boat crashed into a supply ship carrying dozens of barrels of oil. Those who didn't die in the blast were eaten alive. there were no survivors...
Also worthy of note, is the Brits charging Japanese forces off a small island during the second world war. The Japanese attempted to evade british forces by running to the shore via a large swamp. 6000 Japanese troops ran in, a pitiful 40 or so came out alive on the other side. The sounds of thousands of men screaming, and that of the thousands of crocodiles eating them alive could be heard from over a mile away.
True stories both.
Nature is far more dangerous than we often give it credit for...