Barbaric Danes ?
 

Saw a program the other night with coverage from the Faroes, part of Denmark where the inhabitants carry out mass killings of Pilot whales with the full support of the Danish navy and police. They have instigated laws whereby it is an offence NOT to to help with this so called Grind, punishable with up to 2 years in prison. A couple of women have just been arrested for not reporting the arrival of the whales in a bay so that they could be culled. Even children take part in this massacre and one was shown holding a live baby whale that had been cut out of its mother.
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Ah well, in Australia they cull kangaroos, and rabbits. Are whales any cuter than rabbits?

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Better than invading foreign countries and executing their leaders.

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Well Scot, that must be numbered among the dumbest of your 4,900 odd posts.

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Well, I don't think it's a dumb post. Scot reckons that dead baby whales are small beer when compared with the dead baby humans killed in large numbers in foreign wars managed by the West's political leaders. I'm with him on that.

Regrettably, Denmark as a member-state of NATO is responsible for killing baby humans as well as baby whales.

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Blaklladder probably thinks killing humans in Iraq and Libya can be overlooked, and the important thing is to stop the Faroese hunting whales. And he calls me dumb ?

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So killing whales is better than the D-Day landings, the invasion of fortress Europe and the removal of the Nazi hierarchy? Dumb? Who?

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I see you are a pal of Mr Blair. Did you ever find your WMDs ?

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Blakladder, like so many. is convinced that all of World History revolves around Dunkirk and D-Day.


I was referring to more recent events.


Perhaps we could use trident to persuade the Danes and the Faroese to behave better ?

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The simple answer to Scot's original posting is: how on earth is it relevant? It's simply not a valid comparison. Moreover, for someone who only recently was praising the virtues of King Charles XII of Sweden (a man responsible for the total destruction of the Swedish army and the plunging of Sweden into 100 years of poverty), Scot has become amazingly pacific all at once...

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Wallabies are much cuter than whales.
The man who culls wallabies by the thousand - BBC News

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I have too busy cuddling wallabies to respond.

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Thats a way of life for some, not all of the Danes, not something I agree with but sadly it happens, the Japanese do a similar thing with the whales and theirs is a year round cull.
Again not something I agree with but, hunting is a big way of life here, I live in the country and certain months of the year they hunt for different things (you have to have a permit of course) definetly not something I'm comfortable with but for those avid fans of hunting you won't change their minds

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Good job dogs are on Chinese and Korean menus then!!!:sarcasm:

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Yemenis are quite abhorrent however with their penchant for Locusts. the suffering of these poor creatures has to be seen to be believed. Our guard used to tear off their rear linbs and wings without anaesthetic so that while he was working they could not escape their eventual fate. Supper!!

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It is illegal much like killing Danish whale slaughterers, unfortunately!!!! There are no permits BTW for whale killing!!!! As for lemmings and other persecuted fauna they are just unfortunate to be in Danish legislative territory.

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One of my Norwegian granddaughters is into insect-rights. Last time she visited us here in the Caribbean, she stopped me from stomping on a cockroach in the house. Instead, she trapped it under a glass, while I slid a piece of thin cardboard underneath. Then together we carried the cute little beastie outside and released it into the wild. Sigh. This from a descendant of Viking warriors!

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Obviously after it was released into the wild you gave it a 10 second start, kicked your daughter into touch and went after it with your 12 bore............then gave it a proper Valhalla sendoff....After all traditions die hard.

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No, no! She's the Viking - well, half-Viking -, not me. She should have come up with any Valhalla send-off! The whales of the world are in no danger from her.

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Glad too hear it, BTW I'm not a greenie, far from it but hate cruelty practised on sapient creatures, that does not include Crocs, Mozzies and Lobsters etc......

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My son is a greenie and a vegetarian, and he allows only two exceptions to the "don't kill live creatures" list: mozzies and lawyers. I'm sure he'd add crocs to the list if any lived nearby.

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Yes I should have added Lawyers and worse than them, Notaries, real legal parasites. upheld by most European countries' burocracies.

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Let's look closer to home. The annual mass slaughter of grouse by the ruling classes is about to start. Should we not take care of prbolems in our own back yard before worrying about our Northerly neighbours ?

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Yes probably but comparing a whale with a grouse is like comparing a dog to a mosquito!

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We should sort out our own problems before looking into our neighbour's backyard !

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You can grouse and they will whale. Grouse unless I am mistaken are bred specifically for hunting in this case, whales breed freely like Danes and.......
There is EU legislation on Whale slaughtering that the Danes choose to ignore just like the Italians that choose to ignore EU Fines and court judgements.

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We are considering introducing legislation to reduce the power of the Lairds on those giant feudal estates in our country. The days of the Duke of Sutherland and the Duke of Buccleuch are numbered !

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A note from the British Foreign and Commonwealth office-

Local laws and customs

Don’t get involved with drugs of any kind. Although Denmark is generally a liberal society, drug use is illegal and laws are enforced. You will not be treated more leniently than residents. Drug dealers can receive heavy sentences. Anyone found in possession of illegal drugs deemed to be for personal consumption will often receive a police fine of DKK 500.
Homosexuality is legal and Danish law allows same sex marriages.
Whale meat is available in The Faroe Islands but importing it into the UK/EU is illegal under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. Any importation of whale meat to the UK/EU will result in seizure of the goods, possibly a fine of up to £5,000 and a custodial sentence.

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I suspect that the Faroese, if they care at all, would be horrified at the extent of child abuse in the UK. Children are regularly beaten and murdered by those adults who are supposed to look after them. See that horrific recent case from Fife.


We can have no pretensions to be a civilised society.

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What do the Faroese make of the frequent cases like this one -
Liam Fee: Mother and partner guilty of murdering two-year-old boy - BBC News


There is an epidemic of child abuse here and we are pointing fingers at our Northern neighbours for hunting wild animals ?

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The Romans had it sussed an built a wall!

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And what would the civilised Faroese make of the drunken rampage to be seen in every British Town Centre of an evening at the weekend ?


Who are the savages now ? Not the Scandinavians !

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Wish they could do it too, Probably beer is a tenner a pint there!

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Not everyone sees getting legless in the town centre as a pleasure. Have you ever visited a UK Town Centre of an evening at a weekend ?

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A few years back in Warsaw, there was a bar selling very cheap beer. Every weekend coaches from Finland used to arrive with lots of drinkers. They would stand drinking at or near the bar hardly even talking. When one would fall down they would carry him to the end of the room and lay him down, I never stayed beyond seeing half a dozen laid out but often wondered what happened later in the night!