Well, there's not really any such thing as International Law.
Tim Send a noteboard - 16/11/2010 09:50:55 AM
So who's going to stop them if they want to?
Also, note the hypocrisy illustrated below:
IWC: Don't hunt whales!
Native North Americans: But our people have done this for centuries for food! We don't want to sell them or anything.
IWC: OK, you're allowed to.
Native North Americans: Great, thanks! <Gets in modern boat with harpoon gun and goes out whaling>
IWC: Don't hunt whales!
Norway, Iceland and the Faroe Islands: But our people have done this for centuries for food! We don't want to sell them or anything.
IWC: Tough luck.
Norway, Iceland and the Faroe Islands: Screw you then. <Hunts whales anyway>
IWC: ZOMG the evil!
(For the record, I don't think there's any reason Native North Americans shouldn't use modern technology for whaling. But many people think that the reason it's OK for them, but not for white people, to hunt whales is because they use their cute little canoes and spears instead of big metal ships with huge winches. This isn't always true.)
Also, note the hypocrisy illustrated below:
IWC: Don't hunt whales!
Native North Americans: But our people have done this for centuries for food! We don't want to sell them or anything.
IWC: OK, you're allowed to.
Native North Americans: Great, thanks! <Gets in modern boat with harpoon gun and goes out whaling>
IWC: Don't hunt whales!
Norway, Iceland and the Faroe Islands: But our people have done this for centuries for food! We don't want to sell them or anything.
IWC: Tough luck.
Norway, Iceland and the Faroe Islands: Screw you then. <Hunts whales anyway>
IWC: ZOMG the evil!
(For the record, I don't think there's any reason Native North Americans shouldn't use modern technology for whaling. But many people think that the reason it's OK for them, but not for white people, to hunt whales is because they use their cute little canoes and spears instead of big metal ships with huge winches. This isn't always true.)
Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
There may be plenty of fish in the sea,
- 15/11/2010 02:42:10 PM
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Whales need lovin' too.
- 15/11/2010 02:45:29 PM
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They do
- 15/11/2010 03:09:05 PM
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have you really had whale? >.>
- 15/11/2010 03:14:05 PM
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I am Norwegian.
- 15/11/2010 03:18:25 PM
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well I didn't know if it was exactly legal to be hunting whales.
- 15/11/2010 05:02:38 PM
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It is fine, if you are doing it for "science". Then you get to eat the left overs.
- 15/11/2010 05:08:17 PM
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(Re:you and Camilla) *NM*
Well, there's not really any such thing as International Law.
- 16/11/2010 09:50:55 AM
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I got a mermaid. 
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- 15/11/2010 03:29:16 PM
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- 15/11/2010 03:29:16 PM
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really? Can you tell us how that works then? *NM*
- 15/11/2010 04:00:17 PM
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Re: really? Can you tell us how that works then?
- 15/11/2010 05:24:21 PM
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i was more referring to the fish-bottom problem of relations with a mermaid. *NM*
- 15/11/2010 07:56:20 PM
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Neither dolphins nor other whales are fish *NM*
- 15/11/2010 04:24:41 PM
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Technically, he never said there were. He just made a non sequitur. 
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- 15/11/2010 08:33:20 PM
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- 15/11/2010 08:33:20 PM
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or a lamprey that just latches on and sucks the life out of you *NM*
- 15/11/2010 07:52:37 PM
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