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		Russian Icebreaker saw your hippie-ass bumper sticker and decides to actually do something about it (news.discovery.com)		81
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Snowflake Tubbybottom		2011-12-17 03:08:24 PM

Goddam global freezing.

lewismarktwo		2011-12-17 03:12:16 PM

Shave the whales.

Mad_Radhu		2011-12-17 03:15:56 PM

Back when it was Soviet Russia, the whales would save you.

dognose4		2011-12-17 03:16:16 PM

I thought the north pole would be ice free now?

Hector Remarkable		2011-12-17 03:16:16 PM

This is great. Now maybe he'll stop following me so closely that he can read my other bumper sticker which says 'If you can read this bumper sticker you're following me too closely when you should be out saving the whales'.

Surool		2011-12-17 03:16:31 PM

And they're sugar free, so the whales won't have to worry about the tooth decay caused by sweets.

shark72		2011-12-17 03:16:35 PM

bump		2011-12-17 03:17:17 PM

Они не ад ваши киты

bump		2011-12-17 03:17:57 PM

... damn you shark72,...

texdent		2011-12-17 03:18:21 PM

Is there a movie coming out soon about this?

LDM90		2011-12-17 03:19:47 PM

Ass bumper, heh heh huh huh huh heh

chaddsfarkprefect		2011-12-17 03:21:45 PM

FTFA: the worst scenario is that even this oasis either freezes over or becomes a magnet for polar bears, which have been known to take advantage of such circumstances to engage in a kind of feeding frenzy, reaching in and hauling trapped belugas on to the ice.

It's nice that some enjoy playing God, deciding who shall live. It's like an In/Out Hollywood list, I guess; polar bears are soooo 2009.

I_Hate_Iowa		2011-12-17 03:22:15 PM

How is an icebreaker supposed to free Tibet? They're landlocked, stupids!

Le Bomb Suprize		2011-12-17 03:23:01 PM

Not shown: Japanese trawlers tailgating the icebreaker.

bump		2011-12-17 03:23:50 PM

I think they're over doing it a bit, as their aircraft has helped enough whales so that a man could walk from Greenland to Iceland to Scotland without getting his feet wet...

aerojockey		2011-12-17 03:24:01 PM

Come on, I can whirl peas in my kitchen.

shark72		2011-12-17 03:25:02 PM

bump: Они не ад ваши киты

Awesome.

r1niceboy		2011-12-17 03:25:52 PM

Approves

Representative of the unwashed masses		2011-12-17 03:26:29 PM

The poor whales, quick we must melt the ice so that no more whales can be caught and killed!

Nuno311		2011-12-17 03:27:37 PM

chaddsfarkprefect: FTFA: the worst scenario is that even this oasis either freezes over or becomes a magnet for polar bears, which have been known to take advantage of such circumstances to engage in a kind of feeding frenzy, reaching in and hauling trapped belugas on to the ice.

It's nice that some enjoy playing God, deciding who shall live. It's like an In/Out Hollywood list, I guess; polar bears are soooo 2009.

Thank you for that. FTFA it says that by helping the whales, polar bears will go without the food and so will local human tribes.

If the icebreaker frees the whales, and also drops a ton of meat for the humans and bears then maybe its even (but whar does meat come from? whar?)

vodka		2011-12-17 03:28:02 PM

Imagine if you were stuck out in the ocean and some whales come and pull to you shore, saving your ass... while only eating a few of you. That's pretty much what they do to the whales.

Englebert Slaptyback		2011-12-17 03:28:07 PM

bump

I think they're over doing it a bit, as their aircraft has helped enough whales so that a man could walk from Greenland to Iceland to Scotland without getting his feet wet...

YEEAAHHH, BUOOOOYEEEEEE!

Sonar?

S'okay.

spacelord321		2011-12-17 03:28:42 PM

You make your point as delicately is possible.

spacelord321		2011-12-17 03:30:37 PM

...Bump

Kygz		2011-12-17 03:31:30 PM

So we sacrifice the polar bears to save the whales?
farking food chain, how does it work?

Torgo61		2011-12-17 03:31:49 PM

My bumper sticker still says:
images4.cpcache.com

So, fark off, you tree hugging whale humpers.

meleaux		2011-12-17 03:33:44 PM

But what about the polar bears?

Oznog		2011-12-17 03:34:36 PM

I bet a nuclear warhead could break up that ice sooner, opening a path to the sea. DO EEEEEET!!!!

RyanLP		2011-12-17 03:35:37 PM

I learned from the article that the artic is full of ice holes.

LDM90		2011-12-17 03:39:15 PM

RyanLP: I learned from the article that the artic is full of ice holes.

I think you meant "the arcticle"

fusillade762		2011-12-17 03:40:42 PM

Subvert the dominant belugadigm.

Burke Turkey		2011-12-17 03:46:38 PM

This article needs more brinicle.

eraser8		2011-12-17 03:46:57 PM

I really shouldn't be first with this:

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Caefus		2011-12-17 03:47:39 PM

It's not meat, it's bluuuuber.

XplodedSynapses		2011-12-17 03:49:21 PM

But, what about the polar bears? Who will feed them?

Perducci		2011-12-17 03:49:30 PM

Yay! Free tibets for everyone! Thanks Russia!

XplodedSynapses		2011-12-17 03:50:53 PM

meleaux: But what about the polar bears?

(Grumble)

Perhaps i should read all comments before posting...

The Voice of Doom		2011-12-17 03:51:30 PM

inundated with bobbing white heads and the exhalation of whale breath

"What is a teenager?"

w00ty		2011-12-17 03:54:48 PM

Read my new book, Darwin For Whales™, available at ~~Borders~~ Barnes and Noble right now!

Mateorabi		2011-12-17 04:01:09 PM

Save the charismatic mega-fauna!

/no one cares about the small ugly species.
//though with polar bears losing out its a toss-up.

strathmeyer		2011-12-17 04:02:56 PM

My bumper says "stop global warming" so I'm getting a real kick outta these replies.

whither_apophis		2011-12-17 04:05:27 PM

So we can eat them all now or we can eat a few, free the rest and eat next year too?

/choices, hmm

beta_plus		2011-12-17 04:07:21 PM

Snowflake Tubbybottom: Goddam global freezing.

Global warming causes freezing.

WAR IS PEACE,
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY,
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH,
WEATHER IS NOT CLIMATE

zerkalo		2011-12-17 04:07:41 PM

hero tag for thinking about saving whales?

Xen Pen		2011-12-17 04:11:44 PM

chaddsfarkprefect: FTFA: the worst scenario is that even this oasis either freezes over or becomes a magnet for polar bears, which have been known to take advantage of such circumstances to engage in a kind of feeding frenzy, reaching in and hauling trapped belugas on to the ice.

It's nice that some enjoy playing God, deciding who shall live. It's like an In/Out Hollywood list, I guess; polar bears are soooo 2009.

This is pretty much what I was thinking. Sure, save the beluga whale which gets trapped in ice every winter season, as was and still is the natural cycle of things. But how do we save the polar bears who rely heavily on a diet of small animals, fish, and whale flesh?

XplodedSynapses		2011-12-17 04:20:19 PM

Xen Pen:: It's nice that some enjoy playing God, deciding who shall live. It's like an In/Out Hollywood list, I guess; polar bears are soooo 2009.

This is pretty much what I was thinking. Sure, save the beluga whale which gets trapped in ice every winter season, as was and still is the natural cycle of things. But how do we save the polar bears who rely heavily on a diet of small animals, fish, and whale flesh?

i say let them have whale-sicles!
Hell, it's only a couple of hundred this time, anyways.

/Circle of ice, dude.

SN1987a goes boom		2011-12-17 04:20:48 PM

eraser8: I really shouldn't be first with this:

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That would actually be my first guess given that it is Russia.

spyderqueen		2011-12-17 04:44:57 PM

chaddsfarkprefect: FTFA: the worst scenario is that even this oasis either freezes over or becomes a magnet for polar bears, which have been known to take advantage of such circumstances to engage in a kind of feeding frenzy, reaching in and hauling trapped belugas on to the ice.

It's nice that some enjoy playing God, deciding who shall live. It's like an In/Out Hollywood list, I guess; polar bears are soooo 2009.

Yeah, I'd rather the bears get to eat. Belugas are awesome and all, but they're only NT, and Polar Bears are VU. Also because the fact that they HUNT AND EAT WHALES just adds to the awesomeness of polar bears.

Nutsac_Jim		2011-12-17 04:52:01 PM

I thought we were worried about the polar bears because they might be getting offed because of global warming. Now we are taking away their food supply?

Alleyoop		2011-12-17 05:02:13 PM

"The whales have little food, and the ice flow is increasing ... They are at risk of rapid exhaustion and, ultimately, death by starvation or suffocation."

Sounds like we need to burn more diesel hauling oil from Canada instead of putting in that pipeline.

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