"I have no words. Humans can be so disappointing."
It ain’t a good time to be a tourist giving hell to endangered animals right now with locals and authorities on high alert after a man threw a rock at a monk’s seal’s head a few days back and, yesterday in the velvet-shadowed forests of China’s Mount Emei, a tourist pushed a Tibetan macaque off a cliff.
A little picture painting about yesterday’s attack: a Tibetan macaque sits peacefully on a roadside railing delicately eating a tangerine. Its small fur-covered body is relaxed, framed by the mountain’s mist and ancient temple silence.
Seized by impulse, a man in black rushes forward, plants both hands on the animal, and shoves hard, sending the macaque teetering near the edge before the man flees, laughing.
The species is under second-class national protection, 500 of ’em roam the mountain in 15 troops.
Cruel, yes, but also compelling viewing as you’ll soon see below.
Half a world away, in early May on Maui’s Front Street in Lahaina, a Seattle tourist saw a playful Hawaiian monk seal, one of only about 1,600 left on Earth, and pitched the rock at its head.
In both cases, the footage spread like wildfire.
Chinese animal lovers declared themselves “on the monkey’s side.”
In Hawaii, outrage boiled over with locals railing against an “entitled haole”.
The responses were wildly diff.
In Hawaii, the man got his lickens, as they say, with his attacker awarded a “Letter of recommendation” and branded as an “ambassador of aloha” while in China authorities moved with bureaucratic precision.
They identified the man, brought him in with police and forestry officials, secured an admission of wrongdoing and an apology, and blacklisted him from the scenic area for three years under rules against uncivilized tourist conduct and wildlife harassment.
The wild US and its vigilante justice vs state-controlled China’s bureaucracy.
Which response thrills you the most?
Like the great Matt Biolos, I ain’t much for the Commies and can’t imagine living under their jackboot and I do enjoy, very much, the immediacy of street justice except if I was the one falling foul of a vigilante court.
You?
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oh yeah….so it’s time for me to have a rest from BG………as I realize now the politics of today and the consequences of trump….everyone has put the blinkers on …..here……so see ya soon SC!
wait until after Rags .
While this guy maybe deserved it.
Do they still have “pound one Haole day”, in the local schools?
“Kill Haole Day” (sometimes referred to as “beat up a haole day”) is a term describing a, largely historical, anti-white bullying incident in some Hawaii public schools.
Same answer really.
yeah SC…..we are all experiencing the results of the trumpin TACO…and his delusions, there is so much more to come as the reality of the USA now stuck in a quagmire in Iran……China/Russia/Iran want the war to go on and on and on…..as the USA get’s weaker everyday , and people are starting to understand that trump has no real plans and he has to go and beg Xi for some help this week in ending the Iran war….and also that Xi release more rare earth mineral magnets to the USA as ah…they don’t have any left to remanufacture all the missiles/drones etc…..hmmm….then Xi meets with Putin after trump…
So 2 classic idiot mistakes in last week or so……Operation Freedom to clear the straits of Hormuz lasted 36 hrs because trump forgot to ask the Saudi’s if he could use USA bases in S A……they said no so oooops…cancel operation Freedom….perhaps one of the dumbest was him threatening Tariffs on Europe again last Tuesday, when the Fed Court had already declared tariffs illegal…..already trump admin has to pay back $166B in tariffs ….where the American people paid 96% of the tariffs….massive financial failure and fucked up the world for…..
Then the CIA reports to the WH….only 70% of Irans missiles have been destroyed ,they have rebooted their drone and missile manufacturing, they have 3-4 mths of $’s left economically and the leadership is intact….hmmmm?
I know I parrot along with all this political stuff, but when you see the state of the Global surfboard markets and manufacturing…..everyone is in survival mode as the sales fell off a cliff, because consumer confidence has gone through the floor….and it looks like so many people , especially BG , have put the blinkers on…and just hope somehow everything will turn out Ok…..
I have been hit really hard , and am in survival mode…….waiting for things to get better , but it looks like another 3 mths…at least, and it will get worse before better ……so trying to navigate and survive…good luck!
Try reading a book.
A ‘good’ book.
we were on break (at a construction site on da mainland), not too far from the coast, a few seagulls wandering around looking for scraps, and all of a sudden, zap, some random dude, not on our crew, shoots one of da gulls with a BB-gun, (have no idea why he was packing it), (and don’t think it really penetrated through the thick feathers), but he got an immediate berating from the surfers on our crew.
Have kind of a fond spot for gulls, as they’re always hanging around the beach, (on da mainland), not doing much, just kinda checking the surf and looking for a free meal.
I think they remind me of myself a little.
We should all set ourselves ablaze in protest like that Budhist monk in Saigon. It’s what the animals deserve.
Hey they gave Kelly a 10 for doing one against Mick.
Still the King
Chinese / bipoc man had some balls. Monkey’s about his size, full of monkeypox, rabies or a couple apocalypse-style covid equivalents.
Those small ones you see in uluwatu roaming around in gangs at the temple were enough to give me some chilling bad monkey vibes. Didn’t want to mess with the little fuckers.
he wishes Iran was far away….it’s now his ball and chain, hopefully China will help him at the end of the week,LOL?
I’m not really into dudes talking about wanking. But each to their own I guess.
I really don’t care, but if you want to share your experiences. Do. This cock teasing “I’d say so much, butttt” is boring.
You’re off work, maybe making make use of the time instead of telling us how much you’ve been wanking could be mutually beneficial?
What I said is that just because you surf good and know people, doesn’t make your words worthy. Case in point above. “I know so and so who did this with so & so” yet there’s zero substance to it.
Xx
One of my favorites is Peter Carey’s A True History of The Kelly Gang. No bs, there’s some lines in there that are pretty much BG fodder. You’d like.
Definitely. I find the top tier highly entertaining. Not a fan of the point break reduced to a single air which is unbeatable by three cutting edge rail turns. Some comps the judges say airs beat turns, some comps the judges say turns beat airs.
The head judge’s pre contest role in informing the judging panel what is being scored on the day needs to be given the arse.
All that “head judge informs” chat disappears when someone does something undeniably amazing on a good wave. Whether it be on rail in the air, they’ll just whack a 9+ on it. It’s only when the surf is shithouse the judges have to get into the reeds.
All hail DR, the newly minted protector of the environment (except for the sharp toothed Chondrichthyes species of course).
While a good story Chas, you can’t allow that to happen
Once that line is crossed, where do you stop?
One thing I loved about the Snapper comp was his infrequently surfers went to the air and the way a twirlybird air wasn’t a heat killing move.
Hopes for a repeat at Manu aren’t high.
Italo or Gabe wins
Gabby still in board testing mode.
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hahahahaha
Speaking of wool and Gabby testing CI’s, one of my friends makes CI’s here with wool! https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Imagine trying to surf one of those in the equatorial sun. Like laying on a hot plate.
Wax would melt before you even got in the lineup.
swallows doing god’s work , nice
only in NZ ?
Its been used abroad, even had a deal with firewire, but NDA’s now instead of surfboards & innovation. Invented that flexbar stringer that a few brands use/used also. Dudes always coming up with something new.
He doesn’t fit in the shelf within an industry that isn’t really looking down new pathways when they can just pump out “what works” or truthfully translated “what’s cheap”
nice to see some people still experimenting and trying to improve surfboard construction…..a rare breed!
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hahahahahahah fuck yeah
forecast looks pretty grim
” don’t push me coz I’m close to the eedge
ahm tryin not to lose ma head
uh huh huh huh
it’s like a jungle sometimes
it makes me wonder how I keep from goin under
uh huh huh huh
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To be honest
I don’t even read the read the articles anymore
I go straight down below the line
Maybe you can build on that?
You somehow think you’re the first or only person that does that?
I SKIM READ FFS
Are we supposed to read the sharticles?
The virgin Mary was skull fucked by a donkey
I am sure someone finds that offensive, so that is not cool you fuckwit
Suck my brown dog’s cock, cunt
why did you have to bring the colour of your dog’s fur into it, CUNT
Not to mention it’s inferred GENDER and does it still Identify as a DOG?
What if C.A.T. really spelt D.O.G?
ok ok ok i’ll bring it.
Q – Why was the playful Hawaiian monk seal having diffculty travelling down the hallway?
She took too much “ROCK”?
No, some tourist through Javelin at it’s head
I hope Justice was served.
Those seals have NO PLACE being near tourists trying to take Instagrams
a monk seal goes into a bar, the Bartender says “What’ll it be?”. The seal replies “Anything but Canadian Club on the rocks!”.
Monk seal meets a Russian in a bar
They had a rocky relationship….
I’m going I’m going
dunno, but it’s got a weapon cock
A concealed weapon doesn’t mean anything these days.
It depends on the boobs and makeup and if they can “RIDE” a Longboard like Derek’s Sasha
You’d root him
weak. Show our overlords the respect they deserve. You think, after 15 years of this shit, that they enjoy all of the flowery writing for such a ragtag group of misfits? No, but they still plug away. For our sake, and for whatever tens of thousands that they can scrape from unaware advertisers.
Skip the articles if you must, but please don’t brag about it.
Also, this embedded video was genuinely interesting; and reading about the new frontier of human/animal relations.
I SKIM READ
Good. You wouldn’t want to be lost like Souza Samo and not know whether the comments are related to the current article or the general mood of the cuntery.
What was the article about?
China man see monkey enjoying his 50th tangerine of day, China man think he funny, China man tells friend watch this, China man push monkey, monkey fall, China man punished, no more fun for China man.