Does Anyone Really Care About A Stupid Fish?

Does Anyone Really Care About A Stupid Fish?
Other than idiotic TV news.







Fish:
Any animal that lives in water and can swim!

 

I thought a whale was a mammal not a fish but hey I'm probably wrong.

I think the news is overdoing it but nonetheless it is a very rare event
and I can understand the fascination especially for children. I hope the
whale survives and can get back to open sea.

All it has done is make a mistake in its navigation - not unlike a fair
slice of ukrm seems to do whenever it decides to go anywhere! Perhaps
it needs a GPS system fitting to its nose or for the map fans perhaps a
quick trip to Stanfords in Long Acre?

 

Durrell wrote

Me. I care deeply about stupid fish. It is stupid fish what swims into
nets and ends up as fish fingers and I like fish fingers so stupid fish
are important to me and I care about them. They seem to be a
diminishing resource though which I think we should worry about. Think
about it, if all that is left are the intelligent fish they might evolve
and take over the world and we could end up as people fingers what they
eat with chips and peas on a Friday. So there you have it at the moment
I care but I am on the cusp of becoming worried and so should you be.

Is there any other sort?

I don't think the definition extends as far as "any" but you are welcome
to your personal misconceptions. Others may feel differently.

 

Paul Corfield emerged from their own little world to say

It sounds like it has GPS fitted and is using the "shortest route" option
to get from the Thames Estuary to the North Atlantic, via the Cotswolds and
Wales!

 

Kennet and Avon canal?

 

Like an Otter, Hippopotamus, Platypus(!) Beaver, Seal (cont. P. 679)

 

A beaver is a fish, according to the RC church, cos you can eat it on
Friday.

It was on QI, so it must be true.

See also; Capybara

Venezuelan farmers who once considered the animal a pest now make a
valuable addition to their incomes by selling capybara meat
(approximately 400 metric tons annually). The rodents are rounded up
in February so that they can be slaughtered and sold just before the
onset of Lent, when the meat is in high demand. This popular custom is
attributed to a curious theological decision by the Roman Catholic
Church that classifies the capybara as fish for Lenten purposes.

When European missionaries first encountered capybaras in South
America during the 16th century, they wrote to Rome for guidance,
saying, "there is an animal here that is scaly but also hairy, and
spends time in the water but occasionally comes on land; can we
classify it as a fish?" This was understood by Rome as a request to be
allowed to eat the capybara during Lent rather than a question about
taxonomy. This request came because the Catholic faith at that time
prohibited the eating of "meat" during Lent, the period of abstinence
lasting 40 days before Easter. Generally speaking, "meat," in Catholic
religious thought, referred to warm-blooded animals. Fish, shrimp, and
a few other cold-blooded animals were classed as non-meat. As they had
only a second-hand description of the animal, and wanted to keep the
petitioners from turning away from Catholicism, the Church agreed to
the Venezuelans' request. They declared the capybara to have the same
non-meat status as a fish — a decision which was never reversed. To
this day the capybara is still the only warm-blooded animal that the
Catholic church allows its members to eat during Lent.[1](Similar
stories concerning beaver, muskrat[2], etc. are in circulation but
lack the same verification)

from ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capybara

 

Classic Auvache with a touch of added Ginge-esk surrealism.

 

This is all very well but where is the bowl of petunias?

 

Sitting on the table in my front room.

 

Yes, me.

 

I do.

Well I guess I needed a thread to post in after a long absence.

<looks around and doesn't recognise too many names>

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Me too - Pity the poor bugger was too weak to be saved. Nice work by the
vets that tried to save it, but it was a foregone conclusion, I'm afraid.

 

A whale is not a fish. It is an insect.

 

I assume what we normally see is the larval stage. I would not want
to be around when it becomes an adult.

 

Goodness a blast from the past! Hello - how are you doing?

 

Troll:
See "Durrell"

 

It is not a fish, they swim for 1000's miles. They a very intelligent
animals<more brains the some of thos stupid attention seeking
fuckheads(& lushheads) on the road, because they don't keep bumping in
to other whales>.

 

Except this one looked as if it was trying to bump into Wales ... and
missed.

 

An Arab can live for entire year on a single grain of rice.