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Changing my opinion about friendly dolphins !!

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 DrJ
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-66597481


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 11:36 am
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So Long and thanks for all the porpoises!


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 11:41 am
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Savage. I'm off to find the cheapest, non-Dolphin friendly can of tuna as a protest.
It'll give me a real sense of porpoise in all this brutality.


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 11:41 am
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Nothing new

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-37616961


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 11:45 am
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Like many other animals, they also have rather unfortunate sexual habits. I recall seeing a video of a dolphin biting the head off a fish to fashion into a makeshift fleshlight.


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 12:06 pm
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I recall seeing a video of a dolphin biting the head off a fish to fashion into a makeshift fleshlight.

That must have required some very inventive search terms. But hey, everyone needs a hobby! 😜


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 12:11 pm
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That must have required some very inventive search terms. But hey, everyone needs a hobby! 😜

You're assuming he was looking on porpoise !!


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 12:16 pm
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blokeuptheroad

That must have required some very inventive search terms. But hey, everyone needs a hobby! 😜

Sadly I'm not that imaginative, i think it was on the front page of reddit!


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 12:16 pm
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Like many other animals, they also have rather unfortunate sexual habits. I recall seeing a video of a dolphin biting the head off a fish to fashion into a makeshift fleshlight.

[still]


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 12:24 pm
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-66597481
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That headline is clearly about Wales not dolphins....


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 12:28 pm
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How did the dolphin hold the fish tho?


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 12:29 pm
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Years ago a local man was arrested in Wales for having sexually assaulting a bottlenose dolphin. I really know one shouldn't but I laughed (was very young at the time and not very mature).


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 12:40 pm
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Dolphins are absolute deviant, aggressive, wazzocks. Pricks of the sea. Closely followed by Otters. Otterly unpleasant creatures.

That headline is clearly about Wales not dolphins

Seems like it's more an issue of Perseverance


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 2:20 pm
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I’d probably have some unfortunate sexual habits if I had a prehensile penis too.


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 2:34 pm
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And then there's the killer whales off the coast near Gibraltar that attack small sailing boats, disabling the rudders, for fun.


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 3:16 pm
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And then there’s the killer whales off the coast near Gibraltar that attack small sailing boats, disabling the rudders, for fun.

HM Government's new policy trial isn't it.


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 3:48 pm
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Dolphins are absolute deviant, aggressive, wazzocks

Yeah, I think they suffer from toxic masculinity. Most male dolphins are incel betas. The dominant males hoard the females and the beta males hang out in gay sex gangs, raping anything they can catch out of sexual frustration. Humans assume the dolphins are being friendly, they're actually just lining you up for a gangbang.


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 3:57 pm
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How did the dolphin hold the fish tho?

dunno, guess they're just good at re-porpoising things

edit- well i took one for the team and found the post in question. To answer your question, dolphins appear to have quite good dexterity in the trouser region. More disturbing than that however is the happy look on the little guys face. 🤨


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 4:09 pm
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How did the dolphin hold the fish tho?

Look up the definition of prehensile.


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 4:15 pm
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Dolphins.

My personal experience.

Royal Navy Ship's Diver, me. Underneath HMS Ark Royal, doing a propellor and shaft inspection while at anchor in the Gulf Of Manfredonia, Adriatic sea.

Busy with a shaft guage, in poor visibility due to silty coastal waters.

"CLICK!" "CLICK"CLICK!""CLICK!""CLICK!" "BReeEEEEPPPP"

Deafeningly loud. Painfully so.

WTF! me thinks. Shadow in the water zooms past.

More clicks and beeps screams wails.

Like having someone yell in your ear as loud as they can from a couple of inches away. Horrible.
Surface to the crew in the Gemini (like a small Zodiac) ...

"Have you seen the dolphin?!" they ask...

"Keeps coming to the boat, seems very friendly..."

I was not amused.


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 4:19 pm
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Only seen em in the wild once, swimming with a ferry I was on up north, and sure yep they were beautiful and obviously incredibly fit for purpose but also kinda bloody terrifying. I guess partly it was the dark water and all that but it had a definite feel of "glad I am not in there".


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 4:53 pm
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Like many other animals, they also have rather unfortunate sexual habits. I recall seeing a video of a dolphin biting the head off a fish to fashion into a makeshift fleshlight.

sea otters rape dogs

Busy with a shaft guage, in poor visibility due to silty coastal waters.

the perverted beast was probably wondering what you were doing with the shaft gauge.


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 5:15 pm
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Years ago a local man was arrested in Wales for having sexually assaulting a bottlenose dolphin. I really know one shouldn’t but I laughed (was very young at the time and not very mature).

was he being towed along hanging off the dolphin’s knob and spotted by a sightseeing boat in the act?

if so, i laughed too

thinking about the dolphin could have been dragging him along.


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 5:28 pm
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To be fair I always thought Flipper was a bit of a dick.


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 5:32 pm
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A few years ago I was windsurfing on the Red Sea at Moon Beach.  I was about a mile out, headed back to shore when 2 dolphins surfaced one either side of me, going in the same direction.  Initial excitement (and being impressed at their speed, managing to keep up, ahem) soon turned to mild anxiety as their body language was not so much playful, more like a couple of bouncers hustling me out of the joint.  They were big buggers.

When I got back to the surf centre I excitedly told the staff what had happened.  The manager shook his head "No dolphins here."

I still can't tell if he was telling the truth, or trying to spook me.


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 5:36 pm
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Moon beach is well known for dolphin spotting.

Years ago (thirty or maybe forty) New Scientist did an article on how clever are Dolphins really? Their brain weight is relatively high, but relatively lowly crenellated and that is a strong indicator of computational power. NS said they where probably on a par with a labrador. Their behaviour we find attractive so we give them a lot of undeserved credit for intelligence.

They definitely have bad records on approaching women in the water and are unlikely even to get a job as a BBC DJ.

When informed that dolphins had aided troubled swimmers back to shore the investigators stopped just short of calling BS, but did point out that the swimmers 'assisted' out to sea were unlikely to be able to tell their stories - although a few actually did in subsequent editions' letter pages,.


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 6:04 pm
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Watching them last month made me realise they were not just hunting for fun, they enjoyed lobbing fish in the air and passing it between parent and calf while still alive.

Evil personified last month.


 
Posted : 24/08/2023 6:44 pm
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Posted : 24/08/2023 11:50 pm
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sea otters rape dogs

Payback for all the times my leg has been humped


 
Posted : 25/08/2023 6:54 am
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sea otters rape dogs

Yep.

They are also known to kill them and drag the carcass out to somewhere that can't be reached from shore.  Then they use it as a sex doll.  For a week.

All of which could be seen from the owner's living room window.

I can't help but imagine the evil little ****s grinning and giving a big thumbs up towards the shore as they were doing it.


 
Posted : 25/08/2023 7:11 am
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I can’t help but imagine

er okay... <backs nervously away>

I like dolphins, only surfed with them once in the north sea (not really with as they were maybe 50m away, unlike say j bay, loads of clips of them jumping out of waves people are surfing) but it's good to see them heading past from time to time. It is always exciting to see them - ferry back from bilbao this summer having breakfast at a window table right at a front, as a huge pod swam by. Who's not going to smile?

Mind you some people really like dolphins...

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12651809.court-clears-swimmer-of-indecency-with-dolphin/


 
Posted : 25/08/2023 9:20 am

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