What things bother you the most?

bmwracer wrote:
Must be the humidity... Maybe it's helping you clear your lungs. :thumbsup:

Chicken soup helps as well as N-acetyl-cysteine....the actually help thin the mucus secretions in the lungs....

Well, its day 15 with fever. Only low grade now, thank God!! :sweat: Gives me horrible dreams at niight. I have these hideous nightmares and my ex keeps appearing. Freaks me out. :shamefulcry:

Wynter wrote:

Argh! Lets hope the saying "When you get it once, you won't get it again" holds true.

Or have you had this before...?

Last year I had something very similar, only this year Im twice as sick. I thought what you said held true until I ended up at the emergency clinic. Sigh. :puppydog: MAybe today the Doctor will say Im doing better.

@Tu- Im taking as much Vit. C as my stomach can handle. Its way upset from the meds and illness. I'll try a bit more though.

Im glad we have a whining thread here. Because I've needed it.

Today's annoyance: My mother calling me on the pretense of asking about my health so she can complain about the remodel on her country house.

I dont understand how this can go on in this day and age. :shamefulcry: :shamefulcry:

Japan might kill world's only white whale

By Nick Squires in Sydney
Last Updated: 3:01pm GMT 12/11/2007

Australians fear that the world's only known white humpback whale could be slaughtered as Japan's whaling fleet prepares to embark on its annual hunt in the Southern Ocean.


The unique male whale, named Migaloo - an Aboriginal word for "white fella" - has become a celebrity in Australia since being spotted for the first time in 1991.


Migaloo the white humpback swims with another whale (top) and diving after breaching
Each year Migaloo - along with thousands of other humpbacks - migrates from the icy seas of Antarctica to the warm shallows of the South Pacific and the Great Barrier Reef.

A few months later the whales, the females leading their newly-born calves, return to Antarctica.

The arrival of 45ft-long Migaloo - believed to be the only completely white humpback in the world - is keenly anticipated by whale watchers along Australia's east coast.

He has been hailed as modern day Moby Dick, even though the creature in Herman Melville's 1851 classic was a sperm whale.

Conservationists fear that Migaloo is so accustomed to whale watching and fishing boats, that he will be easy pickings for Japanese hunters.

With the southern hemisphere summer approaching, the Japanese whaling fleet is preparing to leave port within days. It refuses to say exactly when.

It has declared that for the first time it will kill 50 humpbacks, as well as 50 fin whales and hundreds of minke whales.

The Japanese argue that after decades of hunting fin and humpback whales have recovered to sufficient levels that they can now withstand being harpooned again.

The Fisheries Agency in Tokyo refused to rule out killing Migaloo today, with officials offering a blunt "no comment" to media inquiries.

Instead the agency called on Australia and New Zealand to ensure that the Japanese fleet would be protected from anti-whaling ships operated by a militant environmental group, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

Last year Sea Shepherd threatened to ram the Japanese fleet with a ship fitted with a bulldozer-type blade. The group has been branded environmental terrorists by Tokyo.

"Those two countries maintain the same position as Japan does against the violent action of terrorists," spokesman Hideki Moronuki told ABC Radio.

"[We] need support from those two countries in order to secure the safety of our crews and (our ships)."

But the captain of Sea Shepherd's two vessels, Paul Watson, said he had the law on his side because whale hunting was illegal.

"They're targeting endangered species in a whale sanctuary in violation of a global moratorium on whaling.

"If Japan reacts violently to us, causes any injury at all to any of our people, that will backlash very severely on Japan because Japan is the criminal nation here," he said.

Japan uses a loophole in International Whaling Commission laws to hunt around 1,000 whales each year in the Southern Hemisphere, ostensibly for the purposes of scientific research.

People who have encountered Migaloo on his epic journey of migration describe the sight as a once in a lifetime experience.

"He turned the blue water around him jade-green for two or three metres," one awe-struck Australian whale-watch operator said of a sighting two years ago.

Scientists are uncertain whether Migaloo is a true albino, or simply has white pigmentation.

In a sign of how healthy the population of humpbacks has become, a female and her calf paid a short visit to Sydney Harbour today.

The pair was noticed entering the harbour from the sea by passengers on a passing ferry and spent about three hours in sheltered waters before continuing their journey south.

Eve wrote:I dont understand how this can go on in this day and age. :shamefulcry: :shamefulcry:

Japan might kill world's only white whale

Sickened, but not surprised: Japan can be so progressive in some areas and incredibly stupid in others... But it's true for any nation including ours, Evie. :sweat:

Let's hope those whalers get stopped somehow before it's too late. :fingerscrossed:

So true, beem. Makes you feel like getting a hold of those whalers and slapping some sense into them :grumble:

Migaloo is well known in Australia.

Eve wrote:I dont understand how this can go on in this day and age. :shamefulcry: :shamefulcry:

Japan might kill world's only white whale

They hunt dolphins for meat too...... :shakehead:

bmwracer wrote:
Sickened, but not surprised: Japan can be so progressive in some areas and incredibly stupid in others... But it's true for any nation including ours, Evie. :sweat:

Let's hope those whalers get stopped somehow before it's too late. :fingerscrossed:

Oh I know, Beem. It is just so sad. Humans are such a primitive race still. But then we've had the written language for barely 5000 years so what can you expect.
But still I have to admit I am a Sea Shepherd fan. When dealing with primitives you need to be primitive. My BF tried to stick up for his countrymen until he learned they had bumped up the number of whale kills yearly permits in Norway from the original 30 to over 1000. Now he's joined the Sea Shepherds.

@AD-I know the Aussies are big Migaloo fans. Very cool!! :thumbsup:

Eve wrote:I dont understand how this can go on in this day and age. :shamefulcry: :shamefulcry:

Japan might kill world's only white whale

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Wow, I suddenly feel sad...

Wynter wrote:Wow, I suddenly feel sad...

Why? I think the price for the submarine is pretty reasonable. [/list:u]

gaijinmark wrote: Why? I think the price for the submarine is pretty reasonable. [/list:u]

:rofl:

Not that. Sometimes I get random pangs of saddness where my heart aches. It's usually tied to something bad/sad happening at that time. I didn't have the have the feeling this morning, but just now I found out that my friend was in a car accident last night. :sweat:

Wynter wrote:
Not that. Sometimes I get random pangs of saddness where my heart aches. It's usually tied to something bad/sad happening at that time. I didn't have the have the feeling this morning, but just now I found out that my friend was in a car accident last night. :sweat:

Hmm, maybe your psychic. Like Oba in Churasan can always tell when the phone is going to ring. [/list:u]

gaijinmark wrote: Hmm, maybe your psychic. Like Oba in Churasan can always tell when the phone is going to ring. [/list:u]

Nah. I LOVE Oba btw! She really is just a happy-go-lucky granny. Mind you, I love Goya Man more. :smitten:

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Wynter wrote:Mind you, I love Goya Man more. :smitten:

I wonder why......? :rolleyes:

there's nothing here to read... go away... LOL. :P

Tu_triky wrote:

They hunt dolphins for meat too...... :shakehead:

It is impossible for me to understand how anyone can hunt things with a larger brain than ours and an infinitely more peaceful society.

krim wrote:

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Makes me wish I wasnt so in debt. Would love to give that to the Sea Shepherds!! Maybe if every jdorama member gave $2? Would we be close? Think Im going to donate some $$ now.

bmwracer wrote:
I wonder why......? :rolleyes:

Erm... because he's a symbolic icon of the show? My mind isn't always in the gutter you know. :rolleyes:

>>slightly put off<<

Wynter wrote:

Erm... because he's a symbolic icon of the show? My mind isn't always in the gutter you know. :rolleyes:

>>slightly put off<<

Goya is actually a vegetable that is popular in Okinawan cuisine. I've never had it though.

Tu_triky wrote:


Goya is actually a vegetable that is popular in Okinawan cuisine. I've never had it though.

You mean the brother of bittermelon? (same thing, only different skin). It's a popular asian veg, and prominant in South Asian cuisine as well.

Wynter wrote:

You mean the brother of bittermelon? (same thing, only different skin). It's a popular asian veg, and prominant in South Asian cuisine as well.

I see....actually I thought he was the little brother of the Green Giant, you know the vegetable mascot?

krim wrote:

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I'd prefer a Virginia class or at least something with ballistic missiles and a jacuzzi. :P