Manatees and George Takei

[arewethereyet]

Yes, yes, yes...but accidental or not...I love Malaria instead of Melania.

Give me some credit, I stole "Malaria" from someone else on the net.

It could explain the funny color of Trump's skin.  Malaria can cause yellowing.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The more I look at the pictures, the more I’m convinced that the animal wasn’t injured. It really does appear the letters were formed by wiping or scraping the algae, not actually cutting the manatee.



Still a pretty disgusting way to treat an animal.

Boru

[The Grand Nudger]

It's actually pretty hard to injure a manatee in any meaningful way, even to the manatee. That probably has alot to do with why people fuck with them. They don't really do anything that would startle the average cracker into stopping whatever it is they might be doing.

[Brian37]

It's actually pretty hard to injure a manatee in any meaningful way, even to the manatee.  That probably has alot to do with why people fuck with them.    They don't really do anything that would startle the average cracker into stopping whatever it is they might be doing.

Humans worldwide really do not understand we are the invasive species.

[The Grand Nudger]

More a disagreement over whether that's a bad or good thing than any disagreement over whether or not we are, I think.

Anywho, fun manatee facts.

They cannot turn their heads.
They cannot hear slow boats.
They cannot outrun fast boats.
Their hair is far more sensitive than their hide.

This is a relative measure of sensitivity - for reference, their entire face and whisker assembly, the most sensitive part of a manatee*....we think, provides about as much sensation as the tip of a human finger. A boat strike to a manatee may feel something like a papercut on a pinky, to us, and that's overestimating. They're built to get bitten and nibbled at by everything that bites and nibbles which they can't outrun....which is....everything that bites and nibbles.

These factors not only explain why they behave as though they were oblivious to danger and unafraid of human beings, but also why human beings tend not to get bound up when they strike or mistreat a manatee. The usual stuff doesn't trigger the usual response, which in turn fails to trigger the same in us. Cut a cat and you'll probably never see it again, and you will likely have feelings about that. Cut a manatee...it will very likely continue doing whatever it was doing before...a practical non event which we might be just as inclined to shrug off as they can be.

To be honest, it's probably harder to keep them still to scrape them than it would be to stab them. They do like it when you pet them, though - so there's probably a balance between whatever mix of fuckery and baited coddling is required to accomplish the task.

*The worst possible scenario for a manatee

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[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Colbert. Colbert. Colbert.

Boru

Marsha Marsha Marsha!

If you’re referencing ‘The Brady Bunch’, you fucked up you response to your fuck up. It’s ‘Marcia’.

Boru

[Brian37]

Marsha Marsha Marsha!

If you’re referencing ‘The Brady Bunch’, you fucked up you response to your fuck up. It’s ‘Marcia’.

Boru

My real life name is "Brian" but please do murder anyone who spells it "Bryan".

530,000 covid deaths and this is your focus?

[The Architect Of Fate]

1. If you thought someone carved the word Trump into this manatee - you are a complete fucking moron.

Clearly, someone put the word TRUMP on a manatee 

 It would take a minimum of 14 individual cuts. Do you think it would stand still for this? Only a human is stupid enough to allow you to repeatedly stick them with a piece of steel. Thus born the tattoo industry.

You obviously don't know shit about manatees their tolerance for pain is huge and their skin is thick and they're slow as hell. 

2. I never said I thought any particular group or person did this - only pointed out that none of us know who did. If you KNOW - you are a cunt - because you have not turned in the perp

Yeah because you didn't imply earlier  ANTIFA was setting up Trump supporters and of course you ignore all the actual evidence pointing to Trump's followers.

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The more I look at the pictures, the more I’m convinced that the animal wasn’t injured. It really does appear the letters were formed by wiping or scraping the algae, not actually cutting the manatee.



Still a pretty disgusting way to treat an animal.

Boru

It's just disgusting. It's a crime

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

If you’re referencing ‘The Brady Bunch’, you fucked up you response to your fuck up. It’s ‘Marcia’.

Boru

My real life name is "Brian" but please do murder anyone who spells it "Bryan".

530,000 covid deaths and this is your focus?

The number of COVID deaths is actually 26. Not 26 000. Twenty six.

So, yeah. That’s my focus.

Boru

[Brian37]

My real life name is "Brian" but please do murder anyone who spells it "Bryan".

530,000 covid deaths and this is your focus?

The number of COVID deaths is actually 26. Not 26 000. Twenty six.

So, yeah. That’s my focus.

Boru

Huh, the number of COVID deaths have exceeded 500k in the past year.