I'm in love.

[rubato]

And her name is Durita and the place is the Faroe islands:



http://visitfaroeislands.com/sheepview3 ... irst-step/

http://petapixel.com/2016/07/14/sheep-v ... reet-view/

http://visitfaroeislands.com/sheepview3 ... reet-view/


We were there 7 years ago and I agree that it is one of the most beautiful places on earth with the most wonderful people. Seeing the "sheepview cam" brought it all back with a rush


yrs,
rubato

[Joe Guy]

You're in love with a sheep?

I have heard of that kind of thing happening but you're the first person I've seen admit to it.

Is your wife okay with it?

[dales]

Poor sheep.

[Bicycle Bill]

I thought her name was "Baa-ah-ah-bah-ra".

-"BB"-

[rubato]

We stood on this spot and saw that waterfall:



Some of these we saw and some not:










But all together a fantastic place. Truly amazing people.

The sheep are actually pretty cool, they are similar to icelandic sheep who have very long wool and they are allowed to wander anywhere they like. Fun idea to use them to carry cameras around the island.


yrs,
rubato

[Gob]

Yeah, as if....

[rubato]

The Faroe islands are a self-governing country. I asked the cab driver, Canute Peter, if Icelandic wasn't the oldest version of the Norse language and he immediately said that it was actually Faroese.

Wonderful man, he bought us coffee and after a whole day driving around the islands he insisted to take us on an additional excursion to Kirkjubour (on his Kroner). We are indebted to him forever for his kindness and for the things we saw there. At Kirkjubour we were walking towards and old churchyard and there was a gate. This one:



And I said "but this is modern" and he explained that there is a world famous artist living there who had made the gate.

Trondur Patursson, really looks like my people. shorter hair than me though.:



yrs,
rubato

[Gob]

Lovely place...

[RayThom]

Wait, there's more. You can't see the green for the red.

The crimson tide:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... blood.html

[rubato]

They have sustainably harvested whales for centuries. Norwegians and Icelanders do the same. Like Australians kill kangaroos. New Zealanders kill sheep, and Argentines eat beef, Alaskans and Canadians eat salmon.

Plains Indians drove herds of bison over cliffs to kill them by dozens for food, clothing and shelter.

Get over yourselves, children.


Yrs,
Rubato

[Gob]

Aspergers boy supports this,

Their bodies lie beached on the dark shore, large slash marks penetrate the neck and sides of the whale as the blood mixes with the cold water.
Known as the grindadráp, the brutal slaughtering of pilots whales in the Danish owned Faroe Islands took place yesterday. As many as 250 whales were reportedly massacred on two beaches in Bøur and Tórshavn as locals used spinal lances to slay all of the pilot whales.

The Faroese usually target long-finned pilot whales, although they will also take bottlenose dolphins, white-sided dolphins, and Risso's dolphins. Risso's dolphins are sometimes landed even though they aren't on the Faroe government's list of species approved for hunting.

why am I not surprised?


Sign this folks;
https://www.change.org/p/end-the-faroe- ... -slaughter

[rubato]

They are. Efficiently harvesting food which is essential for their survival. It s no more "brutal" than killing chickens or tunas for food.

Only childishly emotional Bambi's make a big deal out of it. No one who is not a vegan is in a position to make a moral judgement. And those who are vegans are in too poor health to make rational judgements at all.


Yrs,
Rubato

[Gob]

Thanks you for a fine example of the way in which Aspergers affects you.

They do not need to kill dolphins and whales "to survive".

They’ve survived into the modern day by fishing — including hunting whales — and raising sheep. Now, of course, the Faroese import goods from around the world. It’s true that if the grind were to stop today, the Faroese would not starve.

[kmccune]

Have to agree with Gob ,this is beyond sickening

[BoSoxGal]

I also agree; the only exception to whaling prohibitions should belong to indigenous people on a very small, sustenance only scale. It looks like a nice place, but I'd never visit because of that slaughter.

[Lord Jim]

Rube has a personal gripe against whales and dolphins...

He's jealous of them because they're more intelligent than he is...

[dales]

Rube has a personal gripe against whales and dolphins...

He's jealous of them because they're more intelligent than he is...

Don't forget the neighborhood felines.

[rubato]

Pilot whales and Minke whales are of no different moral status than any other food animal. You are just not thinking.

Steaks come from slaughter houses where there is blood and animal parts being cut and separated. There is no difference. Although raising beef or mutton is probably more environmentally destructive and contributes more to global warming

We have no right to stop them from making a living just as we have no right to tell people they cannot eat horses which is common in Europe. And you don't get mad cow from eating whales like you do from eating British beef.

The Faroese are just more honest than you are about where food comes from.


Yrs,
Rubato

[Gob]

Pilot whales and Minke whales are of no different moral status than any other food animal. You are just not thinking.

"“Pilot whaling is illegal. It is illegal in Europe, it’s illegal in Denmark, therefore it is illegal in the Faroe Islands." And also the killing of dolphins...

Steaks come from slaughter houses where there is blood and animal parts being cut and separated. There is no difference.

Ah Apsergers boy thinks there's no difference between the slaughterhouse stunning an animal for humane slaughter and;

Tossing and turning in a scarlet sea, the dozens of pilot whales cannot escape the knife blows raining down. Driven into the shallows, where they are forced to bathe in the blood of their relatives and companions, their distress is palpable as hunters hack at their smooth sides. Once they are dead — or, at least, dying — hooks and ropes haul their bodies ashore, where crowds of people, many of them children, have gathered to watch this bloodthirsty spectacle.

We have no right to stop them from making a living just as we have no right to tell people they cannot eat horses which is common in Europe.

They do not "make a living from it" oh stupidest of the stupid, who would they sell it to?

You're not making yourself look good here Aspy!

[rubato]

Since no one has ever shown any rational reason to regard whales as having a different moral status from any other food animal the belief that they do is thus religious in nature and no one has the right to enforce their religious beliefs on anyone else. Whale killing is regulated and just as humane as beef slaughter. Beef slaughter was not always as humane as it s today so we will have to allow them the same right to improve gradually as we have taken.

Muslims and Jews don't have the right to stop others from eating pigs. Hindus cent stop you from eating beef. Vegans don't have the right to force others to observe their dietary practices &.

I guess I have a better understanding of human rights than you do.


Yrs,
Rubato

The Faroese, Islanders, Greenlanders, And Norwegians have no laws against killing non-endangered pilot and minke whales. Killing those whales Is how they make a living. They do not have to sell them because they are their food source.

And no one else has the right to make such laws for them.