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Woman gets slapped in the face by a whale

Whale exacts revenge on voyeurs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pqF2Lr8RkDk

If one thing is certain, it’s that animals exhibiting human traits are a recipe for YouTube success, as was the case with this video of a woman getting a slap from a whale, which has already attracted 1.6 million views and counting.

Whale watchers in Baja California, Mexico got closer to the magnificent mammals than they could have dreamed, with one swimming right next to their boat.

Tour guides can be heard warning tourists to be careful of the creature’s tail in the video, as it thrashes around in the water.

The whale then lifts a fin up high and brings it crashing down on one woman, effectively serving to slap her in the face.

Thankfully there is a slow mo of the incident afterwards, reminiscent of Jackass’s infamous fish to the face stunt.

“We went whale watching on the Baja this weekend and unfortunately, Chelsea got smacked in the head by a whale’s tail,” the uploader wrote on YouTube.

“Luckily, she was fine and we got it on video!”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/weird-news/woman-gets-slapped-in-the-face-by-a-whale-9157421.html

This one was caught on video and, whats more, it was not a ex fish!

….its all doom and gloom!! fancy a laugh, any captions for this…..

‘Mmm. Invisible cake…’

Not all news makes the reporters work – that coming in from Ukraine won’t fill the entire paper itself, you know…;o)

In my opinion there is no reason for the Us or Europe to get involved on what is basically Russia cleaning house.

Define ‘Russia cleaning house’, sorting out your error in grammar.
Do you not agree that Ukraine is/was an independent nation with another nations military bases on its land inside its borders – a bit like Cuba? If you believe that Russia has the right to march into another country – former Soviet Block or not – where (as others have asked) does that leave the Baltic states, for example?

But it is quite amusing to see you Europeans refusing to see reality as to what Putin is doing.

Oh, and what is the reality? Or, at least, the reality that you believe you see him doing?
What amuses me is that so much of what we understand in general depends on the bias of the news provider/s you listen to. Those countries without a generally liberal agenda are happy for their news providers to only present an angle that matches the leaderships view, or the owners are so scared of what might happen should a viewpoint contrary to theirs and the governments be presented to the masses that they become rabid predators, either consuming the weaker opposition or shouting down, making up complete lies and/or badmouthing those who even mildly disagree with them.
Did Fox News spring right to the front of your mind just then…;o)

Because of the Wendy’s lackluster response I see Russia being emboldened to act again. If Europe wants to bury there head in the sand and pretend the bear isn’t stirring then that’s just fine too.

Whoa! Wendy’s? Sorry – THE Wendy’s? Stirring bear? I think I get the bear, but you really need to explain The Wendy’s, or else I shall introduce the Winter Stoat or Oddfish into the conversation and carry on as though you fully understood what the hell I was on about. (Is hell a swear word to you as well? I told my US work colleagues that it is a town in Norway – which it is – and refused to contribute to the swear box. What about bitch? They used it like a term of endearment, but when I tried using it to my wife I was lucky to escape with my life!)
Anyway, if Russia is trying to become a reunified big red state, just like it used to be, then it is going to have to upset a lot of apple carts – the peasants have tasted democracy (of a fashion) and some have become really fat on it: you won’t take that away from them easily. Plus there is a generation that never knew what it was like to live under the gaze of the KGB and all that that entailed.
Putin is just flexing his muscles (those which caught the eye of several news channels who never miss an opportunity to show him topless) and doing what Brezhnev did with Afghanistan in 1978 – his man was in power, needed a little help with an internal difficulty and please could the might of Russia come and lend a hand. Give it a few years and it might be another Russian Vietnam…

Last month if anyone had stated that Russia would takeover Crimea the majority of you would have said it would never happen.

(Groan. Sigh. Mutter…) Just because you haven’t looked back to see how many others have put something similar before him; I know I did. And you know why that bandwagon started rolling? Because those in the know knew that nothing would happen before the winter Olympics were finished! Putin wouldn’t have wanted to do a damned thing (was that US swearing too?;o) before the men’s ice hockey medals were sorted.

And its no good agreeing with 19k10 about Obama without verifying your own political stance – is it because he is black, he is a black democrat, he is a democrat, or that he is a politician? I have to ask since I was working in the US when he achieved office (2008-2009) and most of those who were unhappy at him being made president were happy to admit to me that it was because of the colour of his skin – even democrats. I now cannot sit back and believe that it is just his policies (still right wing to my mind) that are what Americans are against based on my (admittedly small) sample. The British health service was one wonderful thing by a politician (I’m hard pushed to come up with another, not at this time of night), yet when a black democrat president tries to do something to help the poor and needy then the unpoor and not-needy are up in arms, even believing the lies spread about the British health service because it suits their purpose. Why not grow a pair, bubba, and remember that it is not just you in this mean old world?

I might close now because my young and wonderfully amused 18 month old daughter has just dumped the contents of a cup into my lap instead of falling asleep. And it is cold water! Sorry if non of the above makes sense – I haven’t finished editing yet!

Will you listen to yourselves?
Maybe she isn’t in a place (mentally) where she feels it right to bring her late husbands child into the world yet.
The trauma of losing a partner is bad enough, without having to make decisions about whether to use or lose his sperm when you are not ready.

About 16 years too late. She was gone by the end of 1999…

The dreaded social media, Snafu – there you can see what’s going on. And read your history and you’ll understand my comment.

And…? I mean, despite their political bias, at least a news provider has history and some form of legal obligation behind it – even if it just means that Piers Morgan is no longer editor of the Daily Mirror.

Yes, there will be some vids out there which are genuine and news worthy BUT there will be quite a few easily made fakes because, unlike in the movies, it is so damned difficult to get footage that tells the story. The true story. The story that is happening in several places at once and needs a narrative because otherwise it is just a bunch of people either dancing or protesting (and there are quite a few clubs in Ibiza where you can get the same effect even without the assistance of dodgy pills).
And nobody really investigates those stories that appear on Youtube and so on. Why? Because it can be difficult tracking down the camera man, pinning down the facts and finding witnesses who can verify the events.
How many doubted that video of the marines shooting that wounded Afghan dead, claimed it was fake before claiming that ‘if’ it was real then he deserved it anyway?

I suppose social media can be a great thing (I don’t use it, since I waste too much time on computers anyway) but it is not the greatest thing. Traditional journos get trained to question and investigate whilst the new accountants – sorry, I mean media executives – just want to cut the penny’s and enjoy getting something for nothing.

Charlie, which history? Point me in the right direction since obviously what you know and understand and what I know and understand is just telling me you are wrong…;o)