Hippie Fail

I have to confess something, I love me some whales. I'm not a tree hugging wacko as any of you who know me know however I do believe that whaling should be banned world wide.

There likely isn't any scientific reason to go off to the Antarctic and go whaling anymore. I could be wrong on that but this post really isn't to debate whaling, it is to talk about the show Whale Wars.

For those of you unfamiliar with the show on Animal Planet it follows the crew of the Steve Irwin as they attempt to thwart a Japanese whaling fleet. What usually happens is a bunch of hippies fail, get hurt, or likely get high and do nothing.

Nearly every time they attempt to take on the Japanese fleet they get lost in ice, attempt to deploy the small boats to throw acid onto the decks of the ships, it isn't harmful acid it just smells really bad according to the hippies. What results is a lot of nothing.

Tonight they attempted to foul the props of a harpoon ship with ropes. The first time they predictably were thinking about their bong on their home ship and failed to deploy the prop fouling ropes correctly but were able to capture and foul a small iceberg.

The second time they deployed the prop fouling ropes correctly (the weed was probably wearing off by now) in front of the ship. They were expecting the ship to come to a hard stop in the sea as the small, thin, ropes got entangled in the props and locked up the massive, powerful engine with sharp metal propellers.

They were actually stunned to learn that the sharp metal propellers cut up their fouling ropes into small pieces. Obviously the designer of the fouling ropes plan might have been spending some quality time with his bong while he came up with that one. He probably failed to take into account that these ships had very powerful engines with big metal propellers that are frequently in the Antarctic where there are lots and lots of icebergs that probably get around the propulsion area of said ship....

I again believe whaling should be banned and I have no love at all for whalers. Whale Wars is fun to watch because essentially you get to watch hippies fail week after week. I like watching hippies fail. These are radicals and they use terrorist tactics on law abiding ships who are quota whaling. I have no love for the whalers but I have even less love for hippies. Most of the characters on the show are not sympathetic people, they tend to be arrogant and elitist. They are quick to jump on and criticize any mistake made by their fellow crew mates, which happens a LOT. They have condescending attitudes and are just very unlikable.

Laughs are plentiful, well for me but I understand that not everyone enjoys watching hippies fail as I do. These idiots are a riot to watch. They have accomplished nothing but failure in the past two seasons of this show. Every ship is still operational, I doubt they have stopped the fleet from getting their quotas, the Japanese fleet have adapted to the terrorist tactics and have really solid counter measures now. It is unlikely they will be able to come up with anything to hurt whaling now. I guess they did succeed in one way, they pushed the Japanese far enough along technology wise to develop these counter measures to protect themselves so their job of protecting whales is ten times harder now....or wait is that another fail????