Bilge

[LuftWolf]

There is so much wrong here... :/\chop

[Bellman]

Captain Bligh all at sea after Coastguard mutiny. By Alan Hamilton. (The Times - UK)

THERE has been a mutiny. Captain Bligh has been forced to relinquish his command, abandon ship and row the
stormy seas of the job market in the equivalent of an open boat.

This is Captain Stephen Bligh, who enjoys the bounty of a £130,000 annual salary as head of the Government’s
Maritime and Coastguard Agency.

Yesterday the Department for Transport confirmed that he would leave his post at the end of the month after
a vote of no confidence by his crew of 1,100 coastguards and marine safety inspectors.

Trouble has been brewing on the agency’s quarter-deck for two years, ever since the latter-day Captain Bligh
— who claims descent from his 18th-century namesake whose crew mutinied on HMS Bounty — announced
plans to streamline the service by closing some coastguard stations and merging others.

[Bellman]

We live in revolting times. ( The Times - UK.)

''# On September 21, 1797, on HMS Hermione Captain Pigot ordered the last man down from the
topsail to be flogged. In the rush, four fell to their deaths. Protesters were flogged and Piigot
and eight officers were killed

# A planned uprising across the Russian Black Sea Fleet began spontaneously in 1905 when crew on the battleship
Potemkin were punished for refusing to eat rotten meat

# Crew on board a Chinese torpedo boat who mutinied and defected to South Korea were repatriated in 1985

# Four workers for Irish Ferries locked themselves in an engine room last year over plans to replace them with
cheaper foreign agency staff. '' One better than - 'Three old ladies locked in a lavatory' ?

[Bellman]

Dressing gown dressing down.

Day 2 of the courtsmartial of the 'Reeming' skipper revealed that he woukld emerge from his cabin bedecked
in a dressing gown. On his way down the line to the head he would frequently pause to administer a ballocking.

Was this guy constipated ?

His photo shows the most florid complexion I have ever seen !

[Bellman]

Its a frigging friday ! (Alec Gill - Frigg's Folk.)

Yes its Friday the thirteenth !

But cheer up - amongst the many interpretations of this superstition Alec finds a positive one :-
''AWESOME
In Pagan Yorkshire, Friday was probably a lucky day and the moon-linked No.13 was sacred. Even Easter is
determined by the lunar cycle. It always follows the first full moon after the 21st.March. We need to look afresh
at Friday the Thirteenth and see it in a more positive light. An awesome day, not an awful one. ''

For a chuckle visit: http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cetag/5dfri13.htm

[Bellman]

................and if your going bananas and are all at sea about superstition - heres some flotsam and jetsam:-

Bananas at sea. ( By Sally Andrew)

http://www.pangolin.co.nz/jetsam/view_article.php?idx=9

[Bellman]

And back to ''Captain Birds Eye''

(The Guardian - Lawrence Booth)

''The foam-flecked case of Captain Robert Tarrant, the nuclear-submarine commander being
investigated for allegedly making his subordinates on HMS Talent feel smaller than plankton,
might provide a clue. Prosecuting at a court martial in Portsmouth, Commander Alison Towler
argued that commanding officers have the right to scream at the top of their lungs only when
"forceful and immediate action" is required, action that leaves "no room for tact". But Tarrant,
a less avuncular version of Captain Birds Eye, stands accused of bawling for 20 minutes in the
face of a lieutenant from a fishfinger's length away. This, according to the prosecution, was
behaviour that transcended "robust leadership and management. ''

[Bellman]

Captain Birds Eyes behaviour raises questions about sleep loss.
''Macbeth shall sleep no more."

The military are very interested in research into the effects of sleep-loss and whether neuro-modulaters
and design drugs can abolish sleep. A designer age of customised sleep ?
The Director of Sleep Research at Sussex University advises that dolphins, which would drown if they slept totaly,
rest half the brain at a time. Whales meanwhile muti-task the sleeping to many different parts of the brain.

Any prescription has to better than those of ancient days which included the following remedies for sleeplessness:-
#Anointing the feet with squashed doormouse.
#Cleaning the teeth with the earwax of dogs.

Tiredness can affect your reaction times. So before you stretch yourself wirh DW combat, see how alert
you are with this game and test the impact of a cup of tea or coffee on your performance.

Take the Sheep Dash Test at:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/sheep/

Are you a :-
Sluggish Snail.
Ambling armidillo.
Bobbing bobcat.
Rocketing rabbit.
Turbo-charged cheeetah. ?

And if you are really awake take the 'Face memory test.' -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/tmt/

[Fish]

Originally Posted by Bellman

Captain Birds Eyes behaviour raises questions about sleep loss.
''Macbeth shall sleep no more."

The military are very interested in research into the effects of sleep-loss and whether neuro-modulaters
and design drugs can abolish sleep. A designer age of customised sleep ?
The Director of Sleep Research at Sussex University advises that dolphins, which would drown if they slept totaly,
rest half the brain at a time. Whales meanwhile muti-task the sleeping to many different parts of the brain.

Any prescription has to better than those of ancient days which included the following remedies for sleeplessness:-
#Anointing the feet with squashed doormouse.
#Cleaning the teeth with the earwax of dogs.

Tiredness can affect your reaction times. So before you stretch yourself wirh DW combat, see how alert
you are with this game and test the impact of a cup of tea or coffee on your performance.

Take the Sheep Dash Test at:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/sheep/

Are you a :-
Sluggish Snail.
Ambling armidillo.
Bobbing bobcat.
Rocketing rabbit.
Turbo-charged cheeetah. ?

And if you are really awake take the 'Face memory test.' -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/tmt/

Bobbing bobcat, 0.24 seconds.

Face's':
Recognition, 91 %
Temporal, 72 %.
Was late at night, must be better tomorrow morning. :hmm:

[Bellman]

Good balance Fish.
Like you I did late night tests. The temporal results reflect my current sleeplessness - or was it drink ? :hmm:

Sheep Dash - Bobbing Bobcat
Faces:
Recognition - 100% (Sites average score 92%)
Temporal - 62% (Sites average score 68%)

[Bellman]

'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Having been force fed, by memorising, large chunks of this at school, I steeled myself
to listen to a live reading on the radio yesterday.

Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head ;
Because he knows, a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.

But on salvation and return home -

He went like one that hath been stunned,
And is of sense forlorn :
A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.

[Bellman]

'Toadbusters are here to save the world ' By Roberta Mancuso. Daily Telegraph.

Toadbusters claim 10,000th victim

LIKE their ghostbusting counterparts, Toadbusters are here to save the world – from cane toads at least.

Scores of volunteers from Gladstone in Queensland's south-east will be celebrating a rather unusual milestone next week
when they capture their 10,000th toad after years of hunting the reviled pest.

And like the Ghostbusters, who lived by the catchcry "they're here to save the world", Gladstone's toad chasers are on
a mission to save the environment – one toad at a time.

"I think people volunteer with the thought they personally can do something positive for their environment,"
Toadbusters coordinator Anna Hitchcock said today.

"No one really likes toads either, so that helps."

[LuftWolf]

capture their 10,000th toad

I had visions of people clubing toads over the head with big pieces of wood.

I guess that's my American vision of saving the environment... :|\

[Bellman]

The kindly Aussies capture the beasties and hand 'em in for freeze-dry extermination.

The club would probably be quicker and 'kinder'. But the vision of hordes of kids mobbing the countryside
weilding hammers and squashing toads like pavement chewing-gum, is not a pretty one.

[Bellman]

Just seen Kapitains sig :-

Con sonar...................oooohh .......jellyfish

:rotfl:

Seriously I reported above - ''Invasion of the Giant Jellyfish.'' Massive problem in the Sea of Japan.
Kaps funny made me wonder whether all that goo could cause serious problems to subs equipment. :hmm:
It clogs up fishing nets so you can imagine what it will it do to the TA etc....?

Super Powers deploy ASW Jellyfish shoals ?