well Steven Irwin's dead, got stung by a stingray through the chest. pretty sad, but yeah i'm actually quite surprised he didn't die earlier 'cos of all the poisonous animals he got in contact with
anyhow this actually breaks my heart, perhaps 'cos i respected him a lot like his always cheerful personality, someone else who died recently and i've been studying for four years here at uni (Lord Cooke of Thorndon) i didn't feel much for him when he died but yeah
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i hope the stingray's ok...
i hope the stingray's ok
I think the stingray's way okay.. for ...
I think the stingray's way okay.. for goodness sakes!!! It pierced a very vital organ.
Well, at least he died doin what he loves best.. taking care of business in the animal kingdom..
Maybe the stingray was like "Okaaay I'll do the honours for you.. you're robbing too much of our privacy".. Oh posters.. im just being a nork now.
I cannot believe you didn't take the ...
I cannot believe you didn't take the opportunity to use the word 'crikey' in the topic title.
ha...
ha
Its funny i just heard on the news ...
Its funny i just heard on the news about an hour ago how they've got some sort of fund thing or trust going on & its named the crikey fund or crikey something! so it hasn't been forgotten.
I'm somewhat disappointed .. Croc, ...
I'm somewhat disappointed .. Croc, yes, Snake, yes, shark even, yes .. but a stingray ...!! None the less, it's a sad loss, My condolences to his family, he was one of my favorite TV personalities, seemed like a truly genuine guy ...
Heh. I once accidentally ended up in ...
Heh. I once accidentally ended up in Lord Cooke of Thorndon's office. I was looking for the display room on the first floor, the signage was pretty shit, and his door was open. It was filled with shelf after shelf of leather bound books. The only giveaway that it was still lived in was an LCD screen and keyboard at the far end. I realised I was in an actual office and scarpered out, just in time to see the man himself leaving the Gentlemen's, at which point I read his name off the door. I guess that's what you get if you leave your office door open while you head out for a slash, any old random sifting in...
oh god, i know! i just found ...
oh god, i know! i just found out...........
i loved steve irwin. RIP :(
Poor guy.. He was the sh*t by far.. ...
Poor guy.. He was the sh*t by far..
RIP from my neck of the woods.. he was an awesome being.. a REAL person.
Even thou I couldn't stand watching ...
Even thou I couldn't stand watching him on tv, it sucks he died cos he seemed like a good fella.
RIP Steve
Agreed, for some he was like someone ...
Agreed, for some he was like someone that was just too much in your face but you can honestly give up respect cos he was a daaamned great person for the kids & all the nature/animal lovers.
rdor hasn't been online the last ...
rdor hasn't been online the last couple of days.....
I respected the fact that he didn't ...
I respected the fact that he didn't cut his mullet
o you're not steve irwin....
o you're not steve irwin.
Y'know he should of cut his mullet.. I ...
Y'know he should of cut his mullet.. I hate those. They are so daam ugly. hahahaha.
Germaine Greer puts in her 2c ...
Germaine Greer puts in her 2c worth...
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Speaking on Australian TV Channel Nine's "A Current Affair" news program Wednesday, Greer described those who mourned Irwin's passing as "idiots" and said possibly millions of Australians were embarrassed by him.
Greer said Irwin had not treated animals with the respect they deserved.
"He would tell you how dangerous they were and he would proceed to intrude on their space and humiliate (them) really -- treat them with massive insensitivity," she said. "It's no surprise he came to grief."
Greer's views, first aired in Britain's Guardian newspaper on Tuesday, have drawn a sharp response in Australia from politicians and commentators.
Queensland state leader Peter Beattie told Greer to "back off" and labeled her comments "stupid" and "insensitive."
"Germaine Greer is just wrong and I just can't imagine anyone being more insensitive and, frankly, stupid," he said Thursday.
"This argument is just extreme radical rubbish from Germaine Greer and it couldn't come at a more insensitive time.
"Any suggestion that he (Irwin) mistreated animals is just rubbish ... he educated a generation."
Author John Birmingham, writing in The Australian newspaper Thursday, called Greer's comments "a poisonous discharge of bile" which encapsulated the views of a "whole class of Australian sophisticates" who felt uncomfortable with Irwin's global celebrity.
Greer is a frequent critic of personalities like British soccer star David Beckham and social trends like reality television, although she herself appeared briefly in Britain's Celebrity Big Brother series.
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Yeah, I saw that. Maybe there's a ...
Yeah, I saw that. Maybe there's a small bit of truth in what she says, but I think coming out like this so soon after the death is an extremely stupid thing to do.
I never knew he was so well-loved or popular until he died ... not something I'm all that worried about, but he did a lot of good work for the environment, I spose.
Oops, my bad, I thought she said ...
Oops, my bad, I thought she said something about the phenomenon of the celebrity death, but rereading your post noizyboy, it would seem not.
An odd call, for all he's done for the environment, I'd say animals as a whole should be pretty grateful to him. Intruding on their space and humiliating them? Get a grip!
"At least ten stingrays have been found ...
"At least ten stingrays have been found dead and mutilated on Australia's eastern coast in the last week in what conservationists believe could be revenge attacks for the death of Steve Irwin, the popular naturalist and television personality."
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I don't know what to make of that. ...
I don't know what to make of that. Obviously they are not fans of Steve Irwin, or they wouldn't be killing stingrays for such a stupid reason.
But on the other hand, is it any different from catching fish? Every-so-often a guy catches a huge shark, and is lauded on the news as a legend ... both are rather pointless deaths of animals in my book.
And don't give me fishing is for food ... no-one honestly likes eating seafood!!!