Climate change awareness: It's come to this

[DarrinS]

:downspin:

Island nation of Maldives to hold underwater Cabinet meeting to show climate change threat (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=cp_K101602AU.xml&show_article=1)





Bharatha Mallawarachi, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Government ministers in scuba gear prepared Friday to hold an underwater meeting of the Maldives' Cabinet to highlight the threat global warming poses to the lowest-lying nation on earth.

The Maldives' president will lead Saturday's meeting around a table on the sea floor - 20 feet (6 metres) below the surface - and ministers will communicate using white boards and hand signals. :rollin

President Mohammed Nasheed has emerged as a key, and colorful, voice on climate change amid fears that rising ocean levels could swamp this Indian Ocean archipelago within a century. Its islands average 7 feet (2.1 metres) above sea level.

Nasheed is also a certified diver, while other ministers have had to take diving lessons in recent weeks.

"None of the ministers have ever been diving before, except the defence minister, and all of them are very enthusiastic," Zoona Naseem, president of Divers Association Maldives, said in a statement from the president's office.

Nasheed has already announced plans for a fund to buy a new homeland for his people if the 1,192 low-lying coral islands are submerged. He has promised to make the Maldives, with a population of 350,000, the world's first carbon-neutral nation within a decade.

The underwater Cabinet plans to sign a document calling on all countries to cut down their carbon dioxide emissions ahead of a major U.N. climate change conference in December in Copenhagen, where countries will negotiate a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide are blamed for causing global warming by trapping heat in the earth's atmosphere.

Wealthy nations want broad emissions cuts from all countries, while poorer ones say industrialized countries should carry most of the burden.

On Friday, the Maldives ministers went diving for rehearsals off the island of Girifushi, about 20 minutes by speedboat from the capital, Male, said Aminath Shauna, an official from the president's office.

Three of the 14 ministers will miss the underwater meeting because two were not given medical permission and another is abroad, Shauna said.

[SnakeBoy]

It would be cool story if a shark attacks them.

[101A]

:downspin:

Island nation of Maldives to hold underwater Cabinet meeting to show climate change threat (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=cp_K101602AU.xml&show_article=1)

Any note on HOW MUCH of their islands have been swamped to this point?

[symple19]

This is Roflicious - Pure absurdity

[DarrinS]

Any note on HOW MUCH of their islands have been swamped to this point?


The irony is, the Maldives are atols. Atols are volcanic islands that (wait for it) ---- SINK!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Coral_atoll_formation_animation.gif

[Winehole23]

That sounds superficially conclusive, but you actually ducked 101's question.
The mere fact of geological subsidence does not necessarily moot rising seas.

Have you compared the rates of erosion/subsidence and the rate of rising seas, so as to verify your smugness about the sea-level anxiety the Maldives seems to be projecting? The elevation of the land mass there seldom rises above 6 ft..

[Winehole23]

Are they getting swamped?

[Winehole23]

http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/earth/pictures/20020606greenland/iceflow.jpg

[Winehole23]

According to the CIA World Factbook, some 80 percent of the 1,192 coral islets that make up the Maldives are one meter or less above sea level (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/mv.html), making it the world’s lowest country. The UN climate panel predicts that, unless greenhouse emissions are curbed, sea levels could rise by 25 to 58 centimeters by the end of the century. More recent studies, such as this one published in the journal Science (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/321/5894/1340), sharply increase the projected sea level rise, to as high as two meters.


If this happens, the Maldives would be uninhabitable. But Maldivians wouldn’t be the first population displaced by global warming.


That distinction probably belongs to the half million residents of Bangladesh’s Bhola Island (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/26/AR2007092602582.html) whose homes were swallowed in 1995 by rising sea levels. In 2005, the 1,600 residents of Papua New Guinea’s Carteret Islands began evacuation, as the advancing sea contunued to destroy gardens, sink homes, and contaminate freshwater supplies. Also that year, 100 residents of Vanuatu’s island of Tegua had to be evacuated (http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=459&ArticleID=5066&l=en)as their homes became permanently flooded.
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/11/11/faced-with-rising-sea-levels-the-maldives-seek-new-homeland/

[Winehole23]

Bloggy stuff:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/03/19/despite-popular-opinion-and-calls-to-action-the-maldives-is-not-being-overrun-by-sea-level-rise/

[Winehole23]

Proceedings of the Small States Conference on Sea Level Rise:

The possible responses to inundation and flooding fall roughly into three categories: abandoning islands, holding back the sea with dikes, and building the island upward.


In my view, the most generally appropriate means of protecting the nation will be to gradually elevate the islands. This will require a lot of sand and coral, but it would enable the islands to retain storage capacity for groundwater, and not substantially change the character of the islands. Moreover, it would make use of the existing capacity for removing coral from the sea; simply shifting the use from the creation of land to the maintenance of land.
http://papers.risingsea.net/Maldives/Small_Island_States_3.html

[mouse]

it's a shame many smart people and scientist are getting lumped together with tin foil hat wearing 9/11 conspiracy theorist and Creationists just because they find evidence of rapid decay of our ice caps.

hSKrJ4akeCk

[Winehole23]

Captain Sea Level's links (http://users.rcn.com/jtitus/Captain_Sea_Level/The_Captains_Links.html).

[Winehole23]

http://www.skepticalscience.com/sea-level-rise.htm

[Winehole23]

In an interview with Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner (head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Sweden, past president (1999-2003) of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution, and leader of the Maldives Sea Level Project – he has been studying the sea level and its effects on coastal areas for some 35 years) by EIR (Argentine Foundation for a Scientific Ecology) [http://www.mitosyfraudes.org/Calen7/MornerEng.html] he talked about the IPCC misrepresentation of sea level data: “Then, in 2003, the same data set, which in their [IPCC's] publications,... was a straight line—suddenly it changed, and showed a very strong line of uplift, 2.3 mm per year, the same as from the tide gauge... It was the original one which they had suddenly twisted up, because they entered a “correction factor,” ... I accused them of this at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow —I said you have introduced factors from outside; it's not a measurement. It looks like it is measured from the satellite, but you don't say what really happened. And they answered, that we had to do it, because otherwise we would not have gotten any trend! That is terrible! As a matter of fact, it is a falsification of the data set. ... So all this talk that sea level is rising, this stems from the computer modeling, not from observations

[Winehole23]

http://msgboard.snopes.com/photos/architecture/graphics/maldives6.jpg

[DarrinS]

Wonder Twin Powers -- ACTIVATE!


Form of: A giant Ice Vagina!



http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/earth/pictures/20020606greenland/iceflow.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://conradhotels1.hilton.com/en/ch/hotels/index.do?ctyhocn=MLEHICI&brand_id=HI&brand_directory=/en/hi/&xch=505345522,EJ2YCLJ2JNDZICSGBJC3UKQ

[Winehole23]

http://conradhotels1.hilton.com//ts/en/hotels/MLEHICI/media/images/photos/MLEHICI_Conrad_Maldives_gallery_skyshot_large.jpg

[DarrinS]

To me, climate change is the norm -- nothing exceptional.


Seas have been rising and ice has been melting before the invention of the automobile. Another ice age will eventually come and the trends will reverse. And when we get out of that ice age, seas will rice and glaciers will retreat yet again. It's cyclical.

[Winehole23]

http://conradhotels1.hilton.com//ts/en/hotels/MLEHICI/media/images/photos/MLEHICI_Conrad_Maldives_gallery_island_large.jpg

[DarrinS]

http://conradhotels1.hilton.com//ts/en/hotels/MLEHICI/media/images/photos/MLEHICI_Conrad_Maldives_gallery_skyshot_large.jpg


Not much land there. Similar to most atolls.

[Winehole23]

It seems certain that the islands of Maldives were first settled by Aryan immigrants who are believed to have colonised Sri Lanka at the same time, (around 500 BC). Further migration from South India, as well as Sri Lanka, occurred. The latest archaeological findings suggest the islands were inhabited as early as 1500 BC. Around 947 AD, recorded contact with the outside world began with the first Arab traveller.

[Winehole23]

From the wiki:
Islam in Maldives (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Maldives) was introduced in 1153 and has remained dominant since, being the smallest predominantly Muslim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim) nation in the world.

[Winehole23]

The Maldives is the smallest Asian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia) country in both population and area; With an average ground level of 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) above sea level, it is the lowest country on the planet. [6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives#cite_note-5) It is also the country with the lowest highest point (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_highest_point) in the world, at 2.3 metres (7 ft 7 in)

[Winehole23]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Malosmadulu_Atolls%2C_Maldives.jpg/337px-Malosmadulu_Atolls%2C_Maldives.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Malosmadulu_Atolls%2C_Maldives.jpg)

[Winehole23]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/405-Maldives.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/405-Maldives.jpg)

[Winehole23]

Comparative studies of Maldivian oral, linguistic and cultural traditions and customs confirm that the first settlers were Dravidian people (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_people)[20] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives#cite_note-autogenerated2-19) from Kerala (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala) in the Sangam period (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangam_period) (300 BCE – 300 CE), most probably fishermen from the southwest coasts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malabar_coast) of what is now the south of the Indian Subcontinent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Subcontinent) and the western shores of Sri Lanka (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka).



One such community is the Giraavaru people (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraavaru_people) descended from ancient Tamils (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_people). They are mentioned in ancient legends and local folklore about the establishment of the capital and kingly rule in Malé (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal%C3%A9). They are considered to be the earliest community of settlers on the islands. A strong underlying layer of Tamil population and culture is present in Maldivian society, with a clear Tamil-Malayalam substratum in the language, which also appears in place names, kin terms, poetry, dance, and religious beliefs. Keralan sea faring led to Tamil settling of the Laccadives, and the Maldives were evidently viewed as an extension of the archipelago. Some argue that Gujaratis also were an early layer of migration. Seafaring from Gujarat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarat) began during the Indus valley civilization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_valley_civilization). The Jatakas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jataka) and Puranas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puranas) show abundant evidence of this maritime trade. Another early settlers might have been from Southeast Asia.[21] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives#cite_note-20) The arrival of Sinhalese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinhala_people), who were descended from the exiled Kalinga (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinga) Prince Vijaya (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijaya) (Vijaya was a Banga or Bengal Prince whose maternal ancestor was Kalinga) and his party of several hundred, in the Maldives occurred between 543 to 483 BCE. They were made to leave their native regions of Orissa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orissa) and the Sinhapura kingdom in north west India. According to the Mahavansa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavansa), one of the ships that sailed with Prince Vijaya who went to Sri Lanka around 500 BC, went adrift and arrived at an island called Mahiladvipika, which is the Maldives. It is also said that at that time the people from Mahiladvipika used to travel to Sri Lanka. Their settlement in Sri Lanka and some of the Maldives marks a significant change in demographics and the development of the Indo-Aryan language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan_languages) Dhivehi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhivehi_language) a branch off language of Sinhala (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinhalese_language)).[citation needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)] There are some signs of Arab and east Asian inhabitants mostly in southernmost atolls.[citation needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)]


Buddhism came to the Maldives at the time of Emperor Ashoka's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashoka) expansion and became the dominant religion of the people of the Maldives until the 12th century AD. The ancient Maldivian Kings promoted Buddhism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism) and the first Maldive writings and artistic achievements in the form of highly developed sculpture and architecture are from that period. Isdhoo Lōmāfānu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isdhoo_%28Laamu_Atoll%29) is the oldest copper-plate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C5%8Dm%C4%81f%C4%81nu) book to have been discovered in the Maldives to date. The book was written in AD 1194 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1194) (590 AH) in Evēla form of the Divehi akuru (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhivehi_Writing_Systems) with the exception of the first plate, during the reign of Siri Fennaadheettha Mahaa Radun {Dhinei Kalaminja} (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhinei_of_the_Maldives). Tusites Maakri, the god of war in Maldivian mythology was said to overtake any leader that may have done wrongful deeds while wearing the crown.

[Winehole23]

A tsunami (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami) in the Indian Ocean caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake) caused serious damage to the socioeconomic infrastructure which left many people homeless, and irreversible damage to the environment. After the disaster, cartographers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartography) are planning to redraw the maps of the islands due to alterations caused by the tsunami.


On 22 April 2008, then Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maumoon_Abdul_Gayoom) pleaded for a cut in global greenhouse gas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas) emissions, warning that rising sea levels could submerge the island nation of Maldives.[18] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives#cite_note-17) In 2009, subsequent president Mohamed Nasheed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Nasheed) pledged to make the Maldives carbon-neutral (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon-neutral) within a decade by moving to solar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power) and wind power (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power).[19] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives#cite_note-18)

[Winehole23]

http://fizzyenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/maldives.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://pneumaticaddict.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/baro-maldives.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/islands_oceans_poles/maldives_pol_1999.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://www.maldivesnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/maldives-map.gif

[Winehole23]

http://www.maldivesholidayoffers.com/resorts/tajexotica/tajexotica_maldives.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://zlgdesign.files.wordpress.com/1105maldives1.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://www.xabala.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/w_maldives3.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://www.in-the-maldives.com/MaldivesMaleRunway.JPG

[z0sa]

that's a beautiful place

[Winehole23]

http://www.tropicalcruise.co.uk/images/general/maldives-surfing-3.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://zlgdesign.files.wordpress.com/1105maldives9.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://www.stefanomolinari.com/modules/coppermine/albums/Maldive-Ari-Maafushivaru-07/Maldive-Atolls/Maldive-Atolls%280%29.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://www.voyages-photos.fr/images/maldives/maldives015.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://www.maldivesupdate.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/maldives-under-water1.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://www.prophezine.com/Portals/0/article_images/maldives.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://www.atollhideaway.com/images/maldives23.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://fizzyenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/maldives1.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/size:large/view:main/1513065-1-moorish-idols-maldives.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://iguide.travel/photos/Maldives-6.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://www.skystreamenergy.com/images/photos/46_maldives_panels.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://www.exotictropicalvacations.com/images/maldives5.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://www.divetrip.com/maldives/maldives_report06.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://www.themaldives.com/images/Maldives-folkmusic.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/size:large/view:main/2304756-3-clown-triggerfish-maldives.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://www.maldivesreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Bandos-Maldives-Resort.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://www.maldivesdivetravel.com/new_gallery/Underwater%20Photos/Maldives_Underwater_Photos-0028.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://www.wwwmaldives.com/wp-content/uploads/Maldives-Underwater-Photos-Snorkeler-Touching-Coral1.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://www.scubadivemaldives.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Maldives-Underwater-Photos-Diver-and-Whale-Shark.JPG

[Winehole23]

http://www.treehugger.com/20090819-male-maldives.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://www.errantsurf.com/0/CEEC4547D4BA0718802575E5007FE14C/$file/wave_maldives.png

[Winehole23]

http://www.maldivesdivetravel.com/maldives-scuba-diving-ebook/maldives-scuba-diving-lion-fish.gif

[Winehole23]

http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/090518-maldives-hmed-9a.hmedium.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://www.maldivianaholidays.com/images/maldives4.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://dive-photos.info/blog/wp-content/gallery/maldives-2/maldives-21.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://dive-photos.info/blog/wp-content/gallery/maldives/maldives-1.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://www.carboncommentary.com/wp-includes/images/Maldives-imports.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wAYPwB1dHVs/SbCj_lv6rgI/AAAAAAAAck0/EXCduC8r518/s400/maldives-shark.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://jaibihar.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/maldives-calls-for-greater-vigil-in-indian-ocean-300x283.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://k41.pbase.com/o4/93/329493/1/53852546.MaldivesNov051268.JPG

[Winehole23]

http://image.ec21.com/image/maldiveseafood/oimg_GC02754674_CA02754675/Yellowfin_Tuna_Loins_From_Maldives.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://www.underwater-photography.org/maldives1.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://www.maldivesresortislands.com/mri/userfiles/image/diva-maldives/large/diva_maldives_canoeing.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://www.maldives-attractions.com/images/ellaidhoo_maldives.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://img.alibaba.com/photo/11299644/Maldives_Tuna_Fish.jpg

[Yonivore]

What? Are you using Spurstalk as backup for your favorite photographs?

[Winehole23]

http://www.scout.org/var/corporate_site/storage/images/about_scouting/the_youth_programme/environment/environment_gallery/earth_hour_picture_gallery/earth_hour_in_maldives_1/134338-1-eng-GB/earth_hour_in_maldives_1.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://media.asiatravel.com/images/gallery/resorts/maldives/atoll/velassaru_maldives_restaurant_diningarea.gif

[Winehole23]

http://chrisoconnell.com/uploaded_images/200810_Maldives_Surf011-726944.jpg

[z0sa]

If there is a paradise on earth, I've seen it

[Winehole23]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3043/2689230106_e5fffeea9d.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/00/11/f6/20/poor-tuna.jpg

[mouse]

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p55/RackTheMouse/politics-ST.jpg

[Winehole23]

What? Are you using Spurstalk as backup for your favorite photographs?No. I just like the pix.

[Winehole23]

What's a CumpDumper?

[Yonivore]

No. I just like the pix.
Carry on then...maybe this thread should be renamed, Pics Winehole Likes.

[spursncowboys]

Carry on then...maybe this thread should be renamed, Pics Winehole Likes.
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:wTblez7RKg8xkM:http://www.ngsprints.co.uk/images/M/970690.jpg
here's one for his collection
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ngsprints.co.uk/images/M/970690.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ngsprints.co.uk/Asia-Peoples-Lifestyle-Culture/c28_41_120_121/p129810/Art-print:-A-window-decal-of-Communist-leaders./product_info.html&usg=__7p8kYi0OOu8wLdFOh4dZJiD6yEs=&h=376&w=500&sz=28&hl=en&start=9&sig2=s4q5yiU4lngDHBiHByfXBA&um=1&tbnid=wTblez7RKg8xkM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcommunist%2Bleaders%26hl%3Den%26clien t%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dcom.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1&ei=lUfaSq6YG4nBtwf4ldnXBw

[Winehole23]

here's one for his collection
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ngsprints.co.uk/images/M/970690.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ngsprints.co.uk/Asia-Peoples-Lifestyle-Culture/c28_41_120_121/p129810/Art-print:-A-window-decal-of-Communist-leaders./product_info.html&usg=__7p8kYi0OOu8wLdFOh4dZJiD6yEs=&h=376&w=500&sz=28&hl=en&start=9&sig2=s4q5yiU4lngDHBiHByfXBA&um=1&tbnid=wTblez7RKg8xkM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcommunist%2Bleaders%26hl%3Den%26clien t%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dcom.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1&ei=lUfaSq6YG4nBtwf4ldnXBwOff topic. I strongly advise you to take useless bs like this private in the future. It's a bore

I don't know what makes you think I'm a commie, or a commie lover, or whatever; but I little doubt that you, having formed already for yourself the notion that I am a pinko, a pinko lover, or a pinko apologist or whatever, will be easily disabused of the impression.

See how boring already?

SnC, you post way more socialist cant and propaganda than I do. Way more. You're very focused on socialism; that's your deal. More than all but a handful here IMO. You're constantly pushing forward, in a jocular but also plainly insincere way, your own ventriloquism as somebody else talking.

I submit for further scrutiny: your previously submitted. Do you even know what the panel says, SnC?

[Winehole23]

I don't know what it says, but I didn't post it.

[Winehole23]

Carry on then...maybe this thread should be renamed, Pics Winehole Likes.Unlike your contributions to this thread, all my pics were topically relevant.

[Yonivore]

Unlike your contributions to this thread, all my pics were topically relevant.
How, though? That was the missing element.

[Winehole23]

Maldives, dude. Did you read the OP?

[Winehole23]

Where they had the underwater press gaggle?

'Member?

[Winehole23]

Most of the captures were minimally informative in some way. What you're trying to call to my attention is perhaps your own wrong turn.

Are you still lost, Yoni?

[Yonivore]

Most of the captures were minimally informative in some way. What you're trying to call to my attention is perhaps your own wrong turn.

Are you still lost, Yoni?
Nah, I just came in to a thread where the entire last page -- and possibly more (I didn't go beyond) were just a bunch of posts of pictures without comment. Seemed odd so, I commented.

I wasn't really that interested in the topic to begin with.

[Winehole23]

You were obviously unfamiliar with the OP, so I can believe that.

[Yonivore]

You were obviously unfamiliar with the OP, so I can believe that.
Like I said, carry on. Pardon my intrusion.

[Winehole23]

Like I said, carry on. Pardon my intrusion.You needn't beg pardon. I'm not offended, just baffled to be picked on by you for...I still don't know what.

You not paying attention maybe? :lol

[Yonivore]

You needn't beg pardon. I'm not offended, just baffled to be picked on by you for...I still don't know what.

You not paying attention maybe? :lol
Probably.

[Winehole23]

I suppose it's a point of guile to use your own bad judgment as a weapon, and make me answer your misjudgments first, before we can get to anything else.

Clever.

[Winehole23]

Ignorance can be used as a sword as well a shield. Bravo.