• dellhiver@sh.itjust.works
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    19 days ago

    Obligatory link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_finger

    Don’t let a Seal bite you.

    “Seal finger was first described scientifically in 1907. It can cause cellulitis, joint inflammation, and swelling of the bone marrow; untreated, the course of “seal finger” is slow and often results in a thickened, contracted joint. Historically, seal finger was treated by amputation of the affected digits once they became unusable…”

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      16 days ago

      There was this docureality about seal hunters in the Arctic on Norwegian television a few years back. One of the crew contracted “Spekkfinger” and they had to travel a day to Iceland to drop him off. Apparently there still is a demand somewhere for greenland seal as there was a few boats that the show followed. And they had a crew with cook and all.

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    19 days ago

    For the dolphins (porpoises) of this conversation are we taking a cat as being more or less cunning, intelligent and conniving than a toddler?

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    19 days ago

    Which seals do you mean, the pinnipeds or the US soldiers? The post of vampireapologist isn’t very clear about it.

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        17 days ago

        Well to be fair seals are a special kind of asshole among assholes. Some of the coast guard are chill, and the vast majority of the active forces are literally 18 and 19 year old children. Literally too useless to get an actual job. The only ones that stick around are either the assholes among assholes or the functionally unemployable.

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    19 days ago

    So, if sea lions are literally sea lions,

    Seals are, sea panthers?

    Except of course leopard seals, obvs.

    (Making allowance for extra weight of blubber necessary for temperature control in the ocean)

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    19 days ago

    But I’m more interested in their take on vampires. I hope it’s not twilight stuff.