|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 10:10 pm
Today Steve Irwin, our wally of an Australian icon has died.
His chest was pierced by a stingray barb whilst he was filming for his new TV show. He died instantly.
I thought it best to establish a thread just to remember the Australian vernacular hyperbole.
It's a shock to the nation, lest we forget.
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:57 pm
This is the stuff legends are made of people.
If he had become an old man and faded away, he would have also faded in our memories. To go like this, in the prime of his life, wrestling a bloody stingray... It's legendary.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 2:27 am
stingy ray..... a sting ray..... they dont kill people..... like.... how?? i mean..... you play with sting rays when you're little........ it's a stingy ray!! *shock*
at least he passed away doin what he loved, a true environmentalist. i hope people dont start becomin scared of stingy rays or start huntin them, that's not what he would have wanted.... poor thing.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:33 am
The poor sting ray was obviously just scared.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:39 am
its odd i found out about it on gaia b4 hereing it on the news
i wonder how his kids are
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:24 am
well yeah it was a shock for me..... but for my mate he laughed.... were smashed tonioght... but thats another thread...
yeah i was OMFG, and orr, i liked him... i almost watched everything he did, i was a fan... at least he died what he loved doing... he was a legemd from where im standing....
for a non-religious to say god bless... thats somehting to say in respect towards the man.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:40 am
Everyone has been saying "at least he died doing what he loves."
I mean for ******** sake, even I said it. gonk
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:59 am
WellzY Everyone has been saying "at least he died doing what he loves." I mean for ******** sake, even I said it. gonk well isnt that what every one wants to go out doing????
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:17 am
scruffy012 WellzY Everyone has been saying "at least he died doing what he loves." I mean for ******** sake, even I said it. gonk well isnt that what every one wants to go out doing???? I guess so.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:32 am
I think Steve Irwin has just been immortalized the same way Elvis was in the U.S. A cult celibrity icon, once amazingly popular in his home country but latter earning more fame world wide, having become the centre of some rather negative media attention and criticism, before almost withdrawing from the limelight, then dies before he can reach old age, thus stereotying him forever as the 'croc hunter'. It's also curious to note that he died at the age Elvis did. We mightn't have loved him in life, but I think we'll all mourn for his death.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:44 am
I'm not really mourning. I just feel kinda... proud. Which is weird, because he always kinda annoyed me. You know, he was over the top. But after this, my respect for him has gone +10.
If he just faded away, he would have evenutally been forgotten. But now he's gonna become legendary like bloody Ned Kelly. They'll put up memorials to him and make a movie about his last stand.
I don't think anyone's gonna go start hunting stingrays. Everyone knows they're pretty harmless. I heard on tv before that there's only one other reported death from a stingray. It's just so unlucky... he got hit right in the heart! Like probably the only place you could get stung and die from it, unless it got him in they eye or something. He was just doing something he really shouldn't have, swimming directly above a large stingray in shallow water - They don't like things swimming above them, especially when they can't move any further down.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:45 am
i cant get over the whole stingy ray thing!! xp xp it's a stingy ray, i've kicked one before accidentally and it just swam off, usually you just leave em alone and they do nothing..... like.... they're gentle creatures you know.... kinda like jelly fish with out tenticles.....
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:26 pm
I agree. I thought the stingray was a docile animal. Sure its sting is quite potent but I never imagined it could pierce a man's chest in an instant. Looks like ppl will avoid all the waters that contain stingrays for now on, 'cos if the invincible croc hunter couldn't survive then, then who can?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:02 pm
...Pretty much everyone actually.
A few people get stung each year, but usually it's in the foot or leg because they've accidentally stepped on one. It hurts like hell but it doesn't kill them.
I've patted one before. They feel funny.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply
