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Mullet-sporting Steve Irwin is dead at 44 of a stingray barb to the heart. "The world has lost a great wildlife icon, a passionate conservationist" it says here.
I seem to remember a lot of needless deep thumbing of snake rectums, and the like.
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Remind me not to annoy you guys. I don't want you to make snarky postings when I go. Yikes!
il_postino 05 Sep 2006
If you'd wish to send a condolence card to Steve Irwin's family (he is survived by a wife and two children), you may do so at this address:
The Steve Irwin Family
Australia Zoo
Glasshouse Mountains Tourist Rte
Beerwah QLD 4519
AUSTRALIA
Carl 05 Sep 2006
Posty, I don't think you're going to be impaled on a stingray barb... and I promise only to say nice things about you.
The details of Irwin's death are truly awful, but one can't be surprised that someone who continually placed himself in harm's way, got harmed. Aussie Germaine Greers hostile take on the topic* makes my remark look like a tribute, but she cuts throught some of the B.S..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,,1865124,00.html
An observer might have reasonably suspected that Irwin was reckless all along, and his death suggests he was. It's a tragedy that his kids will grow up without a father. It's another tragedy that a father could use such bad judgement, by continuing such a reckless career. His goofiness and machismo were his claim to fame. Now everyone wants to forget the goofiness.
Would a mother who took this path and left kids behind, be let off the hook?
jpeg 05 Sep 2006
So Johnny Jpeg, does this mean that anyone who has a risky career should change their profession because they have children? What about police officers, fire fighters, construction workers,etc. Under this agruement, then these workers are using poor judgements and leading lives that are detremental(?) to their children.
I agree part of his appeal was this bs macho austrailan crap that for me was annoying, but in this case, I don't think he was putting himself in extreme danger. Thousands of people have swam near stingrays, I just think in this case it was a fluke.
nora 05 Sep 2006
Jpeg, your response couldn't be more eloquently written & with all respect… maybe you should've let rigamortis set in before atatcking the poor little goofball. By crikey he was a nutbag but he was also a damn entertaining one! I for one, will miss his alligator-ass-fingering antics.
liz 05 Sep 2006
Many differences: The world requires police & firemen. Municipalities aren't exactly experiencing a shortage of snake-asshole fingerers.
And yeah, you'd have to persoanlly assess if being a cop or fireman is a wise choice if you have small kids.
Again, if a woman chose this career and died, people would be lining up to call her a bonehead.
jpeg 06 Sep 2006
how bout a little respect for the poor lug? this is a tragedy, and slimy fingers and all, the guy had quite a life, travelling the world and preaching conservationism... oh, now I get it, you think a CONSERVATIVE died. Stop that jig, jackass... ;-D
pazen 07 Sep 2006
How quick we forget . . . the last time he made the news was when he was dangling his infant son and a dead chicken in front of a hungry croc.
I think it's odd how the media spun his reputation after his demise. Never did I hear the word "conservationist" applied to him while he was alive.
Carl 08 Sep 2006
I've actually seen someone (up close) with a stingray barb jammed through their lower leg and let me tell you, this dude died in a truely fucked up fashion.
I wouldn't go so far as to say he deserved it but I'd bet there are a lot of dissappointed crocs out there that were looking forward to chewing his face off.
Carl 04 Sep 2006