Comments on: Movie Reviews for Paddlers: The Cove http://fatpaddler.com/2010/02/movie-reviews-for-paddlers-the-cove/ Kayaking Australia's best waterwa... Hey! Sausages! Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:18:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Neal Conner http://fatpaddler.com/2010/02/movie-reviews-for-paddlers-the-cove/comment-page-1/#comment-1896 Neal Conner Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:24:19 +0000 http://fatpaddler.com/?p=1394#comment-1896 The only way to stop these atrocities is to target the consumers of their products. As long as their is consumer demand this will continue. Maybe posting pictures slaughtered Whales & Dolphins, along with the caption "The following consumers helped make this possible. Below that post pictures of companies and consumers of their products, along with the Caption "It's because of you" that this Whale or Dolphin died. Make it personal and you will get more results. The only way to stop these atrocities is to target the consumers of their products. As long as their is consumer demand this will continue. Maybe posting pictures slaughtered Whales & Dolphins, along with the caption “The following consumers helped make this possible. Below that post pictures of companies and consumers of their products, along with the Caption “It’s because of you” that this Whale or Dolphin died. Make it personal and you will get more results.

]]> By: YakketyYak http://fatpaddler.com/2010/02/movie-reviews-for-paddlers-the-cove/comment-page-1/#comment-1880 YakketyYak Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:51:27 +0000 http://fatpaddler.com/?p=1394#comment-1880 Peter Heller has written a couple of books related to this blog that I enjoyed immensely. Whale warriors documents a trip out with the Sea Shepherd guys to the Antarctic to obstruct the Japanese whaling fleet. http://www.amazon.com/Whale-Warriors-Planets-Largest-Mammals/dp/141653248X/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1 And the other is about whitewater kayaking in Tibet. Nothing about sea kayaking but still a great read nonetheless. http://www.amazon.com/Hell-High-Water-Surviving-Tsangpo/dp/0452286743/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2 Both great books and highly recommended (no Im not affiliated with the author in anyway!). Peter Heller has written a couple of books related to this blog that I enjoyed immensely.
Whale warriors documents a trip out with the Sea Shepherd guys to the Antarctic to obstruct the Japanese whaling fleet.

http://www.amazon.com/Whale-Warriors-Planets-Largest-Mammals/dp/141653248X/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1

And the other is about whitewater kayaking in Tibet. Nothing about sea kayaking but still a great read nonetheless.

http://www.amazon.com/Hell-High-Water-Surviving-Tsangpo/dp/0452286743/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2

Both great books and highly recommended (no Im not affiliated with the author in anyway!).

]]> By: fatpaddler http://fatpaddler.com/2010/02/movie-reviews-for-paddlers-the-cove/comment-page-1/#comment-1870 fatpaddler Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:54:34 +0000 http://fatpaddler.com/?p=1394#comment-1870 Or maybe I just don't like watching dolphins get herded into pens and speared to death? Interesting theory though. :| Or maybe I just don’t like watching dolphins get herded into pens and speared to death?

Interesting theory though. :|

]]> By: alan http://fatpaddler.com/2010/02/movie-reviews-for-paddlers-the-cove/comment-page-1/#comment-1869 alan Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:23:33 +0000 http://fatpaddler.com/?p=1394#comment-1869 Yeah, great movie. Cultural tradition is so often associated with psychopathic behaviour it's a good thing nobody's ancestors went around raping and killing all the neighbours on the same day every year. "Oh, sorry," they'd say. "It's a tradition dating back thousands of years. Now, please keep your head still for the chainsaw..." I was talking with a friend about why it is that we both cry really easily when watching movies on international flights. <a href="http://www2.abc.net.au/science/k2/stn/december1999/posts/topic18996.shtm" rel="nofollow">DrKarl reckons it's all psychological</a> but I think it's <a href="http://www.windowseatblog.com/2009/02/flying-and-crying" rel="nofollow">far too widespread</a> for that to be the case. I <a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=oxytocin%20altitude" rel="nofollow">googled some studies</a> that show a link between long-term high-altitude and changes in oxytocin reception. So, I have a new theory: that the rapid reduction in air pressure as the plane ascends affects our ability to absorb oxytocin, <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-moral-molecule/200902/why-we-cry-movies" rel="nofollow">the hormone that makes us cry</a>. I figure the change in air pressure (from sea level to about the same pressure as you'd get at 8,000ft) in the few minutes it takes to get to cruising altitude might effect your oxytocin receptors quite markedly for a short period. Your brain notices the shortfall and instructs the hypothalamus to dramatically increase production. The meal service begins, the in-flight entertainment gets going, and by the time you get through the inflight interface and the ads to the emotional part of the movie, your body has managed to catch up, and is now fully adapted to the new atmospheric pressure. But by now, your bloodstream is flooded with all that additional oxytocin the brain had ordered. All that's required now is a small audio-visual cue in the movie and you'll weep. Let's take it a bit further still: what if the oxytocin receptors are again affected when the plane descends to land, leaving you without enough oxytocin and feeling strangely unemotional and robotic as you leave the plane and walk into baggage claim and customs? And then the excess oxytocin washes over you right as you walk out into the crowded arrivals hall to find... nobody waiting for you again... where's the taxi queue? [sob!] Yeah, great movie. Cultural tradition is so often associated with psychopathic behaviour it’s a good thing nobody’s ancestors went around raping and killing all the neighbours on the same day every year. “Oh, sorry,” they’d say. “It’s a tradition dating back thousands of years. Now, please keep your head still for the chainsaw…”

I was talking with a friend about why it is that we both cry really easily when watching movies on international flights.

DrKarl reckons it’s all psychological but I think it’s far too widespread for that to be the case.

I googled some studies that show a link between long-term high-altitude and changes in oxytocin reception.

So, I have a new theory: that the rapid reduction in air pressure as the plane ascends affects our ability to absorb oxytocin, the hormone that makes us cry.

I figure the change in air pressure (from sea level to about the same pressure as you’d get at 8,000ft) in the few minutes it takes to get to cruising altitude might effect your oxytocin receptors quite markedly for a short period. Your brain notices the shortfall and instructs the hypothalamus to dramatically increase production.

The meal service begins, the in-flight entertainment gets going, and by the time you get through the inflight interface and the ads to the emotional part of the movie, your body has managed to catch up, and is now fully adapted to the new atmospheric pressure.

But by now, your bloodstream is flooded with all that additional oxytocin the brain had ordered. All that’s required now is a small audio-visual cue in the movie and you’ll weep.

Let’s take it a bit further still: what if the oxytocin receptors are again affected when the plane descends to land, leaving you without enough oxytocin and feeling strangely unemotional and robotic as you leave the plane and walk into baggage claim and customs? And then the excess oxytocin washes over you right as you walk out into the crowded arrivals hall to find… nobody waiting for you again… where’s the taxi queue? [sob!]

]]> By: fatpaddler http://fatpaddler.com/2010/02/movie-reviews-for-paddlers-the-cove/comment-page-1/#comment-1863 fatpaddler Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:41:16 +0000 http://fatpaddler.com/?p=1394#comment-1863 Thanks Jill, it's a confronting movie and I felt compelled to share my feelings on it with others. Thanks Jill, it’s a confronting movie and I felt compelled to share my feelings on it with others.

]]> By: Greenlandpaddle http://fatpaddler.com/2010/02/movie-reviews-for-paddlers-the-cove/comment-page-1/#comment-1860 Greenlandpaddle Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:42:45 +0000 http://fatpaddler.com/?p=1394#comment-1860 Wonderful article! Wonderful article!

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