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Re: The Faroes

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Post by kulahan »

MattRogish wrote: post #45

What strikes me immediately are the vibrant colors of the houses. Walk through most any suburban American neighborhood and you'll primarily see neutral shades of white, gray, beige, or the occasional muted blues and greens. Sometimes someone will be daring and paint their house in a deep, dark blue or purple (or even black) but that feels relatively rare. If near the ocean, typical "seaside pastels" come into view. W…

Certainly a huge part of the color choice in the US is to increase sales. A neutral color is just easier to sell. In the Faroes, this probably doesn't matter. Just pulling a guess out of my rear.

Re: The Faroes

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Post by kulahan »

halgir wrote: post #40
fouronnes3 wrote: post #6

Unfortunately home to grindadrap [0], one of the most cruel traditions in the world where hundreds of white dolphins are hunted with high speed motor boats and painfully slaughtered for sport. [0] https://www.seashepherdglobal.org/latest-news/slaughter-dolp...

I dislike Sea Shepherd as an organization, due to their distasteful methods (and personal bias, being a Faroese resident). But I spoke with several of their volunteers during one of their campaigns, and was pleased to realize that, as individuals, their hearts are mostly in the right place. Nearly all of them claimed to be vegan, which I feel does give you legitimate ethical grounds from which to criticize grindadráp…

Most animals these days are killed as efficiently as possible - a quick stun for chickens, a bolt through the skull for cows, etc.

The problem with commercial meat production is pretty much always the mega-farms that have them in horrible conditions during life. It's just cheaper, easier, and results in tastier meat to quickly perform the slaughter.

Re: The Faroes

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Post by nhod »

lastofthemojito wrote: post #14
bccdee wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whale hunting (and dolphin hunting) tends to come up any time the Faroes are mentioned, and I don't understand why it's such a cause celebre. I don't see how this is worse than any other form of hunting or fishing, and frankly I prefer it to most forms of animal agriculture. Industrialized whaling has done massive damage to global whale populations, but the Faroes are tiny and (to my knowledge) their hunting practice…

I think a lot of it has to do with how they do it. I believe a lot of other whaling operations catch and process whales at sea. In the Faroes, whales are driven into shallow water and killed near land in sight of people who aren't accustomed to such things. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45209587

Traveling to other cultures involves being exposed to seeing things you aren’t accustomed to. In many ways, that is the whole point.

I’m not defending the Faroese here (nor casting aspersions on them, either), more just saying that it’s your responsibility to research the customs of the places to which you travel, and to not go if you think you might not like what you see.

Re: The Faroes

#54

Post by axpy906 »

vunderba wrote: post #47
MattRogish wrote: post #45

What strikes me immediately are the vibrant colors of the houses. Walk through most any suburban American neighborhood and you'll primarily see neutral shades of white, gray, beige, or the occasional muted blues and greens. Sometimes someone will be daring and paint their house in a deep, dark blue or purple (or even black) but that feels relatively rare. If near the ocean, typical "seaside pastels" come into view. W…

My first thought was that given the rather inclement weather perhaps having a vibrantly colorful house may have historically helped to easily identify one's particular domicile during times of poor visibility.

It looks to me to be a Danish thing as I’ve seen that pattern in pictures of Greenland too.

Re: The Faroes

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Post by Etheryte »

Would've thought trying to block right-clicking on pictures died in the 90s, yet here we are. Trying to stop someone on the internet from saving pictures you've explicitly served them on your website isn't the silliest thing I can think of, but it's definitely up there.

Re: The Faroes

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Post by axpy906 »

dheera wrote: post #33
darrenf wrote: post #4

I was in the Faroe Islands just 3 weeks ago, including the walk to the Kallur lighthouse. Spectacular beautiful place, already planning my next visit and to explore many more places than I reached this time around. Edited to add: I put a handful of pics on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/DO0mTX3DE1I/?img_index=1 (and some videos on my profile too). I was lucky to have sunshine almost the whole time I was there.

I was there 8 weeks ago! I'll be posting pictures soon (stay tuned on IG @dheeranet) as well but quite a magical place, you see multiple seasons a day. Super place for introverts, you can book a place in Torshavn for a week and daytrip pretty much everything from there. The only downside was that you had to pay for most of the hikes, and the money isn't actually going towards any real work getting done.

Do the hikes add up?

Re: The Faroes

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Post by kleiba »

> The Faroe Islands are like the child that Denmark and Iceland had, but forgot to tell the world about.

I suppose everyone in Greece knows them. :)

Re: The Faroes

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Post by taneq »

"The Faroe Islands are like the child that Denmark and Iceland had, but forgot to tell the world about. This group of eighteen small islands receives the least amount of sunshine in the world per year. Constant rain and heavy winds have always battered these lands."

"Constant storms and crashing waves have sculpted the volcanic rock over millions of years into some of the most jaw-dropping (and vertigo-inducing) coastlines on Earth. These towering basalt cliffs can reach heights of over 400 meters, dropping straight into churning seas below."

OK, enough with the hard sell, what's the immigration policy?

Re: The Faroes

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Post by taneq »

Etheryte wrote: post #55

Would've thought trying to block right-clicking on pictures died in the 90s, yet here we are. Trying to stop someone on the internet from saving pictures you've explicitly served them on your website isn't the silliest thing I can think of, but it's definitely up there.

I mean, there's always Snipping Tool but the images are more authentic in the original JPEG.

Re: The Faroes

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Post by piskov »

Etheryte wrote: post #55

Would've thought trying to block right-clicking on pictures died in the 90s, yet here we are. Trying to stop someone on the internet from saving pictures you've explicitly served them on your website isn't the silliest thing I can think of, but it's definitely up there.

StopTheMadness for Safari makes this kind of shit go away.
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