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Man finds sperm whale vomit on beach, lucky bastard!

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    FatherLen
    Registered Users Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    was there a watch in it?


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    #3
    staker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,677 ✭✭✭staker


    What the **** don't they use in manufacturing these days?


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    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    This is just sick :eek:


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    #5
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭squod


    Whale puke. Because you're worth it.


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    Lumbo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭Lumbo


    I keep thinking that he's getting money for whale sperm.


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    steddyeddy
    Registered Users Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    I think they may still use it in perfume


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    pabloh999
    Registered Users Posts: 516 ✭✭✭pabloh999


    youtube! wrote: »
    http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/its-floating-gold-dog-walker-finds-horrible-smelling-lump-of-sperm-whale-vomit-worth-100k-3371612.html

    The indo comments are sometimes a bit like reading after hours..
    wonder if its the same people..hmmm


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    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    Must have been a sperm whale stag party offshore last night.


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    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    I knew that it was expensive but I didn't realise just how expensive. Didn't know that it came in "rock" form either I always thought it was some sort of rubbery puke splat thing. Must keep my eyes open at the beach from now on.


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    DominoDub
    Registered Users Posts: 1,572 ✭✭✭DominoDub


    Got to love whats in you Chanel No5

    Whale vomit and Beaver Piss glands

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castoreum


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    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    It is theorised that ambergris is produced by the stomach of the sperm whale to ease the passage of hard parts of squid exoskeleton (squid being the main diet of these animals)


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    MonkstownHoop
    Registered Users Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭MonkstownHoop


    "However, upon arriving home he says something “triggered my mind” and he looked the substance up on the internet."

    B**liks! he got that whale drunk on purpose


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    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    I only knew what this story was about before I clicked on it because of futurama.


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    Mammanabammana
    Registered Users Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Mammanabammana


    How do things like this go from being what they are to being something this valuable?


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    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Mammanabammana wrote: »
    How do things like this go from being what they are to being something this valuable?

    Because people have more money than sense.


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    starlings
    Closed Accounts Posts: 683 ✭✭✭starlings


    Ambergris has been used for centuries, but not so much now as it's so hard to find and therefore expensive. Likewise musk, from the glands of certain animals (well, they find it sexy). Chemical compounds that mimic it are found as basenotes in perfumes that you probably enjoy - though I'd say they're ruined for you now. :D
    Harks back to the days when people didn't want to smell like a teenage girl in a florist's that has been scrubbed down with detergent.

    "I'll be home in three days," wrote Napoleon to Josephine, "don't wash."


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    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    I only knew what this story was about before I clicked on it because of futurama.

    And I knew because of Moby Dick, which makes me smarter than you


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    "Ambergris" does sound nicer than "whale puke".


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    ITS_A_BADGER
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,232 ✭✭✭ITS_A_BADGER


    Maybe shes born with it, Maybe its whale Vomit


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    starlings
    Closed Accounts Posts: 683 ✭✭✭starlings


    biko wrote: »
    "Ambergris" does sound nicer than "whale puke".

    yep, just like "pearl" sounds nicer than "oyster cyst". Style is not for the squeamish.:p


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    ITS_A_BADGER
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,232 ✭✭✭ITS_A_BADGER


    Actually could be a lot worse " Man finds vomit whale sperm on beach"


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    stevenmu
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,689 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    And I knew because of Moby Dick, which makes me smarter than you

    I saw an episode of Futurama based on Moby Dick which makes me smarter than both of you.


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    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    stevenmu wrote: »
    I saw an episode of Futurama based on Moby Dick which makes me smarter than both of you.

    Curse you and you cleverness!


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    youtube!
    Registered Users Posts: 1,265 ✭✭✭youtube!


    Funnily enough the only time I have heard of the word Ambergis was in a not so well known song by a very well known band below are the lyrics can you guess the band (no googling) but I bet you will anyway!


    I catch the scent of Ambergris

    And turn my head surprised

    My gaze is caught and held and I

    Am helpless....Mesmerised


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    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    They've obviously never been to temple bar. Ive seen some right old whales vomiting there.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Pfft, I've often thrown up €150 worth of vomit after a session on a Saturday night


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    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Keegan Unsightly Can wrote: »
    This is just sick :eek:
    No, what's sick is women rubbing this stuff all over themselves like a dog rolling in shyte. Sometimes walking into a room full of dolled up women is like being tear gassed.


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    #29
    3ndahalfof6
    Registered Users Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭3ndahalfof6


    So I am guessing beach is a top porn female star, that is all.


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    krudler
    Registered Users Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Note to self, take some whales out on the lash


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    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    ****whale vomit found in co clare*****

    could be worth 100k
    TWO surfing pals may have struck sea gold after finding what appears to be a lump of rare whale vomit that could fetch them tens of thousands of euro.
    Alan Davey (38), from Ennis, Co Clare, was getting surf lessons in lahinch from his friend Brian Miller, from Cratloe, when they saw the unusual substance, believed to be ambergris, on the beach.

    http://www.thestar.ie/star/surfers-whale-vomit-find-could-be-worth-thousands/


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