Bonaire going down the drain??

[rye_a]

My suggestion, read all mails, including my corrections, before coming up with b...****.
Nobody is perfect, but at least I admit that I made a mistake. I got confused over the unusual American way of counting (hardly anybody else does it that way), and I corrected the figure. Apparently not acceptable to certain Americans, but what is acceptable to people like you unless it is American

Keep on living in your "awesome" ivory tower and do us all a great favor, don't move to Bonaire, the place has suffered already too much to deal with another disaster

Being on an "ivory tower" would require me to to look down upon others, and the only one with that kind of arrogance in this thread is you.

Maybe you should take your 17 posts (all on this useless thread that you created) and continue your existence as a troll somewhere else.

 

[tarponchik]

They also dive to empty and rebait the traps.

Isn't it easier to lift the traps? At least, that's what they do in Maine, don't they?

 

[tarponchik]

My suggestion, read all mails, including my corrections, before coming up with b...****.
Nobody is perfect, but at least I admit that I made a mistake. I got confused over the unusual American way of counting (hardly anybody else does it that way), and I corrected the figure. Apparently not acceptable to certain Americans, but what is acceptable to people like you unless it is American

Americans use their own numbering system. Apparently, 1 gazzilion equals 1,000 zillions; in turn, 1 zillion equals 1 quadrillion of shmillions.

 

[handben]

My suggestion, read all mails, including my corrections, before coming up with b...****.
Nobody is perfect, but at least I admit that I made a mistake. I got confused over the unusual American way of counting (hardly anybody else does it that way), and I corrected the figure. Apparently not acceptable to certain Americans, but what is acceptable to people like you unless it is American

Keep on living in your "awesome" ivory tower and do us all a great favor, don't move to Bonaire, the place has suffered already too much to deal with another disaster

I know that we are pretty backwards here in the US with our rejection of the metric system of measurement; however I always thought we knew how to count. In orders of 1000 magnitude I thought things went pretty much - thousands, millions, billions, trillions (not much need to count higher than this for most purposes). Are we the only ones to count this way?

 

[handben]

OK, I've answered my own question thanks to wikipedia: Long and short scales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. However, if the poster was saying "billion" using the long scale then this would be a trillion short scale. In the US and England we use the short scale for numbers.

 

[Warren_L]

I'd be quite happy with a decent road back from Karpata versus the round-the-island or the scary shortcut alternatives, but not if it costs billions. For billions, I'd expect a security guard at every dive site so I don't have to worry about someone stealing my bottle of water and they could hire professional lion fish hunters to patrol the reefs. In fact, I'd apply for the latter job if they paid well and with billions to spend, of course they can pay well. (With all those billions, I'll probably get a really cool uniform/wetsuit too, I can't wait!)

Took the dirt road short-cut a few times, but forget about it if it's wet. Even dry, some of those ruts and holes were pretty gnarly, but it still beat having to drive around through Rincon.

 

[lionfish-eater]

Tarponchick

I'm not really sure if they use ropes on each trap or exactly how they are harvested. It is probably a combination of hand gathering by day and traps at night. One thing is for certain, the process is nothing like anything in Maine. I encourage you to track down the article by contacting DAN and maybe you could start a thread about it. I'm not sure if this would be the correct forum though. Although everybody should read it before they go to the all you can eat lobster fest. Glad you are interested, most people don't care about what they eat, let alone where it comes from, who suffered to provide it or what environmental destruction was done,


Go U.S.A!. . . . . . . . To the all you can eat buffet! . . . . . . Fill your whole damn tray while you waste away the day!:eat: :eat: :eat: :eat: :eat: :eat:

 

[tarponchik]

Well, the way you described it, diving for lobster in Honduras sounds like an interesting retirement plan--way more exciting than a nursing home in Nebraska ;-)))

 

[gypsyjim]

I wonder if there is some way we could get an All You Can Eat Lionfish Dinner started! Feed everyone, and cut into the population of the pests at the same time! A real Two-fer!

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

I wonder if there is some way we could get an All You Can Eat Lionfish Dinner started! Feed everyone, and cut into the population of the pests at the same time! A real Two-fer!

Loaves and fishes?