Fish freezing to death in Irish cold snap

Oh but lobsters do scream, I've heard them with me very own ears. What a horrible way to end their lives anyway, putting them in fresh water, then letting them sit there in a pot while the water slowly heats to boiling? At least throw them in a pot of boiling water, or better yet euthanize them before you boil them. I speared them when I caught them down in the deep water so they were quickly and humanely killed then boiled them later, after I got to the surface...mm mmm good. Spiny lobster, slipper lobsters, they're all tasty.

@paricaliswishes "Quote"Crabs and Lobsters struggling in the cooking pots as the water heated up to cook them and i have always wondered about western civilization since.They could not shout or scream.How civilized are we???? ha ha ha.Too much Disney...The Little Mermaid I think...If you listen closely you can here them sing.. Under the sea,Nobody beats us.Fry us and eat us.Under the sea.

@ paricaliswishes may I say we are at least sensible enough to deliberately boil the poisons out of crabs, lobsters and other fish before delightfully eating and chewing their elasticated boiled flesh? We are not yet sensible enough to boil out the poisons of the LBGT and Muslim brigades. You have a point, we are not civilised enough yet to do that. BTW, I hear the River Boyne has de-iced without the help of slygols, or whatever they're called.

As a trainee Chef years ago in a high class establishment i used to watch the Crabs and Lobsters struggling in the cooking pots as the water heated up to cook them and i have always wondered about western civilisation since.They could not shout or scream and had strong elastic bands on their claws.I never ever touch that kind of food but very cultured people do regularly and flatter themslves with fine art and music and donate too.People are not evil only stupid appearing to be bad.There is no other way to cook these creatures because of poisons in them Obviously they were never meant to be eaten and are non kosher.How civilised are we????

Ha-ha. I enjoyed these exchanges particularly Monsooner’s side-step about the chickens on the frozen ground. It reminded me of me pal who got a parrot for a Christmas prezzie yesterday...Santa left a note, warning that the parrot cursed interminably and needed to be trained out of it. After Santa left early in the morning, me pal was woken up by the parrot’s squawking and screeching. Down the stairs me pal rushed, only to see the parrot prancing on his perch and hear him cursing... every effin word and every mother whoor word and every bollix word and every... well, ye know what I mean. After trying over the next hour to no avail to train the parrot to speak nicely, and after another particularly personal bad insult, me pal lost his temper with the parrot. He grabbed it by the neck and shoved him in the fridge, hoping that would cool him down. Nah, the parrot went ballistic, fluttering feathers and prancing, dancing all over the fridge’s rails, cursing me pal say “Effin you for doing this, I’ll make you effin’ pay for it!! Your sister is an effin’ that, your brother is a fairy an’ so is you and not only that, your mother was a ...” you can get the rest. Then the parrot suddenly stopped cursing and prancing. There was total silence from inside the fridge. Worried, me pal opened the fridge door... and didn’t the parrot, head meekly bowed, calmly hop out onto his arm, saying “Ok, I’m sorry, Pal, I shouldn’t have cursed like I did. I promise never ever to do it again”. Me pal put the parrot on his perch, stunned by his sudden change of attitude. Just as he wearily sat down for an early morning cuppa and cornflakes, didn’t the parrot meekly squawk up again and say “By the way Pal... that turkey in the fridge... what did he do t’ye??”

I caught the salmon of knowledge once and learned quickly that farmed salmon are not nearly as wise, or tasty! maybe nature knows best!

hopefully yer fish will go deep till spring. Might try ice fishing like in Minneasota! cheers!

Bushmills don't give a stuff about the fish. If they did, they would have put some double malt in the water to prevent it freezing. silling.

Pond It was as cold as a dogs nose and stiff with the rheumatism of nights inactivity. Beneath this frosted stratosphere a liquid silence. Silling (c)

If Bushmills were serious about the fish, they could have added some of their double malt to the water and prevented it from freezing.

Ah, if only "global warming" were a reality!

paricaliswishes..Thanks for apologizing,and i apologize too for been a bit harsh.Why do you think i'm an outsider?I live in Cork,Ireland.

Nobody cares about the poor little chickens who are sufferin' too, they're stumbling round on sticks...Their little feets froze to the ground in this bitter cold and snapped off at the ankles. It's pitiful to see them trying to balance on their perches this way.

You are obviously an outsider we have our own ways or shibboleths when communicating like any nation.I'm trying to underline the frustrations of living here.Indigenous irish know very quickly what i'm trying to convey.Sir peter i apologise to you.

Ha ha ha..Phonetics is the study of the SOUNDS of human speech.OK!! Christmas Day lesson 1/paricaliswishes..You have three ways of spelling.. TICK 1/Thick..A "thick" person, someone lacking in intelligence (see stupidity or paricaliswishes); Thick physical body (usually human)2/Tick...arthropods,like spiders.Little animals that live on blood.3/Tic..A sudden, repetitive, nonrhythmic, stereotyped motor movement. Now whose thick?!!