NationStates Jolt Archive

This is why I don't swim in the ocean.
Shark ('http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2007-04-21-shark_N.htm')

Apparently, if the shark had not tired quickly enough, it would have pulled the boat over and capsized it.

Makos eat people. They're good at it, and they enjoy it.

Put yourself in a wet suit in the ocean, and you're negating most of your evolutionary heritage in making it to the top of the food chain.

Kind of like doing wrestling in the following comic:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v346/parapyropig/TGA001.gif

Too bad it didn't get those fuckers.

Too bad it didn't get those fuckers.

Mako tastes rather good, when served "blackened" with some grilled asparagus, garlic mashed potatoes, and a large glass of good lager.

In the water I'd be fish food, but on the street I would fuck that shark up. So I'd say we're tied in the food chain.

Coconuts (http://unisci.com/stories/20022/0523024.htm) are the real killers.

In the water I'd be fish food, but on the street I would fuck that shark up. So I'd say we're tied in the food chain.

Not if it was a landshark.

In the water I'd be fish food, but on the street I would fuck that shark up. So I'd say we're tied in the food chain.What if you're high up in the air?

Good eating here:

http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/811/BarbecuedMakoHerbSteaks69681.shtml

Then whoever's under us had better watch the fuck out.
I giggled.:D

What if you're high up in the air?

Then whoever's under us had better watch the fuck out.

"Every year, more than a hundred million sharks are slaughtered by man. It has been estimated that for every human life taken by a shark, 4.5 million sharks are killed by humans. And rarely for a useful purpose."-Peter Benchley, author of Jaws, environmentalist

Who's higher on what food chain?

The figures indicate that man is smart enough not to swim in the ocean quite as often as sharks.

"Every year, more than a hundred million sharks are slaughtered by man. It has been estimated that for every human life taken by a shark, 4.5 million sharks are killed by humans. And rarely for a useful purpose."-Peter Benchley, author of Jaws, environmentalist

Who's higher on what food chain?

*nods* Those damn sharks, not being smart enough to not swim where man is fishing. It's their fault that we slaughter them so.

That, and they taste good.

The figures indicate that man is smart enough not to swim in the ocean quite as often as sharks.

*nods* Those damn sharks, not being smart enough to not swim where man is fishing. It's their fault that we slaughter them so.

They taste so good.

His writing is rather out of date.

Today, most of the shark is eaten. Especially the steaks.

That, and they taste good.

"Today I could not, for instance, portray the shark as a villain, especially not as a mindless omnivore that attacks boats and humans with reckless abandon. We know now, as we didn't then, that the majority of shark attacks on human beings are accidents (often cases of mistaken identity), that a person has a much greater chance of being killed by lightning, bee stings, or feral pigs than by sharks, and that even the most formidable great white shark does not attack boats: rather, responding to complex and confusing electromagnetic signals in the water, it tests a boat, exploring it with its mouth to determine if it is edible. (Of course, if a 3,000-pound shark chooses to sample a scuba diver, believing it to be a sea lion, apologies may be a bit late to mean much.)

No, the shark in an updated Jaws could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors. Every year, more than a hundred million sharks are slaughtered by man. It has been estimated that for every human life taken by a shark, 4.5 million sharks are killed by humans. And rarely for a useful purpose.

Many are killed because they are perceived as a nuisance; others are drowned on lines or in nets and discarded as waste. I have seen the sea bottom off Costa Rica littered with the bodies of sharks that were stripped of their fins#to make soup in Asia#and thrown back into the water to die."
-Peter Benchley, author of Jaws, environmentalist (http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/ocean_planet_book_peril_intro.html)

They taste so good.

His writing is rather out of date.

Today, most of the shark is eaten. Especially the steaks.

This article is from 2000, not that out of date: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/817766.stm

Edit: Also, check out http://www.wildaid.org/search.asp?cx=004921596253720346281%3Ay4rsg1r6nzs&cof=FORID%3A11&q=sharks&sa.x=0&sa.y=0 for relevant articles/info.

re-edit: from that last website: http://www.wildaid.org/index.asp?CID=8&PID=331&SUBID=&TERID=199 (2006)

Coconuts (http://unisci.com/stories/20022/0523024.htm) are the real killers.

So do your bit and have a pina colada!

Oh no, an animal thread! Quick, begin the onrush of people boasting about eating it! Seriously, I rarely see this kind of knee-jerk defense of masculinity outside of homophobic movie characters. We know fish is edible, does it really serve a point to mention that over and over again?

Anyway, I kind of like sharks (living sharks). I'm smart enough not to go in the ocean and they're interesting and beautiful predators. It's a shame they're being exterminated at the rate they are, though.

Edit: A shark fisherman said this: ""The shark, the fishing, will never end. Fishing will only end when the water ends.""

Yes, a seventy percent decline in certain species in less than two decades is nothing. The sharks will simply divide themselves into new sharks and the seas will be full of bounty again!

I mean, man. I think you have to selectively breed for that kind of stupidity.

Put yourself in a wet suit in the ocean, and you're negating most of your evolutionary heritage in making it to the top of the food chain.

Kind of like doing wrestling in the following comic:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v346/parapyropig/TGA001.gif

nice pic.

Put yourself in a wet suit in the ocean, and you're negating most of your evolutionary heritage in making it to the top of the food chain.

Kind of like doing wrestling in the following comic:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v346/parapyropig/TGA001.gif
put yourself in the Lion's den without a weapon and you'll negate your evolutionary heritage...
Put yourself between a mother bear and her cub and you'll negate your evolutionary heritage...
Put yourself in a croc/piranah/Alligator infested river and you'll negate your evolutionary heritage...
put yourself near a fire ant/killer bee hive/nest and...


well, the main thing I'm trying to say is...


nice pic. :D