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the signing shark, that is. not that ^

just home from the tattoo parlor, where I got a sweet shot of a bikini girl straddling a hammerhead shark inked on my left bicep -- you're all welcome to see it at the HStencil/Universe Peace Talks

http://i0005.photobucket.com/albums/0005/icanhascheezburger/2007/7/31/1/128303454529957500Thanx4theAd.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d1/Jabberjaw.png

http://www.sirgeorgeyoung.org.uk/pageimages/shark_big.jpg

This is an ad for a seafood buffet, believe it or not.

http://adsoftheworld.com/files/images/shark-bite.jpg

http://images.buycostumes.com/mgen/merchandiser/18131.jpg

http://photos18.flickr.com/23837315_6e6edde04d.jpg?v=0

is that a dog or a pikachu?

jon probably knows
i think it is a picture of a dog - a cute dog!

those white guy dreads might be the scariest thing on this thread

what does he have shells in them?? ugh

i'd rather pay attention to the cute dog.

also might have to load all messages to take a peek at hammerhead girl again. *swoon*

Said to a friend the other day "dude, you're like a drunk shark, you have to keep drinking or you'll die"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2sZf8R4_oXk

STAX WEEK (or at least night)

that stax thing was so beautiful. i watched it at work (don't tell). i almost cried. course they almost ruin the whole glorious thing by ending with fucking bono! *sigh*

yeah i was just gonna go to the thread on ilm and be all "bono wtf?!!?"

jermaine dupri was cool tho.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/singingshark.jpg

tracer you sharked that from scott seward.

http://board.crewcial.org/img/sharky.gif

are the squiggly lines supposed to represent bad breath?

I watched the episode of Planet Earth (the David Attenborough-narrated version, thanks) that had the super slo-mo shots of a shark breaching and chomping a seal. It was AWESOME. And then at the end, there was another 15 minute doc about how they got those shots. The went shark hunting. It was exciting.

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no i believe that shark is smoking

prove it

party shark is smoking, you just can't tell because of ilx's crap white background

this guy is called a Ragged-Tooth shark. Guess why.

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/2391516-md.jpg

Well I'm up there beside the magic man
And he layed some tricks for me
He said you do need help my friend
I whispered, obviously

He laid a spread of Jacks and Queens
And he begged me take my pick
But every face it had your face
I cried out, I am sick

Sick of hauling your love around
Want to run my train alone
But the engine tracks straight through your heart
And weighs me like a stone
Oh it's a hard love to love you it takes up all my time
Having you so familiar like past lives and nursery rhymes

So I gave away the pictures and your golden ring
And the phone calls you sent me and the silver birds that sing
Then the man he told me something that really brought me down
Your things were blown away it's true but you were still in town

The magician left a message, it flashes when I hide
Accept the chains of loving,
Accept the rails remove yourself from her side
Do without her love

As I lay back in the speeding train, I keep it by my side
I could mail a letter to you but I still have my pride

Three times I've sent you back from me three times my boat's gone dry
And three times I've seen the shooting shark lighting up the sky
Oh it's a hard love to love you babe it takes my breath away
The fourth time round is the last time round there's nothing else to say
(Buck Dharma/Patti Smith)

-B-U-M-P-E-D---F-O-R---S-H-A-R-K---W-E-E-K-
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/MrTsharkpunch.gif

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

" * In the NBC sitcom 30 Rock Tracy Jordan encourages Kenneth to "Live every week like it's Shark Week." This itself was referenced on the Mythbusters 2008 Shark Week Special when Adam Savage encourages viewers to do the same."

http://ilike.com/user/SharkWeek

http://i34.tinypic.com/16hp645.jpg

LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT'S SHARK WEEK

http://content.pyzam.com/funnypics/stupid/st4.jpg

love this thread

bumped 4 shark week

http://vimeo.com/14054518

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp7q52WAkG1qd3ppyo1_400.jpg

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp9f3hCpDt1qaaafzo1_500.jpg

lol

BUT WHAT IF SHARK WEEK IS BAD FOR THE SHARKIE-POOS?????

After all guys, IT'S SHARK PORN

In addition to fakery, Palmer points out that the animals themselves are often endangered by filmmakers. “We get too close, we harass them, we’re desperate to get the money shots,” he says.

Yeah, what kinda faggot pinko worries about driving important predator species to extinction, right?

["Jaws"'s] key mistake was portraying great white sharks as vengeful predators that could remember specific human beings and go after them to settle a grudge.

"The movie certainly gave sharks too much of an ability to engage in revenge," Burgess said.

As a consequence of this depiction of sharks as monsters bent on massacring swimmers and boaters in "Jaws," dozens of shark fishing tournaments popped up. "A collective testosterone rush certainly swept through the East Coast of the U.S.," Burgess said. "It was good blue-collar fishing. You didn't have to have a fancy boat or gear — an average Joe could catch big fish, and there was no remorse, since there was this mindset that they were man-killers."

This proved to be part of a growing shark-hunting trend that dramatically reduced nearly all shark species over the following decades, Burgess said. In the waters off the U.S. eastern seaboard, populations of many species of sharks have dropped by 50 percent and some have fallen by as much as 90 percent.

Further compounding the effects of the fin trade on shark populations is the sharks notoriously slow reproductive cycle. Many species valued in the fin trade breed only once every two years and usually give birth to only a few pups each breeding cycle. "Shark populations are very likely experiencing a net loss each year as a result of shark harvesting outpacing shark reproduction," said Harvey. "Sharks simply cannot reproduce fast enough to meet the
demands of the global fin trade."

Scientists and conservationists agree that shark populations cannot sustain this level of exploitation indefinitely. "We are already seeing huge declines in certain shark populations in many regions around the world," said Harvey. "Recent studies of hammerhead populations in the northwest Atlantic, for example, have shown a catch rate decline estimated as high as 89% since the mid-1980s and the great white populations in the same region of the Atlantic may have declined by as much as 79%." Harvey adds that several species are already in such decline that it may be difficult for them to recover, with the end result being the potential ecological extinction of some species of sharks from the world's oceans. "Although there are many factors at play in the decline of shark population around the
globe, much of the decline can be attributed to the overharvesting of these species in an effort to accommodate the
global demand for shark products."

In the last decade of his career, [Peter]Benchley wrote non-fiction works about the sea and about sharks advocating their conservation. Among these was his book entitled Shark Trouble,[7] which illustrated how hype and news sensationalism can help undermine the public's need to understand marine ecosystems and the potential negative consequences as humans interact with it. This work, which had editions in 2001 and 2003, was written to help a post-Jaws public to more fully understand "the sea in all its beauty, mystery, and power."[8] It details the ways in which man seems to have become more of an aggressor in his relationship with sharks, acting out of ignorance and greed as several of the species become increasingly threatened by overfishing.

Benchley was a member of the National Council of Environmental Defense and a spokesman for its Oceans Program: "[T]he 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."[9]

He was also one of the founding board members of the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute (BUEI).

Because surely there is a way to prevent news sensationalism and the public's desire to hear less about shark attacks on humans?

I had a friend addicted to shark porn. He would just sit in front of the TV all day, flipping the channels, looking for sharks. It got to the point where he couldn't even maintain a normal relationship with regular fish. They'd have to spread chum just to get him off the couch.

Hmmm if only some television outlet that airs a well-promoted and highly viewed block of programming about sharks were to use part of it to discuss how rare and unlikely shark attacks are instead of bandwagoning on misplaced fear I wonder what would happen what a mystery etc. etc.

shark on the subway

http://gothamist.com/2013/08/07/photos_dead_shark_on_subway.php

Mel Brooks did a riff on a classic David Susskind Show about seeing a shark on the Brighton local, so I think he put it there.

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSlYAxoTCDq1TgQUnbRONEPzI5ZgOYUwHFkXjsz4VrKFkDkkzi0UQ

Hmmm if only some television outlet that airs a well-promoted and highly viewed block of programming about sharks were to use part of it to discuss how rare and unlikely shark attacks are instead of bandwagoning on misplaced fear I wonder what would happen what a mystery etc. etc.

Not really sure how much fear is misplaced given that sharks attack humans--last year the US had the most "unprovoked" shark attacks ever (53 incidents, including 26 in Florida alone.) One a week seems like a better bandwagon than a shoe bomber, but what do I know.