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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.

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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-
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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."

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LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT'S SHARK WEEK

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love this thread

bumped 4 shark week

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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.

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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.

Not really sure how much fear is misplaced given that sharks attack humans.

I know you are not this stupid.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/06/us-shark-attack-statistics-fears

Last year, 80 unprovoked shark strikes took place worldwide: seven resulted in deaths, including one in California. Fifty-three strikes took place in US waters, nearly half of them off Florida.

According to the file's analysis of data from 2000, beachgoers faced a one in 2m chance of dying from drowning and other causes based on visits to east and west coast beaches. By contrast, they faced a one in 11.5m chance of being attacked by a shark, and less than a one in 264m chance of dying from a shark bite, since just one person died that year in US waters from an attack.

Put another way, more Americans were killed by collapsing sinkholes (16) than sharks (11) between 1990 and 2006, and more by tornadoes (125) than sharks (6) in Florida between 1985 and 2010. (And for all you Sharknado fans, those were shark-free tornadoes.)

"Tides and currents kill more people [at the beach] than sharks that kill people," said Gregory Skomal, a shark biologist with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries.

You are literally more likely to get hit by a bus shortly after hitting "Submit" on ILX than you are to get attacked by a shark anywhere in the world ever.

All of which is incidental as to whether we're hunting sharks to extinction, which we are, which will have rather profound (read: bad) consequences for marine life overall.

An even more poignant comparison: In 500 years of recorded history, there have been fewer confirmed, unprovoked shark-attack fatalities worldwide than there will be motor vehicle deaths in the United States this month.

BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID.

I can't erase the fact that once a week, someone gets bit or that people are irrational in their fear. You know how many people die from accidental drowning each year?

I thought you would point out that there are likely more people in the water than ever before, that we've likely changed the ecosystem, and that other environmental impacts are leading to rising shark attacks.

Not really sure of there is causation between shark attack sensationalism and extinction but I fear it would be challenging to prove. It seems a reasonable hypothesis though.

That said, I agree with you that sensationalism is a menace and we should stop it everywhere. Just not really sure how to put that Jaws Pandora back in the box. There is much more interest in killing, blood, and gore than the mystery of great oceanic creatures.

Yes, there are more people in the water, and more people are traveling to beach locations. That's certainly a factor.

Sensationalism-induced fear is driving a lot of the "WHOOO LET'S KILL SOME SHARKS!" hunting. A lot more is being driven by idiocies like shark's fin soup and folk medicines. I don't know which is easier to get a handle on; probably the former. The latter problem is trans-jurisdictional and there's no real authority with the power to make it stop.

Humans are terrible.

Well, you could argue that the bloodsport around sharks probably makes people feel less bad about lopping a fin off. And overall, we're pretty nonchalant about killing the organisms that aren't cute or have no obvious use (hello mosquitos!).

Overall, I agree with you that I should try to be less terrible. Then maybe I can take the moral high ground every now and again.

Meh, for all you know I'm Ariel Castro.

As long as there are shark tornados, I will remain fearful of sharks.

400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’

The team found that the sharks grow at just 1cm a year, and reach sexual maturity at about the age of 150

I hope they have some decent shark dentists, wouldn't fancy a toothache that lasted for 3 centuries.