eek SHARK WEEK shark week SHARK WEEK shark week SHARK WEEK shark week SHARK WEEK shark week SHARK WEEK shark w

yeah but by the time you both love AND fear the sea, you might as well just throw on an eyepatch and stand around on docks telling children scary stories about the narwhal that stole your depth perception

i think i need a diagram

a venn one

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y257/nitsuh/venn.jpg

those boobs have eyebrows!!

and they've grown together

pirates, the gray area between heart and tits

Nabisco OMG.

that illustration has helped me in many ways

THINGS I LOVE AND FEAR:

- pirates
- sharks
- ninjas
- the mafia
- GIRLS

MOAR SHARX!!!!!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1525000/images/_1528916_shark_atcks_world3_300map.gif

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/11/photogalleries/sharks1/images/primary/BR6951_22_normal.jpg

http://www.greatwhitesharkdiving.co.za/images/sharkjump.jpg

i think i fall into the pirate badlands between hearts and angry boobs :/

That second to last photo exemplifies the kind of thing on display in Air Jaws, one of the prizes of my wife's DVD collection.

dunno whether this pic makes me wanna laugh or puke:

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/10/21/shark_wideweb__430x319,1.jpg

Don't worry, we're all stuck there with you.

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yeah those things are so boring.

/nabisco

hstencil needs a nap.

i am going to have sharknightmares for sure

That picture's making me sad. Sharks may have to be killed sometimes but they should never be deflated.

http://www.freemyspacegraphics.com/Graphics/Bling!/images/shark_teeth.jpg

john justen needs a penis

:D

they just had the monster shark tournament here. the humane society had planes flying around with banners on them. LOL, like we ever look up from our shark carcasses!

http://www.newenglandsharks.com/_derived/shark.htm_txt_Picture_596.gif

paul wall as a shark ...

http://www.mvgazette.com/features/content/feature_stories/shark_castafari_lg.jpg

we're gonna need a bigger boat

http://www.graphic-design.com/photographic/sharks/art/12girl-sharks-section.jpg

ugh
xpost re: dead sharks

where is teh diagram of feelings abt dead sharks vs feelings abt alive sharks vs feelings abt air sharks?

http://tafkac.org/ulz/shark.jpg

it's sad is all. i stay far away from the shark killers:

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/AP_Photo/2005/08/03/1123083907_4409.jpg

http://www.underwatertimes.com/news2/tiger4.jpg

air sharks >>> dead sharks >>>> donkey balls >>> live sharks >>> john justen

i would also stay away from the shark hunters

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,724136,00.jpg

i caught a mako shark last weekend (no foolin) but released it in deference to shark week.

last week wasn't shark week tho!

sharks will clearly eat you if given the chance.

it goes both ways!

yeah i know but i didn't think the shark was gonna hold it against me.

also shark week = gigantic inflatable shark bisecting the discovery channel building! best way to start yr morning metro ride ever.

http://www.charkbait.com/article/shark2.jpg

UGH :/

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/statistics/Graphs/world_usa_60_02.jpg

hahahahaha scott seward trumps everything.

air sharks >>> dead sharks live sharks >>>> donkey balls >>> live sharks dead sharks >>> john justen >>> shark hunters

-- hstencil, Tuesday, July 31, 2007 3:48 AM (7 minutes ago)

See, now this I could get totally behind.

donkey balls still beats you.

Which part of "could totally get behind" do you not understand?

i imagine a lot of things get behind you.

let go.

that's what the shark hunter said, right?

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.