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  • WEDNESDAY AUGUST 1 2007 8:00 PM

Sharks: The Jerks of the Ocean



Once again it's time to celebrate that most popular of all God's killing machines... the shark. That's right, Discovery Channel's annual Shark Week.

Would sharks be as popular if they had the ability to follow us onto land? I doubt it. If apes started randomly punching people their popularity would drop as fast as... well, the people they were hitting.

But, we have legs and can use them to leave bodies of water and for that reason they are somehow still super-popular.

The following video features a shark hypnotist. I wasn't aware that hypnotism had been perfected on humans yet. In fact, I have a smoking uncle who's living, coughing proof that it hasn't been. Hmmm... Maybe wait until it's 100% effective on creatures you can reason with before trying it out on unstoppable engines of death and misery? No? Okay...



This man has just given up his right to our sympathy when a shark inevitably eats him. A day, a month, a year, whatever... It will happen, and when it does... he had it coming.

I'll go even further, ANY freak accident that befalls him, lightning strike, anvil crushing, quicksand, whatever the case may be. The moment you feel bad for him, say to yourself, "Well, there was that time he tried hynotizing that shark and nothing bad happened to him... I guess he was one up."



Shark Week? There needs to be a "this poor woman" week. Holy shit. Is it a little exploitative to have her tell her shark-attack tale, film a re-enactment of said attack and then let the camera linger on her for seconds after the revelation that her leg was bitten off, all in service of a week devoted to the sharks? I'm not sure either but it was creepy to watch.

Boy, I sure hope you hate sea-turtles.



Don't worry, I have it on good authority that that turtle was a racist. Maybe he should've been allowed to use a gun or something cause that was a one-sided blowout.

Admittedly, my grasp on evolution isn't iron-clad but... I'm guessing that if that shark kills hundreds more turtles, while wounding a few, and then the few who lived breed, and then some of them are wounded while hundreds more are killed... And the few that are left again breed and so on and so forth... In about 2 million years there's gonne be a 25-foot long sea-turtle who's pissed off, impervious to shark bites and ready to get some revenge.

I bet he'll even have an eye patch.

TheCoolerKing looks forward to one day yelling at a shark from the safety of a steel boat.

 

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PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

AUG 01, 2007 08:09 PM

I'm pretty sure they're assholes.

JoLeigh

JoLeigh

SUICIDEGIRL

Florida, USA

AUG 01, 2007 08:10 PM

i want to see a 25 ft long turtle
with an eye patch


Gringo

Gringo

Spokane, WA
May 2006

AUG 01, 2007 08:13 PM

My favorite video is still the bull shark attack from "Anatomy Of A Shark Bite."

SocietysPliers

SocietysPliers

Ocala, FL
October 2004

AUG 01, 2007 08:13 PM

JoLeigh said:
i want to see a 25 ft long turtle
with an eye patch

There's a dail\ry a couple miles from here and if you pick the right mushrooms just before dawn after a rain, you might.

Or just wait another 2 million years or so.smile

crispy

crispy

NEWSWIRE

Philadelphia, PA

AUG 01, 2007 08:14 PM

PointBlank said:
I'm pretty sure they're assholes.


Yup, they're definitely fucking assholes.

SocietysPliers

SocietysPliers

Ocala, FL
October 2004

AUG 01, 2007 08:18 PM

TheCoolerKing said:
Would sharks be as popular if they had the ability to follow us onto land? I doubt it.

Umm . . they did - I saw a documentary once about a Land Shark that rang doorbells pretending to be a delivery person and then attacking residents. It was horrible.

It was late one Saturday night on NBC in the 70s. Lorne Greene was the producer and John Belushi was part of the documentary team, I believe.

reprobate

reprobate

New Orleans, LA
December 2002

AUG 01, 2007 08:25 PM

SocietysPliers said:

TheCoolerKing said:
Would sharks be as popular if they had the ability to follow us onto land? I doubt it.

Umm . . they did - I saw a documentary once about a Land Shark that rang doorbells pretending to be a delivery person and then attacking residents. It was horrible.

It was late one Saturday night on NBC in the 70s. Lorne Greene was the producer and John Belushi was part of the documentary team, I believe.



Er, you meant Michaels. The other one was Ben Cartwright and Commander Adama.

remusisdying

remusisdying

Brighton, MA
March 2004

AUG 01, 2007 08:28 PM

sharks are super awesome, you all know this.

Gringo

Gringo

Spokane, WA
May 2006

AUG 01, 2007 08:29 PM

They would be....if they had frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.

scylis

scylis

USA
November 2004

AUG 01, 2007 08:33 PM

i'm safe. i only go swimming with my good robot buddy Buster, Shark Puncher.

Gillionaire

Gillionaire

Manchester, NH
February 2007

AUG 01, 2007 08:34 PM

One gripe with this article... this statement here.



If apes started randomly punching people their popularity would drop as fast as... well, the people they were hitting.



I think it would make that ape incredibly popular. People love their hilarious monkey violence.

Gringo

Gringo

Spokane, WA
May 2006

AUG 01, 2007 08:35 PM

I think they call that "pro wrestling."

Gillionaire

Gillionaire

Manchester, NH
February 2007

AUG 01, 2007 08:41 PM

TheGringo said:
I think they call that "pro wrestling."



Exactly.

Himes

Himes

Astoria, NY
October 2006

AUG 01, 2007 08:44 PM

TheGringo said:
They would be....if they had frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.



I concur



Crissis

Crissis

Ecuador
January 2007

AUG 01, 2007 08:59 PM

i have seen baby sharks under my boat, about 4 of them on shallow waters, here on the GALAPAGOS, they are so cute, i can only imagine how big their mama would look eeek

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