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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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VonPink

VonPink

Japan
October 2006

AUG 01, 2007 09:02 PM

This week only makes me want to shark dive again. I need to move to the shore.

ShadowDrgn

ShadowDrgn

Boca Raton, FL
August 2006

AUG 01, 2007 09:45 PM

I agree with you 100% about not feeling sorry for him WHEN something happens... . but comeon that was pretty freaking cool!

MessyJessy

MessyJessy

Fort Myers, FL
August 2005

AUG 01, 2007 09:50 PM

Pfft...sharks are practically Mother Teresa compared to James "the Nigger Hating" Dolphin!

BlastProcessing

BlastProcessing

USA
OLD SKOOL

AUG 01, 2007 09:52 PM

TheCoolerKing said:
If apes started randomly grabbing people and jumping off the side of the stage their popularity would drop as fast as... well, the people they were hitting.



Fixed.


MikeZoolander

MikeZoolander

Deerfield Beach, FL
January 2004

AUG 01, 2007 09:59 PM

so angry you are..you have vaild points butttttttt.......get mad at the film crew who bait and tease........who sit in protected cages and make money off natural creatures who have been swimming and living longer than us.
ARRR!!! ARRR!!! ARRR!!! ARRR!!!

ChelseaxHorror

ChelseaxHorror

Riverside, CA
July 2007

AUG 01, 2007 10:02 PM

i love sharks. i think they are cute. I can't wait to go shark diving.

Metaverse

Metaverse

USA
March 2005

AUG 01, 2007 10:12 PM

I had a 5 foot shark snap my fishing rod in half when I was fishing in Tampa Bay several years ago after it almost pulled me over the pier...sharks are indeed assholes.

utgardsloki087

utgardsloki087

Charlottesville, VA
May 2007

AUG 01, 2007 10:40 PM

So wait, does this mean i'm a shark on land?
Whoah, hold on man... i'm an aquarious, not a pisces!
i wuoldn't touched the damn sark with fucking ten foot pole.
we'll just go tell the dolphins where he's hiding.

hmmm, you wan't me to slow down to digg this, tell that sark to stop swimming so fast.

TheCoolerKing

TheCoolerKing

NEWSWIRE

Los Angeles, CA

AUG 01, 2007 10:48 PM

MikeZoolander said:
so angry you are..you have vaild points butttttttt.......get mad at the film crew who bait and tease........who sit in protected cages and make money off natural creatures who have been swimming and living longer than us.


Not even remotely angry. Shark Week is great.

ShadowDrgn said:
I agree with you 100% about not feeling sorry for him WHEN something happens... . but comeon that was pretty freaking cool!


Oh it was awesome. Not too often do you get to see a guy balance a shark on end like it was a cane.

spamtwo

spamtwo

United Kingdom
April 2006

AUG 01, 2007 10:54 PM


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



my respect for them would go up if they started to fight back biggrin

Pandapeep

Pandapeep

Miamisburg, OH
March 2006

AUG 01, 2007 11:00 PM

I'm a shark, suck my dick, I'm a shark!

jonzes

jonzes

Madison, WI
July 2003

AUG 02, 2007 01:35 AM

Thank god we are making them extinct!

BTW, more people die each year from tripping in holes dug in the sand at the beach than from shark attacks.

RudieCantFail

RudieCantFail

I'm lost
January 2006

AUG 02, 2007 01:43 AM

Matthew_O

Matthew_O

Los Angeles, CA
December 2006

AUG 02, 2007 02:07 AM

Pandapeep said:
I'm a shark, suck my dick, I'm a shark!



I believe you mean...






Also

The first week of august is more important to me than the last week of december.

FreakPirate

FreakPirate

Canada
November 2002

AUG 02, 2007 02:30 AM

MessyJessy said:
Pfft...sharks are practically Mother Teresa compared to James "the Nigger Hating" Dolphin!



I'll be honest... this is one of the funniest things I've read all day.

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