The Official Sharks Thread
 

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My new Saturday Six-Pack has uncovered some genuine love for and interest in sharks, so let's use this thread to discuss them. Favourite type, any experience with real ones, favourite shark films, how you wish you had one for a pet, anything. Share the love of sharks!

As a kid my love of evil-looking death machines was nearly as much about sharks as it was about dinosaurs (alright it was definitely way more about dinosaurs but how the **** do you compete with a Stephen Spielberg mov-... oh) , so I was all the **** about them. They're basically the closest things we have to demons that aren't spiders. I've seen/read so many documentaries/books about them that it's retarded. Mostly stuff for kids and young adults, so I'm not any sort of expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I've still got a fair amount of shark knowledge kicking around in my head. And Jaws is amazing. Made me scared to go into pools with deep ends for years.

Thing about Jaws was that Benchley admitted he knew ****-all about sharks, and made up most of what was in the book and later movie; it all impacted badly on the sharks in general and ended up with people hunting them.

Favourite shark hands down: how ****ing alien do these guys look?
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batty kinda hit the nail on the (hammer)head with his post. there's always just been something fascinating about the sheer power these things have.

here are some awesome shark-related reads for us to geek out over:

Greenland shark may live 400 years, smashing longevity record | Science | AAAS

BBC - Earth - One creature had a bite more powerful than any other

https://www.amnh.org/learn/pd/sharks...yth/index.html

imagine being able to swim anywhere in the ocean anytime you wanted and not having to worry about anything, unreal.

don't even get me started on megalodons cause like, dude.

Is there anything of size that is as moment-of-the-kill machine as a Great White? That literally sounds like the worst way to go of anything that isn't a medieval torture, and maybe even then...

I had a Bala Shark as a child.

Not a true shark, but sharky enough for this thread.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVblXMQ2hb8

When Shark attacks they can't react.

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Speaka da Engleesh! Wtf are you saying here man?

You have to have serious respect for shark researchers, especially this guy.

I forgot we used to have one of these. Scare the **** out of you!
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I mean is there anything else on this earth that would be a better candidate for wait it was trained by evolution to do to fight Superman. For one second.

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That's even less intelligible than your original post! :laughing: :beer: :beer: :beer:

Is there anything else on earth you'd rather die by than a Great White? That is the question, you thick ****.

But Great Whites seldom kill people. Sure, you may die if your leg is eaten off or something, but generally, sharks don't like the taste of people. Not enough blubber. Actually though, you might be to their taste. :laughing:

Also, you're getting drunker.

That's not the point. If you are that one in a billion lottery loser, is that not the worst thing ever? ****ing mics.

There's a lot I'd rather die by. Being ****ed to death by blonde busty twins comes to mind. Dying in my sleep. Lethal injection. Falling off a cliff. And again, it's Mick not mic. Though really it's Paddy, unless you want to be totally racist, which of course you do.

Bro, no one outside Ireland gives a **** what a Paddy is. You're all mics to us.

Recently one of the movie channels decided to play Jaws 2 and Jaws 3 back to back. So I watched both of them and oh man they don't hold up well at all. I don't even think Jaws ever had an effect on me as far as creepy things in the water. Creepshow 1 and 2 did that for me though. I can't remember which one exactly had that story about the black blob in the water but that scared me enough to not want to go into any ponds/bodies of water.

Mic check 1 2.

Yeah, Jaws was never a suspense movie that held up over time. If you saw it at the time, it was the first big blockbuster movie (I think) and certainly the first shark one, so it was a big deal. As more and more came onstream, it lost its impact. But it's still the original and so the king. The big moment in the movie is I think where you see the shark fully for the first time. There's no music, nothing to alert you, comes right out of the blue. Go clean out your underwear. It's that much of a shock. But only the once.
testing, testing ... is this thing on?

Once when I was a kid I went snorkeling in the Florida keys. You could see really deep into the ocean and there were all kinds of fish. Our guide told us they saw sharks all the time but they never bother people. I thought I saw some sharks but I'm not sure if there were really sharks or just my kid imagination. It wasn't scary and I saw a lot of fish.

Another time a guy fishing on the pier supposedly snagged a hammerhead. Everyone was talking about it but I never saw it. I've seen some gators though. I saw gray whales up close off the Oregon coast. Instead of thinking how beautiful they were I was thinking goddamn if one of those couldn't tip this little ass boat over.

Yeah but were the whales doing drugs? :laughing:

My least favourite shark. I mean, seriously, if there is a God: what the **** man? Were you high when you created this??? :yikes:

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Is that Dana Carvey? I can't wait till that unfunny **** gets cancer.

Yay Hammerheads! Go guys, go!

I'm rooting for a Mork and Mindy.

ftfy

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Pasted from Wiki article on Peter Benchley, writer of Jaws.

In the years following publication, Benchley began to feel responsible for the negative attitudes against sharks that his novel engendered. He became an ardent ocean conservationist.[4] In an article for the National Geographic published in 2000, Benchley writes "considering the knowledge accumulated about sharks in the last 25 years, I couldn't possibly write Jaws today ... not in good conscience anyway. Back then, it was generally accepted that great whites were anthropophagus (they ate people) by choice. Now we know that almost every attack on a human is an accident: The shark mistakes the human for its normal prey."[30] Upon his death in 2006, Benchley's widow Wendy declared the author "kept telling people the book was fiction", and comparing Jaws to The Godfather, "he took no more responsibility for the fear of sharks than Mario Puzo took responsibility for the Mafia."[16]