You look like food and you go where they get their food from. If an alien that looks like a can of beer decides to invide my fridge I'm NOT apologising for cracking him open.
>Hmm, today I will enter the territory of a dangerous animal in an environment I'm not biologically suited for >AAAAAAAAAAAA A WILD ANIMAL HAS MISTAKEN ME FOR A THREAT OR POSSIBLY PREY THAT IT NORMALLY HUNTS AND ATTACKED ME HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED!?!?!?!?!??!!!??!??!?
>It was just a misunderstanding
Nah you're good man, that's partly me getting upset and not communicating properly.
I by no means want sharks to be harmed, I absolutely want them to thrive in the oceans as they have for millions of years. I just don't like when people go out of their way to misrepresent the animal. There's nothing wrong with an animal being a predator, they aren't good or evil.
The best thing humans can do is leave them alone and stay away from where they are.
>ahh! its big and has sharp teeth so its dangerous!
Most dogs are big and have sharp teeth. You arent scared of them cause they're cute and have a good reputation.
Sharks are big and have sharp teeth. You are scared of them cause they're not cute and have a bad reputation.
Both sharks and dogs kill people. Its the appearance and reputation that makes people think of them differently from one another.
>alongside mankind
Theres still attacks out there. >there are about 4.7 million dog bites every year in the U.S. These bites result in approximately 16 fatalities.
https://www.edgarsnyder.com/resources/dog-bite-statistics
>On average, there are 16 shark attacks per year in the United States, with one fatality every two years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_attack
Plus they're more dangerous. cry about it you sack of shit.
Again, you're either so mentally defective that explaining it to you would be fruitless, or you're such a reddit tier "debater" that you'll find any reason to ignore common sense. You are not worth talking to in any capacity, and you border on subhuman regardless of which of the two options I laid out you fall into.
Have a good day, and please don't reproduce.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Then explain it to me b***h. Then I'll come to my senses. Maybe I'm wrong.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Why would I waste my time doing that? If you were capable of learning you wouldn't be a grown ass man making these kinds of moronic posts.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Buddy just fricking explain it to me. Thats all I ask. Its not that fricking hard to explain to someone like me how sharks are dangerous.
9 months ago
Anonymous
I genuinely shouldn't have to, this is something a toddler can wrap their head around.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Ok then. I'm wrong. Sharks are dangerous. Yes, multiple rows of sharp teeth are in fact dangerous. Yes attacks are rare but they can still happen.
9 months ago
Anonymous
That's literally all I've been saying this entire fricking time dude. I'm not saying that they're bloodthirsty murder machines, I'm saying that they are in fact apex predators and they should be respected for that and not treated like a fricking golden retriever on your morning walk. Stay the frick out of their environment and leave them in peace, that's all I want.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Thanks man. Sorry for not listening to you sooner.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Ngl, the way you're handling this makes me feel bad for being a dick. You're actually alright, my bad man
9 months ago
Anonymous
>I'm saying that they are in fact apex predators and they should be respected for that and not treated like a fricking golden retriever on your morning walk.
who the frick is not respecting them? who the frick is treating them like a golden retriever? you sound like you saw one article about a shark attack and then made up this whole mythos in your head about how people think they're le water doggos.
>The best thing humans can do is leave them alone and stay away from where they are.
people do leave them alone. do you think surfers are swimming out there to find sharks and give them le heckin headpats? with your fricking brain-damaged logic we might as well not go hiking in Montana because there's a chance a grizzly could attack us. i might as well not go hiking here in my home state of Texas anywhere (or anywhere else in the southwest) because there's a chance i step on a well-concealed rattlesnake and get bit.
fricking christ man you are mentally ill and just want to stir up shit for no reason. you need to go back to your containment board.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>who the frick is not respecting them
Every motherfricker trying to paint them as harmless. Would you make this same argument about something like a cougar or a moose? >fricking christ man you are mentally ill and just want to stir up shit for no reason. you need to go back to your containment board.
I didn't realize that being reasonable was a mental illness now
8 months ago
Anonymous
>Every motherfricker trying to paint them as harmless.
no they are not, that is a strawman you built up in your head from either reading cherrypicked reddit comments or you saw one shit clickbait article about someone saying sharks maybe aren't that bad and you're now extrapolating it to the entire world.
i can't stand autists like you that have defective thought patterns where you shit and piss all over the place when people don't see things 100% like you do. 200 years ago if a toddler was found to be slow in any way, the mother gave them the pillow treatment. it's a shame we don't still do this.
8 months ago
Anonymous
I browse those god-awful clickbait animal articles and fricking dodo dogshit and yeah they do sometimes say 'sharks are just water puppies uwu. Harmless sharkie warkies!!!!' So maybe that's what he's frothing over? As far as I can tell no one itt has made anything close to that claim though.
8 months ago
Anonymous
On YouTube, there's a cottage industry of ichthyologists or general science video producers making videos about how sharks are harmless and shit.
These are only two that I knew off the top of my head, there are far more out there
8 months ago
Anonymous
It's fine to go ape off on those dudes by why on dudes itt when no one here has made those claims? Thats why people are calling you a strawman. You're screaming in their face as if they made an argument that someone in the next town over made that you happened to overhear with your paranoid schizophrenia.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>It's fine to go ape off on those dudes by why on dudes itt when no one here has made those claims?
I was initially mocking the people who do, and then people came in to white knight for the concept without actually trying to understand what I was criticizing. Just look at the first post in the thread.
Yeah, I'm a bit irritated, and maybe I'm handling that poorly, but it is frustrating
8 months ago
Anonymous
It's fine to go ape off on those dudes by why on dudes itt when no one here has made those claims? Thats why people are calling you a strawman. You're screaming in their face as if they made an argument that someone in the next town over made that you happened to overhear with your paranoid schizophrenia.
Idk man, as I've said a couple of times, I don't want sharks to be hurt. I admire them greatly. I do consider them dangerous, but that in no way diminishes their right to exist as they have for untold eons. I respect them for what they are.
8 months ago
Anonymous
So I'm defective for being annoyed by a real phenomenon, but you fantasizing about killing infants is totally normal?
8 months ago
Anonymous
NTA but go look up what happened to downs kids before the Industrial Age. How we treat them now is like royalty
8 months ago
Anonymous
>Every motherfricker trying to paint them as harmless.
no they are not, that is a strawman you built up in your head from either reading cherrypicked reddit comments or you saw one shit clickbait article about someone saying sharks maybe aren't that bad and you're now extrapolating it to the entire world.
i can't stand autists like you that have defective thought patterns where you shit and piss all over the place when people don't see things 100% like you do. 200 years ago if a toddler was found to be slow in any way, the mother gave them the pillow treatment. it's a shame we don't still do this.
forgot pic related, it's you
9 months ago
Anonymous
>deny reality >accuse others of being mentally ill
Honest question, why do you homosexuals do this? You cannot possibly benefit from this shit in any way, so what's the motivation?
You're the kind of person who would argue with somebody saying that the sky is blue and ask them for a peer reviewed study on the subject
9 months ago
Anonymous
Thats a bad comparison since the sky is blue is fricking known by 100% of people, and the fear of sharks isnt THAT widespread. Its still there regardless, its not as known as the fact that the sky is blue.
9 months ago
Anonymous
The point is about common sense, someone with common sense can look at a shark and through a combination of intellect and instinct realize that it is a threat.
You legitimately lack a basic function of having a brain, not even as a human, but as an animal.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Or maybe he's able to use his brain for conscious thought and analysis, rather than monkey tier instincts. Your argument is essentially >sharks bad because I feel that way!!! And whatever I feel must be right because nature!!!
The people hardcore simping for sharks are ironically applying human ethics and morals to an animal. They want to defend them, but part of them cannot condone defending something that could be harmful, so they deny reality.
It's legitimately anthrocentrism
Other way round. It's an oceanic apex predator. Why do you expect it to be anything other than what it is? You're the one trying to apply right and wrong to an animal that needs to eat whatever it can in order to survive.
Reminder that people generally are moronic, and the JAWS films badly fricked the perception of sharks and even caused them harm. It's well documented and not really up for debate.
>Reminder that people generally are moronic, and the JAWS films badly fricked the perception of sharks and even caused them harm.
it's the same gaggle of homosexuals crying about feathers on dinosaurs because they think Jurassic Park was real. stupid fricking brainlets that think movies accurately depict things
why is this board the only place on the internet that has this "uhm aschskually sharks are le dangerous and no i don't have any stats to back it up stop asking" sentiment?
They are dangerous you dumb mongoloid, they're highly evolved apex ocean predators.
People like you are the fricking morons for thinking that in order to conserve something, you have to pretend it isn't what it is. They are fricking dangerous, and that's fine.
>they're highly evolved apex ocean predators.
sure but they aren't actively hunting humans. how do i know this? because shark attacks are incredibly rare. you're fearmongering for no reason. mental midgets like you are equating them to shitbulls for no reason other than you're a homosexualy election tourist that came here in 2020 and loves stirring up shit because it's the only hobby you have
>sure but they aren't actively hunting humans
That is irrelevant in terms of defining danger. They are powerful creatures adapted to hunting in the water, and that makes them dangerous, and worthy of respect.
a better comparison is worrying about sharks biting you is like worrying about large machines like cars or trucks falling on you.
same probability, same level of danger
9 months ago
Anonymous
Yes, and we consider those things dangerous as a result.
Sharks actively hunt humans under specific circumstances, that's not to say they kill every human they see, but if a shark is hungry and you are the closest food source you might not be able to get out of the water in one piece. All that bullshit about animals with 6 fricking senses not being able to tell the difference between a human and a seal is fricking bullshit. And this is just regarding predation, there are also attacks that are motivated by what the victim was doing, like invading the sharks territory or annoying the animal.
You realize the whole "test bite" thing is made up, right? When sharks don't know what prey is they try to exsanguinate it and hang back. They are trying to kill people when they bite them.
I wouldn't go that far, but the test bite thing is underplayed. They literally bite you to see if they like the taste, after spending a very long time observing you, from a distance, to determine if you are worth biting. The ones that stick around and camp you, are the ones that actually finish the job, luckily the vast majority of GWs don't seem to like our taste.
You do not have to interact with sharks or shark habitat. It’s a moronic hobby
However I can’t choose to live in a world without pitbulls. Everyone lies their way around BSL. >no true pitbull!
And just shooting dogs until only collies, huskies, labs, and shepherds are left is a “felony” so says the pig that pulled me over last time.
Yeah humans should be pretty yes but not too much, It's their fault for getting the shark's prey drive going by looking close to seals, next time they should wear proper clothing.
They're moronic glorified robots. There brains are almost completely structured around senses and reflexes. They can't do nuffin wrong if they're mindless. The attacks are often being dumbasses that just sample one bite or confusing you for a seal.
I dont think multiple rows of sharp, serrated teeth are used to pick off extremely small crustaceans that are literally crumbs to them, as well as what is basically grass which has no nutrition value to them. You have great white sharks confused with whales, basking sharks, and whale sharks.
If its sharp and serrated then its used to cut off large chunks of flesh like meat.
I dont fricking know where you got "they eat kelp and krill" from but okay buddy.
no, they're just passive
they only bite extremely rarely if they're super hungry or if they feel like you're good enough to eat
they arent scared of some weird scale-less hairy thing with four limbs that is like way smaller than them
i dont know that much about sharks so correct me if im wrong but i know for damn sure sharks arent scared of you unless they're way smaller than you
You look like food and you go where they get their food from. If an alien that looks like a can of beer decides to invide my fridge I'm NOT apologising for cracking him open.
>aww she's smiling!
I think these cages are unethical tbh
Aww, he's smiling 🙂
Vending machines are like an order of magnitude more dangerous than sharks.
So you'd feel safer in a tank of water with a vending machine than with a shark?
Can't be any less dangerous in a tank of water than a toaster.
The vending machine, that is.
If you have to redefine the word dangerous to win an argument you have bigger problems in life
>Hmm, today I will enter the territory of a dangerous animal in an environment I'm not biologically suited for
>AAAAAAAAAAAA A WILD ANIMAL HAS MISTAKEN ME FOR A THREAT OR POSSIBLY PREY THAT IT NORMALLY HUNTS AND ATTACKED ME HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED!?!?!?!?!??!!!??!??!?
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Thanks, its no trouble
It was just a misunderstanding
>It was just a misunderstanding
Nah you're good man, that's partly me getting upset and not communicating properly.
I by no means want sharks to be harmed, I absolutely want them to thrive in the oceans as they have for millions of years. I just don't like when people go out of their way to misrepresent the animal. There's nothing wrong with an animal being a predator, they aren't good or evil.
The best thing humans can do is leave them alone and stay away from where they are.
This is actually the best opinion I've ever heard about sharks so far. Have a nice day.
You too buddy, sorry again for being a wienersucker about it
Its ok, you dont have to apologize anymore, its fine
>ahh! its big and has sharp teeth so its dangerous!
Most dogs are big and have sharp teeth. You arent scared of them cause they're cute and have a good reputation.
Sharks are big and have sharp teeth. You are scared of them cause they're not cute and have a bad reputation.
Both sharks and dogs kill people. Its the appearance and reputation that makes people think of them differently from one another.
Are you really comparing a mammal that has evolved alongside mankind for tens of thousands of years with a fish just because they have teeth?
>alongside mankind
Theres still attacks out there.
>there are about 4.7 million dog bites every year in the U.S. These bites result in approximately 16 fatalities.
https://www.edgarsnyder.com/resources/dog-bite-statistics
>On average, there are 16 shark attacks per year in the United States, with one fatality every two years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_attack
Plus they're more dangerous. cry about it you sack of shit.
You are either incredibly moronic or a very disingenuous person
I guess I'm disingenuous then. Give me some evidence that sharks are bloodthirsty murder machines that kill, what? 9999999 people every year?
Again, you're either so mentally defective that explaining it to you would be fruitless, or you're such a reddit tier "debater" that you'll find any reason to ignore common sense. You are not worth talking to in any capacity, and you border on subhuman regardless of which of the two options I laid out you fall into.
Have a good day, and please don't reproduce.
Then explain it to me b***h. Then I'll come to my senses. Maybe I'm wrong.
Why would I waste my time doing that? If you were capable of learning you wouldn't be a grown ass man making these kinds of moronic posts.
Buddy just fricking explain it to me. Thats all I ask. Its not that fricking hard to explain to someone like me how sharks are dangerous.
I genuinely shouldn't have to, this is something a toddler can wrap their head around.
Ok then. I'm wrong. Sharks are dangerous. Yes, multiple rows of sharp teeth are in fact dangerous. Yes attacks are rare but they can still happen.
That's literally all I've been saying this entire fricking time dude. I'm not saying that they're bloodthirsty murder machines, I'm saying that they are in fact apex predators and they should be respected for that and not treated like a fricking golden retriever on your morning walk. Stay the frick out of their environment and leave them in peace, that's all I want.
Thanks man. Sorry for not listening to you sooner.
Ngl, the way you're handling this makes me feel bad for being a dick. You're actually alright, my bad man
>I'm saying that they are in fact apex predators and they should be respected for that and not treated like a fricking golden retriever on your morning walk.
who the frick is not respecting them? who the frick is treating them like a golden retriever? you sound like you saw one article about a shark attack and then made up this whole mythos in your head about how people think they're le water doggos.
>The best thing humans can do is leave them alone and stay away from where they are.
people do leave them alone. do you think surfers are swimming out there to find sharks and give them le heckin headpats? with your fricking brain-damaged logic we might as well not go hiking in Montana because there's a chance a grizzly could attack us. i might as well not go hiking here in my home state of Texas anywhere (or anywhere else in the southwest) because there's a chance i step on a well-concealed rattlesnake and get bit.
fricking christ man you are mentally ill and just want to stir up shit for no reason. you need to go back to your containment board.
>who the frick is not respecting them
Every motherfricker trying to paint them as harmless. Would you make this same argument about something like a cougar or a moose?
>fricking christ man you are mentally ill and just want to stir up shit for no reason. you need to go back to your containment board.
I didn't realize that being reasonable was a mental illness now
>Every motherfricker trying to paint them as harmless.
no they are not, that is a strawman you built up in your head from either reading cherrypicked reddit comments or you saw one shit clickbait article about someone saying sharks maybe aren't that bad and you're now extrapolating it to the entire world.
i can't stand autists like you that have defective thought patterns where you shit and piss all over the place when people don't see things 100% like you do. 200 years ago if a toddler was found to be slow in any way, the mother gave them the pillow treatment. it's a shame we don't still do this.
I browse those god-awful clickbait animal articles and fricking dodo dogshit and yeah they do sometimes say 'sharks are just water puppies uwu. Harmless sharkie warkies!!!!' So maybe that's what he's frothing over? As far as I can tell no one itt has made anything close to that claim though.
On YouTube, there's a cottage industry of ichthyologists or general science video producers making videos about how sharks are harmless and shit.
These are only two that I knew off the top of my head, there are far more out there
It's fine to go ape off on those dudes by why on dudes itt when no one here has made those claims? Thats why people are calling you a strawman. You're screaming in their face as if they made an argument that someone in the next town over made that you happened to overhear with your paranoid schizophrenia.
>It's fine to go ape off on those dudes by why on dudes itt when no one here has made those claims?
I was initially mocking the people who do, and then people came in to white knight for the concept without actually trying to understand what I was criticizing. Just look at the first post in the thread.
Yeah, I'm a bit irritated, and maybe I'm handling that poorly, but it is frustrating
Idk man, as I've said a couple of times, I don't want sharks to be hurt. I admire them greatly. I do consider them dangerous, but that in no way diminishes their right to exist as they have for untold eons. I respect them for what they are.
So I'm defective for being annoyed by a real phenomenon, but you fantasizing about killing infants is totally normal?
NTA but go look up what happened to downs kids before the Industrial Age. How we treat them now is like royalty
forgot pic related, it's you
>deny reality
>accuse others of being mentally ill
Honest question, why do you homosexuals do this? You cannot possibly benefit from this shit in any way, so what's the motivation?
You're the kind of person who would argue with somebody saying that the sky is blue and ask them for a peer reviewed study on the subject
Thats a bad comparison since the sky is blue is fricking known by 100% of people, and the fear of sharks isnt THAT widespread. Its still there regardless, its not as known as the fact that the sky is blue.
The point is about common sense, someone with common sense can look at a shark and through a combination of intellect and instinct realize that it is a threat.
You legitimately lack a basic function of having a brain, not even as a human, but as an animal.
Or maybe he's able to use his brain for conscious thought and analysis, rather than monkey tier instincts. Your argument is essentially
>sharks bad because I feel that way!!! And whatever I feel must be right because nature!!!
Why? His stats seem legit. Dogs kill loads more people per year than sharks do.
The people hardcore simping for sharks are ironically applying human ethics and morals to an animal. They want to defend them, but part of them cannot condone defending something that could be harmful, so they deny reality.
It's legitimately anthrocentrism
Yeah, it's just as moronic as people who call sharks murderers or compare them to serial killers
Other way round. It's an oceanic apex predator. Why do you expect it to be anything other than what it is? You're the one trying to apply right and wrong to an animal that needs to eat whatever it can in order to survive.
Anon, you're agreeing with me, I was saying hating sharks is as stupid as pretending they're harmless
Reminder that people generally are moronic, and the JAWS films badly fricked the perception of sharks and even caused them harm. It's well documented and not really up for debate.
>Reminder that people generally are moronic, and the JAWS films badly fricked the perception of sharks and even caused them harm.
it's the same gaggle of homosexuals crying about feathers on dinosaurs because they think Jurassic Park was real. stupid fricking brainlets that think movies accurately depict things
why is this board the only place on the internet that has this "uhm aschskually sharks are le dangerous and no i don't have any stats to back it up stop asking" sentiment?
They are dangerous you dumb mongoloid, they're highly evolved apex ocean predators.
People like you are the fricking morons for thinking that in order to conserve something, you have to pretend it isn't what it is. They are fricking dangerous, and that's fine.
>they're highly evolved apex ocean predators.
sure but they aren't actively hunting humans. how do i know this? because shark attacks are incredibly rare. you're fearmongering for no reason. mental midgets like you are equating them to shitbulls for no reason other than you're a homosexualy election tourist that came here in 2020 and loves stirring up shit because it's the only hobby you have
>sure but they aren't actively hunting humans
That is irrelevant in terms of defining danger. They are powerful creatures adapted to hunting in the water, and that makes them dangerous, and worthy of respect.
worrying about sharks in the water is like worrying about an incel lighting up the shopping mall with his AR. they're just very unlikely to happen
You are a very stupid person
a better comparison is worrying about sharks biting you is like worrying about large machines like cars or trucks falling on you.
same probability, same level of danger
Yes, and we consider those things dangerous as a result.
True.
Sharks actively hunt humans under specific circumstances, that's not to say they kill every human they see, but if a shark is hungry and you are the closest food source you might not be able to get out of the water in one piece. All that bullshit about animals with 6 fricking senses not being able to tell the difference between a human and a seal is fricking bullshit. And this is just regarding predation, there are also attacks that are motivated by what the victim was doing, like invading the sharks territory or annoying the animal.
You realize the whole "test bite" thing is made up, right? When sharks don't know what prey is they try to exsanguinate it and hang back. They are trying to kill people when they bite them.
I wouldn't go that far, but the test bite thing is underplayed. They literally bite you to see if they like the taste, after spending a very long time observing you, from a distance, to determine if you are worth biting. The ones that stick around and camp you, are the ones that actually finish the job, luckily the vast majority of GWs don't seem to like our taste.
i dont think they even give a shit about the taste, if the prey is edible then its free game
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You do not have to interact with sharks or shark habitat. It’s a moronic hobby
However I can’t choose to live in a world without pitbulls. Everyone lies their way around BSL.
>no true pitbull!
And just shooting dogs until only collies, huskies, labs, and shepherds are left is a “felony” so says the pig that pulled me over last time.
More dangerous than sharks.
Unironically, sharks don't live in human habitats but pitbulls do.
If you can't read shark body language and react accordingly then its your own fault if you get attacked
Yeah humans should be pretty yes but not too much, It's their fault for getting the shark's prey drive going by looking close to seals, next time they should wear proper clothing.
unironically this.
People who swim/surf in shark habitats and then complain about the fact that there are sharks there are utterly absurd.
awwwww he's smiling
They're moronic glorified robots. There brains are almost completely structured around senses and reflexes. They can't do nuffin wrong if they're mindless. The attacks are often being dumbasses that just sample one bite or confusing you for a seal.
Sharks are more afraid of you than you are of them
Yes I'm sure the 2 ton torpedo with teeth is scared of flailing mammals a tenth of their size
Great whites are shy, secretive animals who only eat kelp and krill. They only attack mammals in self-defense and as a last resort.
I dont think multiple rows of sharp, serrated teeth are used to pick off extremely small crustaceans that are literally crumbs to them, as well as what is basically grass which has no nutrition value to them. You have great white sharks confused with whales, basking sharks, and whale sharks.
If its sharp and serrated then its used to cut off large chunks of flesh like meat.
I dont fricking know where you got "they eat kelp and krill" from but okay buddy.
you are a fish.
no, they're just passive
they only bite extremely rarely if they're super hungry or if they feel like you're good enough to eat
they arent scared of some weird scale-less hairy thing with four limbs that is like way smaller than them
i dont know that much about sharks so correct me if im wrong but i know for damn sure sharks arent scared of you unless they're way smaller than you
no we're not