Really! I think I am done!
I went out for a kite on Monday, was a bit gusty but should still have been a good time messing about in the decent swell. I did not really get to enjoy myself very much as I kept seeing sharks everywhere and body dragging for my board put me in a near panick (i do kite alone).
I ended my sess after only an hour and sat and pondered the situation, I know there was no shark, it was just weed or a cormorant, we have had a fair bit of shark activity in WA but really I should just get on with it and stop letting this stuff get in my head.
And maybe I was getting my head around it, but nooooooo
Fastforward to 8am this morning, I look out over the sea not more than 10m from shore, a bastard 1 to 1.5m shark jumps clear out the water. Now I am not saying it was a great white or whatever, I have no idea, but REALLY! I don't think I can deal with this anymore.
Am I alone? (hallshead Mandurah)
Yep,
I am moving away in December.
Not interested in these shark infested waters anymore.
Noone here can even come close to challenging me in a boost off anyway..
It's funny you should say that because I spoke with a few sharks yesterday and they were all like, "I keep seeing all of these fat, pasty, knobheads crowding my habitat. They are swimming, spearing, kiting, kayaking, and surfing right where I eat seals and they look so bloody similar. Not to mention the fact that they've trolled up all the fish, they constantly dump sewage and chemical fertilizer around the joint ****ing up my whole habitat and therefore life/food chain/reproductive cycle/future of my offspring. They flock to my dinner table and then complain if I even get close for a look. They have bloody helicopters looking for us and bogans on boats looking to shoot us if we manage to make it to adult size. Not to mention the bloody fisherman who drag berley bags full of delicious stuff everywhere and then act surprised when we check it out. These stupid humans scuba dive in my dining room, carrying off my food and wonder why we get a bit territorial. These insignificant mammals that have only even been around for like 100,000 years think that they have the right to cull us, despite the fact that we have been unchanged by evolution for millions of years because we're just that perfect."
Oh ****, sharks are making you nervous? how do you think they would view the situation?
Hey I get the shark story and I was until recently the one saying, “Hey until I see a shark attack someone on the streets of Perth, I don't see a problem?” I also get the many human caused reasons for supporting the increase in attacks.
My point is I am having problems justifying the pursuit of a leisure activity, that I now feel could enable me to become food. I could almost understand a laymen dismissing my actions as stupidity “It's not like he did not know we have sharks!”
Please I don't want this to become a, “what to do” and “why we have sharks” thread, all I am saying is we seem to have more shark activity and as a result my bottle seems to have gone.
The wind has just kicked in and I am NOT going in the water. I really could do with a kite, even just as a bit of fitness, but instead I will go to the gym. I hate the gym!
I am sure the younger crowd will prob not give a toss, but for those who are now old or smart enough to fully appreciate their mortality, please let me know how you are compartmentalising or justifying a kite session?
**Juddy you're a funny man ;) interesting that you know about these websites……….
Its a forum about kite boarding, not a forum bout going to the gym.
Gym stories are boring.
In other news I've managed to sneak in 3 after work kitesurfs in a row over the last 3 afternoons! Yee haw
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Oh ****, sharks are making you nervous? how do you think they would view the situation?
Their cro-magnon brains view the situation as: Food! Me hungry! And that is a far cry from what you see as "perfect", considering they cannot even wipe their own asses and are reduced to defecating in their own "habitat".
By the way, while sharks have done nothing but kill for the last 15 million years, in 100,000 years those "stupid" mammals have evolved from monkeys to determine the the origin, history and future of the universe. That is something that warrants genuine respect.
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Oh ****, sharks are making you nervous? how do you think they would view the situation?
Their cro-magnon brains view the situation as: Food! Me hungry! And that is a far cry from what you see as "perfect", considering they cannot even wipe their own asses and are reduced to defecating in their own "habitat".
By the way, while sharks have done nothing but kill for the last 15 million years, in 100,000 years those "stupid" mammals have evolved from monkeys to determine the the origin, history and future of the universe. That is something that warrants genuine respect.
Humans poison their own water supply with feces every day. Unchanged by millions of years of evolution = perfect. It'll take people another hundred million to stop ****ting in their drinking water and eating poison and calling it food. People are a far cry from evolved.
Select to expand quoteApatheticEnd said...Beelzebub said...
Oh ****, sharks are making you nervous? how do you think they would view the situation?
Their cro-magnon brains view the situation as: Food! Me hungry! And that is a far cry from what you see as "perfect", considering they cannot even wipe their own asses and are reduced to defecating in their own "habitat".
By the way, while sharks have done nothing but kill for the last 15 million years, in 100,000 years those "stupid" mammals have evolved from monkeys to determine the the origin, history and future of the universe. That is something that warrants genuine respect.
Humans poison their own water supply with feces every day. Unchanged by millions of years of evolution = perfect. It'll take people another hundred million to stop ****ting in their drinking water and eating poison and calling it food. People are a far cry from evolved.
Go **** a shark then if you love them so much...
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Oh ****, sharks are making you nervous? how do you think they would view the situation?
Their cro-magnon brains view the situation as: Food! Me hungry! And that is a far cry from what you see as "perfect", considering they cannot even wipe their own asses and are reduced to defecating in their own "habitat".
By the way, while sharks have done nothing but kill for the last 15 million years, in 100,000 years those "stupid" mammals have evolved from monkeys to determine the the origin, history and future of the universe. That is something that warrants genuine respect.
What? You are so far off the mark buddy! Cro-magnons are a sub-species of Neanderthal man- an upper paleolithic hominin species - nothing to do with a fish!
Also, mammals evolved from fish - not the other way around, unless you subscribe to the "aquatic ape theory" - even then, that still doesn't explain fish as having evolved from mammalian proto species, its more of a 1960's, half assed, hairy bushed way of explaining bipedal locomotion in hominins.
Your definition of "perfect" explains why you failed high school biology too: an organism is seen as "fit" in its habitat so long as it can gain enough energy to survive, grow and reproduce. Sharks are super awesome at this. So good in fact, that they can even utilise alternative food sources that they encounter in their habitat. Also, the fossil record for shark species shows that millions of years have passed and shark morphology has barely changed. This would suggest that the environmental selection pressures have already weeded out the alleles which give rise to deleterious mutations/ phenotypes.
So we can now all accept that sharks are as close to perfectly evolved (or more so than any other genus known to scientists) and that you Beezlebub can lick my balls.
Select to expand quoteChris_M said...Beelzebub said...
Oh ****, sharks are making you nervous? how do you think they would view the situation?
Their cro-magnon brains view the situation as: Food! Me hungry! And that is a far cry from what you see as "perfect", considering they cannot even wipe their own asses and are reduced to defecating in their own "habitat".
By the way, while sharks have done nothing but kill for the last 15 million years, in 100,000 years those "stupid" mammals have evolved from monkeys to determine the the origin, history and future of the universe. That is something that warrants genuine respect.
What? You are so far off the mark buddy! Cro-magnons are a sub-species of Neanderthal man- an upper paleolithic hominin species - nothing to do with a fish!
Also, mammals evolved from fish - not the other way around, unless you subscribe to the "aquatic ape theory" - even then, that still doesn't explain fish as having evolved from mammalian proto species, its more of a 1960's, half assed, hairy bushed way of explaining bipedal locomotion in hominins.
Your definition of "perfect" explains why you failed high school biology too: an organism is seen as "fit" in its habitat so long as it can gain enough energy to survive, grow and reproduce. Sharks are super awesome at this. So good in fact, that they can even utilise alternative food sources that they encounter in their habitat. Also, the fossil record for shark species shows that millions of years have passed and shark morphology has barely changed. This would suggest that the environmental selection pressures have already weeded out the alleles which give rise to deleterious mutations/ phenotypes.
So we can now all accept that sharks are as close to perfectly evolved (or more so than any other genus known to scientists) and that you Beezlebub can lick my balls.
FLAWLESS VICTORY
"an organism is seen as "fit" in its habitat so long as it can gain enough energy to survive, grow and reproduce. Sharks are super awesome at this. "
This is an interesting statement and fly's in the face of current thinking.
Are you suggesting that sharks are so super evolved and can reproduce? very handy skill to have by the way!
And they no longer have the ability to evolve? therefore lack the ability to adapt?
If this is the case and you stand by the super shark theory why would they need to be protected from a lesser animal such as a Human.
"So we can now all accept that sharks are as close to perfectly evolved (or more so than any other genus known to scientists) and that you Beezlebub can lick my balls."
I may be biased, however I will put it out there Humans are great! honestly its true!
lots of scientists will probably agree.
If it wasn't for Humans we would not have the ability to debate how great sharks are on this wonderful forum!
Stop hating humans who have an inherent fear of Sharks (which by they way shows a higher level of evolution)
why you were all debating whether this shark would eat you or not, we sat on the beach and drank half a dozen cold ones (due to injury) while watching 20-30 people ENJOY THEMSELVES on the water like they have every other day and not get eaten.
Forum old guys with nothing else to do - 0
Everybody else - 1
Hey VW Pete,
try "gasp" straps or "shock horror" a leash, and you won't be part of the soup for those scary wary body drags much longer than it'd take to bait a shark hook m8!
than get eaten by a shark. eat my balls
