Amazing. My brother-in-law was just telling me recently about a couple of people who were taken by Great Whites (or white pointers as they're called Down Under) off the coast of South Australia. My b-in-l does not allow his daughters to swim off the side of his boat any more!
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White Pointies! As Brandon (the light weight drinking, NAUI diver, fooling us into going in to a gay bar bastard!) once told us in Sydney!?!
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I'm a wussy. I haven't been able to set foot in the ocean since seeing Jaws back when it played in the theater.
There's another video on youtube showing a young woman getting attacked and losing her leg off the coast of Chile to a great white. It's pretty sad and it's filtered content on YT.
I refuse to lower myself on the food chain by putting myself out of my element.
Things like that are why I don't feel bad about not being able to swim. You feel comfortable, you go out and have fun, BLAM, you're chum.
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Bill...is that a guy (you) holding up a furry woodland creature killed with a hatchet?
Gobbla, it was the first day of Hatchet/ skunk season here in Arkansas. I got my limit right away and I was showing off a bit but I eat everything I kill unlike some hunters.
Just kidding I found the picture and it seemed to represent the way I look at life so in a sense it is me.
just had to ask. for whatever reason that picture just brings a whole host of questions to my mind.
cynic> that's what I'm talking about. we're humans. for the most part, most of us have to go pretty far out of our way to get eaten by something on land. you have to work for it, so if your dumb ass gets eaten by a lion or some crazy shit like that then the gene pool is a little better off.
just had to ask. for whatever reason that picture just brings a whole host of questions to my mind.
cynic> that's what I'm talking about. we're humans. for the most part, most of us have to go pretty far out of our way to get eaten by something on land. you have to work for it, so if your dumb ass gets eaten by a lion or some crazy shit like that then the gene pool is a little better off.
I know what you mean it's kinda scary, possibly to scary, so maybe those questions that arise from it should be allowed to die unanswered.
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"Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right." - Henry Ford
"UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." - Dr. Seuss
"Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." - George Bernard Shaw
Holy Sh**
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