A What?
As you no doubt know, Shark Week started last night. I used to really like Shark Week, but over the last couple of years especially, I’ve been getting really sick of this nonsense about making apologies for sharks, you know, like, “Sharks never attack humans intentionally — they just want to be your friend, and biting is how sharks do that!” or “The man was bitten because the shark wanted to see how he tasted,” or “The shark thought the diver was a seal,” that kind of idiocy. I mean, if it’s just being friendly, or tasting, or thinking you’re a seal, then why does the damned shark keep on munching?
I think they call that advocacy, or something like that.
It’s very simple, really. Shark hungry. Shark see food. Shark bite food. Yum! Dinner! Delicious diver dinner!
Or the nonsense about how sharks aren’t eating machines. Really? Let’s see, what do they do on all those shark shows, eh? They eat! Swim and eat! Yum! Bite! Delicious! I admit you have to have a pretty good tolerance for a certain brand of idiocy to like Shark Week, as I have until recently. Like the morons who get two legs eaten off, then go on TV to tell everybody how much they just love sharks now that they had their legs munched off.
I may, however, be done with Shark Week. I just heard the following abomination:
Predation event.
Right. So now getting your leg munched off is a predation event. That’s even worse than signage. I just hate people who can’t bring themselves to speak basic English. I really do.
Peggy U:
ALL fish are just eating machines. It’s just their food choice that is what makes sharks interesting.
July 30, 2007, 1:26 pmdragonlady474:
Predation event? lol Why don’t they just call it a “Food Chain Error”?
July 30, 2007, 2:04 pmdragonlady474:
Or better yet, Food Chain Discrimination.
July 30, 2007, 2:05 pmMark Roulo:
Sigh.
You (and maybe the shark week people) have it all wrong. Sharks attack only if provoked. The Sydney aquarium spends a lot of time explaining this to visitors. A friend of mine who was living in Sydney at the time explained the rest:
July 30, 2007, 2:43 pmLaw and Order Teacher:
I agree with your dislike of euphemisms. They cloud communication and give cover to people who don’t have the courage of their convictions. Say what you mean is a good philosophy.
July 30, 2007, 9:35 pmPatrick Joubert Conlon:
Oh come now - you know those predation events are just love bites.
July 31, 2007, 1:49 amDano:
Seconded. It was interesting a couple of years ago, but at this point its just gotten silly.
It is Shark week, does that mean I should have a shark steak for dinner? I’m thinking yes… pitty there aren’t any local places that carry shark, and I’m too far away from the ocean to catch my own.
August 1, 2007, 5:32 pm