Post: #26

^ That shit is hilarious.

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Rudyard Kipling

Post: #27

OK. I'm sold.

I will add "Aussie surfer dude who punched a shark to survive the shark attack" to the list of people who are still more heroic than Bruce Jenner.

Post: #28

(07-19-2015 02:02 PM)Kabal Wrote:  Yeah, striking is definitely the way to go if you get into a water fight with a shark.

You don't want to grapple with it, since you concede a weight advantage and his shark friends can take bites at your face while you're tangled up.

Also it's ridiculously difficult to pull off a finbar in the ocean. The water makes everything slippery and without a gi it's tough to take a good grip.

Post: #29

Fox and Friends has a helpful suggestion on what should be done about these sharks.

Post: #30

Question, do sharks have emotions? Like if you punch them, will they ever get angry and aggressive in return? On one hand, they are just fish and fish are all pretty stupid as far as self-awareness goes. The shark may not even be intelligent enough to be capable of retribution. With higher mammals, if you were to say punch a dog, you'd piss it off and it might in return bite you out of anger. Elephants are known for taking revenge on those that angered them sometimes days later. But I don't know if a shark is capable of getting pissed off in the way a mammal can.

Post: #31

(07-23-2015 02:16 PM)speakeasy Wrote:  Question, do sharks have emotions? Like if you punch them, will they ever get angry and aggressive in return? On one hand, they are just fish and fish are all pretty stupid as far as self-awareness goes. The shark may not even be intelligent enough to be capable of retribution. With higher mammals, if you were to say punch a dog, you'd piss it off and it might in return bite you out of anger. Elephants are known for taking revenge on those that angered them sometimes days later. But I don't know if a shark is capable of getting pissed off in the way a mammal can.

Im no expert by any means but intuitively Id say no they likely aren't capable of anger. Anger is probably on a higher level of cognitive development.

The punching works because they have a real evolutionary mechanism to avoid injury. If they get injured in any meaniful way it's essentially a death sentence for them. If they're bleeding enough their own kind will turn on them and frenzy feed. That's why their preferred method of hunting is a surprise attack with a single bite, then pull back and wait for the prey to bleed out and /or weaken to the point they cant fight back. That's the reason the majority of people who are attacked by sharks survive.