It is Shark Week!

[Yeti]

I saw flying sharks tonight. They were feasting on seals and my wife did not like it one bit.

[TurdBerglar]

sharks rock


they'd be better if they were poisonous

[jackrock]

Yeah! I was waiting for someone to post about this. The mythbusters new episodes were pretty good

[Yeti]

A poisonous shark would be the ultimate killer.

This dude in South Africa dives with great whites without a cage. He also lures them to come up close and pushes their nose. They open their mouth and flip over. Crazy stuff.

[TurdBerglar]

i had pet sharks but the crayfish chopped them in half

[Yeti]

When I lived in South Florida I would go watch the bull sharks migrate in the fall. About 300 yards out it looked like a black cloud in the sky blue water.

[TurdBerglar]

and people swam in these waters?

[avignon]

When is it octopus week?

[Yeti]

When I moved to the area there where 3 attacks within 2 weeks.

During the migration period they fly the shark flag and close the beach for swimming. Some lunatics still find places to swim and surf.

[ggirlballa]

wut channel is mythbusters on?

[TurdBerglar]

"fly the shark flag"

that's just badass

[Yeti]

When is it octopus week?

Funny you should ask..they are showing a giant squid special soon.

[QueenAdrock]

My friend works for the Discovery Channel in DC and I was there the other day and they have a HUGE shark fin protruding out of the side of the building. Neato.

[Yeti]

wut channel is mythbusters on?

It is all on the Discovery Channel.

[ggirlballa]

It is all on the Discovery Channel.

oh i need to check it out then

[Yeti]

I'm watching right now. They are showing shark attack survivors. Gnarley scares, crazy re-enactments and people with missing limbs.

[TurdBerglar]

alligator snapping turtles kick ass too

[Yeti]

alligator snapping turtles kick ass too

I had a lake behind my house in Florida. I was sitting in my garage and I saw a huge snapping turtle walking down my street. I went out and picked him up. His head started flipping back and forth trying to get my hand. I hated when snappers would get on my fishing line.

A lady was jogging near where I lived and an alligator got ahold of her. She didn't make it.

[TurdBerglar]

was she jogging in the swamp?

[Yeti]

was she jogging in the swamp?

There are canals all over South Florida. She was jogging on the road along a canal.

[TurdBerglar]

so a populated path that's used frequently?

[Drederick Tatum]

let's have some sweet shark pics already.

eat. (http://www.apexpredators.com/images/sharkbalseal.jpg)

boost. (http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/interactive/quiz/asset/e58506a0913d8b4d20a477d410960d39aa305691.jpg)

chomp. (http://static.flickr.com/41/75636484_c63d855128_m.jpg)

[Yeti]

Oh, yeah. It was nothing to see alligators in the lakes. I used to go ride my bike in this huge park. Guys would be playing soccer and fishing near the bank of an inlet. The biggest alligator you have ever seen would always be laying there on the bank. People would not even care. The fisherman would tell me if there is an alligator nearby then that means there is fish. This alligator had to be over 15 feet long.

[Yeti]

let's have some sweet shark pics already.

eat. (http://www.apexpredators.com/images/sharkbalseal.jpg)

boost. (http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/interactive/quiz/asset/e58506a0913d8b4d20a477d410960d39aa305691.jpg)

chomp. (http://static.flickr.com/41/75636484_c63d855128_m.jpg)

Those are the freakin flyin sharks. NICE(y)

[TurdBerglar]

jesus shit



the only thing i have to worry about around here is crackheads and pitbulls

[Yeti]

I bumped it from last year since I like saying it is----SHARK WEEK!

[marsdaddy]

We're going to Maui and 3 weeks and we're a bit scared of sharks. Mookie's never even heard the theme to Jaws.

[Rock]

Did you see when that guy grabbed onto the fin of the great white and rode it for a bit? Fucking crazy.

[QueenAdrock]

I fell asleep during the airing of Ocean of Fear! I really want to see it again, I missed out on pretty much all the shark attacks. :(

[paul jones]

a certain newspaper has been wetting it's pants over 'Shark sightings' near St.Ives,Cornwall but it's not uncommon at all considering the mexican gulf stream thing runs all the way near their anyway.

fools!

[DIGI]

I love shark week. Haven't got to watch anything yet, but I went through the guide and tivoed everything I want to see. Can't wait.

[HEIRESS]

"ocean of fear" was not a good choice of sunday night pre-bed viewing

:(

[Yeti]

I am pissed because I am in a furnished temp apartment with basic cable. I cannot set-up my Tivo, get a DVR or add to my cable. I am missing all my favorite HBO shows and other random shows. I usually workout in the early evening and then go to bed before 10 pm. I like to watch my shows on my own time and I am missing out.

Luckily, I will be able to catch up with the HBO series when I do get settled because I will be able to access them On-Demand. I think the Discovery Channel also saves shows to the On-Demand portal.


Oh, here is a shark photo........
http://mysite.verizon.net/bizo08ir/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/shark-attack1.jpg

[abcdefz]

There was an interview in the paper (http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_6476927?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com&nclick_check=1) last week (?) with one of the survivors from the Indianapolis attack. He's Mexican-American, and I guess he was basically treated like dirt from day one.

But he's a survivor. (y)

[Yeti]

This from Newsweek......

America, rejoice! The best week of the year—the six nights that you spend 51 weeks pining for, longing after—is finally here. Shark Week reared its toothy jaws last night on the Discovery Channel with the premiere of Ultimate Air Jaws. For the 23rd year in a row, Americans will spend a hot summer in the tranquil refuge of their air-conditioned living rooms, watching cool, comforting images of sharks diving, swimming, and ripping chunks of flesh off unsuspecting sea mammals. There is Shark Week merchandise. There are shark-themed libations. And yes—did you have to ask?—there are gory attack videos aplenty.

In some ways, the Shark Week obsession makes sense. It's a sadistic fascination with the horrific misfortunes of cute surfer boys, friendly marine biologists, and completely innocent dolphins. But it's also a little boring, considering how formulaic and repetitive the actual programming is. So why do people tune in? And, even more perplexingly, why is it the most ironically hip, guilty TV pleasure since The Price Is Right?

Because appreciations are the currency of small cable channels (see also: The Weather Channel's love of all things storm related). Shark Week is, on its face, a truly genuine admiration of the majesty of "nature’s perfect killing machine." But frankly, if you've watched five minutes of the ballyhooed event, you’ve seen the whole thing. Four of the six Shark Week specials airing this year include references to shark teeth in their titles, and the other two are also about attacks—they just have more boring names (Shark Attack Survival Guide and Day of the Shark 3). That fact that this year's Day of the Shark is a three-quel, by the way, should give you a clue as to how little the programming varies year to year.

So why do viewers keep coming back? For one thing, Shark Week helps galvanize environmental-rights groups, which see the TV event as a chance to shed light on the difficulties faced by sharks in the wild: more than 100 million sharks are killed around the world each year by commercial fishing. Sen. John Kerry has even sponsored a "Shark Week bill" (the Shark Conservation Act of 2009) to help curb shark finning. What’s even more remarkable is that Shark Week actually unites both sides of the eco-divide: the tree huggers who want to save every minnow in the sea, and the red-state good ol’ boys who like to watch things get smashed to smithereens just for the heck of it. The bilateral appeal of watching sharks in their natural habitat translates into a big ratings booster for the Discovery Channel; Discovery Communications experienced a 2 percent "Shark Week bump" in shares today. There’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem here: does the Discovery Channel promote Shark Week mercilessly because it's the only thing that gets people psyched about the Discovery Channel, or is the show successful because of how cleverly it is marketed?

That said, perhaps to ask why is to miss the point. "I'm watching Shark Week!" is a little like saying "I'm on a boat!" It's not about sharks, man. Like Snakes on a Plane, Piranhas 3-D, or any other over-the-top animal-attack fest with a blunt, obvious name, Shark Week has bite—albeit the self-conscious, meticulously styled, trying-so-hard-to-be-cool kind.

[TAL]

Craig Ferguson (y)

[Rock]

Whats up with all the Great White sightings in Cape Cod? I've heard that great whites go to the New Jersey area during mating season and squeeze out a few baby sharkies..but thats was always during the winter so you never hear of shark attacks, but now they are off of Cape Cod in the summer....fucking crazy. I think the Discovery Channel has something to do with it to help boost ratings...not really, but I did think that for a quick second.

[Yeti]

9pm tonight....Here we go again.

I live like every week is shark week.
~Tracy Jordan on 30 Rock

[TAL]

X-Games is better.

[like2_drink]

Its Shark Week, so I went rock climbing, get to higher ground people!

[Yeti]

X-Games is better.

Yeah, I just watched Shaun White put together a perfect halfpipe. Some of the motorcycle events are crazy.

[Audio.]

No Kuala week?

[DIGI]

X-Games is better.

C'mon, man! Nothing beats Shark Week!!! But I do get pretty excited for the rally events. Watching an STI fly around a track is pretty much porn to me.