The Great Caucasian Shark Jump

38 Replies to “The Great Caucasian Shark Jump”

1. It is all White Men named Mike’s Fault.

   1. Yummy. White meat. Everyone knows sharks prefer white meat over dark meat. Burp

   2. FU

2. You mean that’s an actual op-ed, not from the Onion?

3. First of all, this is the Washington Post. Its readers are pretty stupid, too.

   Secondly, there is no famine severe enough to occupy the thoughts of people, rather than this stuff.

   Thirdly, National Geographic puts out a better, non-celebrity clogged Sharkfest.

   But I digress …

4. The best part is that all these crazies are on the front lines of their madness. Of course we catch the shrapnel but they get the blunt end – which makes me smile.

5. Tell those “researchers” to produce their own shark show if they’re so upset.

   1. And they can hire all black men half of whom identify as women. They pretend it’s a free country.

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         Africa is surrounded by warm ocean … yet no one in Africa seemed to twig on the idea of sailing out on the ocean to see where it goes.
         Those who did venture out on the oceans wound up colonizing a lot of Africa and much more.
         The bravery, ingenuity, and curiosity of white men led to the creation of the incredible modern world that we all enjoy.
         However, it seems that black people and many others are ingrates whereby they take the soft modernity for granted and blame white people for any and all miseries they may endure in their lives … as if white people don’t experience misery.

         So maybe it was the sharks that kept the Africans off the oceans and now white people are whining about something or other about a shortage of black oceanographers and scientists.

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         1. Pfff – next you will be claiming that white skinned people, who tended to live in the regions of cripplingly freezing winters, were forced to develop technologies to harvest and store enough food to survive the long period where nothing grew or starve to death. Hence ‘freezing winter’ cultures rapidly became more advanced than cultures that lived in warmer areas where food few 12 months a year.

6. Facts matter. I decided to do research.

   Sci magazine lists “Top 16 Famous Shark Scientists That You Should Know.” Of these, 9 were chicks. Not a single Mike among the 7 guys.

   The story may have a point!

   1. The shows run on Sharks Week between 1988 and 2020 are typically going to be quite old. It wouldn’t surprize me half the shows were filmed before 1990.

      So the question is not how many top women shark researchers are there now, but how many were there thirty or forty years ago.

      1. Those shows are so boring. I want to know of any of those researchers, especially any prominent as presenters in Shark Week over the years, eaten by sharks since. Gory details, please.

7. Thinking.

   What happened to the white men?
   They are afraid to stand up and say, ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!…You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’
   https://genius.com/Paddy-chayefsky-network-im-as-mad-as-hell-and-im-not-gonna-take-this-anymore-annotated

   Don’t know this Chayefsky chap, though today, he maybe is cancelled and be sorry for the screed.

   No one, but no one is without a sin. The talking heads should look at themselves in mirror and ask, who are you ?
   They were the hot heads ready to change the world, well they are changing it, for all the wrong reasons, they have no idea what they want;

   1. Perhaps many have chosen the “Going Galt” route?

8. Well, if it’s any consolation for the chronically-offended, its borne out by statistics that tiger sharks cruising off New Providence prefer Bahama Mammas 10 to 1 over gristly white peckerwoods.

9. How many whites vs POC do sharks eat?

10. And when they do finally include a woman, her name is Whiteneck.

    Good one, Disney!

11. Ahhh, the MSM pool sharks, where the white man is their chum.

12. Mention the shark fin trade and you’ll be labeled a RACIST AAPI hater. Hint: it’s pronounced … Chyyyynahh.

    1. BTW … the article was written by Daniel Wu … who is obviously not interested in the shark slaughter for nothing more than their fins … which … his people … seem to believe cure cancer or something.

       Are you with me, Dr. Wu? Are you really just a shadow of the man that I once knew? Are you crazy, are you high? Or just an ordinary guy? Have you done all you can do? Are you with me Dr.? Can you hear me Doctor? Can you see me Doctor? Are you racist, Doctor?

13. “…research claims that Discovery’s programming emphasized negative messages about sharks, lacked useful messaging about shark conservation…”

    Said no crew member of the USS Indianapolis.

    1. Bingo!

       I use that line whenever a know-it-all says that sharks don’t intentionally target humans.

14. “Diversity in people brings diversity in thought, which ultimately brings innovation,” Bohannon said. “Being able to see someone who looks like you in this field really has an impact.”

    Is there any evidence that racial or gender diversity brings diversity of thought?

    1. Ideally, more people who look like Charlie’s Angels from the 1970s would have an impact. Esp. Jaclyn Smith.

       1. Meh, give me Rachel Welch, Kansas City Bomber gurl.

15. Will the sharks ask for reparations?

    1. Only if they’re shot with “illegal” guns.

16. Do they get paid to do this “research”?

17. Were can I buy some shark soup?

18. Last time I checked most women were named Michelle, or Michaela, maybe even Mickey….but not Mike.

19. I don’t think sharks are fin-icky about scientist’s sexes or names.

20. Looks like they assumed that those people named Mike were men. I think they were all women named Mike. Transwomen at that.

    1. “The programming featured more White experts and commentators named “Mike” than women, […]”
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       Well, grok, I think if you fact-checked that statement you would have to label it as “Mostly True.”

       Now there’s ‘Big Mike’ Obama, but I don’t think that Mike is a shark researcher. More into horrid fashion at outrageous prices, near as I can tell.

21. We’ll be forced to use some unpronounceable stone age Indian name for “Great White Shark” in a week.

    1. Simply refuse to call the shark by its name, and demand to know its pronouns.

22. Far too many morons are surviving adolescence. Evolution, do your darn job!

    1. There is theory put forward that the average intelligence of the non urban adult living a semi traditional lifestyle is noticeably higher than a ‘western’ urban living adult.

       Intelligent. Not educated, which are different things.

       Why? Cause if you live in a small farm on the edge of the jungle and are a stupid child you died doing stupid things in the jungle. Those who survive are intelligent enough to calculate dangers and back off.

       Compare to the urban stupid. They grow up doing stupid things but are prevented from dying from their own stupidity by the wonders of modern health care. Hence stupid children live to adulthood at higher rates.