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Shark Week: Yay or Nay?
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Posting Junkie
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As you can tell from the sig, I'm one of the people that treats Shark Week like a week-long holiday. I bought all episodes in advance from iTunes ($10), and I'll be re-watching them several times in the next few years. My wife and I have shark-related DVDs and Blu-rays everywhere in our media center.
A lot of critics say that Shark Week focuses too much on shark attacks, intensifying people's natural fears. Others appreciate the attention given to one of the coolest, scariest animals in the seas.
This place is dead, and it needed a new poll, soooo...
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I've never gone out of my way to watch it.
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"One ticket to Washington, please. I have a date with destiny."
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Twitter and Facebook exploded a few hours before the first episode. Every "friend" I have seems to be addicted.
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The types of programs featured during shark week aren't the programs I watch regularly, so meh.
Maybe a T-Rex week.
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Originally Posted by Jawbone54
Twitter and Facebook exploded a few hours before the first episode. Every "friend" I have seems to be addicted.
You're going to need a bigger boat.
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
Maybe a T-Rex week.
It'll never catch on until T-Rexes are eating a human every few weeks.
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I'm looking forward to Bark Week, though critics say it focuses too much on Dutch Elm Disease.
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Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey
You're going to need a bigger boat.
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
I'm looking forward to Bark Week, though critics say it focuses too much on Dutch Elm Disease.
I hated Snark Week, with its sensationalist focus on the MacNN Lounge.
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Games Meister
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I hate Flark Week, and it's focus on making up words.
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My sig is 1 pixel too big.
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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I like this year's commercials, but I NEVER watch Shark Week.
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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Originally Posted by Jawbone54
I bought all episodes in advance from iTunes ($10), ...
I didn't realize they were available. We've never really gotten into it, but for $10 I'll take the plunge.
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Originally Posted by Railroader
I didn't realize they were available. We've never really gotten into it, but for $10 I'll take the plunge.
Less than $2 per episode. Can't miss deal.
My favorite one so far has been "Into the Shark Bite." They get several species of sharks to bite cameras that give an up-close look inside the mouths of the sharks. Really cool stuff.
I'm not as big on the survivor story episodes.
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Originally Posted by ghporter
I like this year's commercials, but I NEVER watch Shark Week.
I noticed your vote. You feel the series does a lot of damage to people's perception of sharks and the ocean?
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I don't actually watch, but I think it's cool. Much like brick and mortar bookstores.
There have been lots of shark sightings around here, people are headed to the beaches with binoculars to get a chance to see them.
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My friends and I were wading in chest-high waters in Destin, FL (bull sharks galore), and I was telling them about the kid who got his leg gnawed off in knee-deep water by a bull shark 45 miles west in Pensacola. About that time, a group of about 20 massive stingrays were swimming just under the surface about 10 feet away from us. My buddy nearest them freaked out (couldn't distinguish what they were at the time) and started splashing/swimming back to the shore.
The stingrays turned quickly away from us, and we watched as an older guy had the same experience about 100 feet away. He panicked.
As long as you avoid certain conditions (especially murky water, very early/late in the day, and avoid inlets, you drastically reduce your chances of being attacked. I don't really worry when I'm in the water.
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Originally Posted by andi*pandi
I don't actually watch, but I think it's cool. Much like brick and mortar bookstores.
There have been lots of shark sightings around here, people are headed to the beaches with binoculars to get a chance to see them.
People just have a natural fascination with sharks. They freak people out, but there's something really beautiful about them too.
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
nice.
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I'd rather watch Cuttlefish Week.
There have actually been several big Great Whites off the Cape and Islands for the last couple of weeks. I was on my buddy's boat last weekend and we were trying to decide who looked the most 'seal-like' so we could tow him behind the boat from some sweet aerial action.
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Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
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