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A point can be MOOT. MUTE is more along the lines of what you should be. - WayAbvPar
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calapine
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You should have quoted the photographer's comments. They are quite interesting: Isurus oxyrinchus (Short Fin Mako Shark) IUCN-Vulernable. Taken at North Neptune Island, South Australia.This feisty sub 3m female mako shark turned up during a Great White Shark tagging trip. Whilst normally she would be a meal for the larger sharks she literally browbeat away a great white shark. Not just any white shark but a very large dominant male maybe 6 times her mass and twice her size. Not content with that she spent the next hour posturing and presenting (wide open maw to make herself look bigger , and dropped pec fins) in a show of dominence allowing me to shoot straight down her maw. A truely once in a lifetime experience. Cold and cramping, I left the water letting her win the physcological game to which she continued to circle the boat until dark. Her charisma and love for the camera (literally, as she mouth it a number of times) prompted me to affectinately refer to her as 'Paris' after the American socialite 'Paris Hilton'. This photo was taken just before dusk necessitating the use of strobes due to the suns angle. a) I think it's funny that 'sub 3m' is considered small in the shark world. Who would ever say "Oh..a shark is coming! No worries, it's not even 3 meters long."? b) Nice that the shark stood up to it's bigger male bully. Needs a 'Shrrrk power' t-shirt! |
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Sir T
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That was some pretty nifty driving by the motorbike guy.
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Hic sunt dracones.
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DraconianOne
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a) I think it's funny that 'sub 3m' is considered small in the shark world. Who would ever say "Oh..a shark is coming! No worries, it's not even 3 meters long."?
True story: I was on a diving boat in the Red Sea a few years ago and my group had just finished taking gear off post-dive. Another group surfaced after us and a guy called out that there was a shark underneath the boat. So we did what all good divers would do and grabbed our snorkels, masks and fins and jumped back in the water. Sure enough, there was an adult Blacktip cruising over the bottom, about 30 ft beneath the boat. It only occured to us afterwards that there was a slim possibility of it being a Tiger or Bull shark. (This was a couple of years before the Tiger shark sightings and attacks by Sharm El Sheik. I'd hesitate getting into the water with one of those around - remembering the sage advice about never swimming with dolphins at dusk!) Anyway, didn't manage to get any pics from that particular occasion, so here's one of a wreck dive we did the same morning instead:  |
A point can be MOOT. MUTE is more along the lines of what you should be. - WayAbvPar
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I love the smell of facepalm in the morning
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That's great!
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Signe
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Really nice pic. What a beautiful day it looks like, too.
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Sky
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Is that the Illuminati HQ?
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01101010
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Is that the Illuminati HQ?
Nope. Just the start of the Hunger Games in China. Probably going to be the only place with somewhat breathable air over there very soon.  |
Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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Sir T
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Hic sunt dracones.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
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Ironwood
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Nah. Really ?
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Reminds me of Get Smart for some reason.
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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Ironwood
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Awesome.
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Yoru
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Want to get rich? Get an import license and install those in Denmark and the Netherlands.
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Sky
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Maintenance on the pumps would kill you, though.
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Teleku
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
-Stephen Colbert
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disKret
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I wonder how many failed attempts were performed before this shot.
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SurfD
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I wonder how many failed attempts were performed before this shot.
Considering what i have seen some Cirque du solei accrobats pull off in the trampoline segments, probably not many (if any) if that guy is any good at it. |
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Sky
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Falling is easy if you know how to control your body. I haven't been hurt in a fall since I was 13 (and broke my pelvis, the only thing I've ever broken). I'm really good at falling without injury, I used to do a lot of free climbing in the 90s, too.
Thankfully, most people don't know how to control their body and we get AFV and youtube chuckles.
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Segoris
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B.S. No one gets chuckles from AFV |
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Sky
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You're dead inside if you don't find AFV funny.
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Merusk
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I would hope they meant the hosts and not the clips. (Though some of the clips are pretty old rehases/ setups)
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Tannhauser
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Turn in your Man Card.
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Trippy
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I don't know, that was a pretty awesome spinning heel kick.
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Abagadro
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That's my purse! I don't know you!
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
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01101010
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That's my purse! I don't know you!
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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calapine
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 Holy Trinity! Did we ever manage that before? |
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Ironwood
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What was he doing ? Just randomly nicking stuff off strangers ?
Good for her.
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Merusk
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He took her phone and from the way he's looking at it was reading her texts, since he didn't try running, or sending a "funny" text over the typical teenage male variety (i.e. "I'm gay and in love with you." or "I need to fart")
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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Segoris
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You're dead inside if you don't find AFV funny.
I would hope they meant the hosts and not the clips. (Though some of the clips are pretty old rehases/ setups)
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