Rational fear – there might be sharks in the soup.
Posted: November 25, 2023 Filed under: Brief...therefore witty. | Tags: baths, cold dead eyes, fear, Humour, life, monsters, sharks, soup, swimming Leave a commentMy main problem with sharks is that they’re fucking real.
It would be like someone in a fantasy novel asking why you have a problem with fire-breathing dragons.
Sharks are monsters. Total monsters. Perfect monsters.
Monsters to the point that if one were stranded on a mountain top, flailing and gnashing atop a peak with me in close proximity – it’d still be more of a danger to me than I would be to it.
Consider then, how fragile I am when in their natural habitat.
Underwater.
I’m bad at ‘underwater’. I can’t do it.
I won’t do it. Primarily because of the lack of oxygen and potential overabundance of sharks – even at my local heated swimming pool.
That’s why I’m perpetually spinning in my bath tub, ever fearful of the chance there might just be space for a Great White to have snuck up behind me to attack (from behind as they’ve got no class).
That’s why I avoid water, especially the sea but including my local heated swimming pool, as the chance of there being a shark might occasionally be zero, but that’s also suspiciously low a chance and therefore there probably is one. At my local pool, lurking in the deep end.
As far as I know, if not in water (as they tend to be most of the time), they’re otherwise inhabit soup in the Far East. So I also avoid Far Eastern soup, in case it’s a trap.
If, atop that aforementioned mountaintop, I were to kick a shark as hard as I could in its face – the result would be a loud and quiet combination of nothing happening and me having a foot bitten off.
I’m not naturally designed for a mountaintop, compared to a shark’s perfection in the sea, but I don’t think moving the shark to the forests, prairies or office spaces would make much difference.
And they’re not frightened of us, like spiders.
They’re more likely ambivalent, even whilst chewing my leg.
Do sharks chew? Or do they just rip and swallow
I’ve swam in oceans before, but that was inspired by giddy youth and pretty girls, so since losing both those things I look back on those open-sea occasions with bewildered fury as to what the hell I thought I was playing at.
I have the same regret after baths, or swimming in heated pools, below ceilings, with my family and the local community.
Supposedly they’re just curious, but they’re never without hunger. So no – I don’t want to be nudged by a shark, or embezzled by Tiger shark, or defamed by Hammerhead. I want zero interactions with them.
Especially though, I don’t want to be eaten by one.
I don’t want the last thing I see to be the inside of a shark, in chilly water. Headfirst inside a shark, in that context, might be the way to go, rather than foot-first and having to bugger about with the drowning too.
As such, to all shark, please leave me alone.
You’ve got your space, I’ve got mine.
If you’ve got a problem with shipping lanes and ocean pollution, that’s not my fault, and the revenge is not to be taken out on me and my body parts.
Lastly, whilst this make no sense to any sharks reading this, and less so to any other living creatures that can actually read: stay the hell out of my bath!
It feels wrong to end on a sour note, so here’s some credit to them. They might have cold dead eyes, but it does suit the scene they’re aiming for, and would you really rather they had warm, smiling eyes that winked at you as if to say “Nice lower half….it’s mine now.”
Sam

Sharks? Not in my Fucking Tree!
Posted: October 28, 2016 Filed under: Brief...therefore witty., writing | Tags: eagles, food chain, humans, hunting, land lubbers for life, sharks Leave a commentI can’t think of a worse way to depart.
Head first down a shark, with the smell of distinctly unbrushed shark breath, rotting fish, blood and sea water, as well as digestive juices, seeing fellow prongees: fish that are also pronged upon a miserable shark tooth and give you a look which you return; the realisation that you are both in the same situation and your future isn’t as brief as you suddenly wish it would be.
Imagine sharing a petrified glance (whilst the rest of you flails in appreciation for the final few minutes you inhabit) with a fish.
Imagine being in the same situation as a fish.
The food chain is a horrible thing not to be paramount of.
This is why we should eat lions and sharks; so they know and there’s no confusion.
All sharks should find themselves tinned at some juncture.
And don’t animal rights me, oh reader darling.
You must understand that if we weren’t land lubbers (ohhhhhhhhh watch me lubber you cunt of the ocean) then those dim-eyed bastards would be the center of our nightmares, waking or a’slumber.
Here’s a challenge.
Watch someone being eaten by a shark next to you and then proceed to relax.
I double dare you to enjoy your day following the toothing of the neighbour you once neighboured in the water.
I avoid the neck-deep ocean, but I do have a contingency plan for the event of a shark assault (probably a sexual assault at that; with the wandering teeth).
Should I see the faintest suggestion of a protruding fin or flipper in my own personal piece of ocean, I will calmly wind my way back to shore (at a leisurely speed of sound) and proceed to kiss the first grain of sand I encounter and then climb the nearest sturdy tree, clutching a collection of carefully sharpened berries.
It has to end with a tree well climbed as that way, in the off-chance of any sudden evolutionary advancements in sharks being able to walk, I’ll at least have a few million years of life to enjoy before the flippers become proficient tree climbers.
And when they shake my fruit from their branch, we’ll have a discussion-most-stabby with these sharks of the tree.
Not in my fucking tree mate.
A man’s tree is like his body; keep sharks out of it.
Not only are they the greatest threat to humanity, aside from our own propensity to procreate ourselves into to starved, traffic-tired and generally pissed off people, but they’re a tad dainty in the ole’ dramatics.
Have you seen the way they leap out of the water?
“Ooh la la, feel my splash!”
Fuck them for that too.
They do in the wild what orcas are trained to do at Sea World.
It feels as though they’re attempting to merge their way in and amongst us, slowly enjoying the privilege of being inland rather than outfield in the wetter world, just biding their time until the chance to bite our species, figuratively and literally, in half…you’ll find me in my tree.
They say you should punch them in the nose if they dare to get too curious in the chewiest sense of the word.
I’d prefer to be eaten by them on the grounds of it being a somewhat less fucking stupid idea.
That being so, I still appreciate the fuck-you-final-fight of the fighting/deceased.
You have to kick and thrive in the mouth because there’s not much else to do at this juncture.
Less so kill or be killed, more so kick ‘em in the tonsils as they seek to swallow.
I could go on by I’ve an overwhelming urge to make clear this following position, though I may already have:
Fuck you sharks.
Fuck you all.
Here’s to Japan, go get’em.
Land Lubbers for Life…although I also feel comfortable taking to the air as I feel I could fuck up an eagle (ruffle its feathers and cute little talons).
Sam