I'm sorry if this upsets you

EdelBrock wrote:

Diamond 383 wrote:

Doctor? wrote:

It is however hard to feel too much sympathy for what is essentially teeth and an arsehole connected by 15 feet of solid muscle and bad attitude.

Don't get that at all. They're so sleek and brilliantly put together. The efficiency of design is marvellous to see close up.

I'm always going to call them ailerons from now on. It's a much better word than fins.

Fins are boring

Not only that, but sharks aren't really prone to attacking people (make exception for the Mako of course). Usually they attack only to protect thier young or mistaken identity of prey.

But if you are right and the dogs and sharks are only being killed for sick enjoyment, then those people need to be waterboarded (time to be searching the rafters now Johnny):D

All very well if you are human.......but sharks suck if you're a penguin or a fish or a seal or a gull (no bad thing there, cunts!).

They are evolutionary perfection.....the general form was achieved millions of years ago, and ever since it's just been new designs with new gimmicks, like the hammerhead or angel shark or angler fish (monkfish).....in other words it's a Icthyological Porche 911. They are to be admired and respected......but felt sorry for? Naaaaaah. Any thing so hard it can bite part of it's own body off and not notice deserves no sympathy.

Porsche 911 design indeed.

Anybody see the guy who got bitten by an unborn shark? Nasty little critter.

A fully scarred-up Robert Shaw and Roy Schneider would struggle to trump that gadgie..

On what fucking planet is a Porsche 911 seen as good fucking design.

Nasty shit thing. They've improved recently, since they modified the design to be more like a proper car, but they're still crap.

(for fairness I should point out that my beautifully-designed BMW wouldn't start this morning, but that's just a flat battery and it will be fine once Den gets here with the jump leads and it will once again be the best car ever made)

Sorry, I was unclear.......

Sharks and 911's are not simillar because both are perfect designs, it's because neither has changed it's design for several ice ages, just coming up with an ocassional gimmick model.

EDIT: also, obviously, sharks do not have the engine in the wrong place and are not just a rebadged beetle with fuck all headroom.

Doctor? wrote: Sorry, I was unclear.......

Sharks and 911's are not simillar because both are perfect designs, it's because neither has changed it's design for several ice ages

That's how I read it.A good analogy.

Diamond 383 wrote: On what fucking planet is a Porsche 911 seen as good fucking design.

Nasty shit thing. They've improved recently, since they modified the design to be more like a proper car, but they're still crap.

(for fairness I should point out that my beautifully-designed BMW wouldn't start this morning, but that's just a flat battery and it will be fine once Den gets here with the jump leads and it will once again be the best car ever made)

Since Porsches were designed by Hitler's Folk's Wagon... and considering NO backs the Nazis, us fans must embrace such concepts. PAH!

I read The Old Man and the Sea this morning and it reminded me of this thread.

Do I win £40?

Jiphy wrote: However l'île de la Réunion lies on the Indian ocean. I have relatives living there.

It's so cool to have relatives in the French colony of Reunion. I wish I had visited a colony in my life. And Reunion must be an exotic place, like Cabo de Verde.