Dumb, Dumb, Dum-Dum
Something is really wrong with our thinking mechanisms.
Remember when 7% of adult Americans thought chocolate milk comes from brown cows?
Oh, we’ve topped that one.
Discovery Channel hyped that Michael Phelps was going to race a great white shark to see who’s faster. People were extremely upset that Phelps raced a CGI shark instead of getting into a swimming pool with a live one. Did these people not see Jaws? Did they not realize that a shark has more teeth than Michael Phelps does? Yeah, and next week Sylvester Stallone will wrestle a tiger in a locked cage.
And you wonder why Donald Trump still has supporters?
And then there’s these folks.
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/07/colorado-earth-flat-gravity-hoax/
I haven’t managed to work up the courage to go to their meeting yet. Maybe if I get high first…
1Okay, one on one in a pool, the shark probably has the advantage. In the ocean, sharks kill a few people a year, and people kill sharks by the millions, often by cutting their fins off and rolling them back in the water to die. So go, sharks!
And sharks have been streamlined for millions of years to be good swimmers. I don’t think Phelps has a chance there either.
2Yeah and WWE professional wrestling is “real”. 😉 😉
3And these are the same ones who scare easily. Thin about it.
4It would be interesting to ask a bunch of people whether the sun orbits the earth or vice versa. I’m betting that at least 90% of those who get it wrong are Trump supporters.
5How would we know that the shark’s not a ringer?
6Perhaps people are becoming confused about how “seeing is believing” is no longer true in all cases. Not that it ever was (believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear comes to mind).
What is important to consider is that great white sharks don’t do well in captivity (I had the supreme thrill of seeing one in the Monterey Aquarium during the brief stay of one. The aquarium is set up such that I could see up at the shark when it swam *over* me; magnificent and terrifying…) so a live (Great White) shark in race was never much of a possibility…
As far as people hoping for blood shed (?): I pity the foo…
7The sad thing about those oxygen deprived flat earthers is that they reproduce and their children were there.
8Mirc T’ain’t no pfuuf RASLIN be fake, and wile we attit slow down at nite. Don’t be runnin ovr the Easter Bunny.
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