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Great White Sharks coming to Ireland

  • 05-04-2013 3:54pm
    #1
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,177 ✭✭✭


    Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse for Ireland. Apparently there was a Great White spotted off the coast of Kerry a couple of weeks ago with suggestions that due to the increasing tempartures in the drift and the plentiful seal population, more and more sharks are likely to make Ireland a regular destination. Galway will be like the town in Jaws. If you scream shark we've got a full scal panic on our hands. It's July! We can't close the beaches, it's the festival season...

    I for one, welcome our new shark overlords...


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  • #2
    BizzyC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭BizzyC


    Doesn't matter, it's too cold to swim anyway..


  • #3
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    its fcukin freezing in this bloody country and anybody in the water no matter what time of year is must be nuts and deserves to be eaten by a big poxy shark

    the end.


  • #4
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Galway aye, we should probably kill them all to keep the sharks safe.


  • #5
    FatherLen
    Registered Users Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    Wompa1 wrote: »
    We can't close the beaches, it's the festival season...

    attitudes like this got people killed god damit


  • #6
    westies4ever
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭westies4ever


    Wompa1 wrote: »
    Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse for Ireland. Apparently there was a Great White spotted off the coast of Kerry a couple of weeks ago with suggestions that due to the increasing tempartures in the drift and the plentiful seal population, more and more sharks are likely to make Ireland a regular destination. Galway will be like the town in Jaws. If you scream shark we've got a full scal panic on our hands. It's July! We can't close the beaches, it's the festival season...

    I for one, welcome our new shark overlords...


    any link to this or is it just hearsay?


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  • #7
    Unregistered.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,532 ✭✭✭Unregistered.


    westies4ever wrote: »
    any link to this or is it just hearsay?

    Yep....
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055711644


  • #8
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Shark Fin Soup for everyone! Yay!


  • #9
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Ah jaysus,next they'll be given them social welfare,new cars and houses.For Jaysus sake.


  • #10
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    He can't go down with three barrels...not with three barrels on he can't.


  • #11
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,750 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    [insert obligatory] "We're gonna need a bigger boat."


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  • #12
    Skid X
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    It was an April Fool

    https://www.facebook.com/wicklowweather?fref=ts

    Our headline story on April 1st of a great white in Irish Waters was an April Fools joke and we let people know it was an April Fools, the story has been shared in 49 countries, nearly 700 times and viewed 110,000 times. Our most shared and viewed story to date!!


  • #13
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    PM me if you need shark repellent.


  • #14
    Pilotdude5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Pilotdude5


    It was just Michael Fassbender home on holiday.

    http://ismichaelfassbenderashark.tumblr.com/


  • #15
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    I'd rather sharks than jelly fish any day.


  • #16
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Skid X wrote: »
    It was an April Fool

    https://www.facebook.com/wicklowweather?fref=ts

    Our headline story on April 1st of a great white in Irish Waters was an April Fools joke and we let people know it was an April Fools, the story has been shared in 49 countries, nearly 700 times and viewed 110,000 times. Our most shared and viewed story to date!!
    So disappointed. :(


  • #17
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    Dey tuk ur wimmens !!


  • #18
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    I'd rather sharks than jelly fish any day.

    Can't abide the mother****ers. They can't be frightened away either like most creatures. Relentless bastards.


  • #19
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    The Great Whites Joe, they do be blocken the aisles with the free double buggies joe, and the fighten in the streets between them and the pitbulls, joe, and the shark teen threesomes joe, the goverment joe, its wrong joeeeeeeeeeeeee......


  • #20
    cd07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 466 ✭✭cd07


    Only a matter of time before they do show up sure wasnt there one seen off cornwall a few years ago. Theres already plenty of sharks around ireland blues,makos,threshers,porbeagles,basking and even the odd hammerhead. Plenty of them horrible ****in seals for them to eat too


  • #21
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    cd07 wrote: »
    Only a matter of time before they do show up sure wasnt there one seen off cornwall a few years ago. Theres already plenty of sharks around ireland blues,makos,threshers,porbeagles,basking and even the odd hammerhead. Plenty of them horrible ****in seals for them to eat too


    Yes, the seal is a well know horror about the coasts. Pregnant women are advised never to look seaward.


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  • #22
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Pilotdude5 wrote: »
    It was just Michael Fassbender home on holiday.

    http://ismichaelfassbenderashark.tumblr.com/

    That's brilliant!


  • #23
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Eleven hundred Galwegians went into the water at Salthill. Three hundred and sixteen came out and the sharks took the rest.


  • #24
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,673 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Maybe big Phil might be in Salthill when the Great Whites come calling.

    In the water he would have the look of a well fed seal.


  • #25
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    By sharks do you mean Spanish students?


  • #26
    chughes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭chughes


    Tabnabs wrote: »
    [insert obligatory] "We're gonna need a bigger boat."

    "We're gonna need a bigger currach."


  • #27
    Pug160
    Registered Users Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭Pug160


    They're not the kings of the ocean some people think they are. Killer whales have been known to kill them.


  • #28
    C.K Dexter Haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭C.K Dexter Haven


    Skid X wrote: »
    It was an April Fool
    !

    Well in that case, all that's left to be said is:

    "Smile you son of a bitch".


  • #29
    ian87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭ian87


    Great whites love a bit of swan when there's no seal about


  • #30
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    davet82 wrote: »
    its fcukin freezing in this bloody country and anybody in the water no matter what time of year is must be nuts and deserves to be eaten by a big poxy shark

    the end.

    Have you genuinely never experienced warm seas off Ireland? If you haven't, I feel sorry for you!


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  • #31
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,177 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    Corvus Maximus wrote: »
    Eleven hundred Galwegians went into the water at Salthill. Three hundred and sixteen came out and the sharks took the rest.

    "But we delivered the Bamb"

    April Fools or not, this thread went the way I would have wanted.

    Have you ever been close up to an Atantic Ocean Great White? It's got big dead eyes, like a dolls eyes....


  • #32
    wicklowstevo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 919 ✭✭✭wicklowstevo


    bleeding Kerry tourist board , cunning bastards.

    and sure why not yer man dressed up as a dolphin was knackered


  • #33
    Riddle101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,441 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    BizzyC wrote: »
    Doesn't matter, it's too cold to swim anyway..
    davet82 wrote: »
    its fcukin freezing in this bloody country and anybody in the water no matter what time of year is must be nuts and deserves to be eaten by a big poxy shark

    the end.

    People surf and scuba dive in Ireland, so I don't think temperature is really a factor.


  • #34
    franktheplank
    Registered Users Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭franktheplank


    Ah.... the Great White Shark, nature's greatest killer. A massive beast with beady evil little eyes and rows of savage serrated teeth. A bite force of 18,000 newtons. Smells food from miles away. Little known of it's breeding habits. Known to scavenge on whale carcasses. Individually responsible for more human deaths than any other creature in history.

    Oh no wait, sorry. I was thinking of Mary Harney.


  • #35
    El Horseboxo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭El Horseboxo


    April O Neill wrote: »
    Have you genuinely never experienced warm seas off Ireland? If you haven't, I feel sorry for you!

    I've never either. Prefer the warmer seas of more tropical climates which I frequent regularly. So don't feel too sorry.


  • #36
    nice_very
    Registered Users Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭nice_very


    ah yes the great white's........ a great bunch of lads


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  • #37
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,177 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    nice_very wrote: »
    ah yes the great white's........ a great bunch of lads

    The superior race...of shark


  • #38
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Can you imagine being attacked by one of these things? Imagine the absolute horror of it, the jaws lock in and it tugs and pulls on your flesh, the dolls eyes staring, no emotion just a pure killing machine, no mercy. To paraphrase Nirvana, fish have no feelings.:pac:


  • #39
    WOCM4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 58 ✭✭WOCM4


    Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies.

    Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain.


    For we've received orders for to sail back to Boston.


    And so never more shall we see you again.

    http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/robert_shaw/pictures/


  • #40
    delw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭delw


    Greg Norman coming to Ireland,cool


  • #41
    TheUsual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    Smile you son of a bitch.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9S41Kplsbs


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  • #42
    WOCM4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 58 ✭✭WOCM4


    Christ, just watching that scene again , must be the 5000th time, still sends shiver down me dorsal, thanks for the link


  • #43
    Riddle101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,441 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    Robert Shaw was the best part about Jaws. F*cking loved that character.


  • #44
    WOCM4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 58 ✭✭WOCM4


    Robert Shaw is one of them guys that did not get a million roles by, by thunder, he stole the bloody film in everything he was in. And he lived in Mayo, Rockin!

    Check him out in Young Winston.

    HOOOOPER;;;; HOOOPER!!!


  • #45
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    Riddle101 wrote: »
    Robert Shaw was the best part about Jaws. F*cking loved that character.

    Apparently he was fairly drunk throughout most of the filming of Jaws!


  • #46
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    bit racist innit?


  • #47
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    Smidge wrote: »
    Apparently he was fairly drunk throughout most of the filming of Jaws!

    Apparently Tom Cruise was practicing Scientology through most of his Movies cráp.


  • #48
    Wetbench4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,230 ✭✭✭Wetbench4


    Now the fookin dolphins are back --> http://www.clarechampion.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13813:dolphins-make-a-splash-at-the-castle-&catid=67:human-interest&Itemid=60


  • #49
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Smidge wrote: »
    Apparently he was fairly drunk throughout most of the filming of Jaws!

    He was constantly bickering with Richard Dreyfuss too to aggravate him until after they filmed the comparing scars scene, made their not liking each other until then seem more genuine. The making of that film is brilliant, some great stories on that set.

    I adore Jaws, it's probably my favourite film I've seen it countless times.


  • #50
    lcrcboy
    Registered Users Posts: 562 ✭✭✭lcrcboy


    well thats just great, this is gunna mean surfing is going to get a whole lot more interesting on top of the murky water Im gunna be freaking out at any shadow that I see or seaweed that touches my leg in the sea now

    we should send them up the Shannon to Limerick, when they get there they wont want to come back to Ireland hahahahaha


  • #51
    IceFjoem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭IceFjoem


    lcrcboy wrote: »
    well thats just great, this is gunna mean surfing is going to get a whole lot more interesting on top of the murky water Im gunna be freaking out at any shadow that I see or seaweed that touches my leg in the sea now

    we should send them up the Shannon to Limerick, when they get there they wont want to come back to Ireland hahahahaha


    This could tie in nicely with the 'how to deal with scumbags' ideas actually.


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