//Also that you came from an ape.//

Geez, you must have gone to a really crap school, runner. At my school they taught us that humans and apes descended from a common ancestor.

OK Foxy, I read the post I wrote on page 5, as you requested. Nothing stood out, so can you tell me which part or words you refer to. I would like the opportunity to either explain or correct the comment as required.

A nation in love with the sea we do use it and sharks live there
At one end of the debate we kill those that come near the beaches,
At the other we could set up a spectator sport as they kill swimmers
Ivote for culling

Somwewhere a diver wrote that sharks avoided an area where dead sharks had been left on the seafloor by speargun shooters. May work to do that at attack sites after catching them on bait lines.

//Shark oil was called, never know why, Cod liver oil//

No, cod liver oil is derived, somewhat unsurprisingly, from the livers of cod.

I was perhaps a little too harsh in my condemnation of fish oils as quackery; there is some evidence that fish oil has nutritional benefits, in particular a high level of omega-3 fatty acids. But fish oils can be obtained from all sorts of fish; when shark are already highly over-fished, particularly for their fins, we'd be better off obtaining fish oil from different fish.

//What would the do not kill mob say if it was some one they loved killed?//

Well obviously, I'd be upset. Same as if they got struck by lightning, or had a meteorite fall on their head, or were killed by an escaped tiger from a zoo.

I'm just not about to lose much sleep over any of those fates befalling them, because the odds are so astronomical that it's not really worth worrying about. I'd be a lot more concerned about them drowning when they go swimming, which is a good deal more likely. I remember when I had to do a family tree for school, Mum telling me about one of her great uncles who fell off a Sydney ferry and drowned in the harbour. And don't forget about Harold Holt... these things happen. Shark attacks, not so much.

//A nation in love with the sea we do use it and sharks live there//

Yes, I go to the beach occasionally. Mostly I stick to the lake, and as I said, sharks also live there. Whoopdee-frigging-doo. The chances of them taking a bite are so close to zero they might as well be zero, so I'm still going to go swimming if it's hot.

I actually got curious and looked it up. Last time there was a fatal shark attack was in 1882... been a lot of people gone swimming in the lake since 1882, Belly. And none of them got eaten by a shark. I reckon she'll be right, mate.

If a hoon has shark-teeth painted on his car and does a hit-run he may well lose his car. Or have it sprayed pink.