Popular Science picks up Laird Hamilton vs menstrual-blood-in-the -water debate!
And it is day 5. I’m alone. No sight of laird Hamilton. No sound of menstruation but I know they’re both here. Chumming the waters.
I’ve been adrift now on this story for 120 hours. One hundred and nineteen hours more than any man has ever spent on either Laird Hamilton or menstruation in history.
Thirst claws at my throat.
But what is this? Salvation? My way out? Popular Science just picked up the thread and wrote THE definitive account on the subject!
“We could turn PopSci into PeriodSci for a week and still not have time to debunk every myth related to monthlies. But today we’ve got an exceptionally absurd one to tackle: Does period blood attract sharks, making menstruating individuals (and their unfortunate swimming companions) more vulnerable to vicious shark attacks?”
Etc. Etc.
And this is perfect!
This is the official end of my journey! But what? You’ve never heard of Popular Science? In my junior high school (what is junior high school called in Australia?) Popular Science magazine seemed to a religious text for the boys who had not yet discovered girls. Who still played with Legos.
They would sit in the library and ooh and aah at various alchemy experiments and other stuff. I would stand across the room smirking at them, “reading” Steve Largent’s biography not because I was cool, obvs, but because I was too dumb to understand what alchemy even meant and other stuff.
In any case, these Popular Scientists would go on to be titans of industry, inventing better and better opioids etc. And it makes my heart sing to know the future titans of industry will have also go on to invent even better opioids but, for one brief moment in time, would have sat around a table in the library, vigorously scratching their heads at the wonders of women.
All thanks to Laird Hamilton.
so i went for a surf during laird’s favorite time of the month and no sharks! not even one! but the dolphins did seem unusually interested so someone should ask laird about dolphins maybe.
If only Laird was as open minded as this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
A two and a half metre long GWS just jumped into a boat off the coast of Evans Head. We’re not even safe in a fucking boat anymore. Must be string week for the skipper….
We don’t segregate juniors and seniors in high school in Oz. We just throw them in the same school and let the fuckers fight it out.
If Chas can keep up the coverage for a couple more weeks I think he will be in Pulitzer Prize territory.
I think they awards those things on longevity.
Been waiting for you to smash that Anchorman reference. Nice work. I believe this can be comfortably put to bed now. It’s been a week, the cycle is over.
My friend reckons he can smell if a girl is on her period. Says they smell like copper. He is a chef, not a shark.
I think I can smell if a man is being a complete fuckwit – but can a SHARK?
I met a guy in Mexico who reckoned he could smell dolphins before he saw them and could hear sets coming.
I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. No! wait, that was Michael Kocher’s wet dream.
He’s a single man right?
Forever. He also thought the mining tax was a stupid idea.
I work, well I go to work, in a female centric industry. I also know this smell. Not too unpleasant actually!
So you work in an industry dominated by women still young enough to menstruate? Where do I sign up?!
ok.
He sounds a bit rapey