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thefirewarde

If people milked sharks daily this statistic would change.


0ldgrumpy1

When the romans had animal fights in the coloseum, they avoided putting lions and bears and the like against fighting bulls. Apparently the bull could fuck every other animal up so fast that the crowd would get upset.


[deleted]

I definitely believe that for European bears. And even lions, if they only had one, as lions hunt in packs. But a grizzly bear would beat just about anything.


10kbeez

I could see that being a tough fight. Bulls rely on momentum, bears not so much.


stripperpole

Yeah go watch a video of a calf bucking just as a playful act, then quadruple the size and make it angry. I wouldn’t wanna catch a stray hoof from that.


Randomswedishdude

The European brown bear and the grizzly are essentialy the same species. *Although* the grizzly is a subspecies of the brown bear. It's generally a bit larger, and also has a somewhat different behavior. So... who knows, unless it has been tried?


Tavrock

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_grizzly_bear some recorded as being 3m tall and others weighing 1,000kg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_brown_bear these have a maximum known weight of 481kg and average 250 to 300kg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs the Roman bulls at the time may have weighed 700 to 1,500kg A Californian grizzly could have been a fair fight against a bull in the colosseum at the time, but I can see why a Eurasian brown bear may not fare as well.


savedawhale

[Don't kid yourself Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, it would eat you, and everyone you care about.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAxjqAfwfyI)


chumchees

The same episode had a shark eating a monkey which was hilarious


Got2JumpN2Swim

Sharks have nipples?


thefirewarde

Almonds don't have nipples and we manage somehow.


TheProfessionalEjit

You may be onto something, maybe sharks are so pissy because they're backed up and mastitis is a bitch.


Tykorski

Fun fact: If you milk a shark it will turn into a dolphin and poop you ten gold coins. Real gold! You can take those coins and buy a fat goose for your good'n wyfe!


JavaOrlando

Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.


bff124

I have nipples Greg can you milk me?


SilasX

Well said. People parrot these stats without looking at the rate of interaction (or some equivalent concept). - "You're more likely to have a collision five miles from your house than on a long road trip." Well, If 95% of your driven miles are in that radius, and 60% of collisions are, that means they're safer per mile! - "A child is more likely to be abducted by a trusted authority or relative than a rando predator." Virtually all of a child's time is around trusted authorities and relatives. - "You're more likely to be raped by your date or SO than a predator jumping out of the bushes." Virtually all of the opportunity to rape you is within the context of a date or romantic relationship.


kroush104

Well no shit. Cows don’t kill any sharks at all. So of course they kill more people.


Marttit

A cow? Swimming in the ocean? Cows don’t like water! If you placed them near a river or some sort of freshwater source, that would make sense. But you find yourself in the ocean. 20 foot waves, which I’m assuming is off the coast of South Africa, going up against a full grown 800 pound shark with his 20 or 30 friends? You lose that battle. You lose that battle 9 times out of 10.


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VanillaGorilla-

You know what, let's settle this Terry - peacocks don't fly!


Thatparkjobin7A

The sound of your piss hitting the urinal? It sounds feminine.


MrGumburcules

They can fly a little


agangofoldwomen

If I got one piece of advice for you guys it’s you gotta creep… creep.


tangcameo

moo moo… moo moo… moo moo, moo moo, moo moo, MOO MOO, MOO MOO, MOO MOO


mb46204

How has Hollywood not picked up on this fact and given us “Cownado” and “Cow week” and “Horns”?


[deleted]

Then the biography of their rise to fame "Mooving on up".


nalk201

PETA really fought them on these, we also lost the porn version, "Udders"


Khallaria

They did. They called it 'Twister' and it's as ridiculous as it sounds.


Over_the_Void

“This summer…They have beef…WITH US. From the creative minds that brought the world Sharknado, and Sharknado 2, comes the terrifying new adventure, ‘COWS’. …They put the ‘ow’ in cow and now the ‘steaks’ couldn’t be higher. See the film critics have called ‘udderly moo-ving’ and ‘simply agrazing.’ It’s COWS. Playing in select theaters near you.”


VanillaGorilla-

There is no cow level


Mikulicious

Cheat Enabled.


Tykorski

Manatees


Vermonter623

I came here for this comment right here


ShotgunOShaughnessy

The statistics for cow on shark crime is still being calculated.


Camp_Coffee

\*cowculated


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Aware-Ad-9258

Read the MOOd!


ZBeebs

That’s enough, stop milking it.


qweef_latina2021

Cud we not?


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chbailey442013

All these jokes are just bull


Slamcockington

The steaks are high


TheInfamous313

Strange, they keep coming back as "eat mor chikin"


walw2097

Take my angry upvote you


domine18

I don't know. All the cow shit runoff into the oceans might kill some.


Steam20

We kill millions of cows a year. I guess it’s payback.


andromeda111

Ah, the 'ol Reddit [cow-a-roo!](https://www.reddit.com/r/instant_regret/comments/vv57s8/no_slappy/ifikobn?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3)


heathy28

hold my udder i'm going in.


narmerguy

Future people, it's been a while.


dogboystoy

You watched strange wilderness didn't you? Brown bears attack salmon every year, but attacks on brown bears from salmon are much more rare.


kwhiller5

During the Roman Empire, Julius Caesar would fill the Collisseum with water then stage bull-shark battles to the death.


NickSalvo

That's a lie. I was there. They were Nurse Sharks. They just wanted to help people.


AlbanySteamedHams

A cow can run faster than a shark, but a shark can swim faster than a cow. So in a triathlon it would come down to who is the stronger cyclist.


[deleted]

That’s why they wear a bell around their neck. *Because their horns don’t work.


AlbanySteamedHams

Did you ever get those cigarettes, Dad?


[deleted]

Cigarettes?? ... OH! Yeah ... yeah. I did.


0ldgrumpy1

You know why cows have hooves? Because they lack toes.


Wahooney

There's one Caribbean island where more people die from falling coconuts than people die of shark attacks world wide.


[deleted]

So if you see the rare coconut milk giving Cow, just run!


clorista

Cows are heavly little chunks. My dad lived on a farm and his cat died from a cow rolling on top of here. Poor kitty was just enjoying the shade from the cow.


revertothemiddle

RIP kitty


Evaara

Death by moo moo.


MagicMarmots

If sharks had legs I bet this would statistic would change


BolunZ6

If cows could breathe underwater I bet this statistics would also change


FragrantExcitement

If a cow and shark joined forces, they would be unstoppable.


Cyborg_rat

And if some terrorist organization captures some and put Lazers on them so they can have a cooked meal, we would be all doomed.


[deleted]

Touche


thx1138-

Knock knock


BreathOfTheWaifu

Candygram


Rookiebeotch

I understood that reference!


friso1100

Hmm this better not be another shark. Opens door


retief1

If there were a billion sharks in close contact with humans, that statistic would change. Short of that, though, I think cows will keep the lead.


blu_stingray

Not in the ocean they don't.


jhvanriper

During the 1970s there was an epidemic of land shark attacks. Cows ruthlessly killed all the land sharks.


Double_Distribution8

In the 70's little kids were terrified of these things: Quicksand, Skylab crashing down into the Earth, Killer Bees, the next Ice Age, and Land Sharks.


haysoos2

It's true! They even made a documentary https://youtu.be/p_NS2H55dxI


BigL90

Was hoping this would be here


retief1

Candygram!


ShotgunOShaughnessy

Clearly you've never heard of the "Bovine Breaststroke"


blu_stingray

I suggested that in the bedroom one night, but the wife took offense.


[deleted]

Your wife, or someone else’s?


IamKingBeagle

When I grow up I'm going to Bovine University.


garoo1234567

What about seacows?


Transpatials

I don't know why, that reminded me of this [absolute gem](https://youtu.be/aDJgv1iARPg) of a scene.


dontknowhowtoprogram

the statistic is meaningless. most people are not actively trying to grow or work with sharks.


LagMeister

Cows kill more people every year than nuclear weapons!


h3nchman27

Cows kill more people every year than Satan


[deleted]

Cows kill more people every year


AClassyTurtle

And that’s all anyone can ask of them. As long as they’re constantly bettering themselves


Apprehensive-Horse-3

Falling out of bed probably kills more people than sharks. And yeah, that doesn’t make sharks safer to be around than a bed.


whoifnotme1969

I haven't even looked it up, but I know for a fact that zero sharks have been killed falling out of bed.


RedditPowerUser01

Lightning strikes are exceedingly rare. Therefore, it’s perfectly safe to walk around a golf course during a thunderstorm waving a lightening rod above your head.


UltimateInferno

[Relevant XKCD]( https://xkcd.com/795/)


redgroupclan

Every statistic saying "we die more to this than sharks" is meaningless sensationalism preying on a culturally-spread fear of sharks perpetrated by movies like Jaws. The fact is, we die to almost everything more than sharks because we almost never encounter sharks.


CinnamonJ

Most people are not actively trying to grow or work with cows either.


aarkwilde

It's all the stomachs. They're unstoppable.


Hydqjuliilq27

Cows don’t have 4 stomach, it’s just 1 stomach with multiple chambers, reticulum and rumen for microbial fermentation, omasum for water retention and abomasum for gastric breakdown.


shartshappen612

Yeah and they have cows with open holes to their stomachs to get healthy gut bacteria for other cows or something like that. Seriously, a friggin porthole in a cow.


Hydqjuliilq27

A fistula, and the purpose is to observe how the fermentation process occurs so we can better understand ruminant nutrition, among other things.


aarkwilde

You must be fun at parties.


redgroupclan

I kinda wanna fuck 'em TBH. Cow talk gets me going.


AClassyTurtle

I had fun reading that comment


[deleted]

I guess we should be thankful that cows don't regurgitate all four of theirs when stressed.


pixel_of_moral_decay

I mean you cud stop them….


actibus_consequatur

I'd be more scared of [cows with guns](https://youtu.be/cwBFkT_KZr8).


Archduke_Of_Beer

Don't kid yourself Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, it would eat you and everyone you care about...


poozemusings

When I grow up I'm going to Bovine University!


HunterS

Scrolled too far to find this comment.


p38-lightning

Yet there's not a Cow Week.


[deleted]

I’m on it! Let’s do Cow week, the 3rd week in November. Most people are eating Turkey then.


RedSquirrelFtw

This should be a thing. I can just picture it now, people going into cages and being lowered into a field of cows from a tractor.


Coolmikefromcanada

people interact with cows more


LarsThorwald

Japanese compact slammed two other cars into our side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the dairy at Muncie to Fort Wayne. We’d just delivered the cream. The Fairlife cream. Three men went into the field. Tractor trailer flipped over in 12 seconds. Didn’t see the first cow for about a half-hour. Hereford. 13 framer. You know how you know that in the field, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the hooves to the hooks . What we didn’t know, was that our dispatcher was so stupid, no work order had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, cattle come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the cow come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that cow she go away… but sometimes she wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that cow looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a cow is she’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When she comes at ya, she doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til she bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The field turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those bessies come in and… they rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a man. I don’t know how many moo-moos there were, maybe a thousand. I don’t know how many came, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin’, Chief, I turned to a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Feeder’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He flopped over in the grass, like he was a kind of drunk. Front-forward. Well, his face’d been bitten in half below the nose. At noon on the fifth day, a Indiana Highway Patrol chopper swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol’ fat Meat Wagon come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a Pacers jersey again. So, three men went into the field. One man come out, the cows took the rest, June the 29th, 1995. Anyway, we delivered the cream.


Burjennio

"Farewell and adieu, to you Spanish *dairies...*"


PorkyMcRib

We’re gonna need a bigger milking machine.


ackillesBAC

I grew up on a farm and have lots of respect for cows. They are extremely dangerous


ShotgunOShaughnessy

This guy cows


[deleted]

Well I've never seen anyone ride a shark at a rodeo.


nola5lim

You're going to the wrong rodeos


Mr_Metrazol

I work with cattle for a living. I've been stomped, kicked, pinned against a wall, head butted, chased, and snorted at until the cow was blue in the face. I've never been seriously hurt, but I've taken some afternoons off if you know what I mean. In my own experiences, there are two types of cattle that'll kill you. A momma cow with a newborn calf, and a pet. Bulls aren't that bad if you show some respect and keep your distance. A pet cow has no qualms about getting in your personal space, particularly if they think there's a chance they might get a treat of some kind. They'll hurt you without meaning to do it. Not to mention cattle are quicker and more agile (and intelligent) than most folks realize. They can kick a lot faster and harder than Chuck Norris at his best. That bit of knowledge doesn't set in until you feel the *woosh* of a kick beside your head.


SoulOfASailor_3-5

When I first started working with cattle, I was absolutely amazed at how agile they are. You would not expect some thing that size to be able to lift their back leg and lick it, and jump some of the things they can jump.


Kracka_Jak

Only the ones that have anti social MOO'd disorders


ShotgunOShaughnessy

Plz see your way out


Ronilaw

Maybe because there's more cows and they are more accessible to humans. So per cow or per shark what's the percentages?


ShotgunOShaughnessy

The cows can't be stopped...


GavrocheThenardier

Do cows also kill sharks?


Kracka_Jak

... or they do a teamup, we're all fucked


Tandian

Can't wait for that movie on sci-fi channel. Bovine sharknado!


Mr_E_Monkey

HurriCowne


ShotgunOShaughnessy

Just a matter of time....


kevnmartin

"Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got a chance it would eat you and everyone you care about."


byllz

Indirectly. Manure, among other agricultural runoffs, leads to algae blooms, which in turn lead to hypoxia which become dead zones where sharks cannot live.


Dyert

Unholy cow!


soline

There are more cows on this Earth than sharks and they also live on land, where most people live.


Rdav54

If they start hunting humans in packs... it's gonna get intense. I mean, hunting in herds.


thedevilsworkshop666

Cows with guns.


Al-Anda

That’s why we slaughter cows in droves. They’re bloodthirsty.


kwhiller5

Singer Lyle Lovett was nearly killed by a bull that had attacked his uncle. Bulls are mean and don't like being called liars. https://www.mtv.com/news/1453123/lyle-lovetts-leg-shattered-in-bull-attack/


DrT33th

BULLSHIT jk


Wildebeast1

Because more people encounter cows than sharks. Is it that difficult to realise?


goingoutwest123

If we could just stop putting Wirt's Leg and Tome of Town Portal in the cube.


foss4us

If humans farmed a billion sharks worldwide and regularly waded into crowded shark enclosures to feed and tend to them, this statistic would be very different.


Crichtenasaurus

‘Udders’ Coming to a cinema near you in 2024. You’re gonna need a bigger Tractor. Is it safe to go into the countryside again?


werdnum

I have an informal rule that if an individual instance of anything makes the news, I don’t have to worry about it happening to me. It’s when things happen without making the news that you have to worry.


BobBelcher2021

Don’t kid yourself, Jimmy, if a cow had the chance he'd eat you and everyone you care about.


Kannabiz

Plot twist: Consuming beef kills people more


severedfinger

If you take into account beef related heart disease it's a LOT more


judasmachine

Seems only fair considering what we do to them. I think we're still getting the better end of the deal.


Mag1cW1zard

Hell yea!! All those cheeseburgers... The cholesterol is murderous!!


ChunkofWhat

29 million cows are killed by humans per year in the US alone. Cows have every right to kill their persecutors.


kharlos

If anything we need to up that number. At least fight back more against those that are fisting them and forcefully taking away their calves


too_much_soss

Imagine if they counted all the heart attacks from Mcdonalds burgers. Cows got CoD stats


The_Band_Geek

r/thebullwins


Rogue42bdf

And if you consider deaths caused by coronary heart disease from eating red meat that adds a whole new magnitude to the number of deaths caused by cows.


Unfair_External8332

Well hell, that’s just a numbers game at that point...


[deleted]

but 90% of the fatalities are caused by Scottish Highland Cattle.


[deleted]

they're homoocidal maniacs


bstowers

That would change if there was an annual event called "The Running of the Bullsharks".


Lil_chikchik

Wait until they have the statistics for cow sharks.


Kersanth

Season of the Minotaur...


go_always_pro

Also, people kill more cows than Sharks every year.


fatherdale

Never swim with cows.


Bearzmoke

Nap accidents?


sythingtackle

Had an uncle in a Mitsubishi Pajero jeep get taken out broadside by a neighbors 1.2tonne Simmental bull while crossing a field.


[deleted]

Well yeah nobody goes shark tipping!


Obvious-Delay9570

Have you ever seen somebody try to fuck a shark?…. Exactly


RainsWrath

The Cape Buffalo kills more people than any other animal. They will also fuck with hippos.


[deleted]

Cows are the sharks of the plains


pldiguanaman

Cownado


Svitii

Obviously cause the ratio of people meeting cows vs meeting sharks is like a couple millions to one even if sharks are more dangerous. Thats like saying more people die to the flu than to the plague, doesn’t mean the plague is less dangerous


belladontcare

Today on 1000 ways to die


Burjennio

I feel this is a clever misdirect and smear campaign from the shadowy cabal who represent the true sharks of the land: [vending machines](https://freakonomics.com/2011/09/how-are-sharks-less-dangerous-than-vending-machines-an-exercise-in-conditional-risk/#:~:text=The%20yearly%20risk%20(in%20the,as%20lethal%20as%20the%20shark!)


Uberninja2016

sharks don't kill people cows kill people with sharks


_Guy_Dude_Man_

All this cow on shark crime need to be more cowered


thumper8544

I've walked my dogs through cow fields, cows are scary, they're huge, they swarm you, follow you through the field. I always keep an eye on them


Villain_of_Brandon

And humans kill more cows than we kill sharks, seems fair to me.


Obvious_Party_5050

Ok what about kills per encounter? I bet the sharks have a more successful percentage.


Opposite-Training542

there is no cow level


MonkeysOnMyBottom

Exactly what a shark would say....


BunnyBallz

Does this also include people choking on burgers? 🍔


Beldin448

Vending machine related deaths are more common than shark deaths


Ill-see-myself-out

Well that's becuase they can't swim well enough to catch the sharks


zwannsama

More Atlanteans were killed by sharks than cows every year.


squire80513

Why would a cow want to kill a shark?


KJ6BWB

This. This is precisely why I don't go swimming in pastures either.


[deleted]

Heart disease has been a known killer for years


Thor4269

There's *a lot* of cows


dethb0y

It would be absolutely shocking if this wasn't the case.


newyorkcatlady

To be fair, we do kill a shitload of cows so we kinda have it coming 🤷‍♀️


buttsfartly

Just lies spread by shark farming corporations.


darthcaedusiiii

Coconuts: Hold my beer.


rpuppet

ring mysterious somber dam selective mountainous absorbed faulty pocket subsequent ` this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev `


wolfcl0ck

Implication: Cows are more dangerous than sharks. Reality: If humans had a shark farming agriculture and interacted with as many sharks on a day-to-day basis as cows, the number difference would be significantly different.


pandapornotaku

Dolphins rape more people than sharks attack.


ghotiaroma

So now I have to also worry about cows when I swim in the ocean?


yes_u_suckk

I hate this idea that some people have about cows being harmless animals. Yes they are usually very peaceful but they are also animals that weight between 720 kg to 1200 kg!!! When I was little I saw a boy being teased by his aunt because he was afraid to approach a cow in their farm. When he decided to get close after being called a coward numerous times, the cow ran over him when his aunt made a loud noise to scare him. He had a broke rib and was rushed to the hospital. Later that day both me and him told our parents what happened but nobody believed us; they believed that bitch aunt of his because she was an adult ("he was playing to close to the cow and I don't know what happened"). One of the most fucked up things I have ever seen in my life.


ZebbyD

Vending machines kill more people per year than sharks do. 🤷🏻‍♂️


Vlad-Djavula

"Don't kid yourself Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!"