Two very related subjects

So here I am. Sitting in my bed with my laptop on my lap. It's 5 minutes until midnight and I'm listening to some Cage The Elephant songs on YouTube. An excellent situation to think things trough and write on my blog while doing so.

Earlier this evening, I watched a documentary called "Sharkbite Summer". It's shark-month on discovery channel, so there's a shark documentary every evening. This one was rather interesting though.
When you're at the beach and there are sharks swimming at, literally, 5 meters far into the water, would you go for a final swim with your fiancée before going back home? Would you teach your 10y-old son to surf? Would you participate in a surfing contest?
If you have at least a tenth of my ability to estimate situations, which frankly isn't much, then you would not.
Sharks are fish. Sharks have teeth. Fish don't feel sorry for your kid before, while or after they bite a leg off.
I believe sharks don't realize we are humans. How could they, they're fish. But you know, I honestly think they don't really care. They see something that looks tasty, weak and smaller than they are, so they give it a bite. Sure, it's not like every shark that you encounter will bite you. But face it, when a 3 meter long Bull-shark is swimming at a throwing distance from the beach, it's not looking for someone to play hide and seek with. More like tag-your-it (it, or eat, whichever may be more suitable).
So, dear readers, when you're on a holiday at the beach and the place is swarming with news reporters that are pointing their camera's at shark-infested waters, it MAY not be a wise idea to go for a swim.

Now we're on the shark subject, I think it's worth mentioning I have this Australian warning sign that warns for great white sharks. I hung it on my bedroom door. It's awesome.

And now for something completely different.
I play bass guitar. Now don't give me the 'oh it's just a simple guitar' bullshit because it's an entirely different instrument. I play guitar as well so I can tell.
Seriously, why is it that people consider bass to be simple? Sure, it has (usually) got 2 strings less. But it's a lot heavier and the notes are at a greater distance from each other. On top of that, the playing technique is entirely different. You can of course just slam it as hard as you can with your guitar pick, but that's not playing bass. In fact, that's as close to playing bass as a go-kart is to a car. A real bassist plays with his fingers.

So here comes the part where I should come up with some smart conclusion that links shark attacks to playing bass guitar.
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Seriously mate...