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Still trying to reckon whether sharks are brat or based.

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You should consult the incoming US president. He has strong opinions about sharks. Not saying they make sense though…

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Also, I know it's pettifogging nitpickery but if those French paras carried out their atrocity as described, then they ended up turning the faces of their victims away from Rome since the longitude of the eternal city is to the *east* of Algeria...

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Impressive pettifogging! You’d have to take that up with Lartéguy, who I think is no longer with us.

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Ummm, Matt, I hate to be anal about this but there are sharks in the Mediterranean. Not as many as there used to be, true, and more than there may one day be, but for the moment they're out there, increasingly lone sharking. I'll show myself out.

https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/77/1/12/5675589?login=false

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This was addressed at Brett Deveraux' blog last week. In summary the Romans knew about sharks, but they didn't know how to keep them alive long enough to use them in a gladiatorial spectacle.

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Dammit John you're absolutely right! Removed. Wouldn't want to be spreading misinformation...

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