Fish. Not an animal, apparently.
When I was a student I did a stint working behind the fag counter of my local supermarket. Late nights were the worst, when it'd be quiet but I couldn't leave my kiosk so generally only had the equally bored security guard to talk to. I can't recall how the conversation started, or how we got onto the subject of sharks, so I'll pick up when I first realized I was talking to someone quite special.

Guard: "Well, Sharks aren't animals.."
Me: "Um... yes they are.."
Guard: "No, fish are separate."

A predictable argument continued for a while, but he couldn't be convinced otherwise. I wondered if he was confusing "animal" with "mammal" - no, he understood that, dolphins were mammals and indeed, animals, but fish were in his mind as different from an ape, bird or a snake as a mushroom.
(Ariaxen, Sat 1 Sep 2012, 23:29, 18 replies)

Sharks aren't fish.
Oh, and to be really specific, there's no such thing as a fish.
(Vigilante Man weeps because you're stupid., Sun 2 Sep 2012, 1:04, closed)

Bollocks!
Sharks are fish. You can't poo poo the word fish, just because there is no good taxonomic group. There are a group of animals people call fish, although, many of them are not at all close to each other on the tree of life. Sharks are part of that group, therefore sharks are fish.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 8:09, closed)

Just because you've called something a fish, doesn't make it a fish.

(Vigilante Man weeps because you're stupid., Sun 2 Sep 2012, 10:03, closed)

Surrealist lolz

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 10:31, closed)

Yes, it does. That's how nouns work. Stones for instance are called stones, because we call them stones.

( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 11:16, closed)

No it doesn't. We could call an apple a stone but it would still be an apple.

(Vigilante Man weeps because you're stupid., Sun 2 Sep 2012, 12:02, closed)

No, if everyone started calling an apple a stone, after a while the definition would be added to dictionarys.
Give it a couple centuries, and you'd have to look in a historical thesaurus to find out that stones used to be called apples.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 12:14, closed)

You lot need to read some Wittgenstein
That'll clear it up.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein/#Lan
(InflammableHound may be recorded for training porpoises, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 23:09, closed)

I was thinking more Kripke and Putnam.
And then they could perhaps come back and explain Naming and Necessity, because I've never managed to get through it.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 14:16, closed)

Course it does, just like how calling you a bumlord makes you a bumlord.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 11:19, closed)

Witty really isn't your thing is it you complete buttfuck?

( The Mock Turtle ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 17:05, closed)

I LEARNED FROM WATCHING YOU, DAD :(

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 17:26, closed)

If you love fish so much why don't you marry one?

( Major Turd for tonight only, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 16:19, closed)

Science disagrees.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 12:23, closed)

www.b3ta.com/questions/blazingignorance/post1717507
( The Mock Turtle ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 17:08, closed)

Congratulations on having once watched QI.

( wynoh kills threads by his mere presence, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 23:56, closed)

I ate some shark once. Tasted like a meaty fish.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 16:57, closed)

Strangely enough so did your mum.

( The Mock Turtle ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 17:06, closed)