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We also kill millions of sharks per year, while they’re responsible for maybe 10 human deaths per year (worldwide).
Human infested cities. Cat infested cafés. Cattle infested farms.
Actually marinas like the one pictured or “canal estates” often create environments that become “infested” with pests and predators. Some of which for example contain bull sharks in plague proportions. Yes sharks live in the ocean but anyone living next to a canal teaming with them would conclude that there is an “investation”.
Bull sharks are unique in that they can somehow retain salt from ocean / salt / brackish water which allows them to operate in fresh water. They’re also more aggressive than other species, or perhaps just more likely to grab at movement in murky river water.
I remember watching a documentary suggesting that bull shark attacks might have been the inspiration for the Jaws series, after a spate of attacks in estuaries in the US in the years prior.
Jeremy Wade on River Monsters TV series also had an episode about them.
This is why festivals are called that all teeming with wretched humans and their various parasites
Infest-ivals?
infest verb in·fest in-ˈfest infested; infesting; infests Synonyms of infest transitive verb
1 : to spread or swarm in or over in a troublesome manner shark-infested waters
2 : to live in or on as a parasite
Oktober-fest;
1 : to spread or swarm in or over in a troublesome manner buxom-waitress-in traditional-dress infested waters
2 : to live in or on as a completely smashed parasite
Shut up! Germans just live there!
Yeah, it’s just their lebensraum, nothing to be concerned about at all.
Shut up! Termites just live there!
I’m taking this far too seriously for a meme, but I already looked it up out of curiosity so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers; to plague, harass.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/infest
Interestingly (at least to me) it looks like it’s related to "manifest’.
Puts a new spin on Manifest Destiny.
Ah so i can say “human infested planet” then
“Welcome to my me-infested home.”
Yep
Isn’t that usually how infestations work though?
Humans infest shark habitats. You don’t see sharks coming into your gated community, do you?
Would be a rad way to thin out the herd of xenophobic rich people, though 🤔
No, sharks rarely infest gated communities. The point was that infestations usually consist of animals that live in the place they are undesired.
No, the point is that indigenous populations are not infesting their own natural habitats.
For example, “Native Americans” did not “infest” the United States. White people did.
That’s a different point though. If you have a termite infestation, you might say that they’re invasive to the house and it’s not their natural element. However you might also say that they live there, which is equally true.
For example, “Native Americans” did not “infest” the United States. White people did.
Do you imagine the various indigenous populations of Americas popped out of the ground like mushrooms? They’re pretty far from their “natural habitat” in the plains of sub-saharan Africa… Or is that too far back in history and their “natural habitat” is in Siberia and Polynesia?
Aren’t infestations about something that wasn’t there before and doesn’t actually belong there?
No, it is about their presence being wanted or not. I don’t want to go to a swamp because is infested with mosquitoes for example, mosquitoes were always there.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/infestation
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/infestWe are aware of the dictionary definition. OP was precisely about arguing that that definition is a based on a fallacy.
Where is the fallacy?
But live there though.
then what does ever infest anything
Bedbugs, human habitations.
