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I guess he had a whale of a time!

You’ve completely changed your comment at least twice [EDIT: thrice], after it got a handful of replies. This is an abuse of the edit button and is basically not cool.

I’ve noticed this happening a lot lately.

I still wouldn't want my entire body inside the mouth of another animal. Terrifying!

The night swallowed the day.

I swallowed the novel in one night.

She swallowed me whole; I was smitten.

The child was swallowed by the huge overcoat.

That’s how words work in our fun and rollicking language.

Yeah, it's not like this guy claimed to be in the belly of the whale for 3 days. Could you imagine the response to that title? Surely, nobody would have the gall to make up a story like that and spread it around like gospel.

I'd like to see you make that distinction when a 50 foot 30 ton beast is coming right at you

How sure will you be then?

"Ah its an accident, this animal's doesn't even eat humans and its throat is too sm---"

What’s the purpose of your response? It clearly wasn’t meant as a claim that one can decide on matters of internal whale anatomy in a split second.

Introspection about a useless pedantic response that is also mentioned in the article, while the diver still thought he was never getting out

You mean personal introspection on the comment you replied to, or what you believe the diver what would have thought in that moment?

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