I could win 6% of the fight.

(May 17, 2021 at 7:11 am)brewer Wrote: I want to talk to the 28% that think they can't defeat a rat. 

6% is not to surprising. Compare it to the serious mental health number in society.

We did defeat a rat, last November.

(May 17, 2021 at 9:56 am)Brian37 Wrote:

(May 17, 2021 at 7:11 am)brewer Wrote: I want to talk to the 28% that think they can't defeat a rat. 

6% is not to surprising. Compare it to the serious mental health number in society.

We did defeat a rat, last November.

bonafide rats demand satisfaction.

https://i.imgur.com/WqdDgIL.jpg

Judging by the number of bears left and their diminishing range, I'd say that 94% of americans are underestimating their own abilities in face of a morbid fact.  

-framing

(May 17, 2021 at 7:11 am)brewer Wrote: I want to talk to the 28% that think they can't defeat a rat. 

6% is not to surprising. Compare it to the serious mental health number in society.

28% apparently think this is a normal rat:





Okay, after thinking about it for more than a second, I think the fact that rodents are agile as all fuck probably helps. That and they’re proportionately very fast, with a top speed of about 8 miles per hour, and, while the mouse is smaller (though the top speed is still the same, if Google is any indication) its proportional speed is something akin to 161 miles per hour. Probably smaller for the rat, but it makes sense if you think about the fact that, while rats don’t put up much of a fight when caught, you still have to catch them, and that’s the hard part, especially when you don’t have weapons (a point specified by the survey). You ever try and catch a rat with your bare hands?

(May 17, 2021 at 11:31 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Judging by the number of bears left and their diminishing range, I'd say that 94% of americans are underestimating their own abilities in face of a morbid fact.  

-framing

The question DID specify ‘without weapons’. In broad terms, destruction of habitat and food supply qualify as weapons.

Boru

(May 17, 2021 at 11:31 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Judging by the number of bears left and their diminishing range, I'd say that 94% of americans are underestimating their own abilities in face of a morbid fact.  

-framing

And we’re keeping in mind that the survey specifically said that this fight would be without any weapons, which were almost certainly the big factor (besides humans becoming in invasive species in their territory) in why the number of bears and their diminishing range happened?

Reality is probably a negotiation between the 6% overconfident and the 94% at or under.

We've been exterminating bears, and large bears particularly, for as long as we've been around - one way or another. With or without weapons or a weapon in hand, it seems like we've always been more dangerous and more dangerous to them than they are or than they are to us. Granted, when it comes to people, you pretty much have to take a broad view of a weapon.

I met a guy who was infatuated with a website back in the day - iwannafightabear dot com or somesuch. Obviously there was a fantasy of wrestling a bear. That part was unremarkable, it was a thing thing that blew up. What struck me is that he would start off by specifying that he wanted to fight a black bear as a beginner - fighting a brown bear, he'd say...would be crazy. I'd wonder why that seemed to make a difference (or a difference to crazy, for that matter). That was his first provision, though. Then he'd get stoned and come out with these elaborate scenarios that provided him with some advantage as he saw it. He'd really given it alot of idle thought.

The stats they mentioned about dogs surprised me the most. Immediately reminds me of a bit of dialogue in Patriot. If you fought an 80 pound man you'd spend half of it laughing and all of it fucking that little motherfucker up.

I think I’d sooner fight a large dog than a small one. Little dogs have more to prove.

Boru