RE: 6% Of Americans Think They Would Win A Fight Against A Grizzly Bear
May 17, 2021 at 1:27 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2021 at 1:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
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.
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.
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