Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[prabe]

What's weird is that when humans killing other humans are cited in this study, it's almost always listing as "murder" when it's not like we're not also vectors for deadly diseases for each other.

To be fair, it's probably easier to count the humans murdered by other humans than to count the humans killed by diseases other humans carry--and all those other diseases and infestations on that list require something more than "breathing the same air," as far as how humans get them, which does make them more countable.

 

[Artamo]

When my wife was going to grad school in Montana, her hiking buddy carried a large pistol in case he encountered a bear. Not because he expected to shoot the bear--even a .357 magnum isn't a great choice for that--but because bears don't like the compression wave.

Dang. File that under “today I learned.”

 

[SkidAce]

Bears have strong feelings about wave physics, it's true.

 

[dragoner]

When my wife was going to grad school in Montana, her hiking buddy carried a large pistol in case he encountered a bear. Not because he expected to shoot the bear--even a .357 magnum isn't a great choice for that--but because bears don't like the compression wave.

The Bear spray is supposed to be effective too, and the pistol though is also effective at scaring away people.

 

[Gradine]

To be fair, it's probably easier to count the humans murdered by other humans than to count the humans killed by diseases other humans carry--and all those other diseases and infestations on that list require something more than "breathing the same air," as far as how humans get them, which does make them more countable.

Yeah that is fair.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Far too many people find out, the hard way, that wild felines just aren't house pets no matter what the Youtube shorts will tell you.

Somebody noted that when we domesticated cats we did it with A) One of the two most social groups of them in the world and B) Pretty much the second smallest ones. This is not a coinidence.

 

[Thomas Shey]

That great cat is big enough and strong enough to bat you around the way your pet cat bats around a crinkle ball ...

That's often been the problem. Even great cats that are very used to people and by all evidence pretty much like them are really unclear on the concept that we can't take the knocking around their fellow lion or tiger can...

 

[Thomas Shey]

When my wife was going to grad school in Montana, her hiking buddy carried a large pistol in case he encountered a bear. Not because he expected to shoot the bear--even a .357 magnum isn't a great choice for that--but because bears don't like the compression wave.

.44 Mag are the classic choice there, and even then that's a "better than nothing" choice more than anything else when it comes to handguns.

 

[prabe]

That's often been the problem. Even great cats that are very used to people and by all evidence pretty much like them are really unclear on the concept that we can't take the knocking around their fellow lion or tiger can...

There are animals big enough to hurt you without meaning to--big bears and great cats come to mind--and there are animals big enough to hurt you without noticing you. It's probably in your best interest to leave animals in either of those categories alone.

 

[trappedslider]

There are animals big enough to hurt you without meaning to--big bears and great cats come to mind--and there are animals big enough to hurt you without noticing you. It's probably in your best interest to leave animals in either of those categories alone.

again: If not friend,why friend shaped?