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[Thomas Shey]

Other make-a-wish wishes involved feeding the homeless (which had to get reduced to feeding the homeless in one city, one time), getting tons of get well cards (they ended up filling a big warehouse), and hunt a particular bear. (And after make-a-wish stopped ranting hunting related wishes, a new charity, Hunt of a Lifetime, was born to fill the void. Just how many gravely ill kids with hunting experience are there?)

In some rural parts of the U.S. at least, I'd imagine not uncommon. Keep in mind supplementing your diet during the hunting parts of the year is not uncommon, so often kids learn to hunt fairly young and accompany parents doing so.

 

[overgeeked]

I’ve wondered about this for awhile and stumbled across a video today. After a bit of looking it’s a fairly common topic. Still interesting.

 

[billd91]

In some rural parts of the U.S. at least, I'd imagine not uncommon. Keep in mind supplementing your diet during the hunting parts of the year is not uncommon, so often kids learn to hunt fairly young and accompany parents doing so.

Oh, most definitely. I had school mates who would rush out after school to try to get the last bit of time for deer hunting in the afternoon before the sun went down (that also meant most of them had rifles in their cars/trucks in the school parking lot). And in the case of the kid who wanted to hunt bear in Alaska, he was 17 at the time and from Minnesota, a state with plenty of avid, teenage hunters.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Oh, most definitely. I had school mates who would rush out after school to try to get the last bit of time for deer hunting in the afternoon before the sun went down (that also meant most of them had rifles in their cars/trucks in the school parking lot). And in the case of the kid who wanted to hunt bear in Alaska, he was 17 at the time and from Minnesota, a state with plenty of avid, teenage hunters.

I sometimes think people from more densely inhabited countries or even parts of the U.S. are really kind of unclear how relatively wild parts of the U.S. are and the impact that has on local lifestyles.

 

[trappedslider]

I sometimes think people from more densely inhabited countries or even parts of the U.S. are really kind of unclear how relatively wild parts of the U.S. are and the impact that has on local lifestyles.

the size difference is brought up all the time over on reddit when someone what's something that Europeans don't get style questions

 

[Staffan]

the size difference is brought up all the time over on reddit when someone what's something that Europeans don't get style questions

In Europe, 200 km is a long distance.
In America, 200 years is a long time.

 

[Reynard]

This is not a today thing, but something I learned about a week ago.

I’d vaguely heard of the Great Kanto Earthquake in manga etc before, but only read up on it last week.

I learned about it watching The Legend of Overfiend.

I also learned a lot of other.... things.

 

[Ryujin]

I sometimes think people from more densely inhabited countries or even parts of the U.S. are really kind of unclear how relatively wild parts of the U.S. are and the impact that has on local lifestyles.

I once had to shepherd a group of government representatives from Cuba. They wanted to have breakfast in Montreal and see Niagara Falls in the afternoon. No concept of the actual size of Canada.

They also wanted to go to a Harley Davidson dealership, but that's another story.

 

[payn]

I once had to shepherd a group of government representatives from Cuba. They wanted to have breakfast in Montreal and see Niagara Falls in the afternoon. No concept of the actual size of Canada.

They also wanted to go to a Harley Davidson dealership, but that's another story.

A buddy of mine is an engineer for 3M. He had a few Japanese engineers come over for work/conferences. He asked them what they wanted to do while in America. Go to a gun range apparently.

So they went and my buddy handed him an AR rifle to shoot. “ANYBoDY CAN HAVE THIS!?” Was the reply. The correct reaction if you ask me.

 

[Thomas Shey]

the size difference is brought up all the time over on reddit when someone what's something that Europeans don't get style questions

The size certainly matters in some context, but there are parts of the U.S. that, even though bigger than most countries, are still about as densely populated and therefor not, in practice, that different other than in assumptions about transportation and times thereof.

And then there's, say, Montana. I kind of doubt there's any equivalent in Western Europe.