EVE General Discussion

"There's a brand new dance, but I don't know its name,
that people from bad homes do again, and again.
It's big and it's bland, full of tension and fear.
They do it over there, but we don't do it here." - D. Bowie -

People think they know animals. They're told they're the peak of evolution, and nothing else in nature compares. They look down on everything, and think animals are cute, or stupid. The term "carebear" of course, typifies this revery. Yeah, Carebears are plush Teddy Bears, that came with a set of cartoons for kiddies. I guess we can scoff at that, being all grown up. Being grown up means you can ridicule children and childhood - like animals.

The most dangerous animal to train is the polar bear. They never show anything on their faces. They just act. One day you'll have two arms. The next, you'll have only one. Nothing personal. When you're a class A predator, you don't worry about little things.

The most dangerous animal to meet in the field is the grizzly bear. They don't just see you and run off. If you're standing where they are, you're in the wrong place, and they'll prove that to you. Hunters tracking grizzly bears have been ambushed from behind by the bear they're tracking. It's so stupid, it's circled around and come up behind him. You know The Terminator? Yeah, the grizzly is nature's terminator. He can't be reasoned with. He has no pity. He's got one thing in mind. Standing at 12-feet when on his hind legs, good luck being the superior species with that.

The panda, actually, is not a bear. Google it.

The one bear people most often mistake for "friendly" is the black bear. Ask anyone who's tried to hand one a slice of bread and walked away with a blood, gushing stump. He didn't actually try to take his arm off at the elbow. It's those pesky, hooked claws. Don't feed the bears. Well...go ahead and try if you want. I won't be crying for you.

There are a lot of thoughtful, intelligent and sophisticated people on this forum...or there were.* Now, it's a featureless ruin. Show your butt. Complain about what you don't have. Suggest others reach a perfection you can't reach yourself. Do it all from the safety of a keyboard. Gin up some trivial ripple to gloat about like it was a digital tsunami. We've* had a lot of interesting and revealing discussions about a great many things. And, it's been a pleasure, and a joy to converse with you through the "magic" of digital reality.

On my grandpa's farm there was an area just for the hogs. It too was a featureless ruin. Eternally muddy, and excrement laden with the accompanying microbiology only the rat population would brave. They loved it there. They contoured it for their preferences, and as hogs go (bound for the slaughterhouse to be made into bacon and ham, etc.) it was enough to suit them while they wallowed in their own revery that they'd be there a while.

The more sophisticated animals walked a wide track around that wallow. Why bother picking up parasites and illnesses? The hogs stood, or lay muddy up to their ears in their happy domain no one else would come near. It was a harmonious segregation.

So. I'm off. Thanks for the thoughts. Thanks for the challenges to the intellect, for putting up with my weird sense of humor, and giving me a deeper knowledge of more than just this hapless "game." And remember: If you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas. Love you folks - you know who you are.

See you up the road.

See? Here's one now. Oink! Oink! (Did I get that right?)

You forgot Yogi Bear: Most prone to steal your picknick

But he's smarter than your average bear.

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa

You said A word, that's an awful lot of words.

As for the report, you are mixing up bears with carebears. Carebears do not live in the wild, they live in up in the clouds. Carebears do not have 6 in. claws that will cleave your arm off, they shoot little pretty beams of light in a rainbow formation. One bear can wtfbbqpwn your day while it takes a group of carebears to stave off one of your attacks and even then they don't stop you, they simply buy themselves another day before you come up with a new plan. One growls, one lets off a high pitch squeak. So please, for your safety and the safety of others, learn your bears.

Bears are ferocious and, when attacked, will defend themselves with primal rage. Their extraordinary strength will dwarf the strength of the predators.

Heh.

I was in a LTR with a Bear. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_(gay_culture)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WgT9gy4zQA 1:38 into it, shows how ruthless carebears are, be warned.

http://boudicabpi.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/montana-bear-tragedy.jpg just screams "gank me please" doesn't it ?

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