r/interestingasfuck • u/SnackSamurai • 2d ago

Women stand still to escape from a bear

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u/3BlindMice1 2d ago

Running from a polar bear is only recommended because they're more likely to kill you instantly that way instead of eating you alive like they would if you'd played dead

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u/spacebarcafelatte 2d ago

Why did I read this

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u/ChippedHamSammich 2d ago

99.999999% sure we will never be in this situation but… global warming and all…

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u/pinklavalamp 2d ago

I’m an Xennial - we grew up afraid of the Bermuda Triangle and quicksand.

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u/Glitch29 2d ago

Born in '86, I think I just caught the tail end of quicksand in popular culture. There were some tales of it in elementary school, and the Parker Brothers' Quicksand game (1989) was still on the shelves through the early nineties.

But the last and only movie I remembered featuring quicksand was The Princess Bride (1987).

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u/GodlessScallywag 2d ago

Ah yes, the lightening sand. I'd rather take my chances with the R.O.U.S.'s.

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u/Maremdeo 1d ago

Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist.

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u/Unclecactus666 2d ago

'89 here. I was still very much afraid of quicksand back in the day.

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u/Upset-Requirement779 1d ago

The one I remember most is the never ending story

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u/SalvatoreVitro 2d ago

You’re a millennial. The name was coined for those who graduated around 2000. The other end of the generation should have the hybrid name.

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u/ZELLKRATOR 2d ago edited 2d ago

"Ey yo polar bear... How you you like them SUVs? Who's dying now, cunt? You should have gone for a license yourself, idiot."

That's tha way to do it...!

"Ey hooman... How you like them floodings? Who's dying now, cunt? Better swim like the polar bears, idiot."

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u/YouMUSTvote 1d ago

lol lol, I know! This is the rocket fuel of nightmares…

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u/gremlinfrommars 2d ago

Well. That's fun

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u/ResolveLeather 2d ago

It's recommend because if you are in a place that you encounter them, shelter or vehicle is near by. Snowmobile/boar is faster then a polar bear and artic explorers are big enough to not care.

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u/Unclecactus666 2d ago

So if I encounter a polar bear I should find a boar to ride to safety on?

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u/kellzone 2d ago

And if you do have to run, zig-zag. Don't run in a straight line like that idiot Rickon Stark.

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u/HuckleberryOdd7745 2d ago

but what the likely hood of playing dead actually working and them ignoring you?

or was the laying down advice not actually advice?

instead of perfecting my brief knowledge on the heimlich maneuver and cpr im learning about fighting polar bears.... just in case i guess.

honestly i cant remember how to tell if a drop is about to attack. i think last time i looked it up it was if theyre showing their teeth and growling. and something about the tail either being up or down being good or bad.

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u/3BlindMice1 2d ago

Polar Bears need all the calories they can get. They'd still eat your corpse if it had been rotting for a week. They wouldn't mind in the slightest that you were playing dead. Don't bother learning how to fight a polar bear, instead, look up how big they are. It's a mass of muscle, teeth, and claws the size of a tank that's perpetually starving.

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u/idontlikegudeg 1d ago

You know the story of the two guys running into a bear and one of them instantly fixes his shoe laces. The other one says "why are you doing that? You won’t outrun him anyway?" "I know. But I hope i can outrun you."