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🕑 Added 2023-01-31 02:40:03 +0000 UTCdo not eat the bears
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Onedavewreckingcrew
i laughed and then i was really, really sad
William Cole
Yes! I read about it in Ryan North's, How to Invent Everything (which is great, btw). The crazy thing is that humanity figured out how to prevent scurvy multiple times, but kept forgetting about it or changing to methods that didn't actually work, because we didn't really understand the underlying mechanisms.
Mad Marie
Didn’t see it, ValdVin! Congrats on acquiring trichinosis first!
doorbender
Do you know how horrible scurvy is?
PixelThis
Though, generally, I would think a disorder is something you have the possibility of recovering from or living with. Death by polar bear seems a trifle out of scope 😆
Clifton Royston
Well the standard DSM criterion for disorder is along the lines of "Does it interfere with your ability to function daily?" Even though I haven't experienced the case of being eaten by polar bears, for myself I would have to guess probably yes.
ValdVin
Someone already made the trichinosis joke (me) but I appreciate any effort to raise awareness of this disease which is the scourge of Arctic exploration (well, except for scurvy).
Mad Marie
Seems like the easiest way to avoid trickynoses is to stay away from the top end of the bear?
Mad Marie
om nom nom
Mad Marie
^bad news bears?
Courtney Welch
Oh, I've seen the dentition rather close up on a number of occasions. Among other things, my family used to own the head-mounted skin of a good-sized bear. It took some months before my little brother would go anywhere near it, but he would have been around four, so kind of understandable.
Thomas A. Dennis
In that case, absolutely do not go to YouTube and look up "polar bear plexiglass box". No fang-on-skull action, I promise! The plexiglass box is tough. But you do get a very good look at Mx. Bear's dentition from inside the box.
Leak
[Exit stage, trashed by epic Bubbles vs. bear fracas]
Drew Blas
Someone already made the Beriberi joke. But if we're talking polar bears and arctic explorer diseases - the thing to worry about is either trichinosis or Vitamin A toxicity - both most likely coming from eating polar bear. So sounds like we should stay away from them regardless of who has the gun...
Courtney Welch
I know two people who were mauled by polar bears. The thing that stays with me is one of them saying the worst part was the sound of the bear's teeth on his skull. That's an uncomfortably concrete description for an auditory thinker like me...
Nova Zicko
She's gonna get beriberickettscurvy
Miyaa
They wouldn’t fight. Bubbles would find fresh seals for the polar bear and the bear would accept boops on the snoot. Meanwhile another polar bear is accepting belly rubs from Emmitt while their mom is worried how bad of an influence the bears are to them.
Mike Klingbiel
[Exit Bear, pursued by a Bubbles]
Stephen Wells
Bubbles can lift a tank. I think a polar bear would not be a threat to her.
Leak
Oooof...
Chewbacca
[Exit FAYE, pursued by a bear]
Chewbacca
HAHA-awwwww :'(
Sehrys
polar bears do occasionally fight/hunt walruses and other creatures their own size (or even bigger/heavier than them), so who knows! maybe Bubbles smells like prey 👀
Chauncey
In my experience, uncircumcised ones ;)
Adam Abbott
~Without a Paddle Dan: What are you doing? Jerry: I'm taking off my shoes. Dan: Why? Jerry: Because I run faster with no shoes. Dan: You can't outrun that bear. Jerry: I don't have to outrun the bear. I just have to outrun you.
Bagge
Bubbles would pet the polar bear
Sleepy John
I don't think the bears are dumb enough to pick a fight with someone their own size, and Bubbles certainly wouldn't.
Leak
So who'd win in a fight (no weapons) - Bubbles or the polar bear?
Todd Ellner
Take a gun. Just remember to file off the front sight
Simon Green
Ha! Joke's on Bubbles, there won't BE any polar bears in 10 years.
Tudza
Well they do have the right to bear arms.
PixelThis
I don't know that I'd classify getting eaten by polar bears as a "disorder"
Magic Chopstick Games
So I Google “bear gun” and the first “people also ask” question is “What kind of gun do bears use?” 😶
Ursus Ridens
Fudd's disorder: awtic wabbit syndwome.
wargrunt42
Despite over a century's worth of medical advancements, there's still no known cure for Eaten By Bears Disease.
Thomas Halpin
Yeah, I can't imagine hiking in bear country, including the arctic, without a proper BEAR gun. Only because I like being alive and I don't think I can run faster than anyone else I might be with.
Czarzhan
Saw a Quora answer to a question of what you should do if you were in the Arctic and saw a polar bear on the ice and you had a gun but no quick way to escape (like, by air). The answer was basically, if you want to avoid being dismembered alive, since polar bears don't bother to kill you before they start eating you, is to use the gun. But not on the bear, that'd just piss it off.
