2008: Independence Day

[Michael's Servant]

With Brandie Posey – The 4th of July; Luis Suarez banned; Rob Ford out of rehab; officiating a wedding; how to survive a bear attack; L.A. muggings

Guest:
Brandie Posey





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[J. Canines]

My friends and I have scared off black bears making noise and hitting sticks together.

I doubt this would work with a brown or grizzly bear. Also, every year a few teens get mauled to death by bears in Yellowstone. In almost every instance, they left food out and attracted the bears.

[Tomrl94]

Here you go...

[invader]

The story about the girl just jumping into the car and demanding a ride was beautiful. I can't even pretend that I'm mad at her. I love her brazen attitude. I would have driven her home just for the conversation potential; "So... tell me about your life!"

Seeing how it's impossible to outrun/out-climb a bear, what choice do you have but to try and make yourself bigger? The real question is, do bears have any natural predators? Why would they fear anything even if it was bigger? Playing dead seems more logical since bears aren't scavengers... not counting pic-a-nic baskets of course.

[andsoitgoes]

Just to confirm, the person in the parody ad is Steven Merchant, aka the voice of the second robot (Wheatley) in Portal 2:



This is stephen fry:




Both some of the best of Britain who are actually funny there and in North America.

[J. Canines]

Originally Posted by invader

The real question is, do bears have any natural predators? Why would they fear anything even if it was bigger? Playing dead seems more logical since bears aren't scavengers...

Right?? I don't think they do. We have mountain lions and bears. I've never heard of bear killed by big cat.

Bears are gangster as fuck. If you've ever seen one in real life -it's shocking. You experience a fear never felt before. Hell, you can go into a place that just has one stuffed and mounted. Even dead, bears are terrifying.

Bears are gangster as fuck, but also lazy as fuck. All along the edge of my mountain town, the garbage cans in parks are thick heavy steel. They're bolted to ground and have special drop lids like those blue city mail-boxes. If bears are in your neighborhood, they'll go through all the garbage.

[Lanfear]

Originally Posted by J. Canines

Bears are gangster as fuck, but also lazy as fuck. All along the edge of my mountain town, the garbage cans in parks are thick heavy steel. They're bolted to ground and have special drop lids like those blue city mail-boxes. If bears are in your neighborhood, they'll go through all the garbage.

Why would they not be lazy and take advantage of readily available food sources? They are omnivores so they are expected to eat whatever they can find. Its our fault for throwing away stuff that they can eat or at least that smells like they can eat it.

You are not walking miles outside of your town to hunt and gather food somewhere from the woods when there is a nice supermarket full of yummy stuff right in your town.

[Sakugenken]

We were staying at my wife's cousins- they live in the countryside. Next to the door this was hanging, the label says "bear bell". I was told you must carry this at night to "scare away" any bears. I stayed inside.

[Sparrow]

my folks property has a bear. they're lonesome critters; one bear can have a good hundred acre territory to himself. i've come up on him hiking home at night, no bigs. my 70 lbs dog barks and he lumbers off. it only ever gets janky if you're between a mama and her cubs. they don't take kindly.

black bears you can get big and bad with. grizzlies is best to play dead. i'm pretty sure. it may be the other way around.

[invader]

On people mispronouncing Chemda's name; When it comes to learning a language the human brain basically slows down recognizing "new" phonetic sounds after about for or five years. So if you grew up speaking only one language and it didn't contain the Hebrew "ch" sound it is going to pretty difficult to say Chemda's name correctly. To make it worse the "ch" sound, sounds rude to a native English speakers. So again we think, "that can't be right." Not to mention the people that pronounce Chemda as "Kem*da" are also pronouncing it correctly from a native English speakers perspective. Since they are breaking up the word phonetically, "Hmm... Chem*da sounds like Chem*is*try... ok I got this". having no frame of reference, namely that you are Israeli and your name is Hebrew so using English language, phonetic reading conventions to parse how to pronounce the name is incorrect. You can't really blame them.


I think Chemda should go the route of Louie C.K. and just spell her last name phonetically. Or just drop the C, "Hemda." Which technically is still not the correct way to pronounce it. But it's the closest native English speakers usually get anyway.