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Would you rather be stuck in the woods with a man or a bear?53% of women aged 18-29 choose the bear (as do 31% of all women)https://t.co/8x00JrSkCG pic.twitter.com/9O0yH5mLNt
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It was politicians like Fauci scared of their own involvement that caused the pandemic and there does need to be a reckoning for everyone involved.
Presumably those who choose the bear get eaten, win a Darwin Award, and improve the Average Quality (IQ, if you like) of humanity by removing themselves from the calculation.
A sort of self-imposed Voluntary Opt-in Eugenics.
(I think the increasing failure of young American women and men to form what a biologist would call "pair bonds" is our most serious national problem. As an American man, I can say that most of the fault is on the men's side. But not all.)
Grizzly bears - the ones that will eat you - are fairly rare, anywhere near people,
A small brown bear you might be able to distract for a while, but a grizzly or polar bear is almost always hungry.
For example, how many of those surveyed realize that bears a) can outrun humans; and b) can climb trees (or alternatively topple smaller trees)?
Well, this isn’t 20,000 corpses - it’s 20,000,000 - plus a global cost of $25 TRILLION
And all those kids lives’ damaged and blunted and grrrrrr
And as you say even if at this late stage someone finds it came from the wet market (now vanishingly unlikely) there is no question that dodgy and illegal virology was done and there is no question that certain figures tried to cover that up and stop us talking about it - in ways that certainly made the virus worse
It’s a crime on a scale with a war crime. Surely?
NOT however IF they perceive a danger to themselves, or especially to their cub(s).
New ball. Triple Nelson.
Shit about to happen at Grace Road.
Although, to be fair, at 333/1...
Heck, he even admitted it.
He said 'I took ma maladie into the palace in a sandwich.'
He imposed a veritable holocaust on the animal population.
I'd have plenty to criticise about the UK response to the pandemic but, "more responsible for global spread than the Chinese," isn't on my radar.
What a bizarre opinion.
The Biden administration is planning on introducing grizzly bears to the North Cascades here in Washington state. That's not because most people in that thinly-populated area particularly want those bears.
This little summary is good advice for those going into bear country:
If it's black, fight back.
It it's brown, lay down.
It it's white, say good night.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6bbb2l
(with Bonus Pamela Stephenson)
Someone in the UK - perhaps JK Rowling or Rishi Sunak - should try a Brit version "would you rather be stuck in the woods with a transwoman or a bear".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_airports_by_passenger_traffic
(Could you imagine how racist NTNOCN would be described as today, coming up with stretches like that?).
If you're carrying food, and hopefully you are in the woods, simply dropping it for them to eat while you escape will work. They are omnivores. And aren't interested in expending more energy than is necessary to fuel.
Polar bears are dangerous because of the lack of easy food. Even grizzlies won't attack you unless they have just woken up after hibernation.
For LOTS more on this subject, check out
"The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America 1858 - 1919" by Douglas Brinkley (2009)
https://douglasbrinkley.com/books/the-wilderness-warrior/
Westminster Voting Intention:
LAB: 47% (+2)
CON: 20% (+1)
RFM: 14% (=)
LDM: 9% (=)
GRN: 8% (=)
SNP: 0% (-4)
But his figures are bollocks
lmao Goodwin's published headline figures based on an obviously error-strewn data table:
Here's the data without adjustments. Looks clear to me that the table the headline figures are drawn from, once undecideds and likelihood to vote are factored in, is missing a row of data - the SNP figures should be Plaid's, Plaid's should be in the 'some other party' row.
The error with the table is the rows from SNP down. Hard to know exactly what the problem is (many ways to build a set of tabs), but the SNP data isn't being pulled through and the code is skipping over to the Plaid data (then back round to the unweighted sample at the bottom).
I find this very funny, but it's also very annoying. Casts a poor light on the industry that an outfit that can't check a three-page set of tables properly is publishing polls with BPC membership attached to them.
https://x.com/markmcgeoghegan/status/1791476732807057507
New: Post Office's top lawyer has refused to give evidence to the public inquiry and can not be compelled as she lives abroad.
Inquiry counsel Jason Beer KC: “We're not going to hear from her, she lives abroad and won't cooperate”.
It is only a few years ago Rishi Sunak invented a whole new National Insurance to sort out the problem of social care once and for all. Has that problem with social care gone away with the money he took and still taking? Even with another pre election cut to something, he has still only given back part of what he’s already taken.
Another fiscal event is more a case of salting the earth, Gordon Brown style - who put up tax on wealth creation in 2010 just as Tories cut NI in last thing they do in 2024, knowing they are paying for these NI tax cuts from fictitious money that won’t exist in 2028-29 that means either terrible cuts in departmental spending or tax rises, probably both.
Can they get that £70B of defence spending increase through an OBR and still have anything for a rabbit from the hat?
Nope.
Another fiscal event will be so nakedly borrowing from a fantasy future red book it will hurt their campaign, not help it.
A: Depends on which is hungrier - Yogi OR BoJo?
Note that you can (perhaps) amuse yourself for hours (if not days!) by simply substituting for Boris Johnson, the names of Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Valdimir Putin, Nadine Dorries, Nigel Farange, George Galloway, Jeremy Corbin, etc., etc., etc.
https://illustratedteacup.com/how-many-bear-related-deaths-and-attacks-per-year/#:~:text=Offensive bear attacks are very,being attacked by a bear.
TLDR. 40 bear attacks on humans worldwide in an average year.
Cf. Human on human action.
I have. Driving through Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. Superb. A momma black bear just crossing the road as I drove
It is one of my remaining wildlife ambitions to see a polar bear in the wild. Imagine!
Same with most critters, including homo saps.
Just the other day, while strolling in the early morning mirk toward my morning coffee, heard the flapping of wings as I was passing under a tree. Then a big crow more-or-less fell out of said tree.
Gave me a quick look, and we went our separate ways; the crow didn't even squawk.
Reckon that I'd startled it, perhaps sleeping in its roost, and its immediate reaction was to check out the potential threat. Just a quick glance told that crow that I was harmless . . . at least for the crows.
Was a long, long way away on the other side of a deep valley.
Failing that they could go full Shanina Begum and take away her citizenship.
BUT what about potential future proceedings, including professional AND criminal?
An incident I am acutely aware of as I was camping with my son about 30 miles away. Note time of year which conflicts with your woken from hibernation theory. In autumn they are prepping a food stash and either think you are after it, or want to add you to it. Note also it got both of them and their dog. These are very frightening bastards and greatly feared by everyone over there.
But there are c.15000 grizzlies in BC.
Amusingly they often swim to Vancouver Island. Cause panic, find there are no potential mates, get bored and swim back. It's not an unusual and finally story on the local news.
You can pay to go see them on salmon runs.
Last night it was decreed that the c bomb could be dropped for humanitarian reasons in relation to a small number of individuals.
So the rule that one must not cast aspersions on the professionalism of members of the BPF could perhaps we waived for Mr Goodwin
And yet it was nuts. I was safely in a car with lockable doors. The bear was more in danger of my running it over in my excitement
But it WAS exciting
Today. It's great to emphasize that bears are god's chillun same as us, and not there to be taken out with a 30-06, but less great to be marketing them as loveable furballs.
Young black bear swam from west to east, from (relative) wilderness to suburban sprawl. Spotted several times in following days. Finally captured and relocated to the Cascade Mountains, which is where it was apparently heading anyway.
Taken by me on phone from car window.
ETA at Mount Norquay, and it's a bit sharper irl
Btw, there have been some really interesting developments this week. We have learned of the close relationship between Paula Vennels and Alice Perkins, former PO Chairman. The latter is perhaps better known as Mrs Jack Straw. Did Vennels face her tormentors with more confidence because of this political connection? Intriguing.
We have also seen today something of a breakdown in the organised defences of the PO witnesses. Today former CFO and Interim Chairman, Alisdair Campbell, appeared to be breaking ranks when he criticised Vennels in his witness statement, and under questioning. This could easily be interpreted as blame-shifting, but if that was his strategy, it was severely undermined when Jason Beer KC produced a handwritten letter from Campbell to Vennels in which he expressed the greatest admiration for her and thanks for the considerable assistance she had given him during thetime they had worked together.
Ms Vennels is due up next week. Popcorn at the ready, everyone?
I believe a similar waiver was launched for the citation of Scottish subsampling, once a capital crime on here. My understanding is that it is now acceptable, provided a klaxon is sounded ahead of the subsample?
What is not permitted is passing off a Scottish subsample as a full blown Scottish poll.
Other pollsters have made screw ups and fixed it asap.
So if this becomes a pattern...
Edit - That said some of his ludicrously worded supplementaries means I take the piss out of him/ignore his polling.
Did you hear about the Glasgow-born psephologist with two Krakovian parents who got caught in a windstorm?
He was a…
Going 9mph over the speed limit certainly could come under careless or even dangerous driving or cycling as the police website says and yes motorists DO get charged with going that much over the speed limit. The police in question would almost certainly take such actions further once the new law comes in
https://www.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/rs/road-safety/driving-offences/
This may well be not realistic, but on forums like this that are male dominated it is easy to miss how many women feel their lives are restricted by the presence of men and the contant fear of us with the implied threat of sexual violence