OT: The OT Thread: To move or not to move, that is the question. (Warning in post 368)

[Jim Bob]

 

[Beerz]

Yet you live in a country with bears. Those things are f***ing terrifying.

I would looooooooove to go hiking in the US but it's a hard no for me thanks to those things.

Bears aren't bad.. they don't actually want to kill you...except Polar Bears. You just have to know what to do and not to do around them. Im more scared of a male moose than a black bear.

 

[oldgoalie]

Bears aren't bad.. they don't actually want to kill you...except Polar Bears. You just have to know what to do and not to do around them. Im more scared of a male moose than a black bear.

or a bison. people in Yellowstone getting too close...boom

 

[Beerz]

Tigers take you out quickly, though. I believe they do a quick suffocation bite on the neck, and it's over. Poisonous snakes/spiders sounds like a brutal death. Grizzlies may be the worst, but I dont think they're in India.

True but venomous things tend to bite/attack as last resort .. they don't want to kill you... Tigers want to kill you

 

[Chainshot]

I most likely haven't mentioned it here..for obvious reasons.. But i was terminated for refusing the jab in November of '21 .. Dark days.

Sucks that it had to be a choice. Hope you've found something in your field since.

True but venomous things tend to bite/attack as last resort .. they don't want to kill you... Tigers want to kill you

Tigers and polar bears are both in the "we'd run things if we had tools" part of the food pyramid. They want snacks and we're on the menu.

 

[Gras]

Eh, there are ways to get around bears. Bear spray - when employed to spray on actual ursines - and making a lot of noise general moves most continental brown and black bears off from human proximity. Now... Kodiaks? And especially polar bears? Nah, we're just a walking seal without as much meat on us. Those are the ones to really watch out for.

10mm/357/44 will take care of most of the bears in the lower 48

I most likely haven't mentioned it here..for obvious reasons.. But i was terminated for refusing the jab in November of '21 .. Dark days.

I had a friend that left his job over that and he was in a 100% remote position and they were still trying to force him.

 

[Chainshot]

When I was young, my dad and his friends from work used to go on fishing vacations up near Algonquin National Park. One year, one of the guys he used to go with got stomped to death by a moose - it was wading in the water where their canoe was and came out to defend its turf.

Same area where my parents where in a boat and the driver hit what they thought was a mostly submerged log and it turned out to be a massive sturgeon that had come up to near the surface of the lake. Needless to say, the sturgeon didn't make it.

 

[TehDoak]

When I was young, my dad and his friends from work used to go on fishing vacations up near Algonquin National Park. One year, one of the guys he used to go with got stomped to death by a moose - it was wading in the water where their canoe was and came out to defend its turf.

Same area where my parents where in a boat and the driver hit what they thought was a mostly submerged log and it turned out to be a massive sturgeon that had come up to near the surface of the lake. Needless to say, the sturgeon didn't make it.

When I was in high school we went to Algonquin national park on a canoe trip.

I assure you if you have never seen a moose up close in the wild, you have no idea just how massive they are. I've never been a person that is 'awestruck' a lot, even at a young age. I was absolutely blown away at its sheer size.

 

[CowbellConray]

@Ehran and @CowbellConray

I had co-workers from India who I am still in touch with online. Good group of folks, some wild stories about things like one had his MIS and yet his village had no power. He road his motorcycle in to work every day and was part of a cycling group that would take long-distance rides with one another to different parts of the sub-continent. Real interesting appreciation for the differences in infrastructure between a developing and developed nation, for sure.

Also had a couple of teammates from North America who were regulars on training sessions to Bangalore. Travel budgets went away in 2008/9 though and from then on it was almost all remote.

So Bangalore and Hyderabad are quite nice - they aren't Mumbai/Kolkata, but they are quite nice areas. You deal with homeless, traffic, beggars, overpopulation, etc. But when you are an American going there? It's a cool experience. For very little you can have quite the 5 star experience. My hotels were 5 star top of the line, and I was paying I think $120 a night. In addition, to have a car service take you everywhere... again it's very cheap.

A full week in India at 5 star hotels and with car services would cost you roughly $1000 maybe $1200 including meals. To me, that's a steal. And that's not mentioning how nice people are to you. The culture there is very generous towards guests. They wouldn't let me open my own doors, carry my own things, the guys who lived there were ordering food for me to try, they always made sure I had a drink in hand and were just incredibly nice. Surreal experience!

 

[Chainshot]

When I was in high school we went to Algonquin national park on a canoe trip.

I assure you if you have never seen a moose up close in the wild, you have no idea just how massive they are. I've never been a person that is 'awestruck' a lot, even at a young age. I was absolutely blown away at its sheer size.

I am reminded of this -

 

[Duddy]

I was absolutely blown away at its sheer size.

That's what she said.

 

[Ehran]

or a bison. people in Yellowstone getting too close...boom

Yet, those are some of the most entertaining videos on YouTube!!

 

[MarkusKetterer]

I grew up out in the sticks, so I always saw moose and bears (and wolves and bobcats and cougars). It was inevitable. They tended to avoid the areas on the country road that had people there permanently, but it was nothing to come around a corner and there they are. Thankfully it was always mutual “holy shit what are you doing here?!?!” and we’d both hightail it in the opposite direction.

 

[Der Jaeger]

If you're interested, check out Mandatory Fun Day on social media platforms. Austin von Letkemann runs it. He's an Army officer who makes fun of the Army for various things..... which all have a shred of truth to them.

 

[KiwiGriff]

Eh, there are ways to get around bears. Bear spray - when employed to spray on actual ursines - and making a lot of noise general moves most continental brown and black bears off from human proximity. Now... Kodiaks? And especially polar bears? Nah, we're just a walking seal without as much meat on us. Those are the ones to really watch out for.

Yeah but I'd be hiking by myself... and I'd ideally be out somewhere remote like Wyoming. No thanks to dealing with bears by myself. I'll take your word for it that they are manageable, I'll pass.

 

[Dubi Doo]

If we're talking about the animal that scares me the most- it's chimps. Bar none.

 

[Chainshot]

I grew up out in the sticks, so I always saw moose and bears (and wolves and bobcats and cougars). It was inevitable. They tended to avoid the areas on the country road that had people there permanently, but it was nothing to come around a corner and there they are. Thankfully it was always mutual “holy shit what are you doing here?!?!” and we’d both hightail it in the opposite direction.

Yeah, used to have things like that were we would walk up on various critters. I grew up in the sticks so I had friends and family who were and still are avid hunters and trappers. One of my friends in middle school found what he thought to be a bear track and people were all "naaah, there aren't any of them around here"... but people did find evidence of them more and more over time. Similarly, I have a cousin who found a track in the woods while scouting deer rubs and it was a massive cat print. There was then a bit of local folklore that there was some sort of big cat in the area which did likely transit WNY on it's way east. One was eventually struck and killed by a vehicle in Connecticut -

https://extapps.dec.ny.gov/docs/administration_pdf/1012cougar.pdf

But we don't know if it was the local one or if people had gone bonkers over an overly grown bobcat.