...Which will give a lot of smug self-satisfaction to those do-gooder douchebag asswipes who put that bumper sticker on...

...because they're raising awareness, perhaps the most important thing (outside of cash) to raise.

spyderqueen: chaddsfarkprefect: FTFA: the worst scenario is that even this oasis either freezes over or becomes a magnet for polar bears, which have been known to take advantage of such circumstances to engage in a kind of feeding frenzy, reaching in and hauling trapped belugas on to the ice.


It's nice that some enjoy playing God, deciding who shall live. It's like an In/Out Hollywood list, I guess; polar bears are soooo 2009.

Yeah, I'd rather the bears get to eat. Belugas are awesome and all, but they're only NT, and Polar Bears are VU. Also because the fact that they HUNT AND EAT WHALES just adds to the awesomeness of polar bears.

Fun fact: polar bears are the only species of bear that ACTIVELY hunt humans as a food source.

iheartscotch:

Fun fact: polar bears are the only species of bear that ACTIVELY hunt humans as a food source.

I knew I liked polar bears for a reason. I'd like them more if they inhabited the south.

Anytime I see someone say something and add "ass" to the end of it, I always mentally move the hyphen to the next word.


Hippie ass-bumper

iheartscotch: spyderqueen: chaddsfarkprefect: FTFA: the worst scenario is that even this oasis either freezes over or becomes a magnet for polar bears, which have been known to take advantage of such circumstances to engage in a kind of feeding frenzy, reaching in and hauling trapped belugas on to the ice.


It's nice that some enjoy playing God, deciding who shall live. It's like an In/Out Hollywood list, I guess; polar bears are soooo 2009.

Yeah, I'd rather the bears get to eat. Belugas are awesome and all, but they're only NT, and Polar Bears are VU. Also because the fact that they HUNT AND EAT WHALES just adds to the awesomeness of polar bears.

Fun fact: polar bears are the only species of bear that ACTIVELY hunt humans as a food source.

That's one of my favorite nature facts. We're not even a good source of food for them (even Americans don't have enough body fat for their regular diet), but they think we're fun to hunt or something.

beta_plus: Snowflake Tubbybottom: Goddam global freezing.

Global warming causes freezing.

WAR IS PEACE,
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY,
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH,
WEATHER IS NOT CLIMATE

Actually, it might.

/which is the problem.
/not the freezing, that is.
/the fact that scientists don't have a clue, but are ready to play God with your money.

So they're gonna harpoon a fat chick?

r1niceboy: iheartscotch:

Fun fact: polar bears are the only species of bear that ACTIVELY hunt humans as a food source.

I knew I liked polar bears for a reason. I'd like them more if they inhabited the south.

You ever face down a charging polar bear? Suddenly, your rifle isn't much more than a stick with some metal strapped to it. Playing dead doesn't work; they'll just start eating you. They take their claws and rip open your belly like it is a rotting mellon and then they feast on your guts.

\ shouldn't be obscure

Tr0mBoNe: iheartscotch: Fun fact: polar bears are the only species of bear that ACTIVELY hunt humans as a food source.

I guess that's true... in the same way that an alcoholic actively hunts the only bottle of beer in the vast unbroken winter wilderness.

You'd be surprised how much life is in that unbroken winter wilderness. Meese(or if you prefer, moose), elk, reindeer, 3 or 4 species of bear, ect. Alaska and the rest of the extreme north(and south) is the last real wilderness on dry land. Animals thrive there that don't exist anywhere else.

My bumper sticker says:
Medically speaking. What harm can marijunia do a terminally ill patient.

Are the ice breaker crews stoners??
I'm so farking confused now.

iheartscotch: r1niceboy: iheartscotch:
You ever face down a charging polar bear? Suddenly, your rifle isn't much more than a stick with some metal strapped to it. Playing dead doesn't work; they'll just start eating you. They take their claws and rip open your belly like it is a rotting mellon and then they feast on your guts.

\ shouldn't be obscure

... unless you're Chuck Norris... or maybe a ninja. Then the roles are reversed.

spyderqueen: chaddsfarkprefect: FTFA: the worst scenario is that even this oasis either freezes over or becomes a magnet for polar bears, which have been known to take advantage of such circumstances to engage in a kind of feeding frenzy, reaching in and hauling trapped belugas on to the ice.


It's nice that some enjoy playing God, deciding who shall live. It's like an In/Out Hollywood list, I guess; polar bears are soooo 2009.

Yeah, I'd rather the bears get to eat. Belugas are awesome and all, but they're only NT, and Polar Bears are VU. Also because the fact that they HUNT AND EAT WHALES just adds to the awesomeness of polar bears.

Naturally, the BBC Natural History Unit to get it on film, A polar bear hunting beluga whales (new window). The clip is from Blue Planet's fourth episode, Frozen Seas. The clip cuts off early, in the documentary they stay with the hunt until (SPOILER ALERT) the bear makes a kill. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a video that showed the whole sequence.

WhoIsNotInMyKitchen: iheartscotch: r1niceboy: iheartscotch:
You ever face down a charging polar bear? Suddenly, your rifle isn't much more than a stick with some metal strapped to it. Playing dead doesn't work; they'll just start eating you. They take their claws and rip open your belly like it is a rotting mellon and then they feast on your guts.

\ shouldn't be obscure

... unless you're Chuck Norris... or maybe a ninja. Then the roles are reversed.

So, your solution to a charging polar bear is either a 5'4" 130lb 70 year old dude who only kicks butt in movies (with his fists, I might add) or a grown man that wears his feety pajamas exclusively?

Perhaps you should bring in the surly drunk with a serious vitamin C deficiency as back-up?

Polar bears the douchebag spawn campers of the north.

r1niceboy: iheartscotch:

Fun fact: polar bears are the only species of bear that ACTIVELY hunt humans as a food source.

I knew I liked polar bears for a reason. I'd like them more if they inhabited the south.

They're cross-breeding with grizzlies now, and the mud-bloods still eat like polar bears, so just give them time

I guess people only care about the white whales.

Good PR is good.

eraser8: I really shouldn't be first with this:

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Possibly relevant as the Russians have a fair number of nuclear powered icebreakers...

beta_plus: WEATHER IS NOT CLIMATE

LOL that's because weather is NOT climate. Try again though.

way south: /the fact that scientists don't have a clue, but are ready to play God with your money.

Scientists aren't the ones advocating cap and trade.

I slotted the Russian icebreaker into my Ono-Sendai and prepared to make my run. Either the Finn sold me good code, or me and Molly were walking right into a trap. Either way, it would all end tonight.

spyderqueen: iheartscotch: spyderqueen: chaddsfarkprefect: FTFA: the worst scenario is that even this oasis either freezes over or becomes a magnet for polar bears, which have been known to take advantage of such circumstances to engage in a kind of feeding frenzy, reaching in and hauling trapped belugas on to the ice.


It's nice that some enjoy playing God, deciding who shall live. It's like an In/Out Hollywood list, I guess; polar bears are soooo 2009.

Yeah, I'd rather the bears get to eat. Belugas are awesome and all, but they're only NT, and Polar Bears are VU. Also because the fact that they HUNT AND EAT WHALES just adds to the awesomeness of polar bears.

Fun fact: polar bears are the only species of bear that ACTIVELY hunt humans as a food source.

That's one of my favorite nature facts. We're not even a good source of food for them (even Americans don't have enough body fat for their regular diet), but they think we're fun to hunt or something.

well humans are above the 50kg mark, many humans anyways, and that puts us with other large mammals. consider the fact that most mammals are all under 5kg, even then i would bet half of living mammalian species are under 1.5kg. humans might not have a lot of fat, but we are large and do have a large brain. this brain has a big chunk of nutrition locked up inside that grey and white matter. to an massive predator on the tundra we are just as much a meal as a deer, more common too.

i am willing to bet the short faced bear also ate humans, but it's extinct. sure others might have as well. we haven't always been this big or powerful. some famous fossils, like the taung child, may have met their end at the hands of a predator.

Meh. I cared about saving the whales before it was cool to save them. I've moved onto wanting to save the one horned slug, you've probably never heard of it.

Fake. Just a plant to promote the movie Big Miracle starring Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski. Opens Feb 2nd at a theater near you.

/No, not really.
//But, it's obviously a common occurrence.
///Stupid whales.
////Don't tell George and Gracie.

Hope the Russians are wearing their galoshes and can get there before Eskimos, in mukluks, try to eat the blubbers of the beluga whales.

Nice, Vorpal, very nice indeed.

Snowflake Tubbybottom: Goddam global freezing.

Global freezing is a total myth. I'm in Montana, and it's quite warm here, considering we're 4 days from the winter solstice. That's how I know.

dennysgod: Gazebo!