clicked the bear in heaven thread looking for the op image here, was sorely disappointed
― thomp, Friday, 4 May 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
The falling bear has died: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-talk-falling-bear-killed-0505-20120504,0,1583053.story
― Jeff, Friday, 4 May 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Friday, 4 May 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
bear say bye to me
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 May 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
I'm disproportionately sad about this dumb bear dying.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Friday, 4 May 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
ditto embarrassingly
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 May 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
fuck the pain away (on top of the body of the dead bear)
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 4 May 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
SO SAD
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 4 May 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
Really, quite a dumb bear, though.
― kate78, Friday, 4 May 2012 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
I like to think he was maybe just a v unlucky bear.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 4 May 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
first mca now bear wtf at this day already
― the late great, Friday, 4 May 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
Too soon?
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/295/576/503.gif
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 4 May 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
well there's my new display name
― first mca now bear wtf at this day already (frogbs), Friday, 4 May 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
this bear needs no meme phild
― the late great, Friday, 4 May 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
seriously
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 4 May 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
You have no idea how many time I watched that when I first saw it. I love his delicate little wave. He looks either really effeminate or super proper and named Rupert or something. Perhaps he is both. In any event is is basically the best bear.― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, May 4, 2012 4:20 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, May 4, 2012 4:20 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes it also looks like an aristocratically dismissive wave too. like ok fck off, next car please...
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (whatever), Friday, 4 May 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
it is quite a wave, such a mocking bear
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Friday, 4 May 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
whatever otm it's just so amazing
That bear actually made The Today Show and I saw a segment about him. It wasn't a one off thing, he lives on a farm or something somewhere and learned to wave from all the people who would wave at him. People go there now specifically to get a wave from him.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Saturday, 5 May 2012 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
Bear didn't learn to wave from this texting dudehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmhvdtX72eQ
― fine with 49 (sunny successor), Saturday, 5 May 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
good reflexes on that guy; i woulda stood and tried to figure out what was up
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 May 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
Situation 2 - Bear has detected your presence, but is more than 100 m (350 ft) distant.
Your goal here is to act in such a way as to allow the bear to identify you, but to also let it know that you are no threat. Speak calmly so that it knows you are a human (their eyesight is quite poor). They will often quickly give ground to you once they identify you as human. If the situation permits, back away slowly, keeping a close eye on the bear. Otherwise, you may wish to detour around the bear, but in this case, detour upwind so that the bear can get your scent. Keep talking calmly. Waving your arms may help it identify you as a human.
― the late great, Saturday, 5 May 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
^^ that advice is otm, for black bears especially (the only common bears in lower 48)
― Aimless, Saturday, 5 May 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
Waving your arms may help it identify you as a human
me say hi to bear
― the late great, Saturday, 5 May 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
Bears fall out all the time, the world's an imperfect place
― epistantophus, Sunday, 6 May 2012 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3d42xxNJm1r0vr70o1_500.jpg
bears say hi to us
― Grimy Little Pimp (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 05:58 (twelve years ago) link
that's not you is it?!?
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
no.
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
bear take instagram photo of me, other bears
― Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
i was going to say, whoever took that photo is a MENTALIST
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
like if mama bear wanders out the forest behind you while you're taking that photo and you're between it and baby bears begging for food you're dead meat
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.hamovhotov.com/fun/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/we-need-some-rest-before-the-chase.jpg
oh hi bear
― the late great, Monday, 28 May 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
Is he . . . is he scratching his balls?
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 28 May 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
He is like the bear Al Bundy.
*flush*
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/05/bear-swim-pool-monrovia.html
― mario bataille (get bent), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
!!!
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
ALSO:Fontana girl killed at her 16th-birthday party
Fontana girl killed at her 16th-birthday party
well that's a cheery pairing
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
Wildfire kills flock of teenagers near Chevy Chase
― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
The teens said the bear took its time and didn't seem too threatening, but that they weren't going to test that perception.
― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb1r4dcoxWc
kinda find the bear the least interesting thing about this.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
nice square bracket fizzles.
For those of you who have seen the infamous "cardboard bear" story from Cleveland's Fox 8 News: Fox 8 Does a Bear Story Without Embarrassing Themselves
― Brony! Broni! Broné! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/83132/1133523/hi-bear.jpeg
― Grimy Little Pimp (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 8 June 2012 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
OH MY GOD
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 8 June 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6p5jsrCza1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 5 July 2012 22:33 (eleven years ago) link
Wheeee!
― carl agatha, Friday, 6 July 2012 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
http://bigstory.ap.org/content/heat-wave-26
http://binaryapi.ap.org/c9fd07e8ffe048608e79fcb2475aec78/512x.jpg
― higgs bosonned by a wite kid after a aol beef (get bent), Saturday, 7 July 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
thread, bookmarked
― catbus otm (gbx), Saturday, 7 July 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
SAIL
― fine with 49 (sunny successor), Thursday, April 26, 2012 9:03 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
LOL
― catbus otm (gbx), Saturday, 7 July 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2011/3/18/15/enhanced-buzz-32475-1300478146-25.jpg
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Saturday, 7 July 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
omg, dying
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 17 July 2023 21:15 (ten months ago) link
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-66362970
hell of a headline here:
Hangzhou Zoo: Our sun bears are real, not humans in disguise
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 02:25 (ten months ago) link
In a post written from the perspective of a sun bear called Angela, Hangzhou Zoo said: "Some people think I stand like a person... It seems you don't understand me very well."
Our bears are not human. Also, they speak fluent English.
― pplains, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 14:27 (ten months ago) link
A bear was caught cooling off in California homeowner’s backyard jacuzzi amid heat wave https://t.co/n8d5vsGqKV pic.twitter.com/jdIZVjMECZ— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 2, 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 21:50 (ten months ago) link
really floored to learn that there are only 8 kinds of bear. this seems far too few. I would have guessed there were upwards of 20 or even 30 kinds of bear if asked— morgan (@j0ne_s_) August 2, 2023
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 22:13 (ten months ago) link
Haven't looked it this thread for ages (am too sad about having gone to parts of Alaska, British Columbia and Yukon on holiday and not seeing a single bear - went on a trip from Ketchikan specifically to see bears, bears did not want to say hi to me), but I am dying here at mirror bear from upthread.
― ailsa, Thursday, 3 August 2023 08:08 (ten months ago) link
have to admire morgan from Twitter X's, um, creativity in thinking there might be 20-30 bear species.
let's think....brown, American black, Andean (aka spectacled), polar, sloth, sun, Asian black, giant panda.
can understand people thinking it might be *slightly* more than that if they don't realise US grizzly bears are the same species as brown bears. And that Kodiak bears are a sub-species of same.
Not making it any better, Ailsa, but I saw a couple of bears in Ontario.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 3 August 2023 11:37 (ten months ago) link
leather bears, chicago bears, etc
― mh, Thursday, 3 August 2023 11:57 (ten months ago) link
water bears (aka moss piglets)!
the tiniest bear which is also an alien
― mark s, Thursday, 3 August 2023 12:09 (ten months ago) link
pic.twitter.com/u5Wy4LEKUf— 🐻 Bear🌧️ (@BearPosting) August 4, 2023
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 4 August 2023 14:39 (ten months ago) link
Come back soon, ya hear!
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 4 August 2023 15:18 (ten months ago) link
LAKE MARY, Fla. (WFLA) — A three-legged bear known locally as Tripod was caught on camera breaking into a home in Lake Mary, Florida over the weekend and helping itself to some snacks and adult beverages.
Faneite-Diglio told the news station that Tripod had some fish food that was left next to their fish tank and then proceeded to the bar.
“He took three White Claws, drank, and left very happy. His favorite flavor is mango and strawberry,” Faneite-Diglio told WESH.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 23:03 (nine months ago) link
silly bear, white claw is only for hipster bears (polar bears)
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 23:15 (nine months ago) link
I assume Tripod was looking for this shit:
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/wgIAAOSwXzlhGQN5/s-l1600.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 23:45 (nine months ago) link
Full media aerial invasion early this morning when a bear broke into a house one block away from me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPr2EyxNRFk
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 14 September 2023 00:16 (eight months ago) link
Get going on your bracket: Fat Bear Week is coming!
https://www.nps.gov/katm/learn/fat-bear-week.htm
― fajita seas, Saturday, 23 September 2023 20:16 (eight months ago) link
BEAR EAT THE LASAGNE
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-67140523
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 21:26 (seven months ago) link
Silly bear. Lasagne is for people!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 21:35 (seven months ago) link
I recently saw a picture of a bear with tapeworms. Many many tapeworms. They were at least six feet long and trailing behind her protruding right from her butt. It was horrible.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 21:36 (seven months ago) link
Sorry. If I saw it - you all have to at least read about it. Google at your own risk.
Why does that surburban kitchen need a camera in it?
(Well I guess they had a b&e so it makes sense to try and protect their frozen foods.)
― sell cigs to kids (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 22:10 (seven months ago) link
the bear seems to know right where to look, and how to open a freezer
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 22:22 (seven months ago) link
well i know what i'll be dreaming about tonight!!
― Yngwie Azalea (stevie), Thursday, 19 October 2023 09:12 (seven months ago) link
lol sorry
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 19 October 2023 09:47 (seven months ago) link
tapeworm say hi to me
― c u (crüt), Thursday, 19 October 2023 13:27 (seven months ago) link
Tourist Mauled After Rolling Down Window For Bear Selfie
A Scottish tourist is thankful to be alive after a close encounter with a wild bear sent her to the emergency room. Moira Gallacher, 72, had been vacationing in Romania with her friend Charmian Widdowson when the women decided to go for a drive through the Carpathian Mountains.During the outing, the women came across a couple of brown bears and did their best to get a photo of the wildlife. “What happened was the bear came up to the window at my friend’s side, and no problem. It let us take a picture and went away,” Gallacher said in a video shared by Scottish outlet STV News on X (formerly Twitter) Tuesday, April 23. “But I didn’t get a proper picture, so we went back and it was at my side.”...“We saw these bears – a mummy bear, and a baby – they were gorgeous,” Widdowson said. “But they weren’t gorgeous. The mummy bear was hungry, and thought my friend was going to be lunch,” she added.Recounting the moments before the mauling, Widdowson said she parked her car to be able to get a better photo. “I thought he wanted to be friends,” she said. “The bear came and wanted to get into the car, but he started getting into the car and bit my friend.”
Moira Gallacher, 72, had been vacationing in Romania with her friend Charmian Widdowson when the women decided to go for a drive through the Carpathian Mountains.
During the outing, the women came across a couple of brown bears and did their best to get a photo of the wildlife.
“What happened was the bear came up to the window at my friend’s side, and no problem. It let us take a picture and went away,” Gallacher said in a video shared by Scottish outlet STV News on X (formerly Twitter) Tuesday, April 23. “But I didn’t get a proper picture, so we went back and it was at my side.”
...
“We saw these bears – a mummy bear, and a baby – they were gorgeous,” Widdowson said. “But they weren’t gorgeous. The mummy bear was hungry, and thought my friend was going to be lunch,” she added.
Recounting the moments before the mauling, Widdowson said she parked her car to be able to get a better photo.
“I thought he wanted to be friends,” she said. “The bear came and wanted to get into the car, but he started getting into the car and bit my friend.”
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 18:56 (one month ago) link
“I thought he wanted to be friends,” she said.
she needs to watch Grizzly Man to see how those 'friendships' work out
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 18:58 (one month ago) link
There are way too many videos on Instagram of people petting and or play-wrestling with bears, with zero context. I feel like a lot of dumb motherfuckers are gonna start getting eaten before long.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 19:02 (one month ago) link
"We're bears — Of course we're going to bite your friend."
― pplains, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 20:52 (one month ago) link
Does she somehow know this "mummy" bear's pronoun is "he?"
― nickn, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 22:10 (one month ago) link