at work we have a family of three huskies who come in for daycare and everyone calls them “the mafia” it makes me so happy because occasionally out of nowhere someone over the radios will say “we’re sending in the mafia” and then three huskies barrel their way inside and usually slip and fall on the tile ajfjajg
the white one is zephyr but everyone calls him the godfather and his sisters follow him around everywhere and they’re a tiny gang which i love
Hey uhhh I’m from alaska… bears are common there so like…in the case of bears:
Bears can climb…and also knock down trees
Bears have stubby legs so if you have to run go down hill but keeping mind this doesnt always work..these are ridiculously fast animals for their size and they can keep up.
Bears can be intimidated if you act larger but if they’re cranky they will still try to kill you
Black bears can not be. If a black bear tries to challenge you dont challenge it back.
Playing dead isnt…really a thing..but roll yourself into a position where your knees are against your chest and your head is covered by your arms and you head is as far against you chest as you can manage. This wont trick the bear but it will help keep your organs in place sometimes
Backing away slowly won’t save your life if bears are angry…sorry
Bears have excellent eyesight. They see in color and everything. Their night vision is good too. They are attuned to movement but that doesnt mean they wont see you standing still
Most bears are just curious! Unless you stumble upon a mother bear and her Cubs or their den you should stay calm. Screaming and running will put a bear in defense mode
Don’t try and scare a grizzly bear either because you won’t and it’ll just get pissed off which means you’re dead for sure.
As I’m always a skeptic and had never heard of this, I had to look up more information. Very true, and here are excellent sources if you want to learn more - 1 and 2
This whole NSFW situation is exactly like when America made alcohol illegal in the 1920s to combat rampant alcoholism and it 100% backfired and actually made people drink way MORE and actually made it more accessible. They realized what a mistake they had made and repealed that shit.
Which brings me to my business proposal:
Titty Speakeasies
Knock three times and give the password “I like your shoelaces”
Don’t let tumblers toxic community get you down, you as an individual are not evil and have rights to complain about your problems and are no less than others as an individual.
oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built
I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar
Mongols were fighting Samurai in Japan and Knights in Europe at the same time.
Star Wars a New Hope came out the same year as the last execution in France by Guillotine.
Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe were friends in their early 20′s.
When the Great Pyramids were being built there were areas that still had Woolly Mammoths roaming.
Harvard University didn’t teach calculus in its first few years after being established because calculus wasn’t invented yet.
Nintendo was founded two years after the Eiffel Tower was constructed
This is the book you want: The Timetables of History - going year by year (or in the earlier sections, at least century by century) and showing you what was going on in various parts of the world in several categories (e.g. Politics, Literature, Science, etc.) Super useful for visualizing what events were happening at the same time.
