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Mythbusters take on gender issues

Travis said:
It was a dummy baby.....in a car seat. Sometimes they would take it out of the car seat and just squish it in any old place.
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I don't think calling a baby a dummy (especially in front of the parents) is a particulalry nice thing to do. OTOH, if the baby were already mentally deficient, maybe packing it under other stuff isn't as harmful a practice as it might otherwise be.
 
johnny karate said:
Did they test the theory that a woman's menstruation attracts bears? I have a camping trip with my girlfriend coming up, so any information would be appreciated.
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Everything attracts bears. Remember, if it's a brown bear, play dead and it may stop ripping your flesh before it kills you. If it's a black bear, fight back because it wants to eat you; who knows, it might work.

Have a nice camping trip!
 
sarge said:
I don't think calling a baby a dummy (especially in front of the parents) is a particulalry nice thing to do. OTOH, if the baby were already mentally deficient, maybe packing it under other stuff isn't as harmful a practice as it might otherwise be.
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Stupid babies need the most love!
 
KoihimeNakamura said:
In the aftershow, they said they tried to select for drivers between 25 and 35 years of driving.
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Years is pretty irrelevant. I would think total city miles driven and city miles driven in the past month would be good controls.
 
Resume said:
Everything attracts bears. Remember, if it's a brown bear, play dead and it may stop ripping your flesh before it kills you. If it's a black bear, fight back because it wants to eat you; who knows, it might work.

Have a nice camping trip!
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Anything a a bear considers to be food attracts bears. Although bears don't actually consider everything to be food, they come pretty close, and things people might not think of as food, e.g sunscreen, toothpaste and soap, will attract bears. In bear country, especially grizzly bear country, store food and other attractants well away from your tent. If car camping keep it in your car, if backpacking, hang it high between two trees, or in a bear-proof container well away from your tent.

It's fairly rare for black bears to attack humans (but it does happen) and they are usually pretty easy to scare off. Grizzlies generally aren't afraid of much of anything, and trying to scare one off is likely just to make it angry. Of course, if a bear rips open your tent in the middle of the night, identifying the species isn't all that easy, and is likely to be the least of your concerns.
 
Okay then, from which direction do bears usually attack so I can know in which part of the tent to make my girlfriend sleep?
 
CORed said:
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In bear country, especially grizzly bear country, store food and other attractants well away from your tent. If car camping keep it in your car, if backpacking, hang it high between two trees, or in a bear-proof container well away from your tent.
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Wouldn't it be safer to store the food in the tent and put yourself in the bear-proof protection?
 
CORed said:
Anything a a bear considers to be food attracts bears. Although bears don't actually consider everything to be food, they come pretty close, and things people might not think of as food, e.g sunscreen, toothpaste and soap, will attract bears.
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If I had a body that big to fuel up, I would probably also eat just about anything that could be remotely considered edible.

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Wait, how did we get on bears?
 
aggle-rithm said:
They pack haphazardly.

They forget to pack important things (like a baby!!!)

They put delicate things (like a baby!!!) on the bottom of a pile, with a bunch of crap on top. (Granted, the baby wasn't on the list of things they were told was breakable...but, come on. It's a freakin' BABY!)

The ride in the haphazardly packed car was uncomfortable, or in some cases, dangerous.
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Our Mall wards against clueless parents, with handy hints and tips on the Rent-a-Kiddie-Carts...
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I heard one kid's head hit the floor there with a very loud "THUNK", when Mommy took the baby out of the stroller, while Junior was balancing on the push bar.
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Resume said:
Everything attracts bears. Remember, if it's a brown bear, play dead and it may stop ripping your flesh before it kills you. If it's a black bear, fight back because it wants to eat you; who knows, it might work.

Have a nice camping trip!
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You should also wear bear bells so as not to surprise the bear. And look out for bear scat, black bear scat has bits of berries and rodent bones in it while grizzly scat contains little bells.
 
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CORed said:
In bear country, especially grizzly bear country, store food and other attractants well away from your tent. If car camping keep it in your car, if backpacking, hang it high between two trees, or in a bear-proof container well away from your tent.
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Not if you want to keep your car intact. Bears can break into and destroy cars pretty quickly, especially to get to any food inside.

 
epepke said:
Men don't ask for directions so much because they don't get out of being blamed when they follow someone else's bad directions.
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I don't ask for directions because verbal instructions are invariably long winded and confusing. Some people can take half an hour to tell you to travel in a straight line.
 
psionl0 said:
I don't ask for directions because verbal instructions are invariably long winded and confusing. Some people can take half an hour to tell you to travel in a straight line.
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Yeah, but maybe women like to talk, and then if the instructions are wrong, they get to emit a half-hour screed about how some stupid man gave her bad directions. So there's no downside.

Men have to listen to a half-hour diatribe that doesn't help then get blamed when it doesn't help. There's no upside.
 
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