Mythbusters take on gender issues

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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Or just bring a .44, and a can of bear spray.
 
slingblade said:
I prefer a map to directions because I tend to get my information best in a visual manner, not an auditory one. I remember what I see, better than what I hear.
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Excellent answer. I must remember this next time I hear someone suggest that preferring to read maps is a male ego thing.
 
Xulld said:
Or just bring a .44, and a can of bear spray.
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Read a story about a grizzly getting into a cabin with some hunters, who used their .44 Magnum to no avail on the beast.
A .358 Weatherby Magnum rifle did the job.
 
I Ratant said:
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Read a story about a grizzly getting into a cabin with some hunters, who used their .44 Magnum to no avail on the beast.
A .358 Weatherby Magnum rifle did the job.
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I was stationed in Alaska for 5 years. Early on, I bought a pistol to take Salmon fishing with me. I'm not a gun nut, so I asked some advice about calibre, manufacturer, etc. I figured a .357 should be fine, and six shots should be fine. My more experienced buddies suggested that if I bought a K or J frame Smith & Wesson revolver in .357 that I should file down the front sight post. I assumed this was to make it easier to clear the holster, should a bear attack. Nope - it is to make it less painful when a Grizzly shoves such a toy up my rectum.
 
psionl0 said:
Excellent answer. I must remember this next time I hear someone suggest that preferring to read maps is a male ego thing.
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Well, like I said before, directions can be pretty useless once you miss a turn, especially if you're in a busy area where it's hard to get back to your previous route. Also, the last time I navigated by directions, I was supposed to turn left on such-and-such street after half a mile. After not seeing the street for over a mile, I turned around figuring I must have missed it. Still couldn't find it, and started wondering if it might be one of those streets with multiple names where the name on the sign is not the name on my directions. Turned around again and found the street, almost two miles along the stretch that was supposed to be half a mile.
 
I Ratant said:
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Read a story about a grizzly getting into a cabin with some hunters, who used their .44 Magnum to no avail on the beast.
A .358 Weatherby Magnum rifle did the job.
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:confused:

I thought I knew every oddball cartridge there was. This is a new one on me.

ETA: I use paper maps. The GPS I borrowed sounded like Captain Janeway from Voyager, and there's no way in hell I'm taking directions from her.
 
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Howie Felterbush said:
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I thought I knew every oddball cartridge there was. This is a new one on me.

ETA: I use paper maps. The GPS I borrowed sounded like Captain Janeway from Voyager, and there's no way in hell I'm taking directions from her.
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She'd bypass perfectly good routes because they're 'unethical'.

I've changed my GPS voice to several different languages before. Many of them sound nicer than the English. However, my GPS maps are several years out of date. As such it told me to drive through a farm field by taking an exit that was now just a concrete hill.

We're a tourist economy around here, and I'm asked directions a lot a work. First, I try to sell them one of our GPS units (I'm a salesman, so sue me). Then I explain the way using both street names and landmarks. It works a hell of a lot better than giving just one or the other. When I have to use a map, I generally just figure out cardinal directions and distances then wing it. This is probably an artifact of my using maps mostly while hiking or site seeing.
 
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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Just remember you don't have to outrun the bear. You just have to outrun your girlfriend.
 
epepke said:
Very nice. I hope it's sufficiently existential as well. Just don't close your eyes and pretend you're navigating by The Force.
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That's the one with the Obi Wan Kenobi option that will tell you to turn it off first...
 
slingblade said:
I prefer a map to directions because I tend to get my information best in a visual manner, not an auditory one. I remember what I see, better than what I hear.
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I prefer maps for the same reason; I can see curves in the road before the turn I need to make or how many streets between the last major intersection and my destination. Also, you can take the map with you. It fits so much nicer in my bag than a person. Lastly, people have a habit of overlandmarking.

You'll see a 7-11, then two miles down the road you will see a Burger King and McDonalds right across the street from the other, keep going...
Seriously?
 
jiggeryqua said:
Reading a map is, generally speaking, more likely to be an accurate source of information than asking random passers-by. As a non-driver who has occasionally been asked for directions (mostly by men, sometimes even by truck drivers and you don't get much more manly than that...), I do my best to direct people but often realise belatedly that while I can go by the route I suggested, I'm a pedestrian...and the route won't work for a vehicle.

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In a similar vein, I often find myself pausing when about to give directions and wondering if the route I would choose while driving is the best one to tell a stranger. I know all the shortcuts and traffic avoidance routes, but they aren't necessarily the easiest ones to describe, and often much more complicated to follow.

So I end up telling them a route that may be neither the most direct nor the fastest way, but the one they are least likely to get lost trying to follow.
 
In my experience, women are terrible at giving directions. I'm too busy imagining them naked to pay attention to what they're saying.
 
sarge said:
I was stationed in Alaska for 5 years. Early on, I bought a pistol to take Salmon fishing with me. I'm not a gun nut, so I asked some advice about calibre, manufacturer, etc. I figured a .357 should be fine, and six shots should be fine. My more experienced buddies suggested that if I bought a K or J frame Smith & Wesson revolver in .357 that I should file down the front sight post. I assumed this was to make it easier to clear the holster, should a bear attack. Nope - it is to make it less painful when a Grizzly shoves such a toy up my rectum.
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I'd been impressed with the reputation of the .357 Magnum, until I began shooting handgun silhouettes, and found it's kinda wimpy.
The .44 Magnum was much better!
And a 7mm barrel on a Remington XP-100 was the best! :)
 
Brainster said:
Just remember you don't have to outrun the bear. You just have to outrun your girlfriend.
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Yeah. In aerial combat, when the heat seekers are flying towards you, you tell your wingman to go to burner.... :)
 
sgtbaker said:
You'll see a 7-11, then two miles down the road you will see a Burger King and McDonalds right across the street from the other, keep going...[/I]
Seriously?
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If the overall directions are fairly short, I actually like over land marking when giving direction in an unfamiliar area. I find it useful to know what I should be passing so that I not only know I am on the right path (and if I mess up, I have some point of reference to know I'm back-tracking correctly), I can start building a map in my head - knowing various landmarks to place on the map makes it more permanent for me.
 
Modified said:
Plus, once you make a wrong turn with directions, you're lost. In the pre-gps days, my rule was always "Stop at a gas station. Buy a map".
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Ah, but a man can't just stop and buy a map. He has to get gasoline, a soda, a bag of chips, some beef jerky, and oh yeah, a map.
 
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