On May 27 2015 05:53 red_ wrote: There was a video making its rounds about the internet like a week ago of a man doing the 'posture up and make loud noises' thing to dissuade a bear from eating him. That shit really does work(at least, works enough to make it what you should do).
Manliness:
The pinnacle of insecurity, when you feel the need to assert dominance over a moose
What would you do? Bend over and wait for the pounding?
I went hiking on Mount Katahdin in Maine many years ago with my family and my uncle and aunt's family. We stopped overnight at Chimney Pond and in the morning 5 female moose ambled into camp. My aunt, my mother, a couple cousins and I stood around admiring them for a while. It was great.
Meanwhile one of my cousins, who wasn't more than 8 at the time, had gone to the outhouse just before the moose arrived. Unaware of the visitors, he came charging out of the outhouse (the trail for which ran directly into a moose). We desperately tried to signal to him to look out, but he was too busy watching his step as he ran to notice us.
He ended up directly in front of the moose before he realized something was amiss, stopped dead in his tracks, looked straight up into its face, and dropped his jaw in shock. The moose's eye bugged out in surprise and it fled into the woods.
My cousin didn't move til we ran over to him and made sure he was okay. It's now one of our treasured family camping stories. When my cousin finally settles down I'm going to tell his betrothed that she's lucky he wasn't killed by a moose.
To cap it off my uncle had climbed back down the mountain to spend the morning driving around the nearby lakes, looking for moose. His devastation when he came back to camp and found out what he'd missed was palpable.
Eh it depends on if has a calf with it. It will be very aggressive in that case.
On May 27 2015 05:53 red_ wrote: There was a video making its rounds about the internet like a week ago of a man doing the 'posture up and make loud noises' thing to dissuade a bear from eating him. That shit really does work(at least, works enough to make it what you should do).
I went hiking on Mount Katahdin in Maine many years ago with my family and my uncle and aunt's family. We stopped overnight at Chimney Pond and in the morning 5 female moose ambled into camp. My aunt, my mother, a couple cousins and I stood around admiring them for a while. It was great.
Meanwhile one of my cousins, who wasn't more than 8 at the time, had gone to the outhouse just before the moose arrived. Unaware of the visitors, he came charging out of the outhouse (the trail for which ran directly into a moose). We desperately tried to signal to him to look out, but he was too busy watching his step as he ran to notice us.
He ended up directly in front of the moose before he realized something was amiss, stopped dead in his tracks, looked straight up into its face, and dropped his jaw in shock. The moose's eye bugged out in surprise and it fled into the woods.
My cousin didn't move til we ran over to him and made sure he was okay. It's now one of our treasured family camping stories. When my cousin finally settles down I'm going to tell his betrothed that she's lucky he wasn't killed by a moose.
To cap it off my uncle had climbed back down the mountain to spend the morning driving around the nearby lakes, looking for moose. His devastation when he came back to camp and found out what he'd missed was palpable.
Eh it depends on if has a calf with it. It will be very aggressive in that case.
this happened to my dad when he was working in Alaska. not fun at all
On May 27 2015 06:15 TheYango wrote: TBH the real loser on HGT isn't ZSMJ, it's Air because Wings is basically ex-DT.Club/RStars without him, lol.
If HGT somehow manages to make it to TI playins, Air is this year's Black^. (I haven't watched alst nights/todays games, so not sure if HGT managed to make it into playoffs or not.)
Well, looked at the brackets for CN TI quals, throwing those predections out completely, I was dead wrong. I blame the fact I forgot that Energy Pacemaker's had the best name for a player EVER, Old Chicken.
On May 27 2015 06:47 jcarlsoniv wrote: whelp, cat now knows how to get on top of the fridge
looks like I can't keep my peppers there
Like bell peppers or hot peppers? What's bad about your cat getting to the peppers?
Well I assume that means less for Soniv lol.
Edit: Assuming cats eat pepper. I don't cat.
Naw, cat didn't eat the peppers, he just likes to play with them. The bigger issue is that I had a couple fragile things up there, and he knocked them off (as cats are wont to do). Fortunately they landed on the carpet side, not the kitchen tile side.
@DrBeat - they are Jimmy Nardello peppers. Jimmy Nardello was my great or great great uncle (I believe - can't quite remember the exact familial relation), and when they came over from Italy, the girls sewed these seeds into their dresses to get them in the States. Some decade and a half ago, my family found out they were being sold commercially, which was a pretty cool discovery. They are amazingly delicious, like a sweet/bitter/peppery mix, and have been a holiday staple for years. My mom had some left over from last year, so I took a few strings.
We string them up and hang them until they are thoroughly dried. Once the holidays come around, we pinch the tops off, gut the seeds, heat up some oil, toss a pepper in for literally a couple seconds, flip it over, remove, lightly salt while still warm. I could eat them like potato chips. I probably won't get to it tonight, but I'll share pics soon.
On May 27 2015 08:36 MoonBear wrote: Turn out things have all been relatively fine while I've been away due to irl emergencies. Kinda happy about that.