Worst nightmare is being stuck in a polar desert with polar bears hunting me. Bears in general kinda scare me, only thing that freaks me out more would probably be those big centipedes. What animals do you fear Wauf?
Worst nightmare is being stuck in a polar desert with polar bears hunting me.
Pitbulls.
When I got out of highschool took a job fixing computers and one day I went to repair a computer on a customer home, his office was in the back of a very big yard and it was packed with at least 6 adult jacked pitbulls running wild playing with each other, it was evening and they were high alert and energetic I had to walk through them, I was sweating bullets and almost fainted, afraid of looking directly could see they jumping to the height of my head from the corner of my eye and the guy said they were just trying to play nice. I have been through some shit but that day still haunts me it was some divine intervetion not being mauled to death in there.
A pitbull ran up to me and started barking and mock charging me once. I just held my foot out in front of its face because I've heard that helps. I still fricking hate that prick, his dog always barks at everyone who passes by his house and he doesn't even leash it properly all the time. Fricking dipshit.
Pitbulls are not a nightmare to me
The nightmare is fighting the owner trying to press animal cruelty and unlawful discharge of a firearm charges because "Y-YOU'RE DOG STARTED IT THEY WERE BEING TOO DOMINANT YOU SHOULDNT USE A GUN YOU SHOULD HAVE BOPPED HIM ON THE NOSE HE WASNT BITING THEIR THROAT THAT HARD"
It's sad but true. You should need a license to get a pet that could hurt people.
True. You can imagine how much worse it would be if you can’t even have carry some form of self defense
Anything that can bite/sting you can cause deadly or weird aftereffects like that jellyfish that gives you priapism. Irukanji?
>jellyfish
Me again (
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This is funny cuz that summer after the centipede and we moved back home, I went to the beach by our summer house daily and one day nearly drowned after being stung by a manowar and simply losing the strength to fight the water. I was rescued by another beach goer and screamed in agony for days. My aunt, a doctor, scrubbed me down with vinegar and packed my arms and chest in ice from the beach club (gated community, private beach)*. I was out of commission a few days.
I can understand the fear.
>* the town proper, Sangineto, has some nice shit besides our gated subdivision, Ipanema, like the ruins of a Norman castle farther up the mountain which has been converted into a nightclub and a 13th century villa in the town proper, just a little ways off from the public beach, that was also a nightclub. However being 10 years old that summer, it would be a few years before I would enjoy them; to be clear, this isn't where I'm from as I was born and raised farther north in Campania but the well-to-do from my area all have summer homes down there or Amalfi
Apart from a significant proportion of humans, ill say mosquitoes.
If it helps, you wouldn’t have to be scared for long. Polar bears wouldn’t hunt you, just eat you.
Doesn't that usually imply hunting and stalking for a while?
https://www.backpacker.com/survival/surviving-animal-attacks/i-survived-a-polar-bear-attack/
No, much like I don’t hunt and stalk the cheese sticks in my fridge. I see em, I munch em
Well the difference here is that people move and usually resist being killed and eaten, whereas the cheese is an inanimate object.
The cheese stands alone
I love spiders and snakes but i'm scared of every single mammals that are larger than me, especially dumb herbivores like mooses.
The things animals do for food
when I learned what a tower of silence is, I started fearing carrion birds, there's nothing that scares me more than my corpse being eaten by animals, that's why I already arranged the necessary steps to be taken after my death, including incineration and my ashes encased in an iron ball
While I don't exactly fear them, I don't like finding centipedes in the house.
I moved to the US when I was nine years old. After a few months, I found a centipede in my bedroom and I didn't sleep in there ever again. We moved back to old country the following year and I've not seen a centipede indoors since.
My culture still uses ossuaries, though the tradition is dying out due to the cost of allowing a body to decay naturally and collecting and washing the bones after so cremation has become more commonplace. Certain religious groups don't allow cremation so despite it's growing popularity, I don't traditional burial and bone collection will ever go away completely.
The weirdest thing, those who opt for cremation still put the ashes into a fricking ossuary, go figure. Our family crypt is full of ossuaries dating back hundreds of years and one collection of ashes: my mother.
Wariness of centipedes is pretty much natural, those things are fundamentally unnerving
They're fast, aggressive, venomous, have painful bite even without considering their venom, have too many legs, can swim, can survive being squished, make gross sounds, and have regularly been seen taking down shit as big as rats and snakes. I don't think a lot of things freak me out, but centipedes must have been made in hell because good lord they're awful.
>My culture still uses ossuaries, though the tradition is dying out due to the cost of allowing a body to decay naturally and collecting and washing the bones after so cremation has become more commonplace. Certain religious groups don't allow cremation so despite it's growing popularity, I don't traditional burial and bone collection will ever go away completely.
>The weirdest thing, those who opt for cremation still put the ashes into a fricking ossuary, go figure. Our family crypt is full of ossuaries dating back hundreds of years and one collection of ashes: my mother.
Where are you from?
Southern Italy. We've been doing this for thousands of years because cemetery space is extremely limited when you live in a 3500 year old city. Some people derisively call it "grave recycling" but I see it as and eco-friendly alternative to fuel intensive cremation or the ecological disaster that is embalming. It's how I'd like my body handled.
My hometown even used to have something similar to ancestor worship as recently as the early 20th century but the church have banned the practice. Basically, unclaimed remains are "adopted" by a family and placed in their family crypt and their ossuary box cared for. Most of the time, the remains are people who were unknown at death and we think of it as giving them a dignity they didn't get in life to have died alone and unknown and their remains unclaimed. The part the church disliked is that people would then ask favours from the owner of the remains or pray to them, leave them offerings or even ask them to play intermediaries between the family and God or the saints.
It's just one of the many things that "Italian" Americans don't know about us.
Bruh, after I saw that thing, I just NOPEd the frick out of there. Told my mother "yeah, that's his room now."
This is the way I want my body disposed of, it sounds dope and your body goes back to the wild.
>look up tower of silence
>it's more of a pit then anything
False advertising, much?
That's not a bear that's a guy in a bear suit
Wow. Really. That's crazy.
Close. It's Tekken 8 footage, but he was mocapped by a guy in a bear suit.
are you rangebanned from posting fikes or something?
no you just must watch it
wtf is this real???
Yea, bears evolved to use spinning back kicks against the extinct homotherium which was known for telegraphing it's kicks too much and being easily crossed up.
real
Any animal that has been ID'd by Wauf as a brown recluse.
… so all of them?
Grizzlies and big spiders.