Final question CA.

You have a dinner/drinks party and can invite 5 people (dead or alive).

Who do you invite?

Tek wrote:

Final question CA.

You have a dinner/drinks party and can invite 5 people (dead or alive).

Who do you invite?

My Dad (died 1984)
My Mum (died 2007)
Bowie
Bin Laden
Sir James Black

Bloody hell, that was a tough one.

 

Maligne lake, 45km outside Jasper (which is 4 hours from my house). Sometimes do a bike ride from Jasper up to Maligne lake (about 1.2km of vertical) and then back again. Brilliant on the way down, an absolute leg burner on the way up.

Canadian Arab wrote:

Maligne lake, 45km outside Jasper (which is 4 hours from my house). Sometimes do a bike ride from Jasper up to Maligne lake (about 1.2km of vertical) and then back again. Brilliant on the way down, an absolute leg burner on the way up.

 
Hope the time a bear chases you its on the way down.

Arabnophobia wrote:

Hope the time a bear chases you its on the way down.

Bears only chase you uphill - if you go downhill they usually let you go 👍🏼

Not good, given that uphill you're struggling to keep the bike moving in some bits. On the way back you're hitting 80 km/h on the long steep sections.

Have you ever been to see Craig Campbell?


https://youtu.be/1CpzIScQlek

Does Canada have a better comedian?

shedboy wrote:

sorry been out and meant to ask a question - wonderful photos.  The bears have small hamstrings and dont like running downhill bud ... haha some great q and as in there!

cycling is for pussies though - ultra running is the game

great stuff QA

Aye, but both Achilles have been operated on for severe tendonosis, so I can't really run any more. It's cycling or nothing. You should see me playing footie on a bike 

Just one serious question though.

What is the moment that stands out as the most mental you've gone at a United match. The type of tribalistic explosion you looked back on, unique to a fitba situation, that even surprised yersel?

Arabnophobia wrote:

Have you ever been to see Craig Campbell?


https://youtu.be/1CpzIScQlek

Does Canada have a better comedian?

Never heard of him tbh.

Does Canada have a better comedian?

Mike Myers, Martin Short, Russell Peters, Eugene Levy, Leslie Nielsen ....

Arabnophobia wrote:

Just one serious question though.

What is the moment that stands out as the most mental you've gone at a United match. The type of tribalistic explosion you looked back on, unique to a fitba situation, that even surprised yersel?

The last time I was going to matches regularly was the late 80s. Worked in England from 89-93 then came to Canada. Struggling to remember that far back. Good mental - probably the final whistle when we won the title. Celtic were winning about 5-0 and if the Dees had equalised, the league would have been tied on goal difference or something like that. Massive squeaky bum time after Ferguson scored to make it 2-1 and huge relief and joy at the final whistle. Looking at where we are now, it's hard to believe we were that good. Bad mental - might have been a match I wasn't even at. Think it was the LC final against the huns in about 2008. I had audio for the game. We were cruising it and then threw it away, and the ref gave us absolutely nothing. I was in tears and yelling at the computer. I regularly lost it when we were playing the huns and got cheated out of results by corrupt referees. Was so proud when Levein said it like it was in that TV interview.

Arabnophobia wrote:

Canadian Arab wrote:

motherwellarab wrote:

Ever saw a grizzly bear?

Aye, quite a few times. Always from a vehicle. You don't want to come across one when you're hiking or biking. They can run as fast as a race horse and they eat folk if you piss them off.

 
You seem like a decent Arab so I Googled to see if I could find you a solution if chased.

Personally like numbers 2 and 4 the best and fairly chuckled at the disclaimer.


How to Survive a Black Bear Attack

1. Carry bear pepper spray. As with the grizzly bear, bear pepper spray should be your first line of defense in a bear attack.

2. Stand your ground and make lots of noise. Black bears often bluff when attacking. If you show them you mean business, they may just lose interest.

3. Don’t climb a tree. Black bears are excellent climbers. Climbing up a tree won’t help you out here.

4. Fight back. If the black bear actually attacks, fight back. Use anything and everything as a weapon- rocks, sticks, fists, and your teeth. Aim your blows on the bears face- particularly the eyes and snout. When a black bear sees that their victim is willing to fight to the death, they’ll usually just give up.

Disclaimer

The Art of Manliness does not encourage people to go out and find a bear to practice these skills with. Practicing on your significant other will not do either.

 I already know what to do mate! The preferable option by far is to make sure you don't come across a bear unexpectedly, so you make lots of noise when you're walking through an area where you could come across a bear. Almost every time when they hear you coming, they'll clear off. I also do carry bear spray, but by the time you have to use that, you already have big problems. If you do come across a bear unexpectedly, you back away slowly and downhill - don't maintain eye contact but don't turn away or run. Speak in a soothing voice. Don't think it matters what you say, so you could tell it that you'll rap it in the pus if it even looks at you the wrong way, as long as it's in a soothing voice. If it's a black bear, you should fight back if it charges you. If it's a grizzly and the bear spray hasn't worked, curl up, protect your head with your arms and hope for the best.
Regularly see foreign tourists out of their cars to take photos of bears at the side of the highway through the national parks. They want a photo with the bear cub and they think the Mum won't have an issue with that. I've even heard of tourists smearing their kid's hand with peanut butter so the bear cub will lick them while they take a photo. Bloody idiots. There's a river valley runs near my house and the animals use it as a route for migrating, so there are bears, cougars and wolves passing through it regularly. I don't even let my kids play down there.

Arabnophobia wrote:

"I've even heard of tourists smearing their kid's hand with peanut butter so the bear cub will lick them while they take a photo"

Smearing yer kids with food to attract dangerous wild animals? For a fucking photo?😂😕😢

And there are big signs everywhere, in multiple languages, telling you that bears are dangerous. Problem is, when some kid gets eaten through no fault of the bear, they then shoot the bear.