[savoche]

Punching a bear in the nose, or giving a mountain lion a Three Stooges tweak in the eyes.....might be effective as long as your aim is still good and you don't go low, when you should of gone high , miss the mark and find your fist or your fingers in the mouth of the predator...amongst the teeth.

DACOD, I suppose. But here's an example of nose punching at its best

Man who nearly had arm torn off by lion reveals he was only saved when bystander PUNCHED beast on the nose as he reveals his horror injuries

The Sun always covers the important news, you see.

[savoche]

Shall we start a pool on how long that will last this time?

I'm in at 8 days, 3 1/2 hours.

15 minutes flat.

[savoche]

One of these days there will be no jobs due to robots.

Nah, ever since the Spinning Jenny we've said that tech will leave us without jobs. 250 years on we still have jobs, just different jobs.

We might see some issues with fewer jobs requiring little or no education, though, which might contribute to increasing the gap between the haves and the have-nots even more.

[savoche]

It happens all to often. We think they're very clever but they're really just carpenters with clean tools.

Hey, I know some pretty clever carpenters!

[Racer X 69]

It happens all to often. We think they're very clever but they're really just carpenters with clean tools.

I don't think they are clever. I take them for what they are. Butchers with knives, saws and other implements of destruction.

At least they have the decency to sterilize their stuff before commencing with the cutting and hacking.

[Racer X 69]

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Reminds me of the old joke:
One polar bear to another, "I love these things, crunchy on the ourside, soft and chewy on the inside!"

Me too

They are drawn to the crunchy outside and the soft, chewy center.

[Racer X 69]

Ventured out early yesterday morning to get some groceries and beat the Thanksgiving eve rush. So early that the floor cleaning crew was still on shift.

Look ma! No hands!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yzBNFDblsaw

I was just wondering if I had placed a six pack of beer on the seat would it have stopped or kept going.

[rod_grant]

Slow grilled bacon wrapped turkey breast tenders. Bits of fresh sage and rosemary put on the grate to add some aromatic smoke.

looks good Jim.
I hope it tasted as good as it looks.
Happy Turkey Day to you and your countrymen.

[tim60]

It happens all to often. We think they're very clever but they're really just carpenters with clean tools.

At least that is better than the army surgeons Tolstoy described in War and Peace, but they did not usually mistake which leg to amputate because most of it was already gone.

[tim60]

I don't think they are clever. I take them for what they are. Butchers with knives, saws and other implements of destruction.

At least they have the decency to sterilize their stuff before commencing with the cutting and hacking.

Now you are suggesting they are third world farmers, into "hack and slash".

[savoche]

Now you are suggesting they are third world farmers, into "hack and slash".

Well, they pretty much used to be, back when being good meant being quick.

Robert Liston (hey, another Bob!) was one of the best - or at the very least quickest according to Wikipedia:

He was six foot two, and operated in a bottle-green coat with wellington boots. He sprung across the blood-stained boards upon his swooning, sweating, strapped-down patient like a duelist, calling, 'Time me gentlemen, time me!' to students craning with pocket watches from the iron-railinged galleries. Everyone swore that the first flash of his knife was followed so swiftly by the rasp of saw on bone that sight and sound seemed simultaneous. To free both hands, he would clasp the bloody knife between his teeth.

He supposedly was able to amputate a leg in less than half a minute, although not always entirely successfully:

He is said to have performed the removal of a limb in 28 seconds, accidentally amputating his assistant surgeon's fingers, causing the patient and assistant to die of sepsis, and a witness reportedly dying of shock, making this surgery the deadliest in history.

[robtcorl]

[Racer X 69]

Now you are suggesting they are third world farmers, into "hack and slash".

If the shoe fits . . . . . . . . .

[lesmore49]

DACOD, I suppose. But here's an example of nose punching at its best

Man who nearly had arm torn off by lion reveals he was only saved when bystander PUNCHED beast on the nose as he reveals his horror injuries

The Sun always covers the important news, you see.

A wild animal in my experience, whether in the wilderness or the city zoo will always respond with fight or flight if they feel threatened. A predator wild animal has features that enable it to catch and kill prey and when it feels threatened will respond, using those features....claws, teeth, strength, etc. Throughout my life I believe a cautious approach is the wisest course of action when approaching a wild, domesticated, unknown animal and that includes those that use bipedal locomotion.

[robtcorl]

One of these days there will be no jobs due to robots.

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