He actually thinks that quote makes him look like a badass lol
“I’m afraid of Black people”
I bet he finds most things hard to explain
Like object permanence
its hard to explain to people that black people scare me more than trees
I think everybody is more scared of any type of person than trees, what is a tree going to do to you? maybe you meant bears?
Errrm Aktchually, only an average of one or two people have a fatal bear mauling expirience per year, while on the other hand 100+ people are killed annually by trees.Really, we should all be a bit more respectful to the power of the tree.
serious reply: drop a widowmaker on you
Fall on me, but that’s also from camping and a sudden storm hitting. Well and the other time another branch almost landed on me.
Still more afraid of anyone that would be out carrying with that type of holster
Being afraid in either scenario is silly lmao. In the wilderness, the apex predators don’t want to harm you! Unless you live in polar/brown bear territory but that’s not a problem in the US. You just gotta do your own thing. Living in irrational fear all the time is such a conservative mood
There’s a small population of grizzlies around these parts so the conventional wisdom is if it’s a black bear you yell at it to fuck off but if it’s brown you better hope it’s not hungry
Those glizzies dont stand a chance against me
Nah the actual wilderness will happily fuck you up. Don’t fool around in the woods.
True to a degree - a lot of the “wilderness” outside the suburban blight is formerly cleared woodland where a ton of old-growth forests were destroyed and most potentially dangerous animals driven out. The most a lot of these chuds have to worry about is mosquitos and ticks.
You right though that if you’re not prepared in real wilderness you can get lost, take a severe fall, starve, freeze, get heatstroke, get poisoned, bitten, contract disease, frighteningly easily. Be smart out there!
It’s in the genetic memory of wild mammals to see humans as ultimate apex predators. Research finds everyone from deer to bear will run faster from the mere sound of a human voice than the call of literally any other animal. Humans talking literally invokes greater fear in animals than howling wolves or roaring lions
The vast vast majority of hiking deaths aren’t from the wilderness itself but from completely avoidable things like falls off cliffs, heat strokes from overexertion, drowning, or hypothermia/dehydration after getting lost. Also parasites from drinking river water or some shit
Yeah like you’re all correct, but the spraining an ankle thing is what I want people to be afraid of. Ever watch a city person try a rocky hike? They literally don’t know how to walk.
I’ve lived in city outskirts all my life and have been getting into mountain climbing and rock scrambling from a club at my college. Maybe it’s just my ADHD hyperness, but it’s all been surprisingly very easy to pick it up
I feel like there’s no practical concern if you’re under 40 & have some athletic ability, and/or go with at least a couple friends/family/clubmates to look out for each other (or at very least on a trail where there’s people everywhere)
I also think it’s safer than ever bc of phones, assuming you’re fully charged w a battery bank, case-protected, and enable a voice assistant for calls/texts if the screen cracks or you can’t reach it. Most areas still have SOS call service when you lose bars, and if you’re in an ultra-remote cellular dead zone, if you or someone you’re with has a phone from the last 2-4 years then it can text via satellite
If you know what you’re doing, have the right gear for the conditions, and are unafraid to bail if things get dicey, it is extremely safe. You gotta be more prepared though for sure, anything you immediately need to survive an emergency situation you have to bring with you
You can definitely minimize risk but if anything goes wrong you are absolutely in danger in the wilderness. This is more about exposure or inability to get out unassisted than it is about animal attacks typically but it does seem silly to start with “if you are prepared and just nope the fuck out if anything unexpected comes up” and then conclude that it is extremely safe.
Naive dingbats
Because of social anxiety, right? …right?
Every person like him is really a scared little child
Type of person who is afraid to eat vegetables.
I too am uncomfortable around cops.
Oh its easy. You’re a massive coward
Wearing my awkward chest holster to pipe smoking camp.
This is what happens when the campy need to accessories conflicts with the innate fear of an American man being perceived as feminine. Instead of a useful sling bag, you get a useless/dangerous gun holster.
There is no more of a campy fashion obsessed person than someone pretending to be a cowboy. I work in the southwest in orthotics and prosthetics and have had full grown men have crying tantrums when I tell them that the brace I built to help them walk again won’t work with cowboy boots. “Do you know how much these cost, they’re hand stitched!” Is something Ive had screamed at me multiple times. My dude, you work for paycom. They would rather be physically impaired than than give up their suburban cowboy dress gimmick.
This is really, really funny, and I want to thank you for posting. I needed a laugh today.
It would be hilarious for me as well if it wasn’t so commonplace where I am. One of the ortho docs at my hospital got in trouble a couple years ago because he made his own commercial for himself after the marketing department told him he couldn’t wear his cowboy hat/boots in their commercial.
Him and his office still occasionally wear the shirts he had made out of protest/spite after being subpoenaed by the head of marketing.
I ain’t never gonna take it off. If you make me I’ll cry, and I’m a real ugly crier.It’s contagious. The ortho team call themselves the cowboys of the operating room. What’s worse is that Im at a university hospital, and so we get residents from all over the country/world. So you’ll see kids who grew up in New Hampshire essentially get bullied/peer-pressured into operating on people in cowboy boots.
Okay we’ve looped back around to being sad. Don’t get me wrong it’s still kinda funny, but WOW, the level of self-harm toxic masculinity perpetuates is wild.
Yeap, luckily my specialty isn’t taught at this university so nobody in my department grew up here. So even though we’re part of orthopedics and rehabilitation, I’m mostly kept isolated from the cowboy particles, and everybody here thinks it’s incredibly weird.
Even better, I’m pretty sure that’s a vape not a pipe
Ceci n’est pas une pipe
Is nothing sacred!?!?You have got to be kidding me, just smoke a pipe!
I can only assume the tobacconist is somewhere in the scary town, whereas the vape tree is somewhere out there in the wilderness. Perhaps he struck a deal with the squirrels for it.
i’d respect that if it was one of the pre-juice vapes where it was about heating up plant matter but not burning it so you got a slightly different mix of chemicals and no soot/ash
Got a handgun and is scared to drive into a crowded area, yet I’m supposed to believe this man’s a hardass
What an incredible reality we live in
They recently made open carrying legal in my (US) state. My work takes me to grocery stores across a few different counties, of varying rurality. It makes me laugh out loud to see some chud at his neighborhood Publix after church on Sunday strapped with his cute little pistol and holster. Motherfucker you are surrounded by YOUR PEOPLE. What are you afraid of? Hm?
My state passed constitutional carry a couple years back, and to celebrate a ton of people were just taking their ar-15 everywhere they went. Me and the rest of the patrons at chain bbq restaurant got barrel swept multiple times by a chud who was carrying his AR across his chest with the sling around his neck, using it as an arm rest.
I feel like self defense is justified when being barrel swept by a 5.56 rifle
In my state I think it’s dependent on your skin color.
It’s probably me. Well, not me exactly. I’m a queer commie but I’m not brown so I pass okay.
Yeah the mean streets of Kansas City
Honestly it is kinda dangerous here, but mostly because people like this bozo have a gun
I doubt he is from here though. No one here dresses like this. Maybe the suburbs
Fuck Cars. That’s what this is about, right?
Driving in US cities is pretty terrible due to car-brained infra. But this dork doesn’t comprehend any of that I’m sure.
Yeah, I would bet that you’re more likely to die in a car crash on the way to the city than you are from being in the city.
And one of the more likely ways to die in the city is still cars
I almost got killed the other day because a dishing sped through a red light in a prius.
Bumper literally brushed my coat tails. Fuck cars.
