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Less searchable M0rd4nt

20:12 / 11.01.06

Thanks to SCIENCE, we now know who would win a fight out of an octopus and a shark.

Regrettable Juvenilia

22:22 / 11.01.06

I'm so glad someone bumped this thread, it is my favourite combination of title and first post ever!

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

00:03 / 12.01.06

That video effed me up.

"I ain't even got bones! punk!"

Alex's Grandma

02:22 / 12.01.06

I have two questions;

Who would, all weather conditions being level, equal, a) win a fight between a grizzly bear and a polar bear, and b) win a fight between a hippo and a marmoset (if the marmoset had 10 cigs and a swiss army knife stashed somewhere nearby, in it's amoury, as melee weapons)?

Triplets

04:37 / 12.01.06

This should really be moved to the Armoury forum. If we had one

Char Aina

05:10 / 12.01.06

the polar bear and then the hippo.
in the decider, the hippo would kick that hairy fuck's fat ass.

a hippo is a mean moterfucker.
even if i had a rifle i wouldnt want to be standing inbetween a hippo and its food, home or young.
they are fast and they are heavy, and they kill crocodiles.

crocodiles, dude.

crocodiles are as close as nature got to making the geiger alien, i reckon. they are all about death dealing; vice-mounted teeth and propulsion, all coated in reptile kevlar.

fuck fighting anything that could kill that as easily as a hippo could.

grant

11:43 / 12.01.06

Believe it or not, I've had that polar/grizzly discussion on another forum. (started with alligator vs. python, but quickly graduated to gorilla vs. shark and beyond.)

Grizzlies are more like machines than living organisms, while polar bears are described as "relatively delicate" or some such. Plus, grizzlies actually do chase polar bears out of their feeding grounds every spring. You can go to Alaska and see the fights happen. (Except the polar bears just keep runnin' away.)

(Not that I can blame them.)

Char Aina

11:46 / 12.01.06

hippo could still take him for the belt, though.

Chiropteran

12:17 / 12.01.06

Thanks to SCIENCE, we now know who would win a fight out of an octopus and a shark.

I love the way the octopus turns bright red just before it attacks. You get that split-second "Wha?" and then the octopus kills the hell out of the shark!

Here's an account of a battle between a bear and an alligator (starts near the bottom of the first column) back in 1854. The same page also describes, briefly, a fight between an alligator and an old boar hog. The outcome may surprise you.

Alex's Grandma

12:45 / 12.01.06

Now I'm worried. The ice caps are melting, the sun's zooming in, and so on, and they're also no good in a fight...

Is there some sort of scheme, does anyone know, whereby it's possible to adopt a polar bear, give it a good home where it won't be bothered, etc?

Admittedly, the garden round here isn't really all that big, but I'd be willing to take the chance.

After all, let's face it, it'd be the last you'd hear from the neighbours, them and their often frankly rather jejune complaints.

alas

12:47 / 12.01.06

Go octopus! That was pretty cool.

grant

13:15 / 12.01.06

Lepidopteran, I love you.

Chiropteran

15:05 / 12.01.06

Love you too, grant.

Say, who do you fancy in an angry-wasp vs. big-ass-spider match? The wasp is stuck by two legs, but thrashing hard.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

15:43 / 12.01.06

Front or back legs? If it was the front legs, then the wasp might be able to sort of arch over or twist round and sting the spider. Otherwise the wasp's got nuthin' and my money's on Incy Wincy.

Chiropteran

16:06 / 12.01.06

Well, the legs are all set on the thorax, leaving the abdomen free. In this case, the middle and rear legs on one side are stuck. FWIW, the wasp is actually a [PICS]yellow jacket[/PICS] - they have some pretty fierce mandibles*, too. In better circumstances, the spider would be prey. On the other hand, the spider is on its home territory, and is no slouch in the poison fangs department.

Of course, if the spider sits back and waits, the yellow jacket will tire itself out struggling, but in the incident in question, the spider was not so patient.

*Yellow jackets are known to grab on to their victim with their mandibles as they repeatedly sting.

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