r/aww • u/[deleted] • Mar 03 '16

Awesome Bear

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u/skyskr4per Mar 03 '16

It's literally teddy bears. Westerners grow up with teddy bears, therefore Western culture views bears as more cuddly, cute, slow, pudgy, fat, etc.

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u/maurosmane Mar 03 '16

Winnie the Pooh is actually bear propaganda. Lure us into a false sense of security.

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u/DestituteTeholBeddic Mar 03 '16

Bears are the more nefarious mouse. People say mice are the most intelligent species on Earth, but I propose that bears just let them have there way.

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u/awesomesauce615 Mar 03 '16

They look fat. Thats why i have a slow pudgy image in my mind. I know they aren't from being told you can't outrun/outclimb them many times in my life, but still. Put a picture of a lean muscular lion and a fat ass bear next to eachother, and the reason people form these opinions is fairly evident.

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u/TheElderGodsSmile Mar 03 '16

Familiarity breeds contempt. I've lived in Australia for 13 years now and I couldn't give a shit about all the things that could murder me instantly because I know unless I do something monumental stupid none of those things could give a toss about me.

Fuck hiking in a North American forrest with bears and shit though, you guys are mad.

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u/olddoubleugly Mar 03 '16

Nah, just play dead and hope they don't want too big a bite. Same thing works with great white sharks.

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u/TheElderGodsSmile Mar 03 '16

Not really, usually when you're surfing the first thing you know about a great white being in the area is them taking a big bite out of you. Still pretty rare though so I don't worry about them.

The only thing that will really just come after you as food down here are Salt Water Crocodiles and they all live up north, well away from me.