Are Bears Mammals?

[Songbird]

Cool beans.
Does this mean the thread can move to Pluto being a planet?
Or how about giving plants life?

Haha, slow down, man!

My brief lapse in faith has been amended. Bears are once again non-mammals.

What they are is irrelevant.

 

[McBell]

In all seriousness, I agree. I kind of thought this satire is a poor fit here, but it's been fun to see how differently it plays out in a different forum with different players. And I haven't seen much hostility or many claim to be experts.

Oh, I am definitely an expert. <----LINK
i used to be stylish and all that, but it got boring.

 

[Songbird]

Bears are actually cleverly disguised fish, bent on invading us and taking over the dry land portions of the globe. This explains their curious habit of hibernation. The fact that many bears are seen to eat fish is merely an insidious part of their clever disguise, meant to throw us off the scent.

I KNEW IT.

Bears = evil.

 

[Songbird]

Well f course bears are not mammals.
Who would think they are?
I mean, I just recently learned that plants are not alive. source1 source2
So it makes perfect sense the bears are not mammals.

I'm a little shocked you only just learned plants are not alive.

Snow plows, however, are. And they care not who shares the road with them. Fear the Plow Blade.

 

[Songbird]

Oh, I am definitely an expert. <----LINK
i used to be stylish and all that, but it got boring.

Snort.

 

[McBell]

I'm a little shocked you only just learned plants are not alive.

Snow plows, however, are. And they care not who shares the road with them. Fear the Plow Blade.

The snowplows in this area do not share the roads with anyone.

 

[micrurus]

I'm a little shocked you only just learned plants are not alive.

Snow plows, however, are. And they care not who shares the road with them. Fear the Plow Blade.

If snowplows are alive then you must asume that snow-the main pray of the snowplow- is to.

 

[McBell]

If snowplows are alive then you must asume that snow-the main pray of the snowplow- is to.

I don't know about that one.
The snowplows around here only eat dead snow.
And they are not the least bit afraid to kill off the snow before eating it.

Of course this is only an assumption on my part because it is like so uber dangerous to get close enough to a snowplow to properly observe it in it's natural eating enviornment.

 

[Engyo]

It's been a long time now, but from what I remember snowplows are best observed from a distance, especialy when feeding.

 

[Songbird]

Yes..

Hey, I've some questions which only Meow Mix has dared to answer:
Which weighs more?
- an ounce of feathers or an ounce of gold
- a pound of feathers or a pound of gold
- a pound of feathers or a pound of bacon.....pork, not turkey

Which is the better offer at today's exchange rate?
1) A Brit living in a suburb of London offers you one billion pounds sterling.
2) An American in Kansas offers you 2 billion US dollars.

Whew....glad you came back for more. I wondered if I ****** you off or revolted you.

Clearly the answers to your first two questions are: feathers. It will always be feathers because it takes so many of them to equal the worth of gold. The answer to the third will require more thinking, because I'm quite hungry, and whenever I see "bacon" I lose my train of thought. This is also why none of what I've posted makes any sense and is my disclaimer to anyone annoyed by the thread.

The next question requires some simple math. The best deal is to take both the Londoner's and the Kansan's money, but the 2 billion green is worth more today.

What's the right answer?

 

[micrurus]

It's been a long time now, but from what I remember snowplows are best observed from a distance, especialy when feeding.

I don't know about that one.
The snowplows around here only eat dead snow.
And they are not the least bit afraid to kill off the snow before eating it.

Of course this is only an assumption on my part because it is like so uber dangerous to get close enough to a snowplow to properly observe it in it's natural eating enviornment.

the problem is that people are feeding them and they are losing their fear of humans.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Which is the better offer at today's exchange rate?
1) A Brit living in a suburb of London offers you one billion pounds sterling.
2) An American in Kansas offers you 2 billion US dollars.

This is a trick question, as the UK and US usages of the word billion are not the same, and that an American living in Kansas would never be a billionaire.

 

[Songbird]

the problem is that people are feeding them and they are losing their fear of humans.

Indeed. Too many tragic maulings have occurred when people forget these are wild beasts.

Last night a snowplow turned around in the middle of a busy intersection to clear all the snow from it, apparently. I mean a busy, lighted, multiple-laned intersection, with turn lanes and heavy traffic. I was behind the insane clown plow trying to figure out what to do, not sure if he saw me. Other drivers were in the same dilemma as ICP driver hit it in reverse to get snow he missed on the first pass. Ah, winter.

 

[Flankerl]

Yes..

Hey, I've some questions which only Meow Mix has dared to answer:
Which weighs more?
- an ounce of feathers or an ounce of gold
- a pound of feathers or a pound of gold
- a pound of feathers or a pound of bacon.....pork, not turkey

The ounce of gold weighs more since its measured in ounce troy while feathers would be measured in ounce avoirdupois. And a pound of gold weighs less than a pound of feathers because a pound troy weighs less than a pound avoirdupois.


Why would the rest of the world(except for three countries of which two are not that nice) really use the metric system while the US system is so magnificent?

 

[DeistPrimate]

Yes indeed a bear is a mammal.

And I see nothing wrong with everybody being an expert on religion, and if not then such persons need to become experts of their own faith.

Being a personal expert is in-fact the same as having a personal relationship with God.

The concept of "experts" is often presented that we must have Kings and Leaders and a Clergy to tell us ignorant low sheep what we are to think, feel and to believe.

If we believe as I do that every person on earth is a child of God being a Prince or Princess to the King of Kings then every single person has merit and represents an expert in their own right.

The best of religion is when a person become free / liberated from our worldly masters that treat sheep as subordinates.

:drool:

Wow, you've completely totally missed her point entirely, congrats

 

[David M]

Whew....glad you came back for more. I wondered if I ****** you off or revolted you.

Clearly the answers to your first two questions are: feathers. It will always be feathers because it takes so many of them to equal the worth of gold. The answer to the third will require more thinking, because I'm quite hungry, and whenever I see "bacon" I lose my train of thought. This is also why none of what I've posted makes any sense and is my disclaimer to anyone annoyed by the thread.

The next question requires some simple math. The best deal is to take both the Londoner's and the Kansan's money, but the 2 billion green is worth more today.

What's the right answer?

If the ounce and pound are being used as terms of weight (and use the same system, i.e. not switching between avoirdupois, troy, tower and apothecary) and all weighed on the same scales and at the same place then they all weigh the same. If you are switching measurement systems (e.g. Gold is usually measures in troy, or fine, ounces and feathers are not) then they weigh different amounts but I can't be bothered to look them up to see which would weigh more.

Sorry but no. Strictly speaking a British Billion is £1,000,000,000,000 (this is no longer the common usage, most commonly now a billion uses the US defintion).

 

[Know it all.]

Wow, you've completely totally missed her point entirely, congrats

Silly - I am the only one (1) in this thread that took her point seriously.

The question of bears was not the point - duh.

 

[Revoltingest]

Whew....glad you came back for more. I wondered if I ****** you off or revolted you.
Clearly the answers to your first two questions are: feathers. It will always be feathers because it takes so many of them to equal the worth of gold. The answer to the third will require more thinking, because I'm quite hungry, and whenever I see "bacon" I lose my train of thought. This is also why none of what I've posted makes any sense and is my disclaimer to anyone annoyed by the thread.
The next question requires some simple math. The best deal is to take both the Londoner's and the Kansan's money, but the 2 billion green is worth more today.
What's the right answer?

Precious metals are weighed in the troy system, which has heavier ounces, but has only 12 ounces per pound compared to the
avoirdupois system, which is the system we're more familiar with. The trick is in the context of the kind of material being weighed.
Ounce of gold > ounce of feathers
Pound of gold < pound of feathers
Pound of feathers = pound of bacon
& lastly
British billion = 1000 x American billion

As for change in use of "billion" in Britain, I am out of touch with young Brits....I hang around only with old ones.

 

[tumbleweed41]

Why is no-one asking the really big question here?!?!?!

Does a bear crap in the woods?!?!?!?!

 

[Revoltingest]

Why would the rest of the world(except for three countries of which two are not that nice) really use the metric system while the US system is so magnificent?

Even the metric system is goofed up a little by several interpretations, eg, metric gravitational, metric absolute.
But is suffers from the lack of drama & mystery in our system, eg, furlongs, chains, pints, quarts, grains
Although....you guys do have hectares.