The first time I saw the man or bear question, I assumed it was a setup for victim blaming. Neither choice is going to be a win for the woman.

Based on experiences, she doesn't trust men so she picks bear? How dare she judge all men. So illogical!

Or she picks man? Then she should be prepared for an inevitable assault because eventually the man in the woods will be one of the bad ones and she should have known. She should have been more careful or just stayed home!

The whole thing was never a maths question. It was a rage bait question to rile up men who hate women and to give women an unwinnable binary choice. The only "winning" answer is to decline to play this stupid game.

It's obtuse to treat the bear metaphor as a math problem. It's doubly so to correct the work.

yeah I think the way I always read that question was in the hundred duck sized horses vs one horse-sized duck sense. The average woman passes by, say, in public, hundreds of men per day in a city, right? I read that question (and the implication) that they’d prefer from a safety standpoint if each one of them was a bear, which is more of a video game premise than a situation anyone would survive.

Important to note here that you should not stand on an open field (being the highest point) or below a tree (high point that might drop wood) during a thunderstorm.

I only know Vending Machine lore from Hollywood because they're a lot rarer where I'm from so in my head "vending machine = shake" checks out.

I know some (genX) people who discovered a neat trick to dislodge all the contents of a vending machine. Involves at least two people and a 2x4. I wouldn't call what is done "shaking" per se, but you can be sure when the vending machine gets set back down, it feels mighty shaken up. And also empty.

But that would be dangerous, so don't do it.

Um, there were more than a few Gen X that got hurt by vending machines. We didn’t have an immunity to that.

However, a skill we did have to exploit vending machines in the pre-digital age was to learn which alternating buttons you could press rapid-fire to get two sodas instead of one.

No, you punch it until it releases your goods.

I feel I'm not in that venn diagram, living in Australia hundreds of kilometres from the sea

Though I have visited New York, and wasn't bitten there, and as a kid I lived near a beach and spent summer in the Pacific and haven't been bit by any sea animals either

Sucks that the movie that was finished about the coyote fighting Acme in court for all their failing products got scrapped for tax purposes.

Roadrunners are considerably faster than humans.

90% of fatal accidents occur in the northern hemisphere

I can beat this. My first accident was less than 50 ft from the property line of my father's house. Somebody pulled out from the stopsign on the corner of our property without looking :( (rip mercury mariner I still miss you)

sometimes humans cause me to fall over, but you don’t see me going around killing people

At least it didn't kill ya