Hitler wasn’t 400kg of carnivorous aggression
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There’s a swedish movie from like 2005 based on a popular comedy show from there 90’s here. About a trio of brothers living as north as you can get in Sweden basically, managing a ski-resort.
Anyway, part of the movie plot is legit that a polar-bear drifted down from the pole on an ice-sheet, hit the coast of Norway, then wandered up to them. And it’s portrayed very terrifying in an otherwise light-hearted comedy movie.(The climax is straight up horror).
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Silly Loras, you’re a Priest! Just cast Mind Control on the man!
But yes, again - the question wasn’t a ‘would you rather’, but apparently moreso to get men to think why women even choose a bear over a man.
I think the earlier ways of asking this also started with asking whether you’d (or e.g. your daughter) be stuck in the woods with a woman or a bear, and the answer would almost always be a woman. And then when you ask the same but with a man or a bear, the answer wouldn’t be immediate at least, especially when it’s a man who’s asked.
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Most of the time, by the time I head into the woods alone, she’s already asleep 
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Unlike Churchill.
This is not a Churchill appreciation post, so much as a “he was a big lad” post.
Elf behaviour!
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I have the thing on my phone set to alert my wife when I go out running if something happens, or she can track my location if for any reason I collapse (not had enough Haribo that day).
Never had to use it, but the government keeps telling me that crime is on the rise from young ruffians with knives and electric scooters. Have to be vigilant out there.
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Hmm, what function is that? I’m unfamiliar.
I think Apple has it as a standard but the thing I use is mainly through Strava which is the fitness app, essentially it sends her a text when I go out to start a run that shares my current location so she can check if she’s worried that I haven’t returned home or whatever.
Unless said ruffians steal my phone and watch.
We know what Palpatine would choose.
Yeah he was vegetarian for medical reasons
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You lost me here, I’m afraid 
Googled Strava and it seems way overkill for such a single function, but if an app can do that, maybe I could look for an app with just this function. I prefer not to install more apps than absolutely necessary.
I don’t use Apple. I just know that it has something like that.
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Lintian hates fruit.
Just as a side-note, I find it strange how Apple is still such a powerhouse. Because I almost never see anyone saying they actually own any Apple products, and I know personally only like, one person who does.
Their market share varies a lot by country.
The way they operate is basically banking on people buying one of their products and then buying more and more to get the “convenience” of use between them.
Or well… inconvenience of trying to get Apple stuff to work with other things.
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It feels almost like a cult, but for product.
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I love fruit, just not the kind that are synonymous with vendor lock-in, DRM, and hostility to interoperability unless literally forced by law.
And even when it doesn’t come to their hardware specifically, in many areas Apple is the reason we can’t have nice things. They successfully lobbied to exclude Theora from the HTML5 video standard and are literally the reason we haven’t had a universally-supported royalty free video format (forcing e.g. Youtube to double-encode everything in VP8/9 and H.264) until they finally caved in this year, and only on recent devices.
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I always knew dwarves hated heterosexual romance!
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On the man or bear topic, even if I were faced with a polar bear I would still chose the bear.
At least I know what I am in for vs the unpredictability of a (presumeably) cis gendered man, whose intentions or values I do not know.
Also for people worrying about when the ice caps melt and no ice for the polar bears? They might go extinct as they’re already a very vulnerable species and it’s unlikely they an adapt in a timely manner to hunt without ice. That or shot by rangers due to the danger they are towards people, as unfortunately is the case.
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