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DORMAMMU I'VE COME TO BARGAIN was actually entertaining all the way through, so Endless Eight wins if we're talking about what would break my spirit first.

Powerman, the most powerful man written in fiction

It's the infinite loop to end all infinite loops.

Originally Posted by SeiKeo

gym

On that same day I learned there were firemen who were also Abercrombie&Fitch models

Literally the 40 yo woman's strip club fantasy

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I mean it doesnt matter whose fault it is if ur dead ��

Originally Posted by Skull

Kudos to you. I could never go rock climbing.

I tried it once with one of those climbing walls when I was 11...it didn't go well.

Talk to someone else there or something, most sportsmen are some of the nicest people I've ever met. Ran into some other guy in the gym the other day who showed me how to military press out of the blue

Rely on the belay because if it's going to malfunction that's generally going to be the fault of the belayer or whoever secured it in the first place, not you. Don't think of it as relying on the device so much as relying on your buddy on the ground to make sure everything's fine.

With any wall/actual rock you climb that's a dangerous enough height, you won't be lowering down anyhow; you'll be walking off, which I don't think they usually have you do indoors. I hope you go rock climbing again, though! It's really fun once you get used to everything.

Kudos to you. I could never go rock climbing.

I tried it once with one of those climbing walls when I was 11...it didn't go well.

So really, this is more like competing predators wiping out their competitors. Other species do do this. Lions will slaughter hyenas and not eat them, wolves will kill other wolf packs for their territory.

It's not like humans are exactly a 'prey' animal even in regards to the species you listed that occasionally historically predated on humans. As pack predators that operated primarily during the daytime, prehistoric humans likely had no single species of predator that viewed them as viable prey, only opportunistically. Just like a grizzly bear is reluctant to outright fight a pack of wolves, a grizzly wouldn't want to fight a group of adult human men either. But if it saw a human in isolation, it would be far more inclined to view it as prey.

For the most part, prey don't wipe out predators. Something is a prey species because of physical inferiority and lack of natural weapons. There are nonpredators that kill predators for reasons other than defense, like hippos, but those also aren't prey. Just psychopaths.

Anthrozoology would be your closest bet, I think. Not my area so I can't really comment.

you should probably ask Snax since he's currently in Korea and has even done time in the Korean Army

Can confirm #1 and #3, and I'm only Canadian. But Imperial's right; population density and crazy density have a mathematical correlation.

As for everyone going to hell, I've seen less of that, more, "Repent, for the end of days is upon us!"
Strangely, we're all still breathing. Presumably.

Actually, while I can't confirm 2, when I was in New York once, some guy screamed "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" and tackled me, straddled me, wrested my iPod from my hands and cut my headphones with heavy duty wire clippers. The kind you would see at Home Depot. Did he think my highly mainstream MP3 player was a bomb or something? I never figured it out. And when I tried to stand up, he just screamed again and pushed me back down. He didn't take the iPod either. After a while, he finally got off of me, and just sort of ran off. It sounds hilarious now that I'm writing about it but at the time it was honestly terrifying.

Dunno bout US, but 2 is my most vivid memory from age 16.

Originally Posted by Arashi_Leonhart

I've had Hare Krishna monks try to shove books on enlightenment on me too.

You just can't escape.

Same. Also extremely passive aggressive Mormons and crazy evangelicals with huge signs in obnoxious fonts about how we're all going to Hell for not murdering every gay person.

Originally Posted by Five_X

1. I had someone try to "give" me their CD before, it's kind of a thing. Never happened once elsewhere, weirdly, but it's not nearly as funny as what you get in Europe.
2. This happens everywhere there are people willing to steal phones, just with different flavours.
3. You can find girls and boys of all shapes and sizes all over the world, dear.

These are really things you'll find in any city in the world to varying degrees, to be honest. In NYC I mostly found people trying to sell tours and stuff of famous landmarks for extortionate prices. In Istanbul, it was all about expensive carpets. Singapore must be a truly bizarre place not to have busty ladies and phone stealing...

Our definition of busty is, like, B cup

Apparently these were some ginormous tits that they were making fun of one guy for because he literally could not look away

Also, dude, hobos are nonexistent in singapore, so hobos chasing you for your phone is literally unheard of

I've had Hare Krishna monks try to shove books on enlightenment on me too.

You just can't escape.

All true

Though cities with a higher population density like NYC also make for a higher crazy density.

#1 varies. I've had so many mixtape forced into my hands for no price but I've heard of people who do it and try to charge.

They're especially illegal.