Nutrition
do not eat the bears
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Do you know how horrible scurvy is?
Yes! I read about it in Ryan North's, How to Invent Everything (which is great, btw). The crazy thing is that humanity figured out how to prevent scurvy multiple times, but kept forgetting about it or changing to methods that didn't actually work, because we didn't really understand the underlying mechanisms.
Someone already made the Beriberi joke. But if we're talking polar bears and arctic explorer diseases - the thing to worry about is either trichinosis or Vitamin A toxicity - both most likely coming from eating polar bear. So sounds like we should stay away from them regardless of who has the gun...
Seems like the easiest way to avoid trickynoses is to stay away from the top end of the bear?
I know two people who were mauled by polar bears. The thing that stays with me is one of them saying the worst part was the sound of the bear's teeth on his skull. That's an uncomfortably concrete description for an auditory thinker like me...
In that case, absolutely do not go to YouTube and look up "polar bear plexiglass box". No fang-on-skull action, I promise! The plexiglass box is tough. But you do get a very good look at Mx. Bear's dentition from inside the box.
She's gonna get beriberickettscurvy
So who'd win in a fight (no weapons) - Bubbles or the polar bear?
I don't think the bears are dumb enough to pick a fight with someone their own size, and Bubbles certainly wouldn't.
Ha! Joke's on Bubbles, there won't BE any polar bears in 10 years.
I don't know that I'd classify getting eaten by polar bears as a "disorder"
Well the standard DSM criterion for disorder is along the lines of "Does it interfere with your ability to function daily?" Even though I haven't experienced the case of being eaten by polar bears, for myself I would have to guess probably yes.
So I Google “bear gun” and the first “people also ask” question is “What kind of gun do bears use?” 😶
Well they do have the right to bear arms.
Fudd's disorder: awtic wabbit syndwome.
Despite over a century's worth of medical advancements, there's still no known cure for Eaten By Bears Disease.
Saw a Quora answer to a question of what you should do if you were in the Arctic and saw a polar bear on the ice and you had a gun but no quick way to escape (like, by air). The answer was basically, if you want to avoid being dismembered alive, since polar bears don't bother to kill you before they start eating you, is to use the gun. But not on the bear, that'd just piss it off.
Yeah, I can't imagine hiking in bear country, including the arctic, without a proper BEAR gun. Only because I like being alive and I don't think I can run faster than anyone else I might be with.
Just a wee bit of frostbite, only in the torso and outlying regions
Remember for bears, if its brown lay down, if its black fight back, if its white....you're gonna die on sight.
I thought the way you told brown bears from black bears was to climb a tree. If it follows you up the tree and eats you, it's a black bear. If it knocks the tree down and eats you, it's a brown bear.
As someone who has eaten bear meat before, I do not recommend it except in case of emergency.
I think it's a matter of preparation. I had a hunter's stew that was made from bear, venison, and beef with assorted root vegetables that was stunning. I mixed it with the largely made out of mushrooms vegetarians do at the event and it was elevated.
Bears are good eatin.'
Enough about your love life
This is not the first time nutritional deficiency diseases have come up regarding Faye. Previously there was a mention of a beans and rice combo, which is important for getting the right amino acids if you aren't eating much animal protein.
Seriously though, polar bear liver has so much Vitamin A it can kill you. Never eat polar bear liver.
just one thin wafer...
Bear meat is actually safe to eat if cooked and is a staple in some regions. Just, as warned elsewhere, avoid the liver.
Also, make sure you cook out the trichinosis paradise.
Ah, Bubbles is starting to use contractions unconsciously! Nice detail, Jeph!
The contractIons are coming about five minutes apart. Is she in second stage labor?
Hanners has made a protein powder & wheatgrass latte to sneak some actual food into Faye.
Rose hip tea is good for preventing scurvy.
Frostbite is certainly not obscure.
Welcome fellow obscure disease fans!
Bubbles really is a good girlfriend to faye.
Getting eaten by polar bears is better than bipolar bears.
Made me think of that episode of House MD with the guy suffering from aphasia
Polar bear livers contain a toxic level of vitamin a. Do not eat polar bear livers.
Corollary: also do not eat the livers of any other member of carnivora. Same issue.
Bubbles still just being the best girlfriend
Always!
I hope it’s not the ADHD thing of forgetting to eat all day and then do a $30 binge on Taco Bell food.
I suspect this, rather than financial instability.
After all this time, Fate still struggles financially. I hope something happens so she and Bubbles can be financially secure.
like moving to cubetown to continue their business?
Bears are scared of limes like other diseases... This changes things
Polar bears are a cowardly and superstitious lot...
Obscure disorder? Faye is on her way to trichinosis from eating improperly cooked polar bear meat. Of course, first, she'll have to get north of the Arctic Circle.
You don't have to be north of the Arctic Circle to meet polar bears. You can find them as far south as 50 degrees N. (Admittedly, that's well north of MA...)
Wouldn't eating the livers of the bear help against scurvy, or am I misremembering?
Scurvy is largely due to a lack of vitamin C. And too much liver can lead to vitamin A toxicity.
Not sure about polar bears, but I once knew someone with a chronic case of "eaten by wolves"...
Chronic rather than acute?
Scurvy?
Vitamin C deficiency
Don't fucken tell ME not to eat the bears
You only get a little protein from that.
Polar-Bear-Eatenitis?
comediabursitis (comedi ab ursi = eaten by bear)