Which Animal Could You Beat in a Fight?

[drop bear]

That’s just nuts.

Could be worse.

Could have been a magpie.

 

[Same Trick]

They will include polar bears when they take hold of Greenland, until then it’s for Scandinavians to fight.

Elks, elks also not on the Brit/Am list, that’s also a huge creature Scandinavians fight now and then, as a kid i once ran for my life with two full grown elks at my heels, that was when I got my cross country runner ability that served me well in the army.

 

[Same Trick]

‘Viciously’ A bird

don’t you have seagulls in Britain?
They’re vicious when protecting their little ones, kamikaze attacking from all directions

 

[Gyakuto]

don’t you have seagulls in Britain?
They’re vicious when protecting their little ones, kamikaze attacking from all directions

We have gulls yes (they are not seagulls, by the way, no such species exists and gulls are often found very far away from the sea-a bit of trivia for you!) They are much maligned (as are pigeons). We have encroached upon the former’s fisheries depriving them of their main source of food so they come inland and scavenge what they can and who can blame them? Despite the signs on the seafront, I do surreptitiously feed the young ones when I have chips ‘n’ cheese looking out to sea as I feel so sorry for them. I have put my martial tactics to good use in order to eat my chips in peace; palm tree to my rear to avoid over the shoulder snatches and I close the lid on my chips as soon as I’ve extracted a cheesy chips and gobbed it to avoid gull attention.

I feed the birds in my garden every morning including the wood pigeons. when they are adequately fed, they are beautiful birds with such attractive plumage!

But you’re right, one is in big trouble if they nest near one’s house and have young. You need to walk around with an upturned saucepan on your head! They become psycho gulls!

 

[Fungus]

Why are Americans more confident than Brits?

My spontaneous hunch is that it may partly be cultural.

I'm from Europe, and the caricature of american style is ofter a higher overt expressions of expressions and confidence, and we europeans sometimes perceive it as slightly superficial. So I am not sure it reflects actual self confidence, it might as well be a cultural thing that in a more competitive society where individual performance is more critial, like in US, it is more important to keep an overt confident facade, and slighlty "oversell" yourself; pherhaps also refelected in polls.

This is in stark contrast to other cultures, where modesty and "less is more" or valued higher. I think british fanct understatments and modesty, and the same is for Japanese culture, which is also evident in how US and Japanese companies market their products. US tend to exaggerate things a bit, and Japanese are more worred about loosing their face if caught with incorrect information, so they ofter understate things.

 

[Gyakuto]

My spontaneous hunch is that it may partly be cultural.

I'm from Europe, and the caricature of american style is ofter a higher overt expressions of expressions and confidence, and we europeans sometimes perceive it as slightly superficial. So I am not sure it reflects actual self confidence, it might as well be a cultural thing that in a more competitive society where individual performance is more critial, like in US, it is more important to keep an overt confident facade, and slighlty "oversell" yourself; pherhaps also refelected in polls.

This is in stark contrast to other cultures, where modesty and "less is more" or valued higher. I think british fanct understatments and modesty, and the same is for Japanese culture, which is also evident in how US and Japanese companies market their products. US tend to exaggerate things a bit, and Japanese are more worred about loosing their face if caught with incorrect information, so they ofter understate things.

Modesty was inculcated into us as children. ‘Nobody likes a braggart’ was a regularly suggestion, but the one I liked was, ‘If you drive a Ferrari, you can drive at 30mph because everyone knows of what it’s capable’

 

[Fungus]

Exaggerated overt expression of confidence and capacity, can also in psychoanalytical terms interpreted as a defence or denial mechanism or the opposite. Ie. you play tough maybe even to yourself if in denial, precisely because you are not.

So modesty and restrained behaviour can in such cultural thinking also signal that you are confident and capable. It's the saying also that the stronger you are, the kinder do you have to be. And the wisest men are ofte the most humble.