My brush with death today...

[grrl]

Y0-man and I had a discussion about HDfusetalk avatars, he created some more and the asiaman one.

I abhorred the original asiaman grin so I modified it to something more stern. Now I'm all kool yo!

404 Kool not found. It looks like someone just stole your lunch money.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

The seal might have been defending territory or even pups. Best not to provoke an angry animal.

Although I didn't know it at the time, there were lots of cubs a few meters behind this seal. I came back to check them out later, it was a large colony. And the cubs were so cute

 

[BurnItDwn]

Seals are one of the greatest threats to mankind.
This is why I fully endorse baby seal clubbing. If you get them when they are young, they can't grow big and then camouflage themselves as big stones at night, waiting for you to fall into their trap so they can suck your blood! They are fearsome beasts, and require extinction!

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Seals are one of the greatest threats to mankind.
This is why I fully endorse baby seal clubbing. If you get them when they are young, they can't grow big and then camouflage themselves as big stones at night, waiting for you to fall into their trap so they can suck your blood! They are fearsome beasts, and require extinction!

I am intrigued by your ideas and what like to subscribe to your newsletter.

 

[Miramonti]

 

[darkxshade]

Baby seal should have clubbed you!

 

[biggestmuff]

You missed your chance. Sounds like he chose you. You should've moved quickly, jumped onto him and made tsahaylu. You two could've been an unstoppable pair; a troll and his fighting seal!

 

[PingSpike]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2076019

That woman...

*sunglasses*

...had more than just a brush.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

 

[Lean L]

tldr but I wish this thread weren't here.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Back when I worked at the Milwaukee County Zoo, I used to go out and water all the flower beds, hanging baskets, etc. in the morning before the zoo was open to the public.

One day, I was watering the planters below the windows early in the morning. We get there at 5:30am and needed to get this stuff done by 9am. These planters are located in the "sea lion show" area... kind of like a miniature "sea world" type setup.

I was watering the planters, half asleep still since I never got used to the schedule of getting up at 4:30am. When my watering can is empty, I turn around to go back to refill it and as I turn around, there's a fully grown female California Sea Lion barking at me. If it was one of the 600 pound males, I probably would have had a heart attack. Still, a 200 pound creature with "lion" in the name just a few feet away from me gave me quite a scare.

 

[gaidensensei]

404 Kool not found. It looks like someone just stole your lunch money.

Now this is how Fu-chang reacts when his lunch money is stolen.

 

[xanis]

Yeah, I imagine that it was pretty frightening.

 

[JEDI]

Okay so the thread title is a bit of an exaggeration, but I had a scary moment today.

I took a drive at 4:30 this morning to head up the east coast of the South Island for some photographs. In hindsight I should have checked the weather before going, because the photography was kind of a bust, but I digress.

So I reach a nice rocky area on the coast about 45 mins before sunrise. I figure I better stop here and scope out a nice place for some sunrise shots. I park up and jump out of the car ready to do some exploring.

I'm walking along the coast in a particularly rocky area, doing my best to keep my balance. By now it's about 30 mins before sunrise, so it's pretty dark and my eyes are just starting to adjust. I'm feeling my way around on some rocks, stumbling and probably looking like a fool.

I step over a big rock and slip a little, knocking some stones over. All of a sudden I hear this great big "HHHHIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSS!!" from directly in front of me. Like the sound a cat makes when it's angry, only way louder. I look up from the rocks I'm navigating and about 4 feet in front of me is a 100kg seal staring directly at me and looking REALLY pissed off! Well as soon as I saw the bastard I jumped and fell backwards. Now, I don't know shit about seal behaviour and had no idea what to do - all I knew is that this prick looked just like a rock in the dark and if there's one seal here there are probably many more.

So I slowly backed away, he followed me for a couple of steps then just stood his ground. I thought for sure he was going to maul me and feed me to his adorable seal children. I was prepared for fisticuffs with the wanker - thankfully (for him, amiright?) it didn't come to that.

That was my interesting moment of the day.
/blog

was it a harp seal?

u didnt bring your baseball bat and club it like everyone else?

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2076019

That woman...

*sunglasses*

...had more than just a brush.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

Lol, beaten to the punch

Came in here to say the OP was lucky enough the brush didnt lodge in his buttocks

 

[BudAshes]

Seals sometimes bite people out in the water, they can be a pain when you are surfing and they don't want you around. I don't think they are much to fear on the land though. They can't move very fast.

 

[zinfamous]

Now this is how Fu-chang reacts when his lunch money is stolen.

rofl

&

Yeah, I imagine that it was pretty frightening.

roflburger