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DROWNING POLAR BEARS IN CANNIBAL APOCALYPSE

It’s just one thing after another for our hapless polar pals:

Polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea may be turning to cannibalism because longer seasons without ice keep them from getting to their natural food, a new study by American and Canadian scientists has found.

Maybe they just like eating other polar bears. I hear they taste a lot like polar chickens.

 

Posted by Tim B. on 06/13/2006 at 01:07 AM
  1. Their desperate plight may turn them into bi-polar bears.

    Posted by anthony_r on 2006 06 13 at 01:21 AM • permalink

  2. That must also be the problem with the Croc at the Perth Zoo, who is now a confirmed bachelor after eating his first two wives.  So much for no fault divorce!!!

    Posted by Razor on 2006 06 13 at 01:32 AM • permalink

  3. Bi-polar bears! LOL!

    Bears, polar and otherwise, cannabilize each other for a variety of reasons. Male bears will kill and eat the young of other males so that the female will stop lactating/start ovulating and thus be receptive to that (new) male’s insemination.

    If you have not seen the truly disturbing tragicomic documentary by Werner Herzog Grizzly Man
    about Ursine Activist Timothy Treadwell’s savage death, see it on DVD! It is out now and an excellent film.

    Posted by JDB on 2006 06 13 at 01:40 AM • permalink

  4. When do they start to eat the scientists?

    Posted by 13times on 2006 06 13 at 01:46 AM • permalink

  5. Maybe they’re just perverts like that German weirdo- after all, they can’t be hungry with all the ice cream,ugly tourists, innuits marinated in glycol and freegan hippies they’ve got to scoff, washed down with lashings of multinational fizzy sodey pop.

    They’re also displaying some other
    S&M predilictions- those white suits are probably only there to cover their gimp masks, ball gags and scrotal clamps. The sooner the filthy bastards drown the better.

    Posted by Habib on 2006 06 13 at 01:54 AM • permalink

  6. Aside and muttering under his breath
      [Well that’s it. I’ve finally seen the light.  Everything, and I mean everything, every single event, every single aberration, variation of a thing either familiar or strange is the direct cause of irrefutable global warming.  And the same goes for George W Bushitler, Tony BLIAR, John HoWARd, the war in Iraq, John Kerry, Al Gore, argh the list is endless.

    And now that I have accepted the self evident truth of it all, I can be at peace with myself, the environment and the world.  I am now redeemed. Praise be.]

    Shit - what a crock - “the “bloody fingerprints” of global warming” !  What next and whatever happened to independent thought and analysis?

    Posted by Wand on 2006 06 13 at 01:56 AM • permalink

  7. Still laughing. Best post heading ever!

    Habib, you are starting to worry me. Scrotal clamps??

    MarkL
    canberra

    Posted by MarkL on 2006 06 13 at 01:57 AM • permalink

  8. MarkL — He didn’t mention the plugs.  For godsake don’t. ask. about. the. plugs.

    *sigh* if only he could wear a simple yeoman’s uniform like that nice wholesome JeffS…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 13 at 02:07 AM • permalink

  9. Would these be what you’re referring to?

    I’m particularly impressed with te arty shell model- a 155mm would be just the ticket for a bohemian bear’s bung’ole.

    Posted by Habib on 2006 06 13 at 02:14 AM • permalink

  10. richard; Habib only worries me.

    With you, it has turned into something worse - but there is NO WAY I’ll ask about the plugs….

    OR the yeoman’s uniform.

    MarkL
    Canberra

    Posted by MarkL on 2006 06 13 at 02:15 AM • permalink

  11. And one of the filthy swine who’s testiculat tensioner has slipped, demanding it be corrected on Medicare.

    The sooner the world’s free of the mangy masochistic moochers the better.

    Posted by Habib on 2006 06 13 at 02:18 AM • permalink

  12. ...if only he could wear a simple yeoman’s uniform like that nice wholesome JeffS

    richard, what is this fixation you have on me?  Is it my legs, or my wholesome and sunny personality?

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 06 13 at 02:37 AM • permalink

  13. Just take a look at the lashing handed out to this chap by one of these polar pervies- he kindly saved said ursine flagellator from a lingering death by drowning with the assistance of a mister Smith and a mister Wesson.

    Posted by Habib on 2006 06 13 at 02:38 AM • permalink

  14. Polar bears seem to be stuck in the 8th century.

    Watch out for polar bear beheadings.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2006 06 13 at 03:02 AM • permalink

  15. Mmmm.  Polar bear - stuffed with more polar bear.  It’s the new Turducken!

    Gentlemen, warm up your ovens!

    Posted by Mr Hackenbacker on 2006 06 13 at 03:16 AM • permalink

  16. Sounds like a plastic polar bear story to me.

    Posted by perfectsense on 2006 06 13 at 04:43 AM • permalink

  17. So these…polar bears MAY BE turning to cannibalism.  Then again, polar bears MAY BE turning to capitalism, communism, tie-dyed t-shirts, granola bars, or “Sex in the City.”

    “May be.”  I hope these lazy weirdo bears (Habib, what in the hell drove you to look up all those pics?) do chow down on Scientist a la mode, and soon.

    Posted by ushie on 2006 06 13 at 05:59 AM • permalink

  18. Here’s the real reason:
    http://tinyurl.com/g5stg

    BTW, how did an Argentinean soccer-football team make it to the Beaufort Sea?

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 06 13 at 08:06 AM • permalink

  19. For years, the cuddly bears like Koalas and Teddy Bears are denied the recognition they truly deserve.

    And now this happens.

    Posted by splice on 2006 06 13 at 08:57 AM • permalink

  20. Polar bears ... may be turning to cannibalism because [of] longer seasons without ice

    lack of ice =  martini shortage

    ..and you know how those polar bears get when they haven’t had their martinis.

    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 06 13 at 09:13 AM • permalink

  21. they can’t be hungry with all the ice cream,ugly tourists, innuits marinated in glycol and freegan hippies . . .

    I trust, sir, that you are not referring to the members of Polar Amigos Cruising On Behalf of Environmental Awareness and Rescue. The P.A.C.O. B.E.A.R.s are mostly college Republicans, which means lovely corn-fed girls, and wholesome football players. No hippies, no tourists (ugly or otherwise). Our mission, sponsored by Paco’s Taxidermy Shop, is to save as many bears as possible, so that they can, er, continue to serve a valuable ecological, as well as decorative, purpose. I am concerned about the cannibalism, because that means reduced rug inventory fewer bears, and I am grateful to Tim for bringing this problem to my attention. We will be laying in extra provisions of baby harp seals.

    Posted by paco on 2006 06 13 at 09:20 AM • permalink

  22. How do they expect us to take cute naked baby pictures on bear rugs if the rugs got holes chewed in them?  Damn bears.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 06 13 at 09:21 AM • permalink

  23. I wouldnt want to be hunting the last remaining cannibal bear. That things going to be both horny and angry, either of the 2 things its likely to do to you arent going to be plesant….

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 06 13 at 09:26 AM • permalink

  24. Okay, paco, this is eerie.  Two posts mentioning bear rugs at the same time?  Are you a relative, or are we just two great minds?

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 06 13 at 09:26 AM • permalink

  25. Must…resist…quip…2…heads….1….brain…

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 06 13 at 09:31 AM • permalink

  26. The Real JeffS — Dude, I can’t use it all up on wronwright.  That would be favoritism.

    Besides, you’re the one posted that smoking hot picture of yourself (Yes, I know, that’s the sizzling Grace Lee Whitney)...

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 13 at 09:37 AM • permalink

  27. the frollickingmole — Reminds me of the joke with the punchline: “...and the bear looked down at the hunter and said, ‘you didn’t come here for the shooting, did you?’”

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 13 at 09:38 AM • permalink

  28. #25 Yeah, well, good thing Rebecca’s using it today, otherwise I’d give you a piece of our mind.

    Posted by paco on 2006 06 13 at 09:52 AM • permalink

  29. At least Australia’s Koala Bears and Drop Bears aren’t in any danger.

    Posted by Stevo on 2006 06 13 at 09:55 AM • permalink

  30. Uh, how do they know it’s not the same bear?

    Posted by moptop on 2006 06 13 at 10:38 AM • permalink

  31. Maybe the polar bears could move to Sydney, because it’s bloody freezing right now.

    Look at this forecast:

    City:      Min:  6 Max:  17   Parramatta: Min:  3 Max:  17
    Terrey Hills: Min:  4 Max:  15   Penrith:  Min:  3 Max:  17
    Liverpool:  Min:  2 Max:  17   Richmond:  Min:  -1 Max:  17

    -1?  -1?  What sort of a temperature is that?

    Posted by Pixy Misa on 2006 06 13 at 10:39 AM • permalink

  32. Blame Al Gore, Miss Pixy, for every time he starts pimping the global warming schtick, the temperature drops to unseasonable lows. Hell, he gave a speech in New York once, and a blizzard ensued.

    Posted by Rob C. on 2006 06 13 at 10:57 AM • permalink

  33. And ‘bi-polar bears’ = genius.

    Posted by Rob C. on 2006 06 13 at 10:58 AM • permalink

  34. #31 It’s cold in Southern Ontario, Canada, right now too Pixy Misa—and it’s supposed to be summer here! Around 10°C at night and 15°C daytime for the past five days or so. [BTW, we call “-1” “March”.] Obviously, something’s out of balnce. (Any more problems with the TARDIS lately, paco?)

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 06 13 at 11:04 AM • permalink

  35. #12 - Be glad you’re not stuck with the Orion dancing girl costume I wound up with.

    Posted by Achillea on 2006 06 13 at 11:06 AM • permalink

  36. They’re eating cannibals? Where are they going to find any? I thought that the practice of eating “long pig” had been eradicated long ago.

    Posted by ErnieG on 2006 06 13 at 11:13 AM • permalink

  37. But you won’t see them eating yellow snow.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 06 13 at 11:33 AM • permalink

  38. This thread in toto is vaguely disturbing…and also a little creepy.

    Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 06 13 at 11:58 AM • permalink

  39. This thread in toto is vaguely disturbing…and also a little creepy.

    We’re Not in Kansas Anymore, Toto!

    Posted by ErnieG on 2006 06 13 at 12:38 PM • permalink

  40. #34 Any more problems with the TARDIS lately, paco?

    Hey, don’t look at me. Wronwright took me off of navigation and made me co-pilot, and all I’ve got is this little bright red plastic steering wheel which I strongly suspect came from Toys ‘R Us. I mean, no matter how far I turn it, the ship never responds, and when I beep the horn it makes a wheezy noise like a high “C” on a harmonica.

    Posted by paco on 2006 06 13 at 12:43 PM • permalink

  41. Anybody wanting to put in a claim for missing warm weather, please direct your attention to a certain World Cup-hosting country, where most of it seems to have wound up right now. Friggin’ 30+°C heat.

    Posted by PW on 2006 06 13 at 12:59 PM • permalink

  42. Well, it’s a perfect day in Chicago.  Course I’m leaving for Perth on Thursday, where it’s cold and rainy and the only source of home heating is what you can generate yourself - or with a significant other.

    Posted by lmassie on 2006 06 13 at 02:26 PM • permalink

  43. Speaking of Gaia’s Wrath, has anybody seen Roger Ebert whittering on about “An Inconvenient Truth?” I tried to read his review but when it opened with a cards-on-the-table moment that looked like the catechism part of my BCP I gave up. Now he says that if we don’t see it now we’re going to have to explain why to our grandchildren.

    Yet again, the threat of angry future generations fails to convince me. Shut up, unborn millions!

    Posted by bovious on 2006 06 13 at 02:58 PM • permalink

  44. Now he says that if we don’t see it now we’re going to have to explain why to our grandchildren.

    Well, I’ve already got my excuses ready.

    I didn’t see the movie because:

    1) The idea of going made me sick to my stomach.

    2) I thought it was a re-make of “The Day the Earth Stood Still”, and I thought Al Gore would be terrible as “Klatu” (but would have made the perfect “Gort”).

    3) I was busy building pontoons for polar bears.

    4) I was busy producing a “Cold Cases” episode about the disappearance of Stoop Davy Dave.

    5) “If you little bastards keep pestering me about that stupid Al Gore movie, I’m going to cut you out of my will”

    Posted by paco on 2006 06 13 at 04:17 PM • permalink

  45. #43 - I saw Ebert start in with it on “At the Movies,” but Roeper, his co-critic, sat him back down again with gratifying speed and firmness.

    Posted by Achillea on 2006 06 13 at 05:57 PM • permalink

  46. #42 Imassie,
    It’s never cold in Perth, just a bit less hot. When I lived there I would look forward to winter, it was that time of the year I could breathe without assistance and function as a human. Enjoy.

    Posted by Daniel San on 2006 06 13 at 07:20 PM • permalink

  47. #36- if that was the case, then kuru would have ceased to exist as well.

    Grandmas brains- yummy!

    #20- I think you’ll find these ursine piss artists prefer a more egalitarian tipple, which has a reputation for encouraging feisty behaviour among the untermensch- this could explain a lot, after all a bit of cannibalism is hardly extrordinary in any Queensland public houses’ carparks at chucking out time.

    Posted by Habib on 2006 06 13 at 08:23 PM • permalink

  48. #42 Imassie

    Beautiful weather in Perth at the moment, although cool-ish (5 °C overnight). No rain here (that’s all gone south, sadly), light winds, blue skies, daytime temps around 18 - 21 °C. I’m still riding the motorbike!

    Posted by BIWOZ on 2006 06 13 at 08:42 PM • permalink

  49. Been colder than a penguin’s piles in Brisbane for the last week. We need to burn a lot more carbon, and quickly- I’ve got some tractor tyres, sump oil and sweepings from a hairdresser frequented by persons of Mediterranean appearance on the go, so I’m doing my bit.

    Bugger those beligerent, beery, beary Beaufort bum bandits- I want to run my air conditioning. My tomatoes need a greenhouse, and I’m buggered if I’m shelling out for all that glass when we’ve got a free atmospheric phenomena available.

    Posted by Habib on 2006 06 13 at 08:52 PM • permalink

  50. Now he says that if we don’t see it now we’re going to have to explain why to our grandchildren.

    But I thought if we didn’t see it there wouldn’t BE any grandchildren!  The left has lied to us again!

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 13 at 09:32 PM • permalink

  51. Woo-hoo! It’s worked, guys. Complaining about the unseasonable cold in Ontario in a public forum has seen the weather reports predict mid- to high-20s for the rest of the week. Still cool at night though. (Assuming their models are accurate.) I just hope that Al Gore doesn’t come to town and screw it up—inverse polarbearity and all.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 06 14 at 12:07 AM • permalink

  52. Habib, don’t be a pansy. Brisbane. Cold. Right.

    Getouttahere.

    When I was walking in to work it had warmed up by THREE whole degrees form when I got up.

    It was only -4 degrees C.

    My little daughter is fascinated by the half-inch of ice on the pool. It’s been there for three bloody days.

    I want to dig up that bastard King O’Malley and make a dunny roll holder out of his bones. What’d he decide to put Canberra HERE for?

    MarkL
    Canberra

    Posted by MarkL on 2006 06 14 at 06:38 AM • permalink

  53. Because that’s where it DESERVES to be.

    Black Mountain should be a highly unpredictable volcano to make it perfect.

    Posted by Habib on 2006 06 14 at 08:01 AM • permalink

  54. Oh, for… Come January you Aussies will be giggling about going to the beach, so don’t expect sympathy from these quarters.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 06 14 at 10:13 AM • permalink

  55. Yeah!  Take that from another resident of Ohio, a non-southern state in the good you ess of aye.

    Rebecca, going to the beach this weekend?  Should be very warm and pleasant?  Bringing a picnic basket perhaps and maybe a cooler eskey filled with beer bitter and pops?  Be sure to bring your sun tan lotion.

    Posted by wronwright on 2006 06 14 at 12:18 PM • permalink

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