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Originally Posted by Frownland
Maybe we should stop letting bears make our decisions for us.
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Do you not understand?
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Used figuratively, the bear can be any person or entity with a capability like that of a bear to inflict pain or damage. During the Cold War, the expression was often used with Russia as the bear. But it means more generally, don't deliberately irritate anyone or anything that might make you sorry.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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