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Jan 21, 2025 6:03 AM
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youreathing
Let the bears pay the bear tax! I pay the Homer tax!
AnnikaRunner
What about ants and bears?
EroticZombiePants
This explains the surge of women looking for love in Northern Alaska.
ThereAreChameleonsEverywhereProbably
I mean it's probably pretty likely that people living in an area with bears might have looked up at the sky and been like hmmm....that looks like a bear.
rrlyrae
well, most people who visit antarctica find the place unbearably cold.
cousteau
I mean, they do have a point
ShadeMeadowsArt
This was magical...
boardsofcanada1
Well it only means that because of Ursa Major, not because of actual bears.
pilomotor
Yes, that's what the post says.
emu314159127001
"ant" doesn't mean without, it's opposite. but you enjoy your free internet stupid points
pilomotor
Without is the opposite of with.
straha242
Taxonomic name or the european brown bear is Ursus Arctos Arctos. Meaning "bear bear bear", makes it he most bear bear of all bears.
pronato
This sounds like a Torpenhow Hill situation....
pxlphile
LordOfAllImgur
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
IntrovertedGiant
That bears repeating.
straha242
originalhuman
I wonder if that’s a close relative of the species Winnie the Pooh
HerrHat
No, Winnie is of a different species, 'Excrementus Stoolis Stoolis', which means freely translated 'Poop Poop Poop'
freemab
They probably wouldn’t admit it if he’s a family member since he runs around with no pants on.
SwissScars
Australia means Duck-billed platypussies live here,
England means we'll have none of that silliness.
gordy77
And where's the Arbor plain?
Gaelig
naah , it means it is far far south.
astrangehop
England — where wild animals look so smooth and proper you can clothe them in children's books. You call that a badger? It looks like it's about to put a monocle on and correct my grammar.
Illpostcheese
I thought England meant, "Hippity Hippity your land is now our property"
TheFunionKnight
England: Land of the angles, Scotland: land of the Scots, Wales: Where we put all those foreigners living here before us Anglo Saxons got here, vicious gits claiming our land before we got here for it.
TheBunnyPants
No no that's Great Britain
BeardicPerformance
“Platypussies”
Hear me out
DatDarthCaedus
BeardicPerformance
Come on, Jacen, you know wanna come to the dark side.
DatDarthCaedus
Well, Jacen *did* love animals...
Jinxer13
Technically antartica is not "no bears" since it's not the prefix "a" which would be akin to English word ending "less" like bearless , but "anti" which means "opposite to " so basically it means "placed opposite to arctic"
vorodar
But you see *gestures wildly* Tumblr.
cousteau
Anti-bear place.
cytherians
You know why they couldn't say North Arctic and South Arctic, right?
Cayowin
Another way to look at it is a-theist vs anti-theist. Having no gods vs opposing gods.
ToolmanTR
Can you put the prefix a in front of a word that starts with a? Feels like you gotta lot more on it than just an a to mean no bears? I’m asking because I’m not sure.
Jinxer13
No it would be an- (like anarchy) , which is a good point, it would be anarctica. But it's anti.
eronth
While that's most likely the actual reason for the naming scheme, anti/ant doesn't necessarily mean "placed opposite". Valid logical interpretations of the term (ignoring actual historical reasonings) would include "against/opposed to bears" and "some weird kind of inverse bears".
Jinxer13
Like the less known cousin of the Antichrist, the Antibear aims to corrupt the cubs and stir some shit up.
astrangehop
So.. something with no claws, no hair, and no teeth that isn't a mammal and not earth tones? Penguins fit the bill perfectly.
michiyl
"Place opposite of the one with bears"
ObiHaiv
What the Layman would call "no bears."
eronth
They mean physically opposite, not ecologically opposite. As in, it's on the other side of the earth from the arctic.
originalhuman
Ergo, on the other side from the side with bears haha
ObiHaiv
So, no bears?
Jinxer13
Even then it wouldn't mean no bears. Even if we exclude the "spatially opposite" if you take any English word with the prefix anti- X , it doesn't mean no X but the thing opposed to X . Antichrist isn't when "no Christ" it's the entity directly opposed to him. The difference isn't even that subtle hence the difference in definition of "asocial" and "antisocial"
stevencloser
But what's the opposite of a bear?
ObiHaiv
A raeb. Very dangerous.
ObiHaiv
So, Jesus was a bear? Was he Gentile Ben?
Jinxer13
Yes Jesus was a bear. I can see how reading my comment above can lead to that conclusion. But i have a friend who shall not be named that doesn't get it. Would you be a doll and explain it to them?