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matsuki wrote:We'll find out if I come across one but I thought the local bats were of the insect eating variety?
kurogane wrote:Good advice, but it is ironic that if you kill them it will be abu-nai..............
wagyl wrote:Matsuki, the bite of an abu, while annoying, is not particularly painful and only last as long as the bite itself. Whether you kill all of the abu in the general vector direction of your spray at that particular moment or not, there will be more and more coming anyway. I know that the locals dance and prance around like spastics whenever they see one, but that is completely unnecessary and unproductive: it just stops you doing whatever task you were wanting to do, and makes you look stupid. When they land, slap them off. Simple as that.
Yokohammer wrote:They don't bite while they're fucking.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Just call it a fucking horsefly.
matsuki wrote:Not exactly a good time to freak out.
Yokohammer wrote:They don't bite while they're fucking.
wagyl wrote:Samurai_Jerk wrote:Just call it a fucking horsefly.
I myself do not call them horseflies because that name is not universal across all varieties of English, and is not used in my own.
wagyl wrote:Horseflies are everywhere except Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland and Hawaii, apparently.
To me, they are march flies. But if I use that name, no one will know what I am referring to, or indeed think that I am referring to a completely different insect. I certainly do not use the word abu outside of a Japanese environment.
A question to the rest of the anglosphere: how do you know that the ones here are horseflies, and not deerflies? (or indeed elephant flies or breeze flies or buffalo flies...)
Japanese fisherman uses karate skills to fight off black bear in mountains
A 63-year-old Japanese man says he used his karate skills to fight off a black bear that attacked him in a mountain creek.
Atsushi Aoki was fishing when the 190-centimetre animal set upon him in what he said was an unprovoked attack.
In scenes seemingly reminiscent of Leonardo Di Caprio's epic tussle with an angry bear in the Oscar-winning film The Revenant, Mr Aoki was bitten and scratched repeatedly, including on his head.
"The bear was so strong, and it knocked me down," Mr Aoki told Tokyo Broadcasting System.
"It turned me over and bit me right here," he added, pointing to his bandaged leg.
But instead of trying to outrun the animal — an Asian black bear — the fisherman decided he would use his well-honed karate skills.
After assuming a fighting stance with his right fist in front of him, Mr Aoki jabbed at his attacker's eyes, which sent the creature scrambling away into the woods.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Japanese fisherman uses karate skills to fight off black bear in mountains
A 63-year-old Japanese man says he used his karate skills to fight off a black bear that attacked him in a mountain creek.
Atsushi Aoki was fishing when the 190-centimetre animal set upon him in what he said was an unprovoked attack.
In scenes seemingly reminiscent of Leonardo Di Caprio's epic tussle with an angry bear in the Oscar-winning film The Revenant, Mr Aoki was bitten and scratched repeatedly, including on his head.
"The bear was so strong, and it knocked me down," Mr Aoki told Tokyo Broadcasting System.
"It turned me over and bit me right here," he added, pointing to his bandaged leg.
But instead of trying to outrun the animal — an Asian black bear — the fisherman decided he would use his well-honed karate skills.
After assuming a fighting stance with his right fist in front of him, Mr Aoki jabbed at his attacker's eyes, which sent the creature scrambling away into the woods.
Despite media excitement over the episode, authorities in Japan advised against this course of action when confronted by one of Japan's numerous wild bears.
Dumb ass stomping about in bear country without paying attention to his surroundings, until the bear bites him in the ass is in my book no reason to celebrate him as a hero, no matter how lucky his escape might have been.Russell wrote:... media excitement over the episode ...
matsuki wrote:Yappari Japaneeeeezu Karate!
"He drove himself to hospital, and he even remembered to grab the fish that he had caught," a local police officer told AFP.
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