Exactly. Man that was FUNNY!
This is a rare exception to the “don’t read comments” internet rule of thumb. They aren’t any more insightful than normal but she makes them look like geniuses.
Too bad Gary Larson isn’t doing The Far Side any more:
What we say to bears.
What they hear.
She actually handled that pretty well didn’t she? Tried to scare it off by yelling, sprayed when it got to close, and then continued yelling to try to frighten it away. Her voice is super annoying, and it sounds a little weird that she was narrating, but it doesn’t really matter what you say to it as long as the tone is right. It’s not like the bear was going to understand if she told it to fuck off instead.
I will give her credit at least for not approaching the bear, despite her obvious desperation. Even though the bear was small it could have done some pretty severe damage if she had tried to chase it away directly. (However, at one point she does tell the bear to “Come here!” instead of attack the kayak.)
Her pleading with the bear sounds ridiculous, but it was far from the stupidest thing she could have done.
That’s the funny part of it. I think in most videos like this you hear or expect to hear things like “HIYAAAAH” and “GET OUT OF HERE, GO ON GET SCAT”, things of that nature. It wasn’t the situation or how she handled it, it was her words in conjunction with the bears actions.
That voice! Thanks for the laugh. That was great!
Too bad the parody didn’t include some scenes from The Wicker Man of Nick Cage running around in his bear suit and punching out little girls.
I met a woman in Alaska who took a group of kids on a multi day canoeing adventure. At their first stop they encountered a bear as they attempted to stop. The bear continued to follow their journey, keeping them from landing.
They eventually outran the animal, but it was dicey.
She also told me about a friend who never returned from hiking, presumed lost in a crevasse.
Yup.
The funny part is that all the Internet geniuses are focusing on the parts that don’t actually matter in the slightest in this situation (that she sounds really dumb to us berating the bear). Not sure what she could have actually done better in this situation, other than make loud noises and pepper-spray the bear when it got close to her. What would be the best move? Rushing the bear to chase it off? That’s likely to get her killed.
I don’t think anyone is criticizing her actions, per se. I think it’s simply funny because she sounds ridiculous doing it. The idea of pitifully imploring a bear to stop what it’s doing and sounding so distraught that it’s not listening, is very funny.
We’ve taken to this around our house. For example, my daughter couldn’t get a bag of cough drops open this morning in the car. We laughed ourselves silly saying stuff this like this in her pleading, imploring voice. “Bear, why wouldn’t you open my cough drops? Bear, I need my cough drops so much. Why are you making this so hard, Bear”
That sounds like even more fun than kayaking.
Oh man you just gotta find this somewhere and see it if you haven’t already. It’s hilariously bad.
I just did…yep 
IIRC, there were more bear suit punches and kicks than just the one. 
Yep, them crevs have some pretty big asses. Don’t go hiking if you can’t tell the difference between a crev’s ass and a hole in the ground.
Heh, it is funny. My remarks are aimed at the internet geniuses in the comment section of the vid … which are toxic, even moreso than normal. 
Gotcha- I haven’t looked at those comments. Don’t think I will.
Bear, why are you writing such mean comments. Bear, what was I supposed to do? (I really can’t help myself)