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So I assume that MANLY man is another way to say stupid…
Do you just use words without caring about the meaning? Last timed I looked, an action had to have major negative consequences, or a potential for negative consequences for to be called “stupid”. I suppose you could just use “stupid” as a generic insulting word, but why bother? Just say that you disagreed with his decision to kill a pest that entered his home.
I’m curious which dictionary you’re using. My dictionaries are at home, but dictionary.com is providing me with something a bit different in nuance. Since the remark was describing the man and not the action, we might reckon that “tending to make poor decisions” is a pretty reasonable representation of the word’s meaning in this context. Even though a five-point whitetail probably is not that large, a rutting buck in a panic isn’t something a 200 pound man would be wise to grapple. The feat may not have been Herculean, but the decision appears to have been poor. Medical bills probably add up more quickly than interior decorating bills do.
Do you really think that going hand to hand with a 5 point buck can’t have major negative consequences?
http://www.poe-news.com/stories.php?poeurlid=18651
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/news/news05/05111.html
http://www.sfgate.com/flat/archive/2005/10/20/news/archive/2005/10/20/state/n050930D10.html
No, I am saying it was not foolish for this particular Bill Brasky to have done it. ** I think that he knows his own strength**, and considered walking bowlegged for a while, or something worth it to save his daughter’s furniture.
I disagree, he was lucky and he could have been killed. I don’t care if he knows his own strength, the buck is quite likely stronger. He is an idiot and a Darwin Award contender.
Can I say that I think it was stupid for him to have decided to fight the deer hand-to-hand, but that I admire him for having won? Or is the human head too small to hold two such conflicting thoughts?
Thank you for the clarification. Here in the North when we see one on top of the other, we use a hose or a bucket of water rather than a gun. YMMV.
If antlers are outlawed, only outlaws will have antlers.
Years ago I was working for a company when a help desk call came in from one of our plants:
“Help Desk”
“Um, yes…there is a deer in the server room…”
Seems the deer busted through the front window, ran down the hall and into the open data center (it wasn’t much of a data center - and less of one after this incident). They shut it in and called us. We told them to call the Department of Natural Resources. They showed up and shot the deer with a shotgun - leaving holes in the walls. We were left with left over bits of computer monitor and a broken server.
If I ever am involved in another call like that, I still don’t think I’ll advise them to wrestle it to death with their hands.
Have you ever been around a panicked wild animal? Deer crap might = giant Milk Duds in your lawn, trampled deer crap smeared into your carpet and bed by the panicked deer jumping onto and over their bed (reread the article) is another matter. The crap alone and the deer hooves alone could ruin the bed.
No, Bambi was the boy fawn. I think the girl was named Fala or something like that. Bambi grew up to be a big stag with antlers like his daddy.
1)Wild animals don’t usually panic in my presence.
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I don’t want to reread the article. nyah
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Trampled, smeared poo is still easier to clean than blood and gore.
Won’t that make law enforcement much easier ? “Look, an outlaw ! < BLAM >” 
This doesn’t imply that all outlaws will have antlers, though.
Would a Manly Man ever turn down a fight because it was “kind of pointless” or because he didn’t “have to”?
Umm, no, he wasn’t.
Oops, my bad. Didn’t notice page 2 of thread. :smack:
For the first 25 years of my life, every single person I met from Arkansas was a bona-fide idiot, asshole or both. In the intervening years, I have met a number of Arkansans (Arkansanians, Arkansawyers, Arkansas-ites?) who are decent, intelligent human beings. Still, the fact that it took 25 years to find one of them makes me think there must be more than just a few of the former types in the state. Just saying, is all.
Arkansans is what we use. Then again, we’re all uneducated rednecks, so you might as well not listen to me. 
What’s funny is the South gets made fun of for having stupid, ignorant people yet in general southerners avoid killing one another en masse like the urban dwellers of the Mid-Atlantic and the West coast.
Every area has a lot of stupid, ignorant people in it. I think it’s bullshit that people try to say the South has some disproportionate number. Of all the places I’ve lived I think New York city has probably the biggest collection of mouthbreathing imbeciles. But of course, everyone from there considers themselves normal, and looks down on the rest of the country. I think people are more inclined to call someone an idiot when the person has different cultural norms or a different accent than them.
Anyways, this guy isn’t a possible Darwin Awards candidate, because anyone tough enough to kill a deer with his bare hands isn’t going to be dying anytime soon.
And yeah, an elk is a lot bigger, but if any of you actually have personal experience with a deer you wouldn’t doubt how dangerous or how strong they can be. This thing could weigh up to 200 lbs. and would be incredibly strong.