Daddybear tells the truth

[BlueStarLizzard]

*hangs head in abject shame*

I am a failure.  I have let my friends and acquaintances down - horribly.

I shall sit in the corner.  I shall subsist on salad with no dressing and dry oatmeal for the next two days.

I can but hope that my penance will satisfy the blood honor I have violated.

stay safe.

I am certain that in time you will redeem yourself.

[Perd Hapley]

Nope. The homosexual term is probably the most common.

In fact, I only know one other subculture/counter culture that uses it.

I wasn't talking about subcultures or countercultures. I'm saying that in the culture at large, "bear" means a big dude, a hairy dude, and so on, but w/o any sexual overtones. I'm also including phrases like "he's just a big ole teddy bear," "you're my widdle cuddley-bear," (not that I have ever, ever said that about my wife), etc.

If you want to test all this, just scratch your back against a post, or the corner of a wall. Anyone who sees you will probably compare you to a bear. I should know. And I'm not that hairy.

I don't think charby had anything to worry about.

[mtnbkr]

Something eerily disturbing familiar about the POV grinning papa bear santa

FIFY.

Chris

[BlueStarLizzard]

I wasn't talking about subcultures or countercultures. I'm saying that in the culture at large, "bear" means a big dude, a hairy dude, and so on, but w/o any sexual overtones. I'm also including phrases like "he's just a big ole teddy bear," "you're my widdle cuddley-bear," (not that I have ever, ever said that about my wife), etc.

If you want to test all this, just scratch your back against a post, or the corner of a wall. Anyone who sees you will probably compare you to a bear. I should know. And I'm not that hairy.

I don't think charby had anything to worry about.

You are a very sheltered individual.

Trust us when you tell you that when a guy gets called a bear these days, it's not just because he's hairy or big...

[Andiron]

You are a very sheltered individual.

Trust us when you tell you that when a guy gets called a bear these days, it's not just because he's hairy or big...

Not so much.

I'm well versed in pretty much all internet *expletive deleted*ed-upery,  and that one was a surprise. 

Though I don't keep an active tally of what the sexual deviants are up to, past the popular memes. 

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

I must be sheltered, too.  I never knew calling a big hairy dudes bears had anything to do with gay sex.

Pretty sure none of the guys I've called bears knew it either, judging by the fact that they didn't summarily pummel me.

[Northwoods]

New to me too.

[Scout26]

*hangs head in abject shame*

I am a failure.  I have let my friends and acquaintances down - horribly.

I shall sit in the corner.  I shall subsist on salad with no dressing and dry oatmeal for the next two days.

I can but hope that my penance will satisfy the blood honor I have violated.

stay safe.

No, don't be.  You have led a fellow APSer into the Google trap. Searching for innocent information or a link, he was Mentally and Visually scarred for life.  That is a great achievement.  Akin to pushing a squadmate forward when the Platoon Sergeant or First Sergeant asks for volunteers.

You have achieved the award of the Blue Falcon.  Which, in and of itself, is punishment enough.  

[Perd Hapley]

You are a very sheltered individual.

Trust us when you tell you that when a guy gets called a bear these days, it's not just because he's hairy or big...

I may or may not be "sheltered," but I'm still right about this. When a guy gets called a bear these days, it usually has nothing to do with the argot of a tiny fraction of the population. Why would it? Most people have little to no contact with said subculture, so they still use the word the same way they were using it before gay was okay. And as we've seen (hilariously) in this very thread, there are adults with internet access who were not aware of the homosexual sense of the term. Even for those of us who already knew of that meaning, not all of us have a Beavis and Butthead reaction to every term that could be a double entendre. In fact, some of us don't think of that meaning at all, unless context dictates. Or that's how I roll, anyway.

[TechMan]

New to me as well.

[Jamisjockey]

I've heard it before.

[BlueStarLizzard]

Okay. I pulled one of my random, without context, Dad polls with "what's it mean when you call some guy a 'bear'?"

Even disoriented and confused at the completly random question, he managed to answer with "you mean the big hairy gay guys?"

[KD5NRH]

Quoting just because I'm sure that pic will piss people off.

I know it did whenever I used it. 

In your leg modeling portfolio?

[BlueStarLizzard]

In your leg modeling portfolio?

Yeah, he got caught out because the carpet did not match the draps.

[MechAg94]

Okay. I pulled one of my random, without context, Dad polls with "what's it mean when you call some guy a 'bear'?"

Even disoriented and confused at the completly random question, he managed to answer with "you mean the big hairy gay guys?"

I guess I don't get out enough.  For this subject, I am not unhappy about that.

[Jamisjockey]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bear

[Perd Hapley]

Wikipedia doesn't get out much, either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_(disambiguation)

[Tallpine]

By the time we got into Tulsa Town,
 We had eighty-five trucks in all.
 But they's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf,
 And them bears was wall-to-wall.
 Yeah, them smokies is thick as bugs on a bumper;
 They even had a bear in the air!
 I says, "Callin' all trucks, this here's the Duck.
 "We about to go a-huntin' bear."

Read more: C.W. McCall - Convoy Lyrics | MetroLyrics

[Jamisjockey]

By the time we got into Tulsa Town,
 We had eighty-five trucks in all.
 But they's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf,
 And them bears was wall-to-wall.
 Yeah, them smokies is thick as bugs on a bumper;
 They even had a bear in the air!
 I says, "Callin' all trucks, this here's the Duck.
 "We about to go a-huntin' bear."

Read more: C.W. McCall - Convoy Lyrics | MetroLyrics

Same thing right?

[dogmush]

By the time we got into Tulsa Town,
 We had eighty-five trucks in all.
 But they's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf,
 And them bears was wall-to-wall.
 Yeah, them smokies is thick as bugs on a bumper;
 They even had a bear in the air!
 I says, "Callin' all trucks, this here's the Duck.
 "We about to go a-huntin' bear."

Read more: C.W. McCall - Convoy Lyrics | MetroLyrics

That song takes on a whole new meaning now........

[Tallpine]

Same thing right?

Yeah, pretty much.  Both screw you in the a$$