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Five Choices?

Post 1

lee lee

What are the five options?I know fight and flee but I can't remember the others.Does anyone know what I'm talking about?


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Post 2

Aroha

fight, flee, hide, scream and die maybe..?
Not sure, sorry. But I felt like guessing.


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Post 3

Beard

Well, I don't know if we're talking about the same thing, but a guy lecturing our school on AI once said the four Fs of evolutionary success were feeding, fighting, fleeing and reproduction. smiley - smiley


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Post 4

lee lee

No,it has to do with dilemmas.If you find youself say face to face with a bear what are your options?Supposedly these options can be applied to any situation life throws at you.


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Post 5

Aroha

Now we have the question, all we need now is the answer.
42? No. Doesn`t really match.


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Post 6

Mustapha

Perhaps it is Sun Tzu's five fundamental factors of warfare?

Politics, Weather, Terrain, Commander, Doctrine.


Four F's?

Post 7

SallyM

Since when does reproduction begin with an F?


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Post 8

Patrick from Oxford

Since it was spelt f*ck...


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Post 9

Anonymouse

Do they all begin with F and are they all one-word solutions? Fight and flee seem to narrow things down a bit, and I'm not sure I can think of many others that would pertain to facing a bear. smiley - winkeye (Seems fight and flee seem to cover the options pretty well in that case... Of course, the outcome of those choices might produce entire conversations in themselves. smiley - winkeye)


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Post 10

Chrome

Faint? Fondle? Felch?!? Freeload? Anyone got a dictionary?


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Post 11

Aroha

For free?? Fallacy...


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Post 12

Siguy

Here are a couple F words, maybe one of them is it:

Fahrenheit, Focal, Function, failing, fourth, fluorine, Farad,
Filial, Fellow, Farthing, Female, Feminine, Fine, Following, Folio,
Foul, Franc, French, Friday, Faraday, from, fertilization, flowers,
Forte, France, Frankish.
What can I say, I get bored and feel like making people read countless F words. I found these at dictionary.com


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Post 13

kwigibo

I think they all have to be verbs


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Post 14

lee lee

No more F-words please.I think confront might be one or something like hug.I know that hugging a bear is not a very smart thing to do....but that's not the point.The point has something to with options.The limit of our options or choices.The five basic choices,there aren't any others,these are your only choices in any given situation.Does this help?


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Post 15

Anonymouse

Hmm.. Fight, Flee, Compromise, Console, tolerate?


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Post 16

Anonymouse

Or we could go with:

Change
Accept
Lead
Follow
  or
Get the h*ll out of the way. smiley - winkeye


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Post 17

lee lee

Very nice.I guess if I can't remember what they really are that will have to do.


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