How fucking scary were dinosaurs?!

[LittleMissFrumpy]

Tonight I read my three year old a lift the flap type book she got from the library about dinosaurs. I don’t know very much about dinosaurs and I have been educated!

One has a head the size of a small car! One has teeth as long as a child’s arm! Another has a sail on its back as tall as an adult human.

And crocodiles were around when dinosaurs were! And they just fanny about in America. Just haunting lakes and being fucking terrifying. Imagine dinosaurs still existed! And they just cut about, being massive with their teeth and their tales. Eating people.

Ffs.

Although my sister in law told me last time she was drunk that she doesn’t believe in dinosaurs. Is that a thing?!

Im on a facebook page that denies dinosaurs existence, it's fucking hilarious

We went to Blackgang Chine (iow) a couple of years ago and there’s a dinosaur exhibition thing there
The kids were terrified

And they just fanny about in America. Just haunting lakes and being fucking terrifying

Amaxing

Prehistoric crocodiles were amazing. Google Boar Croc!

My 5 year old DTs like to remind me that dinosaurs may have been massive and scary but a blue whale is still bigger than the largest ever dino

Actually, crocodiles don't do any fannying about in America - that's alligators. Crocodiles fanny about in Africa, Asia and Australia.

A blue whale won’t come to your house and rip your head off!

I always find it interesting that co existing with them would have been impossible ...lucky I suppose they all got wiped out 🤔

You need to go see Dr Ben do his dinosaur talk. He's fucking ruined Jurassic park for me now.

There's no evidence about the colour of dinosaurs though (I believe) so I always like to think of T-Rex being dayglo orange with sparkles. Less scary.

I'm shit scared of alligators. Not that I've ever met one, I just find them sinister. Also owls and tortoises, if they make eye contact it can chill your very soul.
I wouldn't have got on with dinosaurs...

I was going to say. Alligators are American. I would associate crocodiles with Australia (where I'm from). I know someone who was eaten by one.

Anyone who hasn't, should read Jodi Taylor's Just One Damned Thing After Another, for scary dinosaurs.

I've got an annomite fossil. They were around at the time of the dinosaurs, weren't they? It's not very big and not very scary.

We've got some ammonites, some ichthyosaurs vertebrae and some coprolite (dinosaur poo) all from the Dorset Jurassic coast. If anyone actually believes they didn't exist and it's just fakes planted on the Jurassic coast then whoever planted them was a sadistic fuck as it took us bloody hours to find stuff on Charmouth beach.

I’m pretty sure the dinosaur denial thread ended up in classics.

Was it Karl Pilkington who suggested an ideal solution to the current levels of over population was to bring back the dinosaurs?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/2301982-Im-getting-sick-and-tired-of-dinosaurs-being-forced-on-our-children

Winning!

This is from the dinosaur thread, is very good thrhyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/10/menace.html?m=1

I'm impressed she managed to burn plastic dinosaurs, I would have thought that hard to do

You are right! We a have a museum near us with small dinosaur skeletons in it and even those little long dead allosaurs are bloody scary.

They have altogether far too many pointy teeth.

I've always loved dinosaurs though and my five year olds interest in them is a great cover for my own nerdiness. There's a lot to be said for shared interests!

I cant believe velociraptors were the size of chickens :(

Manchester Museum has a T Rex skeleton. It died in a fight with another T Rex they think. It had teeth marks in its skull from fighting. It's called Stan, it's bloody brilliant.

They didn't eat people. True story.