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I really don’t think dinosaurs were properly real and I’m not sure that the earth is proper round

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SomethingNarstyInTheWoodshed · 09/03/2018 21:19

It makes my brain hurt so I’m just not going to try.

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brownelephant · 09/03/2018 21:30

ewan mcgregor rode his bike from london to new york 'the wrong way round'

SomethingNarstyInTheWoodshed · 09/03/2018 21:30

Hmmm. I wonder if they were just going in circles though.

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TheOriginalEmu · 09/03/2018 21:31

In wales we learn that the earth is sort of shaped like a rugby ball. we have a right old laugh at all the rest of the world and their 'soccer' ball world. and obviously the dinosaurs are really just Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey dressed up for world book day.

DalekDalekDalek · 09/03/2018 21:32

I really hope this is one of the Christians Against Dinosaurs lot back again!

Strax · 09/03/2018 21:33

I wonder if they were just going in circles though.
Don't you believe in compasses either?

toldmywrath · 09/03/2018 21:33

I have never accepted that dinosaurs are real. How do they know what colour skin, whether feathers etc. It's all made up.

But I do believe that planet earth is spherical.

SomethingNarstyInTheWoodshed · 09/03/2018 21:33

I’m not one of them but I could be.

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jaseyraex · 09/03/2018 21:34

So do you think someone has the job to just create fossils/dinosaur bones etc to fool the world for fun?

GinnyJumperoo · 09/03/2018 21:34

Ooh I know someone who doesn’t believe in dinosaurs. Is this a thing?!

SomethingNarstyInTheWoodshed · 09/03/2018 21:34

I mean. They’d possibly be able to argue their case more coherently. So I’m not. But maybe I should be.

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SomethingNarstyInTheWoodshed · 09/03/2018 21:35

Dinosaurs I think are possibly bobbly shaped rocks put together by someone with a twisted imagination. In a sort of large dog shaped thing.

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NotACleverName · 09/03/2018 21:36

Has someone sprinkled weed on the pizzas in here again?

AnachronisticCorpse · 09/03/2018 21:36

Weirdly I have just had almost this exact conversation with DH.

I’ve never been convinced about dinosaurs. I mean, I’m sure there was something, but they keep discovering new things about them (feathers, probably evolved into birds, oops that one wasn’t actually one but a couple of others mashed together) and I’m convinced the whole thing is basically guesswork.

And if you look back over the last few hundred years we have debunked and discovered so much differing stuff that I’m inclined to think ah well, no one, not even the cleverest scientists, really has the first jeffing clue what’s going on.

I’m positive they’ll look back in 50 or 100 years time and laugh pityingly at how little we understood.

I also think most of history is guesswork and conjecture and I look forward to a thousand years in the future when Harry Potter is worshiped as a god based on ancient texts unearthed.

RosaDeZoett · 09/03/2018 21:36

What did the dinosaurs ever do to the Christians?

DalekDalekDalek · 09/03/2018 21:36

Kids are up late again tonight. You can tell there is no school tomorrow!

Strax · 09/03/2018 21:37

Ginny I knew someone who didn't believe in dinosaurs either, he was a creationist and believed that dinosaur fossils were all 'planted' by god. He didn't have a reason why god should bother to do this of course, what with him working in mysterious ways and all that.

SomethingNarstyInTheWoodshed · 09/03/2018 21:37

Basically. These concepts confuse me. I’m really not sure about them or why any of it. So I just think maybe I’ll not try. Because it has no relevance to my life so why bother even trying.

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QueenOfThorns · 09/03/2018 21:37

Wine or Gin OP? And whatever it is, do have some more, I’m enjoying this

LeighaJ · 09/03/2018 21:38

DannyLaRuesBestFrock

"Take a very long walk and see if you fall off the edge. There should be a dinosaur when you get there 👣👣👣"

😄

SomethingNarstyInTheWoodshed · 09/03/2018 21:38

Sadly neither queen. Imagine my poor Brian trying to deal with gin and things I just don’t get?

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speakout · 09/03/2018 21:39

Dinosaurs I think are possibly bobbly shaped rocks put together by someone with a twisted imagination. In a sort of large dog shaped thing.

???

Strax · 09/03/2018 21:39

SomethingNarsty, have you ever been to a museum (genuine question, honestly)? Even our small local museum has fossils of complete dinosaurs in there which can't possibly be mistaken for anything other than the skeleton of a creature. I just wondered if you have ever seen one in real life?

SomethingNarstyInTheWoodshed · 09/03/2018 21:40

And I’m sure 200 years ago they thought they were terribly bright and knew everything. And now we laugh at their daft attempts at cars and stuff. So probably in a couple of hundred years time they’ll be doing the same to us

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SwearingMakesEverythingBetter · 09/03/2018 21:40

Actually the earth is shaped more like a satsuma. It's flatter at the poles and wider around the middle.

I have a degree in geography by the way.

RosaDeZoett · 09/03/2018 21:41

I do remember reading somewhere, that people of our time believing the stories in the bible would be the equivalent of a society a million years in the future finding a Star Trek box set and building a whole religion around it. Most likely Next Generation, not the William Shatner original series. So that explains Christians. I have no explanation for dinosaurs. Can I have some of your pizza?

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