to want to grab people who say "I don't believe in UFOs" and shake them until their teeth rattle?

[HecateQueenOfWitches]

I find myself getting into arguments with people who say they don't believe in UFOs.

"I don't believe in UFOs"

"Oh, really? So you don't believe that it is possible to see something in the sky and think, hmm, I wonder what that is, I can't tell."

Because U. F. O. means unidentified flying object. aka something in the sky that when you look at it you cannot identify it.

Could be a weather balloon, a little plane really really high up, one of those annoying lantern things...

Or am I needlessly pedantic

needlessly pedantic, I think, but it's no less infuriating than when people say "oh, she's got to go back to the hospital, she's got blood sugar..."

I don't even dare to start speaking.

You are a little bit strange to be so irate about it, yes, but I see your point

Very pedantic! And I think unidentified means not known to the CAA or military or anything. Beyond rational explanation. Doubt all those men who get so excited about UFOs really care about anything that turns out to be a weather balloon or whatever.

YANBU

Im just intrigued as to how many times this comes up in the course of regular conversation?!

People get use UFO/alien interchangeably, you're a pedantic twat

I believe

You are being a tiny bit pedantic but you are correct.

Also 'I've got a temperature' - really? how astonishing.

Where did that rogue 'get' come from?

Yes. I know I'm a hair splitting nit picking bugger.

And it came up in a conversation about things that annoy you.

I spoke for a very long time.

Disappointing.

Thread title lead me to believe you were going to be a proper whackjob abductee with valuable experience to share

I used to spend a lot of time smiling with relief at patients who used to tell me they had blood pressure!

YANBU.

Irks me too.

I don't know about the teeth rattling bit. Perhaps just a little shake is in order

I like people who tell me that 'muscle turns to fat'.

I feel the same about 'guesstimate'...

I tell you what else pisses me off. People who turn on the light and say "let there be light."

You're not funny.

People who stop at the top of escalators to chat. MOOOOOOVE!!!!!

"your call is important to us" Clearly fucking NOT or I wouldn't have been on hold for an hour and a fucking half, would I?!

MIL asks me if we have any weather over our way. Yes, we always have some weather. Every minute of every day we have some weather.

So they should be saying "I don't believe in IFOs" ?

No. Because an identified flying object is just an object in the sky that you can identify, not giving any indication what you are identifying it as! could be a plane, a balloon...

They should say "I don't believe in alien craft flying the skies of the planet earth" because that's what they mean.

Not that anyone is ever going to say that, of course.

YANBU, OP, I am totally with you!!! Like 'I don't believe in sex before marriage'. Well, I can guarantee it happens! What they mean is they don't approve of or partake of sex before marriage!

Ooh yes, and 'I don't believe in divorce'! I always want to say 'really!? How can you not believe in something that so many people seem to manage to do?'.

LMFAO at 'i don't believe in sex before marriage' I never thought of it that way before!

You are being a pedantic freak.

Plus, just how many arguments about ufos can a peson get into in one lifetime

Take a chill pill.

(I bet that is another saying that really annoys you).