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

but ufos, even though we know means unidentified flying object, is synonymous now with aliens and little green men innit

exactly southeast. As any fule kno

Oh yes, the "I don't believe in sex before marriage" has always confused me. Whether you like it or not, it definitely happens!

Remember when Dizzee Rascal was asked by Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight if he "believed in political parties"? Mr Rascal deadpanned "Yeah, ah believes in 'em, course. They exist, like."

You're correct but UNREASONABLE (and should be pontificating away in Pedants' Corner). What on earth - or in the space-time continuum - do you expect them to say?

"I don't believe any claimed sightings of skyborne objects, which may or may not be interplanetary transport vessels" sounds the teeniest bit ... pedantic, no?

seems a strange thing to get worked up about. People who are "into" UFOs are generally nutters in the same league as those believing in fairies and evil spirits.
They aren't generally talking about just seeing a bird out of the corner of their eye and not being sure what breed it is.
The ones who think they have been abducted and had an exciting sexual encounter are even stranger (and sadly usually female).

what a weird thread to start. twice

seriously HOW often do you discuss UFOs with people? to the extent that it makes you feel violent several times a year?

i suggest you change your friends for some people who don't talk about UFOs so much. or at all.

Coupleofkooks being irritated by the same thing twice in nearly 2 years seems quite restrained to me.

Searching someone's history to see if they've ever mentioned something before? - now that seems odd.

Just to veer off the pedantry aspect - people who believe in the potential existance of aliens are not 'nutters'.

In fact, it's rather naive to assume this planet is the only one in existance to ever have had life, given that so much is known to be unknown. The planets that we can see so far away and nobody knows how it stops, where it ends.. to assume they cannot have life is ignorant.

Jeez, that was 2 years ago, I cant rememer anything I posted that long ago, so therefore, have probably repeated myself on several different topics.

LOL i didn't search her history to see if she had posted on this topic before, what a weird thing to think of

i remembered the thread from the time - i am on there under my old name (have a very good memory sometimes)

when i first read your post quickly kurri i thought you meant I was weird to be irritated by someone posting the same thing twice in two years
now you would have had a point there

OP you are bonkers as conkers!

Nope, not pedantic at all. Just logical.

I've seen a few unidentified things myself. Rationally, they probably were a child's toy aeroplane gone awol or some lightweight litter floating about up there or god knows...

thefruitwhisperer - i'm with you there - guessimate is an absurb word

hahaha have I really chatted about this before? wow. Well, I've been on here years, no doubt I've chatted about the same things many times.

What's really weird is that someone decided to search my posts.

Are we only allowed to chat about something once? What about all the new people who I haven't chatted about things with before, can I play with them please?

I was talking about dress sizes earlier today. Maybe you'd like to search my posts to make sure I didn't discuss that several years ago either.

And I think I've got too much time on my hands.

Oh I see that you didn't search randomly, you just happened to remember that 2 years ago, I talked about the same thing.

Bloody hell, what a memory! I can't remember what I said last week! Much less what someone else said 2 years ago.

I'm actually rather impressed.

It's an important issue, and anyway some of us weren't here two years ago.

And, actually, they're not little green men - they're grey - Mulder said so.

yeah there are greys and humanoid types apparenly

they're here, you know

Oh i believe in UFOs. I
n fact i have several on them littering the bedroom.

But round here they are also known as unfinished objects. But you can imagine the looks I get when speaking to non crafters and say that I am just off to tackle a few UFOs

I am, Lady, I am.

you'd be surprised at the things I find myself talking about. And arguing about.

One I have over and over again with my husband is whether or not we'd buy our house if we won the lottery, who we'd tell and what we'd do with the money

And the other day I was discussing what I'd do if I was alone in the world for 24 hours. It got quite heated. [boggle]

I suppose there aren't many people on here who have odd pointless conversations that turn into really weird arguments then.