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

"I find myself getting into arguments with people who say ..."

oh you do suprise me!

you wouldn't be looking for these arguments would you?

What are you trying to say?

i'm just saying i haven't got into an argument about the possibiity of the existence of aliens recently....and was unaware of any current flare-up in the debate...

so i think this may be you

Oh there's no flare up. I thought you were teasing me that I may be a bit of a fight picker.

I do like a good debate though. Although I need to win and will sometimes get carried away and refuse to stop until the other person waves a white flag. I am lucky in that my husband also likes to have blazing rows debates about daft things and we can laugh at each other.

wow..you must never leave MN! no-one ever really surrenders here....(apologies yes, total giving up..nooooo)

I know. I've been here for years.

I'm tired and hungry.

And I think my arse has melted into the chair...

I was abducted by a UFO once!!!! They beamed me up and put a probe into my navel then erased my memory but it all came back to me under hypnosis and that was when I found out where the missing three hours went. They also took me to their planet and told me not to tell anyone and that the earth is in danger and we have to look after it. It was awesome man!

Not really - just wanted to get on the Oprah Winfrey show.

i'd love to blame MN for the state of my rear ....but there are those who remember The Before Time

I don't know why I read 'navel' as something else altogether then

hecate sorry i didn't mean to freak you out! i just remembered it, i have no idea why
i can't remember my own age half the time but this stuck in my head
sorry, it is not a nice thought that someone's been weirdly searching your posts
it is me franny btw
if that helps

Coupleofkooks - it was me that suggested you'd searched, and I do apologise - I obviously got it wrong and misinterpreted your post.

Am impressed at your memory - I can't remember what I posted 5 minutes ago

I hate it when someone is standing upright in a brightly lit room talking normally and casually mentions 'I have a migraine'

I have had two migraine headaches in my life and that was enough, I could not see ahead only peripheral vision, my HAIR hurt when I touched it, I threw up, a 20 watt bulb was TOO FECKING bright and my brain was being squeezed in a vice. If you are talking to me you DO NOT have a migraine!!

I also have had proper flu - Brad Pitt could have been standing naked on my doorstep with a bunch of flowers, a bottle of baby oil and a cheque made out to me for a million quid and I could not have got out of bed to meet him.

NEVER phone in to work saying you have 'flu' then turn up the next day with a slightly snotty nose

Now breathe - bring on the UFO thingy OP - did I say ALL of that out loud?

OP I agree, have thought that many a time! But shouldn't this be in pedants' corner?

kurri no problem

I did think I finally had a weirdy stalker. I was half freaked out that someone decided to search my posts and half rather pleased I was worth it

Then I realised you said you hadn't, and you just remembered it! Like I said, I am bloody impressed with your memory!

However, like Lady says, at least it shows I'm consistant

I think I'm a little disappointed I don't have a weirdy stalker who's going to search all my posts for..erm.. whatever people search all your posts for.

There is a vacancy for Hecate's Weirdy Stalker if you want it. The pay is shit but you get free biscuits.

aah Lamp, a fellow ranter.

Oh stealth, I can't go into Pedants' Corner. They scare me. My spelling and grammar aren't up to it.

I lol at "I have blood pressure" but never thought about "I have a temperature" - I would say that. But NO MORE

Hang on a minute

Isn't it you who rants when things aren't in the right topic? Or am I thinking of someone else?

Then my work here is done SPB

erm. yes that's me.

I have offered to sort through mn and re-file everything but I think people thought I was joking.

Hecate

Thank you - I have wanted to rant about flu and migraine 'sufferers' for years!!

It's on a par with "I've got a bone in my leg"

There is a huge difference between accepting that there may be life on other planets and believing that beings on those planets may have visited here on flying saucers but done it so secretly hardly anyone saw them plus all the conspiracy stuff that goes with folk who are into UFOs. I still think folk who are into UFOs are nutters. I bet Richard Dawkins and Stephen Hawking don't believe in UFO sightings.

erm. 2rebecca, have you read the thread?

Or even my OP?

i don't believe in reading the thread