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I'm getting sick and tired of dinosaurs being forced on our children

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CADministry · 06/02/2015 19:48

I'm really concerned about dinosaurs, and I think something needs to be done. The science behind them is pretty flimsy, and I for one do not want my children being taught lies. Did you know that nobody had even heard of dinosaurs before the 1800s, when they were invented by curio-hungry Victorians?

Charles Darwin's later theory of evolution entirely disproved dinosaurs, yet the dinosaur lie was twisted and adapted to try to make it fit. Any proper look at the facts will reveal that dinosaurs simply never existed.

Aside from the educational aspect, dinosaurs are a very bad example for children. At my children's school, several children were left in tears after one of their classmates (who had evidently been exposed to dinosaurs), became bestially-minded and ran around the classroom roaring and pretending to be a dinosaur. Then he bit three children on the face. One poor girl has been left with a severely dented nose and the whole class was left traumatised by this horrible display.

Nothing about dinosaurs is suitable for children, from their total lack of family values through to their non-existence from any serious scientific point of view.

Recently my sister foolishly gave my two youngest some dinosaurs toys for Christmas. After telling her to get out of my house I burnt the dinosaurs. My children were delighted because they know that dinosaurs are evil. I am fortunate that my family has been very supportive, and has disowned my children's former aunt.

Please, do what you can to get dinosaurs taken off the curriculum. Our school has been recently presented with a 214-signature petition, and following that and our recent protest the headmaster has said that he will take it the governors. We are lucky that he is so sympathetic to our cause, but I fear that others may not be.

If you would like to lend your support to our campaign, we have a Facebook group where we spread facts and research about the dinosaur myth. Hope to see you there! :-)

www.facebook.com/groups/nonexistingdinosaur/

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Honeydragon · 07/02/2015 00:15

Have we established how one hides a substantial amount of dinosaurs and recarbon dates rock?

It's not like chucking a couple of t rexes behind a rubber plant and a pterodactyl sniggering under the bed is it?

Honeydragon · 07/02/2015 00:16

Pterodactyls snigger btw.

T rexes go hur hur.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 07/02/2015 00:17

Errol, I bow to your greater knowledge on dating methods - especially ones used by these fake paleontologists. Please remove "carbon" from my post.

How do they calculate the age of a fossil/pretend fossil?

Does this mean the paleo diet isn't real either?

EatShitDerek · 07/02/2015 00:17

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Honeydragon · 07/02/2015 00:18

Your not a mermaid .... Hope that helps?

You might be pixie though?

ErrolTheDragon · 07/02/2015 00:20

I'm not sure pterodactyls were actually dinosaurs, so you might not have to hide them. Though CADs comment about them in relation to moas suggested she wanted them banished too.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 07/02/2015 00:20

How do you know if there's a dinosaur in your fridge?

Lweji · 07/02/2015 00:21

Ahem, BTW, and for the sake of science, you can't carbon date dinosaur bones.
Radiocarbon dating only goes as far back as tens of thousands of years. Not millions. For that, other radioisotopes are used.

DropYourSword · 07/02/2015 00:21

In fact, one of our members is working on a list of things that are not dinosaurs to hand out to people who say "But what about [insert thing that isn't a dinosaur]?"

But you don't believe in dinosaurs right? So surely that list would literally have one entry:

Things that aren't dinosaurs: everything

If you're writing a list of things that aren't dinosaurs, it would be virtually infinite. Why not write a much shorter list of things that are dinosaurs, if you concede they did exist.

Ohwhatfuckeryisthis · 07/02/2015 00:22

Biscuits. They aren't dinosaurs. Or cake. Or chocolate. (I want all three)
Can I just give a quick thanks to the secularity of our education system that this type of bolleaux is not taught in schools? But let's remember that in many states of the USA it is. Which worries me quite a bit.

Honeydragon · 07/02/2015 00:22

Dunno, why do you never hear a pterodactyl in the toilet?

Lweji · 07/02/2015 00:23

Pterodactyls were not dinosaurs, no.

Honeydragon · 07/02/2015 00:23

They have silent pee's Grin

McFox · 07/02/2015 00:24

Is writing a full list of non-dinosaury things the best use of someone's time here? It would seem that if there's a major global paleo fraud taking place, the effort should be going into exposing it, not preparing for a game of Animal Mineral Vegetable Dinosaur.

fromparistoberlin73 · 07/02/2015 00:25

"Nothing about dinosaurs is suitable for children, from their total lack of family values through to their non-existence from any serious scientific point of view"

how fucking dare you. some mummy dinosaurs sat on their eggs for ages

EatShitDerek · 07/02/2015 00:25

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Honeydragon · 07/02/2015 00:26

That's not good for cloning dinosaurs then, Lweji. You want to clone ones without radiation poisoning from possible meterorites.

DropYourSword · 07/02/2015 00:26

I am starting my own list of things that aren't dinosaurs;

Water bottles
Hair brush
Note pad
Cancellation notices
Laptop
Marker pen
Candle holder
Candelabra
Adapter socket
Fish bowl
Owl ornament
Cookies
Liqueur
Cupcake wrapper

Phew, this is going to take me a while, that's only just the things on my table!

Ohwhatfuckeryisthis · 07/02/2015 00:26

So dinosaurs don't exist? There is no such thing as an open minded dinodenier. So therefore dinodeniers are dinosaurs ( which don't exist)
Ta daah!

DropYourSword · 07/02/2015 00:28

But you're enriching ours EatShitDerek

I can't help but think of Famous Shakespeare quote every time I see your username!

FarelyKnuts · 07/02/2015 00:29

I still can't escape the irony of a "Christian" against Dinosaurs who posts their first sentence as "I don't want my children to be taught lies".
Surely you should stop taking them to your whacked out religious services then?

Lweji · 07/02/2015 00:30

I bet God sent the meteorite to extinguish non-existent dinosaurs and confuse creationists and dinodeniers (I hope it's a high denier - it's pretty cold atm).
But He fucked up and managed to extinguish many other creatures. Not as much as by creating apples and snakes, though. I haven't forgiven Him yet for that, because otherwise we could be blissfully still living in Paradise.

Ohwhatfuckeryisthis · 07/02/2015 00:30

McFox it might not be a good use of time, but it's good fun.
See I bet you aren't a dinosaur. Don't think I am. Dh is though- the dc tell him so regularly.

Lweji · 07/02/2015 00:31

how fucking dare you. some mummy dinosaurs sat on their eggs for ages

Yes, but what about the dads?

I bet they were on their laptops watching dinoporn.

Scoopmuckdizzy · 07/02/2015 00:32

I've been educated about dinosaurs before. There was an actual person trying to stop people in the street to spread the word that we've been lied too. I didn't realise it was that popular a theory.

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