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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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fattymcfatfat · 07/02/2015 18:23

Grin fair enough. you got me there.
unicorns are real though!

LaLaLaaaa · 07/02/2015 18:40

Have we covered mermaids yet? I for one found the little mermaid to be quite lacking in family values. Her father destroyed her prized possessions because she fancied walking rather than swimming!

fattymcfatfat · 07/02/2015 18:46

la I dont recall mermaids being covered and I have been on this thread since page 1 Grin
I want to know how they have sex??? (hey if we can cover dino porn surely there must be mermaid porn out there to educate us)

Hurr1cane · 07/02/2015 18:47

I don't understand why the OP says she's a Christian then starts going on about what Buddhists say.

Don't bring us into this madness.

Anyway, does anyone still say dipl 'oh' docus or has everyone decided it's dipl 'o' docus now?

I'd swap some cats for a couple of dinosaurs right now. Ragdoll has just waited until I'm eating my weekly take away to do a massive shit.

I'd quite like a dinosaur that's too big to fit in the house though, he could shit over grumpy NDNs fence.

Hurr1cane · 07/02/2015 18:52

Hahaha 5madthings I can't believe you got a mention from them! Grin Made my night.

LaLaLaaaa · 07/02/2015 18:53

Hurr1cane I still say 'oh' and I love dinosaurs so I must be right (this logic makes sense on this thread)

Fatty I think they'd be like barnacles - wafting their long penises about

LaLaLaaaa · 07/02/2015 18:54

I forgot to sign my posts.

Dr La

MrTumblesBavarianFanbase · 07/02/2015 18:54

lala OP touched on mermaids (not in a mermaporn way) early on - in fact mermaids prove her point, because the Victorians made a fake one, which proves they faked all dinosaurs fossil remains and dinosaurs must not exist (but OPs admission that the Shroud of Turin is a fake doesn't prove her claimed religion is made up even though the same logic would indicate it should, of course).

LaLaLaaaa · 07/02/2015 18:56

But mermaids are real, no? I saw one in Florida

Hurr1cane · 07/02/2015 18:58

DS made me buy a huge dinosaur from town then immediately threw it over the back fence. I think he's trying to send all the neighbours to hell.

They didn't burn it though. Just threw it back.

I'm glad someone else still says 'oh'

I dressed up as a mermaid once as a child, it was really hard work to move.

LaLaLaaaa · 07/02/2015 18:58

Has someone notified the Natural History Museum? Is this why they're replacing diplodocus with blue whale?

Jasonandyawegunorts · 07/02/2015 18:58

On his death bed, ray harryhauessen admitted to making the dinosaur myth up and faking the evidence with his stop motion effects and rear projection wizardry. That's just fact.

FurryDogMother · 07/02/2015 18:58

I've just waded through all 35 pages of this thread. Thank you, OP, thank you. :)

LaLaLaaaa · 07/02/2015 18:59

I saw a toy dinosaur today in someone's garden, covers in mud. Are you their neighbour hurr1cane?

fattymcfatfat · 07/02/2015 19:05

oh yes the fake victorian one! well we is on bout real mermaids! hurr1cane I think a pet dino would be awesome! and I still say 'oh' and I have a dino mad ds and dd! and my dbro was dino mad too!

Hurr1cane · 07/02/2015 19:10

Lalala doubt it, it's in my own garden again now waiting to be rescued... Unless you're one of the neighbours looking out of their back windows you can't see my garden from the street.

If you are one of my neighbours.... I'm sorry.

MrsHerculePoirot · 07/02/2015 19:11

I have started saying 'dip - lod - icus' now as I was told that is how it is supposed to be said - still feels wrong though!!!

LaLaLaaaa · 07/02/2015 19:12

Wow! So many dinosaurs roaming in gardens.

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 07/02/2015 19:22

Dinosaurs don't exist.
None of you exist.
Nothing exists except cabbages.
And me.

fredfredsausagehead1 · 07/02/2015 19:35

Op is crazy! And gives Christians a bad name.
Dh and I have laughed our socks of at this thread though, he doesn't DO MN but had him howling this morning at pirates and barney (a dinosaur from out imagination)

Hurr1cane · 07/02/2015 19:40

Fatty. No one would mess with me if I had a pet dinosaur. I want one. Bet is not have any cold callers banging on my door either.

But seeing as they never existed I'll have to make do with the giant ragdoll cat. Sad

helpmekeepstrong · 07/02/2015 19:40

Lena? Lena? Is that you? Get the thread deleted dear or I'm going to have to call nurse......

UnicornasoreAss · 07/02/2015 19:43

leave the unicorns out of it.

InAndOfMyself · 07/02/2015 19:49

I think it's the pirate dinosaurs we have to watch out for (stern glare at Giles Andreae); I am so bloody sick of having to read those books to my son. I can get behind this campaign if it means those books get banned.

fattymcfatfat · 07/02/2015 19:55

my dd is pretty much a dinosaur anyway! she would be the kid that the op described! she is onky one and has alrwady bit her brother so severely she has made him bleed....twice. I might just put her on a lead Smile

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