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The things Snopes is denying are becoming more bizarre each week.

Donald Trump is not related to Adolf Hitler.

President Obama was not photographed holding a rocket launcher in a car with ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.

It is bizarre that they find it necessary to even go there.

What we have here, on second thoughts, is a thread which has very little to sustain it. It lacks what modernists might call "legs". The immediate introduction of sub-topics is all it can hope for.

Why, for example, do phylogenists employ the words "extinct" and "extant" when they are opposites and yet so easily confused while speed-reeding? I have to go back and check when something fails to make any subsequent sense, like finding the Common Crane is "not currently classified as threatened" despite mistaking the two words earlier. I have never seen a Common Crane so my ignorance is excusable.

The nearest living relatives to crocodiles, alligators and gharials are all birds. Try getting your head round the extinctions needed to make that happen.

I need to link these snippets with the thread, to be on topic. Not easy.

People throughout history have found huge reptiles terrifying. Alligators seem to accept this but many crocodiles are in denial.







eta: I have just googled. Five people in the last ten years have employed that pun online. This may eventually lessen what would otherwise become an unbearable sense of shame.

Hmmm. I would have to run that bit through Snopes

I didn't know phylogenists were thatchers until I read that about them speed reeding.

I think it would be a fun game to post stuff from Snopes that we find interesting and weird that anyone would believe it in the first place. For example: That posting a picture on Facebook gives them the right to use that image forever.

Or even as an avatar.

My dad grew up near Archibald Leach back when he went to Fairfield.

I didn't know that Maggie could speed-read. Snopes doesn't deny it.

Saint_ wrote: Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:00 am I think it would be a fun game to post stuff from Snopes that we find interesting and weird that anyone would believe it in the first place.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lights-out/ : "A warning about gang members driving around with their headlights off, then killing anyone who flashes them, is old and false. "

Today's Trivia: "8. Of course, it's not the cops you have to look out for, it's the psychos on the road. In fact, there's a gang out there whose initiation consists of killing certain motorists! What motorists do they target?"

Quiz setters should be prosecuted for demanding wrong answers, I'd have had a 10 this morning if it weren't for pesky unchecked inaccuracies.

spot wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 1:05 am

Saint_ wrote: Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:00 am I think it would be a fun game to post stuff from Snopes that we find interesting and weird that anyone would believe it in the first place.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lights-out/ : "A warning about gang members driving around with their headlights off, then killing anyone who flashes them, is old and false. "

Today's Trivia: "8. Of course, it's not the cops you have to look out for, it's the psychos on the road. In fact, there's a gang out there whose initiation consists of killing certain motorists! What motorists do they target?"

Quiz setters should be prosecuted for demanding wrong answers, I'd have had a 10 this morning if it weren't for pesky unchecked inaccuracies.

Just out of interest... what was the right answer?
I have an enquiring mind

Betty Boop wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 3:27 am

spot wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 1:05 am

Saint_ wrote: Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:00 am I think it would be a fun game to post stuff from Snopes that we find interesting and weird that anyone would believe it in the first place.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lights-out/ : "A warning about gang members driving around with their headlights off, then killing anyone who flashes them, is old and false. "

Today's Trivia: "8. Of course, it's not the cops you have to look out for, it's the psychos on the road. In fact, there's a gang out there whose initiation consists of killing certain motorists! What motorists do they target?"

Quiz setters should be prosecuted for demanding wrong answers, I'd have had a 10 this morning if it weren't for pesky unchecked inaccuracies.

Just out of interest... what was the right answer?
I have an enquiring mind

The one mentioned above, actually.

But, once again I've shown that I should never do the quiz before my Coffee has been prepared.

as for Snopes, they are denying that the UN has put up a statue of the Biblical Beastie of End Times.

LarsMac wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 8:07 am as for Snopes, they are denying that the UN has put up a statue of the Biblical Beastie of End Times.

Snopes is clearly wrong then, that'#s a biblically exact sign of the end times. Nobody could think that was accidental.

LarsMac wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 8:07 am as for Snopes, they are denying that the UN has put up a statue of the Biblical Beastie of End Times.

Snopes is clearly wrong then, that's a biblically exact sign of the end times. Nobody could think that was accidental.

Having now heard of Pat Robertson I had a look on Snopes.

Osama bin Laden turns out to be chickenfeed when compared with God's Wrath against America.

JERRY FALWELL: And, I know that I’ll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way – all of them who have tried to secularize America – I point the finger in their face and say “you helped this happen.”

PAT ROBERTSON: Well, I totally concur, and the problem is we have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government. And so we’re responsible as a free society for what the top people do. And, the top people, of course, is the court system.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/falwell-and-above/

If there's one thing this fantasy demon God they claim they believe in needs, it's mocking.

Pat Robertson has a history of serial lying but most of all I like his doubled-down-on insistence that he leg pressed 2,000 pounds at the age of 73. For anyone wanting to compare Pastor Robertson's wasted thighs with the real thing, do please watch

I confess that I seldom pay much attention to Pat and the other TV preachers. Unfortunately, there are quite a few people out there who do.
Oh, and wasn't that beastie supposed to be wearing crowns and have seven heads, or something?

spot wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 8:51 am

LarsMac wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 8:07 am as for Snopes, they are denying that the UN has put up a statue of the Biblical Beastie of End Times.

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Snopes is clearly wrong then, that's a biblically exact sign of the end times. Nobody could think that was accidental.

So, I had to go look it up.
"And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast."
rev 13:1-3

I guess there was the winged critter that Daniel mentioned, but really, that is a bit of a stretch, even for Ol' Pat and his cronies. I mean, where's the other three critters?

‘We survived Pharoah, we will survive Starmer’ says far-right Israeli minister after sanctions – Middle East crisis live

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/ ... st-updates

Well no, that's not really the point. First you killed all the unprotected firstborn in the whole of Egypt, and then you killed Pharaoh himself. To call that "survived" is a rather one-sided perspective, especially for Pharaoh don't you think? I'm not saying Starmer should necessarily take it as a coded death threat but even so.