Debunking Humor...

[FatPhil]

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I'm reminded of this:

img link: https://media.snopes.com/2013/06/pregnant.jpg
via: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pregnant-pause-2/ (verdict: not bunk)

 

[Mendel]

I'm reminded of this:

the kid is 20 years old now

 

[John J.]

See, you can't trust all these sensationalist TV shows about past "mysteries".

Roanoke was never lost. They were all just hiding and having a cigarette break.

 

[derwoodii]

 

[Mendel]

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Continue with these (they actually exist):

 

[JMartJr]

Thank heavens it is written in English, I'd hate to have to learn a new language in order to enjoy this unique, rowdy, comedy adventure.

No, never mind, I just read a page or two of the "sample" available on Amazon. I am undecided if it is just incredibly poorly written, or is one of those AI created garbage books. Maybe I'll try one of Ms. Ayers's books instead, though the ones about big hunky muscle-men and their romances with grizzly bears might be better for a skeptic, since bears do in fact exist the suspension of disbelief will be easier.

 

[Mendel]

since bears do in fact exist the suspension of disbelief will be easier.

Thankfully, such considerations never deterred Professor Tolkien.

 

[JMartJr]

Thankfully, such considerations never deterred Professor Tolkien.

Are you casting asparagus at the historical accuracy of the Lord of the Rings, sirrah? We may have to settle this on the field of honor...!

 

[John J.]

Continue with these (they actually exist):

This exciting work of fiction is by Ion Phlegming

Didn't Ion Phlegming write the James Bongd novels?

Are you casting asparagus at the historical accuracy of the Lord of the Rings, sirrah?

Just as long as he doesn't question the Moomins.

One of the significant differences between the Moomins and Avi Loeb is that the Moomins don't mistake comets for alien spacecraft.

First published in 1946, Comet in Moominland predates Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision by 4 years. It has a better plot and nicer characters.

 

[Mendel]

Didn't Ion Phlegming write the James Bongd novels?

No, he wrote Jaimes Bond 007½.

Spoiler: proof

This is the the amazing Bigfoot story. A bawdy tale of abduction, seduction, and worse, by the notorious renegade beast of the wilderness Pacific Northwest. Kathy, an inexperienced city girl, out on her first camping trip, faces the unimaginable.

Jaimes Bond, the young Chicano cousin of a famous British spy, is sent to rescue her. Are innocent campers safe anymore? Read this titillating story before you head out into the woods for camping, hiking, fishing or hunting.

This exciting book is part of a bigger series: The 'Jaimes Bond, 007 1/2, Ribald Tales' series. There are four prior 'Ribald Tales' in that series, including the controversial 'Spy Scramble'. This story is not for children nor for minors, nor recommended for the faint-of-heart nor for prudes. Contains sexually-explicit language that may be offensive to your grandmother, your school-teacher, your mailman, your preacher, and any other decent and respectable person in your life.

Portrait of the author:

Eon Phlegming is an anagram of Helping Gnome.

 

[JMartJr]

Eon Phlegming is an anagram of Helping Gnome.

Or perhaps even better, "Helping men go."

 

[FatPhil]

Just as long as he doesn't question the Moomins.

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One of the significant differences between the Moomins and Avi Loeb is that the Moomins don't mistake comets for alien spacecraft.

First published in 1946, Comet in Moominland predates Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision by 4 years. It has a better plot and nicer characters.

I call fake! Shadows all wrong.

yes, I am (moomin)trolling you to debunk me - my lines prove nothing...

 

[JMartJr]

I call fake! Shadows all wrong.

yes, I am (moomin)trolling you to debunk me - my lines prove nothing...

Also HOW COME I DON'T SEE ANY STARS??!??!?!??!!!?!?!!?

 

[John J.]

Also HOW COME I DON'T SEE ANY STARS??!??!?!??!!!?!?!!?

It's in daytime. Check the metadata. And I think Moominland is in Finland or Sweden or somewhere, and it's summer:
Moominland Midwinter made it abundantly clear that genus Moomin normally go through a hibernation-like state in winter.
And the sun stays up a long time in summer in Finland. Or Sweden or something. For astronomy reasons.

I call fake! Shadows all wrong.

The strongest source of light is the sun, which is to the right but not captured in this picture. The sun is casting the shadows.
The stilt-walking moomin on the left is in the shade of the crag behind, only part of one stilt is in direct sunlight and we see its shadow.

Really, if this is the level that so-called "debunking" has reached on this forum, we all need to take a long, hard look at ourselves.

 

[JMartJr]

Really, if this is the level that so-called "debunking" has reached on this forum, we all need to take a long, hard look at ourselves.

Firtunately, I am so darned good looking, this should be easy for me. The rest of y'all are own your own, good luck!

 

[jdog]

Firtunately, I am so darned good looking, this should be easy for me. The rest of y'all are own your own, good luck!

 

[Mendel]

The skeptics are critics of the one kind, trying to figure out how stuff works.
Then there's the "no sheeple" people.

 

[Gary C]

The skeptics are critics of the one kind, trying to figure out how stuff works.
Then there's the "no sheeple" people.

I find the believers tend towards an inability to handle criticism.

 

[Gary C]

 

[Mendel]

I find the believers tend towards an inability to handle criticism.

my post was about what being a critic means.
when believers think of themselves as sceptical, that's because they haven't understood that.

My wife has been watching a lot of those competitive cooking shows and it is really inspiring her…
She now critiques everything I cook for her.

 

[JMartJr]

This one came into my head while posting over in the Calvine thread... And then this more general second one came into my head while typing up the first one...

 

[derwoodii]

 

[FatPhil]

Source: https://i.imgur.com/x6dsuI8.jpeg

 

[Scaramanga]

 

[Trailblazer]

the kid is 20 years old now

Sad to say his father is no longer with us.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/roanoke/name/emmett-muse-obituary?id=32641724

 

[Mendel]

let's hear both sides

 

[jdog]

A recurring favorite that's oddly appropriate for Metabunk:

 

[Gary C]

Today on Facebook

 

[FatPhil]

Today on Facebook

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Designs weren't always exactly that way - they tried a steeper angle, and quickly gave up on it:

Img link: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe....jpg/960px-Bent_Pyramid_曲折金字塔_-_panoramio.jpg
via: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bent_Pyramid_曲折金字塔_-_panoramio.jpg
from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent_Pyramid

(The next pyramid they built had exactly the same slope as the top bit of that one; they learnt from their mistake and didn't try again.)

 

[Gary C]

Designs weren't always exactly that way - they tried a steeper angle, and quickly gave up on it:

Img link: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Bent_Pyramid_曲折金字塔_-_panoramio.jpg/960px-Bent_Pyramid_曲折金字塔_-_panoramio.jpg
via: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bent_Pyramid_曲折金字塔_-_panoramio.jpg
from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent_Pyramid

(The next pyramid they built had exactly the same slope as the top bit of that one; they learnt from their mistake and didn't try again.)

I used to point out to the "had to be aliens" folks that the Bent Pyramid, Step Pyramid, and hundreds of mastaba predate the Great Pyramids by centuries demonstrating the Egyptians learning as they went, the history literally recorded in stone. Crickets on that line of argument.

 

[JMartJr]

I used to point out to the "had to be aliens" folks that the Bent Pyramid, Step Pyramid, and hundreds of mastaba predate the Great Pyramids by centuries demonstrating the Egyptians learning as they went, the history literally recorded in stone.

The progression of starting with one design, tweaking it into the next one, seeing one have a flaw that is corrected in the next one, it is all striking. Cap it with the realization that "Oh, drat, making a big giant pyramid for a royal tomb is the equivalent of putting up ever more impressive billboards reading 'Free grave goods here! All robbers come on in!'" and switching to hidden tombs such as in the Valley of Kings. The SEQUENCE makes sense in a way that does not match "Aliens didit" at all.

Crickets on that line of argument.

Probably what with it being unanswerable and all! ^_^

 

[JMartJr]

 

[Gary C]

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Which is the plot of "Spaced Invaders"

 

[Gary C]

One of my all time favs. Apologies if this is a repeat.

 

[JMartJr]

One of my all time favs. Apologies if this is a repeat.

The humor thread is big enough now that one could play a game of Can I Repost Something And Not Get Called On It...

 

[Mendel]

A rare picture of the staff at Stonehenge putting the clock back to GMT.
I know what you're going to want to object to.

 

[Ann K]

View attachment 85304A rare picture of the staff at Stonehenge putting the clock back to GMT.

Twice a year, the archaeology thread I belong to is inundated with photos and cartoons of this (non)event.

Fun factoid: when the owner of the land that included Stonehenge died, it was purchased and given to the nation. It required a good deal of reconstruction of fallen stones and lintels at that time.

So it's strange to think that England's most significant monument was once bought by a barrister as a present to his wife. Or so one theory goes. Another is that he feared a rich American might take it.

Whatever his motivation, 100 years ago, on 21 September 1915, Cecil Chubb paid £6,600 for the monument at an auction in Salisbury, Wiltshire. It happened, he said, "on a whim".

Chubb's wife Mary was reportedly less than grateful for the romantic gesture, possibly because the price equated to as much as £680,000 in today's money. "It's said that Mary wanted Cecil to buy a set of curtains at the auction," says Stonehenge's curator, Heather Sebire. "And he came back with something rather different."

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34282849

 

[JMartJr]

I think this iteration of the Buga Sphere videos phenomenon does not require real debunking, it sort of debunks itself in a way, but it is just so charmingly bad that I laughed pretty loudly and startled the cat. Thought you folks might enjoy...


Source: https://www.facebook.com/reel/2171974876630719

 

[Trailblazer]

This "hurricane control" patent seems to be popular at the moment.

Given that Andrew Waxmanski was 75 years old when the patent was filed (he died aged 80 in July 2007), and the patent involves blasting hurricanes with loud noises, has The Simpsons predicted the future yet again?

(A few months ago I tried contacting some relatives of Mr Waxmanski to see if they had any comment on his posthumous fame, but nobody got back to me.)

 

[derwoodii]