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Postby Second Blazing » Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:40 pm

Merizoc wrote:
Second Blazing wrote:I'll believe in bigfoot when I have his head mounted to my wall.

Or after he has your head mounted on his wall. ;)


Not likely.
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Postby MERIZoC » Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:43 pm

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Merizoc wrote:Or after he has your head mounted on his wall. ;)

Bigfoot's realm is a realm without walls. This is because to see bigfoot, you have to expand the walls of your mind.

Nah. It's because the Kappa stole all the walls.

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Postby Russels Orbiting Teapot » Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:43 pm

Any legend like this, that's this popular, should have produced some kind of evidence by now.

I'd consider cryptids that no one has heard of and no one talks about to be more likely, as there are less people trying and failing to prove them to exist.

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Postby Trygg » Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:44 pm

Wow guys, Bigfoot is real. He's on my couch right now, drinking all my booze. Generally a pretty lazy guy whatever. All those stories about Bigfoot eating people are just ignorant lies. If he ever hurt anyone, it's just because they didn't share their six-pack.
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:47 pm

there are many many many reported sightings of the legendary Big Foot and his prints.

it's very likely that he's real.
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Postby MERIZoC » Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:47 pm

Trygg wrote:Wow guys, Bigfoot is real. He's on my couch right now, drinking all my booze. Generally a pretty lazy guy whatever. All those stories about Bigfoot eating people are just ignorant lies. If he ever hurt anyone, it's just because they didn't share their six-pack.

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Postby Atomic Energy » Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:50 pm

Don't forget the amazing evidence put forward by the experts at Animal Planet's "Finding Bigfoot". If you like not hearing anything, saying you heard something, and then swooshing around in night vision cameras, and the passing it off as science, you'll love it.
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Postby Anollasia » Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:50 pm

Romalae wrote:No.

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Postby MERIZoC » Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:51 pm

Atomic Energy wrote:Don't forget the amazing evidence put forward by the experts at Animal Planet's "Finding Bigfoot". If you like not hearing anything, saying you heard something, and then swooshing around in night vision cameras, and the passing it off as science, you'll love it.

Change the "science" to "film", and you've got a good portion of the horror genre. :p

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Postby Atomic Energy » Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:51 pm

Trygg wrote:Wow guys, Bigfoot is real. He's on my couch right now, drinking all my booze. Generally a pretty lazy guy whatever. All those stories about Bigfoot eating people are just ignorant lies. If he ever hurt anyone, it's just because they didn't share their six-pack.

Or because they stole his beef jerky.
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Postby United Marxist Nations » Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:52 pm

Atomic Energy wrote:Don't forget the amazing evidence put forward by the experts at Animal Planet's "Finding Bigfoot". If you like not hearing anything, saying you heard something, and then swooshing around in night vision cameras, and the passing it off as science, you'll love it.

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Postby The Sotoan Union » Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:58 pm

Zakuvia wrote:The law of biological caloric intake makes not having found Bigfoot by this time a certainty of its non-existance. Something the size of a Yeti would require a diet so large that not noticing its trail isn't possible, considering how many dedicated 'trackers' there are.

I'm pretty sure there are animals bigger and heavier than Bigfoot in existence. Bears are supposed to be larger aren't they?

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Postby Empire of Narnia » Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:59 pm

Ashmoria wrote:bigfoot is a stupid idea that has little chance of being true.

This is my belief generally.

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Postby MERIZoC » Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:59 pm

Maybe bigfoot is just a timetraveler in a gorilla suit.

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Postby Dinake » Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:01 pm

Belief in bigfoot is less pseudoscientific than a lot of other things, but there really isn't any evidence for it, and it has some fairly large holes in the idea.
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Postby Nord Amour » Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:02 pm

The idea seems a little silly, but it's far from impossible.

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Postby Atomic Energy » Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:04 pm

Spodystan wrote:Just curious if anyone believes in Bigfoot/yeti me personally I did not believe in it at all up until about 3 months ago, I was with my buddy hunting feral hogs (a big problem here in Florida) and it was about 12:30 AM when we heard this god awful, gut wrenching howl. Now I've been hunting my whole life and have heard everything in these woods, but I could not explain that howl,
On top of that, my buddies pit bull hunting dog caught a scent and disappeared chasing it, he was found dead a week later with a broken neck, now I'm sceptical about Bigfoot I gotta see one with my own 2 eyes right in front of me before I can 100% believe in it.

I'm sorry, but I didn't pick up on this part of the OP until now. "A dog was found dead in the woods. Must've been bigfoot."

By any chance, are you Matt Moneymaker?
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Postby Hurdegaryp » Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:04 pm

United Marxist Nations wrote:Don't believe in it; I'd be open to it, but there is not much except for eyewitness testimony.

And most 'eyewitnesses' just filmed some dude in a gorilla suit, so that ain't saying shit. Bigfeet as a viable species implies a populations large enough to stay genetically healthy. Given how many people in areas that are supposed to be bigfeet habitats are avid hunters, it is rather telling that not a single goddamn bigfoot was ever properly shot and killed. Hence why the non-existence of bigfeet is the only logical conclusion.
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Postby Costa Fierro » Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:06 pm

I'm open to it.
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Postby Numbiona » Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:07 pm

WestRedMaple wrote:No reason to believe given the lack of any evidence.


Atomic Energy wrote:Don't forget the amazing evidence put forward by the experts at Animal Planet's "Finding Bigfoot". If you like not hearing anything, saying you heard something, and then swooshing around in night vision cameras, and the passing it off as science, you'll love it.


Russels Orbiting Teapot wrote:Any legend like this, that's this popular, should have produced some kind of evidence by now. I'd consider cryptids that no one has heard of and no one talks about to be more likely, as there are less people trying and failing to prove them to exist.


Zakuvia wrote:The law of biological caloric intake makes not having found Bigfoot by this time a certainty of its non-existance. Something the size of a Yeti would require a diet so large that not noticing its trail isn't possible, considering how many dedicated 'trackers' there are.


Dinake wrote:Belief in bigfoot is less pseudoscientific than a lot of other things, but there really isn't any evidence for it, and it has some fairly large holes in the idea.
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Postby Cannot think of a name » Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:09 pm

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Zakuvia wrote:The law of biological caloric intake makes not having found Bigfoot by this time a certainty of its non-existance. Something the size of a Yeti would require a diet so large that not noticing its trail isn't possible, considering how many dedicated 'trackers' there are.

I'm pretty sure there are animals bigger and heavier than Bigfoot in existence. Bears are supposed to be larger aren't they?

Yes, but I think the point is we notice the shit (and the actual shit) of bears like all the time. Unless we're on the phones...
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Postby Nazi Flower Power » Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:12 pm

I believe bigfoot is an inferior race that needs to exterminated to preserve the racial purity and genetic health of the Reich.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:12 pm

Scomagia wrote:I tend not to believe in things that both lack evidence and have a long track record of hoaxing.

I don't see why not, I believe in hover goats.
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Postby Costa Fierro » Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:12 pm

Cannot think of a name wrote:
The Sotoan Union wrote:I'm pretty sure there are animals bigger and heavier than Bigfoot in existence. Bears are supposed to be larger aren't they?

Yes, but I think the point is we notice the shit (and the actual shit) of bears like all the time. Unless we're on the phones...


I wonder how many people can tell the difference between bear feces and those of other animals.
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Postby Cannot think of a name » Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:21 pm

Costa Fierro wrote:
Cannot think of a name wrote:Yes, but I think the point is we notice the shit (and the actual shit) of bears like all the time. Unless we're on the phones...


I wonder how many people can tell the difference between bear feces and those of other animals.

I think they give those guys big fancy hats and they spend time protecting peoples pic-a-nic baskets.
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