Seeing Cryptids: The Problems

The Shrike said:
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To add to the puzzlement a bit, we've had the "eastern cougar declared extinct" thread going for quite some time but I don't recall you ever sharing this one-in-a-million observation there, Jodie. Am I incorrect that this is the first you've shared this story here? If not why now?
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Should be because it happened last summer. I don't recall seeing the cougar thread.
 
Well we can't argue with that.

Bill: "I saw a Tyrannosaur riding a unicycle."
Ted: "No you didn't."
Bill: "Yes I did."
Ted: "Well in that case..."
 
Yes, character matters. Lying matters.

I had a visitor with her toddler over that was being a drama queen, saying she saw a "rat" in our cabin. She was giving me this look of horror as if her child were in danger. But rats don't exist here. She has mice/voles in her own place and knows exactly what they are. It's just so common, especially right now as the snow hits, they come inside.

This is a college-educated woman of 30 years, with a husband who sets out traps for them just like we do. The exaggeration is on the order of 20 to 100 times in order of magnitude.

It is just being melodramatic. A lie in the opposite direction would be claiming to have seen something the size of an ant or bug. The claim to have seen a rat is pathtic - and the acting too: acting like you actually saw a rat.

Do you think I am stupid? That I can't see through your play-acting? It is live action alternate reality gaming. Trolling. Your daughter is watching you lie and learning to play-act just the same.

This is a person capable of saying they saw a bigfoot. She can put on exactly the same dramatic act. Yet, right outside the door we have all manner of real exciting animals to hold our attention and thrilling adventures to undertake. But that takes work. Brains too. Planning.

The liar sits on her fat ass, running her mouth. It is lazy, stupid, and cowardly. There's nothing wrong with doing the 100 meters in 9.58 seconds. That takes world record level drive and training. It actually IS dramatic.

But lying, no - in the contexts we are discussing it represents all the wrong character traits.
 
I saw a cougar down in Edisto, take it or leave it.

I can't find the cougar thread, what tag was put on it?
 
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It actually found me, luckily enough I was up on the screen porch of a house with a very tall pier foundation. It never saw me.
 
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