Just what the world needs - Another Bigfoot thread

[grayman]

Step 1. Get off lazy arse
Step 2. Find courage
Step 3. Go to dark forest after midnight with flash digital camera
Step 4 Listen
Step 5. Take pictures
Step 6. Run like hell out of there.

So your evidence is to tell me to go camping and jogging? I used to do that often. Never, ever saw a "Bigfoot" or anything to suggest one exists.

Besides, you make the claim, you offer the evidence to back it up. Get off your "lazy arse" and provide the proof.



And to demonstrate how easy it is to make a paranormal video (like a Bigfoot video):

 

[Ravenwood]

Step 1. Get off lazy arse
Step 2. Find courage
Step 3. Go to dark forest after midnight with flash digital camera
Step 4 Listen
Step 5. Take pictures
Step 6. Run like hell out of there.

OK, seeing as how I will actually be out in the East Maui mountains tomorrow night after midnight, what am I going to see or hear? I will have a digital flash camera with me, but if I'm supposed to be hearing something, what good is the flash camera? I do this quite frequently & I have never had to run scared of anything out there...

 

[arthwollipot]

The thing that bothers me about it is the complete blindness to the idea that there may not be any Bigfoot to find. The complete failure to find anything of substance is met with "well, we just haven't looked hard enough."

At some point, you have to consider the possibility that there's no there there.

This reasoning is flawed. Absence of evidence is not, and never has been, evidence of absence. However, I can sympathise with your point of view. We've been looking for evidence of psychic powers for a long time, or evidence of the existence of God for even longer, and while our failure to find such evidence is not conclusive proof, it's enough to make you stop wanting to bother.

Suspicious for three reasons. No arms showing. Front side contour is somehow a straight line from head to waste. Branches covering butt show unnatural pattern.

It's a tree stump! Can't you see that? It's completely obvious! The colour and texture is exactly the same as the tree in the background! How can you not see that!?

 

[Maldon]

Absence of evidence is not, and never has been, evidence of absence.

So very true, sir, but some seems to take it as evidence of invincibility

 

[quarky]

medium-size foot is such a boring creature, it adds to the excitement of big foot.

bigness is very big.
the loch-ness monster's babies garner little attention.

 

[historian]

OK, seeing as how I will actually be out in the East Maui mountains tomorrow night after midnight, what am I going to see or hear? I will have a digital flash camera with me, but if I'm supposed to be hearing something, what good is the flash camera? I do this quite frequently & I have never had to run scared of anything out there...

Take a chair to sit in, and two drum sticks. Find a place with absolutely no noise. Get comfortable. Rap the sticks together twice. Wait. Hear those new sounds. Sounds like electronic clicking. Do you hear them getting closer? Try talking to them. Do you notice any change in those sounds. You should if you are listening closely. But if you have any other background noise, then you picked the wrong spot, and you won't hear squat. But if you picked the right spot, those sounds will be inter-dimensional people. If you hear large branch breaks, those will be bigfoot. If you hear faint or heavy footsteps, those will be bigfoot. If you hear a rock go whistling by your head, that would be a rock. You might fire off a flash picture with a high ISO. Look for orbs.

 

[historian]

So your evidence is to tell me to go camping and jogging? I used to do that often. Never, ever saw a "Bigfoot" or anything to suggest one exists.

Oh really? You go jogging after midnight through the forest? Uh-uh, I see.

 

[quarky]

not to defend the yetis, but, if they do exist, we can all agree that they are endangered?

woo, in general, is likely to become endangered.

we need woo.
imagine a woo-less world...

what would we rail against?
how could we tap an unending resevoir of stupidity, and use it to elevate ourselves?

if everyone was smart?

 

[JEROME DA GNOME]

not to defend the yetis, but, if they do exist, we can all agree that they are endangered?

woo, in general, is likely to become endangered.

we need woo.
imagine a woo-less world...

what would we rail against?
how could we tap an unending resevoir of stupidity, and use it to elevate ourselves?

if everyone was smart?

Revealing thoughts.

 

[The Atheist]

Take a chair to sit in, and two drum sticks. Find a place with absolutely no noise. Get comfortable. Rap the sticks together twice. Wait. Hear those new sounds. Sounds like electronic clicking. Do you hear them getting closer? Try talking to them. Do you notice any change in those sounds. You should if you are listening closely. But if you have any other background noise, then you picked the wrong spot, and you won't hear squat. But if you picked the right spot, those sounds will be inter-dimensional people. If you hear large branch breaks, those will be bigfoot. If you hear faint or heavy footsteps, those will be bigfoot. If you hear a rock go whistling by your head, that would be a rock. You might fire off a flash picture with a high ISO. Look for orbs.

Have you considered the possibility that you're stark, raving bonkers?

 

[padego]

Oh boy, my first post!
Having been born and bred on Vancouver Island, hiked and camped in some of her most remote parts, been able to stay awake past midnight on more than one occasion, I can categorically posit that I've never heard or seen a BF. Bears. yes, cougars, once, various other forest creatures, yup.
I agree that the photo looks awfully tree like to me...

 

[The Atheist]

Hey, welcome aboard!

Check out the enhanced version of the photo - all is revealed.

 

[grayman]

Oh really? You go jogging after midnight through the forest? Uh-uh, I see.

We're still waiting for you to post irrefutable evidence of Bigfoot's existence.

 

[historian]

We're still waiting for you to post irrefutable evidence of Bigfoot's existence.

Try holding your breath. It will be just a minute or two.

 

[zooterkin]

We're still waiting for you to post irrefutable any evidence of Bigfoot's existence.

Fixed.

 

[quarky]

I'm new to big-foot, but I've heard that it smells pretty bad.
Is it true that it brings presents to poor children?

I wish it was running for president.

(as a republican)

 

[drapier]

Is Bigfoot Cain?

The idea of bigfoot is a vortex that sucks all ideas in.

Apparently there is a Mormon line of thought that links Bigfoot to Cain.

Apparently the Bigfoot-Cain connection traces back to a story told by an early leader of the Mormon church, David W. Patten. Patten claimed that in 1835 he encountered Cain walking along the side of the road. He wrote: "He walked along beside me for about two miles. His head was about even with my shoulders as I sat in my saddle. He wore no clothing, but was covered with hair. His skin was very dark."

 

[JEROME DA GNOME]

The idea of bigfoot is a vortex that sucks all ideas in.

Apparently there is a Mormon line of thought that links Bigfoot to Cain.

I thought the Mormons were linked to Romney, not McCain?

 

[Avindair]

Personally, my favorite Bigfoot was the pizza you could get from Pizza Hut in early 1990s. Those were good! And they weren't even blurry!



Avindair

 

[quarky]

If I had a big-foot living in my basement, and we were best friends, I wouldn't tell any of you.

Can you imagine the crap he'd have to endure if the media found out?
That's not something friends put other friends thru.

Extrapolating on the theme, I'd guess that most of the big-feet amongst us have had a lot of make-over.
Surgery, even.

If I had one in my basement, and wanted to help him walk freely in the world, I'd see a podiatrist first.
(or a barber)