You actually believe that!

Milky Moo · 09-03-2009 04:03PM #1

It is understandable for most of us to have a slight change in opinion about a person when we find out that they have differing views than us. When it comes to the big things such as religion,abortion etc these differing views can be the case of many a fight or a permanent rift...

However have you ever heard someone make a claim about something small or irrelavant and lost a good portion of your respect for them because to you they are so obviously wrong.

Like hearing someone believes sunday is the start of the week!no it's not that's why sunday is part of the weekEND the clue is the name you arse!

So anyone else hear someone make a claim over something little,yet you felt it was so stupid you thought the person has to be abit slow after hearing it?

Samurai · 09-03-2009 04:05PM

Well sunday is the first day of the week... I think

aoibhebree · 09-03-2009 04:06PM

Milky Moo wrote: »

So anyone else hear someone make a claim over something little yet you felt it was so stupid you thought the person has to be abiit slow after hearing it?

Yup ... kind of getting that feeling now actually!!

mikom · 09-03-2009 04:07PM

Milky Moo wrote: »

Yon actually believe that!

Why don't you ask him

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Yon

K-9 · 09-03-2009 04:09PM

YEP, If they are wrong on one thing they must be wrong on everything.

Samurai · 09-03-2009 04:09PM

Haha i was puzzled when i heard sunday was the first day of the week but others then confirmed it, maybe it was an elaborate trick they were playing on me in which case i feel dumb!!

SoWatchaWant · 09-03-2009 04:09PM

Creationists really annoy me. I'm open to the chance of there being a God (not Christian) but you'd be a fool to reject evolution.

peanuthead · 09-03-2009 04:10PM

Sunday is the first day of the week. Bet you feel stupid now!!

TPD · 09-03-2009 04:11PM

A friend of mine thinks humans can't exist outside of the Earth's atmosphere due to radiation. Even in spaceships. She thinks there have been no successful manned spaceflights.

She also thinks that some alien story has 50/50 chance of being true. I looked it up and all the evidence came from one man, and is a bad fake at best. E.g. different descriptions to photos etc. I showed her all this, and she thinks it's as likely that he was truthful as just made it up for a laugh.

Really cannot comprehend how people believe these types of things.

jim o doom · 09-03-2009 04:13PM

a friend of my OH was convinced that Kiwi fruit (same family of fruit as gooseberries) - was made by man.

When questioned about this, she said she had been told as as a child that it was the genetic offspring of someone splicing a tomato (explaining the seeds - in her mind - in the kiwi) & a peach (explaining the furriness of the skin of the kiwi) together.

This was of course scoffed at - then we brought her to wikipedia and showed her what it said, and then we look at a few other websites & a book about fairly basic plant genetics - that sort of thing;- and she point blank refused to accept that it was a natural fruit and persisted in her belief of it being created by man.

what. a. freaking. RETARD.

starn · 09-03-2009 04:14PM

TPD wrote: »

A friend of mine thinks humans can't exist outside of the Earth's atmosphere due to radiation. Even in spaceships. She thinks there have been no successful manned spaceflights.

She also thinks that some alien story has 50/50 chance of being true. I looked it up and all the evidence came from one man, and is a bad fake at best. E.g. different descriptions to photos etc. I showed her all this, and she thinks it's as likely that he was truthful as just made it up for a laugh.

Really cannot comprehend how people believe these types of things.

Please tell me she's about 80 and suffers from dementia

gamblitis · 09-03-2009 04:15PM

SoWatchaWant wrote: »

Creationists really annoy me. I'm open to the chance of there being a God (not Christian) but you'd be a fool to reject evolution.

Nah there is no god. Science has a solution for everything.But i won't lose respect for people who think otherwise as some people need to believe in something to help then through.

OH and Sunday is most def the first day of the week. [/respect]

Mc Love · 09-03-2009 04:16PM

People that say Pink is wrong on men. Oh and people that think meeting someone that you talk to on the net is weird!

starn · 09-03-2009 04:16PM

A mate of mine is a geologist his Granny dosent belive in evolution, genuinly belives the Eath is only 10,000 years old and that Adam and Eve were real people. I think she was a Doctor or something back in the day

Edit: Just texted him there. Get this she had a PHD in Zoology.

Kork Boy · 09-03-2009 04:19PM

I know people who actually believe those crappy chain e-mails which say stuff like "For every person you forward this e-mail to Bill Gates will donate $0.05 to Cancer research."How do people actually believe that???

Turd Ferguson · 09-03-2009 04:19PM

I know someone that thinks Dave McSavage is funny :rolleyes:

mirwillbeback · 09-03-2009 04:20PM

That Sinn Fein should be allowed exist as a political party.

Milky Moo · 09-03-2009 04:20PM

then why is it part of the weekend?why is monday the start of a new working week?.please educate me

jester77 · 09-03-2009 04:20PM

Those people who say there are only 2 inevitable things in life, death and taxes!

Tell that to U2!!

TPD · 09-03-2009 04:20PM

starn wrote: »

Please tell me she's about 80 and suffers from dementia

She's 19. You were half right.

Krieg · 09-03-2009 04:21PM

A good mate of mine said he believed the whole 9/11 conspiracy theory thing. Respect went out the window

I wouldnt care if someone believed in creationism (sp?), but I dont think I could be friends with someone who was fanatical about it.

Turd Ferguson · 09-03-2009 04:22PM

Milky Moo wrote: »

then why is it part of the weekend?why is monday the start of a new working week?.please educate me

It's not part of the weekend. In my job they have the working week starting on a Sunday. All rosters are from Sunday - Saturday.

starn · 09-03-2009 04:23PM

TPD wrote: »

She's 19. You were half right.

Holy Mooly can I ask what she works at. Please tell me she is studying mediceine or something. That would be priceless. You should sent her a link to the conspiracy forum

dsmythy · 09-03-2009 04:27PM

Milky Moo wrote: »

then why is it part of the weekend?why is monday the start of a new working week?.please educate me

I think my opinion has changed of you because of an opinion you hold!

Milky Moo · 09-03-2009 04:27PM

when i heard nancy cartwright was a scientologist along with the guy who played hyde in that 70's show,I lost all respect..

Sam Vimes · 09-03-2009 04:28PM

starn wrote: »

A mate of mine is a geologist his Granny dosent belive in evolution, genuinly belives the Eath is only 10,000 years old and that Adam and Eve were real people. I think she was a Doctor or something back in the day

Edit: Just texted him there. Get this she had a PHD in Zoology.

That hurts my head. Her having a PHD in zoology makes about as much sense as a blind pilot

starn · 09-03-2009 04:32PM

I know its bonkers. I think she got it in South Africa. There is no way she got it in Ireland

Rb · 09-03-2009 04:32PM

Milky Moo wrote: »

when i heard nancy cartwright was a scientologist along with the guy who played hyde in that 70's show,I lost all respect..

Indeed, it does tend to have that affect.

SV · 09-03-2009 04:34PM

Milky Moo wrote: »

when i heard nancy cartwright was a scientologist along with the guy who played hyde in that 70's show,I lost all respect..

Seriously?

wow..that's disappointing.

AnonoBoy · 09-03-2009 04:34PM

Some people watch that moronic, badly-made and just plain factually wrong Zeitgeist film and think they've been let in on some global conspiracy.

Freakin' idiots. :rolleyes:

starn · 09-03-2009 04:36PM

Sam Vimes wrote: »

That hurts my head. Her having a PHD in zoology makes about as much sense as a blind pilot

A blind pilot you say

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/blind-pilot-flies-from-london-to-sydney/29707/

A blind British pilot landed his micro light aircraft in Sydney on Monday to complete a record-breaking flight halfway around the world. Miles Hilton-Barber left London on March 7 and flew more than 21,000 kilometres to raise funds to fight blindness in developing countries.

“It’s the fulfillment of an amazing dream,” the 58-year-old adventurer said after touching down at Sydney’s Bankstown airport. “I’ve been wanting to do this flight for about four years.”

Hilton-Barber flies with a sighted co-pi lot but relies on speech output from his navigation instruments to steer his course, directing the plane from a wireless keyboard.

“I’ve wanted to be a pilot since I was a kid. Now I’m totally blind and I’ve had the privilege of flying more than halfway around the world. The big deal is not me doing this, it’s raising funds,” he said.

Hilton-Barber, who has been blind for 25 years, hopes the trip will raise some $ 2 million for the charity Seeing is Believing, which works to cut the incidence of preventable blindness in developing countries.

You actually believe that!

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