Mr. Brown
This is funny.
11:37 AM Mr. Blue
Hehehe!
People are stupid.
11:38 AM Mr. Brown
Martian bird man!
LOL
That's what my brain makes of it if I look for a face, but I can do that on any rock.
11:39 AM Mr. Blue
I love how definitive they are about it.
Not that it could “possibly” be a skull of a potential hominid that once inhabited mars.
But rather "it's definitely a skull, and it's probably a carnivore."
Because skulls just sit exposed like that for eons.
And skulls are asymmetric, with bumpy points and hollow pits that look rock-like.
11:40 AM Mr. Brown
Yeah.
LOL
11:40 AM Mr. Blue
Who *are* these people?
11:40 AM Mr. Brown
Alien watchers!
They believe it so much they'll look past anything that might disprove their belief.
So look at that rock. It looks like a face! It has to be a skull!
LOL
11:51 AM Mr. Silver
Proof of rocks on Mars!
11:51 AM Mr. Brown
We have now proven there is life on Earth! But its stupid!
11:52 AM Mr. Blue
I guess they have to convince themselves first before they can convince others.
11:55 AM Mr. Silver
My favorite Ghost Hunters episode so far was on this season.
They went to "Ghost Adventures" favorite place: Bobby Mackey's.
Stating, vaguely, that the claims about the place had gotten blown way out of proportion by "other investigators".
Ghost Adventures always finds demonic stuff and gets scratched and experiences HORRORS!!! Augh!!!
Ghost Hunters? A couple sounds.
12:02 PM Mr. Silver
Me – "Gosh! Non-sensationalists with strict rules found no demonic horrors? HEHEHE. Well done, TAPS."
12:06 PM Mr. Silver
I expected as much. Ghost Adventures can be a fun ride, but I'm dubious about a lot of their stuff. And they pretty much founded their reputation with their audience at Bobby Mackey's.
12:12 PM Mr. Silver
GA actually gets so much activity that, granting they are catching all they present, I have to assume as a shaman and an animist that they're bringing active spirits with them to every location and most, if not all, of what they catch are those spirits attached to the team, not the ones they came to hunt. Heck...maybe they were from Bobby Mackey's at one point.
It's much more reasonable. They all say they've been non-stop haunted at home since they visited there. I propose that Ghost Hunters investigates the Ghost Adventures team to find out.
12:14 PM Mr. Brown
Yeah.
12:14 PM Mr. Brown
Ghost hunters is always reliable. They figure it out if it's non-paranormal and won't call a place haunted until they have excellent evidence.
12:15 PM Mr. Silver
Nod
"Haunted" is awfully rare with them.
"Paranormal activity" they get for half the rest and "nothing" is just about as common.
12:20 PM Mr. Silver
The hobby really could use an anthropologist.
12:20 PM Mr. Blue
And a skeptic.
A Scully to their Mulder.
12:21 PM Mr. Brown
Yeah, like in “Searching for Bigfoot”. They have three believers and a non-believer.
12:21 PM Mr. Silver
I just want to see a hotspot investigated by someone who will stay a month or two with their devices on all the time.
12:29 PM Mr. Silver
I takes a long time for “the natives” to trust a researcher: social animals, apes, humans.
Well...it would follow that spirit folk would be leery too. The spirits need to become familiar with the new guy and come to investigate the investigator on its own terms. Achieve a level of trust before the demands and oft-rude questions come out.
12:49 PM Mr. Brown
Well if they are from a time when that equipment did not exist, and they maybe don't know they are dead, it might be scary to them. You have to get them comfortable with talking into the microphone.
12:50 PM Mr. Silver
That's a consideration, yes, but I'm picturing more like this:
Say this team of people walk into your house – today, and you're alive - and start talking about the stuff your neighbors saw you doing and how they plan to catch you in the act. Then they set up a bunch of machines and cameras and microphones, and start wandering around in the middle of the night asking invasive questions, making rude comments and accusations, offering to help or pass messages in some unspecified way, and repeatedly insist you come and stand there to talk or let them take pictures, and they keep messing with your stuff.
They keep insisting their gear doesn't hurt and sticking it in your face, meanwhile the junk keeps making loud sounds, flashes bright lights, is hot and maybe gives you static shocks.
Whether you are polite or rude, it's pretty obvious they really don't seem to be paying any attention to you since they keep talking about your habits and private life.
"They say this Mr. Blue guy cooks eggs most Saturday mornings and has been seen drinking orange juice right from the carton and putting it back in the fridge."
"Hel-LO!!! Right here guys!"
And if they do happen to hear something you say ("Get OUT of my FUCKING HOUSE!") or eavesdrop on some private conversation, they crank up the volume and play it over and over for you (and you HATE the sound of your own voice) often enough misquoting you anyway.
And for ALL this violation they don't offer to pay you, and don't often apologize or say thanks...
Honestly...I'd just hide out somewhere and stay quiet until they leave.
12:54 PM Mr. Brown
Yeah.
1:06 PM Mr. Silver
By the way, I hate the use of "squatch" in “Searching for Bigfoot”.
1:11 PM Mr. Silver
Partly because reducing a perfectly good two-syllable word to a stupid one-syllable word is lazy and sounds "hick".
1:11 PM Mr. Blue
Like calling a raccoon a 'coon.
1:11 PM Mr. Silver
Yes, but also because, using my linguistics research prowess against the efforts of the Katzenjammer firewall, I can see that the word "squatch" would translate to "a man".
1:12 PM Mr. Silver
Which, for the Bigfoot detractors, is gold
Believer - "Check that out! That's definitely a picture of a squatch!"
Detractor - "Yup...that's definitely a man in a furry suit all right."
2:19 PM Mr. Silver
"Early footage of the 'power split' synchronization test failures have been destroyed."
2:25 PM Mr. Silver
"The battery powered high-tech footware called “spnKiX” resemble a cross between a ski boot and a roller skate with oversized lawsuits...WHEELS! I mean oversized wheels."
