506 - Spoiling Everything From Film To Farm

[1:23 PM] 

Heh. CNN just put up a string of every time Jeff Sessions said 'I don't recall' in his hearing(s?).

After about 6 I put up my hand and started doing the DJ scratch motion

And it kept on going.

"You know someone is going to put that online set to music."

[1:25 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

there was a gag on rugrats that was a see-and-say that went "the duck says quack.. the cow says moo... the politician says i don't recall."

hmm.. maybe it was "ahh! real monsters"

[1:43 PM] 

"Last time I said 'I don't recall'..."

"Got written up?"

"I think so.  I don't recall."

"I remember Reagan famously using the 'I don't recall' tactic...they were guilty too."

[10:19 AM] 

Might try this, actually - http://www.artofmanliness.com/2017/10/25/the-benefits-of-rucking/

[10:20 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Yeah. Cardio blows

[10:20 AM] 

Silver Jr has been wanting to take long walks.  I always outlast him.  Even things up and get some extra benefits

[10:21 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

The day he outlasts you he becomes a man

[10:21 AM] 

I'll make him a card

[10:22 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I usually just jog for cardio

[10:22 AM] 

"You earned this, and now must carry a wallet."

[10:22 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I'm so bad at jogging that I'm pretty gassed after 10-12 minutes

[10:22 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

I dont think i could jog for 10 minutes

[10:22 AM] 

I use-ta could. Not anymore

[10:22 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Swimming was when i was in the best shape of my life.  i was sexy and fit.  i'd do me

[10:23 AM] 

I would jog a few miles to visit some people in State College.

Then the beer and pizza started taking hold.

[10:23 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Mr. Silver, you should start weight lifting

It's easier than cardio and you see immediate results

[10:24 AM] 

(weeps for Farm Core)

[10:24 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

lol

[10:24 AM] 

You definitely didn't keep Farm Core, right?

[10:24 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

i had it up until recently, but deleted it when they needed into my PC

I found the one “get my results” picture:

[10:25 AM] 

One of the best half day gags we ever ran in here.

I actually wrote an apology in the blog for losing it... ;-(

"I denied Farm Core to the world by mistake.  Believe me, I went through every possible location it could be saved to give it to you, and have failed."

Dang...you found one photo though

Proof!

[10:31 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

Farm Core - I'm trying to remember what was all said that day

[10:32 AM] 

A lot of it was the diet plan

(big sun-browned tub in bib overalls labelled 'trainer'.) "Wull, the results are in and yer coming up short on yer fats.  I'm putting you on biscuits and sausage gravy for the next 4 weeks n well run 'em again."

[10:32 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

Did it all start with a comment on the strength and endurance of unhealthy looking farmers?

[10:34 AM] 

The fact that a farmer can look like he's in terrible shape and still lift heavy stuff and do massive amounts of work all day?  Yeah.

[10:36 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

That is how my grandfather was

Tall... Skinny...

Could lift up the end of tractor like it was nothing.

[10:38]

http://i.imgur.com/EtAZW.jpg

Poster girl for Farm Core

[11:47 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

It's crazy that Dean thinks he can be a politician

He has a huge rap sheet

Everybody knows him as the guy that gets kicked out of everywhere he goes

[11:47 AM] 

Should apply at the White House.  Matches the job requirements

[11:48 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Whats he running for?

[11:49 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

City council maybe?

[11:49 AM] 

(Whitehouse interview) "Mentally competent?"

"No"

"Emotionally stable?"

"No"

"Any achievements in any fields, or technical competency?"

"No."

"Conflicts of interest for the departments you are interested in?"

"Not sure...probably."

"Rich?"

"No."

"Ah...  Well-heeled?"

"Nope."

(intake breath) "Friend or relative of President Trump?"

"No."

"Yeaahhhh....not really what we're looking for."

[11:52 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

heh

[12:01 PM]  Mr. Brown: 

"Able to declare McDonald's is good food with a straight face and grope women?"

[12:02 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Josie's uncle was the mayor of my fair town

And then his wife embezzled money

[12:10 PM] 

Suppose when Trump visits the UK next year they'll keep making tour stops at all the Gropecunt Lanes there?

'cause if they don't...we need to meme the heck out of the idea.

[12:11 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Heh

[8:18 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Movie news sites need to stop spoiling shit with the titles of their articles

[8:23 AM] 

They put a spoiler in an article title?

[8:23 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Yeah

Its not like i was even reading reviews

"Why (so and so) from (movie they're in) looks so familiar in (other film)!"

Welp, I didnt know he or that surprise character were in that

[8:23 AM] 

We've played similar to that.

Taglines that ruin the film. 

"The Empire Strikes Back"  An epic clash between father and son!

My fave being Mr. Blue's "Kevin Spacey is Kayser Soze in: The Usual Suspects"

[8:29 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

heh

Or the Sixth Sense in China. "He's a Ghost!"

[8:31 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

"Fight Club: For people who beat themselves up all the time"

[8:33 AM] 

"Treasure Island" - A Boy, A Scoundrel, and One Gold Coin

Or "Murder on the Orient Express" ...

Wait...

Anyone seeing that one?

[8:33 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

prolly not

[8:34 AM] 

I might go but i know who did it.  Spoiled it for myself once by catching the end of another version.

[8:36 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I saw the 70s one and read the book

[8:37 AM] 

So you know, and McGreen doesn't care.

"Murder on the Orient Express" - Can Poirot Catch Everyone?

[8:39 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

So they were all in on the murder?

That's actually a decent twist

[8:41 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yeah everyone stabbed the guy once

They all had something against the victim

[8:42 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

idk that i could stab someone, that'd be gross

[8:48 AM] 

Morning Mr. Brown

"Murder on the Orient Express" - do you know the end or not care what it is?

[8:53 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

I saw that movie coming out

But never actually read the story

[8:53 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Spoiler: the detective's mustache did it

[8:54 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

Then my mustache will love it

I give it 5 whiskers

[8:54 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

lol

[9:02 AM] 

Guess the catchup will need to be spoiler free then.

[9:03 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Yes, his mustache wants to go see the movie

[9:06 AM] 

(mustache tiptoes in...climbs in bed.  Attaches to Mr. Brown's face.  He stretches.)  "How was the movie?"

"Great!  You should have gone."

"Who did it?"

"Not tellin'."

"I'm not going to see it..."

"Ok.  Poirot's mustache did it.  Awesome."

[9:06 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

“A man becomes blue alien: AVATAR”

Horrible font used for movie: AVATAR

[9:06 AM] 

hehe

That short was so much funnier than I thought it was gonna be

[9:07 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

"I KNOW WHAT YOU DID!"

[9:18 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Avatar: The Smurfs are transported to the Fern Gulley and perform a reenactment of Pocahontas

[9:18 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

LOL

505 - Trial By Trick Or Treasure

[9:14 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

i forget what movie now but there's one movie where the japanese version is very highly coveted because of extra scenes. Might even be Conan? I think we discussed it

“The Goonies” is another... one version has an octopus in it

Which explains the "the octopus was very scary" part at the ending

[9:18 AM] 

My favorite line

I saw the octopus version and said "OMG!  But Data making up BS for the press was such a brilliant gag!"

[9:18 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

i remember renting it once and getting the octopus version one for the first time and that came on and i was like "wtf"?

[9:18 AM] 

Yup

[9:18 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

And there's another version that has a convenience store scene that explains how the map got burned

[9:18 AM] 

The convenience store issue was an understandable cut.

The kids were foul-mouthed, destructive thieves

It was a bit much to empathize with.

[9:20 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Nowadays they'd have been shot

[9:20 AM] 

(me) "So if they lose their homes, these perverted criminal bastards have to move away from this nice community?  OK."

[9:20 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I think maybe the convenience store and octopus were in the same one i watched.

But it was after i had already memorized every scene and line so it was a real curveball to watch

[9:21 AM]  Mr. McGreen:  

I saw the movie like once

[9:21 AM] 

On the DVD all that stuff is in the extras

[9:21 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

The octopus is a terrible prop... like something left over from the 50s

[9:21 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Probably later used for the Popeye movie

Oh, well actually Popeye came first

[9:24 AM] 

(Steven S) "I'm looking for a giant rubber octopus."

(Prop house on the phone with Spielberg, looking at huge stack of unpaid “Popeye” bills)  "Uh...Yeah.  I might have something.  But it's...uh...expensive."

[9:26 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

heh

The town they built for Popeye is still there

[9:27 AM] 

Yup

[9:27 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Forget where... Greece?

[9:27 AM] 

The locals have been keeping it up as a tourist attraction.

[9:28 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

The boat from “Fitzcarraldo” is still rotting in the jungle too

[9:28 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

The plane they dropped during The Dark Knight Rises is still laying on the ground in Ireland

I guess local governing bodies weren't concerned about cleaning it up

[9:29 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

heh

[9:32 AM] 

Getting back to the Goonies, I've had this nagging suspicion for a very long time that there's no way the gems they brought back were going to appraise and sell for enough...and quickly enough...to make enough money to save the Goondocks.

[9:32 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

I can see what you mean about trouble offloading them quick enough

[9:33 AM] 

I mean...they were fairly large.  But they were from the 1500-1600s.  A lot of them would be things that aren't worth very much.

Even the rubies and emeralds...how nice were they?

Were they garbage quality in rough cuts?

[9:34 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Wasn’t there gold too?

[9:34 AM] 

Gold? On the ship - which would be sinking sometime in the 5-10 minutes after the closing scene.

That's a million dollar undertaking to dredge that up

(Mikey) "What about this one?"

(gemologist) "Garnet.  Big one, yes.  I'll give you...oh...$100?"

[9:35 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

(Mr. Silver before watching a movie) “Honey, have you seen my skepitcals? 

[9:36 AM] 

Heh

[9:36 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Goonies 2 shows how the plan fails and they all move away

[9:39 AM] 

(Cyndi Lauper sings)  "Wasn't...Good enough...for you.

“Wasn't...good enough...for me.

“Not GOOD enough...

“Good enough for me-E!

“Aye aye aye aye aye..."

(Trailer voice) "The Goonies are back and wanting revenge!  The little scamps are all grown up and out for blood and loot!  One Eyed Willie would be proud!"

[9:42 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

"Mouth is now a thieving crackhead.  Brand is on Trenbolone.  Chunk has type 2 diabetes."

[9:44 AM] 

(Chunk) "What's the safe combination, Troy?"

"I'm not telling you, Goonie!"

"Mouth?  Go to the kitchen and get the blender.  I'm gonna show you a trick the Fratellis taught me."

[2:18 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tacoma,+WA/@47.2672475,-122.448491,278m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x549054ee2b659567:0x62219c07ebb09e82!8m2!3d47.2528768!4d-122.4442906

[2:25 PM] 

"We have a community retirement scheme, ma'am...whether you like it or not."

"Haha!  Let me guess.  Like the Tar Pit from that Dinosaurs show."

"Nothing so fancy..."

Back to Tacoma "Come by Stadium Bowl, home of Sports Ball!"

[2:36 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

I just linked for the "Old Women's Gulch" thing

And of all the places - right next to a high school?

I wonder what the team mascot is: the peanut vendor?

[2:37 PM] 

Old woman with a broken neck covered in brambles?

[2:38 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Heh

It is women plural. Maybe it's just a big pile of them.

[9:30 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Some pretty serious undertones in Disney's Hunchback

i too know what it feel like to be a monster

[9:30 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

Well, they were taking an adult story and making it a kids one

[9:32 AM] 

Well, Mr McGreen, you're obviously touched by the Devil or something, so your mom needs hanged or burned and you should be crushed under a stone or something. 

After baptism, of course...there's a chance you're human

[9:33 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

"iiii am not an animal!"

[9:33 AM] 

http://media.tumblr.com/50cb435b92e58c852c41ede7f5261a3b/tumblr_inline_mny62ouGo01qz4rgp.gif

Oh! 

I've been keeping this one - https://aeon.co/ideas/why-the-trial-by-ordeal-was-actually-an-effective-test-of-guilt

Clever.  I should have seen through it with my tiny bit of Voodoo philosophy

[9:39 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

Trial by psychology

lol

[10:04 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

208 defendants in Várad in Hungary underwent hot-iron ordeals. Amazingly, nearly two-thirds of defendants were unscathed by the ‘red-hot’ irons they carried and hence exonerated. If the priests who administered these ordeals understood how to heat iron, as they surely did, that leaves only two explanations for the ‘miraculous’ results: either God really did intervene to reveal the defendants’ innocence, or the priests made sure that the iron they carried wasn’t hot.

What about the other 1/3?

This article assumes the priests were just and empathetic

Or did the priests just burn the 1/3 that they had sufficient evidence against, as if they were the judge and jury?

[10:05 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

yes

They know he did it, someone caught him doing it...

BURN HIM

[10:05 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

But if that's the case there was no need for a charade... Just have a real trial.

[10:06 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

What fun is that?

[10:06 AM] 

God trumps evidence of the state. They might have asked for the ordeal themselves for the chance of escape. Heck...God was letting 2 out of 3 go.

[10:08 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

The priest would need to be sure he got it right lest he create a lot of non-believers

[10:08 AM] 

There could have been a few...inconvenient...people involved in the trial pool too.  "Oops...I appear to have stumbled on this bag of gold coins, Father.  It's not mine, so I wish to donate it anonymously to the church. Perhaps you could use some of this money to make sure you have enough fuel for the iron bars for this list of defendants."

And vice versa, of course.

[10:08 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Imagine if some guy killed someone you loved, but "God" found him not guilty

[10:09 AM] 

Like...say...the vicomte's cousin?  Again?

[10:09 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Heh.. “Spies Like Us”

"Can you hold my wallet during the test? There's a thousand dollars in it...or maybe there isn't."

[10:09 AM] 

heh

[10:10 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

So I think the priest gathered evidence and punished accordingly.  If he thought they were innocent he cooled the iron. If he didn't, he left it red hot. And if the defendant bullied the priest as a kid it probably didn't matter how innocent he was.

[10:10 AM] 

Exactly

[10:11 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

You could probably heat iron to look hot but not be

[10:12 AM] 

Doesn't have to be cherry red to burn you pretty good.

Nothing to "look" at unless you make it insanely hot for such a test and performed it in the dark.

I'm not going to test my cast iron skillet with my palm anytime soon.

[10:13 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

"Hey! Why does he get the black iron and mine is red?"

[10:13 AM] 

They'd have to stick with black for this trick

[10:13 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

slight of hand - slips iron right next to the forge

[10:14 AM] 

"Bring me the barrel of Holy Water to bless this iron, brother."

FWOOSH!

"See!  It boils and steams!  Hot as embers!  The defendant will step forward."

[10:15 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

Priest fumbles hot iron: “OUCH! DAMN IT!”

Crowd: “Guilty! Sinner! Kill him!”

[10:16 AM] 

(Waves hot iron around vigorously in the winter air) "His doom is sealed – SEALED I SAY – if this burns his hands!  Let us pray.  (sets down on big granite slab)"

"(flips bar over on stone) And again, in Latin..."

[10:17 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

Sounds like a Monty Python skit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzYO0joolR0

504 - Don't Take This The Wrong Way But The Spirit World Is Alive And Very Well

[2:20 PM] 

Oops...apparently I have "The Voice" going.

"Don't take this the wrong way, but you have a very...sensual voice..." 

(said in a tone that she's definitely taking it the wrong way)

[2:21 PM]  Mr. Brown: 

lol

[2:22 PM] 

I read a medical slang site and the nurses call the doctor rumble "The Panty Melter"

I generally bring it out to tease Mrs. Silver

(adjusts using magic voiceover training to 'geeky IT-guy' voice)

[2:24 PM]  Mr. Brown: 

I have some voices

No Barry White, though

[2:31 PM] 

It's not just a deep thing...there's a mid chest kinda thrumming to it. 

[11:37 AM] 

Shaman story while I have time

Mrs. Silver goes off to some thing with a friend of ours...

Comes back and reports:

"So in the middle of part of it we hear a woman shriek or scream.  We all heard it.  The person in charge said it was a banshee attached to Rick.  So cool!" 

"What?  No, that is definitely NOT cool."

"Sure it was (starts telling again)-"

"No.  Banshees.  They're bad.  Always bad."

"Why?"

"Because they're a death omen.  At best some of them are vampires and they just kill you."

"Think Rick knows this?"

"Apparently not."

(So she IM's him)

"He says that's just negative thinking.  Hollywood stuff."

"Tell him its ancient folklore. So no, it isn't Hollywood stuff."

"(pause) He says 'Oh, it's just folklore.  Can't be burdened with the negativity of folklore.  They're just stories.  He's Irish and doesn't listen to any of that."

"He's Irish? (unrelated genuine surprise - woulda said Italian) And he doesn't acknowledge this stuff?  It's THOUSANDS of years old.  He's just dumping on a tradition from all over Celtic history because he's a modern New Ager?  You can't do that."

[11:43 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

Irish and doesn't know that is bad news?

[11:43 AM] 

Anyway, he pooh poohed it.

So Tuesday night, we're at the UU church dinner thing we do.  I'm stirring onion gravy for bangers and mash.

And Rick sidles up and kind of mumbles out "the correspondence with the banshee thing and the 7 days later thing isn't lost on me...just wanted you to know."

"Uh.  Sure...OK."

[11:45 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

Bangers and mash. The cousins of Hall and Oates

[11:45 AM]

LOL

(later that night...Mrs. Silver) "Rick come and apologize?"

"He came up and mumbled something...I was busy.  About the banshee?"

"Yeah.  He talked to me all about it and was upset because the banshee was his, and just like you said it was a death omen.  That recent church shooting had people he knew and was kinda related to in it that got killed and it was exactly 7 days after the banshee scream."

"Oh HO!  Well...crappy way to be right about something, but... Told him.  Hollywood stuff indeed!"

[11:47 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

Hearing the future of victims in screams sucks

I found out my family from my dad's side is actually a lot Irish

[11:49 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

So hear scream --> 7 days later the victim of that scream dies?

[11:49 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

No, its a warning of impending doom in the family

I wonder how he got the banshee though

[11:51 AM] 

Well he's a practicing mystic...lot higher chance he'd notice than some others in the family

7 days is a magic number in general if you like that sort of thing, McGreen.  Most of the stories say "soon"

[11:50 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Wait wait wait

So was the impending doom gonna happen already, or does it happen BECAUSE the banshee visited?

[11:51 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

The banshee doesn't cause it. You just hear one before a relative dies.

[11:52 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Now I'm curious

[11:53 AM] 

I guess you'd have to interview all the families involved and ask if others had banshee incidents...or just the Celts? Or just the sensitives?

Since you asked, the vampire kind are just killers.  The 'keening woman' variety doesn't seem to be anything aggressive.

They tend to be attached to families too.

Someone in the family is going to die...banshee wail. 

But they don't talk about them as family curses...

Not "oh, she's angry and out for blood"... Just “the McGreen banshee was heard”

[11:55 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

Kind of a family spirit, mourning for the family member

[11:55 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Seeing your doppleganger - is that another one warning of impending doom?

[11:55 AM] 

Yes

There's a variety of those too

[11:59 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Can you exorcise a banshee?

[11:59 AM] 

These stories get convoluted.  There's only a couple consistent elements across about 10 varieties by geographical area -

They all mean death, soon, of someone you know or in the family if a family has a famous banshee.

Or...in the vampire cases...well...people see them and the next morning people are dead.

Those ones have fairy quirks

The one tale...heh...is that a few of these pretty lasses showed up at a party.  No one knew who they were but they joined the dancing. 

The one guy notices his partner had a tail showing under the hem of her skirt and knew he had to tread very carefully.

"Miss...your petticoat is showing."

Gave him a bit of a glare...looked.  Saw the tail hanging out.  Hid it.  Smiled at him. 

Next morning, everyone was bled dry but him.

The End

[12:04 PM]  Mr. Brown: 

Interesting

Show courtesy to monsters and they will show some to you

[12:04 PM]

Good advice 

[12:04 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Fairies are evil?

And people sized?

[12:04 PM] 

Lots of fairy folk are people sized. And of course some are small. Some are giants.

No, they aren't all evil

They say "seelie and unseelie"

And you said “Good Folk” either way if you knew what was good for you. Fairies tended to react badly to being called fairy, though these days...as I've mentioned to Mrs. Silver...they're probably happy to accept the tag from anyone who actually acknowledges they exist.

[12:06 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 

What happened to all the fairytale creatures?

Hunted down and killed like in Night Breed, I would presume

[12:07 PM] 

Based on my experience they never left.

It's people that changed.

[12:07 PM]  Mr. Brown: 

There's a brownie I saw here, or something kinda like it

Whatever it was had small black buckled shoes and tried to scurry behind me to avoid being noticed, but i saw it

[12:10 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

I can spot a pixie fairy based on my attraction to 'em

[12:11 PM]  Mr. Brown: 

lol

[12:11 PM] 

Me too, Mr. Blue...me too. ;)

[12:11 PM]  Mr. Brown: 

That succubus I dealt with sucked

Pun intended

But i knew what she was doing and kicked her out

[12:12 PM] 

"Hello cutie, I'm a mythological babe called a Suck-yo-Dick"

heh

[12:12 PM]  Mr. Brown: 

hahaha

I think they are always around us we just don't have the same vision we used too

thats why I see stuff but others don't

Surprising how many times I could say aloud “what the Hell is that thing?”

Yeah so Mr. McGreen - on that hearing dead people thing

My wife's aunt was dying of cancer

The day she died i fell asleep a little bit here in my chair. Plain as day i heard her tell me to wake up. Then i got a text saying she passed away

Similar thing happened when my grandfather died

I was sleeping. He was in the hospital after a car accident

Wolves started chasing me in my dream and he showed up and stopped them

I woke up crying the phone rang and they'd called to say he just passed

[12:22 PM] 

"I was going to trade your soul to the wolves so I could live, but then changed my mind...didn't want to go through another Goddamned tax season."

(sorry...insensitive jerk moment)

[12:22 PM]  Mr. Brown: 

LOL

Apparently I have a connection to the other side, but i try to ignore it

Or I'm just very shamany without the training

[12:27 PM] 

Lotta people out there like that.  In denial of their normal abilities and a larger world. 

People changed.

There were too many religions that came along that decided to say EVERY old spirit, godling, tradition was evil.

So people still experienced and talked about stuff all the time, but it was all “bad”.

Later it was dubbed - “supernatural”. I started arguing against that when I was still a little kid - “If something is happening, it's natural”

“Unexplained”...fine...

Branding something supernatural is slander.

And then proper sciences started to develop and people began to assume the workings of this little speck of mundane life was all there is and it is a fully observable and describable machine if you can look big and small enough.

Now it's not even supernatural... pseudo-science, fraud, abnormal psychology.

(Science) “There can't be a Bigfoot because it makes no sense.”

(Mystic) “Yet real people have been seeing and interacting with hairy giants all over the world for thousands of years. Tell me the correct explanation for the double-slit experiment.”

(Scientist) “I can't, but there are several interesting theories and observations.”

(Mystic) “That ultimately make no sense which is why after 200 years none of you have figured it out and can't even decide which version to agree on. Show some respect and treat Bigfoot as a theory, please.”

No room for Good Folk and spirits...

Even though we encounter them just as much as we always have with the addition of people writing their experiences down, studying them, capturing provoking and very hard to pooh-pooh evidence it's happening, and scientists really head-scratching over how some disciplines really can't account for or explain some of their findings.  

This from a cadre of researchers who now find themselves having to come up with theories like “Time doesn't really seem to exist” or “The math seems to suggest we're just a hologram” because they elegantly answer nagging questions better than the nuts and bolts physics that they believed would explain it all.

...But not in the damaged modern cultural psychology of the average Westerner...

“They're delusions.”

“Just stories.”

“Don't talk about it.”

“I've never seen it, so it can't be real.”

“New Age nuts.”

“Schizophrenia”

“All con artists.”

“Who'd want to associate with people like that?”

“Don't talk about it, people will think you're crazy.”

[12:31 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 

I would just think with cell phones and cameras and monitoring/imaging equipment we'd have some sort of substantial evidence

But I guess nobody believes stuff anymore anyway, so people would write everything off as being photo-shopped

[12:34 PM]  Mr. Brown: 

There have been things caught, but since we don't fully understand them I would think our tech can't really catch it properly either. What is a ghost even made of?

[12:51 PM] 

One nearly universal aspect in the folklore-y bits about fairy/spirit folk is their ease in being invisible – whenever desired – to those without "the sight" (and sometimes the cruel penalties for those with the sight getting caught looking). There's lot of text that sounds like parallel-dimensional living, and 'magic' devices and abilities. Some of the more modern encounters sound outright alien

So how do you photograph that stuff?  How hard is it for a non-mundane or technologically advanced lifeform to deny observation?

So...say you really do catch something and decide to present it to modern skeptics?

"Film of Living Elf!"

(1000 comments) "Fake!"

[12:55 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 

I think even if i saw something like that I'd think i was losing it

[12:55 PM] 

yup

You've been well trained

[1:00 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

The technology is so good now that anyone can fake anything

So to a lot of people, everything is now fake

[1:00 PM] 

yup

It's a sad state of the world.