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Old 08-02-2005, 19:51 PM   #1 (permalink)
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The Earth is flat!!!!

So I was reading up on moon landing hoax (my ISPs all broadband's severely crippled for several days, can't do much of anything), so I land up on a reference to the "Flat Earth society".

With a big "WTF" I click on it. Man are they a bunch of loonies or what. They ask for evidence, and no matter what evidence is given to them, they just say "its fake" and ask for evidence again.

Some guy goes to their forum and just to piss em off, goes like "China doesn't exist, prove it". They're like posting pictures, and saying how they've been to China, and the guy keeps saying "Prove it" :D.

Being an obnoxious idiot rocks.

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Old 08-02-2005, 20:44 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Old 08-10-2005, 19:14 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Tell them to take a telescope onto a low mountain top and scan the horizon, if the earth is round the edge will seem to drop away at a point not far distance, if it is flat, they should, from their vantage point with the telescope, see thousands of Km, with various cities lying before them.
The reason for the scope, without it they will say, the horizon 'seems' to drop away due to the eyes inability to see great distances unaided.
Also you can tell them to take a boat trip to a foreign country, and ask them to explain how it is that the land seems to rise out of the ocean as you approach it, explainable with a spherical earth, try and explain it with a flat earth.
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Old 08-11-2005, 23:27 PM   #4 (permalink)
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They're calling the planet flat, dude. They're saying the ball like planet we've seen in pictures over the years is all fake and made up. You think all that reasoning's going anywhere with them?

We've got the Americans, the Russians and the Chinese who've gone to space so far. Its simple if this is some big mama conspiracy theory, its got three nations who don't like each other at all, collaborating with the world's biggest lie. Also I think it was a pythagorean belief suggesting a round Earth, simply from the fact that the Sun and the Moon are round.

So these guys believe, that Pythagoras started this conspiracy thousands of years ago and is being upheld by America, Russia and China. So when anyone who believes that, tells me to prove it, I don't give them explanations like those. I just tell them to kiss my bum.
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Old 08-12-2005, 00:38 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Some guy goes to their forum and just to piss em off, goes like "China doesn't exist, prove it". They're like posting pictures, and saying how they've been to China, and the guy keeps saying "Prove it" :D.

Being an obnoxious idiot rocks.
Can you please post their forum link? I want to piss them off.
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Old 08-12-2005, 00:48 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Pamela Anderson is flat. I wonder just how many of you would like to prove I'm wrong.
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THe spirit of the volunteer.

Asim I would like to point out that they are right, the earth is flat, at the poles.
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Pamela Anderson is flat. I wonder just how many of you would like to prove I'm wrong.
I think that's flat enough for me.

Well I'd much rather agree on the Earth being flat.
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Old 08-12-2005, 01:41 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Pamela Anderson is flat. I wonder just how many of you would like to prove I'm wrong.
Compared to Anna Ohura, and the legions of women who have made money posing nude with Fs yeah She is flat.
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Awesome, hey should we have an Angry Ranting sub-Forum? Please? Man now I see it, all these India/Pakistan debates that everyone's sick of would all be vented out there and perhaps all will be fine
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OMFG. YOU HAVE TO BE ****ING KIDDING ME. That guy is so annoying. I want to hunt him down and kill him with a spoon.


As for a rant forum, I'm all for it.
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Awesome, hey should we have an Angry Ranting sub-Forum? Please? Man now I see it, all these India/Pakistan debates that everyone's sick of would all be vented out there and perhaps all will be fine
Maybe there is a way to forward all the crazies saying 9-11 was a gov't cover-up there....unless that board has already figured it out and has been forwarding them all here...


One more thing...before these looneys get shoved off as being Liberals, I think we have been stuck with more than our fair shair of crazies lately. Can another group take them in, please? How about Ross Perot and his Reform Party?
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Old 08-12-2005, 08:31 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Well, I think if you want to teach intelligent design in scíence class then you should include although the "flat earth theory".
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Old 08-12-2005, 11:07 AM   #15 (permalink)
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OMFG. YOU HAVE TO BE ****ING KIDDING ME. That guy is so annoying. I want to hunt him down and kill him with a spoon.

That guy in the link must be on something. He is saying China does'nt exist!!!!!
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