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Personally I'm betting on Nessie having camouflage skills like an octopus, and instead of squirting ink they can create the equivalent of an underwater dust cloud. That would absolutely explain these photos.
Edit to add: /jk since apparently that wasn't obvious 🙄
And it knew to react to an unmoving camera how? It just perfectly puts out its camouflage cloud every time it passes a camera? You realize that makes zero sense, right?
Um, you're taking my comment way too seriously. I replied to a cartoon picture. I literally just made up a silly explanation that would fit the photos. Please take a deep breath and go touch some grass.
Oh shut the fuck up. Telling someone to touch grass after spouting your delusion? People like you need to be told to shut up more. We shouldn't entertain your nonsense. Trying to call it a joke after the fact is the only laughable part.
Wow. You have issues mate.
Nah, I'm just done with handling ignorance with kid gloves. It's how we got to the state of the US today.
You clearly put forth your unsubstantiated theory that Nessie has active camouflage and it totally explains the murky photos. You took the LACK of evidence and used that as proof of something even more extreme and requiring of even more proof. When asked a very simple question like "well then how would it work with a stationary camera?" suddenly it's "well I was just playing make believe, you need to touch grass!"
Nah, fuck your goal post moving ass.
you need better reading skills. their comment was incredibly clearly a joke. You're the only one here that thought it was serious.
You've clearly not been on the Internet long if you haven't seen someone spout that exact line of bullshit as absolute truth before.
Maybe save your jokes for your comedy hour instead of thinking every discussion needs your half assed jokes? This isn't the meme community.
You’ve clearly not been on the internet long if you can’t recognize the most basic of sarcasm. It’s literally a foundation of the internet.
We literally had to invent /s because sarcasm isn't obvious. Before that, "jk". Before that emoticons. Yeah, I've been around. And we have always had Poes Law. I was there when the ancient magic was written.
Dude didn't add the jk until hours after id commented.
we had to invent /s because subtle sarcasm isn't obvious. This wasn't subtle. It was blatant, incredibly clear sarcasm. Poes law is talking about you in this situation. And the jk didn't matter. they told you in their first reply to you
And then you proceeded to double down even harder on believing it wasn't sarcasm. I'm guessing you were just having a terrible day so shake it off and move on.
Maybe check the timestamps and see that they replied it was a joke long after id had the discussion with star. So no?
Again, this is World. Not Memes. Default assumption is your speaking truthfully. Just because you made a shitty joke doesn't mean I need to humor it either. I'm sorry I'm not content with everything being a joke.
Boo fucking hoo.
"Aliens"
Lol its a hoax anyway....
Yeah, but when it's clearly a hoax and you have someone going "yeah, but still, what if it's really X?" it makes it really clear how badly our education and mental health systems failed.
Well so long as you're not ultra into it its fun and w/e. To me its same energy as planning for winning lotto. Yeah it ain't happen but it will be cool. Its purely distraction in something possibly wonderful. Sometimes I think if the people that go too far just really dont want to come back.
No, it's delusional. Writing fictional stories is fine. Trying to warp reality and evidence to fit your fantasy is delusion. "This would be cool..." is not the same as being told why you're scientifically wrong and then going "but what if it were true anyways because I want to believe?"
It's the same shit with Bigfoot. As more and more "evidence" is debunked and the case becomes more obviously just a mistaken identification at best you get these whack jobs talking about how Bigfoot is a dimension jumping shape shifter. Not because they have any actual evidence, but because "this is the only way to explain why we got zero pictures despite decades of trying".
Imagination is fine. Delusion is not.
Hmm I thinking earth is flat as delusion cause thats a fact vs big foot where its more fun and "harder to disprove". Though I bet you mean the dudes that ACTUALLY believe and make it their personality. Very similar to religion. Your lack of evidence to disprove doesnt mean it doesn't exist.
i thought you were playing along with the joke but you really were going "you're dumb actually and stupid" like you believed it