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That's what makes it a "phobia" and not a "totally rational fear" ;-)
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The proof that there is not an omnipotent god is that dinosaurs died out. Who would let something so awesome die out?
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That's a bird :bird: (not a :bride_with_veil:) . A bird :bird: is real. This is a dinosaur [image] (not a :wind_chime:) . A dinosaur [image] is not real. This is a crocodile :crocodile: (not a :corn:). You may be forgiven for confusing a crocodile :crocodile: with a dinosaur [image]. But this is an error. A crocodile :crocodile: is not a lizard. A dinosaur [image] is a lizard, or at least, a dinosaur [image] would be a lizard, if it were real, which it isn't. Also, do not confuse a bird :bird: with a crocodile :crocodile:. This is a tangerine :tangerine: (not a :jack_o_lantern:). A tangerine :tangerine: is neither a bird :bird:, nor a dinosaur [image], nor a crocodile :crocodile:: But a tangerine :tangerine: is real, like a bird :bird: is real. But here the similarity ends. This is a WTF :wtf:. A WTF :wtf: is real.
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It would have guardsmen and a ten-feet-thick steel hatch?
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And if they would really spare no expense they would have asked Chuck Norris, but I don't see him being mentioned in the story.
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Birds are modern dinosaurs - they're what the dinosaurs evolved into/their ancestors were the dinosaurs, depending on how you want to look at it.
We've also recently discovered that velociraptors had feathers, as did a lot of other well-known dinosaurs.
(And the ones in Jurassic Park were Utahraptors, the canonical velociraptor was much smaller)
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How Can Dinosaurs Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real?
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I didn't realise that when I was three and had a bad experience in the natural history museum. It was moving. I truly thought I was going to die.
No it would not. Dinosaurs are a different group of reptiles than lizards, in spite of the -saur suffix to their name (the person who first discovered them didn't know much about reptiles, but still got the naming rights). Birds are in fact dinosaurs, scientifically speaking, although not all dinosaurs are birds.
I also don't like to say a thing is 'not real' just because it isn't alive any more. Brontosaurus is not real. Diplodocus is real, just extinct (and they still exist as fossils).
However when I say I have a phobia of dinosaurs I mean in the commonly-used sense of the word, i.e. excluding birds. I also disagree that I could go my entire life without seeing one, they are very popular in fiction and so forth. Yes, I will never see a living, non-avian dinosaur in the flesh but I'm sure that if I ended this post with an unspoilered picture of a tarantula, a number of arachnophobes would complain of distress. I am not frightened because I believe dinosaurs will harm me, it is an irrational fear.
It is the dinosaurs in the imagination that frighten me. Also hornbills, they are creepy-looking f*ckers.
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:wtf:
Methinks you got some things backwards there.
Edit: And Hanzo'd because I didn't read until the end, but it irked me enough to post immediately.
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"Macarons"? I think you dropped a leter, there.
If you find yourself in a similar situation as our hero Renee, just point out to your bosses that all the money for the guards, dogs, macaroOns, and sushi chefs is coming out of THEIR budgets. It's easy to spare no expense when it's someone else's money.