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Post by sid on Jul 5, 2008 22:49:11 GMT
And finally i joined this community!
I am a 22 years old italian "dinophile" who,since the age of 2,has collected everything who regarded dinosaurs and prehistoric times in general:books,comics,movies,documentaries...And,of course,models and toys of those mighty beasts!
So...Well,here i am ;D
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Post by Dinotoyforum on Jul 6, 2008 0:13:22 GMT
Welcome Sid  Nice to see you join up  *reads signature* - *groans* Oh no! Not another member of the evil anti-dinobird Empire? ;D |
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Post by therizinosaurus on Jul 6, 2008 3:18:07 GMT
Whoo! Sid's on my side!!
welcome!
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Post by richard on Jul 6, 2008 4:57:10 GMT
welcome!
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Post by sbell on Jul 6, 2008 5:45:51 GMT
Welcome Sid Nice to see you join up *reads signature* - *groans* Oh no! Not another member of the evil anti-dinobird Empire? ;D I wouldn't worry--it's been awhile since an Italian empire posed much of a threat... ;D I jest--actually, my mom is from Italy, my Nonno was a POW in Tunisia in WWII. Where in Italy are you from? |
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Post by piltdown on Jul 6, 2008 7:43:48 GMT
*Reads sid's siggy*  "Arise and welcome, Darth Sid" |
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Post by sid on Jul 6, 2008 9:31:50 GMT
Eh eh...I don't say i'm totally against the idea of PROTO-feathered little dinosaurs...But i'm surely highly skeptical about Raptors with pennaceous feahers (  ),Rexes with manes ( ) and in general overfeathered lizards like the (probably fake) ones popped out from the forgery...Whoops,i mean the paleontological site of Liaoling ;D Piltdown,i'm with you in this war X sbell: i'm from Genoa (Ligury,northern Italy),but,while my mother is from there,my father is from Sicily,so i'm a sort of hybrid  |
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Post by tomhet on Jul 6, 2008 14:38:56 GMT
Welcome! Indeed, some of us share your doubt *flies over Liaoning and drops nuclear bomb* |
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Post by Dinotoyforum on Jul 6, 2008 14:48:41 GMT
Welcome! Indeed, some of us share your doubt *flies over Liaoning and drops nuclear bomb* there's doubt, and then there's outright denial ;D  You know, that 'destroy the evidence' kind of denial that Piltdown is so keen on ;D |
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Post by therizinosaurus on Jul 6, 2008 15:48:15 GMT
The only hoax is Archaeoraptor!!
Tomhet, I sent you a pm
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Post by sbell on Jul 6, 2008 20:46:29 GMT
Welcome! Indeed, some of us share your doubt *flies over Liaoning and drops nuclear bomb* Yeah, and that will help. Because rocks don't incinerate. Think about it--one of the most 'impressive' things about the Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombs were the 'shadows' of people. On buildings. Once again, will destroying the evidence make you feel better? What's there is there. Or will you destroy Solnhofen as well, so that we can't compare fossil feathers from other areas? Better get the Green River formation and Messel as well. And a lot of Museums, labs, and universities where the fossils have been stored or prepared. Oh yeah, and take out anyone that knows anything about it--if we are diligent enough in our suppression, that ought to do it. |
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Post by sbell on Jul 6, 2008 20:47:30 GMT
Welcome! Indeed, some of us share your doubt *flies over Liaoning and drops nuclear bomb* there's doubt, and then there's outright denial ;D You know, that 'destroy the evidence' kind of denial that Piltdown is so keen on ;D It does seem to be a favoured method of dealing with inconveniences like facts and knowledge. |
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Post by sbell on Jul 6, 2008 20:50:31 GMT
X sbell: i'm from Genoa (Ligury,northern Italy),but,while my mother is from there,my father is from Sicily,so i'm a sort of hybrid I've been to Genoa--nice place. It was a brief visit. I never got down to Sicily. My mom's family is from up north, near Stresa, and south of Rome, near Monte Casino. I'm not quite sure who is from where. |
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Post by sbell on Jul 6, 2008 20:53:56 GMT
The only hoax is Archaeoraptor!! Tomhet, I sent you a pm To be fair, Archaeoraptor was a fake; it should never have been published, but National Geographic (not a peer reviewed journal) got impatient. The fossil was never likely intended to deceive, except to make some better money. This is unlike a true hoax like Piltdown man, which was created specifically to deceive the scientific establishment (of Great Britain, at least--the US and France were decidedly more sceptical). |
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Post by sid on Jul 6, 2008 21:36:52 GMT
X sbell: i'm from Genoa (Ligury,northern Italy),but,while my mother is from there,my father is from Sicily,so i'm a sort of hybrid I've been to Genoa--nice place. It was a brief visit. I never got down to Sicily. My mom's family is from up north, near Stresa, and south of Rome, near Monte Casino. I'm not quite sure who is from where. Genoa was truly great many,many years ago...Now it's only the former,dirty shadow of her true self  |
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Post by Dinotoyforum on Jul 6, 2008 22:21:39 GMT
there's doubt, and then there's outright denial ;D You know, that 'destroy the evidence' kind of denial that Piltdown is so keen on ;D It does seem to be a favoured method of dealing with inconveniences like facts and knowledge. ah - but see my avatar quote  ;D |
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Post by sbell on Jul 6, 2008 22:34:35 GMT
I've been to Genoa--nice place. It was a brief visit. I never got down to Sicily. My mom's family is from up north, near Stresa, and south of Rome, near Monte Casino. I'm not quite sure who is from where. Genoa was truly great many,many years ago...Now it's only the former,dirty shadow of her true self Well, I was there in 1996, so I would expect some change. Sort of like my mom's home when she was a little girl (she came to Canada at age 7 or 6 or something). The nearby river when she was young was clear and clean, filled with fish. When I was there the river was brown, murky, almost viscous, and nothing lived there anymore. Same for the fauna of the local forests (when some of her relatives came to visit Canada, they were thrilled to see such natural wonders as robins and squirrels). |
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Post by sbell on Jul 6, 2008 22:43:01 GMT
It does seem to be a favoured method of dealing with inconveniences like facts and knowledge. ah - but see my avatar quote ;D It's just like statistics--when you are tired of lying, bring out some numbers then manipulate them to prove your theories. It's also as the Tick says--"Isn't sanity really just a one trick pony, anyway? I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy…ooh hoo hoo hoo…the sky's the limit!" Now substitute 'critical thinking' for 'sanity', and 'denial' for 'good and crazy'. Works almost perfectly. |
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Post by sid on Jul 7, 2008 10:06:50 GMT
Genoa was truly great many,many years ago...Now it's only the former,dirty shadow of her true self Well, I was there in 1996, so I would expect some change. Sort of like my mom's home when she was a little girl (she came to Canada at age 7 or 6 or something). The nearby river when she was young was clear and clean, filled with fish. When I was there the river was brown, murky, almost viscous, and nothing lived there anymore. Same for the fauna of the local forests (when some of her relatives came to visit Canada, they were thrilled to see such natural wonders as robins and squirrels). Yeah,it's always sad to see the place you've been born and grown slowly decaying...Genoa has begun to "give up" around the 90s,but the "death stroke" was in the years between 2000 and 2002...Geez,what it has become in such a short time  Do you believe me if i say that now,in many areas of this town,you can't even go out at night without a weapon for your personal defence?  It's seems the friggin' Bronx,if not worse!  |
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Post by sbell on Jul 7, 2008 12:39:34 GMT
Well, I was there in 1996, so I would expect some change. Sort of like my mom's home when she was a little girl (she came to Canada at age 7 or 6 or something). The nearby river when she was young was clear and clean, filled with fish. When I was there the river was brown, murky, almost viscous, and nothing lived there anymore. Same for the fauna of the local forests (when some of her relatives came to visit Canada, they were thrilled to see such natural wonders as robins and squirrels). Yeah,it's always sad to see the place you've been born and grown slowly decaying...Genoa has begun to "give up" around the 90s,but the "death stroke" was in the years between 2000 and 2002...Geez,what it has become in such a short time Do you believe me if i say that now,in many areas of this town,you can't even go out at night without a weapon for your personal defence? It's seems the friggin' Bronx,if not worse! That last line makes me think of a classic 1981 Italian movie called Escape 2000. Okay, not classic, terrible. I've only suffered the whole thing through MST3K, but even then it's painful. It mostly makes me curious--is Bronx Genoa like the modern Bronx, or more like the Italian version of the Bronx in that movie? Either way, not pleasant. But now that I think about it--I believe that is the city where some Gypsy kids tried to rob a woman on our tour (ironically, perhaps, she was a New Yorker). I say tried, because of her traveling companions, the woman she was with (the two men stood in stunned cowardice) chased them down into an alley and beat the purse back out of them. I might be wrong about the city it was (it sounds right), but the spirit is the same. |
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