What do you believe in?
Flying saucers/God/Aliens/Ghosts.

Take your pick.

Question inspired by www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/8599547/UFOs-spotted-over-London.html

Alt: Where do people who believe in things you don't score on the Foxtrot Scale.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:35, 81 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I don't know.
The Drake Equation says a lot, but why would an advanced alien society be interested in us?

Also, if you think that lot is weird, there's a bloke at the JPL lab who thinks this universe is a simulation that was set off by our future selves, because apparently the quantum nature of the universe is pixellated.

Shakespeare puts paid to that quite neatly: "If you prick us, do we not bleed?".

I wish I was making this up.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:38, Reply)

Some people would argue that if we stopped fighting amongst outselves we would be able to explore the galaxy
I think war has pushed more technological advances than people give it credit for and without it the space program would be very basic.
( Peej, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:43, Reply)

Plus, wars are fucking cooool.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:46, Reply)

THere is nothing cooler than firing a cruise missile into a childs bedroom.

(Bazongaloid, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:47, Reply)

So not only are you a nonce,
but you've named your penis after a diminutive Scientologist bumder?
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:48, Reply)

For the same reason that we're interested in the indigenous tribes in Africa who haven't got HD TVs or Sky+ yet
An alien version of Bruce Parry or Bear Grylls will walk among us and call our lack of hoverboards "quaint"
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:44, Reply)

Only 4 more years until hoverboards!

( Peej, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:45, Reply)

I'm getting a Pitbull
and I'm going to ride it to France
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:47, Reply)

I'm getting a shirt with twin tie capabilities

( Peej, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:49, Reply)

I can't wait until I can get a big telly with a fax attached.

( Kroney, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:51, Reply)

I'm really looking forward to the release of Jaws 19 (This time it's really, really personal)

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:51, Reply)

Jaws 19 - Electroshark Sex Pleasures

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:52, Reply)

What exactly does the Shakespeare quote put paid to?

(Bazongaloid, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:45, Reply)

Apparently, we live in a simulated universe.
I call bollocks on this, because no amount of conceivable computer power available for the next 50 to 100 years could possibly simulate a whole universe, nevermind a complete biosphere and 7 billion sentient beings.

Hence the Shakespeare bit.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:48, Reply)

Have you not seen that documentary called the Matrix?
I think Keanu Reeves narrates it or something
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:51, Reply)

That definitely didn't have any sequels at all, ever

( Peej, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:52, Reply)

Ohh, have they done more?
I hope Lawrence Fishbourne narrates the next one
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:53, Reply)

I'd rather watch his daughters porno

( Peej, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:57, Reply)

It's not bad.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:01, Reply)

Your logic is reasonable
but that still doesn't have anything to do with the Shakespeare quote.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:53, Reply)

Bleeding.
The hormonal responses to it, the clotting factors, the pain response, everything to do with cutting your skin, either in emo fashion or by accident.

Doesn't matter either way though.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:56, Reply)

You're making no sense.
Why can't you see that the ability or otherwise of people to bleed has nothing to do with the theory that we are in fact a simulation run by the future.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:02, Reply)

I'm wondering that.
I understood it to mean 'you may treat Jews as second-class citizens but we are still humans*'

*just fucking stingy ones
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:56, Reply)

I believe in Aliens
But I don't think they've been even close to us

Unrelated, last night we woke up to two guys saying "Shall we hit it? shall we? Look they have bottles over there!" (it's recycling day)We look out the window to see them about to chuck a bottle at our car. We shouted "Get the fuck out of our garden" and one screached something and they both legged it like fucking whippets. Wife thinks they will come back and have another go, I think they're a couple of stupid twats that got caught in the act and will be too scared. What do you think?
( Peej, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:42, Reply)

They might, but that is because they are stupid twats.

(Bazongaloid, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:46, Reply)

I think they were aliens.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:57, Reply)

I believe that you're an alien
and that you've got nothing better to do with your time than putting things up a hillbilly's bottom.
( Kroney, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:04, Reply)

Nah, Ghosts

( Peej, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:04, Reply)

Shit was that your house?
I'll stick to putting cats in bins from now on
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:33, Reply)

I believe that aliens exist
I don't believe that they're flying around, snatching people from their cars or beds in order to put things up their bottoms, though.

Seems to me that a species that had developed their science to the point where they could travel across the vast interstellar gulf would have better things to do with their time than probing hillbillies.

I also believe that ghosts exist because I believe I have seen one. I would love to be convinced that I was wrong, because they are at odds with my otherwise rational outlook.
( Kroney, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:42, Reply)

I think that aliens would be more likely to wipe us out
"just in case"
( Peej, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:44, Reply)

I can't imagine an alien race visiting Earth
and viewing us as anything other than an extremely dangerous species. Personally, I'd stay the fuck away from anybody who was so deranged as to explode high yield nuclear devices in their own atmosphere.
( Kroney, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:46, Reply)

Just look at what happens to previously uncontacted tribes.

(The Luggage is haunted..., Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:46, Reply)

Like we did with the Dodo
and Glenn Miller.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:47, Reply)

I believe in a thing called love
and if you don't, you can have a listen to the rhythm of my heart.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:46, Reply)

I believe in enormous handlebar moustaches.

(Bazongaloid, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:46, Reply)

When we're in charge they'll be compulsary, Al

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:48, Reply)

Can you grow a decent tache?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:50, Reply)

Not as such, no
Especially not if I want Ms Foxtrot to shag me.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:51, Reply)

I can, but I've been told that I shouldn't.

(Bazongaloid, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:54, Reply)

I think Crow would look great with one
But he can't grow facial hair for shit.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:10, Reply)

Love is a short-term hormonal distraction which interferes with the pure persuit of personal advancement.

( Peej, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:48, Reply)

You are Captain Hercule Platini (IQ 212) AICMFP

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:50, Reply)

I am Nirvanah Crane
Minus 10 points to you Darth
( Peej, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:56, Reply)

Yeah, I admit I couldn't remember Jane Horrocks' character name
and was hoping that by naming the more obscure crew member (and not accusing you of being a girl) you might let me off
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:59, Reply)

Fucking hell, she looks mental in that.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:03, Reply)

I still would though

( Peej, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:04, Reply)

A slight improvement in song over the potential Cher one
But not by much
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:49, Reply)

I believe in aliens because if there weren't any, it would mean I have wasted my youth staring out of the window at night waiting for them.

( girlinthehole, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:58, Reply)

I believe in Father Christmas
*looks to the sky with excited eyes*

I once saw a slideshow thingy online that started out on the Earth and kept pulling out in increments to show how miniscule we are. There are a ridiculous amount of galaxies and planets so I believe it's pretty unlikely that an alien race hasn't evolved somewhere out there and is writing bad poetry as we speak.
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 12:59, Reply)

ET 2: Emo-terrestrial
"All he wanted was to go home and have someone understand his pain"
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:35, Reply)

On the scale
People that believe in God and Ghosts are up to 50 times more of a bender than those than believe that there are many forms of carbon based life on this planet so why not on others as well.
( Peej, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:00, Reply)

I believe for every drop of rain that falls, a flower grows
Or some bollocks like that.

I believe that I'm really fucking stressed today, and I just want to go home and get pissed come 5:15. So I will.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:02, Reply)

I don't know/yes/I suppose/probably

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:03, Reply)

INCISIVE COMMENTRY

( Kroney, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:04, Reply)

Sit on the fench why don't you.

( girlinthehole, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:04, Reply)

Because they smell and they don't shave under their arms.

( Kroney, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:05, Reply)

*shakes hands*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:06, Reply)

Yeah K,
what have the French ever done to you?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:05, Reply)

*witty response*
I'm too tired/hungry/sore to think of anything today.
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:10, Reply)

I believe in
a) a thing called love
b) life after love
c) miracles

I also believe I can fly.

Hope this help.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:05, Reply)

^ what the old man said
Though I know that there's no lord above
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:06, Reply)

I believe there is a man under my sink
and that man is a midget.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:07, Reply)

you should hook up with a girl, dump her and get on with your life, prey to grow wings
and then throw yourself off beachy head
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:31, Reply)

I believe, against all evidence to the contrary
in the general niceness of human beings. How stupid am I?????

Alt: anyone who doesn't believe in the same is not on the Foxtrot scale: they are the full-on Boyce.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:07, Reply)

Downright idiotic. Sorry.

( Kroney, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:07, Reply)

i no rite?

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:11, Reply)

Or conversley.
I believe the children are our are future
Teach them well and let them lead the way.
( girlinthehole, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:10, Reply)

If the children are our future
we are seriously fucked.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:11, Reply)

WhitneyHoustonlyriclols.

( girlinthehole, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:12, Reply)

Ah, what did she know?
the drug-addled old whore.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:13, Reply)

this was before all that!
back when she wanted to dance with somebody
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:16, Reply)

'with-some-body who's got an 8-ball'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:16, Reply)

she wants to feel the heat from somebodys crackpipe

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:24, Reply)

Hahahaha

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:28, Reply)

She knew where to get fucking strong drugs.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:16, Reply)

Yeah! her husband.

( girlinthehole, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:17, Reply)

What a helpful and lovely man.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:18, Reply)

that was his perogative.

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:21, Reply)

I don't believe in nuffink man!

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 13:29, Reply)