Animals and Weird: Gullible

Gullible

By Idontbelieveinmagic - 17/06/2013 05:42 - United States - Las Vegas

Today, my dad refused to believe that the Animal Planet's mermaid mockumentaries were faked. Instead he got into a huge argument with me, claiming the government is covering up the existence of mermaids and must've threatened the producers to keep it quiet. FML

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By so pray to ariel about it, dipshits - 30/11/2012 19:29 - United Kingdom - Edinburgh

Today, two of my friends condemned me for being "narrow-minded", because I couldn't help but laugh at the thought that someone would believe mermaids actually exist. FML

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By Anonymous - 24/10/2020 11:02 - Canada - Courtenay

Today, I spotted my dad watching a wildlife/nature video. I pointed out to him that the animal on the screen was critically endangered; he rebutted by telling me that it's impossible for the animal on the screen to go extinct because people keep hunting it. FML

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By dadsadipshit - 15/02/2013 23:00 - United States

Today, my dad lost his mind over the meteorite incident in Russia. He's convinced that it's part of some big government conspiracy to cover up a UFO crash-landing, and now he won't stop dismissively calling us "sheep" and telling us "do the research" just because we don't agree with him. FML

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By Username - 19/05/2011 22:46 - United States

Today, my family went to Seaworld. When we got there, my dad sarcastically told me not to get lost, because I might get mistaken for Shamu. FML

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By Ryan - 28/08/2011 20:10 - United States

Today, after a long discussion, my dad still doesn't understand how evolution works, and thinks it's a myth that was debunked a long time ago. FML

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By oh gee, you don't say - 15/12/2012 18:43 - United Kingdom - Southampton

Today, my dad forced the whole family to sit through a two-hour lecture, with supporting research, on how the "Mayan prophecy" is actually a load of shit fabricated by conmen. Nice to know he thinks we're all borderline brain-dead, gullible fuckwits who believed it to begin with. Thanks, dad. FML

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By Anonymous - 23/10/2019 19:00 - United States - Portland

Today, I had an argument with my dad about how Alpo dog food is trash and is why his dog keeps having terrible farts and diarrhea. My dad refuses to believe me, so now I'm always scrubbing vile, smelly, mucous-laden dog diarrhea out of the carpet. I'm a pet nutritionist. FML

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By Samantha - 13/03/2012 17:59 - Canada

Today, my dad insisted on having a family movie night. He chose the movies Jaws and Mayday. I'm going on a diving expedition tomorrow. FML

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By Abby_gummibear - 19/03/2011 21:04 - United States

Today, at the Mommy and Me dance class that I take my four year old daughter to, the instructor had us do a stretch, telling us to pretend we're mermaids. My daughter said to me, "But you're not a mermaid, you're a whale!" FML

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By babysitter - 26/03/2009 03:45 - United States

Today, I babysat for two little girls, who wanted to play 'mermaids'. I smiled, and said that I would love to play with them. The older girl laughed, saying "You can't be a mermaid. Mermaids are pretty." FML

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FireFlie07 20

Monday 17 June 2013 16:02

Eh, who said mermaids aren't real? They could be.

challan 19

Monday 17 June 2013 16:02

What?! Are you telling me that mermaids don't exist? Next you'll tell me that Santa is imaginary as well!

Comments

worldclassrager 39

Monday 17 June 2013 18:04

I guess all your dads proof would be given by David Copperfield (not the book)...

MomoThePyro 8

Monday 17 June 2013 18:05

My sister and my cousin watched and believed the same thing. FYL for having to live with that...

chuckcloninger 12

Monday 17 June 2013 18:09

That's okay. My sweetie believed it too and she is a very successful attorney. I'm not telling her any different. :-)

hardwoodfloors 8

Monday 17 June 2013 18:30

Are you stupid your dads rught

StanSmith2013 26

Monday 17 June 2013 18:47

They are just science fiction based on the Aquatic Ape Theory (AAT). Surely he can see the CGI in the 'documentary'?

j_dixie 3

Monday 17 June 2013 19:06

Hey. I guess you didn't see the documentary on APL that I saw. I couldn't say that I believed everything they were showing, as it could easily be something else or be faked but at the end, they made a point I couldn't shake. Over the past thousand years +, people from all over the world have created drawings of such a creature, quite similar to each other and they didn't have telephones. So how did people across the world, report seeing almost the exact same thing, without knowing what the other person saw.

love_me_electric 20

Wednesday 19 June 2013 8:05

The same can be said about many mythical creatures. Dragons for example. Doesn't mean they're real, it just means that people had overactive imaginations. I mean, it's not like fish+man is such a bizarre concept that it's impossible for people to just make it up. There are a lot of man+animal creatures in mythology (minotaur, centaur, ect.), but just because they're common in mythology doesn't mean they actually exist.

wildcat5 2

Tuesday 5 August 2014 13:45

#121 you mean to tell me the dragon type fossils that have been found are fake?

Schiffy 18

Monday 17 June 2013 19:34

With the number of people that are likely to take this sort of thing seriously, I have to wonder why Animal Planet even bothers making it.

thejust666 6

Monday 17 June 2013 20:00

I saw that one. It was pretty convincing as a documentary. I had to google it, and found out that way. Let your dad believe theres mermaids, it's fun to believe in stuff.