If Dinosaurs Never Existed & For 160 Million Years It Was Just Fucking Birds

[Dr Rock]

Not even weird birds, just basically sparrows and that. Would we even care about 'the prehistoric age of birds'? It's like when it was just insects. Obviously we'd never know dinosaurs were an option, but ffs it would be well shit.

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

Everyone would be losing their shit over trilobites. But they should be doing that anyway, these little guys are way cooler than dinos

[Zero Gravitas]

But birds are dinosaurs.

You can't have dinosaurs not existing but dinosaurs existing instead.

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

But birds are dinosaurs.

You can't have dinosaurs not existing but dinosaurs existing instead.

A t rex is not a bird, what in cunts name are tou talking about man

[Glebe]

[beanheadmcginty]

I'd happily spend 160 million years fucking birds. #LAD

[steve98]

I thought birds were regarded as fake, these days? Were they fake all those millions of years ago too, before man existed? I'm just askin'.

[JamesTC]

Everyone would be losing their shit over trilobites. But they should be doing that anyway, these little guys are way cooler than dinos

They aren't anything special. Moved my bin in my front garden and there were loads of the fuckers under it.

[thenoise]

They probably got all big cos of the way they got squished by the rocks and shit. They're actually just tiny birds even smaller than today birds. T Rex died out cos it got bullied out of existence by some fucking pigeons.

[Mr Vegetables]

All birds are dinosaurs, but not all dinosaurs are birds; it's like one of those logic puzzles that they have

[Johnny Yesno]

But birds are dinosaurs.

You can't have dinosaurs not existing but dinosaurs existing instead.

No, birds and dinos have a common ancestor.

[Mr Vegetables]

No, birds and dinos have a common ancestor.

But the common ancestor is just the common ancestor of dinosaurs, because birds are nested* within the dinos in the same way as a triceratops or whatever. We've made a choice to call them something else, but it's not really based in evolutionary relationships— although by the same logic you can say Michael Fish literally is a fish, so I guess it's a question of how you draw your lines

*like a bird's nest

[Johnny Yesno]

But the common ancestor is just the common ancestor of dinosaurs, because birds are nested* within the dinos in the same way as a triceratops or whatever. We've made a choice to call them something else, but it's not really based in evolutionary relationships— although by the same logic you can say Michael Fish literally is a fish, so I guess it's a question of how you draw your lines

*like a bird's nest

Oh, you're right.

The present scientific consensus is that birds are a group of maniraptoran theropod dinosaurs that originated during the Mesozoic Era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_birds

Lock the thread.

[Johnny Yesno]

Imagine if Mick Lynch had known this when dealing with that stupid Question Time audience member. I assumed he knew a lot about dinosaurs. Disappointing.

[Dr Rock]

In a world where dinosaurs never existed:

No Jurassic Park movies
T.Rex (band) called something else
No terfs dressing as dinosaurs
Flintstones very different

[TrenterPercenter]

Open the door get on the floor! Everybody walk the Trilobite!


Sorry doesn't work.

[Zero Gravitas]

No fossil fuels, which contrary to the name are actually aged dinosaur fat and not made from ground up fossils.

[The Mollusk]

They aren't anything special. Moved my bin in my front garden and there were loads of the fuckers under it.

And that's not special? They could have been writing a masterpiece jazz fusion concept album or combining their budding telekinetic powers to lift and tip the bin and free a cat which had been dumped inside. You're so quick to judge aren't you??

[jobotic]

Imagine if Mick Lynch had known this when dealing with that stupid Question Time audience member. I assumed he knew a lot about dinosaurs. Disappointing.

What was this?

[Mr_Simnock]

Not even weird birds, just basically sparrows and that. Would we even care about 'the prehistoric age of birds'? It's like when it was just insects. Obviously we'd never know dinosaurs were an option, but ffs it would be well shit.

we might all be raging about the crocodilians

[Johnny Yesno]

What was this?

Mick Lynch bodies other panelists on Question Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-05VW0q8uk

It turns out the correct answer is 'They are still with us now'.

[Replies From View]

I thought birds were regarded as fake, these days? Were they fake all those millions of years ago too, before man existed? I'm just askin'.

Yes because if a dinosaur exists in a forest but nobody was around yet to see it then it wasn't actually there.

[Replies From View]

All birds are dinosaurs, but not all dinosaurs are birds; it's like one of those logic puzzles that they have

which puzzle specifically

[Replies From View]

In a world where dinosaurs never existed:

No Jurassic Park movies
T.Rex (band) called something else
No terfs dressing as dinosaurs
Flintstones very different

What about Jurassic World movies

[Mr Vegetables]

which puzzle specifically

"If all logic puzzles are made up for forum posts, is everything made up for forum posts logic puzzles." It's from Lewis Carroll

[Replies From View]

No fossil fuels, which contrary to the name are actually aged dinosaur fat and not made from ground up fossils.

Big-boned, mate

[dissolute ocelot]

Birds were dinosaurs but winged pterosaurs were not. This makes no sense. We should go back to the day when bats were birds and dolphins were fishes and if it ate you while you sat on the toilet, it's a dinosaur.