MikeJD

Doesn't that make it an Albert Einstein inaction figure? Hey, at least it wasn't another relativity joke.

Why yes, yes I do. Thank God someone can see my posts. I was starting to feel like Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense. Which I guess would make you Haley Joel Osment.

Delete the photo from your avatar and all the personal info from your profile, and then tell him about the site. If he asks what your username is, tell him he'll have to guess. Might stall him for for a while.

I really wouldn't submit anything to that site. Like I said, check out the sponsor links: 'Free Legal Help For Bad People', 'Home Loans for Felons', 'Get Unlimited Credit Cards', 'Earn Money From Jail'. Hopefully that's an indication that it's just a joke site, but at worst it's malicious or some kind of marketing scam.

I think the 'sponsor' links are kind of a giveaway.

I live to pack. In fact skydiving is just a fun way of getting the canopy out of the container so I can start all over again.

That is great

That's cos we're scared . Plus, I'm back on CoD3 at the moment since I lent CoD4 to a friend. But I'm retrieving it this weekend so I'll look out for you.

Absolutely! I've never seen a pilot look so exposed in any type of aircraft. That would give me the willies for sure. I found a website dedicated to Breezys, and the owner was saying he hadn't got around to building his own because 'I didn't trust my welding'. I'd say that's a pretty good call.

Point Break You got me. Hopefully after 16 years I've outgrown that association.

Be interesting to see if there's a general blip of interest about now. I did my AFF in '92. Guess which post-movie invasion I belong to?

OK, now we need a new forum for Ghost debates that get waaaay out of hand. Spectres Corner? Spookers Corner?

ZOMGWTFBBQ!!!one!!!!eleven!!! I was playing Call of Duty 3 online recently, and one of my team mates kept yelling 'Lol!' every time something amused him. Seems to me if you're wearing a headset then actual laughing out loud would be an option. And much less annoying.

I once visited the former concentration camp at Mauthausen in Austria, and experienced a real sense of dread there when entering certain areas. Those who believe that evil and suffering leave a mark might call that evidence, but even though I felt that sensation I still put it down to the knowledge of what happened there rather than any kind of residual energy. I don't think you can have a completely objective reaction to a site that's said to be haunted or that has a known history of horrific events.

See, I would argue that if you weren't aware a great evil had occurred there, you would never 'feel' any negative energy.

Am I the only one that thinks that resembles a camo barbeque set?

Flying photos? What about some from the 1940s? http://www.retrofuture.com/flyingcar.html Admittedly, the ConvAIRCAR wasn't self-contained - you had to attach a 'flight unit' separately. Ironically, I guess as the technology has improved over the years, the practicability has worsened. 60 years ago you'd have had more chance of finding somewhere to take off, and less chance of hitting something while airborne.

Saw this in the newspaper this morning. Funny, there have been quite a few 'flying car' prototypes produced over the last few decades, but each one is somehow presented as a brand new invention. This is one of the least ugly I've seen, though.

Vallerina, you beat me to it. Maybe we've been reading the same book!

Not sure about the first one, except that it is possible for something like that to be a coincidence - there could have been someone with a strong resemblance to the deceased, and dressed the same way. As unlikely as that may seem, is it really more likely that somebody would be hanging around the back yard after they're dead, and wearing the clothes they were buried in? As for the second, that relies on the absolute certainty that nobody had ever mentioned the uncle. People have bad memories. And kids do talk to themselves all the time. Not trying to be difficult - I just think that the desire to believe in ghosts is very strong for a lot of people, especially those who've lost loved ones, and we find it easy to persuade ourselves of things that support our desires. The more we tell the story, the more little details we subconsciously add to make it more compelling. I'm also in a sceptical frame of mind because I just finished reading Derren Brown's book, 'Tricks of the Mind'. He presents some really good arguments about how it's in our nature to mislead ourselves, and how easily the way we see the world can be manipulated.

I think there's a lot going on around us (and in our heads) that we still know nothing about, but that doesn't make it supernatural. It's just natural stuff we don't understand yet. I don't see any evidence that people continue to haunt this world after they're dead - and I'm not sure whether I find that idea creepy or comforting. But there are an awful lot of charlatans making an awful lot of money out of our fascination with this kind of thing.

Look on the bright side. Now you don't have to vacuum that bit of carpet.

Hard to know which of the 15 reposts on this topic to respond to.

I thought it was well made and had some nice elements, but it was too obviously provocative. The villains were pure comic-book, and the plot coincidences pretty hard to swallow.