If aliens came down here tomorrow.......

Tayla

What do you think we would have the hardest time explaining to them?

I think it would be a tough one trying to explain about those super morbidly obese people in America who weigh about 200 stone and end up fused to the bed or chair sitting in their own poo while someone has to come in everyday to wash all their folds to make sure that they don't go mouldy and how yes, they are just a normal person and technically there are still bones hidden in there but their desire to eat outweighed their desire for any sort of a life.

What can you think of that the aliens would look at and say 'huh'?

Seachmall

inb4 Boards.ie

The offside rule

chin_grin

What makes you think that the aliens want anything to do with us. They'll have a totally different make up. They could exist in an alternate dimension.

Rastapitts

i would ask them what took them so long

RachaelVO

No Seriously... we really did have a political leader called Bertie!

Morlar

Israel Palestine. They'd be all like . . . 'The fcuk ! ? ! '

Yahew

chin_grin wrote: »

What makes you think that the aliens want anything to do with us. They'll have a totally different make up. They could exist in an alternate dimension.

no.

Yahew

Morlar wrote: »

Israel Palestine. They'd be all like . . . 'The fcuk ! ? ! '

they'd have a lot more to worry about than that.

youcancallmeal

4chan

RichieC

we'd steal their ships, back engineer them and then invade their ****...stupid aliens...

Ghost Buster

chin_grin wrote: »

What makes you think that the aliens want anything to do with us. They'll have a totally different make up. They could exist in an alternate dimension.

Well then they wouldnt have 'came down here tomorrow' then would they?

kfallon

I wouldn't explain anything to them cos if they are coming here it won't be long before they are taking our jobs and women :mad:

However I may ask them how Alf is getting on.....man I miss that guy!

:P

Tayla

chin_grin wrote: »

What makes you think that the aliens want anything to do with us. They'll have a totally different make up. They could exist in an alternate dimension.

Well personally I think they've been here before and know all about us but i'm talking about a hypothetical situation where they don't know anything about humans and come down to learn about us:)

Morlar

... And so you are borrowing hundreds of billions to bail out the bondholders, ..... oooooooooK.

KungPao

They'd wonder why people watch Xposé and why so many of our ladies are orange.

Shattered Dreamer

I would ask them have they come to take over, anybody at this stage could do a better job than FF or FG

chin_grin

Yahew wrote: »

no.

Hmm. Interesting point. I must set a reminder to subscribe to your newsletter.

Ghost Buster wrote: »

Well then they wouldnt have 'came down here tomorrow' then would they?

If at all cos to be honest we're f*cked as a species.

Tayla wrote: »

Well personally I think they've been here before and know all about us but i'm talking about a hypothetical situation where they don't know anything about humans and come down to learn about us:)

Oooh, do tell!

Ormus

I've often thought about how we would explain to them why people socialise by leaving the comfort of their own homes to go to a much grottier house (the typical Irish pub) where there are very few seats and they can't hear each other very well cos the music is so loud that everyone shouts.

Standard Toaster

Jedward.

ScumLord

chin_grin wrote: »

Oooh, do tell!

Haven't you watched the factual documentary ancient aliens. aliens are responsible for absolutely everything humans do.


I don't think anything we do would surprise aliens, they've more than likely gone through similar things in their own development and I think it's highly possible may have been observing this planet and it's life for almost as long as life's been on it. They would know us better than we know ourselves.

The King of Moo

The gross inequality in the distribution of resources and wealth, and the insane overuse of resources in parts of the world (including food).

I'd have a hard time explaining that to a human.

Odaise Gaelach

How to speak English.

desertcircus

ScumLord wrote: »

Haven't you watched the factual documentary ancient aliens. aliens are responsible for absolutely everything humans do.

Calling something factual doesn't magic away the crazy...

chin_grin

ScumLord wrote: »

Haven't you watched the factual documentary ancient aliens. aliens are responsible for absolutely everything humans do.


I don't think anything we do would surprise aliens, they've more than likely gone through similar things in their own development and I think it's highly possible may have been observing this planet and it's life for almost as long as life's been on it. They would know us better than we know ourselves.

Oh like this?

Jazzzman

God.

he lives up in da clouds and looks after me ma!

7ofBrian

Tox56

As Stephen Hawking says, we better hope they come in peace. If they are intelligent enough to locate and travel to a planet this small, likely hundreds of light years away, they will be a lot more intelligent than we are.

DoesNotCompute

Tayla wrote: »

What do you think we would have the hardest time explaining to them?

I think it would be a tough one trying to explain about those super morbidly obese people in America who weigh about 200 stone and end up fused to the bed or chair sitting in their own poo while someone has to come in everyday to wash all their folds to make sure that they don't go mouldy and how yes, they are just a normal person and technically there are still bones hidden in their but their desire to eat outweighed their desire for any sort of a life.

What can you think of that the aliens would look at and say 'huh'?

The Irish obsession with owning their own property.

ScumLord

desertcircus wrote: »

Calling something factual doesn't magic away the crazy...

It does in America.

John Doe1

Jackie Healy Rae

Mr.Crinklewood

Deleted User wrote: »

The offside rule

Are they all women / Dundalk fans?

JONJO THE MISER

You would have a hard time explaining Mrs Browns Boys.

paddy kerins

Tallafornia... Actually just TV3's shows in general

tayto lover

RachaelVO wrote: »

No Seriously... we really did have a political leader called Bertie!

Bertie would steal their spaceship.

Fremen

Music.

Obesity is a survival thing: animals are evolved to like high-energy foods. War is a tribal/competitive phenomenon, and you'd have to expect that aliens that were capable of making it to earth would also be highly social. But why should it feel so good to have your eardrums vibrate in certain patterns?

Tayla

Fremen wrote: »

Music.

Obesity is a survival thing: animals are evolved to like high-energy foods.

You won't be doing much surviving if your body has grown around a chair and you can't move without 50 firemen lifting you!

Fremen

Tayla wrote: »

You won't be doing much surviving if your body has grown around a chair and you can't move without 50 firemen lifting you!

Yes, but it makes perfect sense that you should find obese people. Historically, food was scarce enough that we didn't need to evolve an 'off' switch for our drive to eat.

im invisible

Fremen wrote: »

Music... why should it feel so good to have your eardrums vibrate in certain patterns?

have you not seen Close encounters? Its all just numbers, different frequencies, thats how they communicate...

glennb

They would not make direct contact if they were to land here as they would have known how we treat other aliens (E.T). So they would study other humans and notice that most of them have smaller humans (kids) so they would go to an adaption place and adopt some children, but soon the kids find out that they are aliens but the kids dont tell the government on them because they do not want to go back to the home. After a while lots of funny almost scripted funny sh it starts to happen.

theg81der

Em ..... fags? think that`d be hard to explain.

paddy147

If aliens came down here tomorrow,Id ask them to take Sinead O'Conner back with them and probe the fcuk out of her.

Maybe that might shut her up once and for all.

kfallon

theg81der wrote: »

Em ..... fags? think that`d be hard to explain.

Ffs let's kick homophobia out of boards....... :pac:

kfallon

paddy147 wrote: »

If aliens came down here tomorrow,Id ask them to take Sinead O'Conner back with them and probe the fcuk out of her.

Maybe that might shut her up once and for all.

Didn't she go to Lisdoonvarna for that?

paddy147

kfallon wrote: »

Didn't she go to Lisdoonvarna for that?

She did,and even the tide wouldnt take her out.:pac:

Robdude

Tayla wrote: »

What do you think we would have the hardest time explaining to them?

I think it would be a tough one trying to explain about those super morbidly obese people in America who weigh about 200 stone and end up fused to the bed or chair sitting in their own poo while someone has to come in everyday to wash all their folds to make sure that they don't go mouldy and how yes, they are just a normal person and technically there are still bones hidden in there but their desire to eat outweighed their desire for any sort of a life.

What can you think of that the aliens would look at and say 'huh'?

That's actually pretty simple to explain. And it applies to a lot of things. Taking things to dangerous extremes is very common in lots of cultures. People like to eat, some do it too much. People like to drink, some do it too much. People like to do drugs, some do it too much. All types of addiction fit this mold.

I think you'd have a lot more difficultly explaining any of our contradictory social customs. Like 'Gender Equality'. Because, lord knows, nobody (especially women) actually want gender equality; but they sure do want certain types of gender equality. But not others. And only at certain times.

Or cultural diversity. 'It's good to have different types of people working here. But not because people are different. If people are different, then you might say that people from country X are better at Y than people from country Z - and that would make you racist (or nationalist - but you can use skin color if you want). But - if we're all equal, how can there be value in having different cultures.

sh1tstirrer

Tayla wrote: »

What do you think we would have the hardest time explaining to them?

I think it would be a tough one trying to explain about those super morbidly obese people in America who weigh about 200 stone /QUOTE] 200 stone = 1.25 ton maybe we could explain to them how some people are prone to exaggeration :rolleyes:

MagicSean

Tayla wrote: »

What do you think we would have the hardest time explaining to them?

I think it would be a tough one trying to explain about those super morbidly obese people in America who weigh about 200 stone and end up fused to the bed or chair sitting in their own poo while someone has to come in everyday to wash all their folds to make sure that they don't go mouldy and how yes, they are just a normal person and technically there are still bones hidden in there but their desire to eat outweighed their desire for any sort of a life.

What can you think of that the aliens would look at and say 'huh'?

Very presumptious to assume they have no life. To some people sitting in a chair all day eating would be all they want out of life.

I think the hardest thing to explain would be the toilet. There has to be some other way of getting rid of waste from our body that technology is missing.

staker

They'd probably laugh when they heard we'd no cure for cancer,pull out some tulip/nettle concoction and solve a mystery that's failed us for generations.:(

UglyBolloxFace

Tayla wrote: »

If aliens came down here tomorrow.......

...John Halligan TD would present them with Alien-themed Christmas cards.

Feeona

I think they'd find the 'These cows are small, but those cows are far away' theory quite difficult to grasp.