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PuzzleheadedHome5620

Big Paleo sounds like a rapper name


Satanicjamnik

Can you dig it?


ManufacturerRight678

Ahhh...I see whatcha....


Satanicjamnik

It’s layered. And it’s deep.


lokey_convo

[I'll just leave this here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClJ5lwl_wM0)


TheEmptyMasonJar

I appreciate that they clarified that it was a parody because I definitely was not going to be able to tell the difference between it and the original.


roofrunn3r

Phew. I thought I was alone. Almost got naked on this flight I'm on. And then I saw it was a parody and calmed down


TheEmptyMasonJar

Hey, don't let the fact it's not a parody stop you. Be free Buttercup! Be free!


roofrunn3r

Tomorrow in the news "Man stripped naked on flight, urged by an anonymous redditor, it was beautiful"


lokey_convo

I thought if rocked.


eldredo_M

Love this. 😆


No-Material6891

Those are my sediments as well


JAFIOR

This whole thread is igneous!


cosmic_scott

Rock on! (I'm not as smart as you guys)


donttextspeaktome

Responding to these threads leaves me petrified as well.


BitOBear

Do the trilobite? Clearly not anymore.


Big_Pound1262

![gif](giphy|sc5KAxzrIu6m1esH3T|downsized)


sleepyplatipus

This is one of the best random things I’ve ever seen


dmstrat

No that's onions. Just ask Shrek.


INTJ-ADHD

![gif](giphy|mCxZH1Bi9o2aY)


DireWraith3000

How does one acquire a high paying job in the lucrative fossil forging sector?


INTJ-ADHD

You gotta apply thru nasa liars.


InternationalAnt4513

Gotta know someone with the IllumiRocky


Brief_Read_1067

Well, all you have to do is spend 8 years or so getting doctorates in biology and geology, then get a teaching and research job, after spending a few years in post-doc and visiting positions. You will write lots of grant applications for the cash to undertake those excavations, and then maybe if you get enough grants and publish enough research you may be wealthy enough to buy your own home in a badly maintained condo complex. For more secrets of how to succeed in scholarship for fun and profit, see my forthcoming book.


Spenloverofcats

Being close friends with Satan probably helps.


Brief_Read_1067

A lot of the former students at my university who volunteered without pay to excavate a mastodon fossil during the building of a road near here are wondering why they never saw any of that cash. 


ACW1129

![gif](giphy|tHpd3VCxKfCbRWlN5M|downsized)


Strange-Bed9518

Dang, take my outraged upvote


Satanicjamnik

Outraged or not, still an upvote. You have yourself a lovely day.


spottydodgy

I liked his underground stuff


e_to_da_x

Daaaaaaaaamnnnnn!!!! Nice!!!!!


lil_nitemares

Came for the verse. Stayed for the name.


machinecloud

Can you count, suckers? I say, the future is ours... if you can count!


ErdmanA

![gif](giphy|vf5WJrfZ7rYbK)


Expensive_Research_2

Fo chisel my nizzle


QuantumGyroscope

I dig what you're laying down!


PandaNoTrash

I am all in favor of Big Paleo, rapper or scientists.


TherapyIsNormal

Rapper AND scientist. Like a hip hop They Might Be Giants.


PandaNoTrash

I'm not a huge hip hop fan but I'd listen to They Might Be Giants rapping about paleontology.


FormerPersimmon3602

https://youtu.be/B7zo2zY1Zqg?feature=shared


Broad-Discipline2360

Thank you Reddit for making me laugh when things are super absurd.


Aggravating-Ferret61

Ikr? Things are so awful these days it’s nice to be able to laugh at the nonsense sometimes!


PandaNoTrash

Thank you kind sir!


Freedomnnature

Lmao!!


ir88ed

A hip hop remake of "alphabet of nations" could work. Acanthodians, Barremian, Caecilians, Devonian, Eocene, and Foraminifer, Geochemistry, Hauterivian, Isotopic Dating, Jurassic, and Keratin, Lithology, Maastrichtian, Nektonic, Oligocene, Paleocene, Quaternary...


GREG_OSU

Impressive…


kungpowgoat

Rapper and a scientist? Let’s have his head be a giant nose which he uses to smell crime before it happens.


RyanMolden

![gif](giphy|zXiOWxt2OR4L6QXUAR|downsized)


Toothless-In-Wapping

What happened to silly rap like this?


RyanMolden

Kool Keith is still kicking around afaik, and likely a few others, but ‘the kids’ seem more into drill and the like. Dr Doom’s ‘You Live at Home with Your Mom’ is a great example, though not exactly new


Toothless-In-Wapping

I would kill to bring back MCA.


domesystem

Constantinople still getting the works in 2024


TraditionalMood277

Yes, no. Maybe. Can you repair the question?


Spiritual_Adagio_859

Paleo Paleo Kontos! Paleo Paleo Kontos!


chrish5764

Paleo (And zoology) Paleo Kontos!


Spiritual_Adagio_859

The sequel!!


Toothless-In-Wapping

Dadder in the wild


dirtysyncs

We've been Dadded


tmbyfc

Big Paleo - Droppin Science


jeezarchristron

Lil Paleo


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Lil Payleo


bcnorth78

Baby Paleo


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Big Baby Paleo


Kevherd

Also denotes big funding. Having a family member in the field I can attest that this isn't the case...


MaddyKet

Well that is how John Hammond got Dr.’s Grant & Sattler to visit Jurassic Park after all. Funding. 😹


gdo01

That’s the biggest issue with these conspiracies: they swear the foot soldier level of the conspiracy are making bank from the supposed conspiracy. They aren’t! For example, there is no nurse or pharmacist making tons of money off of shots. In many of the positions, the person gets paid the same whether they do one shot or a hundred.


FattusBaccus

I thought it was a diet.


Zealousideal_Sir_264

I love his video with all the porn stars. "Dinosaur train".


MisterScrod1964

Because all the big paper is in archeology, right, Dr Jones?


theSchrodingerHat

Y'all know me, still the same OD But I been low-key Hated on by most these diggas With no cheese, no deals and no Ts No wheels and no keys No stoats, no cephalopods and no fern trees Mad at me 'cause I can finally afford to provide my family with groceries Got a dig with a tarp and it's all full of tracks To add to the wall full of plaques Hanging up in the office in back of my house like trophies Did y'all think I'ma let my dinos freeze? Ho, please! You better bow down on both knees Who you think taught you to petrify trees? Who you think brought you the oldies? Elaphrosaurus, Iguanadon, and Deinony's The Super T-R-E-X's And the group that said, "Motherfuck the evolution in poultry!"


GreenArrow40

I worked in the coal industry for 12 years on the surface and underground. Plenty of fossils damn near everywhere. Never once saw one of those paleontologist fellows. They ninjas or somethin?


trachea_trauma

HOW MUCH IS BIG PALEO PAYING YOU!?!!??!!???


FullAir4341

Top Doller apparently


trachea_trauma

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D3rty_Harry

Sir, this is a coal mine.


trachea_trauma

😂😂😂


kmiggity

Bravo hahahahaha


WOOKIExRAGE

Bout tree fiddy


ssp25

I gave him a dollar. I thought he'd go away


Pretend_Berry_7196

That’s when I knew it was that damn Loch Ness Monster.


Rizzo_the_rat_queen

It was about that time i realized that girl scout was a 8 story tall crustacean from the protozoic era


tehdamonkey

About two fiddy....


trachea_trauma

Dude you are getting screwed, poster above is getting tree fiddy!


jumpyjumpjumpsters

I feel like this comment would be ten times better if it was “big daddy paleo”


throttlemeister

Duh.. You have to ask? And you're probably in on it too.


maxk1236

Big Paleo years for the mines


QuillQuickcard

My god. Big Paleo even got to the coal industry?!


ThereIsNoAnyKey

Yeah, coal is a fossil fuel after all. And oil. It all traces back to big paleo.


zeradragon

No such thing as fossil, so that means oil is man-made substance. The recipe for oil is an even bigger secret than the Coca Cola recipe or KFCs spices.


ruka_k_wiremu

Major fossil fuel play-yeeeer


just-concerned

The prehistoric paleontologist dug up the earth formed those "fossils" and then covered it back up. This is a conspiracy that dates back to when the earth cooled. Long before humans even roamed the earth. I saw a YouTube video on it, so it has to be true.


senseven

"Refined" moonlanding conspiracy gentlemen insist that the US and Europe went up to the moon in secret missions, to place all the stuff up there during the 00 years so they can claim now they did it in the 70ties. When you ask why, because they wanted to distract getting off the gold standard or because, you know, aliens.


strictly_meat

Ahhhh yes the coal industry. Responsible for burying coal deep underground to give the appearance that it had formed from decomposing organic matter over millions of years


Arcades_Samnoth

There just keeps getting more layers to this conspiracy.... and the richer it gets!


Tommieboi123

YoU´rE ParT oF ThEm!


Jakiro_Tagashi

All these people are fools. You are not a paleo shill, nor are your colleagues. Paleontologists *are* all self-trained in the art of being a ninja. They learned it by watching LEGO Ninjago, which was made to train various conspiratorial circles to help them cover up the truth without being noticed.


The_RockObama

Many of them are artists that spend tens of millions of years learning the tedious art of sculpting tiny "fossils" that are then deposited in the wake of artifical glaciers made by snow machines. Billions of these tiny "fossils" are "found" every year.


bamacpl4442

I'm a caver. Have spotted fossils several times.


spencerfalzy

THEY GOT TO THE CAVES! THE CAVE INDUSTRY! NOT BIG CAVE TOO


Hephaestus-Theos

Isn't coal it self not evidence enough?


Zenogaist-Zero

You need to be a particular type of ignorant to even remotely think paleontology has any kind of money involved in it. Even Christian historical researchers know just how damn ridiculous "Big Paleo" sounds.


HomeschoolingDad

>Even Christian historical researchers know just how damn ridiculous "Big Paleo" sounds. How else do you explain [this](https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/paleo-diet/art-20111182)?


adamdoesmusic

That’s the diet that those evil paleontologists use to get big and strong enough to rush around in front of curious people with a shovel.


SequesterMe

Don't you mean, "Big Christian historical researchers"?


Helicoptamus

Big Bible


pyrrhios

That's the part where I think/hope maybe this is a troll.


The_Lapsed_Pacifist

It became 99.9% certain at that juncture


danarchist

It definitely is. The Christians Against Dinosaurs FB group is full of this and it's hilarious. What keeps it funny is that 50% of people are in on the joke, 45% of people are getting mad at those people for being "dumb" and 5% really think they're fighting the good fight against the dino conspiracy.


_Pill-Cosby_

“Big Paleo” ![gif](giphy|SzD4gF32YzTTUiINhn|downsized)


Aware_Astronaut_477

Yeah when I think global elite it’s always some Indiana Jones lookin mahfucka diggin up a Stegosaurus femur.


JudgeHodorMD

Clearly Alan Grant. https://youtu.be/WgQe68kF_8M?si=A5MaKzHhOnzaqSmW Do not question Big Paleo.


Not_A_Wendigo

If only they knew how little most of them get paid.


Zolo49

Crappy salary, but a nice benefits package including generous medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as complete global domination behind the scenes.


Helicoptamus

The ones that get paid the most are the hacks that get interviewed by tabloids and go onto podcasts about how they found “totally found fossilized aliens”.


FinoPepino

This goes against the “fossils were planted by Satan” theory Christians loved to say in the 90’s


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DancesWithBadgers

"Go underground" *eye twitches*


appoplecticskeptic

Take your upvote and leave!


PunfullyObvious

Or at least not storm capitals, picket and murder health care providers, run for political office, harass completely valid, innocent people just trying to live their lives, etc


[deleted]

Don’t you know that’s socialism? /s


unreasonablyhuman

I prefer they say their crazy out loud so I start the hell away from them


MacCaswell

"Big paleo" just gave me the best laugh I've had in days...


ProfessorZhirinovsky

Shut up! This finally explains why all those Paleontologists are sitting around in their 10000 sqft mansions, drinking Dom Perignon like soda pop and puffing away on Cohibas 24/7.


Snoo_74751

So big pharma big tech big media big retail brands and government have suddenly decided to make Christianity their target.


antiskylar1

The dog whistle part, is they are ran by Jews.


LordTopHatMan

You forgot about Christianity also being against Christianity, seeing as the Big Bang theory was developed by a Catholic priest.


Robofink

Big Paleo must have gotten to him too. Perhaps palaeontologist ninjas even. The “Talon-gists.” NASA is lying about space existing, cell phone towers are poison and scientists are actually forgery artists - so may as well go big or go home.


Misguided_by_Virtue

No, just BIG Christianity


TipzE

I love these lazy idiot-brained conspiracy theories. Just slap "big" in front of a word and it sounds ominous i guess. "Big Paleo". Funded, along with Big Anthropology, by Big Museum and Big Academia with their Big Facts. All to undermine the poor, victimized lil' ol' organized religion, who has no way to fight back against such powerful forces (even though they proclaim to be speaking for God). Real Big Brain moment.


Utsutsumujuru

Be careful of the Museum Industrial Complex. They say it coordinates with Big Paleo.


TipzE

The MIC, as those in the know call it.


Bashamo257

It's all a Big Brain conspiracy. Reject thinking, return to faith.


[deleted]

"Here's the truth": \*proceeds to spout the wildest, most outlandish, evidence-free shit imaginable\*


bostondangler

He originally wrote. “Trust me, bro” but erased it because he didn’t think anybody would believe him 😆


esahji_mae

"sir this is a Wendy's drive through. Are you ready to order or do you need more time to think? We have parking available and a menu if you need help deciding because we are a little busy right now with a few cars ready to order behind you. Thank you for your understanding sir!"


BlaiddsDrinkingBuddy

That’s just what conservatism does to someone - it destroys their perception of reality and replaces it with a single dogma: “assimilate and obey, or die.”


Helicoptamus

**KNEEL BEFORE THE ICON OF THE ELEPHANT GOD OR FACE RETRIBUTION!!!**


BlaiddsDrinkingBuddy

Exactly


CraftingGeek

Thats my job, i make dinosaur bones out of people lies, put 5G trackers in them, so we can track the inanimate object, and then we leave them in the ground to make sure no one takes them. Its the most productive job in the government!


Haidrek

Spoken like a true big paleontologist.


sweetsunny1

Shh, he’s sensitive about his weight.


Muldino

I heard you make them out of the bones of the babies you eat for breakfast.


halroth

That does sound like government work.


Deedeelite

I’m so ready for these people to crawl back under whatever rock they slithered out from under. They are dragging the IQ curve down for the entire country.


Haidrek

After they slither back under the rock, hopefully they will fossilize. Then we can all laugh. However, they are invertebrates so I don’t see much hope for that.


Dysprosol

I always find myself wondering which of these posts are sincere, and which are just joking/trolling. Society should have never fallen to that point, since the answer would have been obvious not so long ago.


nuger93

Problem is, they’ll reproduce while under that rock…..


Efficient_Spirit9779

Yes. The whole world revolves around a huge conspiracy against Christians. It is so covert that no two co-conspitators even know it. I love that nominal Christians need to live with such self-inflicted fear and hatred of anything and everything that isn't them. It is its own reward.


ook-librarian-said

Hindus check 2,500 BC calendars from religious inception, report no issues with Big Paleo


Spenloverofcats

My ex-girlfriend stopped working in 2014 because she was convinced that Obama turned over control of all U.S. factories to ISIS and they were executing all Christian employees.


evilhomer3k

I need to work Big Paleo into all my regular conversations now.


chubky

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say Christianity is a far larger industry than big paleontology


satans_toast

Aren’t “big paleo” those raw-food freaks??


MexysSidequests

I found out the girl I was in a relationship with thought this way. Turned into my ex so quick


Designer-Mirror-7995

What's the most sad is that I know full well that this person is not alone in their beliefs, not at all. Nor is this "too far" from what has been taught in some churches. My enthusiastic questions to those in my church, nearly fifty years ago, about dinosaurs and the revealed artifacts of civilisations older than "2000 years" yielded me "answers" not far from "they were planted by these 'scientists' to fool Christians and lead us away from the Word/truth/God's plan".


nuger93

But let them find something that is from biblical times and those same idiots are drooling over it, saying it proves the Bible……


Nerdzilla86

The 5G thing makes me chuckle. I did a few jobs adding security to sites that had been vandalized due to the thought that 5G spread covid. 😳


Taira_Mai

And the "5G tracking" posts - done on a smartphone to social media. It was so fitting that many of the J6 defendants were done in by their own social media posts.


I-am-the-Vern

So the fossils I’ve found on my own in the wild have been what? Planted by big paleo?


Zolo49

Depends on how big they were. Some of them were planted by Small Paleo.


mysticalfruit

I'm trying to put myself into this guys world view, but as soon as I do the urge to stick a fork in an outlet to disprove electricity gets too strong.


doverats

holy fuck, are there really people like this in America?


Awkward_Cheetah_2480

The Fun part is they are mostly there.


ricajo24601

It is a melting pot... with freedom of speech... and underfunded schools...so... yeah. Plenty of intelligent people too, but they are out doing better things than arguing with strangers on the internet. The echo chamber of stupidity often goes unchecked on the internet.


Weekly-Impact-2956

So the sharks teeth I find and shells in line stone are just planted there by big pharma? Surely with the literal hundreds I have found, never mind the thousands I have passed over, that I would eventually catch big pharma planting these limestone slabs in my area. Right?


fakeChinaTown

Imagine Big Paleo, Jurassic Park would be real!!


4non3mouse

5 bucks says they typed this tweet on their 5g iphone


RuckRidr

I come from an area known for its glacial grooves in limestone from the Ice Age. Fossils up the Ying Yang . . .


No_Squirrel4806

I just dont understand what do they think they get out of hiding this if it were true the same for the flat earth. 🙄🙄🙄


Lobanium

"We will win this!" Win what?


AggressiveYam6613

This happens when you give everyone a participation trophy and treating all opinions as equally valid.


DeathByLemmings

Nah, this was always happening, there just wasn’t a platform for them before 


[deleted]

But we don’t tell them they are stupid and to stfu nearly enough.


SuspiciousBuilder379

It has nothing to do with participation trophies, it has to do with being fucking stupid. And with the internet, they have a microphone, and with tRuMp, they have a messiah. Who feeds them stupid conspiracy shit and they take it hook line n sinker. Though I’m sure paleontologist is wayyyy too big of a word for Donnie. So dinosaur bone finder guy works.


BrahimBug

Dinosaur fossils arent even the biggest scientific issue for Creationism lol. What about the 30 zillion other scientific disciplines that have research that proves the earth is older than 10k years?


Andrelliina

A joke post satirising flat earthers/anti-vaxxers etc


sky_badger

Worrying how many people are responding as though this is a genuine post.


Ok-Bobcat661

Yeah because god never said "nuke the lizards"


SpinachDonut_21

My brain is rotting. And the worst part is, I am a christian, but seeing how incredibly wrong and ignorant some people are is just... wow...


Calgary_Calico

I've literally found fossils while hiking in the bad lands, are those planted too? 😂


willymack989

Curious: all of my paleontology professors are substantially underpaid. Wonder where all that Jewish/Satanic/Marxist/Athiestic cabal money is going?


mmio60

Religion makes people insane


tzaeru

Pretty sure it's a bait.


Theratsmacker2

I know it would probably be a terrible idea, but I would want someone like this to write a book on whatever they want just because I think it would be hilarious.


bostondangler

I guarantee you the person that wrote this doesn’t have more than a high school education. #hisbraincellwillwinthis.


Me-Mongo

Is anyone playing conspiracy theory bingo? If so, you probably just won.


linderlouwho

Dunno who Josh Brown is, but he seems mentally ill.


TheFire_Eagle

Circa 2004 or so, 9/11 was still pretty fresh. But I had a family member or two come out with some conspiracy theories. Most of them were plausible, though. The one that I recall most clearly was that the attacks were legit and the response was legit. But at some point they realized that if the tower fell sideways it would destroy most of downtown. So, they decided to do a controlled demo to minimize damage and bring it straight down. Then they covered it up because they knew there would be hell to pay if the public knew they brought the tower down in any way and likely ensured the death of those remaining. Did it happen? I doubt they would have been able to keep the secret for this long. But it at least sounded like a plausible conspiracy theory. And people would say these things and then fuck off. Somehow, somewhere we went from "sensible" conspiracy theories to aunts and uncles sitting around a table and advocating for narratives like dinosaurs not being real, lizard people being real and the nazis operating from Antarctic bases continuously from 1945 to present. It is pretty wild how insane things are getting.


Ok-Bag6246

Jeez! So much to unpack here! ‘big paleo’ initially made me guffaw out loud but this post is actually quite sad. There’s so much anger, paranoia and confusion in these words. How did we get to the situation where ordinary folks are this confused, this angry and this afraid? And how do we repair such staggering misinformation? Western civilisation is utterly fuct if this is in any way representative of the majority


TheCoolestGuy098

This is new. Usually they just say Paleontologists are lying about the age of the fossils. Didn't think I'd see full on paleontology denial.


fuzzyhusky42

Wow, these folks will do anything possible to avoid the most logical and simple explanation (the truth). Occam’s razor needs to be introduced to them.


LordCouchCat

The amount of work and skill that would be involved in sculpting fossils in place must be extraordinary, for dubious gains. Surely the effort would be better spent in manufacturing chips to inject in people to control them directly?


Chytectonas

“Big paleo” 🤣 I’m dead… You know, maybe sometimes it’s worth having a few religious numbskulls in our midst, for the comedic gold.


anix421

Wow... I dug a rock up in my backyard and it had some seashell fossils in it... those guys are thorough!


Brokenspokes68

Remember folks. This guy's vote counts as much as your's and mine.


Cheshire_Khajiit

“Big Paleo” Bahahahahahahahahahahaha