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This whole “Nessie” thing counts as mildly infuriating to me at this point. The whole loch ness monster thing was a fun thing to wonder about as child, but are people really taking it “seriously?” I’m not even sure if this article was written as a serious news story or not, it’s certainly light on substantial new evidence, but then it’s a BBC article not presented as satire - are we supposed to all be in on the the tired joke or is there really something new and substantial there?

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sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
First heard about this major new search a few weeks back, and was entirely unsurprised to hear that one of the main organisers was… the local Loch Ness Visitor Centre, who by no means have a vested interest in keeping this nonsense going…

Pretty sick of seeing the story given coverage by the BBC, the Guardian, etc, at a time when their resources would be better spent on proper news.

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- Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Light local news isn’t covered by the same team, let people enjoy things and have a little fun in life. It is silly but it’s not like every town has local legend about a mythical dinosaur living in it’s lake, why wish it dead.
  
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  - Jamie@jamie.moe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I always just figure these sorts of claims are done with a wink and a nod as a sort of traditional joke.
    
    Camera technology may have progressed to insanely high quality, but any picture of Nessie or Bigfoot will always be taken with a potato.
    
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JoBo@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s a stunt to encourage tourism to the area. You don’t need to get upset about people having a bit of fun.

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- Mane25@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I don’t get upset about people having a bit of fun, but my personal opinion is that this joke is tired and there’s a standard for news stories.
  
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infyrin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
As much as it occasionally annoys me for people to go ga-ga over bigfoot or nessie or UFOs, I would trade that in exchange for current conspiracy theories where people are rampantly aggressive to try and prove their conspiracy theories right. We’re talking anti-vaxxers, QAnon .etc

Political conspiracy shit is five times more aggravating.

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- Mane25@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Of course yes, but it is mildly infuriating. :)
  
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Damizel@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I think the argument that is often made is that we have discovered so little of our oceans that it’s possible we haven’t seen all the different aquatic species there are. Not suggesting Nessie is real, just the overall thought process I feel the believers use.

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- Mane25@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Sure but Loch Ness is on the 3rd most populated island in the world, it’s comprehensively explored, there’s nothing newsworthy to say about it unless there was a vast oversight and that would be the head line, not the “monster”.
  
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  - snooggums@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Also, the loch is only like 10,000 years old, so any 'monster' would have to be from the ocean.
    
    There are sighting of sturgeon and other large fish that wandered into the loch which are likely candidates for misidentification.
    
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MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
There’s a massive tourism industry based on this myth. I wouldn’t be surprised this was just an attempt to give it one more heart beat.

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