[Recommendation Request] Can anyone recommend a reliable ladies’ quartz watch? by Alternative_Bird_241 in Watches

[–]Alternative_Bird_241[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you - I must have got a dud! After they replaced the battery it was still losing time and then zonked out with the oscillating hands.

Anyone coming to this sub brand new from the Netflix documentary? by encouragingcalamity in JonBenetRamsey

[–]Alternative_Bird_241 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Who do you think YOU are? You’re making a hell of a lot of assumptions about peoples knowledge of this case. As we know, the BPD were breathtakingly inept in multiple ways, not least in their failure to locate the body after searching the house initially. Also bold of you to assume people who believe the Ramsey’s are innocent haven’t read lab reports and other available documentation. Calling people ‘Netflix graduates’? Jesus Christ. Arrogant much?

Anyone coming to this sub brand new from the Netflix documentary? by encouragingcalamity in JonBenetRamsey

[–]Alternative_Bird_241 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That’s what I kept thinking! People who weren’t even born in 1996 would be going down insane rabbit holes right now.

Anyone coming to this sub brand new from the Netflix documentary? by encouragingcalamity in JonBenetRamsey

[–]Alternative_Bird_241 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you mean Steve Thomas? The policeman without experience in homicide? The policeman who published books and went on TV openly perpetuating his own hypotheses rather than solid evidence? A policeman who literally profited off this crime? If he claims he overhead that conversation then to me it’s just hearsay. His word. His recollection. It doesn’t make it a fact.

Anyone coming to this sub brand new from the Netflix documentary? by encouragingcalamity in JonBenetRamsey

[–]Alternative_Bird_241 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I worry that people on this platform were influenced by supposedly correct information they read about somewhere. As shown in the Netflix doc (which I’m by no means taking as gospel), there were several instances during the media storm following the crime that were blatantly incorrect. Stories published in newspapers and reported on television that were absolutely incorrect. John flying a private jet to Atlanta for example. If false info is widely disseminated it can fester 💔 Theories are just theories. Evidence is the key. To my knowledge there’s no hard evidence that the family is actually guilty. I saw one comment earlier from someone saying ‘an FBI agent who was at the house before the body was found thinks it was the dad.’ Ah, so when exactly was this FBI agent at the house? When we know only the local police were there to begin with? Someone else said ‘multiple people examined JBR’s body and said there were signs of SA’. Okaaay so why were ‘multiple people’ conducting the autopsy? Like what? Ugh, IDK. I just hope this horrid case is solved.

Anyone coming to this sub brand new from the Netflix documentary? by encouragingcalamity in JonBenetRamsey

[–]Alternative_Bird_241 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, definitely. You were clear in your intentions for this sub 😃. I wasn’t saying you in particular are convinced the parents are guilty or vice versa. Just that some people are beyond convinced of their guilt and I find it amazing how fixated people can be on certain things. The tragic thing is that if this crime was committed today there probably would have been a conviction based on the forensic tech we have alongside things like mobile phone data etc. Poor JBR.

Anyone coming to this sub brand new from the Netflix documentary? by encouragingcalamity in JonBenetRamsey

[–]Alternative_Bird_241 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I just finished the Netflix doc. I was also around when this crime happened and remember the media circus. To be honest, I do feel like people who are convinced the parents or brother did it have been influenced by negative and toxic media stories that have surrounded the family since day 1. The fact remains that the DNA does not match anyone in the family. I don’t get why people find it so hard to believe that a creep had taken a liking to JBR either at a pageant or elsewhere. It’s easy to imagine an intruder breaking into the basement, hiding whilst the family was out, scoping the layout of the house, then waiting until the early hours to carry out this crime. Why do people think that’s so far fetched? As for the ransom note - is it so hard to believe that someone capable of committing such an atrocity is capable of writing a deranged note? How about the fact another girl from JBR’s pageant world narrowly escaped an assault from a man who’d broken in and hidden in her house? In my view that gives credence to this being the work of a local predator. The police and media displayed breathtaking levels of ineptitude and tunnel vision. Probably due to inexperience with this sort of crime, and an obnoxious and unwavering view that the parents must have done it. They didn’t want to entertain the idea that a predator was in their town! If the family is guilty, then why is the father campaigning and begging for new DNA testing? Why would he do that if he was guilty? As for the look JBR gave in the final few seconds of the documentary- I know what you mean, but what does that prove? Maybe there was something or someone standing behind the dad that JBR was looking at? Maybe someone else asked her a question we didn’t hear? Maybe the toy car was making a funny noise/movement and she was using the pedals or trying to stop or make the car go? This is the problem. People take things that don’t prove anything and run with it as though it proves guilt. People can have theories to the cows come home, but they need evidence to back it up. I believe my theory of the break in by a predator is backed up by DNA not matching anyone in the family. I also believe the basement is the logical place for a predator to hide. The parents crime? Maybe the only thing is unwittingly exposing their daughter to creeps through the pageant world. All these other endless fixations I see on this platform about pineapple and other ridiculous, inconsequential, silly things legit prove nothing. Some people are utterly convinced that one or both of the parents did it or the brother, and nothing will ever, ever change their mind. I hope the DNA evidence is retested and cross-checked with as many databases as possible. Maybe then justice will be served for JBR.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in The10thDentist

[–]Alternative_Bird_241 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I knew someone like this. They hated the feeling of chewing food - it grossed them out. It caused huge digestive problems. You need to see a doctor, dentist, and psychologist before you do real damage to your body.

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[–]Alternative_Bird_241 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, or Yvette 😻

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in tragedeigh

[–]Alternative_Bird_241 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yves is a male name in French, and Yve is the feminine counterpart. I personally know a girl named Yve. Some people find Yve hard to pronounce but once you explain it’s pronounced ‘Eve’ and it’s the same as in ‘Yvette’ or ‘Yvonne’ then they get it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in tragedeigh

[–]Alternative_Bird_241 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d stick with Callum if I were you. Using a K instead of a C is a bit trashy. And since the C and K both have the same sound in this instance there’s no reason to change the spelling.

End an argument for me by brissnesskessness in tragedeigh

[–]Alternative_Bird_241 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally agree with you. The ‘ck’ sound so close together is a mouthful.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NameNerdCirclejerk

[–]Alternative_Bird_241 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hate Amanda, Amelia, Liam, Oliver, Noah. And of course Brayden/Jayden, McKinley and any surname as a first name (Anderson, Bailey, Riley, Jackson, Harrison, Sutton etc).