[Humour] Entertaining Conspiracy Theories

[Nobby Cybergoat]

There's that hilarious one about that disease which escaped from a Chinese laboratory. Anyone heard that one?

 

[Questions]

The 2012 Olympics were fake. All the athletes, crowds and officials were actors.

 

[Brovion]

I never understand why someone who raises suspicions about one particular event or chain of events these days then gets labelled a 'conspiracy theorist' and therefore must clearly believe we are about to be taken over by Reptilian overlords. It's not like Governments have never covered anything up or lied about anything in the past, is it? And it plays completely in to the hand of whoever is trying to cover something up.

If someone two years ago had suggested there were elite parties going on in Downing Street with the people running the country getting drunk and socialising while the rest of us were locked down, I bet they would have received similar comments.

Somebody who thinks there are more questions to answer about who really killed JFK doesn't necessarily believe we are being fed mind-control substances fired out the back of aeroplanes.

I don't think it's quite the same. Hopefully my other two posts have proved that I've no time for the 'flat earth' style conspiracies (Another group who've depressingly grown in number in the internet age), but do I think that governments lie, cheat, distort and hide facts? Of course I do - and I'm pretty sure that everyone else posting on this thread also thinks that.

But there's a difference between healthy scepticism and downright insanity. Take Covid for example. I personally feel the lockdowns were a massive mistake that have created huge long-term problems, and these far outweigh any short-term benefits that they may have had. I also think that the government twisted the 'facts' to 'prove' that they were, in fact, the best approach. I may be right, I may be wrong, but yes I was/am sceptical of the government in this respect. However I don't believe that Covid was a hoax or that it was spread by 5G masts or that the vaccines were Bill Gates injecting chips into us - that's the insanity end of the spectrum.

 

[Mellotron]

Dogs can't look up.

 

[Mellotron]

I don't think it's quite the same. Hopefully my other two posts have proved that I've no time for the 'flat earth' style conspiracies (Another group who've depressingly grown in number in the internet age), but do I think that governments lie, cheat, distort and hide facts? Of course I do - and I'm pretty sure that everyone else posting on this thread also thinks that.

But there's a difference between healthy scepticism and downright insanity. Take Covid for example. I personally feel the lockdowns were a massive mistake that have created huge long-term problems, and these far outweigh any short-term benefits that they may have had. I also think that the government twisted the 'facts' to 'prove' that they were, in fact, the best approach. I may be right, I may be wrong, but yes I was/am sceptical of the government in this respect. However I don't believe that Covid was a hoax or that it was spread by 5G masts or that the vaccines were Bill Gates injecting chips into us - that's the insanity end of the spectrum.

Agreed. There's a big, big spectrum between "that was a bit iffy" to " the lizards are going to kill us all".

Pretty much everyone thinks that Government keeps certain things from the herd, and probably with good reason a lot of the time.

 

[Mellotron]

Agreed. There's a big, big spectrum between "that was a bit iffy" to " the lizards are going to kill us all".

Pretty much everyone thinks that Government keeps certain things from the herd, and probably with good reason a lot of the time.

The Government's response to COVID was the perfect example of CTers confusing incompetence for more sinister ideas.

 

[jessiejames]

Brighton have a Laboratory at tge training ground that makes robots and turns them into great players.

 

[Doonhamer7]

I listened to a podcast with Ross Kemp interviewing Professor Quassim Cassam who has written papers / boos on conspiracy theories

 

[The Clamp]

Colonel Sanders puts a chemical in his chicken that makes you crave it fortnightly.




If anyone can name that reference they have my lasting respect.

 

[Goldstone1976]

Colonel Sanders puts a chemical in his chicken that makes you crave it fortnightly.




If anyone can name that reference they have my lasting respect.

So I married an axe murderer. Directed by Tommie Schlamme, who went on to direct The West Wing a decade or do later.

 

[Jackthelad]

There will always be an audience for Conspiracy theories because nations like America, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Russia, China and so on are corrupt and The WEF do themselves no favours with James Bond's bad guy in Klaus Schwab and the murky Bill Gates the computer nerd who is now viewed as an expert in everything. climate, food supply, vaccines and basically everything else.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

There are some good ones around the US presidency (beyond the obvious fake ballots shenanigans and rigged elections): Trumpo is still the president; there are two Joe Bidens because the 'real' one is dead; obviously all the stuff about Obama/pizzagate/birth certificate; Kamela Harris is a man, etc, etc, etc

 

[Stato]

The 2012 Olympics were fake. All the athletes, crowds and officials were actors.

Did Danny Boyle direct? Then why wasn't Ewan Mcgregor in it? Occam's Razor...

 

[Jackthelad]

There are some good ones around the US presidency (beyond the obvious fake ballots shenanigans and rigged elections): Trumpo is still the president; there are two Joe Bidens because the 'real' one is dead; obviously all the stuff about Obama/pizzagate/birth certificate; Kamela Harris is a man, etc, etc, etc

I've not heard the Kamela Harris one but Obama's wife being a man is often spouted, the late Joan Rivers mentioned that before she died also. It's hard to not laugh at some of them. But Hunter Biden laptop those photos were not fake as far as I know, and there are some very f***ed up photos, that all got buried fast.

 

[Questions]

Did Danny Boyle direct? Then why wasn't Ewan Mcgregor in it? Occam's Razor...

confidentiality clauses numpty

 

[Stato]

confidentiality clauses numpty

Ooh... Did Ewan play Andy Murray? It's all becoming clear.

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/whats-on/andy-murray-wants-ewan-mcgregor-to-play-him-in-movie-of-his-life-613677

 

[Coxovi]

My favourite one. They have a cure for the common cold but are never going to make it available! Of course they will say there are too many variants. The reality is that for the pharmaceutical companies etc it would be a financial disaster. Just look at what is spent on the huge range of cold remedies.

Not particularly entertaining but plausible?

No, it is not. Inventor would make a fortune, and most researchers are doctors and would never be willing to bury such a Medicine (neither would the non-doctors). However it is true that money flows disproportionally to the most potentially profitable diseases.

 

[Algernon]

A friend of mine insists that old churches are really power stations that gathered, stored, and distributed "electricity from the earth's magnetic field" back in the late middle ages.

Yeah, I know, rubbish............I haven't got any mates.

 

[A1X]

I’m convinced nobody actually believes the earth is flat, they just claim they do for attention / a laugh

 

[Driver8]

I don't think it's quite the same. Hopefully my other two posts have proved that I've no time for the 'flat earth' style conspiracies (Another group who've depressingly grown in number in the internet age), but do I think that governments lie, cheat, distort and hide facts? Of course I do - and I'm pretty sure that everyone else posting on this thread also thinks that.

But there's a difference between healthy scepticism and downright insanity. Take Covid for example. I personally feel the lockdowns were a massive mistake that have created huge long-term problems, and these far outweigh any short-term benefits that they may have had. I also think that the government twisted the 'facts' to 'prove' that they were, in fact, the best approach. I may be right, I may be wrong, but yes I was/am sceptical of the government in this respect. However I don't believe that Covid was a hoax or that it was spread by 5G masts or that the vaccines were Bill Gates injecting chips into us - that's the insanity end of the spectrum.

What did the government stand to gain by having a lockdown? I can only see negatives and huge cost. I can’t believe they made the decision lightly.