"Conspiracy Theories" that you believe in!

[caketastydelish]

7/11 was a part-time job.

 

[caketastydelish]

The Victorians, of course, had their bonkers cutlery conspiracy.

Take the cake fork, just for an instance. Half fork half (I nearly said cake) spoon. Or is it half fork half knife?

Actually, I've just found out it's called a pastry fork.

As for cutlery knives generally...are they really knives at all? To me they're really only useful for pushing food around on the plate.

Someone told me they're "parody knives" in order to discourage people from stabbing each other with them.

But, ah me! Cutlery in general.

It's enough to make me eat sandwiches for evermore.

That's just a fork with one mutant prong. No part of that is a spoon. I don't really see a knife in there either, sorry.

This cake points out there is no spoon. You cannot bend the truth.

 

[shadowplay]

I think United 93 was shot down. I've never been sold on the "hero passengers deliberately crash plane" narrative.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Well, supposedly it was not deliberate, they tried to subdue the terrorists and the plane crashed in the resulting mess.

 

[Naskra]

I've never been sold on the "hero passengers deliberately crash plane" narrative

How about a narrative wherein the hijackers learn about their upcoming fate at the same time as the passengers? The plane crashes in the ensuing chaos. For operational security, only the pilot would have known the true purpose of the hijacking. Likewise, Osama Bin Laden, that You-Tubing blabbermouth, would not have been informed about the mission, hence he had to die - he knew too little.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

I tend to think most conspiracies are merely meant to cover up the incompetence of officials that allowed accidents to happen.


The JFK conspiracy theory I find most plausible is the one where a panicked Secret Service officer with poor trigger discipline accidentally discharged his firearm, killing the president after Kennedy had already been injured badly enough that he would have never regained consciousness anyway. No one wanted it to happen, but they were too afraid of the public backlash to ever let the truth leak out to ruin the reputation of either the man or the agency.

 

[Arakhor]

I believe that this is the perfect video for this thread:

 

[GoodSarmatian]

I believe that this is the perfect video for this thread:

Almost perfect.
This is perfecter.

 

[r16]

How about a narrative wherein the hijackers learn about their upcoming fate at the same time as the passengers? The plane crashes in the ensuing chaos. For operational security, only the pilot would have known the true purpose of the hijacking.

jerrah didn't . He was up for a hijacking that would promote the Palestinian cause from an Islamist narrative , just like the 1970s' events did to benefit the PLO in a Leftist sense . Enough rumours that he wasn't good enough a pilot and didn't know which button was for what . Calling on the cabin to send in the pilot so that he could land the plane in some airport was overheard all over the airwaves and the lot . Jerrah would expect lots of trouble in interrogation , but he sure didn't crash in Pentagon or the towers in New York .

 

[Sommerswerd]

Almost perfect.
This is perfecter.

Allow me to take issue with said so-called "perfection"...

In the kitty Civil War depicted in this video... both sides are using Confederate flags

I think therefore that purrfection is a more appropriate term... heh heh... see what I did there?

 

[Ferocitus]

I tend to believe that any action or deal that involves one or more of the
Seven Sisters bears very careful attention.

 

[Sommerswerd]

I'm kinda partial to the US "Central Bank" (currently known as the US Federal Reserve) conspiracy theories.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I think I've heard Marlowe mentioned in Shakespeare authorship conspiracies but only briefly. In short, what is it based on?

It's based on the same thing that the entire authorship controversy is based on, whoever you choose as your alternative author: the conviction that no one who wasn't university educated could write such amazing plays.

That advantage of going with Marlowe is that Marlowe was killed in a tavern brawl just a few years into that supposed-Shakespeare-fellow's dramatic career. So you get the further fun story that that death was faked and that Marlowe went on living in secrecy, writing Shakespearean plays.

 

[Bugfatty300]

The JFK conspiracy theory I find most plausible is the one where a panicked Secret Service officer with poor trigger discipline accidentally discharged his firearm, killing the president after Kennedy had already been injured badly enough that he would have never regained consciousness anyway. No one wanted it to happen, but they were too afraid of the public backlash to ever let the truth leak out to ruin the reputation of either the man or the agency.

The only plausible JFK conspiracy theories are the one's that acknowledge the fact that every bullet that hit the president came downward from the direction of the book depository.

They're also more interesting and entertaining than the typical "back and too the left" ad nauseum scrutiny of the actual killing.

 

[Broken_Erika]

The only plausible JFK conspiracy theories are the one's that acknowledge the fact that every bullet that hit the president came downward from the direction of the book depository.

Pffft! Here's the true story.

Spoiler :

 

[PhroX]

Oh please, everyone knows JFK was shot by his future self who travelled back in time to undo the damage his presidency had caused....

 

[Lexicus]

I actually do believe that the JFK assassination was a conspiracy, I also am suspicious about Robert Kennedy's assassination and am pretty damn sure the government straight-up murdered Martin Luther King Jr.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Oh please, everyone knows JFK was shot by his future self who travelled back in time to undo the damage his presidency had caused....

I remember that episode but i cant remember the name of the show..

 

[r16]

something should be done out of this .

Spoiler :

Parrots flying high are annoying farmers by plundering their poppy fields to feed their opiate addiction. The avian stoners sit perched in waiting until workers slit open the flower pods to help them ripen. They then swoop down in silence – having learned not to squawk – and nibble through the stalks below the pods before they are spotted. Video shows them retreating to high branches where they gorge on the plants leaving them sleeping for hours – and sometimes falling to their death.


In 2015 poppy-raiding parrots were reported in Chittorgarh in the state of Rajasthan, but this year they have been found making a huge dent in crops 40 miles (64km) away in Neemach in the state of Madhya Pradesh.The numbers of birds raiding the fields are increasing with every passing year. Farmers are supposed to hand over a preagreed quantity of produce to the state, which controls opium farming. The birds hit between March and April when the seeds are cut, exposing the latex which contains morphine. Blissed-out birds have become easy target for their predators. Farmers have tried bursting firecrackers, beating tin drums and hurling stones to keep the birds away – but to no avail.


Sobharam Rathod, an opium farmer from Neemach, estimates parrots are stealing around 10 per cent of his crop and he has been given a warning. “Usually, the parrots would make sound when in a group,” he said. “But these birds have become so smart that they don’t make any noise when they swoop on the fields. They start chirping when they fly away with opium pods. We have tried every trick possible to keep them at bay but they keep coming back even at the risk of their life. We keep an eye on them, but they also keep an eye on us. The moment you lower your guard the army of parrots silently swoop onto your field and take away the bulbs.” From the video evidence, the birds would appear to relatives of the ring-necked (or roseringed) parakeets that have now established sizeable colonies in London and the Home Counties

 

[innonimatu]

I remember that episode but i cant remember the name of the show..

Red Dwarf. And that was a good one