Ever been stuck in a car with a Conspiracy theorist nutjob?

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I used to work with a guy who was convinced the government was secretly "turning" babies gay (either through injections or whatever) in order to control the population. To him, that was the only way you could be gay from birth and everyone else was just "choosing" to be.
 
Stuff like this never bothers me, so I don't understand why some get infuriated by it. My dad has the craziest global warming theory I've ever heard, and I think it's funny, but it really pisses my brother off.

Either way, I haven't really known a person who wasn't crazy in some way.
 
Jexhius said:
My favourite conspiracy theorists who believe things that even other conspiracy theorists think are stupid - like the theory that JFK was shot by his driver. You know you're in trouble when ever the people who believe in cospiracys conspire to mock you.

You forgot the fake conspiracy theories. All of the conspiracies they DON'T believe in were created by the New World Order to give the TRUE conspiracy theories a bad name.
 
I do believe in the Oswalt not acting alone theory. No way one man fired 3 shots from an old, French made, bolt action rifle on a moving target from that distance and hit all 3 shots.

Guess I'm a nutjob.
 
Hung out with a guy one time who didn't believe the holocaust happened, believed in aliens, believed the secret shape-shifting reptillian race was running the world by shape-shifting into our world leaders, believed run-of-the-mill 9/11 stuff, and I can't remember what else, but there was much, much more :lol I acted interested the whole time so he would keep on going on with the craziness, but I was lol-ing on the inside :)
 
MechDX said:
I do believe in the Oswalt not acting alone theory. No way one man fired 3 shots from an old, French made, bolt action rifle on a moving target from that distance and hit all 3 shots.

Guess I'm a nutjob.

Sure he did. That rifle and Oswalt were both capable of the feat.
 
I do believe in the Oswalt not acting alone theory. No way one man fired 3 shots from an old, French made, bolt action rifle on a moving target from that distance and hit all 3 shots.

Guess I'm a nutjob.

I remember seeing an episode of Penn and Teller Bullshit where they basically duplicated the feat with a very similar rifle, even though Penn's not a trained marksman/ex marine as Oswalt was.

On an unrelated note, did anyone see that recent video where Prince is being interviewed and he starts goin' off about chemtrails? WTF? He's one of my favorite musicians ever, but he gets crazier by the minute.
 
I used to work with a guy who was convinced the government was secretly "turning" babies gay (either through injections or whatever) in order to control the population. To him, that was the only way you could be gay from birth and everyone else was just "choosing" to be.

Wow.
 
Whoompthereitis said:
On an unrelated note, did anyone see that recent video where Prince is being interviewed and he starts goin' off about chemtrails? WTF? He's one of my favorite musicians ever, but he gets crazier by the minute.

Many, many musicians would just be a loon rambling on the corner if it weren't for the fact that they could play an instrument. It almost seems to come with the job description.

Edit: AND THEY ARE ALSO ILLUMINATI PUPPETS, apparently.
 
I prefer these guys more than the opposite. Those who are like "but we did not learn that in school so it cannot be true", "But the newspaper said it was true" or "whatever man, i do not know" type.
 
Haven't had the pleasure yet to meet one in person, butI've had the pleasure to be stuck with one on skype, while playing an on-line game.
 
Whoompthereitis said:
On an unrelated note, did anyone see that recent video where Prince is being interviewed and he starts goin' off about chemtrails? WTF? He's one of my favorite musicians ever, but he gets crazier by the minute.

Matt Bellamy of Muse is a truther.

And I think Dustin Kensrue of Thrice is one, too.
 
Next time, point out the circularness of his logic. "The new world order intends to gain control over the entire world by controlling the entire world." See what he says.
 
Ugh, I got stuck on a 1.5 hour bus ride with one.
Worst thing is, the game seemed like a cool guy at first, since the discussion started with him pimping his jailbroken iPhone and me pimping my custom firmware-running PSP.

However, a fun comparison of his poorly running Super Mario 64 emulation and my copy of Super Mario 64 DS, eventually led to him showing me horribly out-of-context Youtube videos of various conspiracy theories. He ran the gamut from Obama being a Muslim to the usual 9/11 truther nonsense.

He wasn't reacting properly to my polite attempts at disengaging from the conversation, so finally I just plugged my headphones over my ears, hit play on my iPod, and went back to my PSP/DS gaming for the duration of the bus ride. I'm pretty sure he eventually shut up, but I can't really vouch for it since my headphones provide amazing isolation.
 
Shorty said:
You took money from a relative for picking him up? Is that normal practice in America?

Yes.
There are two things in life you can only ask a relative or best friend to help with - rides to/from the airport and moving.

Rides to the airport cost gas + a small convenience fee, rounded up to the nearest multiple of $10, whichever is less. If the trip is over 90 minutes long, you pay for a meal along the way. By default, airport chauffeurs on the departing trip are the designated house watchers, dog sitters, etc. It is the duty of the airport chauffeur to inquire about such matters before agreeing to work the departure shift. Otherwise, said duties can fall onto him.

For moving, all expenses are your own (truck rentals, supplies, etc.).
Payment is to be in the form of food and drink (typically pizza and beer).
If it takes you three days to move all your shit, your friend gets paid for each day that he helped you.
If you used a friend's vehicle (say he has a truck, and you don't), you pay gas money plus a few bucks on top for the "I'm only using you for your truck" guilt.
Your friend also gets free dibs on any excess furniture. Don't need that lamp? Your friend gets dibs on it before you can put it on Craig's List.

When moving, one must be careful to never cross the friends. It may seem like a good idea to have a couple friends help you on the same day so stuff can get done faster, but if those two friends aren't friends with each other directly, you're crossing the friends!
A few hours of moving a mutual friends crap with some other guy you don't really know has the potential to result in more frustration than pizza and beer can solve. It also poisons any possibility of the two friends to ever becoming direct friends.

The friend (in moving and airport rides) who helps must politely decline all payment offers at least once. Declining again after the helpee insists, or returning said payments after you found it slipped into your pocket, left on the passenger seat of your car, etc. is bad form.
 
Shorty said:
You took money from a relative for picking him up? Is that normal practice in America?

Well, yeah. Gas + fee.



I'm not all that close with this family member anyway.
 
DarkUSS said:
This conspiracy owns all the other conspiracies:

Lady Gaga, The Illuminati Puppet

Also, anyone heard of the Codex Alimentarius? I have an uncle who is obsessed with that kind of stuff. :lol

That's wrapped up in a larger context that the industryexposed love talking about a lot. They have tons of stuff lurking around now when you look for that.

Codex Alimentarius was supposed to go in to effect last year but mansanto hasn't starved us yet and vitamins along with many other things mentioned aren't outlawed from what I know so no it didn't happen.

Raist zeitgeist is acharya s inspired conspiracy full of new age propaganda. Drives some nice points about fiat and central banking but the rest of it is wrapped up in NWO garbage topped up with venus utopia social engineering about the 5th age.
 
Had a similar experience as the OP, and it made me fucking furious for the next day or too.

I had a conversation with my cousin about fluoride and the whole lizard NWO stuff.
I basically told him that there are much simpler explanations for, for example, why world leaders tend to do bad things, i.e. power corrupts. Then he say, well, i don't believe that power corrupts, people would never do terrible things in power, HAS TO BE LIZARD-MEN.

Also, he practically shat all over science, claiming flu-shots were goverment control, and how viruses don't exist. I have a PhD in biochemistry. You can imagine I was quite incensed.

He kept talking about how I should read about David Icke and shit and all these youtube movies. Luckily he hadn't really liked zietgeist, as it is a piece of shit. He said it was too negative. Man, I am almost getting mad about this again.
 
Raist said:
The fuck is Zeitgeist?
A movie filled with stupid conspiracy theories.

I'm an atheist but the atheist segment in that movie is almost as stupid as the other sections. Part of their atheist case is that "The son rose three days later" really refers to the 'Sun' at winter solstice or something thing like that. Uh . . . although 'son' and 'sun' are homonyms in English, that doesn't mean they were in the original languages those texts were written in, you zeitgeist morons.
 
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