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Insane things you never thought people would actually claim outside of the intertubes

Melphi
02-07-2008, 22:45
Have you ever seen or read something so out there that you never expected to see it repeated outside of the internet? If so, what? If not, have you seen something that would frighten you if it didn't come with "http"?

I have seen people claim homosexuality is the reason for the fall of ancient civilizations online...never thought I would hear it claimed outside of the internet.

That's what I get for working with a Young Earth Creationist.
Longhaul
02-07-2008, 23:40
That's what I get for working with a Young Earth Creationist.
Damn you for shattering my illusions... I've been nurturing the hope that contemporary YECs themselves were just some kind of prolonged Internet trolling exercise. I'd managed to do the whole "fingers in ears and la la la" thing about that museum of the Discovery Institute's and everything :(
Aceopolis
02-07-2008, 23:52
Something I thought was limited to the internet:

Ron Paul will win the eection
Free Soviets
03-07-2008, 00:02
I've been nurturing the hope that contemporary YECs themselves were just some kind of prolonged Internet trolling exercise.

before i worked for one, i'd always just assumed that YECs were just some sort of strawmen to beat up on in biologists' rhetorical flourishes.
Abdju
03-07-2008, 00:13
The idea that the Egyptians crossed the Atlantic to Latin America I genuinely believed was just some fucked up Internet conspiracy theory until three people asked me about it in one day.

"Hey, the Egyptians had boats, right?"
"Oh gods, I can see this conversation going west pretty quick..."
"Well, that's what I wanted to ask you about!"
"This conversation is now officially over..."
Hurdegaryp
03-07-2008, 01:41
Abdju, that theory actually predates the internet. Granted, it's a bit far-fetched, but it's technically possible. That doesn't mean that it actually happened, but it's not entirely impossible.
Corporatum
03-07-2008, 01:46
Well, once in religion class we had this one guy tell about his theory that man and dinosaurs once lived side by side, and that all dinosaurs died during the great floods, which was his explanation for dinosaur bones :rolleyes:
Chumblywumbly
03-07-2008, 01:50
The idea that the Egyptians crossed the Atlantic to Latin America I genuinely believed was just some fucked up Internet conspiracy theory until three people asked me about it in one day.
That's a rather simplified version of a number of differing theories. There are some interesting arguments for ancient civilizations travelling further than historians/archaeologists have so far believed, while it's intriguing to note early Pacific island settlement.

Though granted these views do usually get blown all out of proportion, and before you know it you're talking about the 'Chariots of the Gods'... :p
Heikoku 2
03-07-2008, 01:52
well, Once In Religion Class We Had This One Guy Tell About His Theory That Man And Dinosaurs Once Lived Side By Side

Yabba Dabba Doo!!!
Chumblywumbly
03-07-2008, 01:58
Yabba Dabba Doo!!!
Wait, that wasn't a documentary!?
Hurdegaryp
03-07-2008, 01:59
Corporatum, it sounds like that person didn't understand that the Flintstones are a purely fictional form of animated entertainment, not a documentary. I guess it's true after all: cartoons rot the brain!
Rubi-Kan Omni-Tek
03-07-2008, 02:00
Yabba Dabba Doo!!!

Yes, too much Flintstones was my first thought as well.

++
Ashmoria
03-07-2008, 02:07
Well, once in religion class we had this one guy tell about his theory that man and dinosaurs once lived side by side, and that all dinosaurs died during the great floods, which was his explanation for dinosaur bones :rolleyes:

oh i was (accidentally) listening to a christian radio station the other day and the host was laughing at the notion of evolution and said that there are plenty of pictographs made by ancient peoples that depict DINOSAURS so they must have lived recently and at the same time as humans.

id put up some urls showing the pictures but that would be against the theme of this thread.
Mott Haven
03-07-2008, 02:09
Sometimes I am reminded that a lot of people on the internet are pretty young. They don't remember rotary phones, or black and white television, butterfly windows on cars, or...

rant tracts.

Y'see, back in the days when dinosaurs and Buicks roamed the Earth, we had the same nutcases, cranks, and whackadoodles that we have now. But there was no internet back then. So they wrote.

You could always tell a rant tract. It was on 8 1/2 by 11, and every inch of it was covered in as much writing as they could possibly fit in, plus diagrams, charts, and pictures that rarely made sense. They copied these things and they turned up glued all over lamp posts, walls, signs, etc.

Nowadays, the internet has given these folk a safe outlet. A few still turn up from time to time, but mostly, they run websites. Thank god. Cuts down on the litter.

Time Cube is probably the best example on the net of the old style psychotic rant style.

http://www.timecube.com/
Chumblywumbly
03-07-2008, 02:13
Sometimes I am reminded that a lot of people on the internet are pretty young. They don't remember rotary phones, or black and white television, butterfly windows on cars, or...
When there was no option to save on video games.

Y'know, back in the Stone Age (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqmjWCk36C8).

Time Cube is probably the best example on the net of the old style psychotic rant style.
I always get a strange pleasure from this sort of html formatting.
Conserative Morality
03-07-2008, 02:13
The idea that the Egyptians crossed the Atlantic to Latin America I genuinely believed was just some fucked up Internet conspiracy theory until three people asked me about it in one day.

"Hey, the Egyptians had boats, right?"
"Oh gods, I can see this conversation going west pretty quick..."
"Well, that's what I wanted to ask you about!"
"This conversation is now officially over..."
They did a test with that. They constructed a boat in the style of the ancient Egyptians, and tried to sail it across the Atlantic. the first one sunk, but the second one remained afloat.

Also:
Teh all knowing Wiki! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic_contact#Fringe_theories)
Daistallia 2104
03-07-2008, 03:48
Having been born well before the Internet, I've heard heaps of them. :)

I once met a guy who believed very small intelligent aliens had landed at the mountain lake we we camped out at.

I went to high school with a guy who insisted I was a communist because I didn't believe in god.

I've had lots of Japanese tell me that keeping an air-conditioner on while you sleep will give you "air-conditioner sickness".

Also, I've had Japanese people tell me various theories of "Nihonjinron" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihonjinron), like Japanese people shouldn't eat beef because they have "different intestines".

Last year I worked with a woman who believed the moon landings were a hoax and 9/11 was a CIA plot.

One of my neigbors, when drunk, will go on and on about his vast conspiracy theories.



That's a rather simplified version of a number of differing theories. There are some interesting arguments for ancient civilizations travelling further than historians/archaeologists have so far believed, while it's intriguing to note early Pacific island settlement.

Though granted these views do usually get blown all out of proportion, and before you know it you're talking about the 'Chariots of the Gods'... :p

Indeed.

They did a test with that. They constructed a boat in the style of the ancient Egyptians, and tried to sail it across the Atlantic. the first one sunk, but the second one remained afloat.

Also:
Teh all knowing Wiki! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic_contact#Fringe_theories)

It's quite interesting to see the Polynesian contact's been confirmed.

http://www.livescience.com/history/070604_polynesian_chicken.html

Sometimes I am reminded that a lot of people on the internet are pretty young. They don't remember rotary phones, or black and white television, butterfly windows on cars, or...

rant tracts.

Indeed.
Poliwanacraca
03-07-2008, 03:59
Well, once in religion class we had this one guy tell about his theory that man and dinosaurs once lived side by side, and that all dinosaurs died during the great floods, which was his explanation for dinosaur bones :rolleyes:

It could be worse. There's a lovely little blueberry farm near here run by quite possibly the craziest YEC family I've ever encountered. They regularly send us a newsletter, which quite honestly reads something like this:

"The blueberry crop is looking great this year! We've planted 800 new bushes and they're coming up wonderfully. Also, we enrolled our son in a terrific summer camp called 'Death to Darwinists' where he's learning how to smite heathens! Smiting heathens is very important. We talk about it for hours every night in between planting our new RASPBERRY BUSHES! The bees just love those! Also, if you ever want to donate money to help us petition Congress to lock atheists in concentration camps, that would just be great! We hope to see you out at the berry patch this summer!"

My favorite quote of all time, though, came when they were discussing some of the lessons their home-schooled children were learning, and went something like this:

"This year, we have been teaching the kids about dinosaurs! Dinosaurs were huge beasts that roamed Europe during the Middle Ages. Knights could gain great renown by slaying them!"
Megaloria
03-07-2008, 04:12
I had an ex-girlfriend who believes she can control the weather.

Megaloria sure knows how to pick 'em.
Free Soviets
03-07-2008, 04:27
It's quite interesting to see the Polynesian contact's been confirmed.

http://www.livescience.com/history/070604_polynesian_chicken.html

nice

though the distribution of the sweet potato (and the strikingly similar naming in both quechua and the various polynesian languages) was already a pretty big clue.
Daistallia 2104
03-07-2008, 04:40
nice

though the distribution of the sweet potato (and the strikingly similar naming in both quechua and the various polynesian languages) was already a pretty big clue.

I remember a discussion a long time ago, quite possibly with you, where the the Polynesian sweet potatoes came up. At that time it had been my understanding they had actually been introduced post-Columbian, so it was also interesting to see that there is pre-Columbian evidence.
Katonazag
03-07-2008, 04:56
I work at a large hospital and have to deal with the insane - no concept shocks me anymore.
Ryadn
03-07-2008, 05:02
When there was no option to save on video games.

Kids these days are boggled by that. "But, what did you do if you died? What about when you had to go to sleep?" Video game players today are so soft. In my day you put your game on pause and taped a piece of paper to the TV screen that threatened death for anyone who turned it off!

'Course, in my mom's day with the Atari you couldn't pause, so you apparently left people locked outside with their arms full of groceries when you were kicking ass on Missile Command.
Ryadn
03-07-2008, 05:04
"This year, we have been teaching the kids about dinosaurs! Dinosaurs were huge beasts that roamed Europe during the Middle Ages. Knights could gain great renown by slaying them!"

And this is why home schooling scares me. Because for every qualified, intelligent parent there's a wacko like this. -_-
Geniasis
03-07-2008, 05:28
And this is why home schooling scares me. Because for every qualified, intelligent parent there's a wacko like this. -_-

Or a wiseass like who'd tell a four-year old that

"The most famous Samurai was Frederick Ferdinand, who ruled the Japanese city of Athens during the Renaissance Era--which lasted from 1814 to 1944 when the U.S. dropped the Atomic Bomb, killing him and creating the Panama Canal"

just to see if it would stick.

I really shouldn't be allowed to talk to children.
Lunatic Goofballs
03-07-2008, 05:43
My father-in-law has a Ron Paul bumpersticker on his car. I made it a point to not mention it. That's a conversation neither of us need. :p
Heikoku 2
03-07-2008, 05:50
I had an ex-girlfriend who believes she can control the weather.

Megaloria sure knows how to pick 'em.

Was she African, with long, wavy white hair, and VERY sexy?
Megaloria
03-07-2008, 05:53
Was she African, with long, wavy white hair, and VERY sexy?

Short, caucasian, black hair. Good in bed, but the tradeoff wasn't worth it in the long run.
Heikoku 2
03-07-2008, 06:40
Short, caucasian, black hair. Good in bed, but the tradeoff wasn't worth it in the long run.

Short, long-black-haired girl? And you dumped her why? She sounds PERFECT! :D

>.>

So, I have a fetish.

<.<
Conserative Morality
03-07-2008, 07:50
Short, long-black-haired girl? And you dumped her why? She sounds PERFECT! :D

>.>

So, I have a fetish.

<.<

I have a fetish for redheads. Surprisingly enough, I'm also a redhead.

"Someone."

"Was there any more to that or-"
Kudos to whoever gets teh reference.
Extreme Ironing
03-07-2008, 14:07
I find it funny when I hear people actually saying internet phrases like 'LOL' or 'pwned'. Then again, being so used to typing it and seeing it in games, I sometimes say things like that as well, albeit with an ironic tone.
Cabra West
03-07-2008, 14:26
My favorite quote of all time, though, came when they were discussing some of the lessons their home-schooled children were learning, and went something like this:

"This year, we have been teaching the kids about dinosaurs! Dinosaurs were huge beasts that roamed Europe during the Middle Ages. Knights could gain great renown by slaying them!"

I know I should feel sorry for those kids, but.... oh, the hilarity!!! I'm in stiches here...
Brutland and Norden
03-07-2008, 14:26
Something I thought was limited to the internet:
Ron Paul will win the eection
Ron Paul will win the erection?
Toxiarra
03-07-2008, 14:38
I have a fetish for redheads. Surprisingly enough, I'm also a redhead.

"Someone."

"Was there any more to that or-"
Kudos to whoever gets teh reference.

Yes. Redheads are amazing.

One thing though, I've never seen an average redhead. They are either really ugly, or really hot. Maybe it's just me.
Tsrill
03-07-2008, 14:41
I once heard a lecture by a guy who talked about humans being some sort of slaves of aliens. These aliens landed in Mesopotamia and started a civilization there, but around 3000 BC the aliens annihilated themselves in a nuclear war. Their human slaves escaped and wandered to north-west Europe in the course of the centuries. Or something. The guy truly believed in this. I laughed my backside off...

Later I found out that the story was based on an "ancient Frisian document", the "Oeralindale", which is proven to be 19th century hoax.

I've never seen an average redhead. They are either really ugly, or really hot. Maybe it's just me.
I consider myself fairly average looking. But then again, you haven't seen me, so you're still right, I guess... Also, I don't know whether you were talking girls or guys...
Megaloria
03-07-2008, 17:25
Short, long-black-haired girl? And you dumped her why? She sounds PERFECT! :D

>.>

So, I have a fetish.

<.<

Yes. Very pleasing. Were it not for the CRAZY.
I mean, I'm weird. Really weird. But I know my limitations.
And anyway, it's HER loss, because in line with the conversation at this point, I'm a redhead myself.
Conserative Morality
03-07-2008, 17:53
Yes. Redheads are amazing.

One thing though, I've never seen an average redhead. They are either really ugly, or really hot. Maybe it's just me.

It's not just you ;).

Well, for women at least. I consider myself to be average.
Seangoli
03-07-2008, 18:03
The idea that the Egyptians crossed the Atlantic to Latin America I genuinely believed was just some fucked up Internet conspiracy theory until three people asked me about it in one day.

"Hey, the Egyptians had boats, right?"
"Oh gods, I can see this conversation going west pretty quick..."
"Well, that's what I wanted to ask you about!"
"This conversation is now officially over..."

Well, the problem does not lie in that they both had Pyramids(Which is an idiotic claim, as the two pyramid types were built for entirely different reasons, are aesthetically entirely different, and were probably built by entirely different methods. Hence, they are practically entirely different). Instead, the problem lies in that Nicotine and even Coca(Both native to the Americas, and not present to the old world) residues appear to be found in the mummified remains of ancient Old World peoples. Now, this is a puzzling factor in and of itself, and I'm not saying that necessarily the Egyptians had contact with the New World, but that perhaps some far-flung trade network may very well have been set up between the Americas and the Old World, introducing the plants to the world. I'm not even saying this is true. Yet it is a very intriguing idea, to say the least.
Hotwife
03-07-2008, 18:05
We were eating lunch (I and some co-workers) and this one woman gets all starry-eyed, and says she'd voting for Obama because he's so "Christ-like".

She rambled on a bit about how he's going to save the world, "and everything".

You can like him - you can even vote for him - he'll probably end up as President - but, no, he's not "Christ-like".

It was especially fun hearing this from the lips of an avowed atheist, who apparently has some inner religious thing coming up out of her bowels like a pool of sick.
Hurdegaryp
03-07-2008, 18:41
Ron Paul will win the erection?

Since libertarians have a hard-on for Ron Paul, affectionately known as the Saviour in libertarian circles, that actually makes sense.
Bitchkitten
03-07-2008, 18:49
The one I heard from a coworker that had me banging my head was that Wicca is not a religion. Dude, if they think it is, then it is. The same as Christianity. Is there some sort of agency that certifies one as an official religion?
New Genoa
03-07-2008, 19:02
Jews did WTC
Sarkhaan
03-07-2008, 19:46
I have a good friend who doesn't believe in dinosaurs. He's fine with other fossils. It's just dinosaurs.

Now, this is rooted in his baptist upbringing, which makes it not so weird. What makes it really weird is his theory. It is, and I quote, "They have machines that make the fossils".

Sometimes, he embarasses me.
Laerod
03-07-2008, 19:48
Have you ever seen or read something so out there that you never expected to see it repeated outside of the internet? If so, what? If not, have you seen something that would frighten you if it didn't come with "http"?

I have seen people claim homosexuality is the reason for the fall of ancient civilizations online...never thought I would hear it claimed outside of the internet.

That's what I get for working with a Young Earth Creationist.All these people spouting nonsense online have to live somewhere when they're offline.
That everything on the net is a joke or that people are too scared to say what they think under "nonymous" circumstances is hopelessly naive.
Laerod
03-07-2008, 19:53
The one I heard from a coworker that had me banging my head was that Wicca is not a religion. Dude, if they think it is, then it is. The same as Christianity. Is there some sort of agency that certifies one as an official religion?Yes.
Hurdegaryp
03-07-2008, 20:02
To promote from being just a mere sect or some interesting thing for confused kids to entertain themselves with to an officially acknowledged religion, you will need large numbers of followers and significant political power. Wicca, Odinism and other pseudo-arcane pagan fringe movements are too much of a fad for people that they tend to grow out of with age to actually gain the needed momentum to be recognized as a serious religion by the mainstream culture.
Laerod
03-07-2008, 20:15
To promote from being just a mere sect or some interesting thing for confused kids to entertain themselves with to an officially acknowledged religion, you will need large numbers of followers and significant political power. Wicca, Odinism and other pseudo-arcane pagan fringe movements are too much of a fad for people that they tend to grow out of with age to actually gain the needed momentum to be recognized as a serious religion by the mainstream culture.No, you also need a decision from either the German or a German state government. Though that will only apply in Germany or the relevant state.
Toxiarra
03-07-2008, 22:05
I consider myself fairly average looking. But then again, you haven't seen me, so you're still right, I guess... Also, I don't know whether you were talking girls or guys...

Girls, to clarify.


It's not just you ;).

Well, for women at least. I consider myself to be average.

Redheaded girls are what drive me nuts. Pale milky skin, freckles, red hair, and green eyes.

*old family guy voice*

Mmmmmmmmm.

My hair goes from a dirty blond, to brown, then to red, so several people I know are convinced I have red hair. Are redheaded guys thought to be as attractive as their female counterparts?
Conserative Morality
03-07-2008, 22:14
Girls, to clarify.




Redheaded girls are what drive me nuts. Pale milky skin, freckles, red hair, and green eyes.

*old family guy voice*

Mmmmmmmmm.

My hair goes from a dirty blond, to brown, then to red, so several people I know are convinced I have red hair. Are redheaded guys thought to be as attractive as their female counterparts?
I wouldn't know. *Shrugs* I'm a bit of a social outcast, and I'm not about to ask my (Male) friend. "Hey Zach, am I attractive?":p Awkward...
*Reads Toxiarria's description of Redheaded girls. Let's mind wander.* Erm.. I have to...Uh...Use the bathroom! Don't come in cause I'll be a while! *Runs into bathroom* :D
Tmutarakhan
03-07-2008, 22:20
Time Cube is probably the best example on the net of the old style psychotic rant style.

http://www.timecube.com/
He actually got a convert, and then there was "A schism, in a religion with only 2 members!" which was kind of funny, until the follow-up:
http://graveyardofthegods.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7664
http://graveyardofthegods.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7588
http://graveyardofthegods.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=8124
Megaloria
03-07-2008, 22:37
Are redheaded guys thought to be as attractive as their female counterparts?

I don't know about us being attractive in general, but women can't seem to get enough of my red. Well, older women anyway. Old ladies seem enraptured with my hair, which has faded with age from bright orange to a dark red-auburn. Maybe the younger ladies love it too, they're just not as vocal about it when they see it.
Ashmoria
03-07-2008, 23:12
I have a good friend who doesn't believe in dinosaurs. He's fine with other fossils. It's just dinosaurs.

Now, this is rooted in his baptist upbringing, which makes it not so weird. What makes it really weird is his theory. It is, and I quote, "They have machines that make the fossils".

Sometimes, he embarasses me.

ask him some time what asshole decided that they needed to be buried out in remote mongolia. couldnt they have been put someplace FUN to dig in, like las vegas?
Megaloria
03-07-2008, 23:15
ask him some time what asshole decided that they needed to be buried out in remote mongolia.

I know better, but wouldn't it have been awesome if the hordes of Mongolia attacked China on dinosaurs? Great Wall, Shmreat Wall!
Hurdegaryp
04-07-2008, 01:44
Dinosaurs were cool, but they could never have defeated the Great Wall. The Great Wall is superior to dinosaurs.
Moses the Nation
04-07-2008, 02:01
Dinosaurs were cool, but they could never have defeated the Great Wall. The Great Wall is superior to dinosaurs.

Chuck Norris is superior to dinosaurs.
I don't know if this is relevant, but when did the whole Chuck Norris thing start? :confused:
Hurdegaryp
04-07-2008, 02:11
More important: how do we end said Chuck Norris thing?
Sarkhaan
04-07-2008, 02:25
ask him some time what asshole decided that they needed to be buried out in remote mongolia. couldnt they have been put someplace FUN to dig in, like las vegas?
I actually asked him that. He claimed that was just made up. Really, there is no arguing with that kind of theory.
More important: how do we end said Chuck Norris thing?
Make a cult around him and commit mass suicide?
Conserative Morality
04-07-2008, 02:33
More important: how do we end said Chuck Norris thing?
It can't be stopped. Only Chuck norris himself can stop it now.
Hurdegaryp
04-07-2008, 02:38
I actually asked him that. He claimed that was just made up. Really, there is no arguing with that kind of theory.


It seems like he lives in his own little universe, blissfully untouched by the way things really work. Was he homeschooled or is he just a common retard?
Sarkhaan
04-07-2008, 02:52
It seems like he lives in his own little universe, blissfully untouched by the way things really work. Was he homeschooled or is he just a common retard?
Raised by a Baptist, and, untill recently didn't even consider evolution because he couldn't have come from a monkey.

I've made progress on evolution and he is actually looking in to it independently...no progress on dinosaurs, however.
New Malachite Square
04-07-2008, 02:55
Now, this is rooted in his baptist upbringing, which makes it not so weird. What makes it really weird is his theory. It is, and I quote, "They have machines that make the fossils".

For the number of fossils produced, hand-crafting them would probably be more economical.
New Malachite Square
04-07-2008, 03:07
That's why they have machines to do it. Duh.;)

Pff. Darwinist liberals would waste money like that.
Probably taxpayers' money, too.

Sarkhaan: too late, ha ha.
Sarkhaan
04-07-2008, 03:08
Pff. Darwinist liberals would waste money like that.
Probably taxpayers' money, too.

one would hope. Dinobones for all!
Poliwanacraca
04-07-2008, 03:17
I know I should feel sorry for those kids, but.... oh, the hilarity!!! I'm in stiches here...

I know. Every one of their newsletters leaves me torn between laughing hysterically and beating my head against a wall. :p
Clecklestan
04-07-2008, 03:25
I'm on a forum where the owner of the forum will flame anybody who disagrees with him. And he's a Young Earth Creationist. Anybody hear of Ralph Hayes Junior?

Yeah. Him.

He's said that a Real Christian is one that believes that the Bible is the Literal Truth, and all else are going to Hell.

There's even a whole site dedicated to massaging the evidence to show that they are right. Answers In Genesis (http://www.answersingenesis.org/).
Heikoku 2
04-07-2008, 04:03
I'm on a forum where the owner of the forum will flame anybody who disagrees with him. And he's a Young Earth Creationist. Anybody hear of Ralph Hayes Junior?

Yeah. Him.

He's said that a Real Christian is one that believes that the Bible is the Literal Truth, and all else are going to Hell.

There's even a whole site dedicated to massaging the evidence to show that they are right. Answers In Genesis (http://www.answersingenesis.org/).

Why do you forumize with the insane? o_O
Megaloria
04-07-2008, 04:14
Why do you forumize with the insane? o_O

Observation purposes I hope. Half the time when someone's being kept for "observation", I think it's essentially some scientists saying "Whoah guys this is cool come check it out it's weird".
Heikoku 2
04-07-2008, 04:20
Observation purposes I hope. Half the time when someone's being kept for "observation", I think it's essentially some scientists saying "Whoah guys this is cool come check it out it's weird".

Fair enough.
Copiosa Scotia
04-07-2008, 05:39
Well, once in religion class we had this one guy tell about his theory that man and dinosaurs once lived side by side, and that all dinosaurs died during the great floods, which was his explanation for dinosaur bones :rolleyes:

Yeah, we had to watch Kent Hovind videos in my high school History and Philosophy of Science class. It wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't been the only one laughing.
New Malachite Square
04-07-2008, 05:51
Yeah, we had to watch Kent Hovind videos in my high school History and Philosophy of Science class…

Why?
Central Prestonia
04-07-2008, 08:02
I can't say that I've heard much strangeness beyond having a Young-Earth Creationist for a math teacher last year. However I do know someone on an IRC channel I frequent who claims that Jimmy Carter is responsible for 9/11.
Wilgrove
04-07-2008, 08:08
The worse I've experienced are people who listen to Coast to Coast AM not for the entertainment value (like I do), but where apparently they go and learn about the world.

Never ever engaged them in conversation, especially the one who believes the whole chem-trails crap.
Bitchkitten
04-07-2008, 08:10
Yes.
Elucidate.
Anarchic Conceptions
04-07-2008, 09:12
Elucidate.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13809394&postcount=47
Bitchkitten
04-07-2008, 10:12
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13809394&postcount=47Thanks.
Is it chocolate chip?
Barringtonia
04-07-2008, 10:21
My friends and I were 'taxed', as in demanded for money, by a gang of ne'er-do-wells in Milton Keynes once, when I was around 15/16.

One of my friends edged away saying he would run and get the police and we then watched him head straight for the bathrooms into which he disappeared, presumably to lock himself in a cubicle.

As it was, the muggers weren't that committed and we didn't have any money anyway, I offered 10p but said I'd prefer to use it to continue my life on the arcade game we were playing, they were kind enough to let me.

Afterwards, sitting in a pub, the same friend started going off about how, if he had a gun, he'd have shot them all.

"Dude, you completely ran into the bathrooms".

I'm often reminded of this scene on this forum when someone starts spouting off on how they would totally ninja whatever criminal is in any particular news story.
Damor
04-07-2008, 11:04
Afterwards, sitting in a pub, the same friend started going off about how, if he had a gun, he'd have shot them all.

"Dude, you completely ran into the bathrooms".

I'm often reminded of this scene on this forum when someone starts spouting off on how they would totally ninja whatever criminal is in any particular news story.Hey, in the right circumstances, a surprise occupation of the bathroom can totally make a bad guy crap his pants. For lack of available bathroom.
Hurdegaryp
04-07-2008, 12:48
Raised by a Baptist, and, untill recently didn't even consider evolution because he couldn't have come from a monkey.

Funny thing is, he's actually right. It's too simplistic to state that humans evolved from monkeys, it's more correct to state that the currently existing higher primates share a common ancestor.
Ashmoria
04-07-2008, 14:31
I can't say that I've heard much strangeness beyond having a Young-Earth Creationist for a math teacher last year. However I do know someone on an IRC channel I frequent who claims that Jimmy Carter is responsible for 9/11.

why jimmy carter of all people?
Copiosa Scotia
04-07-2008, 16:01
Why?

Christian school. It was supposed to encourage us to look at science skeptically.
Free Soviets
04-07-2008, 16:16
why jimmy carter of all people?

well, just look at him. he's totally up to something.
East Canuck
04-07-2008, 16:20
why jimmy carter of all people?

Giving aid and confort to the ennemy?
Kharanjul
04-07-2008, 16:22
well, just look at him. he's totally up to something.

His left hand is actually a fake plastic one concealing a steel hook. And White House insiders confirm that halfway through his term he replaced his entire cabinet with stuffed owls. Finally, at his gravesite there appears the sigil of a rabbit strangling a goose with a shawl while eating a lobster, an ancient Masonic symbol the meaning of which should be crystal clear.

I need not elucidate the obvious (albeit shocking) explanation behind all this, of course.
Ashmoria
04-07-2008, 17:29
His left hand is actually a fake plastic one concealing a steel hook. And White House insiders confirm that halfway through his term he replaced his entire cabinet with stuffed owls. Finally, at his gravesite there appears the sigil of a rabbit strangling a goose with a shawl while eating a lobster, an ancient Masonic symbol the meaning of which should be crystal clear.

I need not elucidate the obvious (albeit shocking) explanation behind all this, of course.

jimmy carter has a gravesite even before he is dead!?


wow he really must be up to something.
Heinleinites
04-07-2008, 19:18
- David Icke and his reptilian overlords. I was riding a Greyhound and someone sat down next to me, pulled out one of his books and proceeded to tell me all about it.

- The 9/11 "Truth" Movement. Replacing the Kennedy assassination as the go-to conspiracy theory for guys with too much time on their hands. I did see a video clip of Danny Bonaduce, of all people, losing his mind at one of those guys. He was right up on the guy, too. How embarassing would it be to get your ass whupped by one of the Partridge Family?

- I been also been informed of the following 'true stories, man!' The Jews apparently have a dark and sinister control of the following: the media, Hollywood, international banking, the U.N., and the U.S. government.
Sirmomo1
04-07-2008, 19:21
The Jews apparently have a dark and sinister control of the following: the media, Hollywood,.

This one is actually true, they meet on a boat in international waters every second Thursday.
Heinleinites
04-07-2008, 19:38
This one is actually true, they meet on a boat in international waters every second Thursday.

Well, they would, but with the rocking back and forth, and the going up and down, it gives me such tsuris as you've never seen, what, I'm a fish that I should be in the water, I'll keep my feet on the ground, oy gevalt.
Sirmomo1
04-07-2008, 19:41
Well, they would, but with the rocking back and forth, and the going up and down, it gives me such tsuris as you've never seen, what, I'm a fish that I should be in the water, I'll keep my feet on the ground, oy gevalt.

You're forgetting that the Jews control the waters too. Never heard of Moses?
Heinleinites
04-07-2008, 19:45
You're forgetting that the Jews control the waters too. Never heard of Moses?

That was just the once, though. And the Red Sea did collapse back in on itself.
Central Prestonia
04-07-2008, 19:46
why jimmy carter of all people?
This guy's theory goes that by allowing the Shah of Iran to be overthrown in place of the theocracy, Carter gave radical Islam a base from which to grow and expand.
Geniasis
04-07-2008, 20:15
This one is actually true, they meet on a boat in international waters every second Thursday.

This isn't 1943, you know. They actually have a sprawling underground metropolis beneath New York City.

Also, instead of sleeping, they recharge by eating money. More powerful Jews need to eat more of it.
Megaloria
04-07-2008, 20:59
This isn't 1943, you know. They actually have a sprawling underground metropolis beneath New York City.

Dare I say it?

Jew York? Perhaps attached via subway to Jew Jersey?
Geniasis
04-07-2008, 21:39
Dare I say it?

Jew York? Perhaps attached via subway to Jew Jersey?

Yeah, but you'll have to go through Massajewsetts.

...*cough*.
Khaiber
04-07-2008, 22:10
This guy's theory goes that by allowing the Shah of Iran to be overthrown in place of the theocracy, Carter gave radical Islam a base from which to grow and expand.

Obviously, it all goes back to the American Revolution. If those silly early-Americans hadn't been so adamant about their democracy, we never would have HAD a President Carter, now would we?

Therefore, 9/11 is all George Washington's fault. He was the first president, after all.
Hurdegaryp
19-07-2008, 23:00
- David Icke and his reptilian overlords. I was riding a Greyhound and someone sat down next to me, pulled out one of his books and proceeded to tell me all about it.

You know, it's rather weird that our Reptilian masters haven't ordered the execution of Icke. The Anunnaki must be getting soft.