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Silly little conspiracies you believe in

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Soubriquet · 26/06/2025 16:40

Not serious ones like Diana was murdered etc, but silly little ones.

For example,

when it comes to wipes in a packet, I’m positive they rig it so more than one wipe comes out at a time. Then they make the sticky reseal not as sticky so they dry out quicker meaning you have to go and buy more instead of using what you’ve got

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JudgeJ · 27/06/2025 22:44

IvanaTinkles · 26/06/2025 17:49

I have a theory about lost socks - I think that elves steal them and turn them into random tupperware lids that don’t fit any of the tubs in your cupboard!

Tupperware houses all the lost teaspoons too.

JudgeJ · 27/06/2025 22:42

Katemax82 · 26/06/2025 17:39

My husband thinks once you become a glasses wearer your eyesight rapidly declines...

New glasses seem to adversely affect my hearing!

JudgeJ · 27/06/2025 22:40

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 26/06/2025 17:02

The one re the school run time is spooky - it nearly always rains at 3 pm if it’s going to rain!

When I was teaching it usually rained at about 3.25. just before the end of the day.

VimesandhisCardboardBoots · 27/06/2025 22:36

Soubriquet · 27/06/2025 21:53

In the same thread

you place the USB plug in. It’s wrong. You turn it. It’s wrong. You turn it back and it’s right!

WHY WASNT IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME?!!!

I watched an episode of Black Mirror yesterday. It had self driving cars, robot honey bees, all kinds of stuff. But the most futuristic thing in it? Every single time someone tried to plug in a USB stick, they got it right first time. Every. Single. Time. The future is going to be awesome! (Aside from the robot honey bees murdering 387,000 people.)

Sophiehoney · 27/06/2025 22:03

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 27/06/2025 21:41

I could have written this exact post. I have heard the exact same rumours, and agree with everything in your post.

All the model 'girlfriends' of his are fakes/beards. None of them are ever over 25, they never go beyond dating, they always look the same, (blonde, blue eyed, pretty Victoria's Secret model types,) they always have the same pics taken (by the papparazzi,) of them 'kissing' and cycling together, and then we see newspaper articles where a 'source' says they're crazy about each other, she is getting interested in his environmental issues and supporting him in it etc etc, and his friends love her...

Then after a while (6-9 months) they start to be seen together less, she is getting a bit bored, and he is seen without her a lot, has his birthday and Christmas without her, and holidays with mates without her... And then a 'source' says she is getting tired of him and how it's not quite working anymore, then a few months down the line they finish. (Sometimes they just finish with no warning.) But they never live together, go to awards ceremonies or weddings or family stuff together, they never get engaged, they never get married.

I don't know how dumb Leo thinks his fans are. He is clearly gay (and yes Lukas Haas is very likely his long term partner.) I understand why he won't/hasn't 'come out.' As a pp said, it would have damaged his career so badly if he had come out 2 or 3 decades ago ... And maybe the ship has sailed now.....?

I wish he would stop dating 19 year olds when he's 50 though. I like him as a person/an actor/a celebrity, but find this side of him grim and abhorrent. At least get a beard who is over 30 Leo FFS!

The 19yos are probably more willing to take the money and in need of it and the exposure being with him brings though. A 30 year old is more likely to be married/in a long term relationship/have an established career/just doesn't have the time for nonsense.

And there's also probably an element of us being more likely to discuss the fact that his girlfriends are so young. If you're getting a girlfriend just for show and to throw off people's gaydars, then you're going to make sure you're getting your moneys worth and it's getting noticed, right??!!

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 27/06/2025 22:01

Soubriquet · 27/06/2025 21:53

In the same thread

you place the USB plug in. It’s wrong. You turn it. It’s wrong. You turn it back and it’s right!

WHY WASNT IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME?!!!

😂 YESSSSSSSSSS! OH MY GOD WHY? WHHYYYYY?! 😖

Soubriquet · 27/06/2025 21:53

comoatoupeira · 27/06/2025 21:28

You always open the paracetemol packet the label end

In the same thread

you place the USB plug in. It’s wrong. You turn it. It’s wrong. You turn it back and it’s right!

WHY WASNT IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME?!!!

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LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 27/06/2025 21:46

DryDay · 27/06/2025 20:44

Apple put a chip in their iPhones so that after two years the battery life suddenly plummets, life becomes unmanageable anc you have to buy a new one.

That is DEFINITELY true.

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 27/06/2025 21:43

SeaShellsSanctuary1 · 27/06/2025 15:12

The shape of a sunpat peanut butter jar. There's no way a knife can navigate the bend.

A knife however CAN cut open the plastic jar to retrieve the last bits of peanut butter

A time consuming but successful battle

A knife can't navigate the bend. My finger can though. Grin

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 27/06/2025 21:41

comoatoupeira · 27/06/2025 21:28

You always open the paracetemol packet the label end

ALWAYS!!!!!! Angry

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 27/06/2025 21:41

YankSplaining · 26/06/2025 22:48

Don’t know if this will be considered “silly” or “serious,” but…

Leonardo DiCaprio has been in a romantic relationship with Lukas Haas for many years, and publicly dates women to hide this fact. He makes the same deal with a series of young, relatively little-known models - they date him for a few years, which will make them more famous and give him and Lukas some cover, and then they can go their separate ways with both sides having benefitted from the deal. That’s why he dates women 25 and under. Older models already have established careers and are probably less interested in messing around with a fake relationship.

Lukas Haas goes pretty much everywhere with Leo, and some years ago, Lukas’s grandmother said he and Leo lived together. I’ve been hearing “Leo is gay” rumors since my family got the internet in 2002, and about half the time I see them, they mention Lukas Haas. Kate Winslet, who’s one of Leo’s close friends as well as his past co-star, said a few years ago that she could think of at least four different actors she knew who were in the closet because they didn’t want their sexuality to negatively impact their careers.

I could have written this exact post. I have heard the exact same rumours, and agree with everything in your post.

All the model 'girlfriends' of his are fakes/beards. None of them are ever over 25, they never go beyond dating, they always look the same, (blonde, blue eyed, pretty Victoria's Secret model types,) they always have the same pics taken (by the papparazzi,) of them 'kissing' and cycling together, and then we see newspaper articles where a 'source' says they're crazy about each other, she is getting interested in his environmental issues and supporting him in it etc etc, and his friends love her...

Then after a while (6-9 months) they start to be seen together less, she is getting a bit bored, and he is seen without her a lot, has his birthday and Christmas without her, and holidays with mates without her... And then a 'source' says she is getting tired of him and how it's not quite working anymore, then a few months down the line they finish. (Sometimes they just finish with no warning.) But they never live together, go to awards ceremonies or weddings or family stuff together, they never get engaged, they never get married.

I don't know how dumb Leo thinks his fans are. He is clearly gay (and yes Lukas Haas is very likely his long term partner.) I understand why he won't/hasn't 'come out.' As a pp said, it would have damaged his career so badly if he had come out 2 or 3 decades ago ... And maybe the ship has sailed now.....?

I wish he would stop dating 19 year olds when he's 50 though. I like him as a person/an actor/a celebrity, but find this side of him grim and abhorrent. At least get a beard who is over 30 Leo FFS!

Ormally · 27/06/2025 21:29

Another one homing in on socks. If you do have pairs that escape the Eater of Socks and come out of the wash as pairs, and you know that one of them has a small hole in the toe section - or is just wearing thin towards that eventuality - you always manage to put that sock on the same foot again, even if you are not looking. Even if you balled them up on autopilot and there's no way they could be in any intentional configuration.

comoatoupeira · 27/06/2025 21:28

You always open the paracetemol packet the label end

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 27/06/2025 21:24

@MariLlwyd · Today 12:09

That every important letter sent by local authorities, the NHS, lawyers etc. will be carefully timed to arrive on a Friday or Saturday so that you have to stew on it all weekend without being able to respond.

NOT a conspiracry theory. As a pp said, that is true! This applies moreso on a Saturday though than a Friday. The school used to do it, so does the NHS, and the DWP, and the Inland Reveue, and the GP etc...

It drives me clucking batshit! 😬

This sounds dramatic, and possibly even fake, but I swear this is true...

I never open post on a Saturday morning. I take it from the postbox, don't look at it, and stick it on top of the fridge until Monday. No matter what it is, it can wait til Monday. As has been said, many things can't be dealt with til Monday anyway, so what's the point in opening the mail on a Saturday? I got tired of getting a letter on a Saturday that worried me/stressed me out and I couldn't deal with it til Monday. So I stopped opening the mail that arrives on Saturday and I wait til Monday.

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YankSplaining · 27/06/2025 21:09

quantumbutterfly · 27/06/2025 16:28

They make a cute couple.

I think so too. 🙂 Lukas is a little unconventional-looking, but he’s got a cute smile and beautiful eyes.

YankSplaining · 27/06/2025 21:05

Sophiehoney · 27/06/2025 12:17

Because Leonardos career has been going since the late 90s when it might have been a problem, and back then, he was a heartthrob that teenage girls hung posters of in their bedrooms. Coming out as gay would have changed absolutely everything for him and it would have held him back, sadly.
It might not be a problem now (although sadly I still think people would view him differently) but he can't now admit he's lied all thsse years. He's stuck pretending.

Not saying I beleive this theory, but I think it makes total sense.

Edited

If he’d been openly gay before Titanic, he would have never been cast in it. If he’d come out a few years after Titanic, he probably would have ended up like Rupert Everett, playing villains and gay best friends.

People don’t always grasp that celebrities’ careers affect other people’s jobs - the celebrity’s agent, manager, household staff, personal trainer, stylist, gardener, stylist, publicist. Everyone around a celebrity has an interest in making sure that person stays famous and keeps working.

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 27/06/2025 21:04

Bitchesbelike · 26/06/2025 22:29

I’m sure Martin Lewis was doing something on this

www.moneysavingexpert.com/report-high-call-volumes/

Yes, I have had 'we have an exceptionally high volume of calls right now, please consider trying again later' message quite often - especially with my energy provider, my insurance company, my internet service provider, and the council. (Plus many Government and civil service office/phone lines.)

Sometimes they say there is a wait time of approximately 30-40 minutes. I hang on, (put my phone on handsfree and get on with something,) and half the time they answer after 5-10 minutes. I think they are trying to put people off, and make them hang up, in the hope they will not bother again, or will find the answer to their issue on the internet or something. The only one I can think of who DOES have a long wait (when they give this message) is my GP Practice.

Sometimes you get through in between 3 and 6 minutes, but when that Godawful message pops up, you can wait 40 minutes. I usually don't, and will often try later.

DryDay · 27/06/2025 20:44

Apple put a chip in their iPhones so that after two years the battery life suddenly plummets, life becomes unmanageable anc you have to buy a new one.

LynetteScavo · 27/06/2025 20:29

I’m in a show like The Trueman show. It must be fucking entertaining, as it doesn’t seem to have been cancelled yet.

SemiRetiredLoveGoddeess · 27/06/2025 20:29

No, you are exactly right.

I have a huge amount of beefs with modern life re food. products and Gods knows what else.

If you really think about it, You are being manipulatied something rotten, ito think in certain ways. In order to buy certain over priced products.

And iften feel like a mug and that you have been fleeced and then hung out to dry. With their crafty underhanded tricks to sell.more

Which make as much profit as poss for the manufacturers.

Recycling. Save the Planet.My Arse.

Its called planned obselesence. Rampant Capitalism. Loads of Money,!!!

Love and Peace to you all from
👃🕊️🌻💰💰💰💰💰
Ex Hippy Old Age Pensioner

Soubriquet · 27/06/2025 20:28

Namechangeforadearfriend · 27/06/2025 20:20

That toothpaste blobs are always drawn to black clothing my some malevolent force as I never spill it on a white t shirt
Ditto bolognese or curry to white clothing
I always seem to grab conditioner first in error and am on my 4th debit card this year

I’m terrible with some food!

I always think HAH!! I made it. No spillage… then the last two mouthfuls and I end up spilling.

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Namechangeforadearfriend · 27/06/2025 20:20

That toothpaste blobs are always drawn to black clothing my some malevolent force as I never spill it on a white t shirt
Ditto bolognese or curry to white clothing
I always seem to grab conditioner first in error and am on my 4th debit card this year

Saladleaves17 · 27/06/2025 20:01

Sophiehoney · 27/06/2025 12:17

Because Leonardos career has been going since the late 90s when it might have been a problem, and back then, he was a heartthrob that teenage girls hung posters of in their bedrooms. Coming out as gay would have changed absolutely everything for him and it would have held him back, sadly.
It might not be a problem now (although sadly I still think people would view him differently) but he can't now admit he's lied all thsse years. He's stuck pretending.

Not saying I beleive this theory, but I think it makes total sense.

Edited

@Sophiehoney you are on to something here. It was the same as Duncan from Blue. Took him years to come out because he was the heart throb of the and. They wouldn’t have been as successful if he admitted he was gay early on!

Saladleaves17 · 27/06/2025 19:56

luckylavender · 27/06/2025 15:23

Mine thinks that too

I actually believe this is true. I lost my glasses at work for several months once and ended up going to get a new pair as I felt I should probably get them replaced. Had an eye test at the same time and my eye sight had improved. Still worked on a computer all day long like before. The only difference was no glasses. Started wearing my new pair which had a lower prescription and at my last test, my eyes had got worse again!

Saladleaves17 · 27/06/2025 19:53

Tech and white goods companies purposely make products in a way that makes them unable to be repaired, so you have to buy new, and the parts they use are built to last just long enough for the warranty to run out.

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