Silly little conspiracies you believe in

I work in websites and advertising. This one is absolutely true, actually a lot of money is spent working out where to place buttons and advertising on websites. Whole teams of people just running tests to determine which configuration makes them the most money. You can even have a career in it.

they were different dresses. I saw the dress on display and it clearly had very elaborate appliqué all round the hem which doesn’t show on the majority of the photos. The evening dress didn’t have this. Sorry!!

Perhaps your card is linked to your Apple or Google wallet and it tracks what you’re buying on your card through that? But having said that, card purchases don’t have itemised receipts as far as I know? So maybe not. Unless it was a particularly popular/newly released title and you bought it from Waterstones or something then I can see why you may get ads that just happen to be for the same book you bought.

Otherwise, you might have discussed it with a cashier or a friend and the mic has picked up on it and geared the ads towards you.

Theres definitely traffic gremlins out there. If you are running late, you always hit every red traffic light, and/or stuck behind a bus or dustbin lorry. However, if you leave in plenty of time, the traffic lights are always green.

Most definitely- that’s fact, not a conspiracy theory!

Devices do spy on us - of course. I always get recommendations for things I’ve recently been talking about.

I completely agree with him. Went for my first eye test because I was sometimes starting to mistake 2s and 7s in small print. Optician prescribed reading glasses. Within 2 weeks I could no longer read without them. (Still have the same prescription 20 years later so it wasn't an eye condition.)

Not a conspiracy. During Covid I bought a sofa which was faulty, the message when I rang each time was high call volume, please contact us via email so I did. Each time I emailed it took them 7 days to reply! After an email exchange that had gone on for over a month it was getting ridiculous so I decided to just wait it out on the phone. I listened to the message about high call volumes and extended waits, the phone rang and was answered within a half a ring! It was all sorted out and collection organised in a few minutes. The woman on the phone told me she was working for home and most days didn't get a single call come through.

You’re in the shower or bath and about to wash your hair. Why is it that 90% of the time you pick the conditioner up first? Definitely something suspicious going on there.

I can confirm that this is nonsense - thankfully.

Ive wotn glasses since I was 9 and Im now 48yo. 6yo my prescription was -5.75 and it is now -3.25.

I dont know how or why - why it improves significantly every year.

I will have nothing said against sudocrem - it is the cure-all go to in our house

I guess you are ok to mention these but my comment on the mcanns was deleted 🤷‍♀️

I think it is silly that they’ve gotten away with it for this long 🤷‍♀️

this one is HILARIOUS and i believe it

Completely with you on this one!

My local petrol station has its pumps calibrated to never hit £x:00

you can literally stand there going “94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99……. £1:02”

wtf?

My mum is convinced that they hire small actors for sofa adverts to make the sofas look bigger lol

Well, back to the small stuff... That the cheaper range of goods agree not to make things look great to not compete with the pricier end. I mean - outing myself as a bloke - to make a wristwatch that looks like a Christopher Ward can't be that pricey, but they don't, the cheaper watches are made to look a bit crap too. It's similar to 'built in obsolescence' theory raised on the first page.

Also that M&S have some tax fiddle going that allows them to sell men's clothing that, socks and underwear aside, looks somehow deliberately crap.

Clothing is marked a size down to con the buyer into thinking they're really a Medium when in fact they're XL, to flatter them. Result - a morbidly obese population.

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 know you said silly conspiracies, but, to be honest, I always thought there was something fishy about Diana’s death. And also the death of Jill Dando. Jill Dando’s murder was one of the weirdest news events I have lived through.

Mobile phone signals so bad everywhere because they want us all to demand more phone masts & pay to upgrade to 7G or whatever when it comes out

The weather knows when it's the weekend and will rain on Saturday/ Sunday sunny again for Monday when I'm stuck at work.

I work in a building which is named for, possibly still owned by, a major telco. My work phone is on that network, my private phone is on a major competitors network. My work phone works perfectly at my desk, my personal phone does not. The conspiracy theory is the building telco is blocking other networks in the building. You need to exit to the footpath to get signal on another network.

Yes. He asked about or ale selections and if we have anything local, I dutifully told him and then as soon as he walked off I turned to the other girls and said “is that Steve Jobs? Radio kitchen now and get them up here”. 5 people total all sware blind we saw Steve Jobs in spoons in Scotland in 2019 (6th of December, aka Steve Jobs day).

Love this thread!

The Kate dress thing! Never saw it before but so true!