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What’s the most batshit belief you’ve ever known someone to hold

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Ifyouwannabe1 · 04/08/2022 10:46

just met up with a long time friend (lovely, but utterly away with the fairies) who honestly believes the earth is flat as well as a whole host of other similarly crazy things. It got me thinking what’s the most batshit thing you’ve ever known anyone to think?

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Dontevenstart · 04/08/2022 11:02

Brexit

mrsmoppp · 04/08/2022 11:02

That a pcr test used for research sent with lateral flows was the government's way of giving u the vaccine - said by a non Vaxer who's a nurse

stuntbubbles · 04/08/2022 11:03

That Brexit would go well.

FunnysInLaJardin · 04/08/2022 11:03

That the covid vaccine would turn us all into robots. My neighbour told me this without a trace of irony. She was absolutely convinced that this would happen.

I just backed away slowly.........

CapMarvel · 04/08/2022 11:04

Dotjones · 04/08/2022 10:50

Some people genuinely believe a Kier Starmer-led Labour government would actually be better than the current one.

Just because something is terrible doesn't mean an alternative is necessarily better.

Hard to imagine how anyone could do any worse though, to be fair.

I mean, I'm not sure a world where Liz fucking Truss is pm is one I want to live in, and the idea that she would do a better job than Kier Starmer (or, to be frank, my fucking cat) is hilarious.

SellFridges · 04/08/2022 11:04

That prayer is what cured their friend’s cancer. Nothing to do with the intensive treatment received.

FourChimneys · 04/08/2022 11:05

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CapMarvel · 04/08/2022 11:06

That ghosts/ psychics/ Gods are real.

Ditto homeopathy and all related nonsense.

RockingAmadeus · 04/08/2022 11:07

That only female cats have pink noses

WhatdoImean · 04/08/2022 11:09

That the Conservatives actually care about anyone other than themselves

Dontstartthisagain · 04/08/2022 11:09

Yes, that you can change sex 🤣🤣🤣

Fuzzy303 · 04/08/2022 11:09

That Hollywood elite are keeping children in tunnels underground to harvest adrenochrome & keep themselves younger. Oh yes, and Trump was going to save all the tunnel children & out the Hollywood elite

FourChimneys · 04/08/2022 11:09

Tinktravels sounds like we know the same dinosaur denying person 😂 I also know of an ultra Christian mother who will not let her young children wear clothes with dinosaurs on or have dinosaur toys.

Mercurial123 · 04/08/2022 11:10

My dental hygienist from the US believed Michelle Obama was a man and the US had their first gay President. It was a joke started by Joan Rivers, had to Google why anyone would think this was real.

GeorgeCat1 · 04/08/2022 11:10

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Yup.

Peapo82 · 04/08/2022 11:10

That it's a Hambag not a Handbag 😅

N27 · 04/08/2022 11:12

i have a friend who’s children has a dairy allergy, so she always orders vegan breakfasts.

she then berates the staff when they bring the breakfast without eggs and informs them that vegans can have eggs.

Supersee · 04/08/2022 11:13

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How is it transphobic to state you can't change sex? It's a biological fact.

SuperCamp · 04/08/2022 11:14

mojokonoko · 04/08/2022 10:54

That Donald Trump was sent by God to free the slaves and that Barack Obama was the Antichrist. A Black woman telling me this.

Could never decide which was madder, the baptist conspiracy stuff or the putting fish in the toaster stuff. She had this special toaster bag for fish.

Putting a fillet of fish in the toaster in a toaster bag sounds a good idea to me!

Apparently some people cook foil wrapped fish in the dishwasher.

The other stuff, not so much.

IsadoraQuagmire · 04/08/2022 11:15

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What's transphobic about knowing that it's impossible for a human being to change sex?

katseyes7 · 04/08/2022 11:16

I know someone who swears blind that dinosaurs never existed. That the skeletons in museums are 'just a pile of old bones that they've found, and put together to look like something'.
The same person also insists she saw a unicorn at a horse show. A 'real live one'.

xogossipgirlxo · 04/08/2022 11:17

That small kids can sense young women, because it's the age you are fertile, and they tend to like them better than men or just older women. LOL.

mynamesnotMa · 04/08/2022 11:18

The whole Illuminati stuff. If anyone mentions it tell them to stop immediately or bundle them headfirst into the nearest cupboard. It's nearly as bat shit as the powers of Aloe Vera.

GeorgeCat1 · 04/08/2022 11:19

Peapo82 · 04/08/2022 11:10

That it's a Hambag not a Handbag 😅

For carrying your ham around in?

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