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Ifyouwannabe1 · 2022-08-04T09:46:06+00:00

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?

StillHappy · 04/08/2022 20:17

LuluBlakey1 · 04/08/2022 14:32

That despite NHS waiting lists being the longest they have ever been, us paying the highest taxes in Europe, Britain having more children living in food poverty than any other European country, our fuel costs increasing to 30x what they were 3 years ago, inflation likely to reach 13% in the next year, our wages being the lowest in Europe, the government having given £400 billion pounds direct to their cronies......despite all of this there are people who believe the government have done a good job and who intend to vote Tory at the next General Election.

It is the stupidest, dimmest, most ignorant belief I have ever heard.

But we don’t pay the highest taxes in Europe. What data are you basing that on?

Our wages aren’t the lowest in Europe, either. Are you doing your “research” on YouTube and Reddit?

FunnyTalks · 04/08/2022 20:17

BlossomsOnATree · 04/08/2022 20:08

trans rights is quite clearly in the ‘debate’ territory

But there is something disingenuous going on here IMO because no one has said it's batshit that trans people should have rights - the same rights others have, to be from persecution and prejudice and discrimination etc. "trans rights" has not come up on this thread. It is gender ideology that is being called batshit. That you can change sex, that you can have some kind of genuine female sexed self born in a male body or vice versa, that a child who rejects gender stereotypes is magically the opposite sex and needs corrective treatment. It is the impossible, magic, transubstantiation-like aspect of the ideology that is being called batshit. Not "trans rights".

Precisely this.

And maybe some people are disappointed that this issue has come up on this thread.

But witnessing people all around me buy into the preposterous claims of this quasi religion has changed how I view the world. I am scared at how easily people follow the crowd.

What we are /were doing to women and non-conforming children in service to these beliefs is like a dystopian novel. In fact I now struggle to enjoy science fiction as much as I used to.

puddingandsun · 04/08/2022 20:18

Someone was telling me they are sure they had covid before it was recorded anywhere else in the world, pre winter 2019.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 04/08/2022 20:19

I can’t find the responding post to mine. I don’t believe that a man or woman would take such an extreme decision on a whim. It must be horrendously tough mentally and physically to do it.

None of this physical and mental ordeal is necessary. To say you are in all ways the same as the opposite sex you just have to say "I identify as".

Emotionalsupportviper · 04/08/2022 20:20

I knew someone who believed that greenfly were the larval form of ladybirds (her actual words were "turned int" ladybirds) and that was why when there was a lot of greenfly you would get a lot of ladybirds a bit later on.

I told her that ladybirds ate greenfly, and when there were lots of greenfly they tested mightily and bred very quickly, but she thought I was lying, because insects do't eat each other, they just eat plants.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 04/08/2022 20:20

But witnessing people all around me buy into the preposterous claims of this quasi religion has changed how I view the world. I am scared at how easily people follow the crowd.

What we are /were doing to women and non-conforming children in service to these beliefs is like a dystopian novel. In fact I now struggle to enjoy science fiction as much as I used to.

Me too, it's quite worrying and sobering how people are manipulated so easily into denying reality.

Emotionalsupportviper · 04/08/2022 20:20

*feasted mightily

Carpy88999 · 04/08/2022 20:21

StillHappy · 04/08/2022 20:12

But they do have that right, so it’s not a crazy belief. Do you mean that you prefer that they don’t, or are you really saying that there is something that stops them having the right?

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Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should. Might makes right and all that good stuff.

Trying20 · 04/08/2022 20:22

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Rightsraptor · 04/08/2022 20:22

I posted my response to the question posed by OP at 18.45 and then, one minute later, @thedancingbear went off on a rant. I haven't read the intervening posts.

I answered the question posed, Dancingbear, and I answered it honestly. I was not 'shoehorning' it in. The fact that you don't like it concerns me not one jot. You give your answer and I will give mine

StillHappy · 04/08/2022 20:23

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It’s surely up there with homeopathy and these other ideas, though. The idea that you can rewrite something written through all those calls in your body is reiki-like in its lack of prior plausibility.

BlossomsOnATree · 04/08/2022 20:23

Re Center Parcs, I too was really disappointed when I realised it wasn't a giant dome! I read a sci-fi book as a child that was about a city inside a giant dome that you couldn't leave, so I envisaged it like that.

It's the "Center Parcs" name that sounds so sci-fi as well. It was the sci-fi ness of it that sounded exciting. I mean what's so fun about some chalets and a forest that aren't in a dome? you can have that anywhere!

Ereshkigalangcleg · 04/08/2022 20:24

I think cognitive dissonance is a very uncomfortable feeling and people in general would rather not think about it. But that's how we get to bad actors controlling the narrative.

Trying20 · 04/08/2022 20:25

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Ereshkigalangcleg · 04/08/2022 20:25

It's the "Center Parcs" name that sounds so sci-fi as well. It was the sci-fi ness of it that sounded exciting. I mean what's so fun about some chalets and a forest that aren't in a dome? you can have that anywhere!

I know! And they were definitely riding bikes through the forest in the dome in the advert of my childhood!

Ereshkigalangcleg · 04/08/2022 20:26

Oh no, Trying!

NamingGame · 04/08/2022 20:26

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.

I totally believe that and I find it incredibly that there are people who don't. I always wonder what goes through their heads and whether they just don't like humans very much.

Anyway, the craziest thing I've heard from someone I know in person is that they believe in and practice angel therapy (yes, it actually involves believing in angels).

Ereshkigalangcleg · 04/08/2022 20:28

And they charge a fortune, what are you actually paying for? Some chalets, a forest, overpriced restaurants and a leisure centre?

Simonjt · 04/08/2022 20:30

My husbands parents thought he had a disability to punish him for his sins in a past life, they now ‘know’ it is to punish him for his awful sins in this life. They are genuinely bonkers.

As a child I thought womens boobs were joined together, like a sausage I guess.

BlossomsOnATree · 04/08/2022 20:30

And they charge a fortune, what are you actually paying for? Some chalets, a forest, overpriced restaurants and a leisure centre?

And a small dome...

Not that I've ever been – luckily I found out about the reality before ever shelling out to experience the amazing dome of my imagination.

FrancescaContini · 04/08/2022 20:32

Rightsraptor · 04/08/2022 20:22

I posted my response to the question posed by OP at 18.45 and then, one minute later, @thedancingbear went off on a rant. I haven't read the intervening posts.

I answered the question posed, Dancingbear, and I answered it honestly. I was not 'shoehorning' it in. The fact that you don't like it concerns me not one jot. You give your answer and I will give mine

I think that @thedancingbear is busy with the dictionary

Trying20 · 04/08/2022 20:32

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ProfessionalWeirdo · 04/08/2022 20:33

That Brexit was a good idea.

TSIFT · 04/08/2022 20:34

Simonjt · 04/08/2022 20:30

My husbands parents thought he had a disability to punish him for his sins in a past life, they now ‘know’ it is to punish him for his awful sins in this life. They are genuinely bonkers.

As a child I thought womens boobs were joined together, like a sausage I guess.

That is a common belief if your partner is from an eastern faith / origins.

Hopefulsunrise · 04/08/2022 20:34

Well isn't this a little party of journos having fun how cute 😊