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

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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?

I never actually saw the infamous cheese-in-coffee post, but wasn't it all part of a discussion where people were talking at cross purposes about essential items vs essential trips? So a person might argue that dairy products were an essential part of their diet, but another might argue that you don't actually need milk enough that a trip solely for milk was an essential shop visit, and to consider eating up what you did have until you needed to do a full shop? Plenty of people during Covid were passing the time by going to the supermarket every other day and saying it was reasonable because they were buying an "essential" like bread or milk, while others were trying to minimise trips.

That made me laugh out loud!

I cannot believe how many people have got to adulthood without realising that Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in the same g-d! And yet, at no tie over the last 2000 years has 'g-d' thought to clarify his position and stop them from fighting each other...

My NDN is a flat-earther. He likes to hold forth about it, very loudly, in the garden when he's drunk after one of their interminable parties. DH and I take our tea out there and snigger at him from behind the fence
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I used to work with someone who genuinely believed that the September 11th terrorist attacks were a false flag operation conducted by the CIA.

Surely you’d use babybel. Then you can fashion the wax into some kind of ‘cup topper’ to keep the drink warm so you can sip little bits every now and then and don’t waste resources making more than one hot drink a day.

There was a weird thing online to say "Birds Arent Real" no ! apparently government drones who are battery operated .Apparently recharge by sitting on power lines and "spy" on American citizens ! yes right...

Agree the genderwoo beliefs are just mindblowing to me. My trans relative is always banging on about how it’s fine for TW to be in women’s sports, prisons, wards etc because “cis” women hurt each other, eg in rugby or fights, therefore the risk of greater injury / attack is unimportant. It’s like saying cats can attack each other, therefore there’s no difference if you set dogs on them. It just makes no sense but it’s always said with this smug self-righteousness and you can’t argue because transphobia.

i can’t understand how people can’t see that if they won’t debate a point and defend it, and go through the reasons they think that thing, then it’s not very convincing and they have no business demanding that others believe it too. It’s not just the belief itself, but the bizarre way it’s based on nothing but sophistry. Why do you believe something you clearly know is bollocks because you’re not prepared to debate it?

That bringing your own meat to a village BBQ would actually fuck society up beyond all recognition because some obscure country hayseed social rule is you eat what’s there or go without.

I think the scariest thing is how many people have such a terrible lack of knowledge TBH!

New World Order - that the earth is ruled by a secretive elite that control everything - that includes flat earth and all the big pharma conspiracies.

Only people who are 'awake' know this and the rest of us are 'sleeping' and should be pitied until we 'awake' too and become enlightened to this knowledge.

This is a mil one- She stopped eating tinned fish as she learned that the tins don't really contain fish, they contain wait for it........human flesh! the fact you see fish when you open the tin is all part of the clever disguise the powers in the spiritual realm use to fool you.

From someone issuing health and safety advice rather worryingly

1. cardboard boxes or books in direct line of sunlight through a window is a significant fire hazard. Eg they mustn’t be placed on windowsill or anywhere direct sunlight can fall on them particularly in the current extreme heat


2. a glass bottle, lidded, of clean cooking oil stored around 4 inches to the side of the hob is an immense fire risk. Don’t you know how dangerous cooking oil is

hmmm…someone clearly doesn’t have the foggiest about ignition temperatures 🤦‍♀️

Cos it’s true innit

I love government conspiracy theories just because it amuses me that anyone thinks the government could organise anything they suggest and keep it a secret forever.

I used to know some people who believed that during a special ceremony when some special words were pronounced and a set of bells was rung then some bread wafers and wine turned into the body and blood of a man who live nearly two millennia ago. They queued up to eat the wafers that they believed to be this bloke's body. These people were even allowed to run a school and indoctrinate young children with their beliefs.

I once watched 'The Truman Show' with a y10 class - preparation for some speaking & listening coursework.

One lad chirped up at the end that he thought it was pretty cool that Jim Carrey had gone on to have a career in Hollywood 'after he escaped'.

20 heads swivelled slowly & 20 of us basically said 'Danny...WTF?!'

Turned out Danny thought that he'd spent 3 lessons in English that week watching a documentary.

There was absolutely no convincing him differently. To the best of my knowledge, he believes it to this day.

(& yy to the possibility of changing sex...also wtf...)

Someone on TV last year hypothesised that TRex was probably fluffy. If you want an example of an insane belief that’s it…..

You've reminded me of an otherwise perfectly sane young man who, aged about 16, stared wide-eyed in disbelief and said 'Wait ... do girls fart?!'

@ClumpingBambooIsALie But still, cheese in coffee? 😆
I can't stand coffee but even I felt sorry for the coffee drinkers being made to feel like terrible people for wanting milk in it 🙈

My dsis’s mil really, really disliked catholics. She genuinely believed that if her grandchild was given a “catholic” name, she would have to be baptised as a catholic. My dsis and bil indulged this batshittery and modified her name. (Think Marie instead of Maria)

I'm sorry (and delighted) to report that the poster definitely suggested that people should use cheese instead of milk in their tea or coffee.

I remember the post, and I had to triple-check it, as I thought I must have misread.

Wish I'd taken a screen-shot.

I was very much in the cautious camp, but that poster was delightfully batshit.

It’s true that a curved glass object and paper in the sunlight could start a fire. maybe they got confused…

Re flat Earth, what don’t get is why it matters. If the Earth was flat well then it would be flat, why would anyone need to pretend it wasn’t and trick all the sheeple into believing it’s round?

There’s also a theory that Finland isn’t real! Someone started it by accident I think

I have a door on the side that I use, wonder where that leaves me??