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?

My cousin ad her DH believed that Covid was a hoax. Refused vaccination, refused to wear marks and went on demos in the US.

They were completely gobsmacked when they caught it and the husband was in ICU on a ventilator. They now say it's because they were visiting Arizona and there must be bad air there.

My neighbour owns 2 cars. The biggest one was parked on the corner, blocking view to the right when pulling out of the road. We asked her to swap the cars around so the smaller one was on the corner so we had a better view of oncoming traffic. She explained she couldn’t swap them around because they wouldn’t fit, despite there being no other obstacles on the street that would prevent the larger vehicle from being parked further away from the corner!
I was so glad when she sold the larger car…

That people can change sex.

That women who are raped can’t get pregnant, as the body know it’s being violated and so can ‘shut down’ to prevent it from happening. Remember that from a US politician? (Can’t remember who)

Was he getting her confused with Evelyn Waugh ?

That medical staff/midwives have no way of knowing the sex of the baby they have just delivered. So they temporarily 'assign' it as a best guess.

That toddlers of 2 years old can recognise that the 'assignment' of their birth was wrong and can demonstrate behaviours to prove this.

Yes, of course I do realise this.
My point is that a teacher thought it was the belief of ignorant people.

Alex Jones (American infowars guy, not the Welsh One Show presenter) claimed Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a false flag operation by gun control advocates. He claimed "no one died".

I was told scientists don’t know how the covid vaccine works. ( errr I think they do, they’re scientists, and you’re a …?)
And that voting Tory was a good thing. ( never while I breathe)

When I was a teenager I met a teenage boy (I think we were about 16) who believed that women go in to heat, like dogs, every month.

JudgeJ · Today 12:24
And shutting down discussion on opinions by claiming ‘transphobia’ has made the situation worse.
Yes that was how the earth being the centre of the universe was believed by the church for so long. They prohibited research and thought on it.

Oh come on Captain Hindsight. Anyone could have made that mistake about Hitler.

Or Richmal Crompton?

no not curved 🤦‍♀️ It needs a intense magnifying mirror to focus sun rays into a fine intense point , a piece of paper held to the mirror at very short focal length and the sun rays at a very specific angle. It is so rare as a cause of house fire it makes the news. Windows are made to specification that determine the max limits on convex…otherwise humans would burn in the sun standing in front of a window long before the paper goes up ( by a difference of around 230 degrees celcius).

That having root canal treatment causes brain tumours, after talking about a family member who has a brain tumour.

Also, that women taking the contraceptive pill causes their offspring to be gay from someone very briefly dated.

MIL cannot be in a room with lit candles..apparently they are sufficient to use up enough oxygen so that she faints.

That a positive attitude increases the chances you’ll survive cancer.

In reality, attitude is irrelevant. The cancer is being fought in your body by doctors and medicine. Whether you have a sunny optimistic attitude or the opposite has absolutely zero influence on your chances.

@thing47 maybe reread the post slowly and carefully, I think OP and her DH know that it does

A friend's elderly uncle claimed that women wearing trousers contributed to an increase in male homosexuality, citing as evidence that he never saw may male homosexuals before women started wearing trousers.

An old friend asked me (when we were about 17 ish) when I lived in Dublin how I got around …. She was convinced that there were no cars in Ireland. (She was quite an intelligent girl surprisingly but a bit sheltered) she was genuinely shocked when I told her that other parts of the world other than UK used cars for transport …

It is so rare as a cause of house fire it makes the news

Right - so it can happen then. Clear glass paperweights can be a culprit IIRC. If your house has burned down I doubt it matters to you that it’s rare! I didn’t say it was common, I said it can happen - and so did you 🤦‍♀️

That rh negative blood is a special bloodline descended from fallen angels and atlanteans rather than the rh positive people who are descended from monkeys.

I heard all of this when I mentioned having to consider rhogam injections during pregnancy (luckily didn't need them as DH is negative too). Apparently we are illuminati lizard people but I guess they must have forgotten to invite us to the meetings.

That having a different opinion makes you 'phobic'

Yes I did :-) I have no idea where she'd got it from but always remembered it. She was late teens at the time.

The UK couple who I met when working in Nigeria who were using homeopathic anti malaria treatment on their travels. There is a particularly nasty strain of malaria in Nigeria and they seemed utterly convinced their vials of water would combat it. What annoyed me was that they were travelling with their two young kids who were also being administered 'water' as preventative medicine.

Stupid cunts