Silly little conspiracies you believe in

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Not serious ones like Diana was murdered etc, but silly little ones.

For example,

when it comes to wipes in a packet, I’m positive they rig it so more than one wipe comes out at a time. Then they make the sticky reseal not as sticky so they dry out quicker meaning you have to go and buy more instead of using what you’ve got

Apple put a chip in their iPhones so that after two years the battery life suddenly plummets, life becomes unmanageable anc you have to buy a new one.

Yes, I have had 'we have an exceptionally high volume of calls right now, please consider trying again later' message quite often - especially with my energy provider, my insurance company, my internet service provider, and the council. (Plus many Government and civil service office/phone lines.)

Sometimes they say there is a wait time of approximately 30-40 minutes. I hang on, (put my phone on handsfree and get on with something,) and half the time they answer after 5-10 minutes. I think they are trying to put people off, and make them hang up, in the hope they will not bother again, or will find the answer to their issue on the internet or something. The only one I can think of who DOES have a long wait (when they give this message) is my GP Practice.

Sometimes you get through in between 3 and 6 minutes, but when that Godawful message pops up, you can wait 40 minutes. I usually don't, and will often try later.

If he’d been openly gay before Titanic, he would have never been cast in it. If he’d come out a few years after Titanic, he probably would have ended up like Rupert Everett, playing villains and gay best friends.

People don’t always grasp that celebrities’ careers affect other people’s jobs - the celebrity’s agent, manager, household staff, personal trainer, stylist, gardener, stylist, publicist. Everyone around a celebrity has an interest in making sure that person stays famous and keeps working.

I think so too. 🙂 Lukas is a little unconventional-looking, but he’s got a cute smile and beautiful eyes.

@MariLlwyd · Today 12:09

That every important letter sent by local authorities, the NHS, lawyers etc. will be carefully timed to arrive on a Friday or Saturday so that you have to stew on it all weekend without being able to respond.

NOT a conspiracry theory. As a pp said, that is true! This applies moreso on a Saturday though than a Friday. The school used to do it, so does the NHS, and the DWP, and the Inland Reveue, and the GP etc...

It drives me clucking batshit! 😬

This sounds dramatic, and possibly even fake, but I swear this is true...

I never open post on a Saturday morning. I take it from the postbox, don't look at it, and stick it on top of the fridge until Monday. No matter what it is, it can wait til Monday. As has been said, many things can't be dealt with til Monday anyway, so what's the point in opening the mail on a Saturday? I got tired of getting a letter on a Saturday that worried me/stressed me out and I couldn't deal with it til Monday. So I stopped opening the mail that arrives on Saturday and I wait til Monday.

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You always open the paracetemol packet the label end

Another one homing in on socks. If you do have pairs that escape the Eater of Socks and come out of the wash as pairs, and you know that one of them has a small hole in the toe section - or is just wearing thin towards that eventuality - you always manage to put that sock on the same foot again, even if you are not looking. Even if you balled them up on autopilot and there's no way they could be in any intentional configuration.

I could have written this exact post. I have heard the exact same rumours, and agree with everything in your post.

All the model 'girlfriends' of his are fakes/beards. None of them are ever over 25, they never go beyond dating, they always look the same, (blonde, blue eyed, pretty Victoria's Secret model types,) they always have the same pics taken (by the papparazzi,) of them 'kissing' and cycling together, and then we see newspaper articles where a 'source' says they're crazy about each other, she is getting interested in his environmental issues and supporting him in it etc etc, and his friends love her...

Then after a while (6-9 months) they start to be seen together less, she is getting a bit bored, and he is seen without her a lot, has his birthday and Christmas without her, and holidays with mates without her... And then a 'source' says she is getting tired of him and how it's not quite working anymore, then a few months down the line they finish. (Sometimes they just finish with no warning.) But they never live together, go to awards ceremonies or weddings or family stuff together, they never get engaged, they never get married.

I don't know how dumb Leo thinks his fans are. He is clearly gay (and yes Lukas Haas is very likely his long term partner.) I understand why he won't/hasn't 'come out.' As a pp said, it would have damaged his career so badly if he had come out 2 or 3 decades ago ... And maybe the ship has sailed now.....?

I wish he would stop dating 19 year olds when he's 50 though. I like him as a person/an actor/a celebrity, but find this side of him grim and abhorrent. At least get a beard who is over 30 Leo FFS!

ALWAYS!!!!!!

A knife can't navigate the bend. My finger can though.

That is DEFINITELY true.

In the same thread

you place the USB plug in. It’s wrong. You turn it. It’s wrong. You turn it back and it’s right!

WHY WASNT IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME?!!!

😂 YESSSSSSSSSS! OH MY GOD WHY? WHHYYYYY?! 😖

The 19yos are probably more willing to take the money and in need of it and the exposure being with him brings though. A 30 year old is more likely to be married/in a long term relationship/have an established career/just doesn't have the time for nonsense.

And there's also probably an element of us being more likely to discuss the fact that his girlfriends are so young. If you're getting a girlfriend just for show and to throw off people's gaydars, then you're going to make sure you're getting your moneys worth and it's getting noticed, right??!!

I watched an episode of Black Mirror yesterday. It had self driving cars, robot honey bees, all kinds of stuff. But the most futuristic thing in it? Every single time someone tried to plug in a USB stick, they got it right first time. Every. Single. Time. The future is going to be awesome! (Aside from the robot honey bees murdering 387,000 people.)

When I was teaching it usually rained at about 3.25. just before the end of the day.

New glasses seem to adversely affect my hearing!

Tupperware houses all the lost teaspoons too.

This one actually makes a lot of sense.

That Tomato Ketchup evaporates, especially Heinz. I swear we don’t use that much and we’re always needing a new bottle

The weather in September, just after going back to work, was usually lovely for a few weeks.

I once read that show houses use smaller scale furniture to conceal how small rooms are, the inner doors are often removed for the same reason.

Hmmmm yes, some good points. But Leo dating a 19 y.o is just 💀

And the women are ALWAYS models. They’re never actresses or singers or even someone else in the film industry, like how Christian Bale met Winona Ryder’s assistant on the set of the 1994 Little Women and ended up marrying her. (I’ve heard of another couple of actors who married “backstage” people they met while filming.) Almost like…oh, I don’t know, almost like different modeling management people are deliberately finding women for Leo.

The other big Leo rumor, which I’ve only heard in the past few years, is that he allegedly hooks up with women for one-night stands, but doesn’t look at them and wears headphones during sex. Is that true? No idea. (It’s always, “My friend slept with him once and she said…”) But if it is true, it reads like he’s having sex he’s not really interested in having, and like he’s working really hard to avoid even the slightest emotional connection. Sort of like the “rules” I can imagine someone making if their partner was for some reason obligated to have sex with someone else, but the condition was that feelings could never, ever be involved. Like the partner would come home and be like, “You know it doesn’t mean anything. I didn’t even look her in the eye the whole time and I was barely paying attention to what we were doing. I even wore headphones!”

I totally believe this too!