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[–] ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zip 34 points 2 months ago (6 children)

There are 7 alien spaceships orbiting earth right now the size of Jupiter, but they are invisible. They are not revealing themselves to us yet because we are not ready. But they are mind controlling the world leaders to prevent us from killing each other in a nuclear war. They helped trump win so as to save us all. There are also millions of people living underground in a whole separate society. Hilary Clinton is a lizard person, etc.

Then after he told me all this he said seriously with a straight face. “I will never tell you anything that I don’t know to be true 100%”

[–] TheFermentalist@reddthat.com 11 points 2 months ago

Ah, I see that you have met my wife’s uncle Rudi!

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago

Did they learn about it in History Channel?

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

What the fuck?

[–] LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

Oh lord that sounds like serious MH level

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[–] LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Briefly being around someone with the covid vaccine can mess up your periods and cause early menopause.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Someone actually said that to you in seriousness?
Well, better don't tell them about barcodes unless you want to be responsible for them spending a 1000€ on a decent Hildegard-Orgon-Accumulator...

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[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh boy I just had flashbacks of my family sharing so many COVID conspiracy theories during that time. It was so so bad.

[–] LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

Yep, scary times

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The first ones I could think out of The top of my head:

  • Wind turbines are being powered by Diesel Generators
  • In The Middle Age people were like 4m tall, which is the reason why the entrance gates of castles are so big.

There are probably way more, that I forgot (my parents are quite deep into conspiracy theories and so is their entire social circle).

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In The Middle Age people were like 4m tall, which is the reason why the entrance gates of castles are so big.

This guy clearly never has been to an actual castle or medieval townhouse and bumped his head on every second door...

And the wind turbine one is so bonkers I can't even imagine someone saying that in a non-joke-context...

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 21 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I'll stop faster because I'm towing a trailer.

My idiot FIL, a chronic tailgater, the last ever time I opted to be a passenger.

[–] vorpuni@jlai.lu 7 points 2 months ago (8 children)

If the trailer has very good brakes set to full power even when nearly empty, it's actually true, but I doubt that's the case…

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I actually asked him that at the time

Oh, is it a braked trailer?

No.

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[–] Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Flat Earth Theory.

It wasn't my first time hearing about it, but it was my first time meeting someone in person who genuinely believed in it. My coworker and I got a 30 minute lecture on why he was right, presented wholeheartedly.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago

The amazing thing about round earth is how easy it is to prove it. Just visit both hemispheres and compare the orientation of the moon.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

In high school they taught us that Shakespeare's plays weren't written down, that they were re-constructed by audience goers who remembered the lines and wrote them down.

Absolute bullshit.

[–] Jarlsburg@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

A roommate once told me that cows "have one hole for babies and pooping", i.e., a cloaca, but he didn't know that word. I told him that isn't true, they are typical mammals so they have the full complement of parts.

I was sitting at my computer so I pulled up a diagram which he said was wrong. Then he asked to show me and started searching for things like, "cow hole", "cow butthole and birth canal", and "cows with just one hole" before I regained my senses and told him to go away.

The worst part though was the next day when my girlfriend was using my computer and saw the searches so I had to explain to her the conversation and he came back in to defend himself and tried to look up cow smut AGAIN.

[–] lycanrising@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (5 children)

That green grapes were grapes that weren’t ripe. Couldn’t believe my ears and had to point out that green/white grapes make white wine and red grapes make red wine, there’s no such thing as red grapes that are green because they’re not ripe.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

there’s no such thing as red grapes that are green because they’re not ripe.

Son of winegrower here:
Actually, there are.
But you wouldn't want to eat them... :-)

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 6 points 2 months ago

But you wouldn’t want to eat them… :-)

or ferment them. You want the sugar for the fermentation, after all.

(Some folks in my family grow wine for a living. I genuinely miss them.)

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Orange wine made with white grapes would probably blow their mind.

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[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ask them if green apples are just red apples that aren't ripe, too

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That Jesus had 20kg stones he'd send Earth in the Doomsday. And that would be the day I'd regret not listening to the person saying it.

...mostly because I asked her why should I take the Bible more seriously than the Gîta, the Quran, or the Poetic Edda.

~25y later I'm still waiting those 20kg stones.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't even understand that one... So doomsday comes and all you get is a lousy mid-sized stone?

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Imagine stones falling from the sky, on your head. 144k "chosen ones" are spared, everyone else gets fucked. There's fire, brimstone, and all that folklore. That was roughly her description of doomsday.

And apparently I'm getting rekt because I don't take this sort of superstition seriously. *yawn*

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are the numbers actually that specific? I like that. We could combine that with the 7 spaceship theory out of one of the other threads. Would make a great basis for some kind of new cult!

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are the numbers actually that specific?

Yes for the 144k people. I'm not sure on the 20kg stones, if it's part of her religion or if she invented it on the spot.

7 spaceship theory

Genius! And I even know how they're hiding - below Earth!

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[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

My biology teacher in 7th grade during sex-ed:

The anus is a one way road

Fuck her homophobic ass.*

*Not literally. Something tells me she's not into that.

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[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People from Sweden are short, his reasoning was the size of IKEA furniture.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I am confused... What is different with the size of IKEA furniture?

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A lot of it is designed to fit in college dorms. So some are on the small side...

But this guy also didn't understand that beds came in standard sizes, and was worried a swedish store (in the US) would be selling bedframes sized based on swedish standards and wouldn't fit his mattress... It was a dumb conversation

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Ok, so might be different product offering in the US then. Which makes what he said even doubly stupid.
College dorms are not as much of a thing here in Europe and Ikea stuff here is normal sized, just standardized, mostly with that minimalistic Ikea look and easy to assemble by oneself.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I think IKEA furniture does read as a little small to Americans because it is European designed and European furniture on average seems a little smaller than American furniture, to my eye at least.

Source: have owned a few IKEA pieces and have also am an American who has travelled to Europe a few times where I often stayed in airbnbs

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[–] SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I had an economics teacher in high school who warned us that we’re better off at the higher end of a lower tax bracket than the lower end of a higher one, because a higher bracket being a higher percentage of taxation meant you’d lose so much more money that you’d be holding less in the end until you pass the threshold within that bracket where you get back ahead of the tax. An economics teacher.

[–] Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

this is true, at least for my income tax

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[–] threeonefour@piefed.ca 7 points 2 months ago

I had a health teacher explain hypertension is when your muscles get all stiff and that's why you need to stretch to loosen up.

[–] chuso@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)
  • The Anunnaki were ancient astronauts who visit Earth periodically, like every 10 000 years or something like that, I don't remember the exact frequency, but they are supposed to visit us again some time in the future, when it's their time for a new visit. They are so handsome that we can't resist mating with them and the current human race is a cross between the Anunnaki and the humans of the last time they visited us.
  • If you travel far enough north, you will find a hidden civilization living under the ice at the North Pole that they don't want us to know about.
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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Innumerable, but I think "there's no gravity in space" is kinda high up there

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[–] ndupont@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A mother of three afraid to get prostate cancer, like her own dad.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 3 points 2 months ago

I had to co-worker to whom I had to explain that women don't have a prostate.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Animals don't suffer like we do.

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