Untrue Truths and urban myths

[Batch]

My cousin is a bit of a CT, but a 30s Google search usually disproves anything she posts on fb.

For example, last week was a picture of the Apollo 11 crew without their helmets on and a caption about 'when they were optional on the moon '.

A 10s Google gives the answer it was a training exercise and the full photo has cars in the background.

I tend to just ignore her, it's easier that way. I guess she can't help it.

Her husband is the same but I know he has the intelligence to look up and weigh the evidence (more things like chemtrails and anti Vax). I just find it hard to understand how his conclusions are reached. Maybe he think the same of me.

Ah well, such is life.

[Qunk]

They're fucking stupid, is what they are.

Wasn't Maths used to prove the earth was round* in about 3000BC?

*Near enough.

Eratosthenes was the first to actually demonstrate the earth is a globe around 200 BC (and measure its circumference relatively accurately, using sticks and shadows) and Aristotle argued for it about 100 years earlier. Pythagoras did so a couple of hundred years before Aristotle too.

So not quite 3000 BC, but it doesn’t really matter, it was a long bastard time ago.

[Batch]

I'm still not convinced 90% of flat earthers aren't just pretending for a laugh.

[Qunk]

I'm still not convinced 90% of flat earthers aren't just pretending for a laugh.

There’s that too. They definitely make up a proportion of those that say the earth is flat.

Also, I’ll just make the point that whenever a flat earther has tried to prove it’s flat, they’ve accidentally demonstrated its a globe.

 

[donkey]

Eratosthenes was the first to actually demonstrate the earth is a globe around 200 BC (and measure its circumference relatively accurately, using sticks and shadows) and Aristotle argued for it about 100 years earlier. Pythagoras did so a couple of hundred years before Aristotle too.

So not quite 3000 BC, but it doesn’t really matter, it was a long bastard time ago.

That'll do for me.

[Jimmy Quinn]

I once stood at the end of a rainbow…….nothing🤣

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

Bizarre isn't it?

Anyway, Mitchell and Webb summed it up nicely.

Brilliant! I'd not seen that

[TailBetweenLegs]

My cousin was a CT and in very deep. To the extent he would create red flags and spread them on the internet he was very involved in the spreading of mistruths. He now has done a full turn around has been on BBC apologising to 7/7 victims and has his own podcast etc explaining exactly how these nutters works. Really interesting, unfortunately though it now means that he faces the wrath of the other side who insist he is not real and a plant by MI5 etc

Fucked up place i tell you

[4D]

Religion. Thread closed.

[Qunk]

My cousin was a CT and in very deep. To the extent he would create red flags and spread them on the internet he was very involved in the spreading of mistruths. He now has done a full turn around has been on BBC apologising to 7/7 victims and has his own podcast etc explaining exactly how these nutters works. Really interesting, unfortunately though it now means that he faces the wrath of the other side who insist he is not real and a plant by MI5 etc

Fucked up place i tell you

What’s his podcast called, I’d like to listen?

[Nomoreheroes]

What is a CT?

[Kinky Tom]

Conspiracy Theorist I've been assuming.

[4D]

Confidence Trickster? 

*kidding, of course.

[Qunk]

Confidence Trickster? 

*kidding, of course.

That works actually, although more so for those that create the conspiracy theories in the first place rather than those that believe them. Confidence tricksters sums them up quite well!

[TailBetweenLegs]

What’s his podcast called, I’d like to listen?

Some dare call it a conspiracy