Mysteries are all around us. With such a big world, we have so much to discover. That’s why conspiracy theories are so fun! Some theories operate on a larger scale, like the moon landing conspiracy; others are often smaller stories.
Someone decided to focus on these low-stakes conspiracy theories and asked people for examples in a now-viral thread on X (formerly Twitter). Get your tinfoil hat ready as you check out these theories. You’ll probably agree with more anecdotes than you think.
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I'm gonna go through this list and give my verdict lol This the first one lol And the verdict is...STUPID lol
Definitely. It's always higher than average. Uhm your average needs to be adjusted then
Have a company I sometimes calls, they say: "we have many calls right now, we'll serve you soon, your number in the cue is #1".. 🙈🙀
Load More Replies...If the call volumes are higher than usual, perhaps they need to employ more staff. Higher call volumes seems to be a permanent excuse for not offering prompt and efficient customer service.
Why provide great service when the minimum will do, especially if your customers don't have any other realistic choices. (Internet/cable etc). There are like two choices for Internet here and usually it's not much of a choice, call times take forever, but I call my cell or insurance provider and they answer fast, they know there are several more choices if you don't like them
Load More Replies..."PLEASE LISTEN CAREFULLY AS OUR MENU OPTIONS HAVE RECENTLY CHANGED" Someone in the industry promoted this as a way to get customers to actually listen to the automated menus and 95%+ of companies with automated menus adopted it. Spoiler - If you keep this announcement on your phone menu for more than a few years it begins to sound sus.
The issue is they also include the hours that have effectively zero calls when factoring that. So yes, the volume is in fact above average... because they get maybe 2 calls an hour between the hours of 10PM and 6AM.
the thing is, they want you using aeroplane mode so that it doesn't interfere with the plane's communications and other instruments and systems
🎵 And my ears 🎵 are not DyInG *screech* 🎵
Load More Replies...No. It's so your brain turns to mush, so when it's answered you can't think who you are or why you are calling. Instinctively going for a panicky overly polite please help me tone in the initial exchange. Now you are grateful for any help and less likely to be annoyed that you needed help in the first place. Like thank you so much for helping me solve the problem your company created.
That or it's the sedative type to make angry customers fall asleep or feel drowsy before they get to speak to someone.
Except for that Walmart hold music! (Some doctor's offices use that same music too) I get mad when they actually pick up. ifykyk
You can sometimes find youtube videos of the hold music that different companies use. Rickrolling with hold music is a fun activity....
In this Bored Panda list, you’ll find the tiniest conspiracies that people have come across in their daily lives. Whether it involves the buttons at a sidewalk crossing or British people faking their accents, there are so many crazy theories that actually might not seem so crazy once you think about it.
A conspiracy theory involves an explanation about a person, thing, or event that is usually centered around a secret plot. Conspiracy theorists genuinely believe that their theory is a secret that’s being hidden from the public, often by some powerful officials. It’s no wonder why people are eager to learn more about these plots and uncover the secrets within.
Never touch another rock without thinking about consent.
Load More Replies...Pet rocks are all soft and cuddly though. If yours isn't you need to cuddle it more. Or it might be jealous because you hve two.
Based on the "less is more" school of architecture.
Load More Replies...Aging myself here..... About 30 years ago there was The Container Store (is it still open?) People discovered how amazing all those little boxes baskets containers etc were and more businesses start opening based on their success. Now we have the trend of "living big by living small." However, the truth or conspiracy of minimization is that your spending just as much and probably more on all of the organization products to be a minimal design home or office fashionista
Um, many people in the fashion industry have literally been saying this for years, Ralph Lauren said that is what he was told when he started out.
I can find no proof of that "quote" being from RL, or existing at all.
Load More Replies...as a woman, i would rather carry a purse than put my things in pockets. i carry minimal items, like my phone, sunglasses, keys, money and driver's license and credit card. putting them all in my pockets, even if there were enough big pockets in my clothing, would be uncomfortable, and inconvenient for so many reasons.
Actually (I have proof!) tiny/no pockets in women's' clothes is a conspiracy by NPR to force people to donate money to get tote bags.
Nah, not buying this. The purses hypothesis is to distract you from the reality; which is PURELY SEX driven. Lumps and bulges on the outside of curves; detract and distract from the hard sexual impact of TIGHT clothing. THAT'S WHY. And women? Keep wiggling into tight clothes. That's pretty sexy too. And yes- that's what 100% of us, male and female- are thinking about looking at nice, tight, sleek, bulge-less clothes.... :-)
LOL! The fact that people are actually down voting me here is PROOF of how certain we are that sex has NOTHING to do with fashion!! Oh, you poor suckers. :-)
Load More Replies...It's especially annoying for people like me, who wear jeans from the woman's section and don't want to / can't wear a purse. It's such an annoying little detail, why do they do this?? Women also might not want to wear a purse, just make the pockets bigger already, it can't be that hard?
Also, all women's clothes with reasonable pockets failed. Women didn't buy it.
i think its because we were witches and they wanted to be able to find herbs we had but if they were in our pockets it would be a sin to touch a woman you aren't married to so they would make us have purses so they could check if we had spells with out being sinful. that's my conspiracy.
Nobody really cares about this except people who aren’t into how clothes look. And ugly pants are available to those people all over the place. It IS cool when a loose skirt or dress has pockets because the dress can accommodate for it without losing the aesthetic. Most women like flattering pants and cool purses. The majority of women on BP openly claim to actively hate fashion and the beauty industry as a whole.
What’s interesting to note about conspiracy theories is that people latch onto them much faster during times of anxiety or uncertainty. Such as wars, natural disasters, and, as of recently, a global pandemic. A study on the rise of conspiracy theories during the pandemic found that three of the most commonly talked about rumors were based on QAnon, the anti-vaccine movement, and anti-5G discussions.
People also tend to distrust authority figures. So, when they are faced with high levels of uncertainty, conspiracy theories tend to spread even more. This suggests that people come up with these vague rumors and plots to make sense of the rapidly changing world around them and to make some threats seem more understandable.
PETA is a vile bunch of animal murderers. We had special training in animal welfare to spot those @#$%ers, cos they'd try to sneak in to staff only areas and poison the animals in our care.
PETA also expands to "People Eating Tasty Animals". Coincidence? I think not.
Seems to me they’re doing an *excellent* job of making vegetarian/veganism look absurd, too! (Ack; I just said something nice about PETA. 😡 Lemme take it back, please?) (People need to be careful with these lest they accidentally convince the credulous to make to contributions! to questionable orgs!)
I'm missing something. Vegans/vegetarians don't eat meat. Isn't the fact they do not is kinder to animals?
It's not kinder if they eat all their vegetation....... lmao. But, really, this is just a knock on PETA, because they are an absolutely horrible organization that has nearly never done a single bit of good for anyone, human or animal.
Load More Replies...The "our menu options have recently changed" thing is so f*****g stupid. Even if they really did recently change their menu options, who the f**k is memorizing menu options? We just want to talk to a real person, we're not taking notes and studying your stupid phone menu prompts.
“Please listen carefully because we’re too cheap to hire live CSRs”
The last time they changed was 15 years ago; they’ve just never bothered to rerecord the greeting.
I design phone systems for a living (feel free to hate me). I will do my best to meet the customer's requests, but "menu recently changed" is a hard no.
“Recent past”? 🙄 You mean DISTANT past. Very, VERY distant past. Write down the options, store ‘em with your important après, and then when you find that paper in a few years, call the number and compare the current menu with what you wrote down. I promise it’ll be the same.
Many expiration dates on many non-food items are based on when the items start to break down, but can be safe long beyond it. But that is when it loses its scent, color, sediment separation, etc, which affects their branding reputation
With medication at least, it's how long the scientific studies can prove it's still good. Maybe a certain d**g is still completely fine after 20 years in your bathroom cabinet, but no pharmaceutical company is going to pay for a 20-year study to find out, so they test it up to something more doable like three years and put a three-year 'expiration' date on the bottle.
Load More Replies...This is not the case! Cosmetics (in the EU at least) carry a specific 'after opening' expiration date in montths because of microbial contamination, see enclosed image. Every time you stick your fingers in, you bring in more bacteria and fungii. And since the use of preservatives is discouraged, over time products can actually become dangerous/toxic. Source: I'm a regulator in the field. 97a79263-8...737d73.jpg
The states have this as well! I read about the importance of looking at these dates a while back and I can't believe how long I kept some of that makeup around.
Load More Replies...You put your brush on your face, then back into your powder, carrying microbes from your face, who then settle down and raise families. After a year, do you really want to put that on your face? Much less your eyes. Eye infections can be dangerous.
A year and many generations later, those microbes are on the way to mutating into dinosaurs. Why risk it.
Load More Replies...Nope. This is pink eye station. And you can smell it on the product too.
What if the goats milk and avocado can expire? Simple answer, read the ingredients and refrigerate the ones you need to. I agree with op’s point but maybe they putting food related ingredients in to their products to not make them shelf stable.
smell my mom's 25 year old stage makeup and you'll change your mind REAL fast
Researchers have also found that conspiracy theories play on people’s feelings and sense of identity. That’s why these theorists hold on so firmly to their beliefs. Though there might not be enough evidence or facts to support the stories, people’s faith makes them resist any efforts to prove them wrong. And if people don’t trust authorities, how exactly will these rumors ever be disproved?
According to the University of Nottingham: “People are attracted to conspiracy theories in an attempt to satisfy three psychological needs. They want more certainty, to feel in control, and maintain a positive image of their self and group.”
LOL. Spoken like a woman in late pregnancy. :-) I can tell you though, both my wives had people remark they were "glowing" - before the observer knew they were pregnant. First half, though...
Wow, 2 wives pregnant at the same time. It sounds like it had a very good start but it's not going to end well.
Load More Replies...Cosmikid, it was you,!! You made them glow! Thats wonderful.
Load More Replies...to prevent eye infections and rashes, you should change your mascara every 6 months
I 'glowed' so much that I had my recliner in front of the window AC and my husband was walking around in sweats.
I did not glow, my face was just red anytime I experienced temperatures above freezing. I used to be cold all the time and started feeling hot all the time when pregnant. Oddly, that didn't go away, I still run hot 4 years later 🥵
Nothing's to stop you taking the empty bottle through and refilling it on the other side of security, Some airports even have free water fountains specifically for this purpose.
I usually pack an empty reusable bottle for this reason.
Load More Replies...Do you not remember when they instituted this rule? It was because of liquid explosives.
That was the rationale. It's highly questionable whether a terrorist would ever be able to mix a DIY explosive in flight, given how unstable the components are.
Load More Replies...No, it's to stop the transport of controlled substances. But this could also be a natural plus that they exploit ;)
Then they are only checking the 'front door'. I know someone who works on the tarmac. They have access and no one checks them out . They could easily put something on a plane.
Load More Replies...You can’t carry that little bottle of water through Security, because it might be a bomb! So I’m going to take your bottle, and put it with these 200 hundred other possible bombs…for SAFETY!
I know this is a joke, but.... Spoken accents are based on when/how you shorten or elongate words. When you sing you're basically extending every word, which his why many accents aren't noticeable in that case.
Would be a crime to lose that lovely accent!
Load More Replies...It's "balls swing"?!? I thought it was "heart sing"! also GOOODIIEES! goody goody yum yum.
Load More Replies...This is usually from someone who thinks everyone in the UK speaks with a BBC accent.
This is funny. the "British" accent people do is called "Cockney". also scotland is part of britain so a british accent could be "Och aye mon. it's a dark black moonlit nicht the noo" (oh yes man, it's a dark black moonlit night now)
A 1995 study by John McHoskey sought to provide an explanation for why it was difficult to debunk conspiracy theories. He gave believers and disbelievers of the Kennedy conspiracy a balanced description of the arguments for and against it. His theory was that those who favored and opposed the conspiracy would both regard that very same statement as evidence in favor of their position.
His theory was proved to be correct. This is because when people face uncertain information, they tend to hold more strongly onto their point of view. People also readily accept ideas that fit their viewpoint and tend to strongly question anything that doesn’t fit their point of view.
Also they keep using the same size bottles but just decreasing the amount they fill it, that's why the ml is never a nice round number.
You know there IS such a thing as using too little, right?
Load More Replies...The instructions will just tell you to fill it to the line…..which is 20% higher than it needs to be.
Load More Replies...If it wasn't before, it will be as soon as a nefarious individual reads your spiffy idea here!
😯 what? What data? Was thinking about switching to them.. or Norton..?
Load More Replies...Or bloatware. But yeah. Considering the Kaspersky owned-by-the-Russians brouhaha....
I actually believe this. I'll only use what the computer comes with. I don't trust this stuff.
Yeah, because computers *never* arrive with malware. I gather you’ve never owned a cellphone?
Load More Replies...And he takes them back to his bigfoot friends to try and prove that human really do exist!
They pick it up and bury it strategically to fertilize the forest, creating more privacy from human eyes.
Load More Replies...Sasquatch exists and they are displeased with sapiens destroying the planet. Yeah, we Believe in each other.
As a child of the 60s/70s it amuses me that the "sightings" largely stopped around the same time high speed, HD, auto focus cameras became common. No more excuses for your friend in the costume to be blurry and shaky.
There are sightings all the time, all over the world. Several TV shows. Where have you been?
Load More Replies...Since this list has many low-stakes theories, some are likely to have a kernel of truth. It’s interesting to note that not all conspiracies are false. Some have turned out to be true over time. For example, it was believed that tobacco companies were hiding evidence that smoking is deadly. Even though there was proof in the early 1950s to show that smoking could cause cancer, it wasn’t until the late 1990s that Philip Morris, the nation’s largest cigarette maker at the time, admitted to it.
This is what Joseph E. Uscinski had to say in his work on the study of conspiracy theories: “It is difficult to prove that a secret plot is not taking place behind the scenes. A dearth of positive proof and an abundance of falsifying evidence seem to count in their favor. This is not inappropriate: if powerful actors are trying to hide something it only stands to reason that confirming evidence will be hidden and red herrings will abound.”
See also close door buttons in many elevators - often not connected.
It isn't there to immediately give you the chance to cross. It allows the crossing signal to show when it's your turn, and adjusts the timing of the lights so you can get across.
This is a fun one to try to sort out. I've had the same thought, as have most of us. My own guess- some of the DO work; but the time frame is so long you get frustrated; the "system" here has to integrate with traffic. Some- are broken- not working and nobody has fixed them. And some, as suggested, may just be a nice way to keep pedestrians occupied and hoping...
I always say: "Well, it gives you something to do while you wait."
Load More Replies...I've seen this in action. Longest light in town (or so it seems) will not budge if one or 101 people punch that button on one side of the street. One person shows up on the other side of the street to punch it and, bam! The light changes. Every darn time.
Partially true. They used to work - some still do - many no longer do as traffic controls have become more sophisticated. So some cities have a mixture of both for uniformity but some of them function and some don't do anything. If you live in podunk nowhere USA there is a better chance any cross walk buttons still function. Bigger cities with more modern computers controlling the lights - less likely.
Some of them do actually work, but some are fake. The ones near where I work are real (which is good since they're for a six-lane highway). All the ones for the main road through the town where I live are decorative, except the one that sets off the flashing lights on the yellow pedestrian sign.
Highly directional microphones are placed on both posts (that hold up the nets) to pick up sound from the key (floor area in front of the net). The audio engineers that mix the show, actually refer to them as "squeak mics"! The sound is not artificial. The other interesting mic is the "swish mic", placed near the rim in order to catch the "swish" sound from the ball going through the net.
Depends on the shoe. I've heard some pretty damn squeaky shoes. And the type of floor just makes it worse.
The swishes in skiing competitions are added by someone in studio too. Not a conspiracy theory, just fact
Surely the ding ding ding noise on the Price is Right is added in post production other wise Bob Barker and Drew Carey would hear that sound in their sleep.
Bob won’t hear anything because he’s dead, but Drew still hasta listen to it. (Or Wayne Brady? He’s taken over some sorta game show, hasn’t he?) (As much as I enjoy him, I’m still not watching a game show just to see him.)
Load More Replies...This dude obviously never played basketball on a court before lol STUPID.
Honestly, I've seen franchises where this is the only reason they would so even the most basic maintenance
Nah, it's more just desperately trying to stay relevant and convince customers they are not a trashy place to eat.
I stopped going since they removed Ronald McDonald, Grimmace, Mayor McCheese, the Fry Guys, and the Hamburgler from the decor, and the playgrounds. Though to be honest decor has nothing to do with why I have no interest in going. It’s the oatmeal.
Load More Replies...Hasn't seemed to change the usability of the ice cream machines or the bacteria level in the ice machines.
With the power of social media when it comes to sharing viewpoints, it might seem like more people are falling for conspiracies. In every corner you turn online, there’ll be someone spilling the tea on a juicy theory that you’ve probably never heard about.
That’s why there have been many studies aiming to see if the number of conspiracy theories was truly increasing every year. One study found that there hasn’t been any significant increase. In fact, researchers have found that people fall for conspiracies online only if they are already likely to believe in them or if they are interested in that particular topic.
I the name of the said industry I protest to the idea. A good repairman leaves a machine behind that doesn't need any maintenance till the next scheduled checkup. But companies producing the actual printers, well, you usually get what you paid for.
Load More Replies...And let's talk about self-clean mode and how much ink they swallow. Considering that ounce-for-ounce, HP printer ink is supposedly more expensive than human blood....
Well… inbuilt obsolescence is definitely a thing to keep us buying new versions. Ever noticed how your iPhone battery starts playing up just at the end of your purchase contract? Without fail! If I didn’t like the phones so much I’d never buy one again.
HP locks most of their printer functionality behind a subscription, and can and will disable your printer remotely if you stop paying them.
Idk about today, but I know years ago ink cartridges had chips on them that made them expire, (out of ink errors) after a set time, even if you never use
And we should be drilling for printer ink instead of oil... it would be more profitable!
Alternatively, fromsoft named the horse in elden ring "torrent" to make pirating harder. It's my personal conspiracy theory lol.
Wasn’t it just his head (or his brain) and not his entire body? I thought his body’s circling our atmosphere out in space. Or have I simply heard too many urban myths?
Yikes! Be sure to get ‘em rotated periodically so you’ll get the best use out of it. (And good luck with ‘em!)
Load More Replies...Doesn't have to be an original thought just something you believe. I've heard several of these before
Load More Replies...A paradoxx: if they have the same level intelligence than human and do this mis-en-scene, then they are actually smarter than us
I think dogs do, too. They see how stressful and depressing being human is. Instead of knocking things off shelves and being generally annoying, they are giving us themselves. Loyalty until the end. And they choose to.
I personally think that mosquitos are more intelligent than humans. That's why we get bitten.
They’ve been proven to have up to the intelligence of a five-year-old child.
Cats view humans like big hairless cats... I find that awesome because they clearly put up with some serious language barriers haha!
Conspiracy theories are wild and have become popular for a reason. These low-stakes conspiracies are just juicy enough to get you thinking without pulling you into a rabbit hole of information. Interestingly enough, the post got more than 28 million views and over 800 comments, with some of the wackiest answers possible. If you believe in any minor conspiracy, this is your time to shine. Let us know in the comments and feel free to share more than one.
At least some dental floss lists an expiration date, which is mostly b******t. It may not last as long as the pyramids or cigarette filters, but the floss itself will normally last far beyond the expiration date. It just won't keep a minty flavor for as long.
Load More Replies...Nobody uses as much toothpaste as they do in the commercials; everyone knows that’s for effect
Yeah, Dentists recommend you only use about the size of a pea when you squeeze out toothpaste.
Re-use it. If you can use make-up for a year without worrying about microbes, then re-using the same floss for a week should be no problem. For added protection, dip it in your mouth-wash. Might go for a month then.
Load More Replies...The looped over double high ribbon the length of the toothbrush is laughable.
I just noticed today - so do the tampons in my drawer. ?!?
Load More Replies...Every dentist or whatever will tell you that they use too much for that reason. Common knowledge. But the floss part? What?? You have never ending toilet paper rolls too?
If your floss never runs out, it’s just because you’re not using it. I buy mine at CostCo as I go through a lot of it and CostCo sells six months’ worth in a package.. (Not only am I bothered by the sensation of stuff clogged between my teeth, but I’m terrified of having bad breath.)
some of us even have it inserted into ourselves intentionally
Load More Replies...Humans are the smartest of all animals... according to the animals who turned in the survey!
That episode of The Simpsons when dolphins enslave humanity and take over the world? :)
Load More Replies...To be fair, human level intelligence nowadays isn't all that impressive
I’ve always said that animal intelligence is only limited by human ability &/or willingness to understand them
If whales have human-level intelligence, then why haven't they wrecked the world?
PROBABLE, but stupid because this has nothing to do with conspiracies lol
Do they even use pork anymore? Last time I had one it tasted like it was soy 😝
Turning their ill-advised purchases into their customers' ill-advised purchases.
Or alternatively, "Banksy" is a consortium of BANKS - playing urban pranks- to keep people looking around in cities - generates business, you know...
So financial institutions are doing banks pranks in the UK? I’d like to prank a bank by nonchalantly sliding a buncha cash into my pocket.
Load More Replies...Yes, it's Bill, Anthea, Nigel, Ken, Sylvia and Yvonne from a retirement home in Bristol, working as a secret guerrilla art collective.
Banksy's identity may be unknown, bu it is known that he is only one person.
Except during covid lockdowns there were lots of new ‘banksy’s’ popping up all over the place when travel was banned. So it became evident that whilst banksy is indeed one person that doesn’t mean each banksy piece is put up by him, if you are trying to keep up your anonymity what better way than to just email out your stencils and have various people spray them up
Load More Replies...An urban artist. They're a person. You should google what their art looks like. It's very interesting.
Load More Replies...Either Song of Ice and Fire or Solidarity and Freedom. Depends on your political stance.
Load More Replies...He lives in my area and is known to be generally very grumpy. Yet he has done a bit for local arts based organizations. He funded Meow Wolf and a local theater.
I went to Costco yesterday and it was PACKED, I actually would’ve expected less people based on the number of cars. I had to eat my hot dog while walking around bc the food area was so jammed.
That happened to me too but it was today lol. I think the extra cars are just employees in the back who have to stock stuff, so that's why you don't see them.
Load More Replies...Sol Price who founded PriceClub (which Costco was a copy founded by ex-employees who later bought PriceClub and integrated it into Costco), which that whole store model is based on, did that in his early years to draw in customers. Had people park cars in his lots to make the stores seems more full. However with my local Costco, it is always packed.
That's why it was called Price Club???? I thought it had to do with the actual prices. :)
Load More Replies...Seeing more cars makes me less likely to go shopping, as someone is always standing in front of what I need.
"The appearance of demand" is something in every serious book on business/marketing. Many businesses have tricks like this, and are quite shameless about it. And it's YOUR fault! As the fickle customer!! Example; you're looking for a café to get a bite- there are two on this block- one of which is empty; and the other has happy customers sitting where you can see them. Which one do you go in? Numerous studies answer 90% of folks will automatically choose the busy one - a few folks really wanting solitude choose empty. The underlying assumption is one that is universal among consumers: "there's probably a REASON why this one is full" - hoping the reason is outstanding food/coffee etc. There may be NO reason at all, of course, just chance. So- 100% of servers are trained, when the first customer of the day comes in - to do everything in their power to seat them - in the window seats. Cars/Costco - same deal.
I go into mostly empty restaurants all the time and the servers make no attempt to seat me in a window seat
Load More Replies...I don't think they're fake cars, I think they just don't have real drivers XD
Jokes on them then. I downing 2 right of the grill before they even make it inside.
I slice them up and mix them with seasoned tomatoes, toss into mac and cheese and have a few dinners out of it.
Load More Replies...Grab a few of those little jam sachets and have the remaining buns as desert - jam buns.
That first sentence doesn’t make a damned bit of sense. “Have too many hotdogs and not enough buns? Buy more hotdogs!” Derp.
They became popular after the bad aftertaste was systematically bred out of them. Brussel sprouts of today don't taste like they did 40 years ago
Load More Replies...What's IHOP? Is it american? because everyone who is not from america shouldn't be expected to know about purely american things.
All these years of trying to correct me and it still has no idea what I intend to say.
Then they're not doing a very good job. They still don't recognize when I'm trying to spell my granddaughter's name.
It helps if you imagine autocorrect as a tiny little elf in your phone that is trying to help but is in fact quite drunk
Load More Replies...Actually Otto Korrect was an evil German Scientist. He had a plan to make written communication difficult, thus enslaving us all.
they still dont comprehend that me saying Sea of Stars once doesn't mean stars must always be capitalized. MAYBE I WANNA SAY SEA OF THIEVES?
Predictive text can't even get 2 out of 3 words right when I gesture type, I don't think they're doing a very good job.
This was debunked... Then tragically proven as it was collecting word usage profile. Without it, predictive text has bombed haha!
Recently realized nearly each time I typed the letter it would autocorrect to ai.
That's why I regularly screw around and make nonsense sentences with predictive text. The first one is the other side of the first two years of Tigers.
To be honest, when I (boomer) was young the flavour lasted much, much more time.
Hmmmmm. If this were true one company would probably break off and make actual long master gum, making all the other businesses go out of business
It’s big gum in cahoots with dentistry and MAGS (Mothers Against Gum Swallowing”.
I actually quit buying gum because for me the flavour lasts about 8 minutes.
Nah. Poor Steve was just obviously a num-num bound to keep pushing it until he ran out of luck. Never watched him without thinking that. "He's gonna get killed." Anybody truly trained to work with animals could see that; "No, they DON'T always behave the same way..."
he WAS unlucky. He was NOT a "num-num". you Muppet
Load More Replies...It was tragic how he died, but have to say he always seemed to take a lot of risks.
Because he needed to break ties so he could join PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals)
Alternatively, it's to create the impression of "full value" in the very tightly packed box - and that it's YOUR fault you messed up their attempt to give you your money's worth.
do you not just stuff them back in the box...???
Load More Replies...It's funny how facial tissue is universally known as "Kleenex" when Kleenex is the brand name, not the product.
It's not actually "universally known as "Kleenex"." some people call them tissues, or wet wipes.
Load More Replies...If brand name became the common noun, they don't have to try hard anymore.
What’s worse, pulling out too many intact tissues or a ripped tissue when you really need the whole tissue?
Not exactly, rather thestudies are biased (not false), but they were created by the competition. For example, When Aspartame came out, the companies using that product and their investors funded the studies against saccharin which was the original. Later the inventors of Sucralose did that to Aspartame later, etc
Go back a bit further. In 1970 there was an artificial sweetener called cyclamate that added no awful aftertaste and was quite good. "Studies" showed it was a carcinogen, and it was subsequently banned. When the parameters were made public we saw that it would be necessary to consume 180 bottles of soda per day for 80 days to ingest the amount that was fed to the lab animals in the study. I had a science teacher who was ready to wage a one woman war because she loved the stuff and was really chapped that it was no longer available. Ms Kress, if you're still around, you were awesome!
Load More Replies...I've never seen corn syrup in anything I can buy in Europe, so I can't really speak for or against it, but given that it's just not available here as it seems, there has to be something bad with it. I also heard it's put into so many things in the US that it makes the people grow more fat
It's because the EU doesn't have a corn lobby campaigning to get it into everything.
Load More Replies...this is sort of accurate afaik, the US had a corn surplus at one point and decided to deal with it by adding high-fructose corn syrup to everything
Aspartame poisoning mimics lupus. Don’t drink too much Diet soda folks.
The studies are... I'm not sure what the right word is. Definitely funded by people with a conflict of interest. And the results are - well, it's not really surprising rats develop bladder cancer if they're fed literally thousands of times more in a day (in equivalent dosages) than a human could/would ever consume, and IIRC not until that dosage was reached... but hey, cancer!
You mean you'll believe it until you die of cancer caused by artificial sweeteners.
I can taste the aspartame and find it to be horrible, with a extremely vile aftertaste. It shreds my stomach every time I have it. I don't have to read the ingredients to know it's there.
It's a group of people who recorded themselves playing DnD and it became an amazon series
Load More Replies...I can get behind that one. I'd hate for my main hobby to become a job.
As a waitress we are told to rather say a longer waiting time than shorter, so customer can be positively surprised to be setved earlier than the estimated time.
That makes no sense. Turning a table is the goal. They don't want people who are already there to stay longer. Silly.
I think the context was for getting people to stay and wait to be seated, rather than how long the ordered food will take to arrive.
Load More Replies...Yeah because it takes NO TIME AT ALL to cook the meals and get the drinks that everyone at the table ordered
Sure, it just tastes different. Some people like their tea dark and heavy in the tannin so make sure it' as hot as possible; others like it weak and delicate, particularly green teas, and they my be better if the water is somewhat cooler. Not sure where you think the conspiracy is happening and who is behind it.
EXCUSE ME, UK here, tea is made with fresh boiled water, additionally it's pronounced scone not scone
Load More Replies...Years ago they sold “sun tea” for iced tea until someone discovered it grew bacteria. Now it’s informally called “overnight in the refrigerator tea.”
It's the slow cooker of tea, makes it taste better somehow.
Load More Replies...My kettle has like 4 different heat settings. They are all labeled, and I ignore them and hit the boil button every time.
May be true. but why are you making tea in the first place? (JK you can like tea, I like iced tea(Lipton tho. they put in SUGAR))
Sure you can toss a teabag into any temp water that's not frozen and call it tea but to make really good tea the temp is important and is different for different kinds of tea. For the tea that most Brits drink (China black tea or English Breakfast in the US) it should be made with boiling water (a rolling boil) in a teapot or mug that has been warmed. Green teas need lower temps.
I have two conspiracies that I believe in. 1) The homeless industry. The government, homeless organizations, business suppliers/manufacturers and service businesses (think security & building developers) discovered how profitable it is to keep most people homeless. There's a lot of money or I should say profits to be made in grants, wool blankets, water bottles, travel size or mini size products such as soap, security for organizations such as homeless shelters, and executive salaries which never seems to be anything less than $100,000 a year plus bonuses while shelter staff and homeless organizations that actually TRY to help homeless people get barely above minimum wage. Then they send out all kind of scare tactics and make the homeless look so bad to housed people that it creates a fear of ever becoming homeless. They keep their bad jobs and stay in slumlord or expensive homes because of the fear of becoming "one of them" 🧟♀️ I believe they are creating hate for homeless people as a distraction so they can keep making money off keeping people homeless.
mine is unicorns (the horse kind). they totally existed but are now extinct. the reason we've never found proof is because their horns are like the cartilage in our noses and disappeared, so all we saw were horse skeletons
Yes, they did exist. Elasmotherium sibiricum — better known as the Siberian unicorn: https://www.kpax.com/news/a-wilder-view/a-wilder-view-yes-unicorns-were-once-real
Load More Replies...2) pharmaceutical manufacturers discovered a way to make oxycodone five times stronger and smaller to get people addicted to it so they can make billions in a short span of years knowing eventually the government would get involved but not until they've made their billions off people becoming addicts from their d***s. I recently had to take oxycodone for a fracture and they gave me the smallest possible dosage. I have taken oxycodone for years before and up until the epidemic happened - chronic pain. The oxycodone I had back then was 10+ MGs and I could easily have one or two. The new dosage they gave me this time with 5 Mg and just 1 had me wheezing and waking up with hallucinations. They cut it in half for me and I still woke up feeling completely drugged up.
Neither of these seem very far fetched actually.
Load More Replies...My conspiracy theory is that Hip-Hop/rap music was infiltrated by the government to promote capitalism. Used to have NWA and Public Enemy saying F The Police and Fight the Power. Governments couldn't have this kind of talk, obviously. So MTV/radio stations promoted the kind of rap that talks about owning brands (Gucci, Maybach etc) and having lots of money. I haven't thought this through and have a basic understanding of the history of hip hop so, ya know, believe or don't believe.
Rocks are the highest form of intelligence. They just sit there doing nothing. they telepathically tell a human to throw them so the can move to a different location. I came to this when i was tripping on acid many years ago.
Birds aren’t real they’re government spy drones. The reason they sit on the power lines is because that’s where they charge.
Politicians are wrecking the US public school system while sending their children to private schools. They want the next generation of voters to be even dumber than the current one. Meanwhile, the politician kids are getting a good education so they can eventually run the country.
I have two conspiracies that I believe in. 1) The homeless industry. The government, homeless organizations, business suppliers/manufacturers and service businesses (think security & building developers) discovered how profitable it is to keep most people homeless. There's a lot of money or I should say profits to be made in grants, wool blankets, water bottles, travel size or mini size products such as soap, security for organizations such as homeless shelters, and executive salaries which never seems to be anything less than $100,000 a year plus bonuses while shelter staff and homeless organizations that actually TRY to help homeless people get barely above minimum wage. Then they send out all kind of scare tactics and make the homeless look so bad to housed people that it creates a fear of ever becoming homeless. They keep their bad jobs and stay in slumlord or expensive homes because of the fear of becoming "one of them" 🧟♀️ I believe they are creating hate for homeless people as a distraction so they can keep making money off keeping people homeless.
mine is unicorns (the horse kind). they totally existed but are now extinct. the reason we've never found proof is because their horns are like the cartilage in our noses and disappeared, so all we saw were horse skeletons
Yes, they did exist. Elasmotherium sibiricum — better known as the Siberian unicorn: https://www.kpax.com/news/a-wilder-view/a-wilder-view-yes-unicorns-were-once-real
Load More Replies...2) pharmaceutical manufacturers discovered a way to make oxycodone five times stronger and smaller to get people addicted to it so they can make billions in a short span of years knowing eventually the government would get involved but not until they've made their billions off people becoming addicts from their d***s. I recently had to take oxycodone for a fracture and they gave me the smallest possible dosage. I have taken oxycodone for years before and up until the epidemic happened - chronic pain. The oxycodone I had back then was 10+ MGs and I could easily have one or two. The new dosage they gave me this time with 5 Mg and just 1 had me wheezing and waking up with hallucinations. They cut it in half for me and I still woke up feeling completely drugged up.
Neither of these seem very far fetched actually.
Load More Replies...My conspiracy theory is that Hip-Hop/rap music was infiltrated by the government to promote capitalism. Used to have NWA and Public Enemy saying F The Police and Fight the Power. Governments couldn't have this kind of talk, obviously. So MTV/radio stations promoted the kind of rap that talks about owning brands (Gucci, Maybach etc) and having lots of money. I haven't thought this through and have a basic understanding of the history of hip hop so, ya know, believe or don't believe.
Rocks are the highest form of intelligence. They just sit there doing nothing. they telepathically tell a human to throw them so the can move to a different location. I came to this when i was tripping on acid many years ago.
Birds aren’t real they’re government spy drones. The reason they sit on the power lines is because that’s where they charge.
Politicians are wrecking the US public school system while sending their children to private schools. They want the next generation of voters to be even dumber than the current one. Meanwhile, the politician kids are getting a good education so they can eventually run the country.
