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  • ladyholly
    ladyholly Posts: 3,920 Forumite
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    There is nothing more irritating, to say the least, than a conspiracy theorist in ful flow. They always know best and are incapable of listening to anyone elses point of view or even the evidence of real experts. If yoou listen to them its amazing we are all still here.
  • ladyholly said:
    There is nothing more irritating, to say the least, than a conspiracy theorist in ful flow. They always know best and are incapable of listening to anyone elses point of view or even the evidence of real experts. If yoou listen to them its amazing we are all still here.
    That's so very true. I fell out big time with someone who I had been friends with for quite a few years, over her theories on covid. She started posting stupid stories on FB about how the hospitals weren't really full and it was all made up by the Govt and she also didn't believe in vaccinations etc. Every time I commented on one of her posts, she would delete the whole post and then repost it a few days later....she was right and wouldn't listen to anyone elses opinions.....I just gave up in the end, stopped contacting her and strangely enough she never rang me again either.....such strange people walk among us. 
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  • RelievedSheff
    RelievedSheff Posts: 12,691 Forumite
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    I think every office has a conspiracy theorist amongst the numbers.

    We seem to have more than our fair share. Three on our floor. It's funny listening to them all waffle onto each other 🤣🤣🤣
  • milann
    milann Posts: 11,367 Forumite
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    What a pain having to sit near the conspiracy theory expert….where do they get their ideas from. It’s a frightening thought what might have happened without the vaccination programme. That said I need to get my booster and flu jab. I started with a cold just as I was going to get mine. 
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  • Sun_Addict
    Sun_Addict Posts: 23,987 Forumite
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    He showed me something on his phone that maps out exact dates and times we’re going to have blackouts in the winter, his mate sent it to him 🥱 Told him I’ve already lived through all this in the 70s (miners strikes) and survived plus we had a sub station on our road that was always cutting out (less than 5 years ago, now resolved) with regular power cuts and survived. I advised him to buy a generator if he was concerned which set him off Googling them on his phone 🤣 I was tempted to say to him haven’t you got any work to be getting on with as I’m a higher grade than him 😆
    I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)
  • badmemory
    badmemory Posts: 9,572 Forumite
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    I do believe in some of the conspiracy theories, but mine are more like I believe covid came out of a lab & not from a local market.  I mean there is coincidence & coincidence.  If they want to kill me off there are far easier & less dangerous to themselves ways of doing it.
  • dawnybabes
    dawnybabes Posts: 3,338 Forumite
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    It’s surprising how many they are walking amongst us ! I had an educated bloke telling me last week the numbers are going up because so many people have had the booster and the government are injecting us with live Covid.  Nothing at all to do with the queens death and thousands upon thousands of people mixing, people going out more etc etc 
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  • ladyholly
    ladyholly Posts: 3,920 Forumite
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    That's so very true. I fell out big time with someone who I had been friends with for quite a few years, over her theories on covid. She started posting stupid stories on FB about how the hospitals weren't really full and it was all made up by the Govt and she also didn't believe in vaccinations etc. Every time I commented on one of her posts, she would delete the whole post and then repost it a few days later....she was right and wouldn't listen to anyone elses opinions.....I just gave up in the end, stopped contacting her and strangely enough she never rang me again either.....such strange people walk among us. 
    We, too,  lost a friend after my DH threw him out of the house when he marched into the house during lockdown with a load of computer discs so we could see his "evidence". He is now a flat eather and spends much of his time trawling the internet for new theories. I dont think he is a happy  (or even content man) as his partner has left him over all this.
  • ladyholly said:
    That's so very true. I fell out big time with someone who I had been friends with for quite a few years, over her theories on covid. She started posting stupid stories on FB about how the hospitals weren't really full and it was all made up by the Govt and she also didn't believe in vaccinations etc. Every time I commented on one of her posts, she would delete the whole post and then repost it a few days later....she was right and wouldn't listen to anyone elses opinions.....I just gave up in the end, stopped contacting her and strangely enough she never rang me again either.....such strange people walk among us. 
    We, too,  lost a friend after my DH threw him out of the house when he marched into the house during lockdown with a load of computer discs so we could see his "evidence". He is now a flat eather and spends much of his time trawling the internet for new theories. I dont think he is a happy  (or even content man) as his partner has left him over all this.
    Oh my word...that's not good at all. 
    Making the debt go down and savings go up

    LBM 2015 - debt £57K / Now £28,744....its going down

     Mortgage Free December 9th 2024! 
    18mths ahead of schedule.  Since 2022 we paid over £15K in OPs.

    Challenges

    EF #68  £450/£3000
    .
    Fiver Friday '25 #10 £15

    Studies/surveys  July £72.46

    Decluttering items 750

    Books read    12
    Jigsaws done  8

    My debt free diary...https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6396218/we-will-get-this-debt-d£own-the-savings-up


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