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1 hour ago, Empty It said:


 

 


So I just have to pretend to be a raving lunatic to get a free holiday to Antarctica? Count me in.

 

We'll just take you to Harthill 

1) you won't know it's not Antarctica

2) as a raving looney you'll fit right in with the locals

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I have no problem with flat-earthers getting free trips to Antarctica. I don’t see why anyone should help them get back though.

6 hours ago, RandomGuy. said:

Apparently very few believe that its the "edge" anymore. 

Some believe its a never ending expanse of ice that surrounds the Earth, while other believe its a massive ice wall that prevents us seeing other "lands", for some reason.

Do they think Game of Thrones was a documentary or something?

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On 12/09/2020 at 19:27, Shotgun said:

I'm pretty sure tall buildings are engineered to sway in the wind. If they weren't, it would make them more susceptible to damage....

Having been in one in Japan during two major earthquakes I can confirm they are designed to sway in a big way. Laughing at the gaijin's reaction to a minor tremor is a favourite Japanese pastime right up there with telling them that natto is a local delicacy they really must try but once you get past 6 on the Richter scale they are nothing like as blase about it once books start flying off shelves and office chairs start rolling very fast across the room and slamming into walls.

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On 12/09/2020 at 19:59, Shotgun said:

Now see, this is an argument I've heard many times but I don't understand it. Conservatives are relentlessly abusive towards liberals. They call us traitors, America haters and terrorist lovers. They threaten us with violence, call for boycotts of our businesses, destroy our careers and burn the products of our athlete's sponsors. They create conspiracy theories about paedophile rings and other non-existent crimes. They send death threats, rape threats and spray hateful graffiti on our property. This doesn't just stem from social media extremists but mainstream news outlets. Every liberal has been on the wrong end of this type of hatred on a regular basis.

But we're supposed to treat them with dignity and respect, otherwise they'll vote for Trump and it will be our fault. This just makes no sense to me.

It's not for their benefit. 

It's so you/we don't diminish ourselves by stooping to their extremely low moral standards. 

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5 hours ago, Theroadlesstravelled said:

 


 

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Mad that there are folk who believe that Trump, who is almost certainly a massive nonce, is breaking up underground peado rings.

If such things existed he'd never be seen on the surface again.

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  • 2 weeks later...
This Congressman thinks Lyme disease was invented by a US government bioweapons lab in the 1960s. 
Topical for P&B since one poster recently had Lyme disease and another one lied about having it.


While you’ve been diagnosed with a terminal case of LAME disease!

Boom!
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https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/men-qanon/story?id=73046374

The podcast Reply All have a recent episode with the creator of 8chan who says the controller of Q-Anon is a a father and son duo living in the Phillipines who made their money from circumventing Japanese censorship laws around porn. 

Another normal development in the world's most normal conspiracy theory.

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This Congressman thinks Lyme disease was invented by a US government bioweapons lab in the 1960s. 
Topical for P&B since one poster recently had Lyme disease and another one lied about having it.


Who lied about having Lyme disease?

Is there not a lot of pseudoscience around Lyme disease? Or people claiming they have it?
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I looked it up, Lyme Disease is legitimate, scientifically proven. There are people who suffer from symptoms post infection, this is also legitimate, scientifically proven. There is also something called Chronic Lyme Disease, where people who have not been infected with the bacteria that causes Lyme claim to have the disease. It is bullshit, with no evidence for it.

I find medical conspiracies like this interesting. The believers say that the medical establishment/Big Pharma are covering up this disease, don’t want people to find out about it. At the same time you have parallel conspiracies that say the opposite, that the establishment are *inventing* diseases so they can make money. I was reminded of this a few days ago when someone shared that an AIDS denialist was writing for a lockdown sceptic website. You sometimes find people who both believe that Big Pharma invented AIDS and vaccines to make money but that they are covering up Chronic Lyme or Morgellons because of, er, reasons.

Morgellons is a pseudo disease where sufferers claim they have fibres growing out of their skin. Joni Mitchell claims to have it but there is no credible evidence for it.

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43 minutes ago, ICTChris said:

I looked it up, Lyme Disease is legitimate, scientifically proven. There are people who suffer from symptoms post infection, this is also legitimate, scientifically proven. There is also something called Chronic Lyme Disease, where people who have not been infected with the bacteria that causes Lyme claim to have the disease. It is bullshit, with no evidence for it.

I find medical conspiracies like this interesting. The believers say that the medical establishment/Big Pharma are covering up this disease, don’t want people to find out about it. At the same time you have parallel conspiracies that say the opposite, that the establishment are *inventing* diseases so they can make money. I was reminded of this a few days ago when someone shared that an AIDS denialist was writing for a lockdown sceptic website. You sometimes find people who both believe that Big Pharma invented AIDS and vaccines to make money but that they are covering up Chronic Lyme or Morgellons because of, er, reasons.

Morgellons is a pseudo disease where sufferers claim they have fibres growing out of their skin. Joni Mitchell claims to have it but there is no credible evidence for it.

 

ME, fact or fiction? 

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4 hours ago, ICTChris said:

 


Who lied about having Lyme disease?

Is there not a lot of pseudoscience around Lyme disease? Or people claiming they have it?

 

One poster said he was diagnosed with it then never mentioned it again while posting regularly about his impressive training regime.....

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