BS: Conspiracy theories

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: GUEST,Stim
Date: 13 Nov 14 - 01:33 PM

Busses can be kind of dicey. I'd rather have a Christian sit next to me than a drunk or crackhead with a knife, which, as I understand it, has gotten popular in the UK these days.

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 13 Nov 14 - 02:06 PM

"Busses can be kind of dicey. I'd rather have a Christian sit next to me than a drunk or crackhead with a knife, ..."

My experience is that you're more likely to be driven mad by idiots shouting into their mobile phones ... in English or Polish or Croatian or Latvian or Hausa or Somalian or Arabic or Urdu or Bengali or Thai or Korean or Mandarin. Then there's oafs, playing hip-hop (or whatever grotesque noise is fashionable these days) through 'leaky' headphones. I think we are in need of a third 'quiet' deck on buses ...

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Nov 14 - 02:32 PM

""If the Kennedy assassination doesn't interest you, and you've got a few extra years on your hands, you might want to look into the debate over who wrote William Shakespeare's plays.""




Shakespeare 

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: GUEST,Stim
Date: 13 Nov 14 - 05:38 PM

if people are going to talk into their cell phones, I prefer that it is in a language that I do not understand.

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 13 Nov 14 - 06:12 PM

"if people are going to talk into their cell phones, I prefer that it is in a language that I do not understand."

You wouldn't say that if you'd sat on the 86 bus, from Chorlton to Manchester Piccadilly, the other day listening to some bloke bellowing, at the top of his voice, into his phone, in some obscure sub-continental language! He never knew how close he came to having to have that phone surgically extracted from his rectum! But I'm not prejudiced, I'd happily shove a phone up an Englishman's arse if he's as noisy and as ill-mannered as that bloke!

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: Musket
Date: 13 Nov 14 - 06:27 PM

Err.. What archeology has confirmed the bible pete?

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Nov 14 - 07:46 PM

""What archeology has confirmed the bible pete?""

I can confirm it. I was recently in a Motel near Boston and there were two versions in the writing table drawer in the room that I rented. So, there it is-first hand evidence that the Bible exists.And, to confirm, I saw it before I relaxed to an evening drink, not after.

After the drink, I wondered, why do Motel Bibles not have yellow pages? But, I digress.

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: Musket
Date: 14 Nov 14 - 02:59 AM

Yes, yes. But these days, you don't need yellow pages to find a carpenter. Just google map one near your location.

What was that song again?

"If I were a carpenter
I'd screw you to the bed"

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: GUEST,Stim
Date: 14 Nov 14 - 04:52 PM

I share your pain, Shimrod. I would not have appreciated that situation at all. My point is just that if you don't understand what is being said, however loud and obnoxious it may be, you won't remember it. And the content is likely to be even more annoying than the volume.

Two years and one month ago, I was riding one of the Metro busses to a remote suburb. It was a 2.5 hour ride. About 45 minutes from the end, a young woman, who was talking on her phone, got on. She spoke in a loud monotone, and was describing, in great detail, the work she had just finished, which was cleaning an office building. She interrupted herself at regular intervals to read the name of each street that we crossed.

I don't treasure that memory, but it sticks with me, because I understood what she was saying.

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 14 Nov 14 - 06:02 PM

wasn't there supposed to be some health scare from excessive mobile use , or did that get remedied. for better or [probably] worse, though, seems to be firmly entrenched in the culture.

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 15 Nov 14 - 02:13 AM

It was not exactly a health scare, pete. The way I heard it is that it could cure excess religiosity. Even die-hard religious fundamentalists have woken up after a days texting to find that they had mysteriously turned into atheists! Just a rumour mind - but if I were you, I'd go easy on smartphone use!

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: Musket
Date: 15 Nov 14 - 03:22 AM

I'd advise starting with a keypad Nokia, "smart" phone may be a bit advanced....

On a serious level, the scare stories were genuine concerns in that they had to be looked at and investigated. Don't forget, this was a time, only fifteen years ago, where superstition mean't people thought mobile phones in general use, as opposed to faulty, could interfere with hospital equipment, light petrol vapour on the forecourt.

Using their cue from research looking over twenty years of children living in houses under electricity pylons, The Dept of Health accepted a report from Kings that said no evidence supports an issue regarding the phones themselves.

However, a couple of points to ponder;

Hospitals have somewhat reluctantly freed up mobile use, with ongoing concerns over peace and quiet for others. No different from trains but could be 24/7 annoyance! Bear in mind that clinical staff have carried bleepers for years and hospitals with tall buildings have made good money out of hosting mobile masts on their roof.

Before looking at random sparking (loose battery normally) don't forget many people get a shock when touching a car they just got out of. I'd ban nylon clothing before getting around to phones...

Mobile phones affecting children's' development? They certainly stifle social interaction and the need to get out and physically play, a key ingredient in any animal's development. The use rather than the technology methinks.

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 15 Nov 14 - 04:39 PM

well, musket, the intelligent reply coming from you.....even the jibe, as I have never bothered to learn how to text !.
mind you, shimrods post did make me laugh, especially as I was reading a science mag article today....by an atheist [!}, that there aren't really any true atheists !......catching up with the bible ! , though of course an evolutionary spin was given as the explanation

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: Musket
Date: 15 Nov 14 - 04:51 PM

Did you ever learn to think, never mind text?

You see, you work on the basis we are all superstitious but some decide not to be. Whilst some of us were fortunate enough to be brought up without being abused. We weren't forced to believe in nonsense from the outset.

No such thing as an atheist. Just different levels of imagination.

Keep praying though. You never know eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw dangling only by underpants e
Date: 15 Nov 14 - 07:40 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: Ed T
Date: 15 Nov 14 - 07:49 PM

Should we call the "tighty-white" 911 line for you Mr. Shaw? Or, would you prefer we send over some rusty wire cutters, to lower your sorry ass down?

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: GUEST,...underpant elastic from fence...
Date: 15 Nov 14 - 07:50 PM

God knows how that happened, but don't delete as you'll ruin the moment...


What's a " true atheist" when it's at 'ome?

There are no agnostics. There are lily-livered fence-sitters who need a bit of insurance and there are people who don't give a damn. I despise the former and applaud the latter. The former do not deserve to be legitimised by the term "agnostic." The latter don't mind whether you call them agnostic or even Mickey Mouse. That's healthy.

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Nov 14 - 07:52 PM

And that was me. Just call me Nicholas.

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: Jeri
Date: 15 Nov 14 - 09:51 PM

If you want to see his privates, I know where they are
I know where they are, I know where they are
If you want to see his privates, I know where they are
Hanging on the old barbed wire.

(Sorry, couldn't help it.)

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Nov 14 - 08:16 PM

Didn't take long for a new conspiracy theory to develop- actually, several

Comet is really alien contact

Makes one wonder...

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: GUEST,#
Date: 16 Nov 14 - 08:30 PM

I fail to see it as a conspiracy. Theory: one of many I suppose.

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Nov 14 - 09:09 PM

NASA is claimed to be hiding the truth... a conspiracy among "those who know 'the truth'", I guess.

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 17 Nov 14 - 04:54 AM

Are all British Historians colluding in a plot to suppress the truth about WW1?

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Nov 14 - 05:10 AM

""The Sci-Fi Writers' War74336017They predicted and possibly inspired the conflict in the Ukraine, and now they're fighting it.""


Berezin: War 2010: The Ukrainian Front and War 2011: Against NATO.  

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: Musket
Date: 17 Nov 14 - 06:22 AM

I doubt historians need to collude and plan whilst ever there are thick cunts willing to believe bollocks eh Keith?




Read faster than that please, dear reader, I can't see this post lasting too long.

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 17 Nov 14 - 09:02 AM

It is true that I believe historians even over you Musket on matters of History.
I doubt there is really a dark conspiracy going on.

Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy theories
From: Musket
Date: 17 Nov 14 - 11:21 AM

I tend to believe fishmongers on matters of plaice for that matter, but watch out Keith; just because it says Andrews Liver Salts on the sides of buses doesn't mean they stop at every shit house.

Usually, people alter their perspective in the light of fresh evidence, not a plea from a government fed up of military leaders being seen to be not fit for purpose when they prefer them to be infallible.

Like I said, the timing seemed rather conveniently around the time the forces could now be sued for failing to too look after their employees in the same way as any other employer. We can't have their historical reputation being dragged out in every claim now can we? Far better that they weren't incompetent, arrogant, indifferent, callous butchers after all....

In any event, helps us focus on Johnny Foreigner as the only culprits....

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