Truther beatdown at work

[Eddie Dane]

No main event, just something funny that just happened.

During lunch my colleague started going on how Obama is a liar.
Collegue #2: How do you know?
Collegue #1: Have you seen the Obama Deception?
Collegue #2: (Laughting) Yeah, and...uh...You believe that?
Collegue #1: It's true! I checked!
Collegue #2: Let me guess, you also believe that 9/11 was an inside job?
Collegue #1: (Long silence, looking for the right words) Based on what I've seen, that's the most plausible explanation.
Collegue #2: Laughs loudly, slaps him on the shoulder and walks off.
Collegue #1: Just sits there in awkward silence, with five other colleagues giving each other amused looks, but saying nothing.


The Twoof: It's bad for your social life.

[Shrike]

Evidence? :D

[Sabrina]

Evidence? :D

Countdown to RI calling this a "proven fabrication" in 5... 4... 3... 2...

[iMaGiNaTioN]

Just the other day, I experienced co-workers rambling on and on about Obama not being a citizen, and 9/11 inside job malarky. It was difficult to ignore them, but I managed. The most cringe inducing piece of 'evidence' they had for 9/11, was the impossibility of cell phones to have service on Flight 93 :boggled:

[JoeyDonuts]

I want to see audio recordings, sworn testimony, notarized statements, and you'd better make sure that none of it is touched by anybody in the government!

What do you mean, "notary is a function of government?"


SHILL!!!

[Eddie Dane]

I wouldn't have confronted him about it.

Work isn't the place. But I was amused my colleague did it, and with more flair then I could have done.

My method would be a boring old pint-by-point refutation.

[tsig]

I want to see audio recordings, sworn testimony, notarized statements, and you'd better make sure that none of it is touched by anybody in the government!

What do you mean, "notary is a function of government?"


SHILL!!!

If it ain't on utube it ain't real. :rolleyes:

[Shrike]

Countdown to RI calling this a "proven fabrication" in 5... 4... 3... 2...

Ah! You know what I'm referring to.

[Shrike]

My method would be a boring old pint-by-point refutation.

We should meet up one day for some of those.

[Red3]

My friend was banging on about homeopathy the other day, saying how modern medicine/big pharma is part of this great conspiracy to kill us and control us along with the banking scam and 911...I told him JD Rockefeller was a proponent of homeopathy; that shut him up! :D

[Thunder]

unless you are the hottest guy on Earth, or the sexiest gal on Earth, exposing the world to your 9-11 conspiracy theories is a great recipe for social isolation.

um....well...maybe not just 9-11 theories. but if you add in stuff about the NWO, Mossad, Zionists, Illuminati, chemtrails, FEMA camps, yeah...you'll be alone.

[Quad4_72]

Just the other day, I experienced co-workers rambling on and on about Obama not being a citizen, and 9/11 inside job malarky. It was difficult to ignore them, but I managed. The most cringe inducing piece of 'evidence' they had for 9/11, was the impossibility of cell phones to have service on Flight 93 :boggled:

There is NO WAY I would have been able to keep quiet. The second I hear someone say anything 9/11 conspiracy related I instantly pounce no matter what the situation is.

[dropzone]

I told him JD Rockefeller was a proponent of homeopathy; that shut him up! :DI love conspiracy theorists! Dude's been dead for 70 years and his name is STILL big magic with them.

Here, have a dime. :rolleyes:

[Travis]

I wouldn't have confronted him about it.

Work isn't the place. But I was amused my colleague did it, and with more flair then I could have done.

My method would be a boring old pint-by-point refutation.

I had a co-worker who was a Moon Hoax believer once. I mercilessly hounded him on it until he just threw his hands up one day and declared, "fine! I don't believe it anymore. Now will you drop it?"

I, of course, graciously did.

[JoeyDonuts]

unless you are the hottest guy on Earth, or the sexiest gal on Earth, exposing the world to your 9-11 conspiracy theories is a great recipe for social isolation.

um....well...maybe not just 9-11 theories. but if you add in stuff about the NWO, Mossad, Zionists, Illumin

*grabs mic*

I'm real happy for you and I'mma let you finish, but David Icke had the best CT's of all time!

David Icke had the best CT's of all time.

*shrugs*

[Sabrina]

*grabs mic*

I'm real happy for you and I'mma let you finish, but David Icke had the best CT's of all time!

David Icke had the best CT's of all time.

*shrugs*

*boos JoeyDonuts off the stage and gives parky76 a standing ovation* :D

[Cl1mh4224rd]

I wouldn't have confronted him about it.

Work isn't the place. But I was amused my colleague did it, and with more flair then I could have done.

My method would be a boring old pint-by-point refutation.


It would also have been a waste of a perfectly good lunch break.

[MysteryMammal]

*grabs mic*

I'm real happy for you and I'mma let you finish, but David Icke had the best CT's of all time!

David Icke had the best CT's of all time.

*shrugs*

My friends and I would all agree with you. Icke and his CT's have provided us with hours and hours of amusement.

[cwalner]

It would also have been a waste of a perfectly good lunch break.
maybe, maybe not. It would after all be a pint-by-point refutation so at least some good would come of it.

[Horatius]

maybe, maybe not. It would after all be a pint-by-point refutation so at least some good would come of it.



We totally need to start a CT drinking game.

1) Every time they mention the Illuminati, take a shot.

Next?

[cwalner]

We totally need to start a CT drinking game.

1) Every time they mention the Illuminati, take a shot.

Next?

I was thinking that everytime somebody makes a non-sensical bat-trap crazy accusation, take a drink.

This way it is self limiting. The more you drink, the more they start to make sense, so you don't continue to drink indefinitely.

[Horatius]

..... so you don't continue to drink indefinitely.



I don't think you quote grasp the purpose of drinking games......


Rule 2) Any time a random member of the public agrees that the CTists are batcrap crazy*, take a drink.










*Guess what just happened!


ETA: Rule 2: Awesome Forum Failure!

[Nosi]

My friend was banging on about homeopathy the other day, saying how modern medicine/big pharma is part of this great conspiracy to kill us and control us along with the banking scam and 911...I told him JD Rockefeller was a proponent of homeopathy; that shut him up! :D

If big pharma was out to kill I'd have been dead about...um...15 years ago...um...(waves)

:dl:

[McHrozni]

Just the other day, I experienced co-workers rambling on and on about Obama not being a citizen, and 9/11 inside job malarky. It was difficult to ignore them, but I managed. The most cringe inducing piece of 'evidence' they had for 9/11, was the impossibility of cell phones to have service on Flight 93 :boggled:

I've been having a 'debate' with a few twoofers on another forum for the past week. Their strongest evidence of an inside job was the Pentagon. Standard points: no plane found, no bodies found, wrong damage to the building, impossible maneuver.

I think I'm the only one there who knows about the new trendy stuff, like nanothermite and stuff. It's pathetic, really. :)

McHrozni

[kookbreaker]

We totally need to start a CT drinking game.

1) Every time they mention the Illuminati, take a shot.

Next?

Ahem! (http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=56850)

[quarky]

I had my first encounter with a holocaust denier a few days ago. Perhaps not so strangely, he also was a truther; 2012er; homeopath, and wears a magnet.

[DropGems]

Couple random friends of mine have gone total batsh!t CT crazy for about the past two years. They used to be all punk rock anarchy then they transcended into CTers. They're pretty gone (swine flu, chem trails, federal reserve, etc), lol. I rarely confront them because it's like confronting a christian, totally pointless. But on 9/11 reunion last week my one CT friend on facebook posted some message like, "nobody knows exactly what happened on this day, but we know there are still many unanswered questions..yada yada..." So I rolled on him. His rebuttals sucked. My counters destroyed him until he ended it with a Matrix reference and quote LOL! Something like, "keep taking the blue pill man, ignorance is bliss", LOL x2 I ended it with something like, "Neo, stop wallowing in the rabbit hole, there ain't ***** down there" - the oracle. Dummies.

[rwguinn]

Couple random friends of mine have gone total batsh!t CT crazy for about the past two years. They used to be all punk rock anarchy then they transcended into CTers. They're pretty gone (swine flu, chem trails, federal reserve, etc), lol. I rarely confront them because it's like confronting a christian, totally pointless. But on 9/11 reunion last week my one CT friend on facebook posted some message like, "nobody knows exactly what happened on this day, but we know there are still many unanswered questions..yada yada..." So I rolled on him. His rebuttals sucked. My counters destroyed him until he ended it with a Matrix reference and quote LOL! Something like, "keep taking the blue pill man, ignorance is bliss", LOL x2 I ended it with something like, "Neo, stop wallowing in the rabbit hole, there ain't ***** down there" - the oracle. Dummies.
English translation, please?

[Eddie Dane]

Couple random friends of mine have gone total batsh!t CT crazy for about the past two years. They used to be all punk rock anarchy then they transcended into CTers. They're pretty gone (swine flu, chem trails, federal reserve, etc), lol. I rarely confront them because it's like confronting a christian, totally pointless. But on 9/11 reunion last week my one CT friend on facebook posted some message like, "nobody knows exactly what happened on this day, but we know there are still many unanswered questions..yada yada..." So I rolled on him. His rebuttals sucked. My counters destroyed him until he ended it with a Matrix reference and quote LOL! Something like, "keep taking the blue pill man, ignorance is bliss", LOL x2 I ended it with something like, "Neo, stop wallowing in the rabbit hole, there ain't ***** down there" - the oracle. Dummies.

And that should be the standard response to Matrix references.

My god! Haven't these people seen parts two and three?

[Horatius]

Ahem! (http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=56850)



Shame that this got flushed into the Humor section. I thought it was skeptical commentary. Now it will get lost.

:mad: at moderators!



Well, there's your problem!

[Dave Rogers]

I was thinking that everytime somebody makes a non-sensical bat-trap crazy accusation, take a drink.

This way it is self limiting. The more you drink, the more they start to make sense, so you don't continue to drink indefinitely.

I doubt it. I'd get to loss of consciousness and memory loss before some of them started to make sense.

So, fine for the game then!

Dave

[Nosi]

I doubt it. I'd get to loss of consciousness and memory loss before some of them started to make sense.

So, fine for the game then!

Dave

We'll wake up hung over and the CT'ers will still be going...:jaw-dropp

[GreNME]

English translation, please?

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