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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Dropped and smashed my iPad last night.

Clearly the doing of Chem Trails and Big Pharma.

Definitely not the surfeit of fine ale.

It's not a curse its a blessing!
This is your chance to free yourself from the torment and torment and torture of iTech and their iInterfaces! A chance for freedom toward devices that at least let you have some control over your machine and destiny whilst releasing you from the chocking grappling hold of the iUpgrade - that annual pilgrimage to update your machine!

Don't bow to the pressures; run free from the iTech!

Already ordered a new one

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Dropped and smashed my iPad last night.

Clearly the doing of Chem Trails and Big Pharma.

Definitely not the surfeit of fine ale.

but what if alcohol is actually harmless and just a cover for the mind-control and worse drugs 'they' put into all booze

 Turnip Jedi wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Dropped and smashed my iPad last night.

Clearly the doing of Chem Trails and Big Pharma.

Definitely not the surfeit of fine ale.

but what if alcohol is actually harmless and just a cover for the mind-control and worse drugs 'they' put into all booze

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Dropped and smashed my iPad last night.

Clearly the doing of Chem Trails and Big Pharma.

Definitely not the surfeit of fine ale.

How do you feel about frogs?

Frogs ?

A rather silly nation that makes Italy slightly further than need be but its handful of lovely ladies makes it slightly better than West Wales

What Turnip Jedi said.

But this is They typing.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Dropped and smashed my iPad last night.

Clearly the doing of Chem Trails and Big Pharma.

Definitely not the surfeit of fine ale.

How do you feel about frogs?

I'm sure he thinks they're all gay by now.

For those from the UK that are familiar with the term S**thousery, please keep that in mind as I present this now...

We've all seen the pictures of the aftermath with that building that is still standing at the centre of the blast in Beirut.... Yet an office furniture fire caused tower 7 to fall?

endlesswaltz123 wrote:
For those from the UK that are familiar with the term S**thousery, please keep that in mind as I present this now...

We've all seen the pictures of the aftermath with that building that is still standing at the centre of the blast in Beirut.... Yet an office furniture fire caused tower 7 to fall?

The million tons of debris falling down nedt door might have shaken things up.

Look at that Beirut picture again. That building is farked. Most of the energy was dissipated in the front half of the silos, like a car crumple zone. The explosion was also very "uppy" and only marginally side-y.

Kayback wrote:

endlesswaltz123 wrote:
For those from the UK that are familiar with the term S**thousery, please keep that in mind as I present this now...

We've all seen the pictures of the aftermath with that building that is still standing at the centre of the blast in Beirut.... Yet an office furniture fire caused tower 7 to fall?

The million tons of debris falling down nedt door might have shaken things up.

Look at that Beirut picture again. That building is farked. Most of the energy was dissipated in the front half of the silos, like a car crumple zone. The explosion was also very "uppy" and only marginally side-y.

Also differing Building types...

And the fact that grain silos usually are ridiculously robust. The grain elevator that formed the linchpin of the Red Army's defense of Stalingrad is the prime example.

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
And the fact that grain silos usually are ridiculously robust. The grain elevator that formed the linchpin of the Red Army's defense of Stalingrad is the prime example.

Yep (and the tons of grain will also absorb and redirect some of the force, especially as the silo has natural weak points at the top and bottom, and side taking the blast will become another).
By comparison, all the warehouses in the other directions are basically flattened.

Hmm, the grain in the silos acted as a form of 'ablative armor" against the shockwave and dissipated it to a degree?

Yes, I can see that as a possibility. Good thinking brother.

I think the grain silo acted alone.. Or dit it!!!?

 Argive wrote:
I think the grain silo acted alone.. Or dit it!!!?

This made my evening.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Argive wrote:
I think the grain silo acted alone.. Or dit it!!!?

This made my evening.

I have it from reliable sources that the lampposts were in on it !

So, memes on Facebook insisting that any laws mandating the wearing of Masks aren’t to combat the spread of COVID-19, but a way to spot who’ll be a “a good little sheep” and “who’ll resist the NWO”....

If we assume that’s true and, you know, not utterly laughable, surely you’d want to wear a mask to hide in plain sight? And certainly not post online about how you’re onto Them?

Just write "This is not a mask" on yours, and you're covereved on both sides.

Found it:
https://www.redbubble.com/i/mask/This-is-not-a-mask-by-rehabtiger/50962296.9G0D8

I’ve got a Save Ferris and “Spaceballs The Face Mask” coming.

Running very late though!

As for my previous post? Anti-Vaxx Anti-Mask logic, when it comes to seemingly willingly outing themselves to the “NWO”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-M2hs3sXGo

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I’ve got a Save Ferris and “Spaceballs The Face Mask” coming.

Running very late though!

As for my previous post? Anti-Vaxx Anti-Mask logic, when it comes to seemingly willingly outing themselves to the “NWO”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-M2hs3sXGo

one would assume they'd be afraid of the black helicopter rides, but then again all the nutjobs sit on social media day in day out with the perfect tool to track them anyways...
Like if there really would be this tyrannnical secret NWO, they'd allready started collecting the nutjobs and putting them where they don't see the light of the day and not letting them shout from the rooftops

Especially as it’s the very same Them/They who apparently disappear hundreds of thousands each year.

Still, much as I poke fun at Conspiracy Theories, I do have genuine concern and regard for some of them and their mental health. You can tell when someone’s been suckered in by a sense of belonging, and it’s not nice to see.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Especially as it’s the very same Them/They who apparently disappear hundreds of thousands each year.

Still, much as I poke fun at Conspiracy Theories, I do have genuine concern and regard for some of them and their mental health. You can tell when someone’s been suckered in by a sense of belonging, and it’s not nice to see.

I will point to a post in the past in this very thread:
Conspiracy thories can have massive realworld implications if adopted by ideologically radical fringes.
Vittorio mutilata, f.e. one of the core tenants of italian 20th century fascism.
Dolchstosslegende: for the Nazis same as above but from the "loser" side.
Trotzkyite complot: For the stalinists.
Kulaks: for Soviets.


most of these make a specific group into scapegoats, dehumanize them and then eliminate them.
And they make the jump from lie and wrong to Mythos and therefore core tenent of ones identity extremely fast.

What concerns me more is that nowadys conspiracy theories started to target specific people, like bill gates, f.e.


Also the feeling of belonging is basically just a given for all the cults claiming to be the owner of the universal truth. It's exclusivity and the feel of beeing vanguard for a cause. Elitism so to speak. And it is probably the strongest factor of why such groups don't question coherency.

In many ways i suspect we have also seen an increase in followers of such groups be they religious or political ones due to the somewhat waning power of religious and national institutions in europe which lost a lot of their ideological driving force.

Slipspace wrote:
Then there's the why. Flat Earth is my big "why?" conspiracy. Apart from being obviously complete bullgak it's also a conspiracy without any reason. I don't understand who benefits from claiming a flat Earth is actually a globe other than a bunch of vague assertions that "NASA does...for some reason".

I always thought it was a debating club thing from private English schools - it's an attempt to debate an obviously nonense point to show how skilled a debater you are. It then seems to have spawned into a "secret society" and have been given new life in the last few years.

They seem to think that the Government needs the Round Earth theory in order to allow them to invest billions into NASA. For some reason the government needs a massive lie; a global lie, in order to invest its money like that.

At least that's one line that keeps coming up in their videos - that they spend all this money making a lie so they can have all the money.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
So, memes on Facebook insisting that any laws mandating the wearing of Masks aren’t to combat the spread of COVID-19, but a way to spot who’ll be a “a good little sheep” and “who’ll resist the NWO”....

If we assume that’s true and, you know, not utterly laughable, surely you’d want to wear a mask to hide in plain sight? And certainly not post online about how you’re onto Them?

But you can't be 'in' with the sheep, you've got to stand out from the conformists, by dressing and acting just like all the other goth/punk/metal kids!

Funny thing is... The sainsburys near where I used to live still tells people to pull their hoods down and the no bike helmet rules are still in place.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:So, memes on Facebook insisting that any laws mandating the wearing of Masks aren’t to combat the spread of COVID-19, but a way to spot who’ll be a “a good little sheep” and “who’ll resist the NWO”....

If we assume that’s true and, you know, not utterly laughable, surely you’d want to wear a mask to hide in plain sight? And certainly not post online about how you’re onto Them?

I was in town on Saturday, for my sins, and there was a group of these people near the town hall, trying to convince people not to wear masks, and that COVID isn't real.

I get that freedom of speech is a thing, but so is "reckless endangerment"...

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:I’ve got a Save Ferris and “Spaceballs The Face Mask” coming.

Hold up, Doc - where can one acquire the latter from?

It’s right here, Jum

Mine have finally shipped, and hopefully will arrive soon. Will comment on the quality, or indeed kwality once I’ve got them.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
It’s right here, Jum

Mine have finally shipped, and hopefully will arrive soon. Will comment on the quality, or indeed kwality once I’ve got them.

Nice one, though the kid's might be a touch small

Impressive range on there - a second mask is certainly needed, so time for browse.