[S-99]

The latest conspiracy theory within islamic terrorist groups is that if you if you blow yourself up that you will not go to heaven. Of course there's serious speculation on both sides of this theory.

[karajorma]

Does the whole MMR jabs cause autism nonsense count? I mean that there isn't much of a conspiracy element to it. You'll get some who believe in some shadowy Big Pharma covering it all up bull**** but most simply believe its just the government being inept rather than malicious.


With the exception of the one about Britain always losing the Eurovision Song Contest cause everyone else in Europe hates us, I'm struggling to think of a single conspiracy theory that has gained any kind of ground in the UK to be honest. And even there most people realise we might stand a chance if we sent in an act that wasn't absolute ****.

[Titan]

I'm American, but I recently saw a statistic that said 60% of Americans think we went to Iraq because they supported the 9/11 terrorists or some crap like that.

[General Battuta]

I'm American, but I recently saw a statistic that said 60% of Americans think we went to Iraq because they supported the 9/11 terrorists or some crap like that.

Yes, we know. The goal of this thread is to get those kind of statistics (or directions to start looking) for countries that are not America.

[Pred the Penguin]

I'm not non-American per say, but I do live in a foreign country.
Most of the **** we hear about politicians here(Taiwan) actually turns out to be true..

I do think there something about a few politicians having communist ties. Stuff like that usually comes from the opposing party, which is almost always worth about nothing. Only stupid people believe in it, but then again we do have our share of stupid people here...

[Kolgena]

Well, the British Nationalist Party's (somewhat extreme) anti-immigration/pro-emigration policy is popular in Britain because lots of people think that the immigrants have come in and stolen all the better jobs/doing other jazz to ruin their economy. Problem is, it's sorta/almost true... but it's also trying to justify what amounts to racism, so lots of people don't like the BNP.

In Japan, many people don't believe that their country committed war crimes in WWII.

Koreans think that a couple of Chinese holidays are actually theirs, such as the DuanWu festival, and another one that they're arguing for that I don't recall the name of. Many people (namely, 1.3B chinese) call bull****, but the UNESCO ruled in favor for the Koreans. I'm not too clear on the issue, but it might be relevant to your interests.

[MP-Ryan]

I'm trying to think of some bat-**** insane Canadian nonsense, and everything I think up has to do with our connection to the United States.

Seriously... I'm at a loss.

EDIT:  Aha!  The myth that the Conservative government wants to ban abortions.  Not near as high-profile as the Obama=Muslim nonsense, but it rears its ugly head from time to time.

[MR_T3D]

I'm trying to think of some bat-**** insane Canadian nonsense, and everything I think up has to do with our connection to the United States.

Seriously... I'm at a loss.

yeah, same here.
we're to sane!

[Rodo]

Our former president recently died, the same day a census was being made in the entire nation.
Word is that he's not dead, that this was a move to push her wife up on the popularity chart for the reelection, of course no one will jump in the media to say such a thing (so you might not find anything about it).
Still I couldn't care less since I'm not gonna vote for her anyway

[Mika]

7/7?

Bombs going of in UK? Tell me something new.

The related conspiracy theories are mainly thought by Brits, few outside UK care enough to even think about it. And I'm not even sure how many of the Britons really care.

I can't think of any other stuff - with the exception of Germany taking over EU - that would fit in the criteria.

EDIT: Actually, I wonder how many people think that the Polish president was assassinated in that air crash? But from what I heard, the cockpit voice recorders pretty much negate this theory.

[Nuclear1]

I also heard Canadians have a guy that runs around tying defenseless women to railroad tracks.

[Snail]

I think the conspiracy theory thing is a fascination of the American public and thus mostly limited to the states. Kinda like tea over here.

[Titan]

<- drinks Earl Grey every day with breakfast when it's available.

[Dilmah G]

* Dilmah G drinks Dilmah on a daily basis.

[Spicious]

Australians on immigration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOI_skq5TuM

[Dilmah G]

 

[Kolgena]

I'm trying to think of some bat-**** insane Canadian nonsense, and everything I think up has to do with our connection to the United States.

Seriously... I'm at a loss.

EDIT:  Aha!  The myth that the Conservative government wants to ban abortions.  Not near as high-profile as the Obama=Muslim nonsense, but it rears its ugly head from time to time.

Stephen Harper is a robot.

[S-99]

I also heard Canadians have a guy that runs around tying defenseless women to railroad tracks.

And that the mounties put uniforms on there horses too.

[Pred the Penguin]

Koreans think that a couple of Chinese holidays are actually theirs, such as the DuanWu festival, and another one that they're arguing for that I don't recall the name of. Many people (namely, 1.3B chinese) call bull****, but the UNESCO ruled in favor for the Koreans. I'm not too clear on the issue, but it might be relevant to your interests.

The original stories for those festivals (and other things that they try to steal) are in Chinese, and there tons of references and influences in Chinese literature besides...
Last I checked Chinese =! Korean. :/

I think this thread has only proved that people believe in weird stuff.... which is sometimes true.

[Tomo]

With the exception of the one about Britain always losing the Eurovision Song Contest cause everyone else in Europe hates us

Actually, we always lose Eurovision because if we won, we'd have to host it the next year.

That would cost far too much, so we always choose acts that are utter **** to make sure that we never win it again.
The hosts then act surprised to try to cover it up.

- There is definitely some truth to this theory, as RTE was nearly bankrupted when Ireland won Eurovision three times in a row.