Hey, wokkie may be sane after all.
An article in today’s New York Times examines the phenomena.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/magazine/why-rational-people-buy-into-conspiracy-theories.html?src=recg
I didnt learn much but I may have spotted early emergence of a new expression/buzz term.
“ If you know the truth and others don’t, that’s one way you can reassert feelings of having agency”
Skunkworks said:
I didnt learn much but I may have spotted early emergence of a new expression/buzz term.“ If you know the truth and others don’t, that’s one way you can reassert feelings of having agency”
Well spotted, Curve. I’ll have to add that one to my management ‘bingo’ card.
Skunkworks said:
I didnt learn much but I may have spotted early emergence of a new expression/buzz term.“ If you know the truth and others don’t, that’s one way you can reassert feelings of having agency”
Is that a euphemism for constipation?
sibeen said:
Hey, wokkie may be sane after all.An article in today’s New York Times examines the phenomena.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/magazine/why-rational-people-buy-into-conspiracy-theories.html?src=recg
Quotes Late in 1991 Malcolm Puddy, a Marconi worker, was found floating dead in an English canal with a painter’s palette tied round his neck, nearish to his home. He had approximately ten days before been in a Eureka-like state of mind as if having deduced something utterly incredible. He went into his Marconi works excitedly to tell his bosses he could do something fantastic, but was taken aside by some not quite so enthusiastic personnel. The frequently characteristic week went by whereby he was missing, then the corpse was found. Eureka. You’re dead. His computer files mysteriously emptied themselves.
his problem is that he didn’t take care for who he was working for
he should have quietly thought through the implication of that thought and then quietly withdrawn from the project (assuming that was possible. what would have been better was for him was to simply become a pudding and waited for them to sack as a waste of space and of no danger to them)
the thing i find so liberating with conspiracy theories is the wide unrestricted range of thought
its like cocaine
Double-O-Who? Jon Pertwee’s secret life as a wartime agent… years before he did battle with the Daleks
Actor was an intelligence agent in WWII and reported to Winston Churchill
Revelations were made in a long-lost tape-recorded interview
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2283542/Double-O-Who-Jon-Pertwees-secret-life-wartime-agent—years-did-battle-Daleks.html#ixzz2UV3YuIfL
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wookiemeister said:
Double-O-Who? Jon Pertwee’s secret life as a wartime agent… years before he did battle with the Daleks
Actor was an intelligence agent in WWII and reported to Winston Churchill
Revelations were made in a long-lost tape-recorded interviewRead more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2283542/Double-O-Who-Jon-Pertwees-secret-life-wartime-agent—years-did-battle-Daleks.html#ixzz2UV3YuIfL
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His cousin Bill Pertwee died not long after Wookie made this post.
Coincidence or conspiracy, only The Wookster knows.
What’s the great conspiracy about an actor working for intelligence during WW2?
pommiejohn said:
What’s the great conspiracy about an actor working for intelligence during WW2?
Something to do with wookieworld, I think.
Geoff D said:
pommiejohn said:
What’s the great conspiracy about an actor working for intelligence during WW2?
Something to do with wookieworld, I think.
News flash: Wartime Naval officer works for military intelligence. Who’d have thought?
pommiejohn said:
Geoff D said:
pommiejohn said:
What’s the great conspiracy about an actor working for intelligence during WW2?
Something to do with wookieworld, I think.
News flash: Wartime Naval officer works for military intelligence. Who’d have thought?
To normal people, perfectly rational. To lucking funatics …
Geoff D said:
pommiejohn said:
Geoff D said:Something to do with wookieworld, I think.
News flash: Wartime Naval officer works for military intelligence. Who’d have thought?
To normal people, perfectly rational. To lucking funatics …
When my mother told me she’d worked for MI, that was a surprise!
pommiejohn said:
Geoff D said:
pommiejohn said:News flash: Wartime Naval officer works for military intelligence. Who’d have thought?
To normal people, perfectly rational. To lucking funatics …
When my mother told me she’d worked for MI, that was a surprise!
You’ll be on wookie’s list if you keep saying stuff like that.
pommiejohn said:
Geoff D said:
pommiejohn said:News flash: Wartime Naval officer works for military intelligence. Who’d have thought?
To normal people, perfectly rational. To lucking funatics …
When my mother told me she’d worked for MI, that was a surprise!
A lot of people did their work so well that nobody ever knew.
roughbarked said:
pommiejohn said:
Geoff D said:To normal people, perfectly rational. To lucking funatics …
When my mother told me she’d worked for MI, that was a surprise!
A lot of people did their work so well that nobody ever knew.
Hmm, there was that time she went far a walk by the canal, near the Marconi works. I always wondered why she was wet and had artist’s paint on her coat when she got back :)
used to go past marconi in chelmsford on the way to school. i didn’t see anything though.
Boris said:
used to go past marconi in chelmsford on the way to school. i didn’t see anything though.
So you say…. it’s a cover up. Boris saw it all.
In fact, Marconi gave our school a computer. It sat in the corner, no one knew how to use it. I’m sure it was full of cameras and microphones checking up on us all.
pommiejohn said:
Boris said:
used to go past marconi in chelmsford on the way to school. i didn’t see anything though.
So you say…. it’s a cover up. Boris saw it all.
SSH!.. he was covering the front.
>>Hmm, there was that time she went far a walk by the canal, near the Marconi works. I always wondered why she was wet and had artist’s paint on her coat when she got back :)
Far canal.
Boris said:
used to go past marconi in chelmsford on the way to school. i didn’t see anything though.
Chelmsford, eh? One branch of my family hails from around there (Great Baddow).
i went to gt baddow comprehensive. we’ve mentioned this before.
Q: What pasta dish do radio hams eat?
A: Marconi cheese
(Sorry, I’m on a diet)
Bubblecar said:
Q: What pasta dish do radio hams eat?A: Marconi cheese
(Sorry, I’m on a diet)
I saw what you did there.
Boris said:
i went to gt baddow comprehensive. we’ve mentioned this before.
Possibly. Memory is getting dodgy.
I seem to remember that macx came from around those parts as well.
been looking through the asio building on bit torrent today
turns out they spent 2000 dollars on that coffee machine and tony on level three ordered some bloody expensive chair for himself
wookiemeister said:
been looking through the asio building on bit torrent todayturns out they spent 2000 dollars on that coffee machine and tony on level three ordered some bloody expensive chair for himself
WGAS, really.
macx used to drink at the black bull, or the queen’s head, in fyfield. which is the village i grew up in.
Boris said:
macx used to drink at the black bull, or the queen’s head, in fyfield. which is the village i grew up in.
Writtle, Witham, Kelvedon and Hatfield Peverel seem to be the featured villages in my Essex mob
all within a stone’s throw of my haunts. i get a bit nostalgic for the english countryside, but not the weather or social ills.