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Post by wildojinx on Feb 8, 2019 22:34:37 GMT -5
Your tattoo artist is out of synch with reality. Everyone knows it's Cobra who dominates the weather. Well, before THAT he was known as Lightning,,we're through the looking glass here people!
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Feb 8, 2019 22:59:14 GMT -5
Not sure if it counts, but I have noticed that in some cars it is getting harder to replace the battery. It used to just be easy as pie, just loosen the bracket, attach and reattach the terminals, and tighten the bracket. DONE! 5-10 minutes tops. Nowdays you need to first go online to find out how to remove superfluous plastic panels just to access the damn thing? And why? Well so you take your car to the stealership so they can tack on extra labor cost. And don't get me started on designed obsolescence... Not so much a conspiracy as exactly what they've done. Used to work at a lube and tire place, they've done that.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Feb 9, 2019 3:19:37 GMT -5
That there have been some fixed MMA matches. I’m not thinking of any match in particular. Just that fighters have been presented with an opportunity to make more money. They would have to sign a NDA before they’d hear the proposal. Then they could accept or decline. The more the higher ups wanted a particular outcome the more money would be offered. Perhaps they didn’t like dealing with a certain fighter or really wanted to push another one. Could be that they put money on a big fight. Maybe they wanted someone to take a dive because they just weren’t marketable to them. Perhaps they wanted to change an outcome so they could make sure they were setting up a bigger money making fight down the line. Could be a lot of reasons but I’m pretty sure it must have happened at some point. I'm curious what fights you think were fixed. The problem with fixed fights is that it's extremely difficult to make it not look fake. The most famous and proven fixed MMA fight I'd say Mark Coleman vs Takada in PRIDE. Even Bas Rutten one commentary was like "something's wrong here". Another highly suspected fix was Ken Shamrock vs Kimbo. Kimbo somehow escaped a rear-naked choke by doing nothing, but lying on the mat and kicking his legs like a child until Shamrock just let go for no reason Any fight that Takada won was fixed. Hell the guy was such a shitty MMA fighter he ended getting KOed in a fight that he was supposed to win. Though honestly I reckon Shamrock vs Kimbo wasn't a work and was instead a really shitty fight between two terrible fighters.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Feb 9, 2019 10:41:27 GMT -5
You know, Cobra looks like if AJ Styles was given Super Soldier serum
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Post by jagilki on Feb 9, 2019 11:52:25 GMT -5
Not sure if it counts, but I have noticed that in some cars it is getting harder to replace the battery. It used to just be easy as pie, just loosen the bracket, attach and reattach the terminals, and tighten the bracket. DONE! 5-10 minutes tops. Nowdays you need to first go online to find out how to remove superfluous plastic panels just to access the damn thing? And why? Well so you take your car to the stealership so they can tack on extra labor cost. And don't get me started on designed obsolescence... Not so much a conspiracy as exactly what they've done. Used to work at a lube and tire place, they've done that. Wasn't there a big thing with John Deere (The tractor company) trying to make it illegal to work on your own farming equipment?
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Post by Hit Girl on Feb 9, 2019 12:34:07 GMT -5
None.
They are all bollocks.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Feb 9, 2019 13:03:01 GMT -5
I only believe in some sports conspiracy theories. I still believe in Mike Tomlin accusing Belichick of planting bugs on the visitors locker room. They’re the greatest nfl franchise ever but at the same time they’ve been caught cheating twice.
Now with the nba, I think they rigged the Patrick Ewing and the Anthony Davis lotteries. I also believe the reason the Chris Paul trade to the Lakers got vetoed was because the owners threatened Stern to veto it.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Feb 9, 2019 13:04:10 GMT -5
UFC may not be predetermined yet but it's a possibility and I believe some day it will be every bit as much a work as professional wrestling is. There’s at least one Don Frye fight in the ufc that was a work.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Feb 9, 2019 15:01:18 GMT -5
UFC may not be predetermined yet but it's a possibility and I believe some day it will be every bit as much a work as professional wrestling is. There’s at least one Don Frye fight in the ufc that was a work. You're thinking of Don Frye vs Mark Hall at UFC: Ultimate Ultimate 1996. Also Oleg Taktarov vs Anthony Macias was a work.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Feb 9, 2019 20:36:11 GMT -5
I think Tupac made a double album and then 7 Day Theory in such a short amount of time because he was already thinking Suge Knight was too crazy to work with and he wanted to get out of his contract ASAP. Meanwhile, Suge killed him because he had no further use for him once that contract was up. Suge absolutely had something to do with 'Pacs death. Ditto for Puffy/Diddy...whatever and Biggie It's either that or Suge called it in on Biggie, and Diddy called the revenge hit on Pac.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2019 1:08:33 GMT -5
You know, Cobra looks like if AJ Styles was given Super Soldier serum "Looks like"
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2019 1:12:39 GMT -5
Not sure if this counts as a conspiracy, but I've often noticed that on some channels, the commercial breaks seemed timed to go off at the same time, so if someone changes the channel, there's a commercial on that channel as well, so as to keep people from channel surfing during commercial breaks. It's not done all the time, but I have seen it done frequently. That more goes back to networks getting their asses kicked in a time slot having to sync up to said ass kicking network so if people flicked channels in the ad breaks, they're less likely to stay away. Not so much a conspiracy, more a preservation tactic that's become a uniform way of doing things.
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Post by RedSmile on Feb 10, 2019 5:55:17 GMT -5
I ironically believe that, former ESPN analyst John Clayton, is a low-key die hard metalhead.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Feb 10, 2019 8:07:37 GMT -5
More astronauts died during the space race than either the US or the former soviet union will admit to. I have a hard time believing the USSR managed to avoid numerous casualties after building their program on reverse engineering, given their difficulties doing that with other technology, and their callous disregard for human lives in their other programs, they tested nukes in inhabited regions for example, and denied it.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Feb 10, 2019 8:36:08 GMT -5
Was just reading an interesting take on the recent Lakers/Pelicans mess: The Pelicans were so pissed off at Lebron campaigning so openly for Anthony Davis that they deliberately kept changing who they'd be open to taking and making sure it leaked to the press in a (apparently successful) bid to destroy the Lakers' team unity when the rest of the team found out Magic and Lebron would part with pretty much everyone in the locker room to get Davis. They had absolutely no intention of trading Davis to the Lakers, they just wanted revenge.
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Post by Red Impact on Feb 10, 2019 19:09:09 GMT -5
I've heard similar for cancer. It wouldn't surprise me. A cure for cancer would sell more than the existing treatments, because until a way to prevent cancer is found, people will be willing to pay literally anything for a cure potentially multiple times over. Even if you cured every single cancer patient in the world this morning, by tonight there would be thousands more freshly-diagnosed patients to replace them. On top of that, who generally foots the bill for cancer treatments? Insurance companies. They wouldn't stand for indirectly handing over hundreds of millions each and every year to Big Pharma for cancer treatments if they knew Big Pharma were withholding a cure, and you can bet your life that insurance companies would sniff out any hint that a cure existed and kick up the mother of all fusses. Perhaps the biggest red flag of them all is the fact that preventions and cures exist for other treatable diseases. If the goal is to keep populations sick enough to keep paying for treatments, why eradicate smallpox? Why bring polio, measles, mumps, and rubella to the point of eradication? Surely there's more money in treating those diseases than wiping them out? Precisely this. Cancer occurs where the normally regulating factors in a cell fail and the cell begins to divide uncontrollably. It has no set cause for us to attack like most diseases, it can likely be caused by hundreds of different things, from environmental factors to genetics, in ways we're only beginning to understand. It's not as easy as curing a viral or bacterial disease, where at least you have a foreign body you can isolate, we're talking about fixing one of the core, most basic functions of the building block of the entire body, while not affecting the billions and billions of building blocks that are still functioning normally. It's not likely to ever be a cure you'd just stumble on, it'll rely on an understanding of genetics far beyond what we have. I say this with as little hyperbole as possible when I say that I believe the money, fame, and prestige from curing cancer would dwarf any other we've bestowed on a scientist or doctor to this point in history.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Feb 10, 2019 20:42:31 GMT -5
I say this with as little hyperbole as possible when I say that I believe the money, fame, and prestige from curing cancer would dwarf any other we've bestowed on a scientist or doctor to this point in history. And in a world where developing medicines and treatments for diseases is an extremely competitive for-profit business, the first company to develop and patent an honest-to-god cure for cancer becomes the richest, most valuable company in the world overnight.
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Post by Rolent Tex on Feb 10, 2019 21:11:26 GMT -5
I don’t believe the US government plotted 9/11, but I damn sure believe they ignored the signs. Pearl Harbor too.
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Post by bob on Feb 10, 2019 23:52:11 GMT -5
I believe in the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
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Post by Goldenbane on Feb 11, 2019 0:10:22 GMT -5
I'm curious what fights you think were fixed. The problem with fixed fights is that it's extremely difficult to make it not look fake. The most famous and proven fixed MMA fight I'd say Mark Coleman vs Takada in PRIDE. Even Bas Rutten one commentary was like "something's wrong here". Another highly suspected fix was Ken Shamrock vs Kimbo. Kimbo somehow escaped a rear-naked choke by doing nothing, but lying on the mat and kicking his legs like a child until Shamrock just let go for no reason Any fight that Takada won was fixed. Hell the guy was such a shitty MMA fighter he ended getting KOed in a fight that he was supposed to win. Though honestly I reckon Shamrock vs Kimbo wasn't a work and was instead a really shitty fight between two terrible fighters. I don't have anything interesting or relevant to add, but every time I scrolled past messages talking about this, I kept reading "Takada" as "Tatanka."
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