# Craziest thing you've heard lately **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 9, 2021, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333 "2021-08-09T19:50:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/61 "2021-12-20T13:10:57Z")
Q followers gathering in Dealey Plaze this past November hoping for the triumphant return of JFK Jr. has to be right up there on the list of craziest things of 2021. There are so many levels of crazy to the story: - That JFK Jr. faked his death. Why? What enemies did a moderately successful magazine publisher have? - That he would return at the site of his father’s assassination. Some Q-Tips though his 104 year old dad might even show as well. - That JFK Jr.'s return would herald the reinstatement of trump as President - And that JFK Jr. would be his VP. I don’t understand why Q believers think that JFK Jr. would support trump in any fashion. Some even think JFK Jr. is Q himself. Why JFK Jr. of all unlikely people? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/62 "2021-12-20T14:01:02Z")
These are the mother lode of crazy: [https://twitter.com/BadMedicalTakes](https://twitter.com/BadMedicalTakes) [https://twitter.com/BadVaccineTakes](https://twitter.com/BadVaccineTakes) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/63 "2021-12-20T14:09:16Z")
I could not make much sense of that. Sometimes when he says “the Enemy” he seems to be talking about God. Sometimes he seems to be talking about the Devil. He just veers all over the place, creating strawmen at a furious pace. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/64 "2021-12-20T15:14:08Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > The “Moderna vaccine turns you into a magnet and spoons will cling to you” theory. I can conclusively dispel this theory: [![](https://i.imgur.com/oZe2FKQ.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/oZe2FKQ.jpg) Yes, I was vaccinated, but with the Pfizer vaccine, NOT Moderna! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/65 "2021-12-20T15:27:25Z")
Devotees of “urine therapy” have taken to calling it Shivambu, a.k.a. the Nectar of Life. “Sports coach and student Jan Schünemann, 26, from Hamburg in Germany, says that the practice of drinking his own urine has also helped him cope with depression.” > **[Man drinks 7 pints of his urine a day, ingests it through eyes, nose and ears](https://www.timesnownews.com/the-buzz/article/man-drinks-7-pints-of-his-urine-a-day-ingests-it-through-eyes-nose-and-ears/647635)** > > A 26-year-old German man drinks up to seven pints of his own urine every day and ingests it through his eyes, nose and ears. He discovered about urine therapy or Shivambu Kalpa on the Internet in 2017. I hear that Shivambu is twice as potent if you eat asparagus beforehand. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/66 "2021-12-20T15:32:19Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/w6YnnCH2uwY/hqdefault.jpg "Dodgeball - Necessary To Drink My Own Urine") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6YnnCH2uwY) ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/67 "2021-12-20T16:24:11Z")
In person, mostly it’s stupid shit my inlaws say. Like apparently they have witnessed ICE dropping off busloads of illegal immigrants in East Stroudsburg, PA. Because that’s what they do. They pick up Mexicans at the border and then drive them a thousand miles to unleash them on some random town in Eastern Pennsylvania. It is possible that you just saw some darkish-skinned people getting off a bus? ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/68 "2021-12-20T17:00:37Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > “In other words, FEMA-style concentration camps are here, and covid is the excuse for mass arrests and executions of Americans.” I missed this thread the first time around, but I think this line exemplifies the conspiracy theory mindset perfectly. Of course they expect everybody to just automatically understand what “FEMA-style concentration camps” are, and also to have no doubt that they exist. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/69 "2021-12-20T18:10:10Z")
Oh, lord, I could _fill_ this thread with some of the daffy things my landlady and especially my landlord say. Cell phones emit cancer-causing radiation was today’s daffy conspiracy theory. The ancient Egyptians made contact with South America and built the Inca pyramids. The number of deaths from the covid vaccine is much, _much_ higher than the mainstream media wants you to believe. The covid vaccine is the Mark of the Beast. (That’s from my landlady). ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/70 "2021-12-20T18:30:17Z")
Poltifact is a never ending source: > **[PolitiFact - No, Barack Obama’s birth certificate isn’t a fake](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/20/blog-posting/no-barack-obamas-birth-certificate-isnt-fake/)** > > In the year 2021, more than four years since former President Barack Obama left office — more than 13 since he was first > **[PolitiFact - No, BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin didn’t refuse COVID-19 vaccine for...](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/20/facebook-posts/no-biontech-ceo-ugur-sahin-didnt-refuse-covid-19-v/)** > > The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and German partner BioNTech has been available for nearly a year. And yet, a Tw > **[PolitiFact - Video of child giving Biden vial of blood to drink is doctored](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/17/tweets/video-child-giving-biden-vial-blood-drink-doctored/)** > > Social media users circulated a fake, doctored video that purported to show a child discreetly handing a vial of blood o ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/71 "2021-12-20T19:10:32Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > [PolitiFact | Video of child giving Biden vial of blood to drink is doctored](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/17/tweets/video-child-giving-biden-vial-blood-drink-doctored/) Okay, from that article: > Crystal Staley, Beshear’s communications director, said the social media claim about Beshear’s son slipping Biden a vial of blood is “completely false.” That’s just about the craziest thing I’ve heard. At some point, the answer to these stupid conspiracy theory inspired questions has to be a flat out statement, “Are you really that fucking stupid? Why would you even ask such a crazy fucking question? Go the fuck home and think about what you’ve done with your life, moron.” We need to stop pandering to this idiots. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/72 "2021-12-20T19:35:13Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > The covid vaccine is the Mark of the Beast. (That’s from my landlady). I actually had this (non serious) thought years ago about flu shots. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/73 "2021-12-20T19:53:11Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > That’s just about the craziest thing I’ve heard. Yeah, that is a 10 out of 10, but there are other things just as crazy there on Politifact. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/74 "2021-12-20T20:02:49Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Yeah, that is a 10 out of 10, but there are other things just as crazy there on Politifact. I was talking about the statement from the communications director. Even giving as simple an answer as, “Those rumors are completely false” gives the people asking about the rumors far too much respect. By giving a “reasonable” response, they’re inadvertently supporting the notion that asking these questions is itself a reasonable action. We need to stop treating these people as if they are reasonable and rational. We need to start telling them flat out that they are stupid and crazy, and that we’re not going to pander to them any more. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/75 "2021-12-20T21:22:53Z")
_So_ many choices, but I think that I’ll go with the cult waiting for the return of JFK Jr. drinking a bleach Communion. > **[Dallas QAnon Cultists Are Drinking Toxic Chemicals from A Communal Bowl,...](https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-qanon-cult-members-are-drinking-toxic-chemicals-en-masse-13038506)** > > The family of a Dallas' QAnon cult member is sounding the alarm. Multiple members of the Leek family confirmed that their relative, who left her husband and children behind in Delaware to follow a fringe QAnon cult leader to Dallas last month, has... ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/76 "2021-12-20T21:38:23Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > We need to stop treating these people as if they are reasonable and rational. We need to start telling them flat out that they are stupid and crazy, and that we’re not going to pander to them any more. You make a point. Hearing the Press secretary say “That rumor is batshit crazy” would be nice. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2021, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/77 "2021-12-21T00:30:25Z")
It appears that we need more REALLY big nets on the end of a poll. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2021, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/78 "2021-12-21T00:38:32Z")
Now I’m picturing a multiple choice quiz, where if you choose one of the Crazy Answers, some guy with a net pops out of hiding and catches you… ---
**Author:** ![anny\_m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@anny\_m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anny_m)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2021, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/79 "2021-12-21T00:43:35Z")
How does he pee 7 pints in a day? That’s way more than average. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2021, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333/80 "2021-12-21T01:24:10Z")
Easy. You drink lots and lots of water to flush out the toxins. Then you slurp down all the urine to reintroduce toxins to your body, only they’re not really toxins, because Shivambu. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craziest-thing-youve-heard-lately/948333.md?page=5)