# I pit my conspiracy-theorist landlord **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 29, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611 "2021-07-29T22:27:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611/21 "2021-08-11T01:26:20Z")
Wait, does he live in your unit? Or does he accost you when you walk outside? ---
**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:** [August 11, 2021, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611/22 "2021-08-11T01:53:08Z")
The couch in my trailer collapsed. Unless I want to lie in bed all day, I have to sit in his living room to be comfortable while I’m at home. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611/23 "2021-08-11T02:32:30Z")
I’d sit on the floor before I’d spend any time listening to that crap. Listening to the blatant, dangerous lies would make me waaaaay more uncomfortable than sitting propped up on my bed. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2021, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611/24 "2021-08-11T02:35:54Z")
Eh, that’s why God invented headphones and classical music videos on YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611/25 "2021-08-11T02:42:58Z")
I’m confused. If you’re blocking it out with headphones and music, how are you “learning” all this stuff? Are you watching it with Closed Captioning? If so, _why_ are you watching it (instead of reading, doodling, or anything else)? I’m clearly missing something. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2021, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611/26 "2021-08-11T02:46:12Z")
The headphones and music aren’t 100% effective. And I don’t always have them on when he starts talking. And it’s rude to say “I’m gonna put my headphones on now, and start ignoring you.” ---
**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:** [September 22, 2021, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611/27 "2021-09-22T22:48:42Z")
Now it’s a YouTube channel called Ancient Oblivion, about rock formations that are really “mud fossils” that _clearly_ show that giant animals used to exist in the pre-Flood times. The Biblical Great Flood, which both he and his wife take as scientific fact. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2021, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611/28 "2021-09-22T23:02:11Z")
One short step away from the Mud Flood and Tartaria! ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611/29 "2021-09-23T00:36:14Z")
Print off a couple of [Cluthlu Chick tracs](http://www.fredvanlente.com/cthulhutract/) (for example, they are legion) and leave them in his mailbox. I’ll bet they get an interesting reaction… ---
**Author:** ![Enjoy\_Slurm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enjoy_slurm/32/3937_2.png) [@Enjoy\_Slurm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enjoy_Slurm)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611/30 "2021-09-23T01:18:47Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > The couch in my trailer collapsed. Unless I want to lie in bed all day, I have to sit in his living room to be comfortable while I’m at home. Ok, so the couch in your trailer collapsed. So to be comfortable at “home” you have to sit in his living room? Is his living room in your trailer? Can you not a buy a chair to sit in to be in your living room? Or just sit on the floor? Or be outside or be anywhere else besides his living room? Is God forcing you to be in his presence? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611/31 "2021-09-23T03:32:31Z")
> [@Enjoy\_Slurm](#): > > Is God forcing you to be in his presence? Or is it that the OP is intrigued by the craziness? Maybe he can’t give up his ringside (couch) seat to a real-life Circus of the Bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611/32 "2021-09-23T09:07:17Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Now it’s a YouTube channel called Ancient Oblivion, about rock formations that are really “mud fossils” that _clearly_ show that giant animals used to exist in the pre-Flood times. > > The Biblical Great Flood, which both he and his wife take as scientific fact. Leaving out that last part, that’s not even remotely untrue. Yes, there were big animals before whatever flood the Bible is describing. There were big animals before there were humans. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611/33 "2021-09-23T11:40:44Z")
I think we’re courting trouble anytime we enable baseless ideas to get mainstream traction. This idea that anyone is entitled to their beliefs, no matter how wacky they are, isn’t really healthy for a supposedly free society. It’s an abuse of freedom, really. People are not always entitled to their own opinions. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611/34 "2021-09-23T14:55:30Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Now it’s a YouTube channel called Ancient Oblivion, about rock formations that are really “mud fossils” that _clearly_ show that giant animals used to exist in the pre-Flood times. [There’s also a self-published book.](https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Oblivion-Plasma-Apocalypse-JayDreamerZ/dp/B08BWFKY6J) Plugging the author’s real name into Google brings this up: [he’s a “warrior for God” in a “spiritual Gettysburg”.](https://books.google.com/books?id=NVmcx-8zdGEC&pg=PA303&lpg=PA303&dq=%22jayson+tice%22&source=bl&ots=iz96SN_32t&sig=ACfU3U0Z8BH4oEZ-_E9IFGMxEzQyYmUA9g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwitxty0rZXzAhW4F1kFHbB4DksQ6AF6BAgCEAM#v=onepage&q=%22jayson%20tice%22&f=false) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611/35 "2021-09-23T21:23:41Z")
You can’t just _sit_ in your bed? Prop up some pillows against the headboard, and you’ve basically got a lounger. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611/36 "2021-09-23T22:36:07Z")
I have all these questions as well. I also have one more: What do you have against Torque? ---
**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:** [January 28, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611/37 "2022-01-28T00:18:04Z")
I came in today to tell my landlord a quick joke, and he insisted that I hold up the arm that I got my booster shot in, to prove that I’m now emitting a WiFi signal. He “scanned” me with his phone. And it didn’t work. Fancy that. “Hm, it’s not working.” “Of _course_ it’s not working. Because it’s not real. None of your conspiracy theories are real.” For fuck’s sake. And then he went back to watching InfoWars, and Alex Jones, whom he’s called “the tip of the spear against the New World Order.” I mentioned to him that he’s taken the fifth about 500 times before the January 6 Committee, and posited that he’s got something to hide. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611/38 "2022-01-28T02:26:02Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > “Hm, it’s not working.” > > “Of _course_ it’s not working. Because it’s not real. None of your conspiracy theories are real.” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Aq_1l316ow8/hqdefault.jpg "That's Not How This Works!!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq_1l316ow8&t=17) ---
**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:** [April 7, 2022, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611/39 "2022-04-07T20:09:13Z")
By the way, reading the MyPillow thread just now reminds me of something: He got me a MyTowel set for Christmas. And he knows I’m a Democrat. I’m very glad I opened that present when it was just me and Mom in the room, so he couldn’t see my disgusted reaction. I think that in retaliation, I might get him a Washington Commanders Christmas ornament later this year. Redskins are (were) their favorite team. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611/40 "2022-04-07T20:32:22Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > I might get him a Washington Commanders Christmas ornament later this year. Redskins are (were) their favorite team. 👍 And you have more plausible deniability. “Isn’t Washington your favorite football team?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611.md?page=3)