# Leave your berets at home **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 14, 2010, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-your-berets-at-home/560630 "2010-11-14T09:08:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-your-berets-at-home/560630/21 "2010-11-15T08:50:40Z")
> [@Tinkertoy](#): > > Sorry! I knew I left something out. Jesse Ventura has a conspiracy show on TruTV that featured the “Proof” of the FEMA camps yesterday, all with railroad tracks running to them to ship us in. And how the government has installed cameras everywhere so they can keep constant watch on us when it’s time to round us up. Also they are going to make us get microchips inplanted so they can track us. **At least that was the gist of the show, I can’t be sure about everything as my laughter was blocking the sound.** (emphasis mine) That’s what closed captioning is for. It’s also handy for shows with accents you’re not used to, too loud background music, people talking over each other, and mumblers. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-your-berets-at-home/560630/22 "2010-11-15T14:09:11Z")
Yahoo Answers is like a Bizarro Straight Dope Message Board after it took a couple bullets to the cranium. It makes YouTube comments looks like PhD dissertations. It’s become a great source of entertainment for me, I especially recommend the “Religion & Spirituality” section. But I wouldn’t worry about the nutty conspiracy posts there, these guys have always been out there. Now they’re at a place where we can make fun of them and they’ll see it without being able to find our homes and shave our cats. I see that as a plus. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-your-berets-at-home/560630/23 "2010-11-15T15:58:26Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > It doesn’t just apply to the right wing, unfortunately. Have you ever heard of Jeff Rense? Even aside from his site and ideology - have you seen what he _looks_ like? I was positive [Rense.com](http://Rense.com) was a joke when I first saw it. That is a great photo. I thought _ **I** _ looked like a madman until I saw that photo. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-your-berets-at-home/560630/24 "2010-11-15T16:04:59Z")
Crap! I was just thinking I would start wearing hats and make that my thing and I wanted to wear a beret. Do you think a fedora would be safe? ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-your-berets-at-home/560630/25 "2010-11-16T00:13:32Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > Crap! I was just thinking I would start wearing hats and make that my thing and I wanted to wear a beret. Do you think a fedora would be safe? I’d stay away from blue ones. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-your-berets-at-home/560630/26 "2010-11-16T01:27:28Z")
I notice none of you have addressed the pungent observation about the “several thousands and thousands of caskets found scattered in large areas all across America, why would we need so many caskets?” wHY indeed? And while you are making snide comments about the [sanity](http://www.scribd.com/doc/30416205/FEMA-CAMPS-for-VERICHIPPED-SATANISTS-Vol-2-Canada-Street-News-Spring-2010-News) of those who [warn](http://www.whale.to/b/concentration.html) about FEMA camps, rest assured: when the chemtrails take full effect and vaccines have turned you all into drooling zombies, you’ll be laughing out of the other side of your asses. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-your-berets-at-home/560630/27 "2010-11-16T01:31:00Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I notice none of you have addressed the pungent observation about the “several thousands and thousands of caskets found scattered in large areas all across America, why would we need so many caskets?” Littering is bad? ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-your-berets-at-home/560630/28 "2010-11-16T03:24:55Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > Yes. And people have also been scaremongering _about_ them since the 1990s. I don’t believe they are much of a threat to anyone. Their movements are impotent, incompetent and cowardly and they have never accomplished anything. Yea, the FEMA camp thing was widespread enough to get a few mentions in X-Files movie, so its at least a decade old. Kinda makes me wonder what the conspiracy theorists think is taking them so long. I mean, it seems like kinda a waste of money and resources to set up your fully staffed and equipped concentration camp and then just sorta sit on it for 15 years without, err, concentrating anyone in it. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2010, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-your-berets-at-home/560630/29 "2010-11-16T05:27:13Z")
I checked out the action on a conspiracy forum, where folks were up in arms over a rumor that Ventura’s FEMA show wouldn’t be aired. One poster said “If it doesn’t air, we can assume the FEMA camps are real!” Surprisingly, now that it’s aired no one is saying that means the story is a phony. 😕 Oh, and the naysayers are undoubtedly “embedded forum agents”. Also, we are all alien/primate hybrids, which explains a lot if you ask me. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-your-berets-at-home/560630/30 "2010-11-16T06:15:00Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I notice none of you have addressed the pungent observation about the “several thousands and thousands of caskets found scattered in large areas all across America, why would we need so many caskets?” > > wHY indeed? > > And while you are making snide comments about the [sanity](http://www.scribd.com/doc/30416205/FEMA-CAMPS-for-VERICHIPPED-SATANISTS-Vol-2-Canada-Street-News-Spring-2010-News) of those who [warn](http://www.whale.to/b/concentration.html) about FEMA camps, rest assured: when the chemtrails take full effect and vaccines have turned you all into drooling zombies, you’ll be laughing out of the other side of your asses. If we’re all zombies we won’t need caskets, Mr. Smartypants! Ha! Foiled you with my logic. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-your-berets-at-home/560630/31 "2010-11-16T15:30:37Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > If we’re all zombies we won’t need caskets, Mr. Smartypants! Ha! Foiled you with my logic. u r obviously an embedded forum agent. No logic required. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-your-berets-at-home/560630/32 "2010-11-18T16:54:12Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > What about other colors? Say, ones you find in second-hand stores? Are they okay to wear? I hope so, cause I know this girl and thats about all she has. Whoa, I saw her going In Through The Out Door. I’m so glad no one shot her. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-your-berets-at-home/560630/33 "2010-11-18T17:11:28Z")
> [@Tinkertoy](#): > > If you will read the last quote in the OP you will notice the advocating of shooting people down in cold blood for wearing berets or blue helmets. The New York Giants could be in trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-your-berets-at-home/560630/34 "2010-11-18T20:34:18Z")
Was Rense the inspiration for the Woody Harrelson character in **2012**? ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-your-berets-at-home/560630/35 "2010-11-18T21:23:11Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Wasn’t he a governor, and a pro wrestler? Is there anyone, other than Arnold, who has a weirder career? Who can forget [Jerry Springer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Springer), mayor/councilman of Cincinnati, news anchorman, and JFK political strategist? ---
**Author:** ![Uzzah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/db5fbb/32.png) [@Uzzah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzzah)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-your-berets-at-home/560630/36 "2010-11-18T21:31:26Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I notice none of you have addressed the pungent observation about the "several thousands and thousands of caskets found scattered in large areas all across America This is the only part of the OPs quote that I can conclusively confirm. There’s an area just down the street from me that has probably a thousand caskets scattered around in it. It’s completely fenced off (although its gate security seems to be pretty lax). Big, black cars drive in and out of it all day, and there’s a lot of earth-moving equipment stored in a garage near the back. Every once in a while, I catch a glimpse of a handful of people in dark suits meeting together inside. Otherwise, it’s eerily quiet and empty. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-your-berets-at-home/560630/37 "2010-11-19T21:32:21Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > …rest assured: when the chemtrails take full effect and vaccines have turned you all into drooling zombies, you’ll be laughing out of the other side of your asses. “Side effects may include: Ass-laughing zombification…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-your-berets-at-home/560630.md?page=1)