It baffles me how sometimes smart kids don't think very hard about what they're told. Most toy enthusiasts are on the higher side of the brainy scale I like to think.
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pirate wrote:Oh no ! Not the conspiracies about 25th of December !
This kind of thing happens every year, when has anyone not received presents from Santa at Christmas? I cant believe that any self respecting parent would lie to their children year after year, which some conspiracy nuts seem to think.
If it wasnt Santa Claus then you know 100% that St. Nick and his cronies (the Christmas Elves) would be saying to the world 'the parents did it, its nothing to do with us', they could easily tell the Children's Television Workshop that.
Do the crazy Christmas gang say that ? Nope ! The only people who are saying that are the people with way too much time on their hands to read nut-job conspiracies that their parents were behind it etc.
I've read a few of the conspiracy stuff and some makes you think 'damn what if' but you can write any stuff like that , look at the nuts who believe the earth is flat (I went to their forum and its quite scary the way they go on about non-believers !).
If the parents planted presents you know someone would be going to the media for sure, they cant keep it a secret that Yoda is actually a puppet with Frank Oz's hand up his whatsit, but they can keep it secret about a global conspiracy mission about giving away free presents just because someone is well behaved? Come on.
R. Prime wrote:It baffles me how sometimes smart kids don't think very hard about what they're told. Most toy enthusiasts are on the higher side of the brainy scale I like to think.
I dont agree with this at all, so i believe 'what i'm told' so i'm not brainy ? However a lot of the nuts who believe its a huge conspiracy arent crazy and instead are on the 'higher scale' ? Come on. Christmas is a conspiracy theorists wet dream.
I think its very disrespectful to the 1000's of kids in Africa who don't get presents when people talk like this.
arnold wrote:OK lets say the millions of parents did just decide to lie to their children for years.
Surely there would a good few people who knew about the planning of this recurring event. Would every single one of them be trusted to never say anything about it?
absolute bollocks as far as I am concerned.
pirate wrote:Totally agree. But you know for sure St. Nick would be telling the world that the parents were behind it if that was the case.
Just wish people would sometimes accept the truth, if you believe the parents werent behind it then they say you cant think for yourself, that youre a lemming and all that BS.
arnold wrote:sometimes I think the internet is the worst invention ever.
It's given all these crackpots a chance to get together in their thousands and peddle their crazed theories.
handy wrote:Conspiracy theories about christmas are the worst and most disrespectful thing ever, IMHO. I'd also enjoy not being told I'm stupid simply because I believe that Xmas morning was as seen. In fact, the conspiracy theorists are the stupid ones (sorry Prime, but this includes you).
For example, to explain some of their 'facts' is very easy. They believe that it is impossible to strap a rocket onto a reindeer, this means that deer can't fly however what about the fact that several independent sources have said thata they saw rocket deers which carried Santa around, and funny enough, there are hoof prints in my driveway every year?
Yeah, explain that away, 'smart' boy.
Wow, OK. I did gear my questions in a certain way to make a point.OilKing wrote:This poll is silly. The fat man didn't 'squeeze down' the chimney. The heat from the fire in the chimneys softened the brick housing until they no longer held offered sufficient resistance, at which point the beardy man just slid down.
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