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Title: A man is trying to convince the internet that Finland doesn't exist
Post by: Otto Yamamoto on July 23, 2017, 07:01:45 AM
[emoji848] https://www.indy100.com/article/reddit-man-convinces-finland-doesnt-exist-conspiracy-theory-hilarious-convince-7852826

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Title: Re: A man is trying to convince the internet that Finland doesn't exist
Post by: cjk374 on July 23, 2017, 07:17:55 AM
 Somebody has just a bit too much time on their hands. :pan:  :eyebrow:
Title: Re: A man is trying to convince the internet that Finland doesn't exist
Post by: corco on July 23, 2017, 06:35:39 PM
Well he's right
Title: Re: A man is trying to convince the internet that Finland doesn't exist
Post by: nexus73 on July 23, 2017, 07:07:47 PM
What's a finland?

j/k

Rick
Title: Re: A man is trying to convince the internet that Finland doesn't exist
Post by: DTComposer on July 23, 2017, 07:19:01 PM
https://youtu.be/cmBlUb2dcsk
Title: Re: A man is trying to convince the internet that Finland doesn't exist
Post by: jp the roadgeek on July 23, 2017, 07:31:18 PM
It was and wasn't annexed by Alanland.
Title: Re: A man is trying to convince the internet that Finland doesn't exist
Post by: Rothman on July 23, 2017, 07:51:46 PM
https://youtu.be/R7BiKZbKffk
Title: Re: A man is trying to convince the internet that Finland doesn't exist
Post by: freebrickproductions on July 23, 2017, 08:41:17 PM
I feel like this post from 4chan is relevant:
Click here to see image due to slight NSFW warning. (http://i.imgur.com/WQRB5NL.jpg)

Statistics are fun.
Title: Re: A man is trying to convince the internet that Finland doesn't exist
Post by: sparker on July 25, 2017, 02:19:51 AM
This sounds like something the writers at the Onion would concoct!  :)
Title: Re: A man is trying to convince the internet that Finland doesn't exist
Post by: noelbotevera on July 25, 2017, 02:32:42 AM
Before you know it, all of Scandinavia won't exist!

time to concoct a devious master plan telling people that china doesn't exist
Title: Re: A man is trying to convince the internet that Finland doesn't exist
Post by: jeffandnicole on July 25, 2017, 05:57:39 AM
This is one of those times when darling daughter goes to college for that degree in journalism only to exit college with that Bachelor/Masters degree...and see journalism is dead.  They can't get a job at a mainstream newspaper.  They can't get a job at a mainstream magazine.  So they go 'independent', hunt all around the internet for something to write about, and shoots out their story to some really obscure website that has a readership following based on those that use the internet for porn, and sometimes actually read something too, that may also actually pay them money.

Then they hope that no one does research themselves, and finds out that the reddit posts in question were actually from 2014, and have been sitting quietly for years until someone with a college degree is trying to do anything except porn just to earn $100 for their story.
Title: Re: A man is trying to convince the internet that Finland doesn't exist
Post by: SP Cook on July 25, 2017, 11:28:35 AM
That is why I like this board.  We would Never Ever tolerate people with crazy crackpot conspiracy theories.  It would be two much to deal with.

Title: Re: A man is trying to convince the internet that Finland doesn't exist
Post by: Desert Man on July 25, 2017, 11:32:31 AM
North Dakota isn't a state! The Moon Landing is fake! Freemasons run the Country!

Conspiracy theories are sometimes offensive, sometimes crazy, sometimes funny.

Now I hope our Reptilian overlord masters doesn't read this message.
Title: Re: A man is trying to convince the internet that Finland doesn't exist
Post by: jwolfer on July 25, 2017, 01:21:42 PM
Quote from: Desert Man on July 25, 2017, 11:32:31 AM
North Dakota isn't a state! The Moon Landing is fake! Freemasons run the Country!

Conspiracy theories are sometimes offensive, sometimes crazy, sometimes funny.

Now I hope our Reptilian overlord masters doesn't read this message.
"Just because you're paranoid don't mean they're not after you"

LGMS428

Title: Re: A man is trying to convince the internet that Finland doesn't exist
Post by: inkyatari on July 25, 2017, 03:02:57 PM
If I recall correctly, he did it to demonstrate how people will fall for the most insane conspiracy fantasies.

One of my favorite podcasts, Skeptoid, did a show on this recently...

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4573
Title: Re: A man is trying to convince the internet that Finland doesn't exist
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on July 25, 2017, 03:14:08 PM
Quote from: noelbotevera on July 25, 2017, 02:32:42 AM
time to concoct a devious master plan telling people that china doesn't exist

It already doesn't exist for me in a certain social network blocked there :evilgrin:.

I also enjoy pretending Teruel, the smallest provincial capital in Spain, doesn't exist. This is derived from a campaign the people of Teruel started about 20 years ago stating that "Teruel exists". And of course it exists, otherwise I wouldn't have driven all the way there in mid June.
Title: Re: A man is trying to convince the internet that Finland doesn't exist
Post by: wxfree on July 25, 2017, 04:50:45 PM
Quote from: Desert Man on July 25, 2017, 11:32:31 AM
The Moon Landing is fake!

The moon landing was not fake!  If it had been, we'd never have obtained this final definitive proof of the flatness of the earth.

(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.patternsandprinciples.com%2Fotherfiles%2Fearth.jpg&hash=7ee94166320d1286bd91beb89fff960671642c8b)
Title: Re: A man is trying to convince the internet that Finland doesn't exist
Post by: kurumi on July 26, 2017, 03:02:48 AM
Related: years ago I was spinning some tall tales about Alabama highways, including "proof" of Interstate 220 in Birmingham: (link (https://vientology.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/more-information-on-i-220/))
Title: Re: A man is trying to convince the internet that Finland doesn't exist
Post by: Otto Yamamoto on July 26, 2017, 03:19:21 AM
Quote from: kurumi on July 26, 2017, 03:02:48 AM
Related: years ago I was spinning some tall tales about Alabama highways, including "proof" of Interstate 220 in Birmingham: (link (https://vientology.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/more-information-on-i-220/))
And now that northeast bypass may come to fruition as an x22

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