This pleased me a lot more than it should have. Anyone got any good low stake UK conspiracies? 😀

by Oohbunnies

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  1. Greggs allows theft from its stores so people talk about Greggs on social media thereby acting as viral marketing for Greggs.

  2. Supermarket self-checkout machines have the errors built in on purpose. They vary supermarket to supermarket on what stage of the shop they occur – Tesco is bagging area errors for example.

    The reason for this is that when they were introduced, trade unions were quite understandably worried they’d mean less human jobs. So an agreement was made that self service checkouts must be, on average, slower than a human operated checkout. But being a computer they had to programme in errors on purpose otherwise they’d easily have been much much faster.

    You can see this if a staff member puts the till in admin mode – all the fancy graphics vanish and it looks like a BIOS screen, but I’ve seen a staff member put their own shopping through like lightning doing this.

    I’ve had people swear this is true and not a conspiracy, but it fits the bill.

  3. Ive always wanted to wander about the moors on a misty night looking for the beast.

  4. People post screenshots of Reddit links to mildly bemuse me.

  5. I think Bradley Walsh can’t read, and all the questions on the Chase are fed to him through an earpiece. He pronounces too many words correctly in a way that is suspicious. I will answer no further questions on this.

  6. If every sports direct mug in everyones cupboards was filled to the top, there would be a nationwide drought.

  7. 98% of the UK population CAN believe its not butter, contrary to the claims made by manufacturers.

  8. Heritage steam lines are monitored by the government to be called upon in the event of electromagnetic warfare.

    The engines can be moved to the mainline at short notice.

  9. The numbers broadcast by number stations in the 1980s was actually a global game of Bingo for the intelligence community with a large cash prize and chest freezer’s supply of Vienetta given away every week.

  10. Lemsip makes your cold last as long as a packet of lemsip.

  11. Skimmed milk was marketed as healthy to sell a byproduct that no one one wanted (full fat milk is actually officially a low fat food – under 5% fat)

  12. Lunchables were a long conspiracy by dairyleas parent company Mondelēz International to get us primed for charcuterie from a young age to sell more fancier cheese and crackers to adults long term.

  13. One in every 10,000 Lemsip packets contains a mild flu strain to keep the traditional Industrial Cold and Flu Complex in business.

  14. There is a decree in the Magna Carta which stated that Salt & Vinegar crisp packets should be green and Cheese & Onion, blue. To this day Walkers are the only company to adhere to this ancient snack rule.

  15. Longshore drift is actually people from the groyne industry shoveling at night.

  16. Greggs is solely owned by Gail Gregg, great granddaughter of the founder. Between Gail’s and Greggs her chokehold on the nation’s supply of sausage rolls has made her the richest woman on the planet.

  17. Just Eat is the cash generating business funding Just Stop Oil. They don’t want anyone to know because of all the mopeds and dodgy Eastern European diesel Audis being used to deliver McDonald’s.

  18. That there’s about to be a massive story about Cole Palmer (the footballer) come out in the news.

    I have three pieces of evidence:

    The “next generation” documentary on prime that he is in got delayed in being released – it was meant to come out on Saturday, then the trailer got removed from YouTube and it ended out being released on Tuesday.

    He mysteriously didn’t play for Chelsea at the weekend due to a non-descript muscle injury.

    He also has not officially pulled out of the current England squad despite this muscle injury with lots of media reports yesterday just saying he “is still being assessed by staff at Chelsea”.

    That’s all I’ve got. You heard it here first.

  19. The water companies brought attention to all the pollutions themselves so they could raise bills and get grants due to the back lash from the general public.

  20. Persistent squirrel botherer Chris Packham, is a Just Stop Oil agent planted to gather information for his handlers. Front and centre of most marches, he is the person least likely to be suspected as an under cover informant.

  21. Post boxes are actually very, very, very, very, very dark orange

  22. There are more roadworks than there used to be, and yet the state of the roads remain dire. I’m convinced a good portion of roadworks sites are scams arranged to keep the ‘workers’ being paid without actually doing any work.

  23. Just Stop Oil is a false flag operation to make environmentalists look insufferable.

    Oh wait, no, I’m pretty sure that one is real.

  24. Deodorants create the perfect breeding conditions for bacteria.

    By the time the scent has worn off, your armpits smell worse than if you had never applied any, thus, creating the need to apply more.

  25. Car/van rental business con you into giving them extra fuel.
    They do this by telling you fill it back to the level it was at when you collected the vehicle, which most people will overestimate to make sure it’s not too much lower.
    If they just asked you to brim the tank you’d be guaranteed to have replaced just the amount that you have used.

  26. I heard one the other day:

    The government doesn’t repair pot holes because they make money on the VAT from the cost of repairs to tyres and wheel.

  27. That traffic cones are left out because there is nowhere to store them. That’s why there’s miles of roadworks. Just glorified cone storage.

  28. Buried beneath Stonehenge is an intact Neolithic multi storey car park with the stones above ground being the remnants of the entrance.

  29. The 20mph in Wales was organised by Big Road Sign to get new signs put up. They are now trying to organise going back to 30mph for more money

  30. The vast majority of the British aristocracy, at least of old, must have been autistic. Who else needs countless books explaining precisely how to socialise, be polite and diplomatic etc all wrapped up in etiquette and comportment?
    Also, the gentleman natural philosophers and antiquarians. Smacks of special interest behaviour to me.

    It’s not a bad thing, as an autistic person I think it’s great, I swallowed a few etiquette books as a child and now I can blend in with society. Worst case, people assume I’m a bit posh and it’s not usually an issue.

  31. The Angel of the North is in fact a secret defence mecha-bot, but due to austerity is now and shall remain non-functional.

  32. The real reason Pringles tube lids fit EXACTLY on top of glass Gu pots is because in the event of war or invasion, middle class households can rummage through their recycling bins and fashion effective anti-personnel mines.

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