Incredulous claims, ridiculed, then proven true...

[Oilchange]

Just reading through the '...reveal tenuous links to famous people' thread and it revealed the Barry Sheene/uncle to Scott Smart link.

Plenty of threads over the years of Walter Mitty types who made ridicluous claims that were patently untrue but are there any that actually turned out to be true? Would be interesting to know...

[Opapayer]

I thought everyone knew that about Scott Smart? His father was Pul Smart a very accomplished racer in his own right.

Back on topic, Copernicus had a wild idea that the Earth wasn’t the centre of the universe, the Sun was. Took nearly a century after his death to catch on.

[Oilchange]

That's a corker frankly...

[Johnspex]

I think you mean INCREDIBLE claims that left you INCREDULOUS.

[RSTurboPaul]

Is this not just the Covid 19 thread and the Conspiracy Theorists thread rolled into one?

[ComStrike]

PSLewis ?

[Warhavernet]

I'm sure Nostradamus predicted VHS would surpass Betamax.

[Super Sonic]

Trump for president.

[crofty1984]

That the world was run by a bunch of billionaire peados.

[Magnum 475]

crofty1984 said:

That the world was run by a bunch of billionaire peados.

That was one of the big conspiracy theories, right up there with Chemtrails and the COVID vaccines planting microchips in people.

Hmmmm,

[Lotobear]

Covid started in a GoF lab not a wet market

[ThingsBehindTheSun]

Showing my age here, but wasn't the original Custard created by a poster who was absolutely ripped apart because people thought he was lying about the cars he owned?

As it is clear this is going to be a thread for the old farts, I just wanted to post this.

Edited by ThingsBehindTheSun on Thursday 19th February 11:07

[borcy]

Who's Scott smart?

[Sheets Tabuer]

borcy said:

Who's Scott smart?

Doesn't he sell Cillit bang?

[ComStrike]

ThingsBehindTheSun said:

Showing my age here, but wasn't the original Custard created by a poster who was absolutely ripped apart because people thought he was lying about the cars he owned?

As it is clear this is going to be a thread for the old farts, I just wanted to post this.

Edited by ThingsBehindTheSun on Thursday 19th February 11:07

Ooofft ... his em .. Mum ..

[ApOrbital]

Auntie was it not?

[Sheets Tabuer]

ApOrbital said:

Auntie was it not?

It was an I remember thinking she was an old woman, now she looks like a whipper snapper.

[wibble cb]

A certain royal is not totally innocent ..

[MattOz]

ThingsBehindTheSun said:

Showing my age here, but wasn't the original Custard created by a poster who was absolutely ripped apart because people thought he was lying about the cars he owned?

It was indeed. And that person is/was 'Rathur', otherwise known as Neil Clifford....

[P-Jay]

I seem to remember a lot of people refused to believe their personal data was worth worrying about until the saw the sort of st Cambridge Analytica was up to.

Some people refuse to believe their smart phone is listening to everything around it, all the time, or what manufacturers and app makers can, and are doing with that information.