The Iceland eruption is gonna cause worldwide FAMINE!!! OMG!

[Odin2005]

According to some DUers! :rofl:

[onager]

1. I know this is tiresome and repetitious...

...but DU sure is getting weird. Along with the woos and my-pet-issue cranks, we seem to have been invaded by a bunch of very literal-minded and humorless dweebs.

Or maybe I'm just hanging out in R/T too much...

:evilgrin:

[laconicsax]

2. I wouldn't say invaded.

They've always been here. They're just getting louder.

[realisticphish]

3. yeah

it was this way back in 04, but it was a much quieter buzz.

But it is MUCH louder now. A lot of irrationality and kneejerk reactions. Not just in terms of science and tech, but in just common discourse.

[Odin2005]

5. Don't you remember all the conspiracy BS after the Indian Ocean Tsunami?

OMG, BUSH CAUSED THE EARTHQUAKE!!!!11!1!

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Twas always thus - the Sept 11 forum has been here for a long, long time

And I can remember things like the 2004 pre-election "they're going to set off nukes in Minneapolis" madness. And we've always had "I know Bush will cancel all elections because they've just raised the terrorist color chart level" threads too.

[realisticphish]

8. the sad thing is

for all that people criticize what freepers/teabaggers say conspiracy-wise, we've said it all about Bush as well. Were we more justified? Maybe, maybe not.

People really thought they were going to detonate nukes in minneapolis? I had just gotten here in mid 2004, so apparently I missed some good stuff

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Oh yeah - some con artist in Canada spun a story about 'red mercury' bombs

and there were rumours flung around DU about unmarked white trucks and some armory in the Twin Cities area - there were several threads, but the first couple here are typical:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x924780

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x23813

and, a few years later:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x228068

[realisticphish]

10. wow

just, wow

[TZ]

4. Well just think

Two years ago there would have been multiple posts about how all this volcanic activity is caused by the Bush family (there is one poster who still tries that though)

[sybylla]

6. Empty your trading accounts!!!1! The market is going to crash!!!!

It probably will eventually, simply because my horoscope says I will die penniless (real stretch there), but there's no need to go all chicken little on this.

[trotsky]

11. It's just the Earth getting revenge on us...

for raping the moon. We deserve it.