There are some amazing ones about but maybe you have your own slant on things. Divulge.
2007-03-14 22:23:38 · 14 answers · asked by neil c 3 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
Nike bought France the 1998 world cup.
Fact: Until 1998, the French kit had been made by Addidas for years. Then Nike started doing it.
Fact: Until France reached the closing stages, the French population had not really gone for the whole merchandise thing, like proper football fans. This was commented on in the press at the time - the tournament and it's main sponsors looked set to make a massive loss.
Fact: The only teams in France's half of the draw with any pedigree were an under par Italy (who were only beaten in extra time after some extrememly questionable refereeing) and the worst German outfit in decades.
Fact: The teams in the other half of the draw with any chance of winning were all Nike sponsored teams, too - with the exception of England (and nobody thinks it's odd when England go out to a dubious sending off and a disallowed goal - because we always get stuff like that and Beckham carried the can). You can rely on the Dutch to shoot themselves in the foot at some point - which left the highly incorruptable Argentinians and Brazillians.
A special court tribunal was held in Brazil to try and get to the bottom of the whole Ronaldo fit saga and the subsequent pathetic show by the Brazillian team that had looked capable of beating pretty much anyone else with a 2 goal handicap until the final... and even that didn't get any real answers....
But the sales of Nike France shirts went through the roof.
Even if Zidane was as good as his over-inflated reputation, the rest of the team wasn't all that good - they had Barthez in goal, for Christ's sake!
2007-03-14 22:42:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favourite (and the most tragic) is that the US government were behind the 9/11 attacks as an excuse to go to war with the MIddle east for the oil.
The thoery goes that the hijackers accused of the attacks were not competent enough pilots (according to their insturctors) to navigate their way from the path they were on reading the instruments to turn the flights around and head on a direct course to New York. etc etc, its long and theres lots more but thats the one I find most ridiculous
conspiracy theories are great because they cannot be disproven, all you need is a little bit of shakey evidence to back you up and youre away!!
2007-03-15 05:41:14 · answer #2 · answered by Paul O 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well...I would not say it is really my own...I mean....a lot of people have the same conspiracy theory...but I strongly believe that the Americans have never landed on the moon...
Nobody has been on the lunar surface so far and all those videos that they gave us were just a load of rubbish...probably shot in some Hollywood studio!!!
2007-03-15 05:32:45 · answer #3 · answered by MARCO 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Many were given Hep C in infected NHS blood transfusions going right back to the 60s,the Govt seeks to cover up the fact we are sitting on a timb bomb.
2007-03-15 12:51:20 · answer #4 · answered by leopardshaz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Calling something a conspiracy theory is another way of making the truth lose it's credibility.
2007-03-15 05:27:54 · answer #5 · answered by Barbara Doll to you 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The biggest, the Moon landings.
Still big...
9/11
Elvis alive
Princess Diana murdered.
2007-03-15 05:31:21 · answer #6 · answered by dsclimb1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That there is a government department that starts conspiracy theories to make opponents look stupid.
2007-03-15 05:31:48 · answer #7 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These are my favourite British ones:
Princess Diana is not dead, she eloped with Dodi Fayed - and is alive and well in Egypt!
Robert Maxwell, is not dead either! His body was only seen by one spanish fisherman, and he and his sons are living off the proceeds of the embezzled pension funds.
Don't get me started on Shergar and Elvis......
2007-03-15 05:32:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
one of my many conspiracy theory is about aids i stubbornly believe that this is one of the pharmaceutical experience gone wrong but this one is a big one because as always they've rested it on a vulnerable population and now this thing is bigger than a nuclear bomb while changing human original and sacred behavior towards sex.
2007-03-15 05:52:49 · answer #9 · answered by justine e 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
did you know that microsoft owns part of apple in order to keep them from going out of bussiness?
this way they avoid getting split up by the government for being a monopoly.
2007-03-15 05:27:30 · answer #10 · answered by kitty is ANGRY!™ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋