The conspiracy theory thread

deptfordmarmoset

I've no idea why there isn't one of these already.

Anyhow, after 3 punctures in 3 days within 3 miles of home, all from very small shards of glass, I'm beginning to suspect the local councils (or their suppliers) of bulking up their grit with roughly ground glass. Is this paranoia or cynical realism?

markwalker

nmot only that, but the pothole rpairers are all giving bungs to be told to use cheap materials so they can get contracted to do the job again in summer

mercurykev

I heard that the major grit suppliers are all owned by oil companies and subsidiaries of car manufacturers. It would make sense to include particulate glass of a size that improves car traction without damaging their tyres - although causing the tyres to wear prematurely, thus requiring drivers to replace their tyres more often because the tyre manufacturers must be part of this too - while at the same time wrecking bike tyres and tubes. This will cause cyclists to drive or take public transport and will ultimately cause some cyclist to give up all together and drive all the time. Anyway, that's what I heard.

Crapaud

The increase in punctures is caused by global warming. The rise of CO2 in the atmosphere means less CO2 in the inner tube. It's a law of nature that the CO2 will try to reach equilibrium. It's CO2 trying to get into the innertube that causes the puncture.

Potholes are caused and maintained by the Illuminati and David Icke.

deptfordmarmoset

Potholes are caused and maintained by the Illuminati and David Icke.

Much the same applies to all those unnecessary traffic lights that started taking over our cities around the millennium, though in this case it was the unofficial ''Red Light Lodge'' Freemasons who were responsible. Superfluous traffic halting devices serve the financial interests of council officials through backhanders, police lodge members with their extra crime statisticss for catching more red-light jumpers, but by far the biggest beneficiaries are the oil companies again - who make their money by keeping traffic consuming fuel while remaining stationary.

pneumatic

Worshippers at the first church of TopGear have infiltrated the Continental cycle tyre factory. Those butch looking German women in the advert are, in fact, middle aged petrol heads in drag. Their secret mission is to sew ground glass INSIDE the tubes so that the harder you pump them up, the more likely they are to puncture.

This is a FACT, told to me by one of the Royal Family's servants who was in the little blue car that killed Princess Di in Paris. What is more, John F Kennedy is still alive and living on the moon. That is why Obama has cancelled the next mission to rescue him. He is too embarassed to admit that the Democrats have lost his seat to the Republicans.

Walt Disney was a gay communist spy. Alex Ferguson is a time Lord (think about it!). Dan Brown is John the Baptist's wife reincarnated. The world will end on Wednesday at a quarter to three in the afternoon.

Frank the tank

Excuse me Pneumatic, to quote your answer to the "what will the world be like in thirty years" thread.


Posted Thu Feb 4, 2010 7:28 pm
Old people (i.e. my generation) will have gone back to living in huge communes and our behaviour will be more outrageous than ever.

Young people (the minority) will be diligent and oppressed by us and made to fund our filthy habits through a thinly-disguised but cleverly marketed form of slave labour (they will think that they have control)

Mwuhahahahaha!

Bring it on!

Now you rekon its all going to end at quarter to three on Wednesday.

Which is it to be, I want to know whether to go on a mad spending spree.

John C.

Wouldn't surprise me at all. There is a glass mountain. There is so much of the damned stuff they are trying all ways to get rid of it. I know a year or so back there was a trial to see if it could be used as an aggregate supplement in concrete.
So think about it, add it to gritting salt and it'll bulk it up, car and wagon tyres will grind it to dust and then disappear down drains and on the wind.

Anonymous

The bloke who sabotaged the Etape Caledonia (and got the charges dismissed) is the same bloke who is in charge of gritting, UK wide. Honest.

Wheelspinner

Well, out here at least we don't even HAVE grit machines on the roads, and yet the roads are still covered in glass.

We do have a high proportion of neanderthals in the population however who have been taught the correct way to dispose of the beer bottle you've drunk on the way home is to toss it onto the cycling lane. They get bonus points if they actually hit someone with it too.

Seriously though, the "paint" used to do lane markings really does contain glass, although it is *supposed* to be more like beads than anything with sharp edges. This is put in to make it much more reflective in headlights, and also give a bit more traction.

deptfordmarmoset

I think there should be more transparency in this glass business.

Anonymous

The glass industry has had some shattering exposes over the years...

northernneil

eeeerrrrmmm in all SERIOUSNESS there maybe something in this. Glass is now used in 'eco' building sand, which as companies try to become 'green' they use more and more and its becoming the norm. This type of sand is used to level things like blocked paving which people more often than not have when they replace worn out driveways.

Inevitably this sand gets washed into the road where rain and wind will shift away the lighter sand particles leaving the heavier glass particles in the road.

s'my theory anyway

John C.

northernneil wrote:

eeeerrrrmmm in all SERIOUSNESS there maybe something in this. Glass is now used in 'eco' building sand, which as companies try to become 'green' they use more and more and its becoming the norm. This type of sand is used to level things like blocked paving which people more often than not have when they replace worn out driveways.

Inevitably this sand gets washed into the road where rain and wind will shift away the lighter sand particles leaving the heavier glass particles in the road.

s'my theory anyway

It's got sod all to do with eco friendly. Gravel and sand are now taxed per tonne out of the ground, so any byproduct used as a replacement will make the product cheaper to produce.

Anonymous

Half the problem is that the roads aren't as many of you have already alluded, cleaned any more.

So all the residue is just left on the road - salt, glass, nails etc are all left to 'wear away' or be pushed off the road by auto magic - or by becoming embedded in tyres, etc. :x

pneumatic

Frank the tank wrote:

Excuse me Pneumatic, to quote your answer to the "what will the world be like in thirty years" thread.


Posted Thu Feb 4, 2010 7:28 pm
Old people (i.e. my generation) will have gone back to living in huge communes etc..

Now you rekon its all going to end at quarter to three on Wednesday.

Which is it to be, I want to know whether to go on a mad spending spree. [/quote
]

Good spot, silly me, David Icke said it would end on a Wednesday. So unreliable, these prophets! :roll:

passout

John C. wrote:

Wouldn't surprise me at all. There is a glass mountain. There is so much of the damned stuff they are trying all ways to get rid of it. I know a year or so back there was a trial to see if it could be used as an aggregate supplement in concrete.
So think about it, add it to gritting salt and it'll bulk it up, car and wagon tyres will grind it to dust and then disappear down drains and on the wind.

A glass mountain - that sounds really pretty.

teagar

It's a good job Mel Gibson doesn't post on this forum!

bagpusscp

As I understand it glass is actually used in all new road building.ie as a filler hard core mix.In recent years the glass industry has complained that many local councils are going for the cheap soluntion.Not seperating all the different colours is much eaiser.This happens now with most domestic blue bin collections.The local council is seen to make its goverment target.

dennisn

Does the bicycle tire industry REALLY want to prevent punctures????

Stewie Griffin

John C. wrote:

northernneil wrote:

eeeerrrrmmm in all SERIOUSNESS there maybe something in this. Glass is now used in 'eco' building sand, which as companies try to become 'green' they use more and more and its becoming the norm. This type of sand is used to level things like blocked paving which people more often than not have when they replace worn out driveways.

Inevitably this sand gets washed into the road where rain and wind will shift away the lighter sand particles leaving the heavier glass particles in the road.

s'my theory anyway

It's got sod all to do with eco friendly. Gravel and sand are now taxed per tonne out of the ground, so any byproduct used as a replacement will make the product cheaper to produce.

I was going to say that it cant be eco friendly or very cost effective to dig sand (silica) out of the ground turn it into glass to then use it as a sand substitute