‘What’s your low stakes UK conspiracy theory?’ – 23 small but very intriguing and especially British mysteries

12.

‘Every thing you buy here, especially when it comes to skin care products, WILL cause some sort of issue so you have to buy other products from that same line.’
–Suspicious_Air2218

13.

‘All baked beans are exactly the same, produced by the same company. They just put different labels on the tins and vary the prices to make it look like capitalism is working.’
–afungalmirror

14.

‘Split tickets on the trains are cheaper to reduce delay repay payouts.’
–PM_ME_UR-DOGGO

15.

‘Somewhere on the M4 there’s a sign saying ‘works depot only’ and a single track going off to the middle of nowhere. This is where the Secret Nuclear Bunker is. I’ve been told this on two separate occasions by different people.’
–gummibear853

16.

‘Might not be UK specifically, and to be fair not even a conspiracy theory, more a genius marketing tactic. I go to Lidl to save £1 on a steak, then leave with a kayak, tool belt and a dog bed (haven’t got a dog, haven’t got any tools). The kayak is pretty cool though.’
–dontpunchthebaby

17.

‘There isn’t enough space in the local councils’ and Highways Agency’s (or whatever they’re called nowadays) storage depots to store all their traffic cones so they have to maintain 100s of miles of lane closures across the UK at all times, regardless of whether any actual roadworks are happening.’
–PaulSpangle

18.

‘Bin men are in cahoots with the people that make adhesive numbering stickers that you put on bins, and deliberately mix everyone’s bins up in order to boost sticker sales.’
–MarthaFarcuss

19.

‘Ryanair pilots turn on the ‘fasten seatbelt’ sign and pretend turbulence is coming up so the crew can sell raffle tickets.’
–graken12

20.

‘All Walkers crisps ‘special editions’ are just they’re chicken crisps in different packaging.’
–Glittering-Exam-8511

21.

‘Claudia Winkleman’s hair is a wig.’
–Poo_Poo_La_Foo

22.

‘I believe that post-Covid supermarket sandwiches have been undercooking the bacon used due to high energy prices!’
–_a_m_s_m

23.

‘Just Stop Oil are funded by the oil companies to piss people off against environmentalists

Edit: sorry that’s not low stakes, just the planet to lose.’
–daverb70

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