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Uri Geller is amazing...
Uri fuckin Geller.... This guy has become some famous celebrity because he reckons he can bend spoons. People go and watch Uri Geller shows. Talk show guys get him on to talk about his trciks because people obviously give a shit. Fucking hell. I cant believe it.
what's really funny about him is that for years he claimed not to be an illusionist or magician but to actually possess these amazing spoon-specific psychic powers. He seemed to actually believe it himself too which was evidence enough for some. When was filmed "cheating" (i.e. quickly bending the spoons off camera using classic misdirection and slight of hand) he persisted for a while insisting that he really did have these powers before eventually caving and admitting that yes, he is just an illusionist too. Weird dude.
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Don't forget he took Michael Jackson to St James' Park - Exeter City FC
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http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/al_seckel_says_our_brains_are_mis_wired.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/keith_barry_does_brain_magic.html
i'm with teddy on this matter.
dude these are great! thanks!
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The fact that he's successfully hiding his ever growing bald patch is his greatest achievement.
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WAC god he is the scariest man alive
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christ that was shit. his stuff has really gone down hill.
he's turning into everything he set out to expose. explain how he did it my fat arse. how is anyone with two brain cells supposed to buy in to any of that irrelevent distracing waffle about "the wisdom of crowds", automatic writing and averaging out random guesses to arrive the correct random guess for a random event?
he's taking the piss out of gullible idiots, holding them up to ridicule by anyone with the most basic understanding of logic and probabilty and not even going anywhere near explaining anything as claimed.
i was dearly hoping there was going to a twist in the last few minutes where he showed that entire thing was a switch/sleight of hand whatever, but he carried on perpetuating the pretence that it was a preditcion which it wasn't. it was a trick. i want the trick explained not the a false explanation of how you tricked stupid people into thinking it was done.
i know i claimed in an earlier post that the entertainment was in being amazed/baffled etc etc but that was pure fucking irritation. i used to really like this guy but that was utter pointless cockwash.
and btw even i can tell you that if you ask a superstitious idiot to stamp on 19 out of 20 cups cos one's got a knife under it he's going to struggle to go though with number 13.
twat.
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um dooks, i don't mean to insult you or anything, but maths can do some pretty fucked up things. like, i can't remember exactly the context (anyone with a maths degree here?) but, things such as bank account deposits (for businesses), the prices of things in shops, things like that, do not have an average of leading numbers, they follow a set pattern. totally unrelated things and things that you would expect to be random are not.
kind of ruins my point that i can't remember what this is called. to google!
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Surely Dooks if you *really *believed he was going to give away his method then you were the one being gullible? I mean, if you'll believe the recent Wedding Present is better than the old one.....
hehe he said he was going to and he has previously had a "shocking" denoument where he's revealed that the successful seance or whatever was all just bollocks and the dead girl was a researcher sat outside. this time he finished the programme with the conceit still intact. annoying.
and i never said take fountain was better that george best! i LOVE geroge best. i just said i didn't get on with seamonsters... AND THEN PUT IT ON!
so NERRRRR WILL!
and velo libre, great argument dude. sorry, yeah you're right. i forgot it's all maths innit.
p.s. sorry i'm getting drunk, sarcastic and argumentative. time to log off.
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That's about engagement and showmanship. He's given people a nice long time to concoct convoluted theories and ideas about how he has done this trick or cheated the audience. The thing is, none of you know for sure. Had he turned the balls at the time, that would have eliminated a swathe of possibilities. By opening up more variables he's got a stack of people all proclaiming that they know how they did it offering some plausible, but mostly ridiculous, theories on how this was done. It's all fuel to the fire of publicity, making it far more likely that you are going to watch the revalation show. Ultimately this means that he can command a far higher fee from the telly because of the higher potential ratings on the follow up show. But more importantly for him, I suspect, is that he can garner greater interest in his next spectacle.
Of course you could stick to him and not watch the revelation show, but I suspect the only thing worse than knowing that it was all so incredibly simple and easily done would be not knowing at all.