Friday night.

[Talk Talk]

Who are Derren Brown and David Blaine?

I don't watch television, obviously. That's for people who believe in illusions...

[Simon Pieman]

Derren Brown is a psychological illusionist who has done some very meh stuff, but on the whole some very clever and fascinating things.

This is one of my favourites:

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-2428437236878343763#

[flammableBen]

Who are Derren Brown and David Blaine?

I don't watch television, obviously. That's for people who believe in illusions...

They do magic tricks. Derren Brown's thing is making a show of explaining how he did it - but that's often part of the trick, or in this case a rather amusing "ha ha you plonkers" at the audience.

You're right not to watch these sort of things though Talk Talk, it's just a way of subduing the masses to stop them sticking up for their rights as individuals. Clearly your fantastically superior judgement on such matters comes from your mind being unsullied from the evil biased subliminal views that such shows beam into everybody's heads.

[Talk Talk]

You're right not to watch these sort of things though Talk Talk, it's just a way of subduing the masses to stop them sticking up for their rights as individuals. Clearly your fantastically superior judgement on such matters comes from your mind being unsullied from the evil biased subliminal views that such shows beam into everybody's heads.

You speaketh the truth, young flammable.

All television is depression and fantasy that keeps you away from using your brain to understand what is really going on. And deliberately so. The opium of the masses. Ho hum.

[Batch]

Derren Brown's 'explanation' was bollocks. The End

Complete and utter bollocks. Worst thing I have seen him do.

Normally his explanations are quite believable and/or entertaining, but with this trick there is no getting over the fact predicting randomness like the lottery draw is impossible. Or he got lucky on a 14million to 1 shot

The evidence of the split camera trick seems pretty irrefutable, best illustration I have seen is here

http://poeljames.googlepages.com/HowDerrenDidIt.html

[flammableBen]

 

You speaketh the truth, young flammable.

All television is depression and fantasy that keeps you away from using your brain to understand what is really going on. And deliberately so. The opium of the masses. Ho hum.

Whilst television may be the opium of the masses, libertarian internet blogs are the stimulants of the idiots.

[Talk Talk]

Whilst television may be the opium of the masses, libertarian internet blogs are the stimulants of the idiots.

Nurrrrggggg...why are libertarians idiots? Why should anyone who believes in a particular political (or philosophical) ideal be an idiot?

Crap post Ben, you are better than that.

[Batch]

All television is depression and fantasy that keeps you away from using your brain to understand what is really going on.

I can see you are a Jeremy Kyle fan.

[Talk Talk]

I can see you are a Jeremy Kyle fan.

 

Who is Jeremy Kyle?

[Batch]

Who is Jeremy Kyle?

All you need to know is that it is daytime TV. You don't want to know more, trust me.

[Hammer]

Whilst television may be the opium of the masses, libertarian internet blogs are the stimulants of the idiots.

  Hmmm. So what are we to think of those who spend their spare time feeding ducks and tickling aeroplanes ?

[flammableBen]

  Hmmm. So what are we to think of those who spend their spare time feeding ducks and tickling aeroplanes ?

Unrealised geniuses.

[Hammer]

Unrealised geniuses.

  There could be a lot of truth in that. Not unrealised at all.

[Hammer]

Unrealised geniuses.

[Hammer]

Unrealised geniuses.