Idiots Complain About Séance

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-06-03 12:37pm

BBC News

Derren Brown, the dude that played live Russian roulette and is an actual psychological illusionist worth his salt unlike that poxy David Blaine, held a show that I missed the best part of on Monday. It was basically your typical dozen people in a room with a ouija board and watching videos on supposed dead people and seeing if they answer in the spooky place they died (an abandoned hospital in the outskirts of London I believe).

Because the human race is so saturated in mythical lore, some people actually believe this shit like some Pagans, Christians and those that inhabit mental asylums and it seems to have pissed them off.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2004-06-03 12:45pm

The Bit where he showed the participents themselves atcually throwing around things , instead of the "ghosts" that they belived in was priceless!

700 complaints is incredible though, althouth most of them were sent before the show was even broadcast

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-06-03 12:51pm

I may have missed everything bar the last 15-minutes, but when I saw that "dead girl" in that TV van outside the hospital and recalled the shocked blokes and girls in that room, I just laughed heartily.

I remember trying such a board out on the first floor of a double-decker bus coming home from school years back. When I told my mum she went ape.

I love the way he just dispels such mythos like that. There's probably a load of gullible people who think ghosts exist and have nothing better to do than play word games with bored living people.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2004-06-03 12:57pm

My mum, once told me of the weired things that happened to people she knew, when they played with the boards in the 60's, she told me about how one girl who was doing that smoking (Cannibis), she had a seuance with a few freinds, they sopposedly contacted someone... and the day after the Girl died in a car accident.

Thats why she really didnt want me to see it on Monday, but i still did, and boy am i glad, i needed a laugh after PoA!

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2004-06-03 01:09pm

Say what you want about how "psychology" isn't proper science, Derren sure does put it to entertaining effect.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-06-03 01:15pm

Rye wrote:Say what you want about how "psychology" isn't proper science, Derren sure does put it to entertaining effect.

Fuckin' A!

Did you see those pussies take it all as if it was actually real? I love the guy for making them look fools, because as you know, even if ghosts existed, they'd happily spend all their time playing instant messenger with fleshies.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2004-06-03 01:29pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:
Rye wrote:Say what you want about how "psychology" isn't proper science, Derren sure does put it to entertaining effect.
Fuckin' A!

Did you see those pussies take it all as if it was actually real? I love the guy for making them look fools, because as you know, even if ghosts existed, they'd happily spend all their time playing instant messenger with fleshies.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-06-03 02:18pm

There's a nice ruckus going on over at SB.com with this very subject too.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2004-06-03 03:51pm

Rye wrote:Say what you want about how "psychology" isn't proper science, Derren sure does put it to entertaining effect.

Psychology is an art, and this guy sounds like one hell of an artist.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-06-03 03:55pm

http://kier.3dfrontier.com/forums/showt ... hp?t=66308

Check out the second page, it has some of the stuff he has done in his latest series for Channel 4. The guy is a master, a Jedi master as some say.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2004-06-03 03:59pm

I watched it and it was classic. I guessed the trick of getting everyone to pick Jane in the photoes, and when he had the DVD of her home movies i got an idea that she was alive as i was thinking "who had a home video camera in the '70's?"

I would have loved to have seen their faces when he walked Jane into the room.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-06-03 04:06pm

2000AD wrote:I watched it and it was classic. I guessed the trick of getting everyone to pick Jane in the photoes, and when he had the DVD of her home movies i got an idea that she was alive as i was thinking "who had a home video camera in the '70's?"

I would have loved to have seen their faces when he walked Jane into the room.

Pity the show cut-off at that point, but I bet it was hilarious seeing their faces.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2004-06-03 04:50pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:
2000AD wrote:I watched it and it was classic. I guessed the trick of getting everyone to pick Jane in the photoes, and when he had the DVD of her home movies i got an idea that she was alive as i was thinking "who had a home video camera in the '70's?"

I would have loved to have seen their faces when he walked Jane into the room.
Pity the show cut-off at that point, but I bet it was hilarious seeing their faces.

The funniest bit was the religious guy doing some chanting in Latin during the actual seance.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-06-04 03:41am

"one of the most complained about shows in history."?

What, more than Brass Eye?
I guess people really don't like being shown up as idiots, do they?

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2004-06-04 06:28pm

InnerBrat wrote:"one of the most complained about shows in history."?

What, more than Brass Eye?
I guess people really don't like being shown up as idiots, do they?

According to my brother, it was the third most complained about program, after Brass Eye at #1 and whatever #2 was.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2004-06-04 06:33pm

Rye wrote:
InnerBrat wrote:"one of the most complained about shows in history."?

What, more than Brass Eye?
I guess people really don't like being shown up as idiots, do they?
According to my brother, it was the third most complained about program, after Brass Eye at #1 and whatever #2 was.

What was Brass Eye about?

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-06-04 06:36pm

Enigma wrote:
Rye wrote:
InnerBrat wrote:"one of the most complained about shows in history."?

What, more than Brass Eye?
I guess people really don't like being shown up as idiots, do they?
According to my brother, it was the third most complained about program, after Brass Eye at #1 and whatever #2 was.
What was Brass Eye about?

Twas likely the paedophilia episode. Basically, think a satirical news programme dealing in various topics. The paedophile one was amazingly true to life, but dogged by complaints, likely because people are stupid and don't like being shown they are on TV.

I watched the episode in a general studies class at college once and I can't say I have laughed harder much since.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2004-06-04 06:47pm

Enigma wrote:
Rye wrote:
InnerBrat wrote:"one of the most complained about shows in history."?

What, more than Brass Eye?
I guess people really don't like being shown up as idiots, do they?
According to my brother, it was the third most complained about program, after Brass Eye at #1 and whatever #2 was.
What was Brass Eye about?

Brass Eye is a parody news program with humour ranging from political jabbing to utter surreality, one episode was about Paedophilia, and it generally satirised the media's witch-hunt ethos towards it all. But since it was about paedophiles, the media went crazy (sort of proving the point) as did the public.

A funny part was right near the start, when Chris Morris had 2 kids in filing-cabinet drawers, and he said "goodnight children." and shut them in the filing cabinet. "I know where my children are tonight, do you?" and there were anti peadophile cannisters for children to wear, so should parents lose sight of their children, they could trigger the cannisters to release 2 tons of compressed raw sewage to make the child "unappealing to a paedophile" and it showed CCTV footage of a paedophile disguised as a school and other random shit.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-06-04 07:19pm

Don't forget the celebrities condemning the software that allows paedos to feel your child through the monitor of the computer. Some people are thick as shit.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2004-06-04 07:31pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Don't forget the celebrities condemning the software that allows paedos to feel your child through the monitor of the computer. Some people are thick as shit.

They must've known it was bollocks, I mean, there's no way you could say a child in canada has become almost entirely 2d without knowing something was up.

Unless you're referring to the people who complained.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-06-04 07:43pm

Rye wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote:Don't forget the celebrities condemning the software that allows paedos to feel your child through the monitor of the computer. Some people are thick as shit.
They must've known it was bollocks, I mean, there's no way you could say a child in canada has become almost entirely 2d without knowing something was up.

Unless you're referring to the people who complained.

No, the celebs.

"If someone offers you Cake, shove it back in their face and tell them to fuck off!"

Damn that was hilarious. A new drug called "Cake", s'yeah, right. Best satire programme in years.