Hello again....

now i know you have all been waiting intensely for the result of the last post link game thing and while im sure you would all love me to tell you what it was exactly i think i'll just end the game here as i feel ultimately this game can only go in a downward direction from this point.... i'm kinda doin an Eric Cantona and finishing while its at its peak. I think its fair to say that there is only one winner in all of this and that it is the points master.... me! you see the game essentially had nothing to do with linking anything nor did it have anything to do with points..... i masterminded the whole damn thing before it even started with the aim something completely different to what i had you believe that it was and so involve you in something you would not have helped me to achieve in other circumstances other than for your own benefit...... Yes you may or may not have already guessed at this point i now hold the record for the most genuinely posted comments on a single post within the network of bloggers involved! by this i mean comments posted by yourself dont count and asking people to post a comment to aid you in breaking a record dont count neever!...... i win! and as the points were just a red herring you dont need to know how many points you all finished on and the reality is is that you were all just pawns being used to my benefit. I guess you could say you have all learned a valuable lesson about life and such as you could relate this to everyday situations and what not.

moving swiftly on.....

a convo i had with TheBum and others at the weekend stirred me into further research... you see i am a big fan of Derren Brown and i think some of the things he does are baffling and very interesting. i have read his book and watched all of his shows and although i agree and he explains himself that he is essentially a showman, what i believe to be true is that he is trying to explain to his audiences how illusions, hypnotism, psychology etc. all work in order to baffle you. He is also very passionate about frauds who claim magical powers. If he used actors or set-ups he would essentially be a fraud himself and after reading his book and watching him in live and pre-recorded shows i would be amazed if this was the case as he is very obviously passionate about psychology, his work and dedicates himself to what he does. I dont feel i am being naive to think this... i thought like others before seeing all of his shows but also reading his book where he explains what he is trying to do in depth. You see the structure of his programs is to lure you into his topic of trickery, using different types of tricks and such that are very different yet use the same principles, then he tells you how certain things are done. As a twist and to make his shows baffling he then goes on to do another more complex trick to make you think what the french connection UK! he does this to make you think outside the box as to how he did it.... the clue to how he did it comes from the explanation of the certain principles earlier on only it involves more complex ideas.

um that wasn't gonna be my point....... i somehow went into one... sorry! my point was gonna be about the news article TheBum read about Derren Brown admitting his russain roulette thing was a hoax. what has happened here (from what i can see from reading the article from the BBC and listening to what TheBum said) is a reporter has taken certain statements made from Jersey spokepeople and statements from the shows producers and taken things out of context and made it look like there was an admission from somewhere of a hoax. TheBum has read this and disregarded the clues that suggest this. (this ties in nicely with what Tobiwan and TehJayHawk harp on about in their blogs.)
What the Jersey police said to cover their own backs was that no live ammunition was used and no one was in any danger of being hurt. Ok they used blanks but you probably know blanks can still be extremely dangerous and can kill when fired at point blank range.... Derren was pulling the trigger with the thing pushed against his head. They said no one was in any danger of being hurt. this was not because it was a hoax, this was because 'after investigating into how the stunt was performed' they came to the conclusion that there was no risk. This means they found out how its done and realised its a tried and tested method of psychology used in many different forms by magicians all over the world. The man who loaded the gun was not an actor, the gun did have a blank loaded into it and Derren Brown new the trick would work and so had no problem pulling the trigger against his own head. Just because mistakes happen and this was potentially something very stupid to perform... NEARLY live on TV... in case something did go wrong..... doesn't mean it was a hoax! How did Harry Houdini die again?
oh and another version of the trick in a different format is magicians use polystyrene cups with fuck off great big nail which a member of the audience placed under one... the magician then slams his hand down on the cups one by one leaving the nailed one till the end. Use the internet and you will find footage of it going wrong in one case the magician used a member of the audiences hand and held her wrist slammed her hand on the wrong cup and as you can imagine his act stopped short.
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