James Randi has died

Yadda · 25 Oct 2020 at 09:09

NVP said:
Do I have some mind openers for you
*Snip*

No thanks mate - not if it softens me up to nonsense the likes of Sheldrake peddle.

NVP · 25 Oct 2020 at 09:16

an open mind is limitless

Felon · 25 Oct 2020 at 09:35

When you've got some kid going around bending spoons on TV claiming to have supernatural powers, then Randi speaks to the show's producer and simply 'advises' that you should provide all the props and not let Uri Gellar interfere with them beforehand. That's not sabotage at all it's just common sense.

NVP · 25 Oct 2020 at 10:59

Doesn't really sound that innocent:

SexyGreyFox said:
Another was Uri Geller, everywhere Geller went Randi followed him and did all Gellers tricks by showing people it was just magic - nobody cared.
He even sat across from Geller and because Randi had changed his props slightly, Geller couldn't do his tricks.

Yadda · 25 Oct 2020 at 11:02

NVP said:
an open mind is limitless

Did your cornflakes tell you that after your wake & bake?

NVP · 25 Oct 2020 at 11:12

Your wife did after you refused :eek:

413x · 25 Oct 2020 at 11:20

It's sad I know who uri gellar was but not this giy

Thanks for enlightening me gd.

Rip

Yadda · 25 Oct 2020 at 11:21

NVP said:
Your wife did after you refused

Err, that wasn't my wife, it was your bowl of breakfast cereal.

NVP · 25 Oct 2020 at 11:22

Haha thought I didn't recognise the taste

Yadda · 25 Oct 2020 at 11:25

NVP said:
Haha thought I didn't recognise the taste

Lol, I'd throw it away now if I were you. You're not meant to stir it like that.

Gray2233 · 25 Oct 2020 at 11:27

NVP said:
Haha thought I didn't recognise the taste

The saltiest milk you've ever tasted?

NVP · 25 Oct 2020 at 11:32

Yadda said:
Lol, I'd throw it away now if I were you. You're not meant to stir it like that.

(Hahaha what is this gif?!)

SexyGreyFox · 25 Oct 2020 at 12:25

TurtleTwo said:
Who?

Aren't you clever, even my 6 year old niece can use Google.

SexyGreyFox · 25 Oct 2020 at 12:31

NVP said:
Doesn't really sound that innocent:

Of course it wasn't innocent, Randi was serious.
I really don't get your moral compass that it's OK for people like Geller to con people.
Do you live your life with this same compass, it's OK for Tradesmen to con people and so on?

NVP · 25 Oct 2020 at 13:08

For people like Gellar, as a form of entertainment, yeh no problem with it at all.

I'm also ok with the Indian guy in short circuit being played by a white guy.

Gray2233 said:
The saltiest milk you've ever tasted?

Definitely afterwards

Yadda · 25 Oct 2020 at 14:22

NVP, I'd consider someone like Alex Jones (the angry American chap, not the Welsh One Show beaut

) to be a modern-day Geller equivalent.

What do you think of him and what he does?

NVP · 25 Oct 2020 at 15:12

dirtychinchilla · 25 Oct 2020 at 15:35

I think Uri Geller has a bit more brain functionality than Alex Jones

Yadda · 25 Oct 2020 at 16:31

@NVP it's me - we've already been over that.

Bloody stoners...

dirtychinchilla said:
I think Uri Geller has a bit more brain functionality than Alex Jones

Yes, without a doubt. There a stark similarities though: they both peddle BS and hop back and forth over the line between seriousness and entertainment when it suits them.

SexyGreyFox · 25 Oct 2020 at 17:28

Yadda said:
There a stark similarities though: they both peddle BS

However the believers of Uri Geller only watch him doing magic tricks making a claim he's an Alien where Alex Jones believers could be harmed by the stuff he spouts.