Embarassing psychometry display.

[Azrael 5]

I uploaded this as it was so painfully cringeworthy.A psychic medium(is there any other kind)gives a brief history of her powers and then fails to produce,whilst Chris French tries not to laugh!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s6aoH9p5NM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s6aoH9p5NM)

[John Jackson]

That was a great display of psychic ability. :D

The cold reading was textbook and she still got just about everything wrong!!

[wahrheit]

"...at the age of four, when you met your North American Indian spirit guide". ROFL

I'm still watching, but it can't get much sillier than this. Why is it always those cool, mystic American Indians that must serve as some bored housewife's spirit guide in her made up fantasy world?

Edit: LOL, the host just asked the same question. Never mind...

[DJM]

Azrael 5, you always upload the coolest videos! ;)

[Azrael 5]

Azrael 5, you always upload the coolest videos! ;)

Get a room!! :D

It amused me when the presenter mentioned invisible friends.Whats with the Indian Spirit guides?! Aren't they the best?! :p

Edit:wahrheit basically just covered this!

[DJM]

The funniest thing is when the psychic said that she wants to choose box C because it has been staring her in the face.. of course, it's right infront of her eyes!!

:blush:

[Azrael 5]

The funniest thing is when the psychic said that she wants to choose box C because it has been staring her in the face.. of course, it's right infront of her eyes!!

:blush:

Don't you just love it!! :p

[FramerDave]

"Most Christian names do begin with a capital letter."

Classic.

"The number seven...it could be a date, could be the seventh month, could be a dress size, an address..."

Let's see... each month has a 7th, seventeenth and twenty-seventh. Then the entire month of July. Under that reasoning any day of the year has about a one in six chance of having some meaning.

Oh, my birthday is the eighth.

See, one day after the seventh! Hit!

[Baron Samedi]

"Most Christian names do begin with a capital letter."

Classic.

"The number seven...it could be a date, could be the seventh month, could be a dress size, an address..."

Let's see... each month has a 7th, seventeenth and twenty-seventh. Then the entire month of July. Under that reasoning any day of the year has about a one in six chance of having some meaning.

Oh, my birthday is the eighth.

See, one day after the seventh! Hit!

Heh. But not only that, but a 'date'... could be a birthday, an anniversary, a special date to that one person, a memorable occurance, or something that she just has to pay attention to in the future. Or it could be the 4th of July in the US, or St. Patrick's Day where everybody is drunk off their butts from Guinness. It could be an address, either yours or your neighbour's or a family member's or your work address or where you were as a kid, and it could be the first digit or a last digit or a middle digit. I just love how it's up to the other person to think back and decide IF the 7 is important, and if not, to be on the lookout for a 7 that WILL BE important.

[Big Les]

I *love* Philip Schofield's sidelong "WTF" look at the camera when she's burbling on about travel. Classic. In fact, you get the distinct impression that neither he nor Fern Britton really believe any of it (though Britton obviously feels bad for the woman); whereas Richard and Judy would have lapped it up.

[Azrael 5]

True Big Les.Although as is typical of these shows skepticism gets barely a look in.
Mia Dolan was on the show today,should have recorded that too,dunno if its nutter week.But she was just as rubbish;talking about seeing people's auras-from a photograph!!

Her happy clappy website
http://www.pauline-morgan.co.uk/about.htm

From therehas become a fully qualified crystal healer

How's that work?

[Ersby]

I want to know more about Blakey Resda!

[Jackalgirl]

Hmmm...the first mark's a partygoer (sorry, couldn't watch all the way through). She wears bangles every day...ya think that might be evidence of an outgoing type?

Not sure how to debunk the "guided" bit (although I can't imagine that many people would willingly describe themselves as will-o-the-winds; most people, I imagine, upon being told that they were "guided", would think of parents, teachers, etc) and being a "snap" decision maker (I would certainly DISagree with that, were it applied to me). But I do imagine that alot of people probably would like to think that they're snap decision makers, so I think that kind of a prediction is comfortably vague enough to not really prove anything.

Nice comments about the hosts' reactions, Big Les -- excellent stuff. And I thought it was really great how they set up the test so that although the cameras could see the mark, the "psychic" couldn't, so she wasn't getting any feedback (although, for true testing persons, the mark should not have been a member of the crew). Good stuff.

I also agree that the invisible friends/spirit guides stuff was pretty funny. When I was a really little kid, I got my hands on a copy of "Barlow's Guide to Extraterrestrials" and though the Overlords were the coolest aliens ever. I promptly had an imaginary friend who was an Overlord, for many years. Looked exactly like the alien in Barlow's book. This was my "spiritual guide"? Please.

[John Jackson]

In fact, you get the distinct impression that neither he nor Fern Britton really believe any of it (though Britton obviously feels bad for the woman)


I was recently emailed by someone who stated that Fern Britton said that she believes in fairies in a woman's magazine.

Impressions can be wrong Les. ;)

[Hitch]

I was recently emailed by someone who stated that Fern Britton said that she believes in fairies in a woman's magazine.

Impressions can be wrong Les. ;)

Not as much of a contradiction as it should be.

I know an otherwise intelligent young woman who believes in ghost hunters and EVP, but thinks Bigfoot is a bunch a silly nonsense. Woos get to pick and choose their delusions, just like everyone else.

So, believing in fairies doesn't mean you have to accept psychics.

[John Jackson]

So, believing in fairies doesn't mean you have to accept psychics.


My mistake.:o

Believing in fairies means that you're rational in other areas.

Hey, fairies are real but watch out for those fake psychics!! :D

Good point. :rolleyes:

[Big Les]

Yes, perhaps I'm being a little too kind; I don't want to co-opt those two TV performing monkeys for "the cause". But for a man that spent ten years talking to a hand puppet (http://www.the-broom-cupboard.co.uk/page2.html), 'ol Phil seemed pretty damned sceptical (or just cynical perhaps).

Maybe Fern is a selective sceptic, but I'm not sure I want to watch any more of This Morning and Ready Steady Cook in order to try to find out!