Time travelling plumber...

[Big Les]

Wow. This nutcase (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBUv4j3DINE)thinks he's travelled through time. Wonder if he's going to be involved in the "project" referenced by Randi in his commentary (http://www.randi.org/jr/2007-03/031607bowl.html) recently?

This is his website: www.ingentrormig.nu

As to the phonecam footage; so many holes and discrepancies. To me, the tattoo on the older guy looks larger than his, and no more faded. Why didn't he film something "futurey"? Or something with a date? Or, you know, both; a computer (of teh futur) with a clock?

Lying git.

[Azrael 5]

I can't get a signal on my mobile phone in my front room never mind in the future!! What contract package has he got?!
Come to think of it,what kind of kitchen cupboard/closet has he got!!

Time travelling plumber...hmmm...fix leaks before they happen?! :)

[Azrael 5]

Edit:

He told me some of the stuff that will happen, but not so much. And I promised not to tell anyone.

How very convienient!

[Goshawk]

His website is all in...Norwegian? Google won't translate Norwegian/English yet. :(

[Azrael 5]

You can tell he didn't think this through.So many more things would convince.

[Fnord]

His website is all in...Norwegian? Google won't translate Norwegian/English yet.

On the right-hand side of the page, about halfway down, is a link entitled "In English." Click on that, and you'll see the following:


This is my story.

It all happened on the afternoon the 30th OF August. It which A beutiful day and I which on my way home from A job in Faerjestaden. When I got home, I found water on the kitchen floor. Somehow there which A leak. I got my tools and opened UP the doors ton the sink. And started tons work.

When I reached in ton examine the pipes, they seemed tons more futher in than I remembered. I had tons crawl inside the cabinet, and as I did so, I discovered that it just continued. Thus I kept on crawling and into the cabinet. Into the end to OF the tunnels I saw A light, and when I got there, I realized I which into the future. I meet myself as 72 years old, the year which 2042. I did A plumb bob OF test on him ton lake if he which really ME. And the strand thing is that he knew everything about ME. Where I hid my secret stuff when I which in roofridge of degrees, and what the score which into the soccer match against Vaexjoe Norra into the buzzers OF -88th He knew it all.

Incoming goods even had the same tatoo, although he's which A would suffer faded. He told ME some OF the stuff that wants to happen, but emergency so much. And I promised emergency ton tell anyone. I larva A film with my mobile phone. Unfortunately the quality is emergency the best. But it's what I have got. Actually I dont'care if people thinks I at the A more lier. I know I'm emergency. I met myself into the future, and I which fine. That's all I know.

But if it happened tons of ME it probably must have happened ton someone else.

/Håkan Nordkvist

[Hitch]

I like the "expert" that throws out a bunch of technobabble like "twin paradox" that has nothing to do with the event described.

[Skeptic Guy]

It's amazing the quality of video he gets from his mobile phone.

[LawnOven]

It's amazing the quality of video he gets from his mobile phone.


that's because it's from... the future! (queue theremin).

[LawnOven]

have the mario brothers ever traveled through time?

[zombiebex]

I can't get a signal on my mobile phone in my front room never mind in the future!! What contract package has he got?!
Come to think of it,what kind of kitchen cupboard/closet has he got!!

Time travelling plumber...hmmm...fix leaks before they happen?! :)

Perhaps not, but I think he battles future-turtles by jumping on them, eats magical future-mushrooms that make him grow larger, and discovers that the future-princess is in another future-castle.

[Kilgore Trout]

What the video seems to fail to show are the numerous cleaning solutions kept in open containers under the sink.

[Azrael 5]

Time travel from under the sink is sooo last year!
The garden shed is where it's at now. :)

[Azrael 5]

It's amazing the quality of video he gets from his mobile phone.

On a point of logic(ahem)if he really had gone to the future would his SIM card still be functional on the phone?
I mean,wouldn't they all use telepathy and store video on chips in their heads?! :p

[Fnord]

On a point of logic(ahem)if he really had gone to the future would his SIM card still be functional on the phone?
I mean,wouldn't they all use telepathy and store video on chips in their heads?! :p

Not necessarily. The wetware/hardware interface issue was/is/will be solved by my as-yet unborn grandson in the year 2047. While this has/does/will simulate telepathy, the actual medium of transfer was/is/will be ordinary radio waves, and using ordinary (albeit nano-) technology.

The really scary part? This research was/is/will be funded by President Chelsea Clinton in her third term of office!

[Pup]

At another forum where this was discussed, and darn it, I can't find it now, a poster from Sweden said that there's a series of ads on TV there now, about people from the future coming back in time to advise themselves about whatever product is being advertised. The poster suggested this might be an outtake, unnused ad, or something from that series. Does that ring a bell with anyone?

[Azrael 5]

At another forum where this was discussed, and darn it, I can't find it now, a poster from Sweden said that there's a series of ads on TV there now, about people from the future coming back in time to advise themselves about whatever product is being advertised. The poster suggested this might be an outtake, unnused ad, or something from that series. Does that ring a bell with anyone?

This is mentioned on the YouTube replies,mayeb they got the idea from it?

[Orangutan]

http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF213-Mario_Too.jpg

[treble_head]

have the mario brothers ever traveled through time?

Yes they have.

http://forums.randi.org/imagehosting/44214612bfcd59496.jpg


and by the way, Chester, what are you doing here, dude? You're supposed to be in the back packaging Precious Roy Hooker Monkeys!

[Dr. Lao]

I already read this thread next week and boy does it get good.

[skoob]

At another forum where this was discussed, and darn it, I can't find it now, a poster from Sweden said that there's a series of ads on TV there now, about people from the future coming back in time to advise themselves about whatever product is being advertised. The poster suggested this might be an outtake, unnused ad, or something from that series. Does that ring a bell with anyone?Bingo. The company that ran those ads is AMF Pension (http://www.amfpension.se/templates/Page.aspx?id=9447), a company that deals with pensions. I'm sure it's a pure coincidence that the blog features a banner from AMF Pension and the tagline of the blog is "This log was made possible by AMF Pension".

Actually, I believe that in the ads (just as in this guy's story), the featured people travelled to the future to meet their future self, to see what a wonderful and meaningful life their future self had -- thanks to the money their present self had saved.

[Ripley Twenty-Nine]

Wow. This is funny.

I wrote almost this exact story, word for word, when I was in Grade 4. I still have the book here; I should post a page of it for a laugh.

And I don't even claim that I was particularly creative in Grade 4.. Instead, I think it shows that this guy has the imagination of a small child.

[CLD]

It's amazing the quality of video he gets from his mobile phone.

Yeah, that was a big red flag for me. The lens flare shows multiple optic planes, something cell phone cameras don't have, but broadcast video cameras do.

[Azrael 5]

I suppose looking at it,surely if he was trying to be credible he wouldn't have travelled in time via the sink cupboard!
Also the video set against the afternoon sun is a well used ad concept."The passing of time"

I'm dissapointed.Not a nutter after all!

[treble_head]

wow. it took you guys this long to realize it was viral marketing?

did you also think that http://www.subservientchicken.com/ was a real guy in a costume who'd do stuff for you? :)

[Big Les]

Apparently, more than this long. Is it really viral marketing? I will feel very silly indeed if it is.

And I see no reason to bring subservientchicken into this; he works hard all day for us, and how do you repay him? You make light of his efforts. The youth of today, honestly.

[treble_head]

Apparently, more than this long. Is it really viral marketing? I will feel very silly indeed if it is.


Prepare to feel silly. His blog is hosted by a company called AMF pension (https://www.amfpension.se/templates/FreeFormPage.aspx?id=8183). The "documentary" was made by a company called Machine films (http://www.machinefilms.se/). Their website is run by... AMF Pension. (https://www.amfpension.se) Click anywhere on the Machine Films site, except for button to play the movie and what do you get linked to? Yeah. AMF Pension's site (https://www.amfpension.se).


Also, here's a TV commercial from Sweden in which a woman goes through a wormhole in time and meets her future self. Guess who the commercial is for? :D

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[vIQleS]

I can't get a signal on my mobile phone in my front room never mind in the future!! What contract package has he got?!
Come to think of it,what kind of kitchen cupboard/closet has he got!!

Time travelling plumber...hmmm...fix leaks before they happen?! :)

No - they can only travel into the future. That's how they can say they'll be there at 5 o'clock, and not show up until 10.

[CLD]

It's an extremely clever viral marketing piece. It had me fooled for a few minutes when I first read the description. I figured he went under the sink, whacked his head, sniffed some cleaning solvents, and had a lucid dream. If they'd left out the "cell phone video" (uneccessary embellishment, IMO) we might still be speculating.

[Ripley Twenty-Nine]

Prepare to feel silly. His blog is hosted by a company called AMF pension (https://www.amfpension.se/templates/FreeFormPage.aspx?id=8183). The "documentary" was made by a company called Machine films (http://www.machinefilms.se/). Their website is run by... AMF Pension. (https://www.amfpension.se) Click anywhere on the Machine Films site, except for button to play the movie and what do you get linked to? Yeah. AMF Pension's site (https://www.amfpension.se).


Also, here's a TV commercial from Sweden in which a woman goes through a wormhole in time and meets her future self. Guess who the commercial is for? :D

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On the bright side, I'm suing AMF Pension for stealing my storyline.

Prior art, b*tches! Woohoo!

[Spektator]

Actually, I like the idea of a time-traveling plumber. "I'm here to fix the leak in your pipes."

"I don't have a leak in my pipes!"

"Five...four...three...two..."

[Ex-drone]

Here's the part of the film that got cut off:

And then my future self said to me, "Hakan, whatever you do, don't appear in that damn time-travel documentary. It'll make you look stupid, someone will post it on YouTube, and you'll never live down the humiliation."

[Big Les]

Prepare to feel silly. His blog is hosted by a company called AMF pension (https://www.amfpension.se/templates/FreeFormPage.aspx?id=8183). The "documentary" was made by a company called Machine films (http://www.machinefilms.se/). Their website is run by... AMF Pension. (https://www.amfpension.se) Click anywhere on the Machine Films site, except for button to play the movie and what do you get linked to? Yeah. AMF Pension's site (https://www.amfpension.se).


Also, here's a TV commercial from Sweden in which a woman goes through a wormhole in time and meets her future self. Guess who the commercial is for? :D

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OK, I am officially a skep-tard. :( I feel like Chris French on Shirley Ghostman.

Interesting to consider how well this sort of viral marketing works though; there must be a fair few dumbasses like me out there who out of a sense of a
offended pride will now never buy any of their products. :blush:

[asmodean]

His website is all in...Norwegian? Google won't translate Norwegian/English yet. :(

Swedish I'd wager (haven't checked) since he talked about working on Öland (isle of eastern coast of Sweden). Lived on the main land close to Öland (Kalmar, the other end of the bridge connecting land and the main land).


To get somewhat OT: one of the more common jokes/prejudices against Ölänningar is that they're supposedly really stupid. So either the prejudice is true, and this guy shows how, or it's false and it's all a clever joke, or a con. :)

[asmodean]

At another forum where this was discussed, and darn it, I can't find it now, a poster from Sweden said that there's a series of ads on TV there now, about people from the future coming back in time to advise themselves about whatever product is being advertised. The poster suggested this might be an outtake, unnused ad, or something from that series. Does that ring a bell with anyone?

Yes. An insurance company advertising their pension funds thingamajjig used that. Peopel travelled to the future, met themselves as senior citizens, and got to see how fine and dansdy everythign was since they had chosen to invest their pension in just *that* company.

[treble_head]

To get somewhat OT: one of the more common jokes/prejudices against Ölänningar is that they're supposedly really stupid. So either the prejudice is true, and this guy shows how, or it's false and it's all a clever joke, or a con. :)
Seriously. It's a viral marketing program. Why are we still arguing this? That just seems weird.

[asmodean]

Seriously. It's a viral marketing program. Why are we still arguing this? That just seems weird.

Yeah, I noticed that ater posting. Ofc, I could've gone back and edited my post, or emptied them, but that'd be a bit dishonest I think. :)

In any case, 'twas an off-shoot of the AMF commersial. Nice to know.

[Ripley Twenty-Nine]

Interesting to consider how well this sort of viral marketing works though; there must be a fair few dumbasses like me out there who out of a sense of a
offended pride will now never buy any of their products. :blush:
I agree with you, but I would not buy products from a viral marketing campaign because it seems so dishonest; kind of like slipping products into your favourite sitcom and incorporating it into the plot.

I would guess that marketers have done the calculations though.
# Enticed by Viral Marketing Campaign - # Turned off by Viral Marketing Campaign = PROFIT!