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"Derren Brown"

His new series was on tonight. He was as amazing as usual. If you haven't heard of him, he calls himself a "phscological illusionist", and plays tricks with people's minds to make them do things and say the things he wants them to.
He can also "read" peoples minds. He just analyses their facial expressions and reactions to his questions he asks them.
Tonights epsiode was the start of a new 6 part series, following on from 3 stand-alone hour long shows he did in 2000, 2001 and 2002.
Tonight, he managed to convince three medical students they were suffering from toothache, made one of their hands go numb and got them to sick a hyperdermic through it, guessed 9/10 times in a row which hand (left or right) a crowd of people would randomly choose and in a segment from his last show made an advertising duo make an advert for an imaginary company.. exactly as he had drawn.. using painstakingly prepared subliminal messaging.
Definately worth watching next week. 10.30 Fridays Ch4.

I think he's cool. He doesn't confess to be a psycic but he did study psycology (Well it is Monday...don't expect me to spell correctly just yet), for 8 years or something where he is able to pick up on even the slightest thing that another person does. I think he goes to show how much of a con artist others are in a similar business who do claim to be psycic, and are actually just doing the same thing as him.

Look at www.channel4.com

the darron brown section is brillient, he predicts people's mind set to figure out what they are thinging.

If you're interested, definitly check it out.

The 'hand' experiment was a perfect example of the man's talent. A simple twitch of the hand and you can predict another 9 or 10 choices.

I saw this last night and was really impressed. I know its not real psychic control, but it is clever. Oh and the thing with the advertisers, as soon as I saw the zoo gates I knew that their whole taxi drive would be a subliminal set-up for the task. Still very clever though :o)

And he still says he isn't a physcik (how do you spell the word?), and he isn't, which is cool. What i'm trying to say is, if you could do all of these things, wouldn't you say that you could read people's minds? The needle thing was pretty cool, but no blood? Surely putting a needle through your skin would make you bleed, but it was still really cool. I liked the shape and colour thing at the begining, but the hand thing was the best. Not because of what he done, but because of the things he said. "Right, that's right because you want to brake the alternating pattern". And what he done to the guy that tricked him was amazing, although i would have chosen the hand Derren did, mainly because you knew the guy would try to trick him, and go with the hand no one else had for ages.

Muddatrucker wrote:
> But there's no way of proving this.
>
> And why quote me when my post was right below yours?

I can quote what I damn well want to.

But there's no way of proving this.

And why quote me when my post was right below yours?

Muddatrucker wrote:
> I think he's a faker personally.
>
> Although the one where he nicked money from that greyhound place was
> cool :D

How can he fake those things he does? It's not like David Balne which uses actors.

I think he's a faker personally.

Although the one where he nicked money from that greyhound place was cool :D

Dunno where that 9 came from, dam gremlins.