Post by sophie on Jul 4, 2006 7:38:03 GMT
now, until last night i was starting to believe. THEN came Mr simon peters. i cannot believe how transparant he is. he used obvious tricks, of which i will point out in a moment. okay first of all i am 21, female and i dragged along my 21 year old boyfriend, and i mean dragged. He hates this stuff and reckons its a load of crap, but he came as i needed someone to go with and i know how to make him feel guilty, ahem. Anyway so it gets to before 9.30 and simon peters has worked through the what should have been 15 minute break. I see him looking at myself and my boyfriend (jaimie) for ages and im thinking "s*it" and look sheepishly in the other direction when he says
"can i talk to the gentleman at the back"
im silently laughing to myself thinking "yes, now i'll show you jaimie" because in my mind, if jaimie was going to get a message it could only be one person, his grandad whom he was very close to and died of bowel cancer about 5 years ago. But no...here comes the obvious tricks
now, jaimie is 21 year old and male, not his typical audience member, so simon thinks to himself, right, hes young, hes male obviously he wont have lost many people in his life, but hes young and male so the only reason he must be here is because he wants to here from a friend...and what do young adults do? drive too fast when they get a car, so what does simon come up with?
simon - "im getting a young lad, about 18, a friend of yours, hes saying it was suicide, but he doesnt think you will understand this"
jaimie - "no - doesnt ring any bells"
simon - "no, thats why i say he doesnt think you will understand, hes saying it was 'like' suicide, it was a car accident but it was suicidal in the way it happened, it was stupid, suicidle, with the greatest respect can i ask how old you are?"
jaimie - "21"
simon - "yes im wanting to go back three years, to when you would have been 18, someone you knew, like a cousin, something to do with a cousin"
jaimie - "my cousin did have a car accident a little while back"
me - "yeah but matthew isnt dead, jaimie."
simon - "yes but hes saying 'he's not dead"
(lol, just repeated what he heard me say)
simon - "there were three others in the car"
jaimie - "i dont know what your talking about"
simon - "im getting an S - like a girlfriend, like its his girlfriend he wants you to pass the message on to...sue...sueeee.....susan...do you understand this?"
jaimie - "the only sue i know is a rabbit we used to have"
(room laughs - as does an increasingly nervous simon peters)
simon - "no, this is a person though"
(at this point there is more too it to pad it out but i cant remember alot of the fillers he added on, like talking to himself and umming and arring.)
then he says this
"this rabbit you had, was it white?"
jaimie - "no, it was a black, loppy eared one."
(sophie - obvious audible laugh at his badness)
simon - "well im getting a huge big white rabbit, it must be his rabbit, he wants you to know hes with it"
jaimie - "errr.......right"
(even his attempt to identify what colour jaimies rabbit was went badly wrong so he attempted to pass it off as someone elses rabbit...no. how transparant, he tried to make a guess and it went wrong, otherwise if jaimie hadnt mentioned the rabbit earlier, simon wouldnt have mentioned a rabbit at all - another obvious trick with this was going on about how this rabbit was talking to him attempting to make the audience laugh to take the pressure off him and divert their attention to something other than how wrong he was.)
he ends with "have you had prblems with your neck"
jaimie - "yeah i have" (lucky guess) but then again jaimie did say later - well i had to give the guy that one didnt i, he was struggling.
simon then ends the show half an hour early saying yes well i think we have all had healing to night (refering to jaimies neck being the only correct thing he guessed.
jaimie legged it out of there laughing his head off.
now, my ploy didnt work, jaimie is certainly no believer and quite frankly i cant say i am from this charade, i wish i had stayed now after wards and told simon how he had just shattered my whole belief system. ah well, the things you think of saying afterwards.
he hasnt asked his mum or cousin yet about any of it but im sure he would know if someone had died, even if it was one of his cousins friends (they are close) he would have told jaimie about it at the time.
im just off to post this in my usual place of derek acorah forum in the sceptic bit to see what they think...it will probably get removed like.
yes Jon i have been converted.
"can i talk to the gentleman at the back"
im silently laughing to myself thinking "yes, now i'll show you jaimie" because in my mind, if jaimie was going to get a message it could only be one person, his grandad whom he was very close to and died of bowel cancer about 5 years ago. But no...here comes the obvious tricks
now, jaimie is 21 year old and male, not his typical audience member, so simon thinks to himself, right, hes young, hes male obviously he wont have lost many people in his life, but hes young and male so the only reason he must be here is because he wants to here from a friend...and what do young adults do? drive too fast when they get a car, so what does simon come up with?
simon - "im getting a young lad, about 18, a friend of yours, hes saying it was suicide, but he doesnt think you will understand this"
jaimie - "no - doesnt ring any bells"
simon - "no, thats why i say he doesnt think you will understand, hes saying it was 'like' suicide, it was a car accident but it was suicidal in the way it happened, it was stupid, suicidle, with the greatest respect can i ask how old you are?"
jaimie - "21"
simon - "yes im wanting to go back three years, to when you would have been 18, someone you knew, like a cousin, something to do with a cousin"
jaimie - "my cousin did have a car accident a little while back"
me - "yeah but matthew isnt dead, jaimie."
simon - "yes but hes saying 'he's not dead"
(lol, just repeated what he heard me say)
simon - "there were three others in the car"
jaimie - "i dont know what your talking about"
simon - "im getting an S - like a girlfriend, like its his girlfriend he wants you to pass the message on to...sue...sueeee.....susan...do you understand this?"
jaimie - "the only sue i know is a rabbit we used to have"
(room laughs - as does an increasingly nervous simon peters)
simon - "no, this is a person though"
(at this point there is more too it to pad it out but i cant remember alot of the fillers he added on, like talking to himself and umming and arring.)
then he says this
"this rabbit you had, was it white?"
jaimie - "no, it was a black, loppy eared one."
(sophie - obvious audible laugh at his badness)
simon - "well im getting a huge big white rabbit, it must be his rabbit, he wants you to know hes with it"
jaimie - "errr.......right"
(even his attempt to identify what colour jaimies rabbit was went badly wrong so he attempted to pass it off as someone elses rabbit...no. how transparant, he tried to make a guess and it went wrong, otherwise if jaimie hadnt mentioned the rabbit earlier, simon wouldnt have mentioned a rabbit at all - another obvious trick with this was going on about how this rabbit was talking to him attempting to make the audience laugh to take the pressure off him and divert their attention to something other than how wrong he was.)
he ends with "have you had prblems with your neck"
jaimie - "yeah i have" (lucky guess) but then again jaimie did say later - well i had to give the guy that one didnt i, he was struggling.
simon then ends the show half an hour early saying yes well i think we have all had healing to night (refering to jaimies neck being the only correct thing he guessed.
jaimie legged it out of there laughing his head off.
now, my ploy didnt work, jaimie is certainly no believer and quite frankly i cant say i am from this charade, i wish i had stayed now after wards and told simon how he had just shattered my whole belief system. ah well, the things you think of saying afterwards.
he hasnt asked his mum or cousin yet about any of it but im sure he would know if someone had died, even if it was one of his cousins friends (they are close) he would have told jaimie about it at the time.
im just off to post this in my usual place of derek acorah forum in the sceptic bit to see what they think...it will probably get removed like.
yes Jon i have been converted.
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