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Title: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Ian Price on November 09, 2009, 03:56:09 PM
Did anybody watch this:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2719189/Medium-Derek-Acorah-I-talked-to-Michael-Jackson.html

Something tells me it's a load of b*****ks.
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: MrBump on November 09, 2009, 04:08:44 PM
Hmmm...

Didn't see it - I'm fairly open minded, but I suspect that if I had watched it I'd just have been cross for days...
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: TheIronBeast on November 09, 2009, 04:11:40 PM
I agree, a load of rubbish.
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Dmoney on November 09, 2009, 04:15:01 PM
I agree, a load of rubbish.

thats just ignorant
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: shobet on November 09, 2009, 04:20:36 PM
What am I thinking Derek?














Yes Derek, you're correct, you are a pile of steaming hot shitee and a word that starts with a 'cu' and ends with a 'nt'!
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Afghan Dave on November 09, 2009, 04:22:44 PM
This kinda sh1t makes me despair.... but I suppose villages need idiots.

Can humanity start moving forward again and leave witchcraft in the past?
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Philly Q on November 09, 2009, 04:23:29 PM
I agree, a load of rubbish.

thats just ignorant

It's an opinion, surely.  Why's that ignorance?

I didn't see it, but I did read that the tone of the programme was generally piss-taking.  Apparently within the first couple of minutes David Gest said "I believe in leprechauns, too".  I doubt he was being serious.
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: blue on November 09, 2009, 04:27:47 PM
it's all just ignorant, i'm not dead, i'm a little white boy  :harp:
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Dmoney on November 09, 2009, 04:31:39 PM
its just ignorant

lets climb the wishing tree shamoooooooan! ee heeeee!
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: TheIronBeast on November 09, 2009, 05:00:12 PM
I never said that to be ignorant, thats just my opinion. I don't believe in any sort of mediums, like "talking with the dead" etc.
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Dmoney on November 09, 2009, 05:04:53 PM
i was making a reference the program he did with martin bashir.
it was an attack, it was meant to be witty. just like blue's comment
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: blue on November 09, 2009, 05:08:27 PM
yep, didn't think of people not getting the south park reference either.

i didn't see the seance thing, and wouldn't watch it.  i find that all quite distasteful.  and yet i find the South Park episode about it hilarious!  :)
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Will on November 09, 2009, 05:13:02 PM
yep, didn't think of people not getting the south park reference either.


Patience! I got it :D
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Philly Q on November 09, 2009, 05:13:25 PM
Sorry dudes, didn't get the Martin Bashir/South Park reference at all - still don't get it, I must not have seen it or my old memory is letting me down again.
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Dmoney on November 09, 2009, 05:14:43 PM
ahh. basically every time bashir asks him a question like "have you had plastic surgery" he answers with "thats just ignorance" and southpark picked up on it.
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Lew on November 09, 2009, 05:14:47 PM
Why is there even a question mark over this? Clearly it's a load of bollox as is all supernatural shitee, if you've ever seen a ghost etc... you were either high or doing a Peter Green.
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Philly Q on November 09, 2009, 06:47:05 PM
ahh. basically every time bashir asks him a question like "have you had plastic surgery" he answers with "thats just ignorance" and southpark picked up on it.

Ahhhh..... it does ring a faint bell now you've explained it  :) .   I vaguely remember the Jacko programme, but don't think I saw the South Park episode.


Why is there even a question mark over this? Clearly it's a load of bollox as is all supernatural shiteee, if you've ever seen a ghost etc... you were either high or doing a Peter Green.

That's a tough one for me.  Basically I agree with you 100%.... but I've spent my entire life reading spooky stories and watching horror movies, and they still scare me.  I think deep-down there's a little bit of me that doesn't entirely disbelieve in these things.

So..... it may sound ridiculous, but I wouldn't stay overnight in a "haunted" house.  I wouldn't stand in front of a mirror and say "Candyman" five times.  And I wouldn't go to see a medium, even though I'm sure they're fraudsters.  I don't believe anything would happen - but why risk it?  :lol:
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Ian Price on November 09, 2009, 07:24:52 PM
I wouldn't stand in front of a mirror and say "Candyman" five times.

I've tried that. Nothing happened. I was disappointed and relieved at the same time.
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Afghan Dave on November 09, 2009, 07:42:04 PM
I wouldn't stand in front of a mirror and say "Candyman" five times.

I've tried that. Nothing happened. I was disappointed and relieved at the same time.

Try saying "Biggie Smalls" BEYATCH!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZAcXbHvSg
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Lew on November 09, 2009, 08:15:38 PM
ahh. basically every time bashir asks him a question like "have you had plastic surgery" he answers with "thats just ignorance" and southpark picked up on it.

Ahhhh..... it does ring a faint bell now you've explained it  :) .   I vaguely remember the Jacko programme, but don't think I saw the South Park episode.


Why is there even a question mark over this? Clearly it's a load of bollox as is all supernatural shiteeeeee, if you've ever seen a ghost etc... you were either high or doing a Peter Green.

That's a tough one for me.  Basically I agree with you 100%.... but I've spent my entire life reading spooky stories and watching horror movies, and they still scare me.  I think deep-down there's a little bit of me that doesn't entirely disbelieve in these things.

So..... it may sound ridiculous, but I wouldn't stay overnight in a "haunted" house.  I wouldn't stand in front of a mirror and say "Candyman" five times.  And I wouldn't go to see a medium, even though I'm sure they're fraudsters.  I don't believe anything would happen - but why risk it?  :lol:

I love scifi/horror books and movies!

My wife went to a medium thingy, like that Colin Fry geezer, (much to my disgust :p) and she was given a message from the other side :o It IS creepy how they can get so much info from you without knowing you but I'm certain it's all about reading the person and general statistics.

Alot of my family are practicing Christians too and I take great pleasure denouncing god and quoting Richard Dawkins around them  :lol:

Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Philly Q on November 09, 2009, 09:17:31 PM
My wife went to a medium thingy, like that Colin Fry geezer, (much to my disgust :p) and she was given a message from the other side :o It IS creepy how they can get so much info from you without knowing you but I'm certain it's all about reading the person and general statistics.

Colin Fry's hilarious.  "Is she in The Spirit?"  :lol:

I have several (mostly female) friends who've been to see mediums/psychics or whatever.  They always come back saying how amazing they were:  "She knew I was married", "She knew my father was dead" (might be the fact you're obviously over 60 yourself....). 

I'd like to go along and observe - I'm sure it's all just very generalised leading questions, then picking up on the answers, reading body language and making educated guesses. 

But again, if they came out with something they couldn't possibly just guess..... it would freak me out and possibly undermine my whole way of looking at the world.  :? :lol:
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Ian Price on November 09, 2009, 10:36:55 PM
But again, if they came out with something they couldn't possibly just guess..... it would freak me out and possibly undermine my whole way of looking at the world.  :? :lol:

Something like - "I'm getting a strong feeling of strats with one pickup and a volume pot". Would that be freaky enough?
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Philly Q on November 09, 2009, 10:50:22 PM
But again, if they came out with something they couldn't possibly just guess..... it would freak me out and possibly undermine my whole way of looking at the world.  :? :lol:

Something like - "I'm getting a strong feeling of strats with one pickup and a volume pot". Would that be freaky enough?

You mean my deep-down secret wish to be Edward Van Halen, which I've been covering up by slagging him off all these years?

Freaky, but freaky enough....?  Hmmmm.
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Ian Price on November 09, 2009, 10:58:43 PM
But again, if they came out with something they couldn't possibly just guess..... it would freak me out and possibly undermine my whole way of looking at the world.  :? :lol:

Something like - "I'm getting a strong feeling of strats with one pickup and a volume pot". Would that be freaky enough?

You mean my deep-down secret wish to be Edward Van Halen, which I've been covering up by slagging him off all these years?

Freaky, but freaky enough....?  Hmmmm.

 :lol: My memory isn't what it once was. For some reason I thought you idolised him.
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Philly Q on November 09, 2009, 11:01:32 PM
No, I can't stand the $%&#er.  :lol:

Leslie West, maybe.  So long as I didn't have to look like him.
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Lew on November 09, 2009, 11:10:31 PM
No, I can't stand the $%&#er.  :lol:


This is a whole new thread...  :o :o
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Philly Q on November 09, 2009, 11:41:25 PM
No, I can't stand the $%&#er.  :lol:


This is a whole new thread...  :o :o

Nah, it ain't worf it....

Suffice to say, I have no objection to his playing or music (well, on the first 7 albums, at least).  It's the utter bullsh!t he talks and his blatant profiteering I object to.
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Dmoney on November 10, 2009, 12:20:45 AM
i dislike how that guy still tries to bust out wacky stage jumps at his age. guy needs to change it up.

i got fat and stopped even thinking about jumping with guitars.

fat people jumping just looks retarded. add and guitar and its a ten times worse!

now imagine some pensioner* jumping around to the brown sound. really is just as bad.


*by pensioner i mean EVH. not everybody with a bus pass.
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: MrBump on November 11, 2009, 06:50:06 AM
Suffice to say, I have no objection to his playing or music (well, on the first 7 albums, at least).  It's the utter bullsh!t he talks and his blatant profiteering I object to.

PQ, if bullsh!t was a crime, this forum would have been shut down years ago...

;)
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Philly Q on November 11, 2009, 11:22:12 AM
Suffice to say, I have no objection to his playing or music (well, on the first 7 albums, at least).  It's the utter bullsh!t he talks and his blatant profiteering I object to.

PQ, if bullsh!t was a crime, this forum would have been shut down years ago...

;)

True, but this bollox we write only gets read by half a dozen people.

EVH is on YouTube tw@tting on about how he cured cancer and came up with every significant development in guitar equipment since 1978.

Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Prawnik on November 12, 2009, 10:24:52 AM
My wife went to a medium thingy, like that Colin Fry geezer, (much to my disgust :p) and she was given a message from the other side :o It IS creepy how they can get so much info from you without knowing you but I'm certain it's all about reading the person and general statistics.

Colin Fry's hilarious.  "Is she in The Spirit?"  :lol:

I have several (mostly female) friends who've been to see mediums/psychics or whatever.  They always come back saying how amazing they were:  "She knew I was married", "She knew my father was dead" (might be the fact you're obviously over 60 yourself....). 

I'd like to go along and observe - I'm sure it's all just very generalised leading questions, then picking up on the answers, reading body language and making educated guesses. 

But again, if they came out with something they couldn't possibly just guess..... it would freak me out and possibly undermine my whole way of looking at the world.  :? :lol:

Look up the art of "cold reading" and you too can the skillz to become a psycho psychic for fun and profit!
Title: Re: Derek Acorah/Michael Jackson
Post by: Johnny Mac on November 14, 2009, 11:37:54 PM
That Acorah bloke is insufferable but he has found another living out there like others entertaining TV addicted plebs, which isn't that hard to do these days. Turn off lights say I can feel an evil presence, feign fear, get the ex Blue Peter presenter to knock something on the floor and say "what was that?' and you have a new program.