Uri Geller

[Ian Price]

Just reading up on Gellar, mainly due to the demise of Michael Jackson. I always knew Gellar was, and still is, a total c*ck but this confirms it - he's talking about the dissapearance of Helga Falkas, a Hungarian model, and how he had predicted she wold be found alive and well:

"On Helga Farkas he actually says ‘please can we now move on from the case of kidnapped Hungarian model Helga Farkas, which I was paid to investigate. Yes, I predicted she would be found alive and well. And yes, they may think they are countering this by pointing out that she was murdered by her captors. But it is a matter of interpretation. Why do they restrict readings to this astral plane? Was she not alive and well in another dimension?"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2006/nov/25/2

What a complete t*sser.

[ailean]

I hate the guy, but I guess I have to give him some credit for balls to spout such cr@p in the media, it much take some effort to say that and keep a straight face. 10/10 for the acting, 0/10 for the material.

[MDV]

I despise con men like this.

Sure, most people know enough to ignore them and if everyone did they'd just be harmless wackos, but what about Helga falkas parents and the false hope this arse gave them? What about the thousands of others? What about when its "alternative" medicine (i.e. if it were really medicine it would just be "medicine") and people that put faith in it to the exclusion of real treatment? Liars. Gets my $%&#ing goat.

[indysmith]

To be fair though, it's probably better for everyone if the sort of people that believe this hocus pocus nonsense take hocus pocus medicines and die.

[Ian Price]

To be fair though, it's probably better for everyone if the sort of people that believe this hocus pocus nonsense take hocus pocus medicines and die.

I would rather it was the people who peddled it who died. There are plenty of insecure people who buy into this sort of nonsense and either turn into absolute wrecks, lose lots of money or die as a result (or all three).

[Philly Q]

On Helga Farkas he actually says "please can we now move on from the case of kidnapped Hungarian model Helga Farkas, which I was paid to investigate. Yes, I predicted she would be found alive and well. And yes, they may think they are countering this by pointing out that she was murdered by her captors. But it is a matter of interpretation. Why do they restrict readings to this astral plane? Was she not alive and well in another dimension?"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2006/nov/25/2

What a complete t*sser.

I don't want to spoil the thread, but Uri Geller didn't write that.  "A peek at the diary of... " is a pisstake, written by Marina Hyde.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/series/apeekatthediaryof

He is a tosser though.    :lol:

[ailean]

On Helga Farkas he actually says "please can we now move on from the case of kidnapped Hungarian model Helga Farkas, which I was paid to investigate. Yes, I predicted she would be found alive and well. And yes, they may think they are countering this by pointing out that she was murdered by her captors. But it is a matter of interpretation. Why do they restrict readings to this astral plane? Was she not alive and well in another dimension?"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2006/nov/25/2

What a complete t*sser.

I don't want to spoil the thread, but Uri Geller didn't write that.  "A peek at the diary of... " is a pisstake, written by Marina Hyde.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/series/apeekatthediaryof

He is a tosser though.    :lol:

Thread spoiler! I was just feeling the hate...   :D

[38thBeatle]

I know him quite well. I'll have to show him this thread.

[Ian Price]

I don't want to spoil the thread, but Uri Geller didn't write that.  "A peek at the diary of... " is a pisstake, written by Marina Hyde.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/series/apeekatthediaryof

He is a tosser though.    :lol:

Whoops! Maybe he's not as bad as I thought. I think I will run any new threads past Philly in future!

[Roobubba]

I know him quite well. I'll have to show him this thread.

No need, he already knew about its existence, even before it was started.

Whatever happened to David Ike?

[Ian Price]

No need, he already knew about its existence, even before it was started.

 :lol:

[gwEm]

its my opinon that the mystic/spirtual side of his act is hype for some eleborate stage magic. i don't think hes a tosser, but a performer working on creating some mythology around himself.

[nfe]

its my opinon that the mystic/spirtual side of his act is hype for some eleborate stage magic. i don't think hes a tosser, but a performer working on creating some mythology around himself.

Anyone who parades around the idea that the supernatural exists in order to get away with some parlour tricks to fleece people out of money is a total bastard.

He's not as bad as US televangelists and TV mediums, but he's a bastard nonetheless.

[gwEm]

its my opinon that the mystic/spirtual side of his act is hype for some eleborate stage magic. i don't think hes a tosser, but a performer working on creating some mythology around himself.

Anyone who parades around the idea that the supernatural exists in order to get away with some parlour tricks to fleece people out of money is a total bastard.

He's not as bad as US televangelists and TV mediums, but he's a bastard nonetheless.

maybe in the 70s and 80s  the idea of bending spoons with supernatural forces seemed plausible, i have my doubts though... today its clearly an act, like many other magicians.

[Philly Q]

maybe in the 70s and 80s  the idea of bending spoons with supernatural forces seemed plausible, i have my doubts though... today its clearly an act, like many other magicians.

For those of us old enough to remember ( :( ), he was hugely famous for a while in the '70s.  He was always on the TV, and everybody would be sitting there ready with a pile of cutlery!

A friend of mine's kid brother (called Aidan Kinsella) got on the front page of the South Wales Evening Post because he could do spoon-bending.  I don't know if he was consciously cheating, he can't have been more than 7 or 8 at the time.