This guy is currently over here in good ol' Britain performing a stunt where he's trapped in a clear perspex box high over the river Thames for 44 days and nights. Without food, any stimulation or proper contact with the outside world, that is.
He seems to be getting a lot of flak from the British public. They've pelted his box with eggs and golf balls, fired laser pen lights at his eyes, tormented him with burgers and one guy even tried to cut off his water supply.
Now, does he normally get this kind of treatment, or are we Brits just cynical and sadistic?
What do you say?
He's lucky some wacko doesn't pull out a rifle and take a few shots at him!
I wonder what he does in that box...
Does he just sit there jerking off to porno mags, coating the inner walls with steaming dong malt or what?
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No America loves the douchebag, Reed. I can't stand him and his whole "check me out I'm Jesus" Aura. The guy does some spiffy tricks it's just that damn ego of his. I think you Brits have the right attitude about him.
I was in London last week and I saw David Blaine. I have a photo of him hanging in his box. What an imbecile he is.
Somebody cut the cable, please.
I really don't give a damn about David Blaine. Encasing yourself in ice is an amazing feat of meditation, but it ain't magic. His latest stunt is purely inane performance art (but that's being redunant). Still, just ignore him, that's what he wants the least.
So much for European sophistication.
So much for European sophistication.
Maybe it's just dry Bristish humour of some sort I don't quite get
Brits are just unwilling to suffer fools gladly, especially if they're so desperate for publicity or notoriety they are willing to expose themselves to the public. What did he expect? Why repeat the stunt he performed in New York? Over there, Americans cheer him for starving himself for months in a transparent container. What a berk. Over here: sausage barrages, golf balls, tit-flashing, organised adjacent barbeques and picnics, a radio-control helicopter dangling burgers. What we have is an old form of medieval punishment being unconsciously reinacted -abolished in 1837- called The Pillory. This was a bit like the stocks, but people would throw things (including hard things) as well as taunt the pinned prisoner. One of the offences included cheating at cards.
Ah, there are so many annoying celebrities I'd like to see pilloried. It warms my heart when one is stupid enough to do it to himself.
Chrisb said:
Over here: sausage barrages, golf balls, tit-flashing, organised adjacent barbeques and picnics, a radio-control helicopter dangling burgers.
Man, I would do it just to get some British tit flashing, one goal in lmy life is to sleep with a British girl. That would ROCK!
AndyC wrote:
> Ah, there are so many annoying celebrities I'd like to see
> pilloried. It warms my heart when one is stupid enough to do it
> to himself.
>
Man, Carrot Top, Mr. T, the possibilities never end, who the hell outlawed pollories anyways
Ummmmmmmm...
I forgot what I was gonna say!
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I dont know man, I think hes way beyond the getting with chicks part now.
i'm still waiting for the hurricane winds to pitch in...
>What a berk.
Would that be a reference to a TV show? Never seen it but I've played the games. Weird...
I dont know man, I think hes way beyond the getting with chicks part now.
30 days without a shower....I don't think he's going to be getting any chicks soon and if he does, I wouldn't want to meet those chicks
i know his demeanor is irritating, like he drank a bottle of wine and a swallowed a bottle of xanax...
but he does do some pretty crazy stuff. ever see that episode where he did the levitation? scary stuff...
I learned how to do his levitation trick when I was 6 by watching "Lamb Chop's play-a-long".
You stand on the front of one foot and angle it so the audience doesn't see it. Lean forward, waver in the air, and come down HARD to make it look impressive. Blaine films the audiences REACTION to this trick, then he hooks himself up to a levitation harness with an electronic motor. The camera films him and the arm of a crewmember who just happens to wear a jacket similar to the audience member's. Then they edit the footage together for TV.
That is not a magic trick, Mr. Blaine. That is a camera trick, and a poor one at that. You want magic, a saw a guy levitate his assistant on a BEACH. Out in the open. No stage, no curtain, the camera never cuts away, it's the sort of thing that requires real skill!
------ooo-'U'-ooo------Kilroy was here.