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6 Most Humiliating Public Failures by Celebrity Psychics
« on: September 08, 2013, 01:54:55 am »
The good people at Cracked have compiled a list of amusing public failures by famous "psychics".

http://www.cracked.com/article_20566_the-6-most-humiliating-public-failures-by-celebrity-psychics.html

My personal favourite:

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#5. Psychics Channel the Ghost of a Fake Person

A British television entertainer wanted to test the abilities of three psychics, inviting them to an abandoned chocolate factory to try to summon the spirit of its long-deceased owner. Amazingly, the psychics were all able to channel the ghost of the man -- an American named George Bull -- and provide a startlingly accurate account of his life on the spot. He had managed the factory in the late 1800s. Angry, aggressive, and generally the opposite of Willy Wonka, Bull got himself killed on the job when he caused a team of delivery horses to panic and trample him.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4qGfNViVN8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4qGfNViVN8</a>

That's incredible information the psychics were able to glean just from speaking to the spirit, especially considering that Bull never existed and his story was completely made up on the spot.

In preparation for the show, the producers had planted fake information about George Bull on the chocolate factory's website and hung a fake photograph of him in the foyer. Even though they were told nothing about the story beforehand, the mediums still managed to channel a guy named George who got trampled by horses -- in other words, they revealed that they possessed the amazing power to do a basic Google search.

I'm surprised that none of Sylvia Browne's numerous false predictions made the list, particularly when her accuracy rate is actually lower than what one would expect from random chance, but it's a good read nonetheless.
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Re: 6 Most Humiliating Public Failures by Celebrity Psychics
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2013, 06:09:51 am »
The fake accent that woman put on in the "semi-trance" had me rolling with laughter. Always a good day when these dummies get exposed.

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Re: 6 Most Humiliating Public Failures by Celebrity Psychics
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2013, 11:21:30 am »
CALL ME NAO FER YER FREE READIN'!

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« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2013, 11:46:16 am »
CALL ME NAO FER YER FREE READIN'!

Oh Miss Cleo, what happened to you?

... seriously though, what happened to her? her commercials always gave me a laugh.
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Re: 6 Most Humiliating Public Failures by Celebrity Psychics
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2013, 11:49:17 am »
She got charged with fraud by the feds. lmfao

Sorry for this being so off topic so soon.

As for the article, I really do find myself suspicious of tv psychics who seem to know everything about a place even tho they claim to know nothing (Jon Snow). I would be that dick who would trip up all the psychics visiting my alleged haunted house.

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« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2013, 11:54:47 am »
She got charged with fraud by the feds. lmfao

Sorry for this being so off topic so soon.

As for the article, I really do find myself suspicious of tv psychics who seem to know everything about a place even tho they claim to know nothing (Jon Snow). I would be that dick who would trip up all the psychics visiting my alleged haunted house.

And I'd be right there with you messing with them for my 'ancestral home'.
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« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2013, 01:27:33 pm »
She got charged with fraud by the feds. lmfao

Sorry for this being so off topic so soon.

As for the article, I really do find myself suspicious of tv psychics who seem to know everything about a place even tho they claim to know nothing (Jon Snow). I would be that dick who would trip up all the psychics visiting my alleged haunted house.

And I'd be right there with you messing with them for my 'ancestral home'.

And I'd be right there with popcorn.
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« Reply #7 on: September 08, 2013, 03:54:00 pm »
And the popcorn will be schadenfreude flavoured. The very best.
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« Reply #8 on: September 08, 2013, 05:08:17 pm »
Love it!
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Re: 6 Most Humiliating Public Failures by Celebrity Psychics
« Reply #9 on: September 08, 2013, 05:27:10 pm »
http://www.imsdb.com/transcripts/South-Park-The-Biggest-Douche-In-The-Universe.html

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STAN: I'm saying this to you, John Edward, you are a liar, you are a fake, and you are the biggest douche ever!
JOHN EDWARD: Everything I tell people is positive and gives them hope! How does that make me a douche?!
STAN: Because the big questions in life are tough: Why are we here? Where are we from? Where are we going? But if people believe in asshole douchey liars like you, we're never gonna find the real answer to those questions. You aren't just lying, you're slowing down the progress of all mankind, you douche!
JOHN EDWARD: I'M NOT A DOUCHE! And I challenge you to a psychic showdown! I'll prove to the world that I'm psychic and you're not!
STAN: Fine, douche!
JOHN EDWARD: I'm not a douche!
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Re: 6 Most Humiliating Public Failures by Celebrity Psychics
« Reply #10 on: September 09, 2013, 06:41:39 am »
This reminded me of one time Derek Acorah did a show in Belfast a few years back.  I didn't witness it sadly, but my brother was there and apparently it was glorious.

The audience spent the entire night just fucking with him, stringing him along saying yes to all this info he was giving them about their relative as if everything he was saying about them was spot on.  And then after a few mintutes the audience member he was talkiing to would interrupt and say, "Oh wait I just remembered, I don't have a relative with that name/that relative is still alive actually."  Things like that. All night.  I wish I'd been there.

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« Reply #11 on: September 09, 2013, 09:09:58 am »
In fairness to cold readers, it wouldn't surprise me if at least some of them actually believe in their own psychic abilities. Back when I was still swallowing any psychic phenomena hook, line and sinker, I had a few runs of lucky guesses that almost convinced me I was psychic.
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« Reply #12 on: September 09, 2013, 09:33:37 am »
Reminds me of The Salvation War, where the real, honest to goodness psychics are all in mental hospitals because they've been talking to people in hell and having their minds taken over by daemons.
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« Reply #13 on: September 09, 2013, 12:14:07 pm »
Reminds me of The Salvation War, where the real, honest to goodness psychics are all in mental hospitals because they've been talking to people in hell and having their minds taken over by daemons.

Fucking hell, I knew Sylvia Browne had to be a demon. I mean, her voice...
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« Reply #14 on: September 09, 2013, 03:22:25 pm »
In fairness to cold readers, it wouldn't surprise me if at least some of them actually believe in their own psychic abilities. Back when I was still swallowing any psychic phenomena hook, line and sinker, I had a few runs of lucky guesses that almost convinced me I was psychic.
Makes sense. My girlfriend could make a living as a fake psychic. She just has a natural skill at cold reading, and I could see the deluded believing that it's supernatural.
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