Did anyone else watch this last night on e4?


I watched the end of it in disbelief! 3 out of 4 took the bait!

The young guy worried me though. Saying 'if you move you're dead, have you got family?'


Thats mad, you can unknowingly be manipulated to do such a thing!

 

Usual Derren Brown pish. What you don't see is the hypnosis they have undertaken behind the scenes.

 

It showed you everything I think....

But I suppose I should take your word for it imlach, you know everything!

 

Not at all.

...but in the end, all he's looking for is the most suggestible people of the bunch. The newsagent bit was really more peer pressure, but quite amusing all the same....

The Milgram experiment is well known, and well documented. Google it for more on this as it's quite interesting.....

 

You know a lot though...

Surely they would know that 240v comes out of a plug socket and even that can be fatal... Thickos.

 

http://www.new-life.net/milgram.htm
http://www.stanleymilgram.com/milgram.php

 

Interesting!

 

I didn't see the program last night, but from what I've seen of him before, I thought Derren Brown was always very open about his methods - ie. that he is choosing suggestible people and making suggestions knowing how they will react. I thought the whole purpose of his act/shows was to demonstrate how simple suggestion can create remarkable results.

 

Depends how you look at it. Like some illusionists, they admit there is no "magic" and everything is illusion & explainable, but then at the end, they'll do something which seems unexplainable just to increase the mystique.

Hypnosis, after all, is also just suggestion....think about it.

 

It's the current that kills you and not voltage, for example stun guns have upto 50,000 volts!!

 

Been a long time since I left school

Thank you for enlightening me!

 

No probs

 

That's what I meant - I thought he was open about using hypnosis (as you say, just an extreme form of suggestion).

 

I'd love to be able to do that to the other half to get him to do some housework

 

Ah ! Imlach the Oracle

 

its all psycology did u watch space cadets same idea u get people who are suggestable or in other words gullable

 

My stun gun has 700,000 volts.....

 

Aside from all things Porsche of course

 

LOL

 

It must be fatherhood that has increased your cerebral powers Imlach Congrats BTW (albeit belated !).

 

Nope, decreased them, hence my lack of attention to detail on the other thread

Thanking you.
Joining the club soon?

 

Thats exactly why I got a 911 - rear seats you see......
You always knew I had a perverse logic
Joining the club ? Lets see what 2006 brings - I've copied everything else you've done so far
Next thing I'll be driving around in a Merc

 

" In one study conducted in Germany, over 85% of the subjects administered a lethal electric shock to the learner."

!!!

 

Somehow I don't think I'll EVER see you descending down to the lowly ranks of the Merc Estate I run now

The E55 just doesn't seem your thing

 

Brabus perhaps.......... But I've got my eye an the new M5 when the prices become sensible

 

HAHA....a baby *AND* all it's junk in the back of a 911...no chance.....you'll soon learn

 

No - baby in back of 911........ the other stuff in the 1-series

 

Hehe....life on the edge.....when you have a 1-series as a load-lugger Is the boot on that even big enough for a pack of Pampers?

 

Well its better than the Lupo as you well know and with the seats down in the 1-series they'd fit - Daddy

BTW - whats the name of the little blighter ?