Comments on: TV "psychics" are stock photos

By: R. Emmet Lee

R. Emmet Lee — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 02:18:00 +0000

http://thevicarslamp.blogspot.com/2012/06/secret-language-unit-1.html

It’s all in the mastery of words.

By: OtherMichael

OtherMichael — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:56:00 +0000

If somebody was prescient enough to sell their photo to a stock agency and then get hired by a company using photos from that agency… they must know what they will be talking about.

By: ImmutableMichael

ImmutableMichael — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:24:00 +0000

For all in tents and circuses….

By: scav

scav — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 08:28:00 +0000

But it would be *guaranteed* to work as well. And this could be backed up by double-blind clinical studies ;)

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:28:00 +0000

For all intensive purposes, it is.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:28:00 +0000

I sanction that behavior.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:16:00 +0000

Oh yeah, mister psychic guy, if you’re so clairvoyant, wouldn’t you already know what the Paypal login and password are?

Oh man, hold on, I’m having a thought… psychic + Ouija board = metaphysical hacker!

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:38:00 +0000

Your comment begs the question of what you are talking about.

*ducks*

By: Uncle Geo

Uncle Geo — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:28:00 +0000

Psychics not real? Reminds me of that pillar of journalistic integrity, John “Greed is Good” Stossel and his Pulitzer-worthy expose on professional wrestling:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrX9Ca7LSyQ

Whodathunk wrestling wasn’t real!?

By: hellishmundane

hellishmundane — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:33:00 +0000

weird, my astrologist didn’t warn me to avoid TV psychics. possibly my humors are out of balance. time for another session with the scarificator at the local barber shop.

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:00:00 +0000

And he never once spelled his name Shakespeare.

By: Antonio Carrasco

Antonio Carrasco — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:21:00 +0000

Wait, so the ads for television psychics aren’t true? Mind blown!

By: Finnagain

Finnagain — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:01:00 +0000

Excellent! I just needed your authorization.

By: mortdieu

mortdieu — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:54:00 +0000

Happily. If you’re genuine, you’ll have no problems getting my credit card number.

By: Funk Daddy

Funk Daddy — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:28:00 +0000

Not if cheaper makes the buyer feel superior to the suckers paying more for the same fake. Then the placebo effect may be strengthened by a mind that thinks it’s hot shit when it’s just full of double decepting itself power.

http://www.chacha.com/question/what-does-decepting-mean

By: Funk Daddy

Funk Daddy — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:23:00 +0000

At the end of the day I go home, spend time with my family, have dinner, put the kids to bed and relax for awhile before retiring.

By: Ryan Lenethen

Ryan Lenethen — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:12:00 +0000

Are you trying to tell me that TV Psychics are charlatans? Balderdash!

By: Snig

Snig — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:10:00 +0000

I can imagine a sentient Zombie Houdini trying to recapture his former glory, but escaping from the water torture cell when the audience knows he doesn’t have to breathe, fails to wow.

By: OrchestraSpy

OrchestraSpy — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:10:00 +0000

Psychic phenomenon exists! Happens to me all the time. It’s embedded in my Alpha-male DNA, you other players know what I’m saying. The lifespan is a mere 5 seconds into the future. No not like that Nick Cage movie.

By: Robert Dee

Robert Dee — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:50:00 +0000

There’s only one thing that scares me more than Zombie Houdini and that’s Robot Hitler.

By: DreamboatSkanky

DreamboatSkanky — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:31:00 +0000

I knew you were gonna say that.

By: Finnagain

Finnagain — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:30:00 +0000

All three of the surviving examples of Shakespeare’s signature are spelled differently.

By: Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston

Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:22:00 +0000

Language is tied into your individual mythology about the world. Prescriptivist linguistics, which tells people “proper use” is tied to idealism, ideas of nobility and status and a desire for control, descriptivist linguistics merely chronicles the language use “as is”, and is generally tied to a more free version of living, and the notion that language changes and evolves constantly.

By: Just_Ok

Just_Ok — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:17:00 +0000

http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/begging-the-question

By: Ashen Victor

Ashen Victor — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:06:00 +0000

More like capitalism…

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:04:00 +0000

I think that I finally convinced my mum that the concept of an afterlife is a bit silly.
As soon as I realised what I’d done I regretted it. Decades of eye rolling and snide remarks, all to crush an innocent belief that probably gave her some kind of comfort – all to win a completely meaningless argument.

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:03:00 +0000

That’s debatable.

By: stupocalypto

stupocalypto — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:57:00 +0000

I find it my duty to bluntly tell my auntie what I think of psychics and a lot of spritualists, in terms of their financial intentions, but at the same time don’t want to crush her spirit, as she rests a lot of emotional baggage on the cushion of religion/spiritualism. I don’t even know if it’s as simple as being cruel to be kind, as painful as it is to watch people with little money give to to cynical bastards. Ah, the quandary of neoliberalist capitalism…

By: Alfred Armstrong

Alfred Armstrong — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:52:00 +0000

How do you know that about Houdini? YOU MUST BE PSYCHIC!

By: Snig

Snig — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:51:00 +0000

So zombie Houdini you can get behind, but not the psychics?