>> ^rgnjc:

They're just dumb parlor tricks

"Another 10 Dumb Parlor Tricks" doesn't get votes.

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How are any of these "science tricks"? They're just dumb parlor tricks, science tricks carry with them some fascinating scientific explanation for the trick.

All hail our Zombie Overlord Jew!

You know how pathetic unimpressive easter is? If through out history, there hadn't been many cases of people who were pronounced dead and ended up waking in the morgue or in their own funerals, or their coffins being opened and found with scratches inside.

So... ressurection? yeah.. not that impressive really. Better get a new parlor trick christians.

Upvote for Oohashi Miho, since she is the bomb. Also, not even Horiken's constant sexual harassment can make her cringe. Prof. Himonya's little parlor tricks are flimsy in comparison.

When I trained at Shaolin, they said it took about a month to do the spear thing (bending the spear with your neck). They're not sharp, by the way, but you do need to build up something like a callus on the throat.

But yeah, most of that Qi Gong stuff is nonsense, just cheap parlor tricks for a gullible audience, and "documentaries" like this don't do anything to help. Some of it is very impressive though.

When they put on a performance at the school I was at for the parents, they had a guy suck a bowl against his stomach, and 5 people couldn't pull it off. So they called on me, the biggest person in the room (I'm 6'6", 275 pounds) and grabbed onto the guy who was going to try to pull the bowl off. I yanked so hard I threw the guy about 15 feet across the stage, and the bowl was torn in half -- the other half was still stuck to his stomach, which was still pretty damn cool.

Sure, there's electricity in there. But you're only getting a few milliamps (about 30) at up to 70 volts. So basically, there isn't enough power in there to run anything. Hell, my cell phone charger needs almost 90 milliamps to run. And that's at your standard 120v.

So basically, it's a neat parlor trick, but won't do you any good for running something over a couple of LEDs.

Magic tricks are all well and good when you appreciate them for what they are: complicated parlor tricks that require substantial skill in sleight-of-hand/illusion in order to pull them off convincingly.

What pisses me off about Copperfield is all the excess drama and suspense that he integrates into his act in order to make people "believe," when there's totally no need for that. Just make them think "Hey that's a cool trick, I wonder how he/she did it," and you're good.