FWD: Testing

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

it's not hypnosis. i dunno what you think you were trying to prove with the museumofhoaxes link, I suppose it's about the comments (cause the article just quotes a variation on your OP).

what I get from those comments is, that it's a question of motor skills and not belief. some of the people in those comments could do it right away, some couldnt even make a circle with their foot without moving their hand. the rest falling in between could with some concentration, pull it off or still fail.

i don't think it has anything to do with the supposed suggestive language you see in your picture.

so far the only evidence you've given it might be based on hypnosis is that 1) you think this is an extreme case of suggestive writing 2) you couldnt do it at first but as soon as you believed it was because the writing hypnosed you, you could do it.

problem is, you seem to be the only person with this experience.

so, you might say "guys I managed to hypnotize myself with this chain letter I received from the email", but we will still reply with

btw a fun thing to try for you would be, if it's really hypnosis (for you), you should be able to reverse it as well. believe it's really real and you can't circle your foot while making a 6 with your hand. go ahead, try it! it should be interesting! but please, don't feel the need to keep us informed about it, really, we dont care.

Finally, an explanation. Thankyou Triple Zero, for your explanation. I don't think I would be the only person with this experience if I had presented it better. However, it does seem that appearing in the way I did has left an indelible first impression which no-one here can get themselves over - half the respondents seem to have concluded I was female with no prompting from myself - yet the general I-know-it-all mindset remains evident. If you can't get over that, then you certainly won't be able to get over the power-of-suggestion contained in the OP - you make it clear that the status-quo is to be desired - the elders decree it's physiological rather than psychological and no independent experimentation to contradict that occurs - fine, I'll let it drop for now.

Have you considered asking a neurologist, instead of being all "LOOK GUYZ WHUT I FIGGERED OUT" on an internet forum?

[Captain Utopia]

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

fictionpuss. That your career on PD has come to this will, I am sure, have come as a surprise to many, not least your erstwhile smug and, as it turns out, disastrously complacent self. However, to those with a more rounded experience of your methods and morality, both the beneficiaries and the victims of your self-righteous and self-appointed crusading, it will remain a source of bed-wetting astonishment that it has taken so long for the hive mind to bring themselves to bear upon your arrogant and devious person.

You are, in the well-chosen words of our resident hate-shitters in describing your ilk, an unreconstructed wanker. To that one might add that you have infinitely more to say for yourself than your knowledge or experience could possibly justify, and that I have seldom found myself passing judgement on someone so evidently lacking the benefits of a damn good kicking.

You have thrust upon us your ill-informed, half-baked, out-dated and, frankly, paranoid theories for a tiresome number of posts now, and the wonder of it is that anyone continued to listen long enough for you to persist with the behaviour that has ultimately led to your downfall. I would remind you, fictionpuss, that paranoia is often merely the flipside of egotism: both deludedly imagine the world to revolve around oneself.

While your n00bish exploits have occasionally enjoyed vindication in the past, it should be evident to anyone remotely cognisant with the facts that your roles in certain notorious events have been grossly exaggerated by both posterity - which is often inexplicably kind to the self-aggrandising - and by your own indulgently biased accounts. No doubt you like to depict yourself as a thorn in the flesh of the establishment, but closer to the truth would be to say that you are merely an irritant, and that the subsequent rashes are far more the result of your unwanted presence than of any defect on the part of those you choose to infect.

In the case of someone so self-absorbed, it is perhaps plausible that certain developments may have escaped your notice; to wit, the inexorable evolution of this forums posts and the irrefutable testimony of the hive mind, which states, if you would take note, you are not welcome any more. Once upon a time, you found and to your credit exposed corruption and conspiracy among those of whom we expected better. Your problem, it strikes me, was that you did not know what to be about next. You have continued to seek out such nefariousness, but where you have not found it you have instead imagined it - and more insidiously, implied it. If I were you, I might wish to consider whether a man who finds corruption in every place he looks might perhaps be seeing the reflection of what lies within himself.

In the instance that has brought you before me, you arrogantly pitted yourself against an organisation far more august and enduring than the windmills at which you had tilted before; and though you were but a mosquito attacking an elephant, it cannot be ignored that this mosquito wished the elephant harm, and its bite may have done so had it not been swatted.

In short, fictionpuss, there is no place for you here in the future. This is a new Discordia, a new forum, with new standards and a new morality. I must not allow it or its institutions - nascent and ancient alike - to be disparaged and prejudiced by the diseased mind of a wee shite like you. For this reason, I order that you be taken from this board, henceforth to a place of confinement, there to dwell in perpetual fear of being chibbed and humped by rabid schemies.

[fomenter]

Nigel's google link, first post dated - 2005 "Maybe it's been circulating for years"  

[Captain Utopia]

[Payne]

[Thurnez Isa]

Is there _anyone_ on this board with enough intellectual curiousity to try the experiment?

D000000D EVERYONE KNOWS THE PUNCHLINE

FUCKING GOOGLE IT OR SOMETHING

we start a game

"how dumb can they get?"

[the last yatto]

lets play SINK! instead

[the last yatto]

[Captain Utopia]

we start a game

"how dumb can they get?"

[BADGE OF HONOR]

I like this better than incessant whining.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I like this better than incessant whining.

He'll prove we're all wrong, one day.  Just you wait.

[BADGE OF HONOR]

I've never had a problem admitting I'm wrong.  As long as, you know, I'm actually wrong...

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

snug?

[Captain Utopia]

snug?

That picture looks quite snug to me.

But yeah, it's a fuckup. Gimp doesn't have a spellchecker in its text-entry box yet.

EDIT: And I can no-longer type for shit without a builtin spellchecker, obviously.