Nothing got changed...you wanted to change what every other participant didn't even feel the need to mention. Proof is somewhere in the thread...I'll find it if I need to but I won't need to because you will prove to everyone that I changed the starting dates of the bets, won't you?
I guess we have a bit more about us down here. But you're right, Dorset has more than its fair share of blue rinse brigade. Maybe your local Conservative club biddies thought you were a 'star attraction', did you get any crusty pussy as a result ?
There was a magician at a wedding I was at in July actually, he was circling the room talking to people and showing them tricks. It was the most degrading thing I've ever seen live, watching groups of adults watch utter crap out of sympathy for 5 minutes before turning their back's on him.
I performed my famous “card in wallet transpo” effect. It’s a killer. I name a card and put it in my wallet, which remains in full view at all times. You see the card go into a slot with a transparent window. Its face is in full view as the wallet is closed and placed on the table. The spectator names a card and it is found to be missing from the deck. But as the deck is spread, one card is seen to be face down. The card is turned face up and it is my card! When the wallet is opened, the spectactor’s card is in the window, which the spectator can remove. It was great performing that to miserable old fcuckers and watching them change their opinion of me when their card appeared inside a wallet that they themselves saw with only my card in it! My ESP routine involving three spectators also went down well, as did my named card to photo frame.
I was at a restaurant in Spain once where the owners obviously thought it was a good idea to 'employ' a magician to go round to the tables doing tricks. People were clearly not impressed with this ****ing nerd interrupting their supper, and were politely telling him to do one. The hapless trickster didn't get the message though and eventually some bloke stood up and ****ing yelled some obscenities at him in Spanish and a waiter quickly whisked him away. ****ing atrocious idea, that sort of **** should be kept to kids parties and amongst the fraternity of adult nerds who enjoy playing Dungeons and Dragons.
Yeah, there are a lot bad “professionals” out there. I get those kinds of stories all the time. I’m always performing stuff, and a regular comment I get is “You’re ten times better than that magician we had at [name of event]!” To be good isn’t just about being able to perform the mechanics of the effect. It requires a good presentation, with properly executed timing and misdirection. So many magicians are either too bland, or come across as condescending tossers. I’m neither. I have always worked hard on the presentation of the effects that I perform.
Yeah it did bro! The time honoured tradition in British gambling dictates the bet is paid out directly after the weigh in fam. The fact you wanted to change the time honoured traditional British way shows you to be like Quentin Ballsack who just wants to make it a pissing contest.
That’s an extremely ignorant view to take, Pix. Good magic, performed well, is supremely entertaining. The problem is that the market is saturated with a lot of talentless arseholes who, just because they’ve bought a few tricks from their local magic dealer, think they’re the next Dynamo. Magic is as much about the performance as it is about the “moves” to make the trick work. That, as with any performing art, takes talent. Also, if the magician was performing to crowds that clearly weren’t interested in seeing him perform, them he deserved all the abuse he got. I always ask my audience if they want to see me perform, and if they say “fcuk off!” I thank them and move on. What was interesting when I did my paid performance, was that one table would agree to watch me perform when the table next to it had declined. Yet, the miserable old fcukers would spend the entire performance rubber-necking so they didn’t miss anything! I wouldn’t want to perform for anyone who wasn’t interested in watching me.
