Derren Brown - Ghost Hunter - TV Review

Derren Brown is a man. He is also a MAGICIAN.

He's been doing a short series of programmes on Channel 4 where he investigates claims of supernatural abilities or experiences. In the first one, he hung around with a professional psychic. Derren looked for verifiable evidence for the man's psychic ability. Predictably enough, he failed to find it. The closest moment of magic ability came when he did a reading for a lady out of Hollyoaks and told her that she had a Mini Cooper. Even though he claimed to know nothing about her, it turns out that he saw her arriving in her car.

Eye beam

The blog dude has been sent an email offering him the chance to win Life-Changing Laser Eye Surgery. His eyesight is still alright but the email got him wondering: would there be any benefits of laser eye surgery for people who don't need it? Could it give you superhuman vision?

Young people in India are using music as a way to express self-confidence

It's Wednesday, it's 11:23PM, and my head is in a right state.

And I'm bored shitless.

I might go and ask my lesbian neighbour if I can come in her house, even though we've never met.

PLEASE BOYCOTT THE SUN NEWSPAPER (UK)

PLEASE BOYCOTT THE SUN NEWSPAPER (UK)

Rid Liddle has written in the Sun about the 'ease' with which swaths of Britain were claiming disability allowance. Photograph: John Lawrence / Rex Features

"My new year's resolution for 2012 was to become disabled. Nothing too serious, maybe just a bit of a bad back or one of those newly invented illnesses which make you a bit peaky for decades – fibromyalgia, or ME … I think we should all pretend to be disabled for a month or so, claim benefits and hope this persuades the authorities to sort out the mess."

Saturday afternoon's alright for fighting

Blog dude has noticed that many young women recently have been going around wearing t-shirts with 'I ♥ PB' on them in massive letters. This has made him wonder who or what this might be. Here are a few suggestions:

(a) Phil Babb

Philip Andrew Babb (born 30 November 1970 in Lambeth, London) is an English-born Irish former professional footballer, who played mainly as a central defender.








(b) Pete Best

I think he was the drummer what got sacked from the Beatles before they got dead famous.

He has a moustache, I think.

Warning: Flammable material

Blog dude has today become preoccupied with the humble shell suit, as modelled elegantly below in Figure 1. by Sir James Savlon from Leeds:

Figure 1. Jimmy Saville, suited

but not booted

Noun
Singularshell suit
Pluralshell suits
shell suit (plural shell suits)

A lightweight tracksuit consisting of a matching zip-front jacket and matching elasticated trousers, each having an outer nylon shell, often bearing panels and flashes of different colours, and inner cotton lining; popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s both as sportswear and as general leisurewear.

Blog dude is thinking about getting one of these from a charity shop and wearing it all the time, even in bed and everything. And at job interviews and funerals and stuff. Blog dude is old enough to have experienced the heyday of said garment, when everyone thought they were the business; one simply had to have a decent shellsuit just to avoid looking like a dick.

How fashions change, eh?

The blog dude attends a University in the north of England and thinks he would turn a few heads in a shellsuit.