Comments on: Part One Of Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie Fried Chicke… The One Vision!

By: AndyD

AndyD — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:18:59 +0000

I also Googled the watch with the same result – “Stringy Bark Creek” exactly as the expert mentioned. However, if we assume these really are Australia’s best cold readers then we should also assume they are among Australia’s best statisticians and therefore probably very well read, especially in areas of Australian History.

Although I know almost nothing about Kelly, when I read the wiki quote “What’s the use of a watch to a dead man?”, I recalled that I had heard the story before. It’s not the sort of information I retain which is why you should never include me on your quiz night table.

My daughter commented that she had been told at school of Kelly’s fixation with his mother. So even if they had no access to Google, the chances that two of them would be aware of these things isn’t truly surprising.

Thanks for the Derren Brown vid. I’d seen the name before but never actually seen what all the fuss was about. Classic stuff.

By: Sean the Blogonaut

Sean the Blogonaut — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:06:13 +0000

I missed this episode. Can you you feel my disappointment LOL

By: EoR

EoR — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:41:43 +0000

I wish they’d shown the cold readings in full, all five minutes of them, and had two scores, one for hits and one for misses. It would be completely boring television, but a clear example of how worthless these people are. Assuming they were making random guesses at the same rates shown during the 30 seconds or so when the hits occurred, they’d end up with score sheets something like 97 misses, 3 hits (assuming average 3 hits and 20 guesses per minute). Or 3% accurate. That all really rather puts it in context.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:59:08 +0000

I thought Glenn A. was a Mormon or a Jehovah’s Witness or something. Are they supposed to be daddling in occult??????

As watching I googled “ned kelly fobwatch” on my phone and the Wikipedia reference came up second result or something. If it’s on Wiki I don’t think we can call it obscure. Anyone want to argue none of them would have just goggled NK in the weeks leading up to the “challenge” Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

The map was teh bollocks.

The woman with depression was at a number of the tapings. She sat next to Rachael and I for one and was really very lovely but absolutely desperate for a reading (she had one of her items up there during the psychometry they did in the last ep but didn’t get picked). I can but wonder whether she was shuffled forward by the audience wranglers, and who knows what else was said.