So what do you think of how the brits are treating David Blaine?

[edesignuk]

IMO it’s absolutely hilarious! The guy has been tormented constantly, laser pointers, water bottles being thrown, various being thrown, strippers flashing him :D A tabloid has even had a remote control helicopter fly around his box with a take-away suspended beneath it! LMAO! There is even some gay website (can’t remember the URL) that is organizing to all go and throw sausages at him!!! All this and it’s only day 13, the poor guy has got another month of people trying to think up what to do next!

But what is your take on how he is being treated?

Support him, and think all these idiots should leave him alone?
Support him, but do think it’s funny what is happening?
Don’t care, but like the fact he is being tormented?
Don’t care, but think he should be left alone to do his thing?
Think he’s an idiot, but also think he should be left alone?
Think he’s an idiot, and love what people are doing to this fool?
Anything I missed :eek:

Either way, I think it will be the last time he decides to pull one of his ‘stunts’ in the UK :p

Funny as hell! (http://www.brianmung.com/blainegame.htm)

[mactastic]

The funniest one IMHO are the people BBQing underneath him. Straight cruel!:D

[eyelikeart]

I think it's cruel the things they're doing to taunt him, but it's expected from a stunt like this. I'm quite sure he had to know he'd get criticism, and that it would be more than his conquering starvation.

I want to say there should be some sort of barring from the things being done to him, but I cannot.

I think he's got some issues if he feels he needs to "prove" himself better than Houdini by pulling this stunt, and risking his own life. So, with that, he should have to deal with anything that can/will make it a tougher feat. ;)

[jzieske]

I am very proud that the Brits are screwing with this guy. He has annoyed me ever since his first "trick" here in the states. He is actually pretty good at "street magic" but these stunts are stupid.

[iGav]

I can honestly say it doesn't bother me...

Although when I lived in South London, just across the road from where he is, I wish he'd done it then... that part of South London was dull as hell.... :rolleyes:

Typical, I move out then it becomes a major centre of attention.... :rolleyes: :eek: :p :p

[edesignuk]

Originally posted by mactastic
The funniest one IMHO are the people BBQing underneath him. Straight cruel!:D
I hadn't heard about that, that's a good one!!! :D

...what will be next...I can't wait to find out!!! :eek:

[scem0]

He asked for it...

and is probably loving every minute of it.

He just wants publicity and apparently he is succeeding.

scem0

[pseudobrit]

I'm kind of pissed off, actually.

Reducing hunger and starvation to a stunt is insulting in two ways:

(1) There are those who have suffered and died on hunger strikes, particularly the Irish during the troubles and later. They, sadly, hold the Guinness records for starvation. Blaine is not attempting to break these records (not even close), nor is he doing it for a greater good, so why should we care?

The only difference is that they suffered in silence, alone in a damp cell, while he makes a spectacle of his ordeal. And will profit eventually.

(2) There are millions who starve and suffer from malnutrition every day who do it because there is no food available to them.

If Blaine wanted to earn my respect, he'd use his stunt to collect donations for charities that feed the hungry.

[Abstract]

He's an idiot who voluntarily chooses to starve himself. I'd join in the bbq if I was in London.

Oh, and his stunts are dumb. Its not even magic anymore. Its really not anything. An extremely obese man can last for up to 2 months without food. Pseudobrit is right: He's not breaking any sort of record.

[Durandal7]

I hope it catches on and people start doing it in the States as well. :D

This is the first stunt of his I would consider watching just to see what the Brits are doing to torture him.

[pseudobrit]

Originally posted by Abstract
An extremely obese man can last for up to 2 months without food. Pseudobrit is right: He's not breaking any sort of record.

Two months? You can go longer than that without being obese:

He pointed out that the longest hunger strike ended in 1973 after 385 days when Dennis Galer Goodwin protested his innocence in Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire, of a rape charge. He was fed by tube orally.

The lengthiest period spent without solid food was 382 days when Angus Barbieri lived on tea, coffee, soda water [not cola] and vitamins in Maryfield Hospital, Dundee in the mid Sixties. He lost more than 20 stone.

Book bosses say his accommodation does not compare well with previous record holders. Vernon Kruger stayed in a barrel in South Africa – about an eighth the size of Blaine’s box – for 67 days in 1997.

[ColoJohnBoy]

I don't care. It just seems stupid to me, all of it.

[MrMacMan]

Its stupid, but really people, why tourture him?

If you want to make him go mad, how about you All stay away from him?


That would really kill a person like him off quick.

[coopdog]

What if some crazy guy thinking blane is the devil or something starts shooting at him or something? Is that bullet proof glass?

[edesignuk]

Originally posted by coopdog
Is that bullet proof glass?
I hope not! :eek:

[crap freakboy]

Originally posted by coopdog
What if some crazy guy thinking blane is the devil or something starts shooting at him or something? Is that bullet proof glass?

hey m8 this is the UK remember? We cant buy uzis with our BigMacs and fries.
;)

[iGav]

Originally posted by crap freakboy
hey m8 this is the UK remember? We cant buy uzis with our BigMacs and fries.
;)

It's also South London.... where you probably can actually.... :eek: :p :p

I thought the box was just exceptionally thick perspex?? before he started it, they showed you him taking a running jump at it, and shoulder barging and he just bounced off.... I was quite impressed by that actually!! heh-heh!

[cwedl]

I went to see him last night, He was just lying down for the whole 15 minutes I was there. I wish I could see him when he starts to go mad! He He:D

[edesignuk]

Originally posted by cwedl
I went to see him last night, He was just lying down for the whole 15 minutes I was there. I wish I could see him when he starts to go mad! He He:D
I'm waiting to go and see him until he goes mad! I wanna see him when he's running around head-buttin' the walls :D :eek: ;)

[hvfsl]

Heres a picture I took on Monday of blane, below is a (what I think) more interesting picture taking from the same area.

[hvfsl]

London

[evoluzione]

i think it's ********** pathetic. not the stunt, although I could care less about the whole thing, but the way people are hating on the guy. i'm so glad i don't live in england any more, these people tormenting him are sad. if you don't like what he's doing, then bugger off and don't go there, simple.

having said that, ~some~ of the things happening are kind of humourous, like the barbeque and the model helicopter. but throwing eggs and stuff is just plain boring and lame.

[Vector]

Originally posted by hvfsl
London

Is that the new municpal building in the left background?

[rueyeet]

It's my opinion that both the stunt itself and the responses to it are demonstrations of equally disgusting aspects of human nature. Blaine is making a public display of his shameless hunger for publicity, and his tormentors are making a public display of their own pettiness and cruelty. A fitting circus all around.

That said, if he's going to put himself in that position, he should be prepared for the people who can't resist paying attention to him.

[G4scott]

It reminds me of that southpark episode where he starts a cult...

[hvfsl]

Originally posted by Vector
Is that the new municpal building in the left background?

I think it is, but not quite sure.

[caveman_uk]

Anyone played this game? (http://www.brianmung.com/blainegame.htm)

[WinterMute]

Originally posted by hvfsl
I think it is, but not quite sure.

If you mean the glass gerkin, no it isn't. the new home of our esteemed Mayor is on the same bank the pic was taken from, a little way to the left, and resembles a large crash helmet.:D

On topic, I saw that the Sun newspaper was today claiming that Blaine was getting a high-protien feed from his water pipe, and that he hadn't actually lost any weight in the last 20 days;)

Blaine's an illusionist, this is an illusion, Blain is also a twat, and this is a monumental waste of everyone's time.

[edesignuk]

Originally posted by caveman_uk
Anyone played this game? (http://www.brianmung.com/blainegame.htm)
I linked to that in my origional post ;)

Originally posted by edesignuk
Funny as hell! (http://www.brianmung.com/blainegame.htm)

[robbieduncan]

This is the new city hall http://www.london.gov.uk/images/city_hall/rpeel_3223c2_wide.jpg

The "Gherkin" looks more like a part of the male anatomy!

[noel4r]

I think it's funny how the brits are having fun with him...

[Dont Hurt Me]

I can see all those chaps saying to themselves----so this is an american? this guy needs to find a job.

[realbrit]

Originally posted by pseudobrit
I'm kind of pissed off, actually.

Reducing hunger and starvation to a stunt is insulting in two ways:

(1) There are those who have suffered and died on hunger strikes, particularly the Irish during the troubles and later. They, sadly, hold the Guinness records for starvation. Blaine is not attempting to break these records (not even close), nor is he doing it for a greater good, so why should we care?

The only difference is that they suffered in silence, alone in a damp cell, while he makes a spectacle of his ordeal. And will profit eventually.

(2) There are millions who starve and suffer from malnutrition every day who do it because there is no food available to them.

If Blaine wanted to earn my respect, he'd use his stunt to collect donations for charities that feed the hungry.

Damn, I hate this b*tch, always turning everything into some kind of political thing. Relax and drink a pint sweetie and let him starve himself if he wants. He's not hurting anybody.

Now, how about inviting David Copperfield to where David Blaine is and ask him to make David Blaine disappear? Now, that would really piss David off.

[caveman_uk]

Originally posted by edesignuk
I linked to that in my origional post ;) Sorry mate...I should've checked a bit more closely:rolleyes:

[iGav]

Originally posted by realbrit
Now, how about inviting David Copperfield to where David Blaine is and ask him to make David Blaine disappear? Now, that would really piss David off.

:p :p :p :p

[edesignuk]

A funny excert from the Metro paper a couple of weeks back, made me laugh on the train in to work that morning!
The Secret of Englands Greatness: When I moved to London, I was shocked by the level of rudeness, self-interest and lack of bonhomie. I now realise that hundreds of years of anti-social behabiour were, in fact, merely preperation for one moment: the arrival of a man and a glass box. Suddenly, I feel proud to be part of a population prepared to hurl eggs and abuse at a self-publicising nobody. No other people on earth would be able to see through the fluff of a puffed-up celebrity quite so acutely, and then decide to torture him quite so inventively. Brava, London! Keep up the solid work. It's this kind of stuff that once made England great. Steve Banjo, London W6