General Chat

Susan.... who is paying him to hang upside down and why?

Jac....sure you're not an illusionist too lol.

Oh that man gets right on my t*ts! Someone lock him up and throw away the key.

Tina x

Look - he's already told everyone what to expect to see - half of the illusion is already therefore accomplished.

The second half of the illusion (the change over) is the most difficult bit, but as these people have been doing it for years they are expert at it all, and it can and will be done without any problem. After all......we'll have seen him strung up and hanging there and after a while the mind just accepts the sight and doesnt look beyond it.

Same thing with the changeover - we'll be conditioned to seeing him hanging there, and then hey ho, the 60 hours is up and down he comes! He'll pretend he's been strung up for 60 hrs (but has been enjoying life at the Holiday Inn or wherever) and will look pretty grim - but..................................tis has all been an illusion!



Do you know I've almost convinced meself that it's possible! lol


Jac XX

can you just imagine it.....all our lovely kids come home from school and show us their new party trick????? he is a freak

No Lynda I aint - I think the man's a total phoney but I am intrigued as to the power of suggestion, and that's all an illusion is really - he's suggesting something that seems impossible and hey presto (to coin the magician's vernacular) we - the general public that is - believe it can be done.

The power of suggestion!

I wish I had some of his agent's money though honey! lol


Jac XX

Well...........I have the legs Lynda, but too much cleavage I fear - wouldnt want to put the great man off his hanging - lol lol


Jac XX

I don't know Jean...but would sure like some of it for doing nothing in particular :-))))

I still want to know who on earth it is who pays him?

What is he advertising?

Jac.....I know it is an illusion....same as the
glass box trick on the Embankment but you are soooooooooooooooo clever to have worked out how he does it.

x.

I know Jean..............I'm so clever that it hurts sometimes - pmsl!!

Well, if the bloke wants to hang around for 2.5 days doing nothing in particular, who am I to criticise? I aint paying him anything, but I'm sure there will be a deal with USA TV etc and some British Channels for coverage of the event - there might be enough dough in it for him to afford an extra night at the Holiday Inn (with breakfast!) lol


Jac

He must be bats to want to hang upside down

or

he thinks were bats are to believe him

no...hes got nothing better to do...... than hang around!!!!!

Here come all the corny jokes lol
Sue x

I have been wondering how, if he is to be believed, he would cope with errrrrr "bodily functions" - him being upside down and gravity being what it is.

anyone any ideas? or is this too sordid to consider?


Jac XX

Now there's something to think about. Gravity and body functions..........off to google pmsl :))

~~~~to all

It doesn't bear thinking about - I keep getting visuals lol
Sue x

He could have a sponge collar on his shirt I suppose - a bit like a surgical collar but made of high density sponge..........but then he would need a peg on his nose, cos the pong would be awful after a while, and certainly after 30 hours he would need a new collar! )))

Jac XX

Well if you had chilblains on your earlobes there would be an ancient cure overnight I fancy. ))))

Jac XX

I found this :)))

American magician and endurance supremo David Blaine could go blind from blood clots forming in the veins of his eyes while performing his latest challenge to hang upside down for 60 hours, said vascular surgeon Dr Massimo Napolitano at a press conference last week.

35-year-old Blaine, who rose to fame with his TV series David Blaine: Street Magic, has been buried alive, frozen in a block of ice, held his breath for 17 minutes in a tank of water, and lived for 44 days with no food inside a plastic box suspended above the banks of the Thames in London.

Blaine started his toughest stunt yet, the "Dive of Death" , to hang upside down for 60 hours 50 feet above the ground at Wollman Rink in Central Park, New York, at 8.30 on Monday morning.

The stunt lasts for 60 hours: two nights and three days. It finishes on Wednesday at 11 pm. There will be no safety net.

Napolitano leads the vascular surgery unit at Hackensack University Medical Centre, New Jersey. He said that hanging upside down for a long time increases blood pressure in the head and eyes, causing greater risk of blood clots that can cut off the blood supply to the eyes, leading to blindness, according to a report in local paper, the Bergen Record.

Napolitano told the Record that a lot of things can happen to your body when you are suspended upside down, it's called "reverse physiology". First the pressure in the veins in the head increases, there is a higher risk of blood clots, and swelling of the brain. You could have a stroke, he said, but you would pass out first.

Kidney stone is another possible result of three days of pushing urine uphill in the ureters, the 12-inch long tubes that transport urine from the kidneys to the bladder.

His urine will be collected in a bag, like a condom, said Napolitano. He won't be eating during the feat, only drinking.

Blaine appears to have perfected a way of controlling his bodily functions that is akin to that practised by yogis. Napolitano said it seems like he has also found a way to slow down his metabolism.

Napolitano said his interest in the project was to find out what happens to the human body under such circumstances. This is the first time a healthy adult has done something as extreme as this and there could be some "helpful physiological information" from it.

Dr Richard Ruden, who has worked with Blaine before, will be monitoring the magician's blood pressure and also taking an ECG. Ruden told reporters that not many people could survive such a stunt.

"It is really important for people to understand that David is not an ordinary man," said Ruden, according to ABC News.

Ruden said if Blaine is successful, "we might have to change his name to 'He Who Hangs With Bats'.

very clever of you Jac to surmise all that - I reckon you have it pretty spot on

BUT

did you have to lower the tone so VERY far pmsl

hope HE doesn't phsl !!!

xxxxxxxxxx

Well according to Suzy's report he WILL NOT get his chilblains cured! lol

I am trying to visualise how much urine can be collected in a condom, and how will he know when it's full?

It's the practicalities that bother me, all the time, really it is!


jac XX