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Hey! Gothamist takes offense to this Reuters statement about David Blaine in London: "The 30-year-old New Yorker is used to drawing admiring crowds for his other feats in the United States, including being buried alive and encased in a block of ice."
Not so fast. The reason why we didn't sending some huge, mutant earthworms to bug him while buried on the West Side or sending some flame throwers to the block of ice is due to the fact the police would have gotten on our collective ass and we don't want to be put in the clink for David Blaine (we have our sights set on something higher, like stalking Jerry Orbach). Whereas in London, the police understand that David Blaine is stupid and will just let people harrass him. So maybe the spin of the article should be "NYPD is over cautious when it comes to poisturing magicians, while Scotland Yard allows Londoners to go to town on the visiting American idiot."
This is because Blaine, since starting his 44 day Plexiglass exile in London (longer than 44 days, David, longer!), has been "pelted with eggs, taunted with the smell of fish and chips and woken up by a man banging a drum." The drummer told Reuters, "We were watching him at home on TV and it was really dull so we thought we would come down and liven things up. I wanted to wake him up."
The slideshow of David Blaine in London is pretty funny. And Gothamist on his silliness at his press conference.
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were they really using the same 7 photos over and over again? and if not, were 35 microcosmically-different photos really necessary in the plot of that slideshow? i get that blaine's latest stunt must be dull, but are yahoo slideshow-staffers that careless or just that smart? alas, i have so many questions... ;)
I quite like this stunt, for some reason. A lot of people are saying it is "boring," but taken as a whole; I mean jeez, the guy is going for six weeks without food supposedly, and he is doing it in a weird box suspended in front of the entire city of London. That's entertainment in my book.
Of course he has Power Bars smuggled in with that box of diapers, and his water drip is spiked with sugar, and he is actually a Disney animatronic robot and all that, but that's part of the fun.
I think if you edit out the fact his ego is bigger than Jesus, you are left with this stunt being just plain neato.
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Maybe I'd find this funny if Blaine lived in a small plastic box for the rest of his life.
U know what would be really exciting? If he died! I think it's funny the brits get to bother the hell out of him.
What's the point if he's not naked?
So he wears diapers? What's the point if you can't see his bodily functions?
Even money one of the tabloids refers to him as David Bland.
People really don't understand the English do they. They are an extremely brutish lot, loving nothing more than taking the piss out of people. Dave is getting all that he deserves.
It's not often that I find myself proud to be British, but I have to admit, reading the headline "Londoners Hurl Taunts, Eggs at Illusionist Blaine" brought a little warmth to my generally unpatriotic heart. God save the Queen!
Some people might think that the English are badasses for hurling eggs at Blaine--but people have to understand if Blaine was hanging over New York, we wouldn't give two shits to even take the time to go into a bodega, pay for eggs, walk over and hurl them at the guy. We'd just as much pay no mind and not even notice him.
I guess some people just have a lot more time on their hands than others...
I think that there is somethink that is not right here i mean what is the man tring to prove? does he think he is god or something. I think that he has taken a slow relse tablet that will keep him feed with all the important vitamins and things for the six weeks he is up there.
come on people think about it a human can not live more than three days without food or water so how is he doing it for six weeks? At the end of the day he is human like me and you could you do what he is doing with out food for six weeks.
"pelted with eggs, taunted with the smell of fish and chips and woken up by a man banging a drum." Oh please thats been the minimum. The Mirror newspaper(Britain)paid a well known british chef to have a massive BBQ under the box. And few days ago a few men attached a cheese burger to an electronic helicopter, and flew it up to the box so David could get a sniff of what he was missing. They where going to land the burger on to of the the box, but the police stopped them.
WAGWAAN PPL, ME FRM LONDON, 5 MINS AWAY FMR TOWER BRIDGE, WHER DAVID BLAINE IS, COURSE EVERYONE NO HES A FITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT GUY, AND DID U HEAR HES GONA CUM OUT EARLY, WELL HE MIGHT, BUT I SAY WATS DA POINT, COZ IF HE CUMS OUT EVERYONE WILL THINK HES JUS A BIG FAKE, NOW NOW, HE DNT WANT ALL HIS FANS LIKE ME GOIN DWN DA DRAINE, DOES HE, O YEA, ALL DA DAVID BLAINE FANS OUT DER, WHO FANCY HIM, KEEP UP DA GD WRK, AND GIV HIM ENCOURGEMENT, I NO IM GOIN ON N ON, LOL O YEA, WASSUP WID DA ASSHOLES THROWIN EGGS AT HIM? UR JUS LOOSERS U NO WHOEVER THROW EGGS AT HIM, JELOUSEY WILL GET U NO WER IN LIFE @ WHO EVER HATES HIM, LATERZ TO ALL AND DAVE I LIV U!!!!XXXXXX
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1056725,00.html
possibly a nice debunking.
It's wonderful to see europeans act like a sub moronic asspickers. As they peel off there dingle berries both to hurl at mr blaine and for nurishment, it go to see the true nation spirt of britain coming forth at last. Makes me proud to be mostly russian. Go hooligans GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!