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Human magnet

 

Aurel was voted "Least likely to be invited to dinner parties" by The Sun's readers.


Interesting that "Raz Ferenc," who applied for the MDC, and this guy, are Romanian. Perhaps they're the same guy, or perhaps they've finally run out of Baywatch reruns there.

Edit: not the same guy, if this photo is accurate: http://www.h3x.host.sk/magnetman/

Here I've straightened The Sun's photo so that the horizon is approximately level. Aurel still appears to be leaning backwards. This shocks me.

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Let's see ya do that while wearing a T-Shirt, magnet boy!

If Aurel really wanted to market this skill, he'd go on the strip circuit wearing magnetic compasses on his nipples.
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Aurel was voted "Least likely to be invited to dinner parties" by The Sun's readers.


Interesting that "Raz Ferenc," who applied for the MDC, and this guy, are Romanian. Perhaps they're the same guy, or perhaps they've finally run out of Baywatch reruns there.

Edit: not the same guy, if this photo is accurate: http://www.h3x.host.sk/magnetman/

Here I've straightened The Sun's photo so that the horizon is approximately level. Aurel still appears to be leaning backwards. This shocks me.

[qimg]http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/imagehosting/879046f1694072902.jpg[/qimg]

Let's see ya do that while wearing a T-Shirt, magnet boy!

If Aurel really wanted to market this skill, he'd go on the strip circuit wearing magnetic compasses on his nipples.
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Or become head of the League Of Evil Mutants.......
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I can't be bothered linking it,but the pic with him and the TV covering his torso and head is great.

I do find the Doctor who writes for The Sun sightly worrying.
 
Yeah, I read this today.

Hwy magnet boy, how about picking up a spoon with the back of your hand?

It's only unbelievable thing about this story is that a man balancing common household items on his clammy skin warrants a double page spread in a national newpaper.
 
In yet another synchronistic, weird, coincidental way (cue theramin music), I was going through YouTube videos last night, and came across the "magnetic family". After a brief search, I saw a clip from a Korean TV show that featured... The Amazing Randi! The magnetic guy was sticking stuff to himself, and then Randi came on, put some talcum powder on the guy, and, surprise! The guy lost his powers! At which point some kind of Korean graphic symbol popped up. I can only assume it said something like, "BUSTED!".
 
I know their are people who can make your magnetic tapes and cards null and void. They "apparently" have a lot of magnetism, whether this is "north" or "south" would be unknown without sophisticated devices. By the way, magnetic influences on birds have been proven, and early people could navigate without light just like bats, probably these are powers the ancients had, long forgotten by us (as well as losing our legs from not using them to run and walk any more.)

Like the accountant said to the janitor, its nothing to worry about!!! (no pun intended)!
 
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I know their are people who can make your magnetic tapes and cards null and void.
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You mean through some sort of "natural magnetism" emanating from their bodies, and not by passing a magnet over these objects?

If that's what you mean, I challenge you to produce verifiable evidence of this ability. I'm quite sure you'll find that there is none.

Edit: I should have read your whole post first.
early people could navigate without light just like bats
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There, there, insidespace. There, there.
 
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"I discovered this when I was in the army"
Ummmm... so you mean, you never had spoons attach to you ever before?

Btw, I'm not a physicists or anything, but how does Talc powder proves they are a fraud? I mean, if they had magnetic abilities and talc disables magnetic abilities, wouldn't it just be disabling their abilities, IF (big if of course) they really had any abilities?

Or does Talc Powder not disable magnetic abilities but is used to clean them from any things they might wash themselves with in order to gain the ability?
 
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Edit: I should have read your whole post first.
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The African shaman thread is even better. Telekinetic dogs that mentally increase their weight so cavemen wouldn't steal them. It doesn't have the short punchy catchiness of "dicking my potatoes" but that idea has been one of the most amusing things from here for a long time, at least for me and a few friends.
 
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"I discovered this when I was in the army"
Ummmm... so you mean, you never had spoons attach to you ever before?
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No :eye-poppi

Btw, I'm not a physicists or anything, but how does Talc powder proves they are a fraud? I mean, if they had magnetic abilities and talc disables magnetic abilities, wouldn't it just be disabling their abilities, IF (big if of course) they really had any abilities?
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Quick test time! Put some talcum powder on a fridge magnet. Does it still stick to the fridge?

Or does Talc Powder not disable magnetic abilities but is used to clean them from any things they might wash themselves with in order to gain the ability?
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Well, if you're a sticky sweaty person, talcum powder can fix that for you. It will also help expose sticky sweaty con-artists that place objects on non-vertical surfaces of their bodies (noses, foreheads, or even their chest if they lean backwards a bit)
 
A magnet will stick to metal in spite of talcum powder. After seeing Randi debunk the Korean family, I tested this myself (I am a skeptic after all). Powder seems to make absolutely no difference.
 
I took this picture a couple years ago. I leaned over the utensil drawer to look for something and I came up like this. I think my magnetic ability was powered by the mysterious orb to my left. Actually, I could have got more to stick if I had shaved first.





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Well, I for 1 believe deeply in the "evolution" theory, so there is *no* reason to suppose that animal magnetism just evolved by "chance." Therefore, when early "man" (or "woman, but its not usually siad like that, sorry) walked upright he (or she) had to know where the outside of the dark cave really was. I pretty much assume that caves come are made in rock and rock has some iron in it. Therefore, to find the opening of the cave (necessary when u have to get out in a hurry like when your enemies are coming) the people with animal magnetism could get out and survive for another day to reproduce and make more animal magnetism people.

So you see, if it looks like a fish and breathes water it probably is a fish after all, y' know.

So, fast forward to today's timeframe: you have the decendants of the survivors of the animal magnetism test of escaping the cave, and those who did not escape trapped inside with smoke and enemies and no food.

So, who would survive a little more? And *remember* it doesn't take "much" to make an evolutionary advantage over hundreds (some say thousands) of years!!!

The problem is that no-one to-day knows how to measure how long it took in those smoke filled caves to make a real difference in the "DNA" of your average "cave-man" or "cave-woman" (though those terms *may* not be "pollitically correct" in today's language, even though probably there *were* caves with these early "men" or "women" in them -- hence "cave-men.")

I would bet you anytime dimes to donuts that the guy who can control his animal magnetism would beat the band to the cave door -- and be outside and safe in a N.Y. minute.

Hey, if you bring a knife to a gunfight, what do you think will happen, anyway.

Does this help?
 
Early hominids didn't live in caves, they lived on the African Savannah. Many times they climbed trees. Not so much for caves.
 
insidespace said:
I know their are people who can make your magnetic tapes and cards null and void. They "apparently" have a lot of magnetism, whether this is "north" or "south" would be unknown without sophisticated devices. By the way, magnetic influences on birds have been proven, and early people could navigate without light just like bats, probably these are powers the ancients had, long forgotten by us (as well as losing our legs from not using them to run and walk any more.)

Like the accountant said to the janitor, its nothing to worry about!!! (no pun intended)!
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I assume from your second sentence that this is a joke. please verify. If wrong on the assumption, I will explain (if no one has before that) why you must know nothing about magnetism/magnetic poles/magnetic fields.
 
Can you please return to topic - take the new discussion to a new thread if you wish to continue it.
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insidespace said:
Well, I for 1 believe deeply in the "evolution" theory, so there is *no* reason to suppose that animal magnetism just evolved by "chance." Therefore, when early "man" (or "woman, but its not usually siad like that, sorry) walked upright he (or she) had to know where the outside of the dark cave really was. I pretty much assume that caves come are made in rock and rock has some iron in it. Therefore, to find the opening of the cave (necessary when u have to get out in a hurry like when your enemies are coming) the people with animal magnetism could get out and survive for another day to reproduce and make more animal magnetism people.
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hey, the telekinetic prehistoric dogs were funnier.

1) would 'the enemies' be rushing in from the cave entrance?

2) I've found, from experience, that eyes are very good at distinguishing 'gap' from 'solid rock'. furthermore I've been led to beleive that eyes are not a modern evolutionary development, and our prehistoric ancestors had photoreceptors that are for all intents and purposes the same as ours today.
 
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