Ok, so it turns out to be an ad for a movie, but the practical joke on members of the public seems real enough.
I'm pretty sure I'd be spooked out by this one too in the real world. Well played, whoever thought it up.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlOxlSOr3_M
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How many decades ago did Candid Camera do similar stuff every week ?
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I say, that's a trifle captious, ON. Although you're right.
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>> I say, that's a trifle captious, ON. Although you're right.
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Sorry, I forgot the smiley. :-)
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I did something similar while sitting at a small, circular table outside a Spanish cafe/bar with my family.
I realised the table was at such a height I could raise it with my knees by lifting my heels off the ground.
I got the family to put our palms down on the table and as a waiter appeared, gently lifted it and made it seem to 'float' around. The waiter rapidly retreated, wide eyed, back inside and re-appeared shortly after with the staff and customers, who saw a typical British family, waiting patiently to be served.
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I like to think I wouldn't fall for it. Easy to get away with that stuff when so many people are prepared to believe in it, in fact actually prefer the supernatural explanation to the rational or even sometimes to the obvious.
Probably works best on the sort of people who go in coffee shops:)
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I don't believe in much, but I do believe that the supernatural is rubbish.
Therefore however hard it may be to spot, when funny things like that happen, it is a trick.
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>> when funny things like that happen, it is a trick.
Indeed. What's more proper observation will nearly always betray it with jerky movement or something of the sort.
If someone started screaming like that for no reason in my presence I would be strongly tempted to whomp them upside the head.
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>> If someone started screaming like that for no reason in my presence I would be
>> strongly tempted to whomp them upside the head.
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I would find all those people shrieking "Oh My God" endlessly very irritating.
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>> I would find all those people shrieking "Oh My God" endlessly very irritating.
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It's worse. It's the American ("Oh My Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad") version. Doubly irritating.
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>> Ok, so it turns out to be an ad for a movie, but the practical
>> joke on members of the public seems real enough.
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>> I'm pretty sure I'd be spooked out by this one too in the real world.
>> Well played, whoever thought it up.
Hmm. I liked that.
I'd like to see Candid camera return.
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>> I'd like to see Candid camera return.
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It's been here for years, only they call it Youtube nowadays.
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>> It's been here for years, only they call it Youtube nowadays.
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As has been said before, satire has had its day because life is imitating fiction.
Everybody acts now as if on candid camera all the time. Just watching people is a scream.
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There was an attempted revival of Candid Camera with a twist a year or so ago. I remember discussing it here in the Seen on TV thread, but I can't remember the title of the show now and it doesn't seem to have achieved a second series. I remember a funny piece in which customers where invited to climb in to the boot of a Citroen DS5 in order to demonstrate its roominess. One particularly winsome girl went for it I seem to recall...........
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>> There was an attempted revival of Candid Camera with a twist a year or so
>> ago. I remember discussing it here in the Seen on TV thread
www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?v=e&t=12485&m=279320
(Impractical Jokers)
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There's always the Brasilian version....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N5OhNplEd4
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They're hamming it up. People only put their hands over their heads when they are pretending to be scared.
Who was screaming in the Munch picture?
a) the person depicted
b) voices inside his head
c) someone else
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Good one.
Also fun is the German twin sisters prank.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bSca90_FBI
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Seen Fool Britannia? Bit childish but has it's moments.
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Hmm. Not being up with these things I now discover there's a huge franchise that does this kind of thing, to wit:
youtu.be/IOnrIDSd20U
Laugh? I never thought I'd start.
I picked the "sexy" one for your general delectation. It's perfectly harmless. Youtube has many others.
On the one hand I think this is appalling, but on the other I'm lost in admiration that this can be so successful worldwide. And somebody is getting rich from it. Very imaginative I'm sure. Benny Hill must be turning in his grave.
I'll be surprised if anyone gets to the end.
Last edited by: Crankcase on Tue 15 Oct 13 at 22:09
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