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You bumped a thread from June to pat yourself on the back? Typical. And who decides what the right reasons are?

The extent of my rebelliousness would be when I sneeze out a streamer ("No wonder I couldn't breathe!"), then hand it to the nearest kid ("Hold this for me.") But yeah, I got banned from here once. There's some sort of rule against biting people's heads off. I've since found better...

Kid, sarcasm isn't helping your case. When you've paid your dues, then you can get free stuff from the magic community. Since you clearly haven't, you can shut your gob.

I first learned of this story from a slightly different source. Ripley's Believe It or Not. Apparently, in this version the man in question knew there was a combustible chemical in the red ink. He managed to scrape enough together, struck it, and blew himself up.

Who here suggested any such thing?

The problem with accusing me of sh*t like this, is that it's very easy to prove you wrong. Let's start with the accusation that I'm a fanboy who will buy anything my allegedly favorite company. Here's a list of products sold at E that I have not bought, nor do I plan to buy. Ninja 1...

I've encountered this argument before and I can't really say I fully agree with it. We script our acts. At least, I would hope the intelligent among us do. What on earth is wrong with having a standard greeting? And if it's something we came up with, how is that unnatural or not real?

They also seem to hate just about everything in general. I only ever lurk there because most of the threads I see are either them complaining about something, or eventually degenerate into complaining about something. Kind of like what happens here, now that I think of it... Anyway, I'll...

You're trying way too hard. What do you want me to say to you? All you did was attack me for asking a question that made you uncomfortable. So I called you out on it and told you to leave. Notice how you're the only one here truly getting your frilly panties in a twist over this. Still, in...

Notice how this is tagged on almost as an afterthought. "Yeah, I want to show them how much better I am than everybody else! Am I blowing your mind?! And, oh yeah, I guess I could talk to them if I really had to."

Right, because trying to get people to think is for fags, apparently. I stand by my previous statement. I asked this in a place where nobody gives two sh*ts, and it wasn't so much stupidity as arrogance on my part to think that I could snap even one person out of this torpor. Besides you...

And there's the death knell on any hope of intelligent discourse in this thread. This quite easily wins for being the post to have missed the point more magnificently than anybody else. Apparently I'm asking these questions to the wrong people. You're all only thinking of yourselves and why...

The one with performance experience. Robotic sleight monkeys are a dime a dozen. Besides, I know for a fact that I'll never be a sleight of hand messiah. I'm so dominantly left-handed that there is an extremely noticeable size difference between my hands. For example, my left fingers are...

That rather the point isn't it? Here's the thing though. The trend among cardistry to not perform for the laity makes the efforts of advancing the art a little more of an uphill battle. And it's not like it can't be done. Jeff McBride has a classic manipulation routine that he teaches on...

Well that's the thing, isn't it? Who are you trying to appeal to and why? Does anyone here know who the hell their audience is? I see a lot of theories getting thrown around, but unlike with a lot of magicians I've known, not many cardistry specialists seem to know who it is exactly they...

An interesting thought, but that begs the question if that is the only way. Is it? Why or why not? I'm not entirely sure I buy into that logic. Guitarist Michael Angelo can do things I can't, but I could never get into his music. Why am I reminded of the Monty Python argument clinic...

Just so long as you can appreciate the irony.

I don't expect a breakthrough answer on the spot. It's a difficult question. Take your time, because it's not like any of us are going anywhere anytime soon.

Speaking personally, I think the whole idea of money making the decision for him is bullsh*t. His wallet is not a sentient creature with mind control powers (although that would be totally awesome). He was capable of making a decision without turning to his debit card for advice. A more...

No, they've argued with me that it's the same as skateboarding, but I have no idea what the hell that means. They've argued with me that cardistry is artistic, but that's not what I asked. I'm concerned with the ones that do. Don't tell me about the ones that don't, because they don't...