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bmat wrote:Oh for the love of mike.

yes?

greedoniz wrote:That is the most dreadful display I think I have ever seen (apart from my drunk chop cup routine).
Another example of overly supportive parents giving a child with no talent too much praise and support. After a display of that ilk he should be locked in the attic for a few days and told to give it up.

i have a family that is the flip side of that. They tell me how awful i am and i aint joking.

Markdini wrote:I have a family that is the flip side of that. They tell me how awful I am and I aint joking.

As a kid I respected the honesty of family and friends when they told me I was rubbish.

It makes you work harder and try harder.

That first video, well he is just a kid. Yes I know, he was awful and I really don't have a clue where he learnt that awful method from but he's only about, what 11?

Most of us have been there, we were keen and wanted to go running out and showing someone every time we learnt a new trick. We might not have posted it for the world to see on YouTube but we've all done it. I remember when I was about 9, everytime I learnt a new trick I'd go running downstairs to show my mum. It's a sign of being keen I think. With anyluck, he'll find himself a real audience, learn the importance of presentation and then start to improve.

As for the guy having a rant, what can I say except 'grow up'

That ranting bloke had a comment saying "i hate performing for amature magicians they always say i know how you done that" I like to bet that chap is an amature too.

Conversely Lomster I didnt own my own cards untill i was about 22. Do you know how hard it is to find a deck of cards in York? I know it is a backwards part of the world but come of it. I ended up getting some very nice chad valley cards.

This isn't just the fault of YouTube, it's the fault of Ellusionist et al who put flashy magic DVDs out, leading every kid to think that to be "cool" you don't have to grow the cajones to actually perform magic, you just have to do a video tutorial.

It's amazing, they've really practiced and perfected that bored, condescending explanatory tone of voice!

what a poor and deprived childhood you had Mark, my first cards were a pack of Disney Princesses cards if I remember rightly

Time where hard when i was growing up i can tell you. I wasnt interested in magic till me 20's I thought it was a load of flash people showing of to pull. And i was right

Probabaly a good thing you waited until your 20s really, just think how many packs of cards you'd have ruined with your hands all covered in soot from those hours of sweeping chimneys.

"You were a chimney sweep?! Aye, you were lucky..."

Four yorkshire men second longest rrunning joke on tm. And coins? I had no coins to practise with...

Coins? Coins? I had to practice with red hot coals out of t' fire. And I were grateful.

If i didnt make coins appear out of thin air we wouldnt have had any money!

aww you peasants are so sweet, I couldn't use coals, the servants wouldn't let me near the fire.

I have always had a fantasy about a servent girl....Anyway now I hob-nob with the rich and famous life is grand. By that i once met a bloke in a band that had some sucsess in germany and goths like him.