User talk:Amilnerwhite

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Hello, Amilnerwhite. You have new messages at Talk:Mutatis mutandis.
Message added 12:36, 10 November 2009 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

This is a confusing article I agree. I shall try to organise it a little. Si Trew (talk) 12:36, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Ukrainian conman

Hi,

thanks a lot for your comment on the Andriy Slyusarchuk page. I was starting to think that people of sane mind were all busy doing stuff offline :). I think there's a procedure to solve conflicts, through a vote, to get the crazy claims of the mage Slyusarchuk out of there for good. If you know how to do and care maybe you could start it. Drop me a line to get my vote. Maybe you can find support in the science portal. I guess Nazark (Slyusarchuk himself ?) will ask all ukrainien users to vote to keep the mind reading stuff on, but it's worth trying i guess. I just can't believe that you have to have this ridiculous battle over the internet to say that people don't fly, read minds, move objects by thoughts etc. What's the year ? 1250 ?World citoyen (talk) 14:28, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

OK, I guess Wikipedia cannot be insanity free. Yes the worst (driving without looking at the road) is gone, thanks, but the mind control claim is still there. The source is some silly TV show where he pays with a small note and because of a mental trick the shop keeper believes it's a big note. Using such source I can say that the singer Sting also has such power (see the movie Dune). Alec Guinness too (see Star Wars IV).

Actually some Russian or Ukrainian article was quoted in a very good European weekly magazine, which is how I found about it. Since you're more interested in the article about pi, the only proof supporting his claim about remembering 30 million digits is here http://kinoplaneta.net/video/753/index.html . The TV speaker says a few words in Russian about the showman, that he can read a book in 10 minutes ( yeah me too, I read War and Peace in 10 minutes, I remember it's something about Russia), and that he broke a record by remembering 30 million digits. She goes on saying that he knows how the brain works and therefore can use its full potential, which he claims is unlimited (I thought only human stupidity and the universe were infinite!). "He cannot explain in words, but can demonstrate it". The whole demonstration consists of him saying, in Ukrainian 9,3,1,7,3,0,1,6,0,1 (supposedly the numbers in the 13th volume, page 324, line 56 or something like this). After which he serves some BS about mnemotechnic method. Bring on some cameras and I'll say the 20 digits that come after the billionth digit of pi :). The guy is like Uri Geller, except he's maybe too dumb to learn foreign languages, otherwise he'd be on the worst TV shows of the world (or maybe he knows only in Ukraine his tricks wouldn't be revealed). He's also too dumb to write some useless books about how to train your brain (or those books are only in Ukraine). —Preceding unsigned comment added by World citoyen (talk • contribs) 09:06, 1 December 2009 (UTC)