Nothing would make me believe in psychics more than if one went, ‘oh, your mum was horrible, she’s in an awful place’ and the person they were reading went ‘damn, straight’.
The best depiction of what a real psychic would be like was Ghost from the 90s. Whoopi Goldberg starts as the typical mystical charlatan, but then she - and the ghost world - discover that she's actually psychic. At the end of the movie shes swarmed by ghosts and people alike wanting to communicate with each other, and becomes a harried, impatient jobsworth. She openly dismisses her clients, yells at the ghosts to speak up, even goes on strike - no mysticism whatsoever. It's hilarious.
@@greenredblue I'm not sure Margaret Rutherford as madame arcarta in Blythe spirit is pretty good. Rex Harrison is the lead. It's old but worth a watch!
I would love to see Jimmy Carr host his own version of Crossing Over but instead of giving the audience false closure he just roasts their dead relatives.
Jimmy: "What's your husband's name?" Widowed Wife: "Charlie" Jimmy: "That's odd because all I hear is Daft Cunt, Daft Cunt, Daft Cunt" Widowed Wife: "Oh, that's my Charlie... I'm the Daft Cunt." Jimmy: "It's alright love, he's going back to the spit roast after we're done here... (pause for dramatic effect while looking off to the side and cupping one ear) And... there it is!"
I think the world would be a better place if more people knew about cold reading, Barnum statements, and all the other ways people can hoodwink you like that. It's so obvious once you know what you're looking for, but I've seen even very bright people get sucked in to believing in psychics and fortune-tellers because they get hooked by these statements.
Even Arthur Conan Doyle was fooled by a seance after his son died. In the - admittedly very rare - cases where genuinely brilliant people are fooled, I think it’s not that they’re unaware of the obvious facts or arguments but their emotions are so strong they are overriding that part of their brain in desperate hope, telling themselves there’s a chance in a quintillion and they can’t operate without that.
I had a neighbour called Wendy, years ago, who always played Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen too loud, because her name was in it. I once played Julia by The Beatles too loud in reply. 😁
Good Mornin' Julia, S'me, Joe! Just wanted to say Hi. Wish you a great day. Tell you meeting you yesterday, gettin' to look at you was, probably one of the greatest moments of my life. You were so beautiful. You don't know how beautiful you are to me! I mean, you're gorgeous, You're precious. and, err. But it's been sitting on my mind, when you said to me, you wanna go backwitch you're ex-boyfriend. Please. Erase him from your memory. Don't ever go back in the past. I know. 'Cause I've been there....
Holy cow. I just realized that THIS is the Qi episode where Jimmy learns about the shaved bears in the circus. He got torn apart for it on Big Fat Quiz of.... 12 maybe? I forget.
0:56 but Sean, don't you know? Marcus doesn't smoke cigars, Marcus doesn't smoke cigarettes, Marcus doesn't smoke a pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe....Marcus doesn't smoke the reefer.
Fun fact: When talking about psychics, there is no reason to add the word "fraudulent" as a description. It's called a pleonasm and is the same as saying "a dead corpse".
@@Dougie373 describing two words as having the same meaning is a synonym, using synonyms to describe the same thing is tautology. I can see how what I wrote was unclear. A pleonasm is using more words than are necessary to describe something, like "she was lying with her mouth when she spoke". I just liked the word neoplasm.
The same thing applies to astrology. How the entire World population can be split into only 12 signs of the horoscope goodness only knows! Oh and I’m a Sagittarius.
@@sarahjones8396 and even worse with hogwarts. People go around saying ‘that’s such a hufflepuff thing’. We literally know who created those four labels and when.
I just realised I’ve never met anyone called Wendy. I only know Wendy from Peter Pan (the original Wendy) and Wendy’s the fast food restaurant. Makes sense because it is surprisingly a very unpopular name. I thought it was a timeless name that would be popular from Peter Pan so I’m surprised it’s not more popular.
I remember watching a documentary about all of this. There was one man who was so bad at it it was obvious they were fishing and he started to get heckled by the audience.
Remember seeing a snippet out of a Serbian (?) interview of a "psychic", after the first introduction-question interviewer slapped the fraudster in the face and came with the first real question: How come you didn't see that coming?
I appreciate everyone who exposes these fraudsters' tricks, the way Stephen and the QI writers are doing here. I do wish that the comics wouldn't interrupt him when he's saying something interesting, though, like Jimmy did at the end.
@@Elephantstonica He did. He titled his paper "The fallacy of personal validation: a classroom demonstration of gullibility," published in _The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 44_ pp. 118-123 in 1949. The paper is very expensive, except it's also published for free as a scan by the University of Arizona.
Why do complaints about the increase in annoying RUclips ads get more reactions than substantive comments? Theory 1: Paid trolls? But why? Theory 2: Commissions for AdBlockers? Naw, too weird, but also unethical and ineffective. Theory 3: RUclips wants profits! ROFLMAO. No theory: RUclips is more and more annoying. Please tell me about a better video website.
But SOME of the statements were undoubtedly similar to your experience. And that makes those bits so eerily coincidental. Could it really be a coincidence? I doubt that. In short. With a skilled cold reader. One can never really win. Because they can always weasel out of an apparent misstep.
I thought it was going to be about this: _Peter Pan syndrome is a pop-psychology term used to describe an adult who is socially immature. ... The term has been used informally by both laypeople and some psychology professionals since the 1983 publication of "The Peter Pan Syndrome: Men Who Have Never Grown Up" by Dr. Dan Kiley._ _Kiley also wrote a companion book,"The Wendy Dilemma," published in 1984._ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan_syndrome ISTR it was discussed at the time on reality shows like Oprah and Phil Donahue and Sally Jesse Raphael. A woman in a relationship with a "Peter Pan" guy would say "I'm a Wendy" and describe her situation. Even back then it seemed pretty bizarre.
Since you got me curious and i'm apparently not quite as patiently waiting for answers as you are, here's what Wikipedia has to say: "In Britain, Wendy appeared as a masculine name in a parish record in 1615.[1][2] It was also used as a surname in Britain from at least the 17th century.[3] Its popularity in Britain as a feminine name is owed to the character Wendy Darling from the 1904 play Peter Pan and its 1911 novelisation Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie.[4][5][6]"
Nothing would make me believe in psychics more than if one went, ‘oh, your mum was horrible, she’s in an awful place’ and the person they were reading went ‘damn, straight’.
"Can't say where she is... but she's warm"
🤣🤣🤣
The best depiction of what a real psychic would be like was Ghost from the 90s. Whoopi Goldberg starts as the typical mystical charlatan, but then she - and the ghost world - discover that she's actually psychic.
At the end of the movie shes swarmed by ghosts and people alike wanting to communicate with each other, and becomes a harried, impatient jobsworth. She openly dismisses her clients, yells at the ghosts to speak up, even goes on strike - no mysticism whatsoever. It's hilarious.
@@greenredblue "Shit, girl, what you do to your hair?"
@@greenredblue I'm not sure Margaret Rutherford as madame arcarta in Blythe spirit is pretty good. Rex Harrison is the lead. It's old but worth a watch!
I would love to see Jimmy Carr host his own version of Crossing Over but instead of giving the audience false closure he just roasts their dead relatives.
I'd rather see him roasting the psychics preying on the grief of the vulnerable.
Sounds like Limmy's Paraside
Jimmy: "What's your husband's name?"
Widowed Wife: "Charlie"
Jimmy: "That's odd because all I hear is Daft Cunt, Daft Cunt, Daft Cunt"
Widowed Wife: "Oh, that's my Charlie... I'm the Daft Cunt."
Jimmy: "It's alright love, he's going back to the spit roast after we're done here... (pause for dramatic effect while looking off to the side and cupping one ear) And... there it is!"
Relaying the dead relatives' roasting of the audience
@@helgebrekke, I'd pay to watch that.
Love hearing Sean laugh at jimmys jokes
Love hearing Jimmy laugh at Seans jokes.
*limmy's jokes
I miss Sean 😢
The thumbnail is eerily haunting
That's what the last pringle in the can sees
Sean laugh at 2:47 is great. Never heard him laugh tso hard at a joke. Was bloody funny though Jimmy 🤣
I think the world would be a better place if more people knew about cold reading, Barnum statements, and all the other ways people can hoodwink you like that. It's so obvious once you know what you're looking for, but I've seen even very bright people get sucked in to believing in psychics and fortune-tellers because they get hooked by these statements.
I miss James Randi. He was expert at exposing frauds like that and raising skeptical awareness.
Even Arthur Conan Doyle was fooled by a seance after his son died. In the - admittedly very rare - cases where genuinely brilliant people are fooled, I think it’s not that they’re unaware of the obvious facts or arguments but their emotions are so strong they are overriding that part of their brain in desperate hope, telling themselves there’s a chance in a quintillion and they can’t operate without that.
Hear, hear!
Not a lot of people believe me when I say I'm a medium, but it's true! I'm a genuine medium.
Occasionally I'll wear a large, though.
I'm more of a well done
I'm a fan of 'hibernation ready' sizes.
Did you hear about the psychic with dwarfism who's been on the run from the police? They say there's a small medium at large.
I always wanted to strike a happy medium. Are you happy? Six out of seven dwarfs aren't.
🤣😂🤣
"She's married the Devil"
"What, again?!"
I know a restaurant named Wendy! Magic... pure magic!
No, that was a schoolbus.
Isn't it called Wendy's?
I know Wendy. She is friend of my friend Peter Pan.
I've seen one of her houses
Over in America you'll find Wendy's being used by 1000's of people/hour... you can also refill your plate for free!
"fraudulent psychics"? As in, there's actual genuine ones? 😂
I had a neighbour called Wendy, years ago, who always played Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen too loud, because her name was in it. I once played Julia by The Beatles too loud in reply. 😁
Good Mornin' Julia, S'me, Joe!
Just wanted to say Hi. Wish you a great day. Tell you meeting you yesterday, gettin' to look at you was, probably one of the greatest moments of my life. You were so beautiful. You don't know how beautiful you are to me! I mean, you're gorgeous, You're precious.
and, err. But it's been sitting on my mind, when you said to me, you wanna go backwitch you're ex-boyfriend.
Please. Erase him from your memory. Don't ever go back in the past. I know. 'Cause I've been there....
Such an accurate depiction of the subject. It applies to many areas other than mediums too.
I miss Sean so much
Well I am happy to inform you that he says he is doing well. By the way, did you lose a pet recently?
@@sstills951 no but my Gimp died.
@@swanclipper If you want another please get a rescued one. Gimp mills are unethical. They keep them in huge cages.
@@sstills951Clever 😂
Holy cow. I just realized that THIS is the Qi episode where Jimmy learns about the shaved bears in the circus. He got torn apart for it on Big Fat Quiz of.... 12 maybe? I forget.
I find myself automatically doing it to colleagues when they talk about themselves. Now everyone thinks I'm really insightful.
I am Wendy. I don’t know that many people though 😂
0:56 but Sean, don't you know? Marcus doesn't smoke cigars, Marcus doesn't smoke cigarettes, Marcus doesn't smoke a pipe pipe pipe pipe pipe....Marcus doesn't smoke the reefer.
Fun fact: When talking about psychics, there is no reason to add the word "fraudulent" as a description.
It's called a pleonasm and is the same as saying "a dead corpse".
True, it would only be necessary if we had examples of something else, like saying "a dead corpse" when you're in a zombie apocalypse 🙂
that’s just being redundant and repeating yourself.
Having two words with the same meaning is a tautology, a neoplasm is a growth of abnormal cells (neo - new, plasm - tissue).
@@LudvigIndestrucable Do you mean synonym? And they said pleonasm...
@@Dougie373 describing two words as having the same meaning is a synonym, using synonyms to describe the same thing is tautology.
I can see how what I wrote was unclear.
A pleonasm is using more words than are necessary to describe something, like "she was lying with her mouth when she spoke".
I just liked the word neoplasm.
"Yes, my aunt Wendy just passed away..." "Well! Good news....She's now plenty warm, and all the time!"
My daughter is Wendy... so accurate😂
Mug shots of the British 'Reservoir Dogs'
Thank goodness Jimmy is there to sort out the charlatans.
RIP Sean Lock
There's not a "Wendy" in my life, but I do spend too much time at Wendy's when I don't want to cook...
"Sir, this is a Wendy's"
People also like to hear something and then try and apply something in their life to it.
That's what I do! How did you know!?
The same thing applies to astrology. How the entire World population can be split into only 12 signs of the horoscope goodness only knows! Oh and I’m a Sagittarius.
@@sarahjones8396 and even worse with hogwarts. People go around saying ‘that’s such a hufflepuff thing’. We literally know who created those four labels and when.
Everyone knows it's Wendy.
And Wendy has stormy eyes
Too old a reference for today's kids.
Vanishing negative is double clever
Now, I'm getting the word....
I just realised I’ve never met anyone called Wendy. I only know Wendy from Peter Pan (the original Wendy) and Wendy’s the fast food restaurant. Makes sense because it is surprisingly a very unpopular name. I thought it was a timeless name that would be popular from Peter Pan so I’m surprised it’s not more popular.
I remember watching a documentary about all of this. There was one man who was so bad at it it was obvious they were fishing and he started to get heckled by the audience.
Remember seeing a snippet out of a Serbian (?) interview of a "psychic", after the first introduction-question interviewer slapped the fraudster in the face and came with the first real question: How come you didn't see that coming?
What a thumbnail
"She's doonstairs"
My biological mother is called Wendy. Love thinking about her. :)
I appreciate everyone who exposes these fraudsters' tricks, the way Stephen and the QI writers are doing here. I do wish that the comics wouldn't interrupt him when he's saying something interesting, though, like Jimmy did at the end.
Its British John Green!
she's doonstairs
Does anybody know what he is referring to when he says "fora questions"?
Basically questions that elicit this effect. It's sometimes called the Barnum-Forer Effect.
They're named after Bertram Forer, who did the experiment on his psychology students as Stephen described.
@@EebstertheGreat
He didn’t describe it as the fallacy of personal validation, did he?
@@Elephantstonica He did. He titled his paper "The fallacy of personal validation: a classroom demonstration of gullibility," published in _The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 44_ pp. 118-123 in 1949. The paper is very expensive, except it's also published for free as a scan by the University of Arizona.
@@EebstertheGreat
Oh, I thought so.
Nobody can communicate with the dead because 'as for the dead they know nothing at all'
I know a Wendy.
ME!!
Watch Limmy show.😶👍
Interesting subject when you consider that astrology uses many of these same phrase. Could it be that astrology is bogus?
Yes. Always has been. It's a load of dingo's kidneys.
No, it says Welcome to Newtownmountkennedy have a nice day!!
Who are you?
he stole limmy's patter
It's amazing how similar the fourth guy looks to John Green of the vlog brothers
I actually thought that's who it was in the thumbnail until I double-checked the channel name.
😅
Do You Know A Wendy? | QI 2033pm 29.7.23 a wonderful description of a great many idiots from college....
My mom's name is Wendy
This is why I divorced Wendy... all the gameshow hosts she slept with!!!
Gentleman's diorrhea
goofy ahh thumbnail
Limmy did it better
I do indeed know a Wendy - my brother recently got engaged and his future wife's mother's name is Wendy.
Yeah! I'm early! 😁
And in Germany, people spend around 850.000.000€ for such bullshit phrases per year.
That Marcus is a comedian? Oh, glad he told me.
Why do complaints about the increase in annoying RUclips ads get more reactions than substantive comments?
Theory 1: Paid trolls? But why?
Theory 2: Commissions for AdBlockers? Naw, too weird, but also unethical and ineffective.
Theory 3: RUclips wants profits! ROFLMAO.
No theory: RUclips is more and more annoying. Please tell me about a better video website.
Not all Mediums are Frauds
Howls of derisive laughter, Bruce.
last
I don’t think most of what he said applies to me
I thought so.
But have you ever laid an egg?
But SOME of the statements were undoubtedly similar to your experience. And that makes those bits so eerily coincidental. Could it really be a coincidence? I doubt that.
In short. With a skilled cold reader. One can never really win. Because they can always weasel out of an apparent misstep.
>You try to be selfless but sometimes you do selfish things.
"Nah, that doesn't describe me at all. What a weird thing to say."
@@EebstertheGreatI always try to be selfish, but I can never quite manage it….
The terminally talentless, Marcus Brigstocke
I thought it was going to be about this:
_Peter Pan syndrome is a pop-psychology term used to describe an adult who is socially immature. ... The term has been used informally by both laypeople and some psychology professionals since the 1983 publication of "The Peter Pan Syndrome: Men Who Have Never Grown Up" by Dr. Dan Kiley._
_Kiley also wrote a companion book,"The Wendy Dilemma," published in 1984._
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan_syndrome
ISTR it was discussed at the time on reality shows like Oprah and Phil Donahue and Sally Jesse Raphael. A woman in a relationship with a "Peter Pan" guy would say "I'm a Wendy" and describe her situation. Even back then it seemed pretty bizarre.
Is it true that Wendy as a name didn't exist until Peter Pan was released. JM Barrie made up the name?
Look it up!
Since you got me curious and i'm apparently not quite as patiently waiting for answers as you are, here's what Wikipedia has to say:
"In Britain, Wendy appeared as a masculine name in a parish record in 1615.[1][2] It was also used as a surname in Britain from at least the 17th century.[3] Its popularity in Britain as a feminine name is owed to the character Wendy Darling from the 1904 play Peter Pan and its 1911 novelisation Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie.[4][5][6]"
@@bacul165 Splendid. I shall consider changing my name and becoming the first masculine Wendy since Barrie changed the connotation.
I don't know any Wendy, so I guess that means there will be one in my life soon. - - - How did he know??? 🫢😲
Please, come back here when it happens!