On this day in history: Derren Brown born.
Derren Victor Brown (born 27 February 1971) is an English magician, mentalist, painter and self-professed sceptic regarding paranormal phenomena.
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Coops’ charity moustache
Coops, like my mother and many more of you, has embraced Movember and grown quite the handsome pair of lovelies under his nostrils. It is soon time for him to divest himself of the hairy stripes and once again resemble the baby chimp we have known and loved for so long. Will you donate something towards the Prostate Cancer Charity before he cuts, shaves and moisturises tonight? If you’d like to do this, you can do so here, and your personal level of happiness will be raised by a tiny but important fraction after doing something so kind.
Thank you, please carry on.
x
This is England 86 now on 4oD
There’s no reason for this snippet to be on this site other than perhaps the best PA in the world, Coops and his very average PA, Phillis (the author of this post) are both from the staging ground of this truly fantastic four part series. It’s Nottingham – a great town we all love (and it was on Ch4 too so we have to say they’re great).
So we’re representin’.
Writer and Director Shane Meadows has always represented the area he grew up by staging nearly all his work exclusively there. TIE ’86 is one of the most moving, funny and yet disturbing looks at how we all lived here in Blighty during the mid 80′s.
If you’re new to the series check out the incredible film This is England first. If you’ve not seen the series yet then head to 4oD now, if you have then check out his equally fantastic Small Time – available 18th October on DVD.
One day I’d like to meet Shane and shake his hand.
This is England 86 - Now available on 4oD
Happy Birthday Coops!
It’s young Coops Birthday and this time instead of flooding his email – you shuold follow him on @lordcoopy and say a Happy 13th Birthday to him yourself.
Coops’ changes his (tiny little) mind.
Turns out we may prefer Cheese and Onion “French Fries”, Just a thought.
Yours, cowering in shame.
Coops
Coops is at it again.
Not content with his job as the Mr Browns trusty assistant, Coops has taken to re-editing Family guy and is not applying for a job at Disney. Follow him on Twitter @lordcoopy where I’m sure you’ll find out about more of his shenanigans.
Tweety, tweet, tweet
As our twitter accounts start to burn up we’re seeing DB reach 100,000 – so if you’re number 100k we’ll be sending you a free little prize just get in touch and we’ll give it to the Royal Mail to lose on your behalf.
@derrenbrown is the main DB account – say something interesting or send links in for a response. Art news, competitions, offers and funny stuff will be coming from the wonderful @lordcoopy. Things that are amusing but just a bit “too blue” to put on the blog (like this for example) from @phillisdorris feat. @AbeoDBArt (you must be over 18 to follow Phillis&Abeo and not be squeamish or easily offended).
Please don’t email us about twitter – just twitter us. If you twitter us something good and we re-tweet – your @username gets tattooed on Coops bottom.
Twitter image above from the fantastic Steave Hearn
Scam of the week
The new telephone ‘scam’ has arrived. I received a call from a ‘representative’ of BT, informing me that he was dis-connecting me because of an unpaid bill. He demanded payment immediately of £31.00, or it would be £ 118.00 to re-connect at a later date. The guy wasn’t even fazed when I told him I was with Virgin Media, allegedly VM have to pay BT a percentage for line rental! I asked the guy’s name – the very ‘English’ John Peacock with a very ‘African’ accent – & phone number – 0800 0800 152 0800 0800 152.
Obviously the fella realized I wasn’t believing his story, so offered to demonstrate that he was from BT. I asked how & he told me to hang up & try phoning someone – he would dis-connect my phone to prevent this. AND HE DID !! My phone was dead – no engaged tone, nothing – until he phoned me again.
Very pleased with himself, he asked if that was enough proof that he was with BT. I asked how the payment was to be made & he said credit card, there & then. I said that I didn’t know how he’d done it, but I had absolutely no intention of paying him, I didn’t believe his name or that he worked for BT. He hung up.
Did 1471 & phoned his fictitious 0800 number – not recognised. I phoned the police to let them know, I wasn’t the first! It’s only just started apparently but it is escalating. Their advice was to let as many people know by word of mouth of this scam. The fact that the phone does go off would probably convince some people it’s real, so please let as many friends & family be aware of this.
This is good but not that clever. He gave the wrong number – it should have been 0800 800152 0800 800152 which takes you through to BT Business. The cutting off of the line is very simple, he stays on the line with the mute button on and you can’t dial out – but he can hear you trying (This is because the person who initiates a call is the one to terminate it).
When you stop trying he cuts off and immediately calls back. You could almost be convinced! The sad thing is that it is so simple that it will certainly fool the elderly and vulnerable. Obviously, if this scam is real, once they have your credit/debit card details, there is nothing to stop them cleaning out your account.
Thanks to Carl for this.
Batman AND Superman – Imagine it!
AIRPORT SECURITY: What’s your name?
PASSENGER: Batman.
AIRPORT SECURITY: Your real name, please.
PASSENGER: My name IS Batman.
AIRPORT SECURITY: Are you trying to be funny?! What’s your surname?
PASSENGER: Superman.
Airport security handcuffs him & puts him in a locked security facility.
Then they checked his passport…
I really hope this is true.
Thanks go out to Dave for sending me this.
C x
