Competition – win some stuff
Derren has set up a chance for you to win some Alton Towers stuff – (OK Coops helped a bit too). Head over to the Competitions page and take a look or click here.
Derren has set up a chance for you to win some Alton Towers stuff – (OK Coops helped a bit too). Head over to the Competitions page and take a look or click here.
Omfg *starts thinking of ideas*
Hmm…
Can I stage a £100,000 robbery by hypnotising/coaxing some dudes?
Oh, wait..
I shall think of something!!
Doh, shame it has to be after the date of comp. I done quite a bit of charity work in the past with sick kids.
Is Derren smoking a fag on that ride?
Lol… that’s one way to try and bring some ‘good’ back into this world I guess 😉
I always try to do ‘good deeds’ but have never really seen much need to be rewarded for it.
Doesn’t seeking a reward kind of detract from the overall intentions of doing good deeds? 😛
Thanks Woolf, we’re all about the greys here! hehe 😀
So basically any act of kindness involving derek acorah bound, gagged, in some sort of gimp mask dangling from Thames bridge holding a copy of your book with a sign saying “don’t watch my poor attempt at a tv show, switch off your tv , show some kindness to your eyes and read this novel of wonders instead…”… Derren , I think you have a winner already and I think you can already see the vision in your head so a photo is not required.
Really? I hadn’t noticed.
Haha 😉
I am inclined to agree — any act which is done in pursuit of something signed by Derren is not an act of kindness at all 🙂
The kindest thing I do is smile at people and let them breathe the same air as me, that is a kindness beyond perfection.
This seems a little hard for a fridge magnet and some sherbert! But I’ll do it anyway 😛 Maybe I’ll give one of Nottinghams many bums my spare room, although the smell would be bad 🙁
@rhett
That comment just cracked me up – Great.
# Emma Rose Says:
May 11th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
This seems a little hard for a fridge magnet and some sherbert!
There is a recession going on you know.
Coops face on that ride is legend!
He’s not smoking a cig, he’s picking his nose.
emma rose maybe you could start by not calling homeless people bums but having a little look at the range of contexts, many reasons and variety of peoples who find themselves in circumstances less fortunate than your own. Oh and by the way – you smell.
Lol.
Can you feel the love here people? 😉
I believe American’s call homeless people ‘bums’, so it could just be a linguistic mis-understanding.
Either way, it’s not a great idea to go and pick one up at random to offer them accomodation in your home.
So yeah… peace people 🙂
(Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about the universe!?)
Sorry that’s just what we call them here! If I needed to be politically correct I’ll call them the residentially challenged, hows that? Although since they don’t have the internet I won’t be offending any one.
….I smell sexy
Pity its not a caption competition of that ride photo and not a ‘be good and get a prezie comp’ – DB – ‘Hey Coops this weed is realllllly goooood’ Coops – ‘ Yeh man like tell me about it, have you seen my right hand!’
Hmm…Love the magnet! …Is the handgesture a ´looking-relaxed-thinking´-attempt? lol…Coopie´s teeth Brilliant…might just become a trend, in america some people seem to like fake teeth with stuff on it and pay thousaaands of dollars for it…
Maybe that´s something for Emma Rose, so you might look like a bum too…a rich bum if you like 😉
So thinking up something kind is required for the competition …mwahh… a few weeks will do…
xx
Although, if something is done for personal gain, (in this case a rather stunning fridge magnet and a packet of sweets), then perhaps it isn’t as kind as randomly giving a stranger a bunch of flowers because they looked down and that sort of thing, but it’s still a kind act to the person you’re doing it for and this is a sweet idea for a competition. Derren using his influence, (and bribes), to get us to be kinder is a lovely idea.
A month ago in our local paper there was a paint company that painted the whole of an old mans house and garden fence for free because the week before he’d had an a*sehole door to door decorator rip him off with a half hearted crap paint job. The good painters got advertising for their company so they got something out of it but they didn’t have to help the old guy out so everyone’s a winner.
Woah, longwinded or what!
Spread the kindess.
x
I live in the US… can I still participate in this awesome competition?
Emma Rose – Nice response 🙂
@jacqueline
Aww thanks, I couldnt resist lol 😉
ah shit, I’m never going to win this. Tonight the girl in front of me in the shop was complaining that she’d been given the wrong change. Coincidentally I found a fiver outside the shop. And kept it.
i like the bit where derren pretend to smoke a cigarette,
Ha, good competition, don’t have a clue what to do to enter though.
Pieter (friend/magic partner) suggested we set an old lady’s house on fire, so we could rescue her. Then give her a kitten. Rolled up in a newspaper (for the date). Oh, and this morning (he’s staying over for the week), he seems to have been practicing the kindness thing by going off to the shops to buy me some margerine, as I was out. Meanwhile leaving me freaked out upon waking up, as he’d made off with my only housekey (which, incidentally, is attached to my wallet).
We are SO totally going to win this…. *grins*
Anyway, I love the competition, but it’s kind of funny to imagine all blog-readers having to get out a camera and a newspaper before they do anything kind these next few weeks!
@
My comment was not about linguistics or political correctness it was about introducing the idea of having respect for a fellow human being and not calling them derogatory names or dismissing them based on assumption or convenience.
No-ones perfect , but I thought your comment wasnt fair.
We all smell.
Guys! I have come up with ideas for you all!
1. Raise an orphaned baby squirrel or pigeon (you may have to orphan it by turning the parents into road kill)
2. Teach a robot to love
3. Die for our sins (might want to resurrect yourself afterwards or it’s a waste of a perfectly good fridge magnet).
@ Screaming – please… no cheating. Becoming Jesus warrants immediate disqualification and you go on “the list”.
Ehehehe ….. kind acts? … Thats quite a lot to ask to the angelic part of my brain … Why not develish acts … oh wait ..you mean actually develish but then described in such a way that it sort of is kind .. especially to (or when it comes from) develish people .. like Derren and Coops …
Weeks we have you write …. and photographic evidence … porn is not allowed I guess? It’s ofcourse also a bit too obvious when a picture shows someone serving someone in a specific way and that person winns …. nah .. way too obvious .. (no no .. coops, that is out of the question … I can see you go already .. one after the other serving you and in the end you choosing someone who will not serve unless she/he gets the prize first …. ). Oh, I’m on to you .. you dirty brits …
A dirty mind is a joy forever as an ancient wise (probably brittish) expressions says …
SGC – as I might have mentioned I’ve already inadvertantly orphaned a bunch of baby squirrels by feeding their parents Bounty bars. Then I switched to feeding the survivors peanuts. Does that count as a random act of kindness?
Failing that I could always dye for your sins… seems more practical than dying for your sins and also adds a splash of colour to this grey and depressing world!
But what should I dye? Bedclothes? Jeans? My hair?
BTW on a related martyrdom note, I always thought it was a strange setup back when I was made to say prayers at school when the preacher would say to the congregation “Jesus rose from the dead and sitteth on the right hand of the father…”
Surely if you’re god that would be a bit irritating if you’re attempting to run the known universe and your son is sat on your right hand, quite apart from cutting off the blood circulation to your fingers!
Didn’t it ever occur to God to tell Jesus to scoot over and get off his hand. I thought that kind of awkward scenario only happened on crowded buses.
I guess after a few minutes spent thinking up how to broach the subject it just becomes too embarrassing to point it out and you’re just left biting your lip for eternity in the hope that Jesus will get up by himself eventually.
Or maybe that’s just the repressed English solution to the problem. Does this mean God is English?
Perhaps I was the only one that found that whole idea strange!
@Phillis: Oh, surely I must already be on “the list” by now!
@Flapjack: maybe you could photograph yourself praying for Jesus to get off his father’s hand.
As my entry I am going to rescue any and all kittens Derren Brown puts in a box. Or people, whichever he goes for first.
And I rescued a stray mouse only a couple of weeks ago. “Dave” now has a luxury apartment with all mod cons and will no doubt be living the rest of his relatively short life being pampered and cleaned-up-after.
Drat it.
Still, off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of O..xford tonight. Yay, etc.
I’m just trying to imagine the odd reaction I’d get after doing something kind for someone and then asking them to pose with today’s paper so I can prove it… people think I’m strange enough already!!
Does it count as kind if you stop doing something unkind?
I’m currently tring to convince my sister we have a ghost (or that she is insane) by moving ornaments around the house and tilting the paintings slightly and then denying all knowledge of how it happened, not going so well because she is the most unobservant person in the world and hasn’t noticed yet… but its only a matter of time.
After a visit to the Safari park at the weekend, I’m thinking that giving the baboons the freedom of the city of Liverpool would be a wonderful kind act.
And I could even photograph the greasemonkeys at Halfords who’d benefit from the sudden rise in replacement wipers and wingmirrors! (then again I live in Toxteth, so I’m not sure if they’d notice a difference).
I’ve always wanted to get a realistic looking plush toy baboon to stick to my car roof as I leave the Safari Park… just to see what would happen.
@Flapjack – That’s a brilliant idea! I’d pay to see that!
I’m thinking of donating my boyfriend to scientists for experiments. They may be able to make some medical advances. With all the people I’d be helping, and animals that would no longer need testing on it would be a very kind act!
Emma Rose – got to ask… boyfriend vivisection? What’s with that? Does he hog the remote?
here you lovely creatures …. here’s some love vibes …. raining down on you …. Can you feel it …
LOVE ….
Let’s embrace the universe ..
Let’s spread universal love
Those who do have trouble enhancing theirselves to the love vibe ..
you can try a bit of xts or whatever new modern drug will serve the same purpose …
So, Coops and Derren .. the winner you pick will have to be cancelled … as she/he must be on xtc or such … I mean .. where the heck did the other brain half all of a sudden go to .. and also, how do you know they did not bribe someone … just to make them look good/kind …
ehehe …
I’m sure there’s no need to discuss who is really really kind here …
Just check the most vicious buts here and there you go … it’s just a matter of disguising your weaker part (some feel that their kindness is their weak part).
Soft healers make festering wounds … spanking a few here and there is in a way way more kind to someone sometimes …
So, who needs some spanking and who likes to give some spanking (no SM mistress/master please, that’s another way of seeing upon things), that’s the question Derren and Coops ask.
At least that’s what I read …
Now I wonder … how come so many people read something else than the words itself say at times … Wait, perhaps it does make a difference .. who it comes from … As we all know our brains automatically adapt to the other brain level on the other side … pre programmed as we are …
I mean, why would male want to feel fuzzy on the inside??????
Angel,
You are indeed amongst some of the more unique creatures on this earth 😉
Here’s one of my attempts at doing a ‘good’ thing. I’ll try to cheer all who read this (and follow the link) up.
I thought I’d just redirect everyone’s attention to this extremely classic and epic tune, watch it all the way through.
Bare in mind though… you may end up humming or singing it as you all carry out your good deeds… lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f_HsjpSVaI
And to save anyone asking me…
Yes I do actually like it and no, I’m not 😉
Although I doubt this will win at all… I’m not after the prizes, just in case 😛
(Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about the universe!?)
The kindest act known to man – and I suppose woman – is undoubtedly parting with such a rare, two-of-a-kind fridge magnet and some mind-bending straws (one presumes they work by placing afore mentioned straw in the ear and twisting to the right) .
I therefore propose that in order to prevent the paradox of hedonism from bending our minds, you simply give away the magnet to a random person. You therefore win by default but, importantly, defy the paradox because you first proposed the competition.
And seeing as I solved the paradox, I’m willing to be the random person.
Picture of me writing this post with the BBC News website in the background will be submitted in due course.
This just makes me think of Bill & Ted, “Be excellent to each other”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVXGC896Jdw
Party on dudes!
Okay, okay. How many of you would sponsor me to eat a packet of cat food on video so I can donate the money to charity? Haha.
Although seriously.
who would?
;D
I’ll sponsor you! (thats a kind act too!)
I always think cat food smells nice. Smells meant to be closely linked to taste, but I wouldn’t bet on it in this case!
Hmm, I’ve never particularly enjoyed the smell of cat food, but I’ve always been curious as to how it tastes. Same with that special dog chocolate you can buy.
I think cat food smells a lot like spam. And if spam is meant for human comsumption (just about) then cat food can’t be THAT bad right?
Well good luck to everyone entering the contest. (:
I can’t think of any ways of entering without it costing me money and as a cash-strapped student its not good.
I already ate cat food (weird food preferences), it’s not bad,.The dry cat food that is. The wet food smells quite nice indeed. But I’m vegetarian, so a no go for me there.
What about eating the worms described above in the other post. I’m sure this land owner is happy to ship you a few?
What about eating … erm .. the stuff in your ear? A dinner spoon of it, and it has to be from Derren. Must be a magical experience. We will become so jealous, but hey .. only one of us can be the winner, huh?!
Wouldn’t it be kind to become one of Derren’s subjects on stage and pretend it did not fail?
I am so kind …. for not haven eaten you afterwards …
Need I say more … I am Kind & Red ..
Meet me underneath your hat
atmosphere hot, steamy and wet
the prize please, just like I said.
I’m a gay missionary in Moscow (Dutch group ‘de toppers’ entering the euro vision song festival): I think that is a nice kind thing to do. Spreading the word of gay spirituality overthere a bit (whatever that may be ..). I might end up in a prison overthere but hey .. it’s the kindest thing I could think of to do to winn this prize.
I think I’ll have Jeroen or Rene take my place if prison would come into the picture. I’m way too popular in Holland.
Anyhow, gay to gay .. give me the prize damned!
You don’t want me over there in a theatre next to you I presume …. a little fan competition, but then a bit different than this one ……
Gordon rules!