Quote: Aaron @ February 21 2009, 12:42 AM GMTLee, that story is superb. What happened in the deputy head's office?
He got a clip round the ear, of course.
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Things you bragged about at school but never did.. Page 2
Quote: Badge @ February 21 2009, 1:16 AM GMT(I'm on all night)
Said the night nurse to the tampon.
Quote: Aaron @ February 21 2009, 12:42 AM GMTLee, that story is superb. What happened in the deputy head's office?
He basically put his face an inch from mine and yelled and played the hardman, like he did with everyone that crossed him. I'd kind of worked out by that time how to tune him out though...his strategy was always to try to make you cry but I used to do that thing you do with magic eye pictures - you know where you unfocus your eyes and stare at a point behind what you're supposed to be looking at. When you do that with your eyes it becomes easy to mentally tune-out what's going on too. So I was kind of staring at his big foamy mouth opening and closing but not really listening to what he was saying. In my mind I was in the arms of the lovely Michelle Prior, my would-be girlfriend. (Would-be if she hadn't found me so hideous) 
Quote: Lee Henman @ February 21 2009, 2:34 AM GMTI was kind of staring at his big foamy mouth opening and closing...
Oh, don't stop! ... >_< Never mind...
Quote: Lee Henman @ February 20 2009, 8:21 PM GMTFor quite a while I had the entire school convinced that I could bend spoons with my mind. In actual fact I'd tried it a few times at home and did have some success - but could never replicate it at school, so I'd just bend the cutlery with brute force when people weren't looking. It went on for years until I got pissed off with the whole thing and told everyone I'd been having them on. They didn't believe me. The lie had grown into a monster, which culminated in Mrs Ferguson (a very strict and entirely-unpleasant teacher), pulled me out of class and forced me to stand in front of her own class (a group of about 40 kids) and "perform". I found out later that she'd been telling the kids that the paranormal was nonsense, and one of the kids had mentioned me, so her plan was to humiliate and debunk me in front of everyone.
Anyway, she'd got a load of paperclips and put them into a jar so I couldn't touch them. She said if there was one bent paperclip in the jar after I'd held it, she'd write an article in the school rag announcing her belief in the paranormal. What actually happened was all of the paperclips bent. Maybe it was the pressure of the moment and all the kids rooting for me or whatever, but something major happened in that sealed glass jar about 20 seconds into me holding it. I gave it back to her and she opened it to much laughter in the class. She sent me back to my class, and ten minutes later I was called to the deputy head's office and hauled over the coals for "playing a cruel trick" on Mrs Ferguson.
And before anyone asks, no I can't do it anymore. It was strictly confined to my teen years, when I was extra-freaky. I've since read up on the subject and it's actually quite a common thing with troubled kids - although most hide it instead of showboating like I did.
Bizarre story that ain't it? But true!
Quote: Lee Henman @ February 20 2009, 8:21 PM GMTFor quite a while I had the entire school convinced that I could bend spoons with my mind. In actual fact I'd tried it a few times at home and did have some success - but could never replicate it at school, so I'd just bend the cutlery with brute force when people weren't looking. It went on for years until I got pissed off with the whole thing and told everyone I'd been having them on. They didn't believe me. The lie had grown into a monster, which culminated in Mrs Ferguson (a very strict and entirely-unpleasant teacher), pulled me out of class and forced me to stand in front of her own class (a group of about 40 kids) and "perform". I found out later that she'd been telling the kids that the paranormal was nonsense, and one of the kids had mentioned me, so her plan was to humiliate and debunk me in front of everyone.
Anyway, she'd got a load of paperclips and put them into a jar so I couldn't touch them. She said if there was one bent paperclip in the jar after I'd held it, she'd write an article in the school rag announcing her belief in the paranormal. What actually happened was all of the paperclips bent. Maybe it was the pressure of the moment and all the kids rooting for me or whatever, but something major happened in that sealed glass jar about 20 seconds into me holding it. I gave it back to her and she opened it to much laughter in the class. She sent me back to my class, and ten minutes later I was called to the deputy head's office and hauled over the coals for "playing a cruel trick" on Mrs Ferguson.
And before anyone asks, no I can't do it anymore. It was strictly confined to my teen years, when I was extra-freaky. I've since read up on the subject and it's actually quite a common thing with troubled kids - although most hide it instead of showboating like I did.
Bizarre story that ain't it? But true!
Lee are you actually saying you believe you had telekinetic powers, or that a school room of children were able to change the physical shape of an object without touching it?
I'm not mocking, just wondering if you believe it would be possible 
Quote: Lee Henman @ February 20 2009, 8:21 PM GMTFor quite a while I had the entire school convinced that I could bend spoons with my mind. In actual fact I'd tried it a few times at home and did have some success - but could never replicate it at school, so I'd just bend the cutlery with brute force when people weren't looking. It went on for years until I got pissed off with the whole thing and told everyone I'd been having them on. They didn't believe me. The lie had grown into a monster, which culminated in Mrs Ferguson (a very strict and entirely-unpleasant teacher), pulled me out of class and forced me to stand in front of her own class (a group of about 40 kids) and "perform". I found out later that she'd been telling the kids that the paranormal was nonsense, and one of the kids had mentioned me, so her plan was to humiliate and debunk me in front of everyone.
Anyway, she'd got a load of paperclips and put them into a jar so I couldn't touch them. She said if there was one bent paperclip in the jar after I'd held it, she'd write an article in the school rag announcing her belief in the paranormal. What actually happened was all of the paperclips bent. Maybe it was the pressure of the moment and all the kids rooting for me or whatever, but something major happened in that sealed glass jar about 20 seconds into me holding it. I gave it back to her and she opened it to much laughter in the class. She sent me back to my class, and ten minutes later I was called to the deputy head's office and hauled over the coals for "playing a cruel trick" on Mrs Ferguson.
And before anyone asks, no I can't do it anymore. It was strictly confined to my teen years, when I was extra-freaky. I've since read up on the subject and it's actually quite a common thing with troubled kids - although most hide it instead of showboating like I did.
Bizarre story that ain't it? But true!
Wow! Remind me not to dump a bucket of pigs blood over you at a school disco after you get crowned prom queen,.
I was made house captain after offering to die horribly for my house.
I didn't I was probably the worst house captain they ever had but we still won the interhouse competition.
Despite me doing nothing but lose 3 chess games in the contest.
Sorry, but nobody can bend an object with their mind. Period.
A reverse kind of thing. I entered a poem in the school house literary competition under a friends name and when his name was announced as the winner he had to go and collect his prize.
Quote: Marc P @ February 21 2009, 4:23 PM GMTA reverse kind of thing. I entered a poem in the school house literary competition under a friends name and when his name was announced as the winner he had to go and collect his prize.
Swot.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ February 21 2009, 12:42 PM GMTLee are you actually saying you believe you had telekinetic powers, or that a school room of children were able to change the physical shape of an object without touching it?
I'm not mocking, just wondering if you believe it would be possible
I don't know. All I know is it happened. I've got an open mind so yes, I do believe that given the right circumstances spontaneous things like this do happen.
They say that poltergeist activity is always centred around hormonal teenagers too, so who knows?
Quote: DaButt @ February 21 2009, 3:40 PM GMTSorry, but nobody can bend an object with their mind. Period.
DaButt - you're wrong mate. But whatever makes you happy...
Quote: Lee Henman @ February 21 2009, 6:29 PM GMTDaButt - you're wrong mate. But whatever makes you happy...
Sorry, but it's right up there with people who claim to have been abducted by flying saucers. They may think it really happened, but it didn't. There's not the slightest bit of scientific proof to say otherwise and it's never been demonstrated under anything resembling controlled conditions.
Quote: DaButt @ February 21 2009, 6:33 PM GMTSorry, but it's right up there with people who claim to have been abducted by flying saucers. They may think it really happened, but it didn't. There's not the slightest bit of scientific proof to say otherwise and it's never been demonstrated under anything resembling controlled conditions.
Neither has God but a lot of people believe in him. Far as I can see if you're a Christian, you believe in magic.
And yes, there has been scientific studies that have proved the existence of psychokinesis / ESP. But these studies are NEVER enough to sway the critics. If you don't believe it's possible, you'll never believe it.
If I was to stand in front of you now, with a spoon that you'd taken from your own cutlery drawer, and bend it without force, you'd say I'd cheated or it was a trick. (Not that I could do that - as I say it was very brief period that weird things like that used to happen when I was a kid). But my point is, if the proof were in front of you, you still wouldn't believe it. And that's fine. As I say, whatever gets you through the day
Quote: Lee Henman @ February 21 2009, 6:40 PM GMTAnd yes, there has been scientific studies that have proved the existence of psychokinesis / ESP. But these studies are NEVER enough to sway the critics.
Critics? Or scientists with a firm grasp of physics, etc? Got any proof that has stood up to scientific scrutiny? I doubt it.
Quote: Lee Henman @ February 21 2009, 6:40 PM GMTBut my point is, if the proof were in front of you, you still wouldn't believe it. And that's fine. As I say, whatever gets you through the day
There's a million dollars that says it can't be done. Many have tried, but all have failed. There's a reason for it - it's all bunk.
Quote: DaButt @ February 21 2009, 6:44 PM GMTCritics? Or scientists with a firm grasp of physics, etc? Got any proof that has stood up to scientific scrutiny? I doubt it.
There's a million dollars that says it can't be done. Many have tried, but all have failed. There's a reason for it - it's all bunk.
Do you believe in God?