# I'm pretty sure spoon bending is a real psychic power
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pretty-sure-spoon-bending-is-a-real-psychic-power/612407
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [February 10, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pretty-sure-spoon-bending-is-a-real-psychic-power/612407 "2012-02-10T14:31:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pretty-sure-spoon-bending-is-a-real-psychic-power/612407/1 "2012-02-10T14:31:16Z")
Which is incredibly useful in the real world.
Because you know, [magnetic fields](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=641527) and [brain scans](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=641582)…
and shit.
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### Author:  [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pretty-sure-spoon-bending-is-a-real-psychic-power/612407/2 "2012-02-10T14:32:06Z")
Too soon. Too easy.
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pretty-sure-spoon-bending-is-a-real-psychic-power/612407/3 "2012-02-10T14:32:18Z")
But but but the guy has a YouTube video about it. It must be true.
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### Author:  [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pretty-sure-spoon-bending-is-a-real-psychic-power/612407/4 "2012-02-10T15:06:56Z")
I had to give up spoon bending. My wife got tired of replacing the silverware.
I went for an MRI once but my intense magnetic personality was the reversed polarity of the machine and they cancelled out.
I caused the northeast blackout of 2003 when I drove too close to a power plant.
My brainwaves are AC.
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### Author:  [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pretty-sure-spoon-bending-is-a-real-psychic-power/612407/5 "2012-02-10T15:11:15Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#):
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> My brainwaves are AC.
Do you need to wear a special hat when you travel overseas?
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### Author:  [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pretty-sure-spoon-bending-is-a-real-psychic-power/612407/6 "2012-02-10T15:12:30Z")
Yea, I always thought people claiming they could spoon-bend were kinda unambitious. If you were going to claim an imaginary power, you mind as well go for broke. Being able to bend a small piece of metal if its within arms reach is about as worthless an ability as I can imagine. Aquaman has better superpowers then that.
Alchemists used to claim they could turn lead into gold. Now _that’s_ a power with some obvious real-world applications.
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### Author:  [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pretty-sure-spoon-bending-is-a-real-psychic-power/612407/7 "2012-02-10T15:13:02Z")
Ladies and Gentlemen, the comic stylings of **Nars Glinley**!
hahahahahaha
You guys do know how this scam is pulled off, right?
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### Author:  [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pretty-sure-spoon-bending-is-a-real-psychic-power/612407/8 "2012-02-10T15:52:47Z")
I think I know why God doesn’t heal spoon benders.
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pretty-sure-spoon-bending-is-a-real-psychic-power/612407/9 "2012-02-10T16:04:52Z")
[How spoon bending is done.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guLiepreJxw)
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pretty-sure-spoon-bending-is-a-real-psychic-power/612407/10 "2012-02-10T16:10:55Z")
Spoon bending, pfft. If your powers are so awesome, how about you bend a brick or something? You know, something that can’t be bent with the bare hands?
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### Author:  [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pretty-sure-spoon-bending-is-a-real-psychic-power/612407/11 "2012-02-10T16:14:05Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#):
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> Ladies and Gentlemen, the comic stylings of **Nars Glinley**!
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> hahahahahaha
Thank you! Thank you! I’ve got 60 of them.
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pretty-sure-spoon-bending-is-a-real-psychic-power/612407/12 "2012-02-10T16:17:20Z")
How come no one ever bends forks?
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### Author:  [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pretty-sure-spoon-bending-is-a-real-psychic-power/612407/13 "2012-02-10T16:25:51Z")
Just to get the obvious out of the way: great match between OP name and topic.
I had a dishwasher once that had some pretty impressive psychic powers.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pretty-sure-spoon-bending-is-a-real-psychic-power/612407/14 "2012-02-10T16:32:42Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#):
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> I think I know why God doesn’t heal spoon benders.
He does! In the universe where people believe God bends spoon healers, or something.
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### Author:  [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pretty-sure-spoon-bending-is-a-real-psychic-power/612407/15 "2012-02-10T16:36:10Z")
In an infinite number of universes, magic is real.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pretty-sure-spoon-bending-is-a-real-psychic-power/612407/16 "2012-02-10T16:44:22Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#):
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> In an infinite number of universes, magic is real.
In an infinite number of universes, one is equal to zero\*
\*Not really, but I think your statement is the same.
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### Author:  [@spankthecrumpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spankthecrumpet)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pretty-sure-spoon-bending-is-a-real-psychic-power/612407/17 "2012-02-10T16:54:01Z")
It seems a bit mean to ban him.
Can anyone else not get his youtube video to work? It sounds really fun but it doesn’t work for me.
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### Author:  [@spankthecrumpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spankthecrumpet)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pretty-sure-spoon-bending-is-a-real-psychic-power/612407/18 "2012-02-10T16:58:07Z")
Oh I just looked at his website. He is clearly schizopherenic and I will ask for everything to be disappeared
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### Author:  [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pretty-sure-spoon-bending-is-a-real-psychic-power/612407/19 "2012-02-10T17:16:00Z")
I can bend spoons. Lots of people have seen me do it.
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### Author:  [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pretty-sure-spoon-bending-is-a-real-psychic-power/612407/20 "2012-02-10T18:18:36Z")
> [@spankthecrumpet](#):
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> Oh I just looked at his website. He is clearly schizopherenic and I will ask for everything to be disappeared
Do we know that the subject of the OP is the guy in the video?
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