# Uri Geller and spoons? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 16, 2016, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-and-spoons/754892 "2016-05-16T04:27:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-and-spoons/754892/101 "2016-05-18T04:31:12Z")
> [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](#): > > Of course, but tell me, does he use the handicapped stalls in the bathroom? Well, he has to hurry back to his car - he left it parked in the fire lane. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-and-spoons/754892/102 "2016-05-18T15:08:11Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Uri Geller declaws cats, doesn’t tip, and hangs the toilet paper the wrong way. You forgot how much he loves avatars. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-and-spoons/754892/103 "2016-05-18T15:20:48Z")
False. I humbly request that you cite that he enjoys blue people, or else you should give me 1 million dollars. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-and-spoons/754892/104 "2016-05-18T18:01:36Z")
Does anybody actually think Geller is appearing [at the 2016 Conference For Consciousness And Human Evolution](http://www.tcche.org/urigeller.html) to perform a _magic show?_ ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-and-spoons/754892/105 "2016-05-18T18:24:52Z")
In all seriousness I’d say his suggestion that his mindpower cured AIDS was crossing some lines. [Wayback machine link](https://web.archive.org/web/20130708195128/http://www.uri-geller.com/articles/jewish/jt1.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-and-spoons/754892/106 "2016-05-18T18:41:14Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > In all seriousness I’d say his suggestion that his mindpower cured AIDS was crossing some lines. > > [Wayback machine link](https://web.archive.org/web/20130708195128/http://www.uri-geller.com/articles/jewish/jt1.htm) I like how, in the next column, he compares his trials and tribulations to those of Simon Wiesenthal. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-and-spoons/754892/107 "2016-05-18T23:47:12Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Does anybody actually think Geller is appearing [at the 2016 Conference For Consciousness And Human Evolution](http://www.tcche.org/urigeller.html) to perform a _magic show?_ Well, no. He’ll go on and on with some bullshit presentation–he’ll probably use Powerpoint and just read the slides. Like I said: No stage presence at all. 😉 What pisses me off is that I make some (minimal) effort to remain conscious at least 12 (okay, 8) hours per day and am a firm believer in, and have contributed to, human evolution, but I’m afraid that conference would cause me to violate the former. I use '70s Art Rock to lull me to sleep, and this won’t even have Rick Wakeman or Keith Emerson to drown out the lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-and-spoons/754892/108 "2016-05-19T01:02:19Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I … have contributed to, human evolution … Your kids are mutants? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-and-spoons/754892/109 "2016-05-19T01:31:52Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Your kids are mutants? Aren’t they all? ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-and-spoons/754892/110 "2016-05-19T01:48:15Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Uri Geller and Spoons? > > Not sure where that idea came from; I’ve never met him. 😉 You should. He will stroke you gently in your mid section and then when no one is looking he will manipulate you in ways that will cause those around you to exclaim when they see what he has done. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-and-spoons/754892/111 "2016-05-19T01:55:40Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > See earlier comments about wrestlers not breaking character, even when questioned by police. In the end it comes to down to pragmatism. Steven Wright jokes that someone stole everything in his apartment and replaced it with an exact replica. Maybe someone did and maybe someone didn’t but in the end what difference does it make? Let’s assume Uri Geller has a doppleganger named Gri Ueller, who conducts himself in exactly the same way as Uri Geller (never breaking character) and who actually is trying to get people to believe his powers are real and who doesn’t see himself merely as a performer. If we think Gri Ueller is doing something wrong, then what difference does it make if Uri Geller’s conduct is indistinguishable from Gri Ueller’s conduct, and they can only be distinguished by internal motivation of which we have no evidence? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-and-spoons/754892/112 "2016-05-19T01:55:41Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > You should. He will stroke you gently in your mid section and then when no one is looking he will manipulate you in ways that will cause those around you to exclaim when they see what he has done. And when he’s done with you, you’ll be little more than a useless souvenir. ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-and-spoons/754892/113 "2016-05-21T20:47:46Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > You should. He will stroke you gently in your mid section and then when no one is looking he will manipulate you in ways that will cause those around you to exclaim when they see what he has done. I don’t know why, but I found this both vaguely disturbing and utterly hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-and-spoons/754892/114 "2016-05-22T00:10:22Z")
Strange. All I did was describe what Uri Geller does to spoons. I hope you aren’t _insinuating_ anything? Surely not. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-and-spoons/754892/115 "2016-05-22T06:38:55Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Does anybody actually think Geller is appearing [at the 2016 Conference For Consciousness And Human Evolution](http://www.tcche.org/urigeller.html) to perform a _magic show?_ You mean– HE’S A MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER???!!! :eek::eek::eek: I think I just threw up in my mouth, a little. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-and-spoons/754892.md?page=5)