Another article on the space hoax show: [link]
The unwitting participants, who were selected for their suggestibility, are currently being kept in a secret location and denied all access to television or newspapers, which would instantly give the game away.
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Although the term space cadet is slang for someone who is distracted from reality, Shirley Jones, the show's executive producer, insisted the contestants were "not stupid people".
"Suggestibility is a psychological term that has no link with intelligence or gullibility. People who have a creative mind tend to be quite suggestible. All the tests we did have been done in conjunction with a psychologist," she said.
Anyone with a military background or knowledge of space was instantly ruled out. In the next selection stage, the remaining applicants were taken on an adventure-training course in the Lake District.
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Before filming began, the participants were asked to nominate three close family members or friends whom they have trusted to give final consent, all of whom have told Channel 4 they believe their loved ones will see the funny side.
And if they don't, at the end of the show there will be a surprise sweetener of £5,000 for every day they have spent in orbit. How the show ends depends on what happens. In the ideal circumstance that the illusion is sustained and three contestants believe they have genuinely spent the past five days in orbit, the producers are considering sending them out of the craft one by one on a "space walk". When the door opens, instead of finding themselves 100km above the Earth's surface, mum and dad will be there to greet them.
Were you planning on doing the furniture thing Saturday or Sunday, msbelle?
I need a nap so much, but I've agreed to go out to dinner. Great restaurant and a server I have a huge crush on, but I'm needing my bunk, and just for sleeping. Oh well, much sleeping in to occur tomorrow. My boss heads out in moments, I'm not going to hang around the office too much longer.
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The training they receive will consist of lectures delivered by actors accompanied by a genuine space expert, in which 80 per cent of the information will be true and 20 per cent fiction. Issues that will be explained to them include the fact they will not be weightless in near space and that, like Sir Richard Branson's space-tourist shuttles, their craft will take off horizontally rather than vertically.
Mixing the truth with fiction - hey, that's what Cylons do!
interrupting your regular natter for a
Disco Turkey Cartoon
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That's... that's... mean. I mean, okay, if their families are so sure, then maybe they will appreciate the joke. But if anybody ever pulled such a stunt on me? I don't even know. I wouldn't call it friendly, is what I'm saying.
I liked the Disco Turkey animation... except for the turkey with the chest hair. And then I realized that the two male turkeys had clothes but the female singer turkey was naked.
Then I took to heart vw's tagline....
Men in the thread may wish to shield their eyes...
Rugby fan castrates self:
A rugby fan who cut out his testicles with wire cutters to mark a Wales victory is at a loss to explain why he did it.
Geoffrey Huish, 31, performed the impromptu self-surgery in February when his beloved Wales beat world champions England.
After performing the deed, Mr Huish put his severed anatomy in a bag and took them to his local social club to show fellow fans.
He collapsed with blood loss and was rushed to hospital but surgeons could not reattach his missing parts.
He was put in a psychiatric ward but has no history of mental illness and was at a loss to explain why he did it.
"I'd told my pal Gethin Probert before the game that Wales didn't stand a chance," Mr Huish told The Sun.
"It wasn't a bet but I said I'd cut my b*lls off if we won.
