Isn't that what the catheter was to prevent?

Mine's the upside down one.

"sipping drinks through a straw while urinating through a catheter"

Oooh the imagery.

Don't people realise by now that he's an illusionist... what you think you see is not what you actually see which is not what is real.

You can't really do much about gravity, pretty hard to swallow upwards and it might of been amusing to see him do his toilet stuff upside down. Maybe Blaine could do us a favour and just be a street magician. Failing that, maybe jumping out of an aeroplane without a parachute should be his next stunt...

A big thumbs up for whoever came up with "twatdangle". I would award multiple thumbs up if it allowed me to add more icons.

I, for one, would have quite happily stood and watched for a few hours if I'd have got to see David Blaine pee all over himself.

And why do we care?

Paris, cuz I she's up there with whoever David Blaine is on my list of people to care about.

...going to pee all over himself I'll gladly do it for him.

of Blaine peeing over himself? Now THAT sounds like entertainment, finally.

"not going to pee all over myself".

I thought that was one of the reasons for the catheter?

Just another dumbass, lying, sensationalistic prick.

"...If his name hadn't been David Blaine I would never have come."

More fool you then. He impressed early on in his career, but the whole "endurance stunt" thing is nothing but self-publicity.

His career is largely dead, I conclude, if this is all he can do to keep it going.

The next time said commenter who came up with the tw@dangle name is in the area, I'd like to buy him a beer.

Blaine defended himself to the press by explaining he was "not going to pee all over myself".

Why not might have been more interesting

that'll be Marcus Brigstock and was well attributed in the comments...

...Approves.

"Blaine defended himself to the press by explaining he was "not going to pee all over myself" "

'cos that might make him look like a twat ... oh, wait.

@NICHOLAS SAUNDERS

"You can't really do much about gravity, pretty hard to swallow upwards"

No it's not.

Look up "peristalsis" in your friendly local dictionary.

"...going to pee all over himself I'll gladly do it for him."

Unless of course he was on fire...

I spent some of the first fricking months of my life dangling upside down.

What was the big deal? More to the point though... David Blaine has 100s of fans. Jesus & I thought the credit crunch was a sign things were bad.

Can we have a david blaine icon preferably to represent stories of people making a twatdangle of themselves for publicity?

Paris because we'd all love to tw*tdangle for her.

Come to England and repeat the stunt - I'm sure there are plenty of people here who'd willingly piss all over him* even if he's not willing to himself. What a twat!

I'm pleased I'm from a nation that throw things at him rather than standing in awe of his clearly lacking talents. And as for being voluntarily catheterised! The only time I expect to be catheterised is either when I'm in a coma, or am sufficiently old and ill that one of my remaining relatives have the go ahead to switch the machine off.

*unless he was on fire

Oh my giddy aunt,

Can you guys ( and Sarah ) confirm it was me who posted the original twatdangle comment?

to be fair I did attribute the original to Marcus Brigstock IIRC, but to get a mention from Vulture Central staff! has made my day

I concur and call for a twatdangle icon for when people are doing stupid things in public for the sake of publicity to the mindless masses.

Sounds like something from TvGoHome - Are you sure it wasn't Charlie Brooker?

The guys a twat!!

I once held my breath under water for 30 minutes. I was of course allowed to come up for air occassionally.

@Elephant in the room, you want to see some curtains of beef...

I find it quite surprising how many people actually think the twat in question actually does these 'feats' we have been discussing. As a previous commenter mentioned, in the box they put a curtain up every now and then for him to have a good eat, in the ice cube there was a fake bottom and they blew dry ice fog over the ice (to keep it from melting apparently!) which obscured the view enough for him to swap with a double into the little nice room underneath. All of them are tricks. ALL TRICKS.

as per title ...

Don't forget all his ridiculous endurance stunts to date have been an illusion. The ice stunt for example, if you spent time watching it, every so often the ice would fog up, the official explanation being the humidity from his breath. The reality is, every 2 hours they pumped dry ice in until it was foggy enough to do the shift change. The box on a cable was even funnier since Blaine only did the day shift and a double the night shift. Again, people watching the box in person would have seen a cherry picker going up twice a day to clean the box. Whilst the box was soaped up for the cleaning, a clever floor tray mechanism was used to switch out the double.

He's a magician, and a second rate one at that. If you watch his street magic, it is all old tricks. I've never seen him do something new, unlike great magicians (like Penn and Teller for instance) who are constantly either doing new things, or bringing new ideas to old tricks.

Since the redesign theres been an influx of "celebrity" type shite! What the hell is going on Reg? Next you'll be giving us updates on Emmerdale. Oh......

...perhaps he could hang the right way up?

Also, what's the twatd angle?

"You can't really do much about gravity, pretty hard to swallow upwards" - NICHOLAS "cApS lOcK" SAUNDERS

Only if he's actually a bird, a fish, or a snake. As far as I'm aware, Davis Blaine is a mammal.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallowing