Finally, I can learn without practicing!

I came across this product this morning on E-bay. Sorry I beat you to it, Big Davy.

http://cgi.ebay.com/SUBLIMINAL-LEARN-BAGPIPES-CD-LEARNING-PLAY-PLAYING-/360331483486?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item53e56e195e


I am particularly intrigued by track 4. By the way, I have no commercial interest in this post!

WTF is there really someone that believes this :really:

Oh, my goodness! What in the world?

Now mods, that’s an original way to censor :laughing:

Unbelieveable! I see 20060 have been sold and all subliminal cd’s from what I can tell. One person bought 13. (((((((((((( “Spend” “Spend” “Spend”

This was on an episode of “The loves of Dobie Gillis” in the 60’s. However I’m sure it had something to do with catching girls.

What? No, that’s how you look after the viral information in the subliminal CDs has taken control of your brain. Imagine a tionól of such pipers, turned as they are into programmed and benumbed thrall-pods. All excellent at what they do…but they can no longer even know it. Beware, I say.

Back when I was a linguist by profession, I sometimes came upon this sort of thing by happenstance, because of the coincidence of NLP as both “Natural Language Processing” (my field) and “Neuro-Linguistic Programming”.

I also once spent a long plane ride with John Grinder, the founder of NLP, who happened to be seated next to me. A very interesting man, not at all a crackpot, and NLP has some reasonable science behind it. But like a lot of therapeutic movements, it’s subject to abuse. One step over the cliff, and voilà: “Bagpiping for Zombies, The Greatest Hits”.

My favorite:

“WARNING: You should not listen to these psychoacoustic brainwave entrainment CDs while in a car or while operating machinery due to the mood-enhancing and mind-altering effects of brainwave entrainment technology.”

Police: Sir, please step out of the vehicle.
Me: I swear, officer, it’s just this CD I’m listening to. Ooooh, wow, your badge is so shiny!
Police: Sir, please step out of the vehicle.

Hey, that eBay link wasn’t a private listing before, was it? It is now, anyway.

Since I’m just a babe in the eBay woods … What’s the difference between a private listing and some other kind of listing?

I’m a “babe”, too. Yep. :thumbsup:

When I clicked on the link I was notified that I had to log in or register to see that particular listing. I’m pretty sure I clicked before and it was just the usual open-to-all-comers shop-'til-you-drop generic everyday deal. In fact, I’ve never even encountered private listing on eBay before (but like you, MTGuru, I don’t exactly hang out there so I don’t know the “culture”). Kinda suspicious, if you’re into paranoia and conspiracy theories and galactic domination like I am. Especially when you consider that the seller’s pushing mind control…

Hey, I’m just sayin’.

i don’t think that this is a worse con than one particular uilleann pipe tutorial book i saw in hobgoblin

Uh…never mind. :blush:

The banner notifying a private listing just threw me, is all. Thought it was a sign-up-or-so-sorry sort of deal. I only just now realised I had to scroll down a ways (which doesn’t exactly account for my first viewing of it…so much for memory). Man. That’s some lo-o-o-o-ong webpage.

I really like that the page’s “recommendations” feature includes Slipknot. Do they subliminally teach you the pipes, too?