AIBU to dislike magicians?

[Mysterian]

There is no such thing as magic. Magicians just do stuff that they know how to do and refuse to tell anybody how to do it.

If I knew how to set the central heating but nobody else in the house did, I would tell them. I wouldn't get all fucking mystical about it, put on a funny hat, get a lady in sparkly swimming costume to stand next to me, refuse to tell anybody else how to do it and claim I was a central heating magician. That is exactly how magicians operate when they pretend to pull a playing card out somebody's anus or whatever! It's annoying and rude.

They should do the trick, explain how it was done, apologise, then go home.

Agree. Definite air of smuggery

I just find it all so boring.

When one appears on BGT my heart sinks.

They are my 'clown' phobia ... if I'm ever near one I walk off (politely) but will always try to avoid them

Smug. Exactly.

"I've got a secret! Nah nah nah! Not telling!"

Fuck off magicians!

Don't they all have to be members of the Magic Circle and promise not to tell anyone how it's done or something?
All very secret society.

I get sucked in when I watch it, but then I just think what was the point? Everyone knows it’s not actual magic

Even The Great Suprendo?

I like seeing tricks I can't understand.

And we all know why escapologists get into it.

I think some can be really really good but the amateur ones are usually crap.

I also like seeing things I can't understand. Then I like to be told how it works so I then understand it.

at a family wedding reception they had a magician to entertain the guests. he came to me with a card trick. he was ridiculously smarmy and wouldn’t leave me alone. i stopped engaging in his trick, but this seemed to encouage him more. why do magicians seem to adopt a creepy, slimy persona? calm down mate, your just a wanker in a waistcoat.

Ah, you need a smug know-it-all husband to gleefully explain the trick to you when he can no longer hold it in.

I live with one, and confirm they are all arseholes.

I think my husband would have become a magician if traditional employment had been unavailable. He loves a waistcoat and knowing things that other people don't, FFS.

I thought it was just me! People look at me like I'm mad when i say i dont like magicians. I dont like the way an immediate reaction is needed, it makes me so uncomfortable

I hate them, deceptive and untrustworthy

One of my suppliers once outed himself as a magician and I asked why he told me because now I find him suspicious

I agree , fuck off with the stupid prancing about when you cover a cage with a sheet, we know (after more prancing about) that a woman/ tiger / elephant/ budgie will appear when you whisk the sheet off.

I hate them too, it’s nice to meet others that do too - generally I just get the look...

YANBU. I thought was the only one! The rest of the people in my house love them; I have to leave the room if one of those rediculous 'entertainers' is on tv.

When they produce a pack of cards I just don't care enough to watch or want or know. Zzzz.

Do Penn and Teller get a pass?

Totally agree but i am deffo putting on a cape next time i top up the pressure on the boiler

Nooo Penn& Teller are stomach churning as well as zzzzz.

Penn and Teller tell some secrets, but they're still magicians, and encourage other magicians.