A diner with two clocks

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Hank Green & Ceri Riley from ‪@SciShowTangents‬ and Daniel Peake face a question about confusing clocks.
LATERAL is a weekly podcast about weird questions with wonderful answers, hosted by Tom Scott. For business enquiries, contestant appearances or question submissions, visit www.lateralcas...
GUESTS:
Hank Green: / hankgreen , x.com/hankgreen
Ceri Riley: / rhinoceri , x.com/ceriley
Daniel Peake: / quizzydan
HOST: Tom Scott.
QUESTION PRODUCER: David Bodycombe.
EDITED BY: Julie Hassett at The Podcast Studios, Dublin.
GRAPHICS: Chris Hanel at Support Class. Assistant: Dillon Pentz.
MUSIC: Karl-Ola Kjellholm ('Private Detective'/'Agrumes', courtesy of epidemicsound.com).
FORMAT: Pad 26 Limited/Labyrinth Games Ltd.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David Bodycombe and Tom Scott.
© Pad 26 Limited (www.pad26.com) / Labyrinth Games Ltd. 2024.

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13 сен 2024

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@WakarimasenKa Месяц назад

Time Traveling Buffet "Our customers always go back 4 seconds"

@TurkeyTueky Месяц назад

that's too good of an idea to just be a comment, surely theres gotta be a restaurant or diner, or anything with that slogan or something similar

@LiveFreeOrDieDH Месяц назад

😂⏰🙃

@Idefilms Месяц назад

I LOVE this. A+

@Hanakooh Месяц назад

Literally the "Rules are meant to be broken" episode

@aloysiuskurnia7643 Месяц назад

I really like the continuity from the last videos there at the end lol

@ecchikitty1395 Месяц назад

So glad I watched that video or I'd be very confused. Two years from now someone will run across this video at random and be somewhat upset.

@_D_P_ Месяц назад

Is your star logo from a game or something?

@butterchoke Месяц назад

Tom with no red shirt is something I will never get over

@Wingtrois Месяц назад

Why is it though?

@thespankmyfrank Месяц назад

The hair is the more shocking thing to me that. He looks so stylish though, good on him!

@TreforTreforgan Месяц назад

I heard it’s because his Guinea pig died

@abishek786 Месяц назад

He changed his main channel pfp.... You will never get used to it

@ann18o96 Месяц назад

@@TreforTreforgan No he accidentally put his red clothes with some new blue jeans and this changed the color. But he was ashamed of the mistake and has already thrown his youtube money out with insane parties at his villa, so he decided to rebrand.

@SigEpBlue Месяц назад

By that logic, I can keep a calendar from 1998 on my wall in case the police come with a search warrant, simply point to that calendar when they arrive, and say, "ah hah, this isn't enforceable yet!"

@luketurner314 Месяц назад

Not sure about that, but you can definitely reuse a calendar every 28 years. This is because the calendar year can start on one of seven days of the week and is either a leap year or not, giving you 14 possible calendars. However, since leap years are every 4 years (roughly, let's not get too technical here), the cycle repeats every 28 years (7 days of the week times the 4-year leap year cycle). Feel free to confirm this yourself with whichever calendar app you like

@daerdevvyl4314 Месяц назад

In the days before the internet, clocks weren’t automatically adjusted to an official time, and so there was a lot more uncertainty about the exact time. It wasn’t unusual for every person in a room to be wearing a wristwatch with a slightly different time, with variations of up to 5 minutes, or even more. Therefore; it was plausible that you would think that it was one minute past the time that the diner should be closed, and they could point to a clock and say “Not by my clock!” There isn’t that level of uncertainty regarding the day, month or year, and there never has been.

@charliedobbie8916 Месяц назад

And honestly, if your laws depend on judging time to the second and something may or may not be legal depending on which clock you use, it sounds like you have shitty laws.

@ZipplyZane Месяц назад

@@luketurner314 I'm currently reusing a calendar from last year, which works well because it's a leap year.

@MarcelVos Месяц назад

I don't understand how this would work. Surely they can just be caught on the fact they never actually close?

@darkshoxx Месяц назад

As if you had an objection to exploits regarding opening and closing businesses 😆

@korg47237 Месяц назад

How can the authorities prove what exact *second* of the week they were closed? What is the definition of closed? All lights off? Not serving food? So many "what ifs" with a law like this that probably just said something like "no 24-hour restaurants."

@Rei-Rei Месяц назад

@@korg47237 Stake out the place. Wait 24 hours and one minute. Have they closed at any point in that time? If no then law broken.

@darkshoxx Месяц назад

@@korg47237 It should be noted that the Wikipedia article of George Webb Restaurants says that this is one possible explanation and lists another. It also links to an article with a little more detail, but nothing that would withstand followup questions.

@vitorluiz7538 Месяц назад

@@korg47237 I know of a Brazilian city which passed a law forbidding bars from being open past 2AM or somesuch. A particular bar would kick out all of its customers, then open the doors again at 2:05. The mayor was mad.

@CheyenneRose Месяц назад

Douglas Adams' first draft book title: "The Diner at the End of Milwaukee"

@teemusid Месяц назад

We have a Big Bang Burger Bar, and a Restaurant at the End of the Universe, so it should represent the Midlife Crisis of the Universe. Milwaukee is the perfect place for it, as it is the home of Harley-Davidson.

@panda4247 Месяц назад

my first thought: it's all you can eat and they charge you by the time. One clock is for check-in and the other is for check-out. That way you are charged for each started minute.

@korg47237 Месяц назад

The upload schedule for this channel is insane

@Brian3989 Месяц назад

The clock in Bristol, UK, has two minute hands, one showing London Time as introduced by Great Western Railways. The other hand shows Bristol Time which is eight minutes later than London Time.

@flankerpang Месяц назад

I live in Bristol. The local time was my immediate thought. Though it was at the Corn Exchange, not any of the buildings they mentioned.

@jetkirby Месяц назад

The joke there at the end is about the previous video with the traffic cones

@Ziirf Месяц назад

My thought were: "Instnat ramen, start it from 1 clock, and 1 min later, you are done, with the other clock now hitting that time"

@omgitsLindsay Месяц назад

Okay maybe I'm just sleep deprived but I don't understand how this makes sense 😭

@cybergeek11235 Месяц назад

"WE WILL REOPEN AT *points at second clock*"

@Squant Месяц назад

@@cybergeek11235 Instead of just having one clock, closing at 23:59 and saying "we will reopen at midnight"?

@cybergeek11235 Месяц назад

@@Squant look, I'm Minnesotan - I have no clue why Wisconsonites are the way they are 😁

@neosmagus Месяц назад

The always late thing is an issue I struggle with, and you can try and make any kind of arrangement or plan to try to account for it, and I will still be late. It's an actual thing that people struggle with, except that most people who struggle with it don't realize it's a thing. It's called Time Blindness, and it's very much an ADHD thing. "Time blindness is the inability to sense the passing of time and it can make nearly every aspect of a person's life more difficult. The important thing to understand is that it's more like a sensory issue, not an intentional disregard for time." A good example is whenever my wife or I try to guess the time, she will always be correct within a few minutes, whereas my guesses can be out by hours. "I think it's 6pm", looks at clock, it's midnight.

@Sam-lr9oi Месяц назад

I feel like of all places, Wisconsin would not need a clock to justify serving you a beer if they were going to

@franny5156 Месяц назад

I wonder if someone put thought in giving hank green the green subtitles😂 and like blue also kinda fits ceri? Although it might just be her blue couch distracting me

@RedEyesBlackDragon0 14 дней назад

Haven't watched past the Question yet. Predicting, alcohol sales and daylight savings time.

@richardl6751 Месяц назад

It's for Daylight Losing Time.

@caltheuntitled8021 Месяц назад

It’s been a while since they’ve had a question that I’ve already known the answer to. All the locations I’ve been to have had a sign or something by the 2 clocks explaining the story behind them.

@Hannah_Em Месяц назад

As the token stereotypical "local to an anecdote which came up on the show" viewer, I was yelling "It's On The Corn Exchange (an old covered market) Building!!" when the clock in Bristol (with two minute hands, 11 minutes apart) came up at 2:50ish

@timdiggerm 24 дня назад

It took me way too long to figure out that this was "Tom Scott does QI"

@BvousBrainSystems Месяц назад

If the authorities argue, you can: 1. Close the store, kick everybody out, employees leave 2. Everyone waits 1 minute outside 3. Open the store, everyone goes back in

@charliedobbie8916 Месяц назад

In the UK opening hours on a Sunday are restricted. But shops have worked out you can let customers in to "browse" a half hour before they're allowed to buy anything... So maybe you don't need to kick anyone out, just not serve anyone for a minute and you're good.

@DJR000 Месяц назад

Before I watch, I would think the beginning and end of timezones.

@hhamburger Месяц назад

The clock in Bristol is on the Corn Exchange ...

@sophiamarchildon3998 Месяц назад

3:30 Midway guess: When the last call takes too long to fulfil?

@rorrt 18 дней назад

I am a pedant. But I am a Bristolian first. I need to correct Dan sliiiiiiiiiiiiiightly... No biggie.. But the clock he's referring to is actually on Corn Street. It's the Corn Exchange Dual-Time Clock.. It's about 15-20 minutes walk from Bristol Temple Meads.

@user-do6be7ze4q Месяц назад

Tom's new hairstyle suits him

@cybergeek11235 Месяц назад

Hank - I know what you mean but still feel obligated to point out that *literally* every business ever has "some stupid thing they do" :p

@deafeningoctopus Месяц назад

Genius!

@TheFartfish Месяц назад

And here we have some delicious food for the algorithm ;-)

@rioghander2te Месяц назад

why is Tom's webcam lagging?

@JACKHARRINGTON Месяц назад

They had a technical issue during recording. I think it was explained last week.

@jasonbhunt Месяц назад

Maybe his was set to the clock that's one minute behind?

@Aviertje Месяц назад

It must be a very specific thing to the legal text, because common sense just tells me that the doors weren't locked for that one second, customers weren't kicked out for that one second, employees didn't get clocked out for that one second and so on, which means the business is operational 24/7 regardless.

@Nerd_of_Anarchy Месяц назад

George Webb, the best greasy spoon in the World

@ronchappel4812 Месяц назад

Ha! I like this one

@gkcadadr Месяц назад

I don’t get why the city should be hostile to people eating in the night, what a weird law…

@emdivine Месяц назад

without looking it up, maybe it was clumsy but well-intentioned? Like it's an attempt at protecting workers from stupid shifts, but the business just went rules lawyer on it instead xD

@gkcadadr Месяц назад

@@emdivine My exposure to urban politics of USA through the internet has me guessing that the more likely explanation is they did it to screw over people who work night shifts and night owls by taking away a source of food for them because some posh people are bothered by their existence…

@lanielas Месяц назад

My guess would be something like hygiene regulation, if there is literally no downtime then things like cleaning or maintenance of equipment is more likely to be shirked.

@CineMiamParis Месяц назад

Possibly employees work hours. Compulsory rest period.

@caltheuntitled8021 Месяц назад

I don’t think it was about preventing people from eating at night, but rather about making sure every business is closed for at least some of the time. If the business wanted to be closed at some point during the day, they could stay open all night.

@whophd Месяц назад

If you have trouble with friends running late, just give unnecessary precision - telling people to arrive at 1:43pm means they’re not sure when to arrive except at the exact minute.

@charliedobbie8916 Месяц назад

Regarding "is it a substance" - I had security at a nightclub confiscate a packet of hula hoops from me because "it was a substance". Bastard just wanted my hula hoops.

@ZapAndersson Месяц назад

Tom... WRONG SHIRT!

@thebiblioholic Месяц назад

The clock at Christ Church (Oxford) runs five minutes late, observing "Oxford Time" not GMT/BST. So everything there is five minutes "late", like the White Rabbit.

@57thorns Месяц назад

Heisenbergs opening hours.

@Wingtrois Месяц назад

Why did Tom stop wearing that red t-shirt? Is there an explanation?

@GordonHugenay Месяц назад

It's meant to be an audio format anyway, so clothing doesn't matter that much, I guess?

@FZs1 Месяц назад

Also, Tom stopped making RU-vid videos (on his main channel), and red shirt was the brand of that channel, so I guess a break away from that? (He also changed the profile picture on his channel to be a non-red-shirted one.)

@NabeelFarooqui Месяц назад

@@GordonHugenayWe are literally watching it on an official RU-vid channel

@NabeelFarooqui Месяц назад

It's going to be a question on a future episode

@pincushionllama Месяц назад

I mean I like the change, Shows off his green eyes more

@Gzeebo Месяц назад

I'll see you in 20 minutes means I'll be there in about an hour. I'll see you in an hour or so means I'll let you know I'm running late after about 2 hours.

@SuperMonkei Месяц назад

I was going to say, but ran out of time. Punctuality is not.

@lucbloom Месяц назад

But… it isn’t right? I mean they’re still there manning the bar. A 2nd clock doesn’t change that. Sorry, I get the joke, I just think it’s not that funny, only if everyone keeps patting eachother’s back saying they’re “sticking it to the man”.

@ExhaustedElox Месяц назад

**Spoilers** Many drunk nights were spent arguing over which clock is right.

@charliedobbie8916 Месяц назад

A completely pointless argument that could be solved by just asking someone who knows - the perfect kind of pub argument. So many topics could be resolved within two minutes on Wikipedia, but if you're careful you can spin them out for *hours*.