BackpackersXpress and the Disco Carriage: Citation Needed 5x03 

"Bite attendant"? I think you'll find that back then they were called "chewardesses".

The crew would encourage people to socialize. "Oh Fuck off" Basically the best reaction ever.

"dedicated misanthropes cabin" is now what I will call first class.

“Wingwalking is a thing” Unintentional foreshadowing of a future video!

So superinjunctions have been out of style for some time now ... can we yet be legally told what Gary's censored story was?

Two friends of mine, one from school and one from uni did a overland backpackers truck journey across Africa. I took them a week of conversation to work out that they both knew me.

He's still my favorite Garry Brannan

Made the mistake of having a mouth full of tea when Tom said "what is the media term for tin full of arseholes at 30,000 feet?"

5 years later and I still want to know what the superinjuction that Gary broke is

You win a crate of underpants bearing the cover graphic of "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!" A box of boxer boxart boxers.

"They would encourage you to socialise." "Oh, f*** off." "Spot the British people!" me: "Also me. Spot the me."

In those days the bite attendant would be a chewardess.

About the registering at a tax haven: as I recall aircafts have to visit their country of registration on a regular basis. So while registration in a country might be cheap, it can be expensive for the airline to schedule regular flight to that destination, that might be under booked. I'm not sure if the facts are correct on this one, but I've heard once, that easyjet had many aircrafts registered in malta and had to do lots of flights to that destination because of that.

I love how Gary is against everything about the backpackers' plane, but when it's the same idea but football fans on a train he's all for it.

You've won your girlfriend's path from the Lebanese capitol to a stash of carrots and radishes on an inlet of the sea The Beirut bay root bae route

So, in the United States, a number of Amtrak trains have a "bar car". It's usually minimal offerings, but you can take the cans of beer back to your seat and carry on with the other passengers.

"There is no better way to guarantee you'll end up at the terminus by accident" if you've ever fallen asleep on the train you know what this feels like

This is one half of the inspiration for the pub-on-a-hovercraft.

Gary's midair fight club: Airy Brannan.

Learning about the disco carriage made me realize this is QI but with more interesting anecdotes. Thank you all, this kind of thing is why I subscribed :)

"Oh fuck off" my exact reaction to the thought of socialising with the "self-exploration" type of backpackers

Wait, when did Tom become the Atchbishop of Banterbury? Bring on the Bench!

I want an airline fitted out like a japanese coffin hotel. give me a 1 meter x 1 meter x 2 meter box with a light and a tv and load me like cargo.

I have flown from US to UK on BA. They started drink service as we were flying over Canada, and you could drink at 18.

You want a country pub on a train, look up the Kent & Sussex Railway... real ale on a steam train and they have pub quizzes over the tannoy, even provide a proper fish supper!

a group of underwater invertebrates' arch nemesis many anemone enemies

Amtrak always announces the " Quiet Car" which might do for the "misanthropes Class."

7:40 The crew accommodation in the A380 has actually received criticism from flight and cabin crews: The outside noise insulation was working so well that it damped the engine noise too well and you could hear the passengers below. It speaks volumes, when people would rather listen to a jet engine, than passengers.

On the topic of the Pub cars, here in New York , Metro-North, the commuter railroad based out of Grand Central Terminal, had 10 purpose built bar cars until just about two years ago for the New Haven Line. It was a standard EMU car body, but instead of seating, the middle had a nice long bar, and you had lounge style seating at the ends. The standing poles even had cup holders. I only rode it once, empty on a Saturday morning. I was going to a railroad museum at the end of a branch of the New Haven Line, someone I knew volunteered up there and had invited me up for the day. I was coming up the stairs from the subway into Grand Central and had tripped. I'm limping along the railroad platform when I noticed one car that didn't have any windows in the middle from my perspective. I stick my head in. Jackpot! the lounge seating was perfect for resting my ankle.

at least on the BA a380, the crew rest area is below the main deck, hence why there is no 24D seat in economy - there is an escape hatch. On Lufthansa's A340-600s, it sort of has three decks: there are crew rest areas above the cabin at the front of the plane but also a group of toilets below deck for economy passengers. But yes: most long-haul aircraft have their crew rest areas above the cabin, but the a380 doesn't because space is far more plentiful below the main deck than it is above the upper, mainly because the main deck is pretty central to the curvature of the fuselage, leading to a very big below-deck area and the upper deck taking up most of the rest of the space.

about the fight club airplane... just fly United!

5:50 or so, my grand father (and all his siblings) had their place of birth listed as lat and long as well. They were born in rural canada in the '30s

Rewatching this, just noticed that you have a substitute Matt Gray. It's hard to notice but the real Matt Gray would never have said "Eastern climes" he would have said "Rightward". Good imitation otherwise.

5:25 Does that mean if you are born on a part of the Arctic nobody owns can your birth certificate say Born _on ice_

One thing that was never mentioned, this was an Australian thing, based in Melbourne, Victoria, moved to Brisbane.

Anybody else rewatch each episode like 3 times?

the Aeroflot joke was gold

So my brother told me about your channel, I started watching the fact videos and the realized you made more, I really do find these videos great.

God if they were unfiltered just imagine the amazing show they would put on, also I'm dieing to know what Gary said that they removed

I would ride Technical Difficulties Raillines. Please make that a thing.

I fall asleep to this play list with all these citation needed every night, am I weird? Nah the rest of the world is.

Amtrak's Northeast Corridor train lines have "Quiet Cars" during morning runs at the front that's the exact opposite of the Disco Carriage ...

In Switzerland we have extra trains at nearly all big football games. They take old carriages and bring the fans directly to the stadion. Some stadions even have their own trainstation, thats only served at match days.

I lost it at the Vengaplane, oh my goodness.

At the risk of making myself unpopular, I would be all over the Backpackers Express if it was a real thing now.

i can't be the only one to keep hearing "back passage express" every time

How you four haven’t been commissioned for a TV show is beyond me!

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i've been watching this nonstop. please bring this back:(

The raetic railways in Switzerland used to have a pub carriage on their trains until very recently for hockey games.

Little did we know that this was where the idea for the hovercraft pub sprang from

All this time and he's still my favourite Gary Brannon

Boston's commuter rail recently added summer trains to Cape Cod, a popular weekend holiday area. They have a bike car and a cafe car that serves beer and wine. No disco car though.

10:30 on that, a lot of Russian aircraft are registered in Bermuda and ex British Colony islands because they are easy on Tax and they avoid the massive tax in Russia on Non-Russian aircraft. So their Boeing 737s and A320s are all "VP-???" registered (Bermuda)

About the birth at sea. Happend not to long ago on a Royal Netherlands Navy ship HNLMS Van Amstel. It was on a refugee rescue mission when on off the mothers on board gave birth to a baby girl. It's not mention here in the articele but on the birth certificate her birthplace is noted as the latitude and longtitude. www.expatica.com/nl/news/Baby-girl-born-on-Dutch-ship-after-refugee-mum-rescued_705322.html

The Class 124 (I think the Class 123 may have had them also) diesel multiple units had carriages called Griddle Cars. They were a halfway house between a restaurant car and a buffet. Basically, they were the Bacon Sandwich (or Sausage Sandwich, mustn't discriminate) carriages.

*MYSTERY BISCUITS!* _(oh yeah!)_

nice Aeroflot jab there, Tom. Just about hit the nail on the head there

There needs to be a (deep) web version of international waters where legal reasons don't apply so we can surf and find out all the edited jokes gary made in all the seasons.

5:22 If it's on Antarctica, does that mean it can be listed as "on ice"? 😁

About international airspace, the only planes that could feasibly fly over the ocean are going to have some means of RNAV (aRea NAVigation), so there will either follow airways defined by certain waypoints, going by phonetic letters, or they will follow a random routing, usually given by ATC. Commonly, the last point of contact when going from North America to Europe is Gander Oceanic, and they will give the routing. When outside of secondary radar, they will terminate surveillance services, and switch you to 123.40MHz, where you stay until getting in contact with, most commonly, Dublin Centre on the other side. As for law, ICAO makes sure to mandate all air laws, although each country has their own set of Air Regulations. In America, the FARs (Federal Aviation Regulations) and Canada is the CARs (Canadian Aviation Regulations) for example. This is applicable to domestic airspace (over land and sea claims) and the country's ADIZ (Air Defense Identifications Zone) usually of the cost, if the country has a coast. Airspace itself is actually a surprisingly complicated matter for non-pilots, and has a system of letters and rules that vary by the country that is imposing them. Usually more controlled airspace is nearer the start of the alphabet, while Class G is uncontrolled, the exception being Class F, which is generally restricted and advisory airspace, and more technically considered "Special Use Airspace."

6:12 Yeah, no thank you. The only Mandatory Fun I enjoy is the "Weird Al" album.

You can actually get up to 3 sets of Laws in effect at one time on Aircraft: - The laws of the country the aircraft is registered in - The laws of the intended destination country - The laws of the country the aircraft is in the process of flying over. There are then various agreements as to which set of laws has precedence in relation to various aspects such as the aspects discussed i.e. Alcohol Licencing is dealt with differently to passenger behaviour problems/Air-Rage

The German ICE still has a "Bistro", which ist technically a have Pub.

you know that feeling when you dont know what they're talking about yet somehow enjoy it

My god, this video invokes HTTP 451.

But how long have you been Tom Scott?

I absolutely love this, I binge watched all the episodes with subtitles. Are there any transcripts for the ones without subtitles? :P

10:30 Stored planes do this a lot-e.g. San Marino, IOM, Channel Islands. Russian operators (including SU) register in the various British Caribbean colonies, mostly Bermuda.

I've been on flights between Havana (la Habana) and Miami, back when Americans could travel to Cuba (also known as last goddamned summer) and when I only had an American passport (last year) but, I'm happy to say, I'm not aware of anyone biting anyone.

It took me 6 years to find out the term "Archbishop of Banterbury"

Tom is wrong when he says the A380 has 2 and a half decks. The crew compartments are just hidden away, they're not above the top deck.

Actually the limit for international waters is now 12 miles, hasn’t been 3 since the 1800s

This is amazing. Was hard for the first 3 minutes because I was trying to figure out what was going on. It reminds me of a homebrew Q.I.

Thank you. Now I have "We Like To Party" stuck in my head.

You might say the Backpackers' Express never got off the ground

if we're dealing in stereotypes, northeastern Americans would also despise forced socialization. as a New Jerseyan living in Philadelphia, I think you're at risk of getting stabbed (though maybe not on a plane if TSA does their job) if you try to force strangers into icebreakers.

its like a budget QI, amazing.

So is Venga Group the exact opposite of Virgin Group? "Don't worry, we always go all the way!"?

"if i wanted to have a mid air fight club" united!

Surely it should be a *special* chocolate icing in the shape of a cow - a panache la vache ganache.

And air crew would encourage people to socialise. "Oh F***s sake!" well said peeps!

The puns in this episode were spectacular

Imagine going to a pub quiz and these guys turn up.

This one was mighty entertaining! Keep'em coming.

You don't know how close you are to a Finnish dining car when you talk about your pub car. :)

Actually aeroflot registers their western made planes in the Bahamas because of the russian taxes

"Archbishop of Banterbury"... Nice!

what injunction did gary break?

Around 10:50, I can hear the "Money Plane" being invented!!

12:36 I'm having a sympathy aneurysm along with Chris at this point in the video.

and jusssst when I was gonna sleep

3:42 to be fair, you could talk about how "ethnic you got with the locals" when you go to liverpool.....

The Cannonball (NYC to Montauk) on the Long Island has a bar car for the Friday run out of the city

I think the only other place I've seen that particular 'peaceful' flipping off is in mirror's edge. Is that a British thing? Cause that game was set in 'Future' London, right?

best thing on youtube! keep them coming lads, we need cheering up in these dark times.

When I hover over the vid preview in the side bar, I nearly always get a gif of mystery biscuits.

Can I just say that Gary is just lovely for a hirotircal nerd

That Vengaboys reference was amazing and made me feel old

Nobody registers aircraft in Panama because personal cost is nowhere near a major expense when compared to the aircraft and, more importantly, the fuel that would cost the same no matter who you're registered with