European clocks ran slow for a bit. British clocks didn't.

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Many people sent me this story: it covers my favourite topics of power grids and temporal anomalies. But when the mainstream press have already covered it, how could I add something more? The answer: by adding another pet topic, Unnecessary British Patriotism. And a teasmade.
Press release: www.entsoe.eu/news-events/ann...
Teasmade: amzn.to/2oYrvxb [aff. link]
Update, April 8th 2018: they fixed the dispute, and ran the grid at 50.01Hz for a few weeks: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2...
If you liked this, you may also like the video I made on how engineers keep the grid stable, and why it's getting more difficult: • The Problem With Renew...
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@TomScottGo 6 лет назад

Update, 8th April 2018: the dispute has been resolved, and they kept the grid at 50.01Hz for a few weeks to put things back! arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/european-grid-dispute-resolved-lost-6-minutes-returned-to-oven-clocks/

@xDarkPrototypex 6 лет назад

Tom Scott The problem with that solution is that everyone already updated their clocks when they saw they were slow. Now we need to change them again for no reason... Stupid politicians.

@klootviool14nl 6 лет назад

Tom Scott next time make the video 8 sec longer 😇

@philpeko1796 6 лет назад

Gosh! It does not seems to be an april fool. In year 2018, people still sell ill-conceived clocks, and take so bad healing measures... It seems we did not learn anything since Titanic.

@stephenjackson7999 6 лет назад

It's only right because the people who changed their clocks can again and the clocks that no one changes or are in places that can't easily are be accessed will be put right. In a few months there will be no evidance it even happened but if they didn't we would be finding clocks for years with the wrong time.

@kieranelam7193 6 лет назад

Never expected one of your videos to be an explanation for my clock problem. I live in the Netherlands and I always run my clock 10 minutes late. And I suddenly found that it ran 17 minutes late. I thought my clock was broken, it's really funny to find out that the entire European grid was broken and my clock was fine!

@Biped 6 лет назад

*security personnel being reasonably confused and a little nervous about the guy who has been standing in front of their power plant in the middle of nowhere holding a big, unidentified object with a clock and cables on it for the last hour and talking to himself ಠ_ಠ*

@sirBrouwer 6 лет назад

Ebumbaya ' no they would be more concerned that the tea kettle is not plugged in. They are already on there way with a long extension cord.

@robertlozyniak3661 6 лет назад

I'm sure they would recognize (or should I say recognise?) a teasmade on sight.

@stonedsavage7814 6 лет назад

this is britain we do not flinch or get scared by simple devices like americans do.

@pauliebb 6 лет назад

Made slightly more worrying by the fact that he's wearing that flag...

@BudKingUK 5 лет назад

@@stonedsavage7814 It's like they have PTSD from 9/11

@danielclark-hughes692 4 года назад

"In Britain our Teasmades are running _precisely_ on time." That might be the most British thing I've ever heard

@curtmacquarrie 4 года назад

teasmade, as in "tea is made" not "tea maid"

@danielclark-hughes692 4 года назад

@@curtmacquarrie Much obliged for the clarification

@westcheap 4 года назад

Is that a British flag I see down there at 3:58?

@ridingtothegrave 4 года назад

Even our tanks have kettles

@thepumpkinmaster2596 3 года назад

Can you get teasmades in America. Cause they sound really cool

@Jaxck77 4 года назад

What a British way of thinking about a problem: “No no, the system has to be perfect. Otherwise the tea might not be”.

@michalvicha7384 4 года назад

@@racitup4114 Sir, I proclaim you officially woooshed

@mataskart9894 4 года назад

@@michalvicha7384 that's the most british way to woosh someone I can think of XDDDD

@omardude39 3 года назад

Yes, yes it is.

@WolfgangDoW 3 года назад

The UK measures TV viewing by electricity surges from everyone putting the kettle on in the adverts We hive mind make tea so much they can measure who's watching what when

@arthurfisher1857 3 года назад

@@racitup4114 you have GOT TO BE a German

@CodaMission Год назад

If I had a dollar for every time Tom Scott talked about the supremacy of English power infrastructure, well, I'd have 2 dollars, but its weird that it happened twice

@xEqualsRandom Год назад

@Not_Ambrose I assume this commenter is referring to the British plugs video

@denelson83 2 месяца назад

Not £2?

@lm1338 6 лет назад

"Alarm" and "Alarm with tea" are actually the main two emotions I experience

@joelsmith3473 6 лет назад

For once a YT comment that is actually funny.

@adribier 6 лет назад

You won the internet. Now go have a cup of tea

@kscott4329 6 лет назад

I snorted my tea

@TheMuslimdon 6 лет назад

Long March im still laughing 😂😂😂🤣🤣

@tansywoods8947 6 лет назад

Long March mine is similar :despair and coffee ☕

@hly58 6 лет назад

"I don't have power out here," he says, standing directly outside a power station.

@Ryukachoo 6 лет назад

The paradox of plenty Or (Sea)Water water everywhere, not a drop to drink Pick your analogy

@joestinton7838 6 лет назад

Well I wasn’t expecting to see you here Kappa

@erikm.905 6 лет назад

Ryukachoo Rime of the Ancient Mariner, right?

@MickeyD2012 6 лет назад

Tom is the type of person who could figure out how to drown in the desert.

@jojojlc7070 6 лет назад

Don't remind of the nightmares of my english exam.

@ashleymarie2749 4 года назад

Tom: Things you might not know: European clocks are slow British clocks aren’t. Me: things I might not know: what the hell is a teasmade?

@meetaverma8372 4 года назад

Let's google it?

@Moojingles_ 4 года назад

It's a clock that also makes tea.

@curtmacquarrie 4 года назад

If you have a coffee machine that brews coffee at a certain time every morning its that, but with tea.

@TRBNTR98 4 года назад

I thought it was a teasmaid? As in it fills the role of a maid that would make you tea in the morning.

@minenetchamipon1427 4 года назад

@@TRBNTR98 no teasmade is tea is made as in, your tea has now been made, not a maid, also more people drink coffee than tea, here in britian,

@maruftim 4 года назад

This is the most inspirational talk ever made by a British guy standing in front of a power plant while holding a teasmade.

@thetiniestpirate 2 года назад

Niche but not wrong.

@Gambit771 Год назад

@@thetiniestpirate Niche where you are but common in the UK.

@mesiroy1234 Год назад

Precisely beicse no one go to look at powerplant

@neurotransmissions 6 лет назад

This is the best piece of British propaganda I've seen all year! "Move to Britain. Your tea will always be ready on time."

@metametodo 6 лет назад

Neuro Transmissions it actually will be harder now for people to move to britain for that, since now they're out of the Schengen.

@phsyco123 6 лет назад

And those bastard bloody teamaids never work anyway. I have had more of them explode on me in a fit of patriotic petulance, perturbed percolation, pissy preset ponceyness. Than I have had a decent cup out of the spiteful 50's rejected relics that time should have forgot.

@miawgogo 6 лет назад

they where never in the schengen, they where in the customs union though Lívio

@jimmyyorkshire4495 6 лет назад

Yay blue passports!

@KuraIthys 6 лет назад

nonetheless you could still live in any other EU member country on a British passport and vice versa. That's now all been called into question.

@ColinRichardson 6 лет назад

And our trains... Are running 2 hours behind..

@Molizo 6 лет назад

Colin Richardson Next door to Serbia,in Romania they never arrive,or they are 4-6 hours late

@tansywoods8947 6 лет назад

Colin Richardson same in Boston 👍

@LewisHamiltonMSPR 6 лет назад

Nor the buses. Wait 30-40 minutes for a 10 minute bus, then 3-4 turn up at the same time.

@GrimstrokeMainr 6 лет назад

Classic 192.

@DoReMeDesign 6 лет назад

+Blasphemously using racing sims Well I means the average bus is arriving in 10 mins, I don't see any problem

@micahphilson 5 лет назад

1:38 "If you think I'm going to try and explain the Balkan politics system while holding a Teasmade, you're sorely mistaken." That actually sounds like a normal day for Tom Scott. Now I want to see that!

@Vousie 3 года назад

I would've loved it if he'd pointedly put the Teasmade down, then explained it anyway.

@justpotato2042 2 года назад

Demands must be completed >:(

@martinpaulsen1592 Год назад

I'm still waiting for that video...

@FuneFox Год назад

i dont think he has that much time

@commenterjosh2428 Год назад

@@FuneFox it'd be his longest video ever, made over the course of one week, and preferably (for viewers, at least) while traveling through every country in the Balkans.

@jcharpak 4 года назад

"our microwaves are showing the correct time....ok they're blinking 12:00 because no one ever set them" Love it!

@minenetchamipon1427 4 года назад

i think the tea is done

@bananya6020 3 года назад

3:30

@p1mmyt0w3ll 3 года назад

@@minenetchamipon1427 I finally found a comment on this. This made me seriously laugh out loud. It's so true and I've never heard anyone mention it

@omardude39 3 года назад

It wouldn't be Tom without a healthy dose of reality!

@72Yonatan 3 года назад

Charpak: Well your microwave is correct twice a day, at least.

@jamiewindsor 6 лет назад

I came here to hear the history of the Balkan politics system explained by someone holding a teasmade. I’m disappointed. The search continues…

@RustOnWheels 6 лет назад

Margaret, Margaret..?

@mmw4990 6 лет назад

Hahahahahaha

@aleemjohnson3416 6 лет назад

May the odds be ever in your favor

@Vlaid65 6 лет назад

One of the best comments I've seen in ages. Thank you O.P. :)

@lauraireson6358 6 лет назад

@matrixrory 6 лет назад

Boss: why are you late for work? Me: *proceeds to explain the history of the Balkan wars *

@metametodo 6 лет назад

Do it while holding a teasmaid please.

@yincheri1421 6 лет назад

Lívio Fragoso I agree to this

@colonelkk 6 лет назад

About 3 years later, Me: And that’s why I’m late... Boss? *Stares at a skeleton* Me: ...Umm, what’s the time

@jamez6398 6 лет назад

Several hours later: "I see. Well, I certainly regret asking you that question... :/"

@metametodo 6 лет назад

KK LegendaryGaming What's the time? Check the teasmade you're holding. And it's the precise time since it's from the british grid and not the european.

@foximacentauri7891 5 лет назад

I don't see the problem here? My highly precise german time instinct makes me waking up every morning at 6:30, not a picosecond late.

@lukasartinger 3 года назад

Weird, my highly precise german time instinct works if, and only if, there is an exam that day...

@GREYFLWRMUSIC 3 года назад

@@lukasartinger Meiner geht nur wenn ich kurz bevor ich schlafen gehe übers früh aufstehen nachdenke

@Gordon519 3 года назад

Two kinds fan eh?

@mrkeogh 2 года назад

"Nein, it is the universe that is wrong, not my perfect Teutonic circadian rhythm." It's funny because IT'S TRUE.

@Neion8 2 года назад

It's not a problem for Germany; it's a problem for everyone else - just think how much German efficiency could accomplish in those 6+ minutes they have over everyone else in Europe!

@dkbmaestrorules 2 года назад

This was a weird thing in Germany. All clocks at railway stations over here are mains powered, and they all ended up running 6 minutes slow...and the trains ran according to the station clocks...I ended up having to set my watch wrong to match until they sorted it out.

@macjonte Год назад

What?! Hahaha this is hilarious, if true Tom Scott’s need to go there!

@iammegan6626 6 лет назад

>Balkan countries are fighting In other news, Brits like their tea.

@td23asus 6 лет назад

EarthmeisterIndigo So no news then?

@justindie7543 6 лет назад

I can't think of a single point in history when the Balkans wasn't in conflict. Maybe before humans decided to settle there?

@td23asus 6 лет назад

Oof. Gotem. XD

@KRIGBERT 6 лет назад

That's not a pokeball - that's Polandball in a clever disguise!

@buddyclem7328 6 лет назад

*AND NOW FOR SOMETHING **_TOTALLY_** DIFFERENT!*

@ZCAB 6 лет назад

I'm disappointed that Tom didn't make this video 6 minutes long, so I could have commented "Now that's six minutes I'll never get back".

@Haights 6 лет назад

It probably took 6 minutes for people like me who had to pause, hop over to Wikipedia and see how exactly "in the middle of nowhere" Isle of Grain is.

@Jegorex 6 лет назад

Nillie. It is still an island, it's part of the UK ;)

@ZCAB 6 лет назад

Haights: It's right across the estuary from Southend, so it's not that in the middle... actually, never mind.

@PeeHooo 6 лет назад

40 miles from the center of London doesn't sound exactly sound "middle of nowhere" to me. :P

@Quintinohthree 6 лет назад

PeeHooo In European terms it is.

@EoRdE6 5 лет назад

"Hey Steve come look out the window, Is that guy in the field wearing a Union Jack loincloth, holding a teasmade and talking to himself? Are we supposed to like call security?"

@illuminoeye_gaming 3 года назад

"nah thats just a patriotic ol bloke, leave em be"

@natasha-ut7si 3 года назад

@@illuminoeye_gaming *ole

@kanedaku 2 года назад

@@natasha-ut7si **ol'*

@natasha-ut7si 2 года назад

@@kanedaku I shall also accept this

@WestRail642fan 3 года назад

"On the Isle of Grain uh, which is near no where" I live near Grain, can confirm, nothing worth of note here

@kutsen39 2 года назад

"which is near nowhere" Me, an American: Isn't like everything in the UK like at most 3 hours away?

@ConradLarsonGaming 2 года назад

@@kutsen39 middle of nowhere means you can't get a cup of tea within a 10 minute walk, which is already far too long to walk for a cup of tea

@zuralani1 2 года назад

@@kutsen39 i looked it up, it's an hour and 15 minutes from London

@fsodn 6 месяцев назад

Except, apparently, like one of the two power couplings between the British National Grid and the European Grid. A major piece of infrastructure, and definitely not nothing.

@brianartillery 6 лет назад

"God save the Queen... And God help us all". A great sign-off, there, Tom.

@OkenWS 5 лет назад

That has to be one of the best ways to sum up the UK. I came down here to comment the exact same thing.

@alfiejmulcahy 5 лет назад

Both lines from the national anthem. (End of verse one and end of verse 2)

@jonathanfairchild 4 года назад

This is one of the most British things I've ever heard

@Mitaka.Kotsuka 4 года назад

The only thing thats missing is the footage of the big ben with fireworks...

@simonpriisholm3935 4 года назад

Not to say the union jack at Tom's waist

@JobvanderZwan 6 лет назад

"Explaining the history of the Balkan political system while holding a teasmade" deserves its own RU-vid channel

@Captain_Yorkie1 4 года назад

The comment section would be a fun minefield

@ZaklanoCheljade 3 года назад

@@Captain_Yorkie1 Serbian here, can confirm.

@SianaGearz 3 года назад

@@Captain_Yorkie1 Not too different from actual Serbia then. Minus the fun part.

@hambos Год назад

absolutely. Greek here.

@theregalproletariat 11 месяцев назад

Brand new sentence

@melhupby 4 года назад

"As 52% of britons will be ecstatic to hear" That dig was glorious. Thank you.

@markfox1545 4 года назад

melhupby - sad little digs is all you can do, loser.

@rogerblackwood8815 4 года назад

@@markfox1545 For Foxsake shut up mug!

@richardschofield2201 4 года назад

@@markfox1545 I wouldn't worry, many arch remainers appear to be warming to the idea which is nice to see.

@superkingofdeathify 4 года назад

@@richardschofield2201 where did you get that from? I had thought it was the opposite.

@satagaming9144 4 года назад

@@markfox1545 You're right, in calling them a loser. Everyone loses.

@zdavzbr 4 года назад

Remember when the European problem were clocks being 6 minutes late? Yea, I miss those days

@cranknlesdesires 2 года назад

Whats happening in Europe, australian here, I've been more focusing on state and near by countries.

@zdavzbr 2 года назад

@@cranknlesdesires Something called Covid-19

@falahati 2 года назад

@@zdavzbr At this point Covid-19 is like an uninvited friend that is now living with you for 5 years, we are so desensitized to it; good to know that people in Europe still trying to get him out. xD

@goombizdvorakkiewicz5226 2 года назад

mood

@Churchgrimm Год назад

Remember when the European problem was Covid-19? Yea, I miss those days

@SleepSoul 6 лет назад

"If you think I'm going to explain the history of the Balkan politics system while holding a teasmade, you are sorely mistaken."

@kairon156 6 лет назад

That would be one weird way to get into the Genesis book of world records. Explaining history of politics Balkan in this case while holding heavy and bulky object.

@SleepSoul 6 лет назад

Heaviest object held while explaining political history in detail?

@jeffrydemeyer5433 6 лет назад

The Ottomans did it, the end.

@TheDukeGreat 6 лет назад

He has just unsubscribed his comment section from Balkan nations firing discussion

@PabloLaConecta 6 лет назад

I want a video "to explain the history of the Balkan politics system while holding a teasmade". Thanks

@honeycombfromheaven 6 лет назад

I've scrolled through seven pages of comments and not yet found a mention of Tom's Union Jack loincloth at the end. I have no comment. I'm just acknowledging its existence.

@Koisheep 6 лет назад

honeycombfromheaven I hoped the British anthem would intensify when the loincloth was seen. Disappointed

@Darticus42 6 лет назад

honeycombfromheaven That made me laugh a lot, but there's nothing else to really say about it

@kamelabogle7926 6 лет назад

I appreciate this comment since I too was scrolling the comments for precisely this.

@GarryFMason 4 года назад

Yes not sure what the world needs more - loincloths or strategically placed flags. Either would make the world a happier place.

@dominateeye 4 года назад

Well, you know, I'd always been curious what Tom's Scott looked like, and now I have my answer.

@johanjarvinen 4 года назад

It's an odd sensation to watch a youtube video and suddenly realize it's explaining something that you've noticed in your own home but never knew what was up. It's a year and a half since then but I do remember wondering why my microwave was so far behind around that time last year.

@the_hamrat 3 года назад

Am I the only one who'd watch Tom explain the Balkans political system whilst holding a teasmade?

@teastand55 Год назад

Second viewer

@ComandanteJ 6 лет назад

The soul-crushing "and god help us all" combined with the british clothing is so poetic. And british.

@all_good_names_are_taken 6 лет назад

I can't believe you leave an amazon link for the teapot

@adammetzger4182 4 года назад

It sounds cool to have but it wouldn't work for me.

@PastyMancer 4 года назад

And that sneaky Brexit joke.

@howard81 4 года назад

Matthew Harding Which was wrong - 26% of the population voted to leave the EU (52% was of the votes, not the total population)

@here2serv 4 года назад

@@howard81 nice try

@thefreudiantheoryofpenisen2197 4 года назад

张金晓 teapot?

@slycordinator 4 года назад

When I taught in a High School in the US, it felt a bit surprising/outdated that the classroom clocks were all battery powered and set to whatever time the classroom teacher set it to. Because I had graduated HS over 15 years prior in another state and all the classroom clocks were synchronized to a central one in the main office and so they were each exactly the same. Although, that did mean that when we came back to school after power had been out from snow, we got to sit there as the clocks spun very fast to get to the correct time; the automatic mechanism only allowed the gear to move the hands forward/clockwise.

@davidwillis7991 4 года назад

I have seen a lot of clocks in classrooms set to whatever the classroom teacher set them to as well, and by that I mean they haven't had their batteries replaced in a while so the teacher would have to manually change the time.

@Valery0p5 4 года назад

"teacher, I think the principal has discovered time travel"

@joshuawheeler4404 3 года назад

That's how my high school was about 10 years ago

@truckertj2109 3 года назад

But the battery powered clocks can something that a synchronised clock never could do: If you have a class that you don't like at the end of the day, and the teacher left do get something it was not uncommon that the class ended about 5min earlier than it should.

@koolerstream921 Год назад

@@truckertj2109 they can something indeed

@SlimedogYT 4 года назад

Damn that last part had me really proud to be a Brit, despite being born in and living my entire life in America.

@Nugcon 3 года назад

Tom Scott do be colonizing our national identity

@noahosborne6454 3 года назад

you can re-join the empire anytime you want, you don't even have to apologise.

@abeke5523 3 года назад

@@Nugcon colonising* ;)

@lukeothedukeo 3 года назад

Weirdly National Grid is the power company in most of Upstate NY, so we share that odd link to British power.

@kenadams5326 3 года назад

Heh second hand patriotism

@Zizzily 6 лет назад

50 shall be the number thou shalt oscillate, and the number of the oscillations shall be 50. 52.5 shalt thou not oscillate, neither oscillate thou 47.5, excepting that thou then proceed to 50. 60 is right out.

@isaiahfowlkes6439 6 лет назад

Zzyzx Wolfe what language are you speaking my guy???

@isaiahfowlkes6439 6 лет назад

Boi over truly soundin like Romeo and Juliet. You making me BIG MAD

@Armyn13 6 лет назад

It's from Monty Python and the Holy Grail

@enemyhero 6 лет назад

Thou shalt not oscillate

@MissMeganBeckett 6 лет назад

This caused me to laugh so hard my cat jumped off😹killer wabbit!

@crunglemcbungley 4 года назад

"God save the queen, and.... god help us all." This kills me

@blakksheep736 Год назад

It killed her too.

@MichaelHarto 4 года назад

Me: **laughs in sun-dial**

@gazzaboo8461 4 года назад

British clouds: Am I a joke to you?

@m0llux 3 года назад

*sends cloud*

@Happy_Shopper 3 года назад

Excellent

@spiderpickle3255 3 года назад

[holds up a quartz crystal]

@MichaelHarto 3 года назад

@@gazzaboo8461 Tropical countries: "you hold no power here"

@djdjukic 6 лет назад

Ah, the Balkans. Europe's powder-keg. My home. We have literally slowed down time so we could catch up to the rest of you.

@patrickbeart7091 6 лет назад

*applause for the witticism*

@milutin.mp4 5 лет назад

@@slippulter8053 Those are basically the same language...

@shryoder 5 лет назад

@@milutin.mp4 *Lmao... Nidje veze...*

@milutin.mp4 5 лет назад

@@shryoder Kako onda to da se razumemo međusobno bez prevodilaca?

@shryoder 5 лет назад

@@milutin.mp4 A ne to... Nego pricam za ovoga sto radi "Do you speak Serbian/Bosnian/Croatian"...

@dundoderdumme3044 6 лет назад

That one sentence "Our cycle is going at 50 per second, as her majesty intended" send me into laughter. Just the thought of her defining something like that is ridiculous haha

@ArgoIo 6 лет назад

It's her country and her laws... So technically it's correct.

@Tevildo 6 лет назад

Lorenz - Actually, the 50 Hz standard is German (defined by AEG in 1891). But some might argue that Her Majesty is German as well...

@JackhammerJesus 6 лет назад

One might argue- but it might be treason to do so.

@Tevildo 6 лет назад

Jackhammer - Possibly. _If_ the implication is that a German national cannot be queen, it would be an offence under the Treason Act 1702 (1 Anne Stat. 2 c. 21), Section III. However, the case of George I might be successfully argued in one's defence.

@fuckfannyfiddlefart 6 лет назад

JackhammerJesus No treason would be to say we should cut the heads off the scum who think they can rule by birth not merit.

@LostSoulNo301281 2 года назад

I can confirm that Isle of Grain is in the middle of nowhere. I've had to deliver there at least once and while driving there I thought maybe I'd somehow either traveled through time to some desolate future, or arrived in another country. And actually, at home we had a clock/timer for the boiler which would, over the course of a couple of weeks, eventually start running 5 minutes slow even when set to the correct time.

@yehudatheodoros6547 4 года назад

"as her majesty intended" lmao

@OculusUniversale 6 лет назад

This is the most British video I've ever seen on Tom's channel so far...

@Anvilshock 6 лет назад

Even compared to his video about the glorious spiked club that is the British mains plug?

@OculusUniversale 6 лет назад

British patriotism runs high in both videos, but I shall argue that this video is even more British than that.

@Anvilshock 6 лет назад

Blimey!

@CavCave 4 года назад

Have you seen his video on the perfect cup of tea?

@Tvngsten 4 года назад

@@CavCave Sorry, but that wasn't on the perfect cup of tea, but on the *standard* cup of tea, which is totally different.

@iangrapes6659 6 лет назад

We need a series of Tom holding a teasmade, and explaining complicated geopolitical issues.

@Draco_Alpha 6 лет назад

WHY ARE WE NOT FUNDING THIS?

@evolve330 6 лет назад

TOM, OPEN UP A PATREON!

@electroflame6188 6 лет назад

DO THIS.

@electroflame6188 6 лет назад

REPLYING AGAIN SO THIS GETS MORE ATTENTION.

@skozskoz9752 4 года назад

As a french, I could not explain to myself how the british had voted for UE exit. Now, I have a clue...tea boilers MUST be on time! I discovered Tom's channel only a few weeks ago and that's exactly what I expect from YT. Instructif et divertissant...

@courtney-ray 2 года назад

Who else is rewatching this after seeing Tom in another video standing near the ocean while holding a domestic appliance? 🙂

@commenterjosh2428 Год назад

Which one is that?

@KateHistoryMysteries Год назад

Microwave?

@TomScottGo 6 лет назад

This hopefully concludes Tom's Windswept Estuary Infrastructure Tour 2K18. I had to film into the sun on this one, it's a miracle the footage worked at all!

@Wumbolo 6 лет назад

Would've looked better with the red shirt!

@desia.brimou 6 лет назад

Wumbolo I wanted to say something about him being cold, but he filmed in the Arctic and he only wore the red tee and jeans.

@Luke29121999 6 лет назад

Well, that explains why the clock at the underground station is 6 minutes behind i guess.

@erkinalp 6 лет назад

50 Britsh cycles a second sounds wrong. 50 cycles a British second might be more correct.

@WhatTheHellMang 6 лет назад

Hi Tom, did you know that the mains frequency in the UK is recorded as a unique fingerprint to help forensic investigators check the date and time accuracy of recorded audio/video footage.

@renakunisaki 6 лет назад

There was an incident in the 60s in USA where an overloaded power grid caused the frequency to drop over the course of several minutes, from 60 to 50Hz, before cutting out entirely. There's a recording of a radio station affected by it, where all the recordings were noticeably slow and lower pitched (the turntables used that 60Hz for the motors), with the DJ being very confused.

@TheEulerID 6 лет назад

To be fair, it doesn't take much to confuse the average DJ.

@wellesradio 6 лет назад

Steve Jones A radio DJ? Those things haven’t existed since the 70’s.

@wellesradio 6 лет назад

Any link to this?

@Abdi-uy1kh 5 лет назад

link?

@lefuturiste27 4 года назад

We want a link!!!

@itsyeboielon2884 3 года назад

That ending was so British, i've swapped out the coffee machine for a tea kettle

@georhodiumgeo9827 4 года назад

I found this historical account of a device called an alarm clock. Before the pandemic people would use this strange devices to tell them when to go to something called a job. These things all lost any real meaning along with concepts like “what day is it” and “let’s go out for dinner”. History is fun!

@wmjm9931 6 лет назад

Some people might say this is sarcastic and hence not actually patriotic but since sarcasm is an integral part of British humour one could argue it's patriotic nonetheless.

@ChristopherTurcotte 6 лет назад

Serbia and Kosovo have fallen out, and it just hertz everyone around them

@MiceAndMinecraft 6 лет назад

Christopher Turcotte badum-tish! 🥁

@jt3221 6 лет назад

ohm my. watt a palava. it's not their volt.

@5roundsrapid263 6 лет назад

Maybe this conduct is just a phase they’re going through.

@knightshousegames 6 лет назад

Well, more power to em I guess.

@couriadore1286 6 лет назад

This comment chain is great. I know it isn't exactly current but frankly I have little resistance to this pun fest.

@tipsythecat Год назад

They should have just ran the grid at ~300Hz for one second 😎

@tipsythecat Год назад

@Not_Ambrose you know I was joking, right?

@tomm.ymacleod9347 3 года назад

The anthem in the background and the flag kilt🤣🤣🤣 Tom never ceases to amaze.

@mattstreuli 6 лет назад

VIDEO REQUEST: Tom explains tricky political situations, such as the Balkans, while holding a teasmaid. All those in favour, THUMBS UP. :)

@vaclav_fejt 6 лет назад

(Feature History already did it...it took two videos without a teasmaid)

@yincheri1421 6 лет назад

Matt Streuli Tom explains the independence of Kosovo from Serbia without trying to anger serbs or albanians

@AdamHadford 6 лет назад

that is the problem we need the teasmaid

@nurmihusa7780 6 лет назад

That would be just one’s cup of tea. Ahem.

@Anonymous-df8it 2 года назад

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@goneutt 6 лет назад

Southern California started with 50 cycle equipment, and to hook into a grid they had to switch to the 60 hz everyone else was running. So the power company opened a shop where clocks could be brought to have their gears changed out for free.

@stvp68 4 года назад

As an American, I was surprised to hear a Brit say “over in Europe” as exclusive of the UK

@andrewgwilliam4831 4 года назад

It's annoyingly common usage here, although I'm surprised that Tom would say it.

@Shadoph 4 года назад

We say the same thing here in Sweden. Probably cause we, like the UK, have ocean between us and mainland Europe.

@WildBluntHickok 4 года назад

The correct term an island should be using is "over on the mainland"

@multienergico9299 4 года назад

I am Spanish living in the UK. Many times I hear things like "in the continent you tend to do X in a different way, don't you?" As in someone from Sweden, Germany to Spain would do the same. I have also heard one British speaking of "European" food

@Thomas_Bergel 4 года назад

stvp68 I think it‘s like calling the us and a „america“

@SirFloofy001 2 года назад

If every single clock in the EU is running 6 minuets slow, are they actually running slow or has time changed?

@pineapplesandjellies 2 года назад

Not every single clock, just mains-powered ones. Watches, battery clocks, analogue clocks, computers, internet, mobile phones, etc were all still on correct time.

@SirFloofy001 2 года назад

@@pineapplesandjellies It wasn't supposed to be literal, it was a philosophical question.

@DanielsPolitics1 2 года назад

@@SirFloofy001 I think the fact that many other time pieces show the correct time is part of the answer to the philosophical question. There hasn’t been a uniform change in indicates time, only a subset of clocks diverging from both the bulk of clocks and the agreed definition.

@fredblonder7850 Год назад

That depends on how long it takes you to dance 6 minuets.

@windowsxpmemesandstufflol Год назад

Well, we do define a second of time as some 9 billion oscillations of a cesium isotope and the planck time is defined with fundamental constants, so the answer is definitely that the clocks are running slow, even if every single one did.

@David_Last_Name 6 лет назад

As long as the British are able to have their tea on time, I feel that there is still hope for the world. :)

@pseudorandomly 6 лет назад

"... the Isle of Grain, which is near ... nowhere." Perspective: according to Google Earth, the power plant where Tom is standing is just 36.7 miles from Trafalgar Square. Out in the American Southwest desert, that qualifies as right next door.

@justawatchin2 6 лет назад

It's just across from Southend on Sea, which is ironically on the north bank of the Thames Estuary.

@dunzerkug 6 лет назад

Same in the Midwest. I've lived in towns where the closest "city" of 5,000+ people with a big store or fast food or a movie theatre was close to 50 miles away.

@aidhan97 6 лет назад

Or in Australia, it's in your backyard

@suzannep 6 лет назад

I live in the North East of the United States and its 30 to 40 miles to get to a decent store. So I guess in Britain I live just about in the middle of nowhere. People from NY city tell me I live in the middle of nowhere when they visit and have to drive 30 miles to a Starbucks :-)

@David_Last_Name 6 лет назад

The biggest difference between England and America is that in America we think 100 years is a long time and in England they think 100 miles is a long way. :)

@Fif0l 4 года назад

That patriotic british rant in the end was amazing.

@hullinstruments 2 года назад

“if you think I’m going to explain the history of Balkan politics, while holding a Teasmade, you’re sorely mistaken“ That’s my standard response when asked a complex question.

@nraynaud 6 лет назад

I think you skipped 2 important steps: why an under-powered grid goes slower instead of lower voltage, and why we always conduct under-water electricity in DC.

@ExEBoss 5 лет назад

*+nraynaud1* *+ElectroBOOM* just did a video on the second part.

@MatthijsvanDuin 4 года назад

With DC electricity the resevoir from which you initially withdraw energy (and which is refilled by the power supply) is capacitance, whose voltage is proportional to the energy stored in it, which means that whenever you consume more energy than supplied the voltage will go down and vice versa. This is presumably where your intuition comes from that drawing excess power ought to make the voltage go lower. Capacitance is however of no use for storing alternating current. Instead, with grid power, the resevoir of energy from which load is served is the inertia of the many synchronous generators attached to the grid, and withdrawing energy from this causes these generators to lose kinetic energy and spin down, thus lowering the grid frequency.

@johngaltline9933 4 года назад

Spinney thing go Burrrr slower when you put a load on it.

@MatthijsvanDuin 4 года назад

@@johngaltline9933 Exactly! You put it into more eloquent words than I managed.

@wilfdarr 4 года назад

@@johngaltline9933 LMAO. I read the comment before yours and I was still not able to figure it, still thinking it should affect amps or volts, or both, but not frequency. Then I read yours and went "oh, ya, duh, obviously"...just way too funny. In all fairness, my line of thinking came from a digital psw inverter because that's what I've been looking at lately to replace my analog inverter, but it is odd that after 30 years of using analog inverters, I couldn't get there logically. Funny how the mind works. Anyways, thanks for taking the time to dumb it down for me 😂🤣

@yakovgolyadkin 6 лет назад

The power frequency being used to control the time on clocks can be really fun when going across the Atlantic. My friend just moved from California to Norway, and brought a few of his American appliances with him, and was really surprised when they days seemed to be going very slowly, and sunrise and sunset were and seemingly random times, as his clocks were only advancing 50 minutes every hour.

@MiceAndMinecraft 6 лет назад

yakovgolyadkin I had the same problem when I took my clock radio with me when I went to live in America for a while. Except too fast.

@ZanHecht 6 лет назад

yakovgolyadkin Very few American devices rely on the mains frequency for timing, since a law was passed in 2016 that removed the requirement for correcting frequency errors in the power grid, allowing clocks to wander.

@robertlozyniak3661 6 лет назад

@yakovgolyadkin That is why we have such things as wristwatches.

@MeepChangeling 6 лет назад

Fun Fact: Most power companies still keep the timing corrected.

@brianleeper5737 5 лет назад

Well, except for every traffic signal controller made (maybe the latest models don't). These traffic signal controllers DO use the mains frequency for timing. Accurate time is important for keeping signals coordinated. So, the next time you hit 4 red lights in a row, think about how decisions are made without considering the full impact.

@TheGreatCalsby 4 года назад

What a delightfully clever name for the Teas Maid. It makes your tea, like a maid does, and also sounds like "Tea's made". Truly, a British success story

@reddragon3132 2 года назад

Except for the fact it's spelt teasmade not teas maid...

@ThermoMan Год назад

I always assumed it was spelt Teas Maid as well

@Mutanttheenby 3 года назад

3:58 Tom's wearing a british flag as a bottom attire lmao

@IvicaMilaric 6 лет назад

The cold, gray and desolate background of the video was chosen so that it can remind people of both Serbia and Kosovo in equal measure.

@Schwallex 6 лет назад

All it reminds people of is Britain.

@IvicaMilaric 6 лет назад

Also, rakia. Rakia everywhere.

@IvicaMilaric 6 лет назад

I think that Tom Scott's sun-devoid skin does a good job there as well! :D

@satzbau9185 6 лет назад

those clouds the real mvp of this video

@Quetzalcoatlv3 6 лет назад

Really? I thought it's the standard weather in the UK.

@malaki_moose 6 лет назад

Perhaps the most interestingly boring subject of all. I like this, I want more super trivial and boring facts like this.

@aidanwansbrough7495 6 лет назад

joshstylegaming Same!

@swiftlymurmurs 6 лет назад

joshstylegaming You have come to the right place. Things you never knew you wanted to know and will probably never use again are Tom's specialty

@benjaminwarden8227 Год назад

"And hopefully politics will solve that" I'll take things that will never happen for 100.

@CanadainElmo 3 года назад

you always manage to make me laugh while i learn something and that is an invaluable skill Tom

@JimFortune 6 лет назад

Do you mean there are devices that tell the time and are not connected to the internet? How strange.

@MK-ex4pb 6 лет назад

Jim Fortune it's amazing really

@007RenaissanceMan 6 лет назад

what does the internet have to do with any of this?

@cabe_bedlam 6 лет назад

Apple phones have been connected to the internet for years, doesnt mean they know how to tell the time....

@josephevans992 6 лет назад

phones and computers etc get the time form the internet or gps satellites I think, and it's easier if already connected than having a timing chip or other device

@Vengir 6 лет назад

Devices that are able to connect to the internet or to the cellular network will synchronise their clocks outside, but they don't do that often, but they are still able to show the current time when offline.

@doorhanger9317 6 лет назад

"Hopefully politics will solve that" We can dream, Tom. We can dream.

@FloatingOnAZephyr 3 года назад

“The clocks are going slow all over Europe. We shall not see them accurate again in our lifetime.”

@Ricksdetrix Год назад

2018: Europe's power is behind! 2022: Britain's everything is behind!

@quidprobro 6 лет назад

This is the most patriotic thing to come out of Britain in the history of the world

@flimpeenflarmpoon1353 6 лет назад

You clearly haven't mentioned plugs in front of a British person.

@oskarobertson5513 6 лет назад

JakeTheHammer Aside from tom’s plug video, of course

@jonah4196 6 лет назад

*The entire USA*: well excuse me.

@jonathanfaber3291 6 лет назад

What about that time we addicted the Soverign nation of China to opium because we really needed their tea and then started (and won) the opium wars giving us ports to trade for tea?

@vincenthunter1615 6 лет назад

JakeTheHammer I’m glad you like the teasmaid as well!

@munzutai 6 лет назад

No joke I have just adjusted the clock in my microwave this morning which was in fact about 6 minutes off. Now I know why

@Humanius1994 6 лет назад

Well I guess you are going to have to correct it again in a couple of weeks time ;)

@Tahgtahv 6 лет назад

Of course he is. European Summer Time begins then. =P

@lukakresoja5297 5 лет назад

Nobody: Brittish people: OUR CLOCKS SHOW THE RIGHT TIME

@KissMyFatAxe 3 года назад

And our tea is made precisely when we need it 👍

@aleksaandrijasevic5918 4 года назад

I'm a Serb and had no idea why when I entered Tom Scott it suggested Serbia and also had no idea about this power loss Needless to say I'm pleasently surprised by this video

@danearl8328 3 года назад

Why you enter Tom Scott 😨?

@RSpudieD 6 лет назад

That was well produced and that ending bit was great!

@Schwallex 6 лет назад

Neither of which can be said of your comment. Care to try again?

@Darticus42 6 лет назад

Schwallex wat

@LauS0 6 лет назад

no it wasn't

@colunizator 6 лет назад

2months x 30days x 24h x 60min x 60 sec x (50.000Hz - 49.996Hz) x (0.02s) / 60sec = 6.9min Ok i believe you

@Kihidokid 6 лет назад

Michael Colun 7 minutes off....

@cey4505 6 лет назад

Wrong. You can’t get to minutes without cancelling other units. Or, explain.

@davidberriman5903 3 года назад

Love your work. The humour made an interesting clip even more enjoyable.

@andreacoppini 3 года назад

Ironically, Teasmades are now built with digital clocks, and these clocks are automatically set using DCF77, a radio-based time signal sent from Germany.

@glotchalotch 6 лет назад

That got unexpectedly patriotic toward the end there

@MaxArceus 6 лет назад

If you mean sarcastic, then yeah.

@maxwellday5096 6 лет назад

Sarcastically Patriotic? Happy now

@vaclav_fejt 6 лет назад

Patrastic? Satiriotic?

@SJohnTrombley 6 лет назад

That was a top quality Brexit joke

@dylanl3942 3 года назад

I love your videos Tom!!! keep up the great work. Sometimes i get so wrapped up in your video that i forget to like, so i have to go back a few pages to make sure i get them all

@EVILBUNNY28 5 лет назад

I’ve literally never felt so proud to be British in my life.

@Dan-pf4se 6 лет назад

“As the Queen intended.” Lmao

@harrytodhunter5078 6 лет назад

Watt is love? Baby dont Hertz me, dont hertz me. No morse.

@tichepotato7992 6 лет назад

Severely underrated comment.

@dvorak2676 6 лет назад

underrated probably but he didn't invent the joke so it's alright imo

@nilsvids 6 лет назад

Ohm I god...

@eduardvaniersel7535 6 лет назад

Dear Lord, God save us all (and the queen)

@harrytodhunter5078 6 лет назад

I stole the joke.

@Jeagles 10 месяцев назад

5 years and I’d never watched all the way to the very end of this video until today. I’m glad I did.

@incongruousinquiry 3 года назад

as an american i love a little ironic patriotism from other countries. really helps even me out emotionally

@hingedelephant 6 лет назад

Watt? 6 minutes? Ohm y, That Hertz. Shocking story, but I got a charge from it, nonetheless. I like your videos. They are fresh and current.

@Roxor128 6 лет назад

Very punny! Thumbs up!

@Oyashirosamananodesu 6 лет назад

Get out 😂

@Stormy177 6 лет назад

AC watt you did there. Re-volt-ing that so many puns were cr-amp-ed into one comment. I don't know how anyone else's comment could possibly c-ampere. 😂

@robbyhenton8038 6 лет назад

Dave Messer that... hert me...

@rodrikforrester6989 5 лет назад

But are the videos alernating current or direct current?

@guyincognito. 6 лет назад

So Brexit has saved us 6 minutes already? Worth it.

@fuckfannyfiddlefart 6 лет назад

It will just cost us sovereignty as neoliberalism and American Imperialism takes over our government.

@cconsul2061 6 лет назад

So no change then :P

@MechaStan 5 лет назад

Good luck with Boris though

@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath 4 года назад

@@fuckfannyfiddlefart And you think you were sovereign as part of the EU? You poor deluded soul.

@fuckfannyfiddlefart 4 года назад

@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath what does sovereign even mean by your definition?! I know we aren't sovereign if we are conquered by wall street billionaires, and ruled over by unelected WTO tribunals, that I DO KNOW!

@PouLS 2 года назад

2:43 For those who don't know, 52% of people in UK voted in favour of Brexit.

@diasporadica 3 года назад

The thumbnail made me think Tom had just woken up in the middle of nowhere..

@DerLolmann666 6 лет назад

Random Fun-Fact no one will ever care about: A teacher of mine always says "God save the queen" when something goes wrong... ...I live in Austria...

@DerLolmann666 6 лет назад

A "HTL" in Vienna.

@mattthegamerhongkong6948 6 лет назад

L Wait… Vienna is in Australia? Oh right… Austria not Australia

@demrandom 5 лет назад

There's still living habsburgs, so.. They recently tried to claim back one of the habsburg castles, claiming whilst the other ones were legally taken when govt switched, one of them wasnt, and they'd like that one back, please.