In "Hitchhikers Guide" one of the references is to a tourist planet that was so popular people were taking home so much it was actually affecting the planets mass. So, as a result, tourists are weighed when they first arrive and again when they were leaving and, if they weigh more than what they did when they arrived an equivalent amount is surgically removed. Gulp!
He hit a pin with a hammer. His name isn't "accurate" I don't see it! Unless you mean his name is Guy and he is a guy. I think his parents noticed before they named him.
God, there's always one who doesn't understand the subjective nature of humour, isn't there? Doesn't matter that Sanders is a highly respected and award-winning comedian who's written for most of the big comedy shows on TV, does it? Because you, little Billy Nobody, don't find her funny. Fortunately, your opinion is almost entirely irrelevant.
@@essentielley Yes but the amount varies. Flat/even beaches do so to a great degree, but many beaches have a rather steep edge where the water is, which prevents the change from being so noticeable. Most of Denmark has flat beaches because the Kattegat and the the various straits and sounds that connect it to the Baltic are relatively not very energetic compared to seas and oceans. Therefore there is more deposition than erosion (most places), and the beaches are flat. Although this isn't unique to Denmark, that may be the only place Sindhu has been which is like this. The west coast of Jutland is very much the opposite, incidentally. Every several years, some historic building must either be moved or it is consumed by the sea as cliffs erode from under it. Just recently, a well known lighthouse was put on rails and was the main news story for a while.
"Great white sharks are the only animal immune to pufferfish poison." Proving that must have been an amazing research project. "OK, now we're going to try feeding fugu to a mountain goat. Nope, dead. How about a snow leopard?"
In re: sunbathing: Benjamin Franklin (American Founding Father and inventor) introduced a concept he referred to as "air baths". This was a combination of spending time outdoors in the nude when whether permitted, and opening the windows and sitting nude in the house in colder weather. He believed that ventilating the house and exposing one's skin to fresh air (and sunlight when possible (which in New England wasn't much more often than in England)) was conducive to improved health. I don't know how effective it was, but he was known as a ladies' man well into his 70s, so it may have had some . . . invigorating effects. He was also an early victim of anti-vaccine nuttery: his wife was against giving their son Francis the recently-introduced smallpox vaccine, and he subsequently died of the disease, which may have led to them becoming estranged. Here's a quote of him referring to the tragedy: *"In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen."*
The inoculation method then was very new, done from a live person. That wasn't anti-vax nuttery. He would have had to have had his kid inoculated in 1734. Think how early it was!
@@jenniferpearce1052 None of this is related to the smallpox vaccine, which wasn't developed until 60 years after Francis Franklin died. Inoculation is NOT the same thing as vaccination. Inoculation meant giving someone the virus intentionally to make them sick. To inoculate something or someone means to introduce a microorganism to it. People died from smallpox inoculation, but at a much lower rate than they died from naturally-acquired smallpox. That was Franklin's dilemma, not whether to vaccinate, but whether to intentionally infect his kid.
@@jenniferpearce1052 It's a risk/benefit analysis, like any other. If you're unvaccinated and you get COVID, your chances of dying from it could be 50% or higher depending on your age and health, your access to medical care, and the viral variant. Take the vaccine and your chance of dying is still so small no one can reliably determine it because not enough people have actually died from it. But if you get COVID after having the vaccine, your risk of dying is many orders of magnitude lower than if you were unvaccinated. I have diabetes and I'm over 50 (plus other fun risk factors). I got the vaccine & boosters. When I eventually got COVID, it was unpleasant, but no worse than a bad cold that lasted longer. Had I not been vaccinated, my odds of dying might have been more like one in ten. Talk to people who have had COVID with and without the vaccine. Then talk to people who have lost loved ones from COVID, and also from the COVID vaccine. Funny thing is, you'll never find any of those people. It's easy to find people who have lost loved ones to COVID. I know many. Have you ever met a person who has actually lost a loved one to the vaccine? Ok, maybe you read about a half-dozen who had an extremely rare reaction. I bet you've also read about over 6.6 million people who have died from actual COVID and its consequences on the body. There's your risk/benefit analysis right there. Modern anti-vax nuttery began in the UK with a physician named Andrew Wakefield, who had an idea that made sense to him about vaccines causing autism, so he faked his research data and made a career out of lying about it. He was convicted in UK courts, and his work was refuted by the publishers (The Lancet). He can never practice medicine again because he got so many children killed or sick with his manufactured public panic that seems will never go away. For some reason the vaccine panic jumped the rails, and not for the first time. It's no longer about autism lies. It's about whatever conspiracy the greedy panic peddlers can come up with. The public now doubts vaccines, so they are an easy target, and you are their prey. They know how to sound like they know what they're talking about. They know how to give you only half of the story so you believe you are making an informed choice that you thought through carefully. They teach you how to reject evidence and best practices. They give you talking points for friends and skeptics of their ideas. You will forget that you haven't spent 10 years in a university working to become a scientist who actually understands virology and related biosciences. You might think you know how vaccines actually work, and that you yourself are in a good position to assess their risk despite the consensus of the entire medical profession telling you you're wrong. (Hint: You're not.) It's still Wakefield's lie in a different form. It's an ordinary, common, and particularly deadly public panic (millions dead and still counting) that people are making money from. COVID-19 is a new disease that needs a new type of vaccine. That carries risk, but the risk was managed incredibly well, and what we have is one of the safest vaccination programs in the history of public health. Most of the people in hospitals dying of COVID are those who were not vaccinated. Nobody is in the hospitals dying of complications from the vaccine. Just step away from the computer and talk to actual people. Don't ask what they've heard. Ask what they've experienced. The lunacy of the vaccine panic will emerge quickly if you do this, and you don't need to be a professor. You just have to get to know people instead of reading rumors online. The Internet always tends to confirm what we believe, and what we fear. It is not reliable.
@@jenniferpearce1052 It's your life. I'm a retired neuroscientist, I've done my best to keep up with this, and I can assure you the information is not originating from politicians. They're generally not clever enough to make that stuff up. They are doing their jobs by passing it on to you in an effort to stop the deaths. The autism thing is the tip of a huge iceberg of public panic concerning vaccines. That public panic never went away once Wakefield deliberately started it, and the COVID vaccine public panic is just the current fad in that history. I began to lose my teeth when I went to kindergarten, and so did everyone I know. Therefore kindergarten is bad for your teeth. That is the kind of reasoning you are basing your vaccination decision on. I'm sorry your best friend lost their aunt after having the vaccine. People have a higher risk for all-cause mortality as they age. My maternal grandma died shortly after Grandpa bought a new car. Surely it was the car that caused her cancer. My paternal grandfather only bought pickups, and that grandmother outlived him by about 50 years. That is the logic you are risking your life on. In research, the axiom is "correlation is not causation." (I always had my students recite that with me during lectures.) It happened around the same time, but that doesn't mean it was the cause. We also say "n=1 is meaningless," which means a single occurrence of something has no predictive power. Scientists know better than to risk public health on such fallacies. They train for years to learn why that stuff has actual real world meaning, and how to apply it. I spent 4 years working on my BS, 5 on my PhD, and another 3 in a training fellowship to learn the nuances of the scientific method and its actual application in my field. Understanding biomedical research isn't nearly as simplistic as you seem to think. Your assumption that you know something meaningful because of a tragedy in your friend's family does not reflect an understanding of virology and how vaccines work, or where meaningful information comes from, or how to analyze evidence critically. That's why we have professionals. If your mechanic told you there was a 10% chance your brakes would fail next time you drove on the freeway, would you second guess the mechanic based on what one of your friends told you about their car? Would you drive it on the freeway, risking your own life and the lives of those around you? At some point we have to admit we are not the experts on everything, and we need to listen to the professionals who have everything to lose by giving you bad information. (I would listen to my mechanic.) Wakefield lost everything. Do you think the physicians who are promoting vaccinations would risk everything by giving you half-baked and dangerous advice? Do you think they haven't personally attended endless conferences every few months discussing the matter with the scientists who generate that data? Remember they spent about 12 years in college, med school, and a residency program, and that's just for family medicine. Why would they risk a career they worked so hard to build? Does your friend's loss really give you as much understanding about the COVID vaccine as your physician could? Or did it give you a convenient place to stop learning more about it? One case does not give meaningful information, but you talk about it as if it were slam-dunk evidence. I don't mean to speak light of your friend's loss. I want to be sensitive about that, but what's at stake here is a lot more than one fatality. BTW (this is real, just a couple days ago), my dad was just sent home after one day in the ICU with clots in his lungs, on supplemental oxygen, just 16 hours after finishing his TPA infusion when lab tests suggested he might have a genetic or autoimmune disease that could cause the clots to come back and kill him rather suddenly. He was supposed to stay in the ICU for a week minimum until they figured out whether his condition was going to worsen and came up with a treatment plan. They sent him home because the hospital is still over capacity, due in large part to a glut of unvaccinated COVID patients (plus RSV and flu). People who make choices like yours might actually kill my dad. We're still waiting on the labs. It's your life, but the collateral effects of your decision might affect others in ways you haven't considered. My dad might die. If my dad might die because of the overuse of medical resources by people with preventable diseases, I think it's worth looking into how many others have died because of other people's decision not to get vaccinated during a massively deadly pandemic. Was that something you looked into when making your decision?
So, the steak down the trousers thing is actually interesting from a historic perspective! The Tatars, from old Crimea, would do this with their horses! Except they didn't have saddles, and they didn't really wear a lot of clothes. So they used thinly sliced meat to protect themselves from sores. Anyway, as the story goes, the meat in question would be so tenderized by this that it was basically ground, and eaten raw, thus originating the Steak Tartare, the precursor to the Hamburger.
@@PurplePinkRed Steak tartare was originally a derivative dish, named not for raw-meat-eating Tatars, but for the tartar sauce that was served with it. Sorry to take away what your "learnt", but you really shuouldn't "learn" from youtube comments.
And immediately chuck it on the barby? I think I would. I bet they taste good :) (Yeah, I know that's a crass Aussie stereotype, and yes, that actually was my first thought - I bet that would taste great done on a barbecue!)
@@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 Wow, I had no idea. (My Aussie stereotype is worse on yet another level!) I know shark bites are a serious hazard around Florida waters, and I always associate shark danger with Australia, but I never know whether that's just a stereotype I get exposed to because of the population of great whites around there. If they are truly an at-risk animal, I'm glad they're protected. The marketplace seems to drive a lot of extinctions and near-extinctions, and as dangerous as they can be to humans who go poking around in their hunting grounds, they are a real natural wonder. I'm sure I've had shark steak at a nice restaurant at some point, most likely in the late 80s or early 90s. (My wife was into restaurants that served slabs of seared or blackened ocean fish.) I remember it tasting like any other fish and wondering why it was so popular - and expensive.
Well, in my observation it was the Germans that got up early and claimed all the sun loungers. However, my experience was mostly in the 1990s, the same time as the tv ad, so perhaps back then it was a thing. Partly I think it was that the Germans had high disposable income and relatively high amounts of paid vacation days, so there were an awful lot of them, plus they didn't stay up half the night getting drunk like the Brits so they were up early.
Once when Jo Brand was on she told a story of going on holiday and all the pool chairs had been claimed by German tourists very early in the day. They put their towels on them as reservations.
I desperately want her to do her "grumpy Indian mother" voice over for nature documentaries. I think it'd be sublimely funny listening to her getting increasingly irritated by the courtship rituals of the Emperor Penguin 🤣
Really great episode! I loved the reference to Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the fun they had with the points at the end. With the snow shark and the sand shark movies, I was waiting for someone to mention Saturday Night Live's Land Shark vignettes I guess maybe SNL isn't so well known in the UK.
@@waynemarvin5661 And have therefore lost the will to laugh? Landshark was a great sketch! It came out at a time when Brits still thought Dad's Army was the height of funny. It was also before SNL, when the show was still called NBC's Saturday Night. It was a very different time and a different show.
35:30 The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land.
I heard that years ago when in training for cooking pufferfish (fugu), a Japanese chef would have to eat the parts of the pufferfish they had cut in order to pass their exam. Once they had passed the exam they could put a lantern made from pufferfish skin outside their restaurant to show customers that they could safely eat pufferfish there. I can't find the reference anywhere and it bothers me as I know I didn't imagine it! Has anyone else heard that?
I have eaten fugu a few times - I live in Japan - and it doesn't really have a taste........ I did have a Fugu soup in Korea though, which used a lot more of the fish, and was boiled, so removed the poison (apparently) and that was actually rather nice!
@@kingsand999 More piss-taking than anything. I'm sure she could revert to some kind of natural accent. But regardless of who she's quoting, she gives a pretty uninspired effort.
Love it... You obviously don't realise Sandi spent most of her childhood in the New York, and only changed her accent to British to stop herself standing out when she moved back to the UK in her teens. Her actual accent is American, you plum. She puts on the British accent when she's on TV or Radio. There's even an episode of QI when she talks about it. 🤣
22:56 It seems like there's a fortune to be made for any other country that's willing to host the British, French, and Germans if they're able to put out enough sun loungers for everyone. And yet everyone keeps going to Spain.
"...the Land Shark is considered the cleverest of all sharks. Unlike the Great White shark, which tends to inhabit the waters and harbors of recreational beach areas, the Land Shark may strike at any place, any time. It is capable of disguising its voice, and generally preys on young, single women." [Scene: Interior. A New York City apartment. There is a knock at the door.] Woman: [speaking through closed door] Yes? Voice: (mumbling) Mrs. Arlsburgerhhh? Woman: Who? Voice: (mumbling) Mrs. Johannesburrrr? Woman: Who is it? Voice: [pause] Flowers. Woman: Flowers for whom? Voice: [long pause] Plumber, ma'am. Woman: I don't need a plumber. You're that clever shark, aren't you? Voice: [pause] Candygram. Woman: Candygram, my foot! You get out of here before I call the police! You're the shark, and you know it! Voice: Wait. I-I'm only a dolphin, ma'am. Woman: A dolphin? Well...okay. [opens door] NOM NOM NOM Classic SNL had its moments.
Sindhu's comment about marriage is such an Indian thing to say 😂😂😂 that's exactly what Indian couples think. It's been 23 years, no one's going anywhere 😂
When I went to Coney Island I grabbed some sand off the beach to bring home and share little bits with friends as a souvenir. They pulled me aside at the airport to check it out - as they saw a clump of something in the x-ray. I had to explain it was just sand but they still had to test it to make sure it wasn't a bomb or explosive. Luckily, I didn't miss my flight. Glad there wasn't some fine for taking the sand - it would have never crossed my mind that it could be a thing. Interesting.
The strength bit was a bit wrong... They say to do it like an axe but then give a mallet the size of a hatchet. And the fellow at the end who succeeded did use it as a hatchet.
Which ones? Sand erosion mostly only affects city beaches that have had their sand dunes developed over with buildings (e.g., Bondi). Beaches that still have their sand dunes generally fare OK (albeit councils send trucks in to take the sand away to the aforementioned dune less beaches....).
@@TassieLorenzo North of Coffs Harbour are the ones I walk. They have been cut back severely by storms many times over the years and grow back again. From the house (on a hill) I can usually see two bands of discoloured water: obviously waiting to get back and deposit their load.
In Minnesota we build snow forts. It uses basically the same skills, but it's easier because you don't need to add water, though you can if you want it to be really durable. It doesn't work very well on the really cold days when the snow is dry and fluffy. You could have two teams each build a snow fort and have snowball wars, with snow shovel catapults and everything!
Entire beaches regularly wash away and return where I live on Lake Ontario. It can happen several times a year or even a month, with the pounding waves eroding and washing sand and rock in and out not to mention ice action and several floods in the last 5 years. It's geology in action on super-speed time. I live on the Toronto Islands, an archipelago in the Toronto Harbour which is basically all dune. Over the decades organic matter has beem encouraged over the sand and there are now trees and parkland.
When the ice breaks up on Lake Superior in the spring, and the wind blows the wrong direction, the results can be devastating and breathtaking at the same time. I don't think the oceans around the British Isles freeze like that over the winter though. The waves and the storms, yeah, like the Gales of November any time of year.
Coal depending the type is actually fine in certain circumstances (non presoaked in flame accelerants as im sure some1 will annoyingly point out which should be common sense) . It's used to whiten teeth, clean/flush your system out, and so on... I was surprised myself when first learning that. Had to take that charcoal drink at a hospital. Works fast... That's all I gotta say...
It's actually a test of gullibility. One of the guy wires holding it up is really attached to the weight you're trying to make go up the wire. If the person running the high striker leans against the wire, it tightens and you can hit the bell at the top easily. If they don't lean on the wire it's loose and the weight wobbles about so much you can't make it go very far at all.
Apparently with fugu, the poison is kind of the point. I've never had it, but from what I understand, there's still trace amounts of toxin in the edible bits, and while there's not enough to kill or injure a person, it produces a slight numbing or tingling sensation in the mouth and tongue.
Exhibit P as to why I wouldn’t pay $100 a plate for the stuff. Long John Silvers is just $10 a plate, give or take. That is, if you can find a Long John Silver’s…
Okay, the first minute or so of this episode is the most epic of the entire series, ever. Alan Davis, depicting a child on a beach, is given a buzzer singing "I want to have sex on the beach". Immediately followed by the most awkward of silences. I have watched this three times and haven't made it past the 2 minute mark yet.
Coconut halves banged together sound nothing like horse hooves. We've just learned that they sound like horse hooves because sound effects men in radio and early films used coconuts to simulate horse hooves.
Yes, and no. Coconut halves clopped together do sound very like shod horse hooves on pavement - but hearing that sound in Western movies with horses on dirt roads is one of the sillier things that film-makers do (along with that "peww" noise that apparently comes out of any sort of gun when you screw a mostly-hollow can onto the tip of the barrel)
He also changed when he became a dad. He's 12-14% less silly and 43% more correct. When people become parents, they get used to being the one who's right because they're always around children.
Wow, can’t believe you noticed that, good catch. There’s enough wide shots that I don’t think there’s actually a divider being edited out there. I think most likely they wanted shots of people putting away their boards but Lou and Alan weren’t doing it at the same time, so they combined two different moments in time for a tighter edit.
My mother used to tell us that the rich women in the fifties in Manhatten would let a Dr give them a tapeworm.. then,weeks later when they looked sufficiently anorexic,the Dr would put raw hamburger on their tongues( after making the ladies fast for so many hrs) and the hungry tapeworm would make it's way up."get it" the doc would yell and pull the worm out... .holy shite! Really mom?! 🤢
Nah, not really. Your mom listened to one rumor too many. In the 1950s, there was a famous opera singer who lost a lot of weight, and the unfounded rumor sprang up that she used a tapeworm. (She'd actually had a tapeworm earlier in her life, but that was unrelated.) Pills were advertised and sold in the Victorian era that supposedly contained tapeworm eggs, but they most likely didn't. The raw hamburger thing is kinda funny to me. First, tapeworms can't smell or taste anything. Second, they live way down in the intestines, not anywhere near the (unnecessarily) raw hamburger in the mouth. Pulling the thing out through the mouth would be useless too, if it were possible, because you could never get all the eggs and all the segments left behind in the intestines. A tapeworm is more like a self-fertilizing colony of segments. It would just grow back, maybe multiple worms. People are occasionally ingesting tapeworms today (and probably have for ages), but it's rare, and very, very stupid. They can make you quite sick, blind, or dead. Their larvae can get into your brain and eat it. They're pretty nasty creatures. (I have an advanced degree in nutrition. I had to learn all this as an undergrad.)
@@iwishiwasananteater.3205 That's because it's a poxy name to begin with about a business which is overblown and really only purchased by WAGS and dumb rich women.
@@Otherman101 Actress, Comedian. Also a scholar. Very well educated and well travelled. I agree not the most charismatic, but I'd like to see her host something. I'm rather tired of the usual characters who host stuff. It would be nice to hear somebody who's more compact and introspective.
