Rejects from Tom's Ideas Board: The Early Years 

The confidence door would have to randomly not work in order to diminish confidence.

"When is Google gonna shut down Google+?" Well, now you know...

Did anyone else think Tom meant how far can you physically push a Buddhist along a street? 😆

Isn't an uphill zipline just a ski lift?

Idea: a park bench video but the audio is dubbed in later, Matt providing Tom's voice and vice versa.

There's a VR implementation of Google Earth, and now I'm imagining someone implementing a miniature golf game where you're Godzilla sized and the ball is the size of a van.

1:09: Matt flips the bird, presumably at Editing Room Tom. 1:11: Matt looks directly at the camera, in a way that makes it clear to Editing Room Tom that the bird-flipping was not accidental. xD

That breakdancing or falling over one would actually be interesting for an interactive intermission in your next Citation Needed live.

"Sole Mates" a web service to match people with oddly sized feet. For example, my left foot is a half size larger than my right. Surely there is someone out there who is my opposite and has similar taste in footwear.

Tom, When you are riding a motorbike in the rain, you don't actually need a wiper. The shape of the visor means the air pushes the rain off the sides. If it's not running off fast enough, then you just need to turn your head a fraction of a degree to change the airflow pattern. When you are driving slow, most riders have their visor up. Also you can buy wet weather gloves with a patch of fabric on the back of the thumb, you can use as a wiper. Some manufacturers have even made gloves with an actual mini rubber wiper blade / squeegee on the back of the thumb.

I can't get over the way matt's gave lights up when tom says "unironic key changes after the middle eight"

Straight-up, that Baited Breath line may be one of the funniest one-liners in maritime horror movie history. Unfortunately, it was said during a RU-vid video-log on a park bench in a park on land.

As terrible ideas go, some of these are actually quite good! --Matt

Doughnut roulette: that's actually a German tradition for a specific holiday. You buy as many doughnuts with jam as people minus 1 and then 1 with mustard in it. The one who ends up eating the mustard one is supposed to have extra luck for the whole season.

Matt's Cheryl Cole impression completely floored me ngl

That radiostation was without a doubt 100%NL and most dutch people would agree it's not the most high-brow music haha

Thanks to this video I regularly use the phrase "like a maggoted lung I wait with baited breath"

'google hangout quiz show' 2020 mocks you, Sir.

Tom discovering "Piratenmuziek" (pirate music) makes me even more embarrassed to be Dutch. I'm deeply sorry for your eardrums.

What if you put the Buddhist on a skateboard, how far could you push him/her then?

Omg I need to see an image quiz for “Are they break dancing, or are they falling over?” That would be hilarious

13:42 this actually exists. At my work we have these giant roll-up doors that work insanely quick. They are meant for forklifts in motion, not people walking (there are normal doors right next to them) so you have to be moving at quite a clip. If you walk up to the door, you’ll hit it. If you give it a brisk platform 9 3/4 run, it opens right up.

"It's exactly like the Kennedy Space Center, except the rocket's a bit more phallic." Tom, you predicted Blue Origin.

I like the "how far can you push a Buddhist" idea, but another way how far can you push them in a cart/buggie/lorry, etc...

Still waiting for a Park Bench explaining "We Shred Your Comments Live"! Or is that going to be a five-years-later retrospective?

Depends how heavy the Buddhist is...

this video inspired me to start writing down my crap ideas. I'm 16 now, and hopefully I'll look back on it at 30 and laugh

I once build a face recognition controlled motorized tablet/mobile holder which always turns the screen towards me. Guess i could upgrade it to show a video of water that is not boiling .

I braced myself for the yell and it never came. My ears appreciate you for that but I am still sorely disappointed

As a headphone user, my earballs thank you for removing the yell!

12 hours later and the website (is Matt grey bigger than you) referenced is already made. Granted it's very simple but still, someone bothered to do it. Nice.

that middle finger at the start from mat

I definitely want the never-boiling kettle

ASMR roulette, 1 in 10 times it's just porn.

For what it's worth, I had to pause the video to control my laughter at 'Skylights: trepanning for houses'.

How long was the 'dot matrix printout of stream comments fed into a shredder' idea on that list before implementation?

I'm tempted to do the ASMR roulette using goat scream videos as the 1 in 10.

I think japan already has loli-pop-idols

I once made a bot that gives every facebook post a grrr reaction, does it count as a "great idea"?

Anxiously awaiting the inevitable part two.

Pendulum Kazoo Orchestra would actually make a great intermission for a Tech Diff live show.

13:01 *CONGRATULATIONS to all who said April 2nd, 2019!*

As someone living in Austria I am genuinely surprised you know DJ Ötzi (and to be honest you would probably be better off if you didn't)

Injecting into the custard hole. Round 2. I will see myself out.

You already used the "Comedy Space Center" as a prize on the podcast

the fact that Tom Scott is one of the most formal and "proper" youtubers and at the same time produces a never ending stream of completely unhinged and juvenile hilarity whenever he's unscripted is wonderful

Doughnut roulette! One is jam! The rest are filled with VIAGRA!

Drilling holes in the skull is actually a legitimate way to treat increased intracranial pressure, though it's not as commonly used nowadays as a shunt or the proper method of removing a section of the skull, it's more of a "low resource" procedure. The holes in the skull thing used to be done to get rid of spirits, I believe, not really increased pressure as I'm not even sure the concept of pressure was a thing when this was a custom.

are the bats in west side story the weapons, or the characters?

I'll never forget the night I was commuting home from work on the train when the conductor mentioned the quiet car someone near me screamed "And this is the loud car!"

"Then I looked at the Google Street View API and thought nope can't be bothered building that" yeah I relate to this sentence

How about a zipline built like a counterweighted funicular railway - one person goes up while another person goes down.

How do you *not* know what "I'm going to inject my hot sauce through your custard hole" is a euphemism for‽

never expected a happy/uk hardcore reference from matt of all people

Cheryl Vole, must be a friend of Cindy Crawfish.

Tom put his glasses on and the channel very suddenly reverted to many, many years ago

5:18: I initially assumed that was literal. Like, how far can you shove a Buddhist? 13:10: That sounds like a hilarious safety violation.

TOM just get unfilled doughnuts and inject them all! One with hot sauce, the rest with jam :D

Love how they stopped and said 'oh a dog!'

Watching this makes me feel like the quiet one in a group of 3 people talking.

I just spent 20 minutes learning about the BBC pips, their history, the equipment used, and varous mishaps that have occured over the years. Thank Matt!

"Inject hot sauce through the custard hole" is my new favourite phrase and I intend to use it every day from now on

The Doughnut-Roulette is an actual thing here in Germany. Every year on New Year's Eve, we get a boatload of Doughnuts from the bakery, usually with jam or egg liqueur filling. On New Year's Eve though bakeries will fill one of your ordered doughnuts with mustard. That's why we have a Douhgnut-Roulette every year.

I hate this. You can't imagine the severity of the mental itch from curiosity. Why say you're skipping the good stuff?! Oh god I need it. Give me please :(

Matt is literally a real-life Aardman character, it's amazing.

Now would be the perfect time to start doing a Tom Scott quiz show.

"Inject hot-sauce into the custart hole" - "That sounds like a euphimism"

"Is Matt Gray Bigger Than You?" *laughs in 6ft. 9in.* *laughs metrically in 205.74cm*

Have you guys seen the guy that made a Laserpointer always shine into his eye? He also made a speaker screaming internet comments in his room 24/7

In this last week, I've watched all of park bench, most of citations needed and more of the other playlists on toms channel. I love you guys and you make great content

Love the interplay between the two of you.

The right hand is the wrong hand?

PLEASE make a second section of this! I loved it

"EastEnders Duff detector" might relate to the surge in power demand from people switching kettles on to have a hot drink after watching EastEnders. I'm not certain if this has already been mentioned but I'm sure it was a bit of trivia from a while ago?

11:08 "Uphill zip line" - Mark Rober already built that.

The absolute best thing about the doors in Takeshi's castle is that the rules don't say you're not allowed to continue if you hit the fake door, they say you can't continue if you don't go through. There were a few people who ran straight through the plywood and kept going

was "rejects from this file" the last entry?

I am so glad someone else has had the "confident door" idea. A friend and I thought of it over 30 years ago during a drunken night in a pub. It must only open if you are walking fast enough to cause a painful impact should it not open, obviously this happens infrequently at random. And putting your hands out doesn't work...

Wouldn't an uphill zipline, just be called a ski lift?

"how far can you push a buddhist?" Depends on if they're in a wheelchair

Please another one of these this is amazing

2:10 Re: the Dutch radio station with Dutch party music: at the auction of the nine country-wide sets of FM frequencies, one of the packages can only be used specifically for a radio station playing mainly music in the Dutch language, although Dutch musicians that sing in other languages (like LUV') are also allowed. The more you know :)

The definition of Comedy Space Centre is the Kerbal Space Centre.

You two being Pendulum fans makes me so happy.

1:07 Matt just casually pulls the finger to the camera

Well damn, Google Hangout quiz show was definitely Disconnected, and I'm glad that got revisited.

I really like this, I would enjoy another one of these types of episodes

Donut roulette exist. In Germany (at least in Bavaria) on carnival parties if there are Berliners(kind of like donuts) t sometimes one is filled with mustard.

"Except the rocket's a bit more phallic" Jeff Bezos watches Tom Scott confirmed

"Next time I'll filter these ideas beforehand." Proceeds to not do that.

Funny you say about the Pendulum Kazoo Orchestra... I've been convinced ever since Slam hit that their music is absolutely _perfect_ for being covered by a brass band. Is there any way we can organise for this to happen? Also I assume that Freddie Printoff needs to be dot-matrix because fanfold paper, and that's the easiest way to make a lifesize printout. Eastenders Duff-Duff detector is so you can leave it in a room where other people in your house are watching Eastenders and go away elsewhere in the house whilst wearing noise-cancelling headphones, and it'll alert you (via a vibrating alarm on your phone) to when it's safe to take them off and re-enter the room. Gotta say a lot of these sound awfully like potential UsVsTh3m widgets ... :) Though the Realplayer simulator would be a work of pure evil.

We kinda have the doughnut roulette in Germany. It's a common thing to eat jam filled doughnuts (they're called Berliner, Pfannkuchen or Krapfen, depending on where you live) on New year's Eve and sometimes (especially when you celebrate in a bigger group of people) there is one doughnut filled with mustard instead of jam.

props for the happy hardcore and pendulum references haha

ASMR roulette already exists. It’s when you’re half asleep and then you get woken up by a really loud mid video ad.

Trepanning is very much still a thing, though they don't call it that for obvious reasons. Also it's done for conditions that actually merit it (sub- and epidural hematomas, largely), rather than releasing evil spirits or what have you.

1:09 sneaky middle finger...huh matt ?👌👌👐

did I hear drum and bass?? already loves you but just began loving you guys more!

The east enders end detector is so you know when it's safe to turn on the telly again. An uphill zipline is called a chair lift.

when they are saying the tune of something in sync and grinning like children in the process you know they are FRIENDS

The beginning of this video made me feel like you two were some long lost friends. Despite growing up in Florida, my best friend and I were massively into European party / dance music. I introduced him to the genre of Happy Hardcore, and he introduce me to DJ Ötzi. I still remember riding in his pickup truck blaring Love, Peace & Vollgas, getting plenty of strange looks.