I love how when computer graphics were first used in the movie ‘Tron’ the Oscars denied them a being nominated for Best Special Effects, because, in their words, ‘They cheated.’
ya, I've been watching his videos for like a decade now... even when he tries to make a channel with only his voice I'm like "hey, isn't that simon whistler? I wonder what product he's endorsing today..."
@1045 The light bulb was invented in 1979?.. Oh yeah, I remember doing my high school homework by candlelight. We were pretty happy in 1979 when we got to switch from lanterns to electric lights on ships in the Navy. I think Simon got a little carried away by his lantern pun... :)
7:04 - Blaze Boi cameo LOL Danny awakes from his 25th 40-second 'nap' of the day so far, hearing the bahdahbumbumtisch and consults the chart as per what script he is supposed to be writing, and realizes Simon did that just to fuck with him, his only consolation being the furnace for the dungeon has finally been turned on, so there is some warmth and dry space to 'enjoy'
The movie "Singing In The Rain" gives an excellent explanation of the problems adding talking to movies. And while they have caught on there are an incredible number of audio engineers in movies, television, and video who still believe the spoken word in their productions is of little concerned to the audience as actors continue to mumble key lines. This is nowhere more notable than in the movie "The Natural" where the entire backstory related by Glenn Close is mumbled so quietly that it took me several viewings and finally turning on close captioning to find out she was actually saying something.
Our family was the first in our neighborhood to have push button phones when everyone else still had rotary ones. The speed of scientific change is both frightening and fantastic.
We were the first family to have a push button phone that hung on the wall replacing the ugly black one we inherited when we bought the house. I remember it was paprika coloured and I was so proud of it hahaha!
I was lucky enough to know one of my great-grandmothers (my mom's mom's mom). She died when I was like 14. But, my point is, she had one of those old black gigantic rotary phones until she passed. She, also, had one of those cartoon looking alarm clocks. With the two bells that a small hammer quickly went back and forth hitting, to produce the most startling and infuriating sound ever. 😂
Alcock and Browm: unsung heroes of aviation. They were first across the Atlantic. Their story is amazing. Also, not long after the effort of flying around the world by the US Army in the Douglas world cruisers... In aircraft not that much better than WW1 technology.
In the last 8 months or so I have gone back and watched every video on Casual Criminalist and Brain Blaze, now I am watching all Side Projects and Mega Projects.. now I realize I have seen a lot of your side project videos before and it took me till now to realize this lol
In Victorian England, aristocrats strongly protested about the new railway lines and trains, ruining the landscape. Then when they appeared, they lobbied to get the lines moved nearer to their land, so they could sit and watch the trains (because Victorian Steam Engines and Carriages were drop-dead gorgeous). Then they were scared of going above 30mph, saying it would cause your eyes to pop out and brain starvation. Queen Victoria always imposed a 30mph speed limit on her Royal Train up until her death (by then, trains could do 80-90mph). The next British sillyness was only putting enough lifeboats for the 1st class passengers on Ocean Liners. Then in WW1, RAF pilots were not allowed parachutes, in case they didn’t bring the (string-bag) aeroplanes back. So most of them crashed and burned.
Early trains were termed Coffins on Rails. It may have reference to the braking system, and the amount of crashes in the U.S because of the poor braking system, which in the U.S would have a man on top of the coaches to put on the brakes, and in bad weather could sometimes not do so as he left the top of a carriage to be found having fallen off. The amount of trains that crashed was alarming. Westinghouse remedied the problem by fitting air brakes, basic brakes held back by air, driver releases air and brakes are applied.
Important lesson about inventions: most of them were not eureka moments but the result of decades or even centuries of continuous development by many people. The 'inventor' credited with them is more often just the first one to make them practical/commercially viable.
@10:47 ... 1979... I'm completely flabbergasted. I had no idea I was watching television and doing grade school homework by candlelight, and had completely forgotten that my father had to pull over to light the headlamps on his car when dusk fell... 😆 silly me!
My favorite has always been Ken Olsen's quote that there was no need for a person to have a computer in his home. Olsen ran Digital Equipment Corporation, which no one's heard of since - when? "There is No Reason for Any Individual To Have a Computer in Their Home" - Quote Investigator
Just because you can unearth one quote from one general doesn't mean the whole military was blind to the strategic value of an air force. In fact the military financed most of the early efforts. They had a large stake in early helicopter development.
The advantage of the Penny-Farthing not mentioned is they can go faster than a similar design with small wheels. One rotation of the pedals drove it several times further than with a small wheel. Once chain drive with different sprocket drive was developed, the large wheel wasn’t needed.
When we lived in China from 2012-2016, the majority of umbrellas I saw in use for for the sun rather than the rain. I don't think I'd seen them used in real life for anything but rain until that point, but after a few years, I sometimes used it more like a 'parasol' too when I was out and about in Shanghai. When in China, i guess. :)
@@MrT------5743 It's probably not a bad idea, i just like having my hands free so i started wearing hats all the time. Rain or sun, my vision and hands are free. Tho i guess i don't look so 'fancy' without a parasol :)
Something I learned years ago. People in the actual lighting industry call light bulbs “lamps”. And those things that normies call “lamps” are called “luminaires”.
If you do a part 2, you should include the microwave oven. People were freaking out about them when the first institutional and home units were being sold. Leaking "radiation", eating "radiated" food, gene mutations and all sorts of stuff was going around about them at the time. Now they are standard equipment in every kitchen and break room on the planet.
Yeah, “radiation” is automatically assumed to mean something that will give you cancer or murder you. Just like “chemicals” are always toxic poisons. Doesn’t matter that simply being alive on earth means you are inhaling chemicals while being bombarded with radiation. Yet we still manage to survive….
Bonus Fact: The Wright Brothers studied wind maps of the US and considered doing their flight tests in Corpus Christi, TX because it had the most predictable winds. They settled on Kitty Hawk, NC because it was a day's train ride from the New York based newspapers.
Also Edison didn't actually invent it. Like most of his 'inventions' it was robbed from other smarter and more ethically and morally correct people. Edison is one of the largest and most disgusting thieves ever known. Sure specifically in the case of lightbulbs what he came up with was better than previous models but far from the first. Add in he recruited people to work for him and actually do the inventing that he would then put his name and rights to...
@@TheMHB199 Not only that, Edison loathed Tesla's promotion of Alternating Current, trying to prove it was "too dangerous" to ever be used for anything more that executions of large animals. Edison's attempt to transmit DC over more than a few miles was a dismal failure, whereas AC could be transmitted safely and efficiently, to boot. What's more, AC could be more easily rectified to DC for operating DC motors and other DC apparatus, could be more efficiently produced by smaller generators, and could be used to run brushless motors. Edison is one of those "heroes" that got a lot more credit than he deserves, while Tesla died in relative obscurity. Tesla made mass illumination and use of electricity possible.
He didn't get it wrong, listen again, there was no claim that the Maginot Line was in Foch's time (1911 or so), just that he would have been the sort of bloke who would have said it would jave worked.
An interesting show might be about Martin Luther's publishing empire. He was a good friend of Johannes Gutenberg. During his lifetime he was responsible for somewhere in the high 90% of all books published. He invented the font and the idea of using different fonts on different parts of documents. He invented Garamond, Calibri and I believe Times New Roman. He came up with the idea of using serif and non-serif fonts together in one document. He invented numbered chapters, page numbering and headers and footers. He was the first one to publish subscriber-supported newsletters. He set up franchised printers where he supplied everything from printing presses and fonts to paper, accounting methods and distribution techniques to his franchisees. Some historians claim he was the first one to distribute mass pornography.
16:26 2021: People watch movies for loud and flashy special effects and CGI generated action by characters, and people won't even talk on the phone but rather just text (with very bad grammar) and send emojis.
SIMON, you should do a video about how wigs were worn because of syphilis and then became a trend. It’s where the term “big wig” came from because the bigger the better.
I'm still baffled about how biking ever took off. I love it, great for all kind of trips (granted the weather is good, otherwise it's not much fun), but the roads back then were catastrophic by modern standards. Getting on a penny-farthing looks tricky at the best of times, but to do that on dirt & cobbled roads... thanks, I'd rather walk :D (that said, the first cars also weren't exactly practical by modern standards)
"Airplanes have no military value" That is absolutely correct, because the inventions that changed its military value were improvements to the internal combustion engine, and subsequently the jet engine, without these inventions the airplane would have remained to this day an invention of little to no military value.
Re #7: In 1965 I was newly arrived in Australia from Canada and while at Cottesloe Beach in Perth, I asked a food cart guy for a cheeseburger. His burgers were a meat patty between toast with fried onions and relish. Instead of adding cheese he substituted cheese. So I got melted cheese between two pieces of toast...better known as a grilled cheese sandwich. Good laughs all around.
The large wheel of the "penny farthing" Ordinary was not only to smooth the ride but it increase the speed. A single turn of the pedals would take you much farther than on a bike with a smaller drive wheel.
Fun thing about the umbrelas is that it will never be recycled. Simply, no one wnats to recycle it cause there is almost no returns on the investment. So trashed umbrelas will just acumulate.
Edison only got the patent for the lightbulb because it was cheaper to make. Tesla’s lightbulb was way more powerful, but too expensive to make at the time.
When you get into obscure history, finding information is still difficult in some cases. Im sure you guys have extensive experience with tracking down obscure information.
How do you improve on a sandwich? First, define sandwich. Then, define improve in the context of a sandwich. I can't count the number of controversies! Along the same lines, IMO, sandwiches may be an exception to Antoine de Saint-Exupery's maxim: "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Most of my favorite sandwiches* have at least six ingredients (including the bread and key condiments as well as the meat, cheese, and/or vegetables). And usually when I get an exceptionally good one of those, it's because someone has added mushrooms or some seasoning or jalapeños or something else unexpected. Actually, most food is an exception for me. But real marinara sauce (oil, tomatoes, basil, salt) does follow Exuery's maxim. * Reuben, Philly (and variants), Muffelatta (a New Orleans pre-Godfather Movie Godfather sandwich), Dagwoods (especially with Italian or other salad dressing), for starters. Heck, I usually top my hamburgers with mustard, lettuce, tomato, onion, and pickle and/or jalapeño, again topping six.
Simon, You can stand under my umbrella You can stand under my umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh Under my umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh Under my umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh Under my umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh,
I was in my 20s at the height of the Critical Mass movement. It makes exceedingly happy to hear that there will soon be another 3 billion bikers in the world.
Simon sneaking in a little Blazing again!
Kudos to the writer for so many puns.
It’s defiantly become a bit more fun to watch Simon after he started slipping in a little blaze fun!
We see you Simon 👀
@@jordan4777 definitely not defiant
Buisne…uh blah Brain Blaze is his best channel
@@franklinkz2451 *Blain Braze
I love how when computer graphics were first used in the movie ‘Tron’ the Oscars denied them a being nominated for Best Special Effects, because, in their words, ‘They cheated.’
Who else watches so many of his videos that we’d easily alert to Simon’s voice at a party of 1000 people?
I literally had a dream the other night where he did a Biographics on Charles V.
There are 1000 Simons. That explains all the channels.
AM I RIGHT PETER??!!
I literally just spend nights watching these things. from all 1000 channels.
ya, I've been watching his videos for like a decade now... even when he tries to make a channel with only his voice I'm like "hey, isn't that simon whistler? I wonder what product he's endorsing today..."
How do you improve on a sandwich? Add bacon. Already has bacon? Add more.
Bacon makes everything else better. But it’s impossible for anything else to make bacon better.
Beer as an accompaniment is the best improvement to food.
Also fry it in butter.
@@christinebenson518 I was going to say that! Butter makes almost anything better, except maybe jello.
@1045 The light bulb was invented in 1979?.. Oh yeah, I remember doing my high school homework by candlelight. We were pretty happy in 1979 when we got to switch from lanterns to electric lights on ships in the Navy.
I think Simon got a little carried away by his lantern pun... :)
Hahah caught that
Simon Whistler's "dark skies" moment.;)
Whew! I DID hear that right!
Also other people were already working on electric lightbulbs before 1879 e.g. Joseph Swan.
Wondered how many people caught that error.
my life has literally been taken over by Simon and his dulcet tones at this point
And the world weeped, for all they heard was the never ending dulcet tones of the one they called, fact boy.
AM I RIGHT PETER?!?!?
Welcome to the club!
Y’know, everyone talks about simps crushing on girls on the Internet. But the simpiest simps I ever see are always bros simping on Internet bros.
Right? First thing I do when I wake up let's see what Simon's posted.
10:48 1979, what a great year, it's amazing 2 world wars were fought without light bulbs
I was wondering if I heard that wrong...
That night raid on portsmouth just got 100 times more intense
@@Stealthsuit25 so many candles and lanterns
Had to listen to it 3 or 4 times. #failsimon 😀😀😀
Give the man a break people make errors
7:04 - Blaze Boi cameo LOL Danny awakes from his 25th 40-second 'nap' of the day so far, hearing the bahdahbumbumtisch and consults the chart as per what script he is supposed to be writing, and realizes Simon did that just to fuck with him, his only consolation being the furnace for the dungeon has finally been turned on, so there is some warmth and dry space to 'enjoy'
Blaze Boi has slowly been creeping into the rest of Simon's channels.
I still want Simon to learn how to do his own rimshot. It would be hilarious to see him run to the drums every time and do it.
Rimjob more like
Simon the only man capable of felling a man with puns and dad jokes from 5000 miles away hahahaha
I giggled throughout this one, Simon and team had a VERY GOOD TIME here and so did the rest of us hahaha
Whistler: "The sandwich is already the perfect food."
KFC: "What if we put the chicken on the outside?"
Poor Danny, Sam and Callum can't have KFC. They have to settle for gas station tuna sandwiches.
@@christinebenson518 Not true. Simon does let them pick at the bones when he is done with his bucket.
They can have lukewarm sushi he bought at a carnival 😂
If the opposite of PRO is CON, then the opposite of PROGRESS is CONGRESS.
😂😂😂😂
Any more jokes stolen directly from your dad's secret stash? 😉
That joke has penicillin on it.
1:35 - Chapter 1 - Umbrellas
4:50 - Chapter 2 - Airplanes
7:10 - Chapter 3 - Coffee
10:10 - Chapter 4 - Lightbulbs
12:15 - Chapter 5 - Bicycles
15:50 - Chapter 6 - Talking movies
17:20 - Chapter 7 - Cheeseburgers
The movie "Singing In The Rain" gives an excellent explanation of the problems adding talking to movies. And while they have caught on there are an incredible number of audio engineers in movies, television, and video who still believe the spoken word in their productions is of little concerned to the audience as actors continue to mumble key lines. This is nowhere more notable than in the movie "The Natural" where the entire backstory related by Glenn Close is mumbled so quietly that it took me several viewings and finally turning on close captioning to find out she was actually saying something.
It's a little early in the morning to be blazing so hard.
This channel is slowly beginning to become what Business Blaze started out as
Who else is OGBB??
You down with OGBB?? Ya you know me
Getting very American too.. what’s a cell phone?
To be fair, The Jazz Singer (1927) was still mostly a silent film.
Our family was the first in our neighborhood to have push button phones when everyone else still had rotary ones. The speed of scientific change is both frightening and fantastic.
We were the first family to have a push button phone that hung on the wall replacing the ugly black one we inherited when we bought the house. I remember it was paprika coloured and I was so proud of it hahaha!
I was lucky enough to know one of my great-grandmothers (my mom's mom's mom). She died when I was like 14. But, my point is, she had one of those old black gigantic rotary phones until she passed. She, also, had one of those cartoon looking alarm clocks. With the two bells that a small hammer quickly went back and forth hitting, to produce the most startling and infuriating sound ever. 😂
I had forgotten about the screaming goats till now. Thank you lol
You need a full Nikola Tesla documentary. I listen to your channel while I'm at work and I could do with more scientist documentaries by you.
I’m pretty sure he’s done that multiple times between his universe of channels.
7:05 I literally LOLed as I watched this while drinking my morning coffee.
The real question is that actually coffee has drinking or tea?
@@JohnMann858
You might want to work on your grammar a bit towards the end.
Simon, I've been enjoying your channels for years now and you never disappoint.
Thank you for the effort you put into each and every video.
We in the Pacific Northwest, USA know about the umbrella, it's that thing you'll see a tourist using 🤣
Alcock and Browm: unsung heroes of aviation.
They were first across the Atlantic. Their story is amazing. Also, not long after the effort of flying around the world by the US Army in the Douglas world cruisers...
In aircraft not that much better than WW1 technology.
In the last 8 months or so I have gone back and watched every video on Casual Criminalist and Brain Blaze, now I am watching all Side Projects and Mega Projects.. now I realize I have seen a lot of your side project videos before and it took me till now to realize this lol
In Victorian England, aristocrats strongly protested about the new railway lines and trains, ruining the landscape. Then when they appeared, they lobbied to get the lines moved nearer to their land, so they could sit and watch the trains (because Victorian Steam Engines and Carriages were drop-dead gorgeous). Then they were scared of going above 30mph, saying it would cause your eyes to pop out and brain starvation. Queen Victoria always imposed a 30mph speed limit on her Royal Train up until her death (by then, trains could do 80-90mph).
The next British sillyness was only putting enough lifeboats for the 1st class passengers on Ocean Liners.
Then in WW1, RAF pilots were not allowed parachutes, in case they didn’t bring the (string-bag) aeroplanes back. So most of them crashed and burned.
Geezus... Victorian England is pretty messed up by today's standards.
Nice to know government incompetence is not a new invention.
Early trains were termed Coffins on Rails. It may have reference to the braking system, and the amount of crashes in the U.S because of the poor braking system, which in the U.S would have a man on top of the coaches to put on the brakes, and in bad weather could sometimes not do so as he left the top of a carriage to be found having fallen off. The amount of trains that crashed was alarming. Westinghouse remedied the problem by fitting air brakes, basic brakes held back by air, driver releases air and brakes are applied.
you didn't mention motorcars requiring a guy running in front of it holding a flag
@@mayoite160 More walking at first :)
Important lesson about inventions: most of them were not eureka moments but the result of decades or even centuries of continuous development by many people. The 'inventor' credited with them is more often just the first one to make them practical/commercially viable.
@Thank god for this documentary making machine of a man. These have helped me through some tough times. Thank you Simon 👍
Soggy or not, powdered wigs were never a good look.
Wow! Edison invented the light in 1979.
I am truly enlightened.
@10:47 ... 1979... I'm completely flabbergasted. I had no idea I was watching television and doing grade school homework by candlelight, and had completely forgotten that my father had to pull over to light the headlamps on his car when dusk fell... 😆 silly me!
He obviously misspoke. It was 1997.
@@Big_Tex Of course. Look at my comment. Boom Boom 💥
Edison claimed it, he definitely didn't invent it.
My favorite has always been Ken Olsen's quote that there was no need for a person to have a computer in his home. Olsen ran Digital Equipment Corporation, which no one's heard of since - when? "There is No Reason for Any Individual To Have a Computer in Their Home" - Quote Investigator
Just because you can unearth one quote from one general doesn't mean the whole military was blind to the strategic value of an air force. In fact the military financed most of the early efforts. They had a large stake in early helicopter development.
The advantage of the Penny-Farthing not mentioned is they can go faster than a similar design with small wheels. One rotation of the pedals drove it several times further than with a small wheel. Once chain drive with different sprocket drive was developed, the large wheel wasn’t needed.
When we lived in China from 2012-2016, the majority of umbrellas I saw in use for for the sun rather than the rain. I don't think I'd seen them used in real life for anything but rain until that point, but after a few years, I sometimes used it more like a 'parasol' too when I was out and about in Shanghai.
When in China, i guess. :)
any where in Asia
Been seeing more umbrella's for the sun at places like soccer games when it is really hot and sunny outside.
@@MrT------5743 It's probably not a bad idea, i just like having my hands free so i started wearing hats all the time. Rain or sun, my vision and hands are free.
Tho i guess i don't look so 'fancy' without a parasol :)
Something I learned years ago. People in the actual lighting industry call light bulbs “lamps”. And those things that normies call “lamps” are called “luminaires”.
Dafuq is the "actual lighting industry"? 🤣
@@IrishMike22 it’s something that makes low-IQ people ask stupid questions.
If you do a part 2, you should include the microwave oven. People were freaking out about them when the first institutional and home units were being sold. Leaking "radiation", eating "radiated" food, gene mutations and all sorts of stuff was going around about them at the time. Now they are standard equipment in every kitchen and break room on the planet.
People do still say those things but.
Yeah, “radiation” is automatically assumed to mean something that will give you cancer or murder you. Just like “chemicals” are always toxic poisons. Doesn’t matter that simply being alive on earth means you are inhaling chemicals while being bombarded with radiation. Yet we still manage to survive….
@@KingOathyes. Exhibit A: Dihydrogen Monoxide.
Another excellent episode. Thanks SP team.
Bonus Fact: The Wright Brothers studied wind maps of the US and considered doing their flight tests in Corpus Christi, TX because it had the most predictable winds. They settled on Kitty Hawk, NC because it was a day's train ride from the New York based newspapers.
Simon has just been proven to have the biggest of big brains. Sandwiches are indeed a perfect food.
Another thoroughly enjoyable presentation! Thanks Simon!
Entertaining and informative as usual. 😊
challenge accepted Simon. sandwich improvement ideas.
proper artificial meat. low energy ovens, artificial cheese, proper sugar alternatives, complete machine production, artificial spices.
Simon only missed the date of Edison's light bulb invention by a century ("In 1979..." @ 10:48). No retakes or corrective titles?
Factboi does not care. Allegedly.
It was subtle mistake but I just caught it myself lol
Yeah, caught that but wasn't going to say anything.
Also Edison didn't actually invent it.
Like most of his 'inventions' it was robbed from other smarter and more ethically and morally correct people.
Edison is one of the largest and most disgusting thieves ever known.
Sure specifically in the case of lightbulbs what he came up with was better than previous models but far from the first.
Add in he recruited people to work for him and actually do the inventing that he would then put his name and rights to...
@@TheMHB199 Not only that, Edison loathed Tesla's promotion of Alternating Current, trying to prove it was "too dangerous" to ever be used for anything more that executions of large animals. Edison's attempt to transmit DC over more than a few miles was a dismal failure, whereas AC could be transmitted safely and efficiently, to boot. What's more, AC could be more easily rectified to DC for operating DC motors and other DC apparatus, could be more efficiently produced by smaller generators, and could be used to run brushless motors. Edison is one of those "heroes" that got a lot more credit than he deserves, while Tesla died in relative obscurity. Tesla made mass illumination and use of electricity possible.
I love that Brain Blaze behavior is showcased in our Boi's other channels now.
As a bachelor who often games too late to bother cooking, I agree. Sandwiches are perfection.
That screaming goat was perfect
I don't drink coffee. I have good wine. I'm expecting you, Simon.
The Maginot Line was made in the ´20ies and `30ies, not in ww1.
He didn't get it wrong, listen again, there was no claim that the Maginot Line was in Foch's time (1911 or so), just that he would have been the sort of bloke who would have said it would jave worked.
An interesting show might be about Martin Luther's publishing empire. He was a good friend of Johannes Gutenberg. During his lifetime he was responsible for somewhere in the high 90% of all books published. He invented the font and the idea of using different fonts on different parts of documents. He invented Garamond, Calibri and I believe Times New Roman. He came up with the idea of using serif and non-serif fonts together in one document. He invented numbered chapters, page numbering and headers and footers. He was the first one to publish subscriber-supported newsletters. He set up franchised printers where he supplied everything from printing presses and fonts to paper, accounting methods and distribution techniques to his franchisees. Some historians claim he was the first one to distribute mass pornography.
How much coffee did you drink before you did this video, Simon? You sure do have a LOT of energy for such a puny vid. 🤣😂🤣
"The sandwhich is the perfect food already". Surely you mean Magic Spoon is the perfect food? :P
with so many puns, it felt like a Brain Blaze script from Danny
Can you do one on the "City of New Orleans" train, or even the line it services?
42 seconds in, I look for who wrote this script. Then I see the line about record pun script. Well played Whistler, well played
16:26 2021: People watch movies for loud and flashy special effects and CGI generated action by characters, and people won't even talk on the phone but rather just text (with very bad grammar) and send emojis.
Brain Blaze... is that you?
If someone from back then would explain how ignoring the air aspect would be like ignoring the naval aspect or ignoring the land aspect.
SIMON, you should do a video about how wigs were worn because of syphilis and then became a trend. It’s where the term “big wig” came from because the bigger the better.
I'm still baffled about how biking ever took off. I love it, great for all kind of trips (granted the weather is good, otherwise it's not much fun), but the roads back then were catastrophic by modern standards. Getting on a penny-farthing looks tricky at the best of times, but to do that on dirt & cobbled roads... thanks, I'd rather walk :D (that said, the first cars also weren't exactly practical by modern standards)
The past was so boring that riding a rickety bike down a dirt road seemed like fun.
"Airplanes have no military value"
That is absolutely correct, because the inventions that changed its military value were improvements to the internal combustion engine, and subsequently the jet engine, without these inventions the airplane would have remained to this day an invention of little to no military value.
Simon on a roll with the jokes! I think this is the most I've seen in one episode.
I'm missing two entries in your list. The Invention of the Transistor and the Invention of the LASER
Re #7: In 1965 I was newly arrived in Australia from Canada and while at Cottesloe Beach in Perth, I asked a food cart guy for a cheeseburger. His burgers were a meat patty between toast with fried onions and relish. Instead of adding cheese he substituted cheese. So I got melted cheese between two pieces of toast...better known as a grilled cheese sandwich. Good laughs all around.
The large wheel of the "penny farthing" Ordinary was not only to smooth the ride but it increase the speed. A single turn of the pedals would take you much farther than on a bike with a smaller drive wheel.
Hence gears and "clangers".
I hope in 10 years Simon makes a video telling us about a mind blowing innovation in sandwiches
I shut off the video at the lightbulb pun... who am I kidding I just audibly groaned.
In 1971, my university computer science department thought only science had any use for computers
"and got to praying.. REALLY HARD." 😂😂😂😂
+ Simon’s 500 UA-cam channels. They may laugh at the quantity, but then they start watching. And then they can’t stop watching.
Charlie Chaplin felt that adding talking to film was like adding dialog to ballet
The punssss ahhh the puns. Like since he had a child, he thought he has to make "dad jokes".
A bit of Samuel L at the end. Pure class. Loved it
Fun thing about the umbrelas is that it will never be recycled. Simply, no one wnats to recycle it cause there is almost no returns on the investment. So trashed umbrelas will just acumulate.
Edison only got the patent for the lightbulb because it was cheaper to make.
Tesla’s lightbulb was way more powerful, but too expensive to make at the time.
That’s not how patents work.
@@davidhollowood6580 …… and?
Ferdinand Foch: "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
France:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_aircraft_carrier_Foch
I read somewhere that JP Morgan once said “Nothing ever will replace the horse and the buggy”
Cars do not produce fertilizers at work, and you can't feed them with something just growing outside.
So he was not wrong.
On Bikes: It isn't just the technology of bikes. It's also the dramatic increase in available surfaces.
Great video! The level of puns is simply fantastic 😂
Umbrellas.
Airplanes.
Coffee.
Lightbulbs.
Bicycles.
Talking Movies.
Cheeseburgers.
When you get into obscure history, finding information is still difficult in some cases. Im sure you guys have extensive experience with tracking down obscure information.
You would have to end with a Cheese Burger, were now off to "In and Out"
Spotted, the Enron mug !
Brilliant video 📹,
Loved it.
LOL, love that coffee bit. And, I totally agree. :-)
I believe Edison's first light bulb still works. I think it had a carbon filament.
1:00 never underestimate the human limits of innovation
I can just imagine the inventor of fire being ridiculed by his peers lol.
@10:48: " In 1979"... what the?!? ... I think that's a century off the mark?
I totally agree!!! the sandwich is the perfect food!! Taco= sandwich; Pizza=open face sandwich... I could go on and on.. hahaha
Title of this video should have been “How Many Puns Can Simon Make With This Material?”
How do you improve on a sandwich? First, define sandwich. Then, define improve in the context of a sandwich. I can't count the number of controversies!
Along the same lines, IMO, sandwiches may be an exception to Antoine de Saint-Exupery's maxim: "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Most of my favorite sandwiches* have at least six ingredients (including the bread and key condiments as well as the meat, cheese, and/or vegetables). And usually when I get an exceptionally good one of those, it's because someone has added mushrooms or some seasoning or jalapeños or something else unexpected.
Actually, most food is an exception for me. But real marinara sauce (oil, tomatoes, basil, salt) does follow Exuery's maxim.
* Reuben, Philly (and variants), Muffelatta (a New Orleans pre-Godfather Movie Godfather sandwich), Dagwoods (especially with Italian or other salad dressing), for starters. Heck, I usually top my hamburgers with mustard, lettuce, tomato, onion, and pickle and/or jalapeño, again topping six.
Edison invented the light bulb in 1979? (10:48)!! Love Simon!
You ask how can they improve on the sandwich, and then the McRib reappears.
Simon,
You can stand under my umbrella
You can stand under my umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh
Under my umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh
Under my umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh
Under my umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh,
Scientists: Can't be made.
Engineers: Hold my gear!
8:05 I too start my mornings with a coffee and a blunt.
I'm surprised Simon don't have a cable show yet
Engineer : there will never be a bigger plane
Soviet engineers : hold my vodka
I was in my 20s at the height of the Critical Mass movement. It makes exceedingly happy to hear that there will soon be another 3 billion bikers in the world.