Every bit of music Tim uses is there for a purpose. The intro tune was from the TV-Series "Keeping up appearances" which is exactly what facades do... :)
@@timeflysintheshop yes, the Academy really don't like English polluting their language. Not only does "Global Service Provider" consist of English words (or English spelling of words), the grammar isn't even correct in French. The adjective "Global(e)" should go at the end, so "Service Provider Global". Bit of a strange choice for a company that sounds like they want to appeal to proud Frenchmen.
@@juststeve5542 "Global Service Provider" is perfectly correct English and they probably deliberately chose that title if they actually want to live up to their name. P.S. Actually their web site is entirely in French, although Google Translate easily converts it into English. They probably picked an English name simply because it's cool to French customers.
haha yeah Monsieur Tran is a French UA-cam legend! He's got several videos exploring INSIDE the fake buildings - I linked to one of them in the first Fake Facades vid. Well worth checking them out (even if you don't speak French)
Fyi, if you're wondering why a lot of people weren't wearing masks (or why I wasn't wearing one in the thumbnail!) it's because I filmed most of this video back in July and August, at a time when covid infections were low and face coverings were not a legal requirement. They became obligatory in about September-October I think.
If you honestly didn't think we'd watch more videos about fake Parisian building façades then you're underestimating how board we all are whilst stuck at home. Keep up the great work, Tim!
Man I miss your regular-ish content lol. Makes me miss travelling in Europe so much. P.S. Your videos are A+. Sucks to be a travel UA-camr in a pandemic I suppose. Stay safe!
Ah thank you, and believe me, I miss making the regular content too! Much as I love Paris, I'm really looking forward to the day when I don't have to start every video in French... :D
If any channel deserves to have the algorithm spam people with its videos then this is surely it! I would have chosen a video with trains in it personally, but hey, congrats Tim!
The first Tim Traveller video I watched was about the VennBahn, and I was hooked! Probably remains my favourite, along with the Oil Rig Graveyard, and the Karl-Marx-Hof. I'd like to see more trains again though (of course difficult in an era of Covid)
Most of us have already binge watching everything decent on Netflix and Amazon prime as well as half the garbage and there for watch Tim talk about anything as long as he doesn't take himself (too) seriously.
It is. And if you put "IT crowd intro piano" into the search you will find the piece: ua-cam.com/video/qFmlfbSoJ7c/v-deo.html Also that piano player looks suspiciously like Tim O.O
@@mici01 ah, okay, everything is explained now. Somebody already mentioned on an older video that Tim plays piano himself but I've never seen it confirmed until now.
I'm going to start sending mail to all these once a month just for the thought that there will be an angry french postman trying to post mail into a ventilation shaft.
Another great lovely video Tim. Well done. Don't worry about uploading more content during lockdown. as a travel channel, i'm sure everyone would understand if you had to take a break for a little while and wait for things get a little better. Never the less, Thank you so much Tim. Greeting from Dublin, Ireland
I think the problem pseudo-professional UA-camrs have is that if you don't feed the algorithm by posting new content regularly, you can be kicked off their recommendation list or even demonitized. It's like Faust, if you sign a pact with Mephistopheles he has your soul for all eternity.
If you want to see one of the biggest fake building (if not THE BIGGEST) you can take a look to the "Palacio de Aguas Corrientes" at Avenida Córdoba 1950 here in Buenos Aires Argentina. A huge water tank built in 1894 hidden behind a luxurious palace facade that occupies an entire block! Today is a museum, but the entire iron construction of the industrial era is still there, well preserved.
Do I spy the IT Crowd theme song at 3:45? Excellent choice for pointing out a server farm in a fake building! (And hi from a retired goth again working in IT. Really appreciate your videos!)
Another fab video... it is testament to your excellent youtubiness that I avidly watch a video about fake buildings in a city I’ve not been to for 20 years!
I walked past two of those during my 3-hours "exercise" today. I am moderately shocked. Gasp. (I'm loving your Paris "confinement" video spree, pleeease keep them coming!)
To be precise facade is a buildings "face", from Italian facciata, Piedmontese faciade, front of a building. The sense of deception appears in French, as applying a "false" front has been used for centuries to make a building appear more modern or grandiose than it is behind. Many commercial buildings in Australia and the Americas have such false fronts (even new ones), as you'll know from many westerns.
The town I live in has a commercial property with a fake laundromat in it because it's actually being used as purely residential. Basically the worst kept secret, but I'm guessing nobody feels like it's worth prosecuting their cheating of zoning
Tim thank you again for a wonderful video. I hope you're staying safe and healthy, and not going stir crazy with lockdown. Your videos have been a welcome moment of sunshine for many of us in this troubled year.
I live in Paris and I'm so glad to see an english-speaking UA-camr making videos about its secrets. You even made me discover things about my own city ! Thank you so much for your work.
That was fun. You just make it interesting, congrats on going viral. Also - I can so very much relate to videos started and then finished months later after the next lockdown. I filmed half an Amelie locations video in Summer. I guess I will not be wearing the same thing when I finally film the rest of the video
Not sure if this is the first time you used that intro or just the first I've heard it. I love the Boy&Bear song but this is fine work - keeping up appearances I believe? :D
Thanks Tim. I love your videos and your sense of humour (see how I spelled that correctly). Anyway, I.m sure it hasn't been easy to make these videos under the current situation. Looking forward to more -- videos not bad situations.
We have an automotive workshop converted to a server farm. Its at the end of an industrial street and regularly gets deliveries from very lost goods trucking companies. Luckily the businesses in the area have learned to check and the foot path is suitable for fork lift operations.
I LOVE that when he was talking about the server farm, the music in the background was the intro to IT Crowd!! That was an awesome easter egg!
Every bit of music Tim uses is there for a purpose. The intro tune was from the TV-Series "Keeping up appearances" which is exactly what facades do... :)
That building should have a red door.
Maybe the facade would act real if you turn it off and on again.
@@1951split I recognized the music but I didn't connect the title with the video 😂 amazing
This whole video was a business outing
People really like fake buildings, huh? Great video!
i follow both of you.Keep the good job guys!
Your video about 22 and 24 Leinster Gardens is the English version :D. In enjoyed your's as well :)
I just hope they still do 🤞 Cheers Chris!
Don't worry, we'll enjoy fake buildings for a long time!
Some like fake landscapes that at actually abandoned rail lines?
Tim: "Globale Service Provider"
L'académie française: incoherent angry muttering
I assume there is a joke there. A white flag goes up while the muttering happens.
@@timeflysintheshop yes, the Academy really don't like English polluting their language.
Not only does "Global Service Provider" consist of English words (or English spelling of words), the grammar isn't even correct in French. The adjective "Global(e)" should go at the end, so "Service Provider Global".
Bit of a strange choice for a company that sounds like they want to appeal to proud Frenchmen.
@@juststeve5542 Even then it's not entirely correct, no? It should be 'Provider de Service Global', no?
@@juststeve5542 "Global Service Provider" is perfectly correct English and they probably deliberately chose that title if they actually want to live up to their name.
P.S. Actually their web site is entirely in French, although Google Translate easily converts it into English. They probably picked an English name simply because it's cool to French customers.
@@timeflysintheshop he said "oh putain c'est fini on jette l'éponge là", which can be translated as "oh ffs it's over, let's throw in the towel"
I’ve visited all these by the roofs and more 😁👌
Wow how dangerous is it?
Je m'en doutais ! Envoie-moi les liens, si tu en as pour les immeubles de cette vidéo, et j'ajoute des fiches :)
Are you Matteo in Rooftoppers?
@@TheTimTraveller I thought you were just flexing your French on some random UA-camr but he's le François
haha yeah Monsieur Tran is a French UA-cam legend! He's got several videos exploring INSIDE the fake buildings - I linked to one of them in the first Fake Facades vid. Well worth checking them out (even if you don't speak French)
That server farm seems less like a fake facade and more like a repurposed pre-existing building.
And the last one too. I wouldn't really count that one fake facade either.
Fyi, if you're wondering why a lot of people weren't wearing masks (or why I wasn't wearing one in the thumbnail!) it's because I filmed most of this video back in July and August, at a time when covid infections were low and face coverings were not a legal requirement. They became obligatory in about September-October I think.
I'll be honest, I thought you had just reused the thumbnail of the last video.
oh you sly, dastard person you. Question, why does it feel like the other video on fake buildings was from 2018 or 2019? What in the /fromage/?
Well done on the District Line D-stock moquette mask!
If you honestly didn't think we'd watch more videos about fake Parisian building façades then you're underestimating how board we all are whilst stuck at home.
Keep up the great work, Tim!
Is that a District Line moquette face covering I see there?
The proper pronunciation of that French company killed me. :D
Man I miss your regular-ish content lol. Makes me miss travelling in Europe so much.
P.S. Your videos are A+. Sucks to be a travel UA-camr in a pandemic I suppose. Stay safe!
Ah thank you, and believe me, I miss making the regular content too! Much as I love Paris, I'm really looking forward to the day when I don't have to start every video in French... :D
paris over here puttin the fake in façade
Two possibilities. First you literally comment under every video on youtube OR we are both have the same taste :) Awesome but kinda random taste tbh.
Yeah I love both channels : Damon and Tim.
Same kind of humour. French compatible humour. I don’t know how to explain.
That's a nice London Underground District Line moquette mask you got there
Is there an on-line moquette where I can buy one!
@@PeterNancarrow er...yeah www.ltmuseumshop.co.uk/clothing/clothing-accessories/accessories
S-shame if something happened to it?
If any channel deserves to have the algorithm spam people with its videos then this is surely it! I would have chosen a video with trains in it personally, but hey, congrats Tim!
The first Tim Traveller video I watched was about the VennBahn, and I was hooked! Probably remains my favourite, along with the Oil Rig Graveyard, and the Karl-Marx-Hof. I'd like to see more trains again though (of course difficult in an era of Covid)
01:03 Theme from "Keeping up Appearances." Very clever Tim .... :D
THANK YOU!
I knew I recognized that melody, but couldn't place it for the life of me. Thank you.
And the theme from Treasure Hunt. Sneaky.
yes, you just saved my night-rest!
“Hello Mrs. Bucket.”
“Bouquet.”
I come for the “Hello” and stay for the rest of the video.
i got here for fake building facades, stayed for the fancy colour coordinated facemask
yes
Insta Twit Face mask.
The sequel we didn't deserve
Help
Most of us have already binge watching everything decent on Netflix and Amazon prime as well as half the garbage and there for watch Tim talk about anything as long as he doesn't take himself (too) seriously.
3:35 is that the intro music to the IT Crowd???
Yep. I knew I recognised it.
It is.
And if you put "IT crowd intro piano" into the search you will find the piece:
ua-cam.com/video/qFmlfbSoJ7c/v-deo.html
Also that piano player looks suspiciously like Tim O.O
And the music for Keeping Up Appearances at 1:00
YES!!!
@@mici01 ah, okay, everything is explained now. Somebody already mentioned on an older video that Tim plays piano himself but I've never seen it confirmed until now.
Love the use of different music in the vids
@@UnknownCharacter458 oh man, thanks! I was trying to place that tune!
There are a whole bunch in Toronto. Suburban houses disguising electricity substations, even a subway station.
what?
When the "Keeping Up Appearances" theme tune came on, I laughed so hard I felt off my chair!! Bravo Tim!
"IT Crowd" theme at 3:33, brilliant!
Loved the IT Crowd theme at the server farm bit!! 😁
I’m always in awe at the music choices. All fit so perfectly!
I'm going to start sending mail to all these once a month just for the thought that there will be an angry french postman trying to post mail into a ventilation shaft.
tim, did YOU write the wikipedia article?
I remember Paul Bodin, the footballer, and for a split second marvelled at his living in Paris.
4:03 "Gare Magenta"
Me: THAT'S BLUE!
Nice "Are Friends Electric?" piano cover.
Another great lovely video Tim. Well done. Don't worry about uploading more content during lockdown. as a travel channel, i'm sure everyone would understand if you had to take a break for a little while and wait for things get a little better. Never the less, Thank you so much Tim. Greeting from Dublin, Ireland
I think the problem pseudo-professional UA-camrs have is that if you don't feed the algorithm by posting new content regularly, you can be kicked off their recommendation list or even demonitized. It's like Faust, if you sign a pact with Mephistopheles he has your soul for all eternity.
Your delivery and script always make me smile and laugh and feel better in the world. Thanks.
I have a cushion in the same old-district-line fabric as your mask. A sentence I never expected to say, but 2020 is odd.
The IT crowd song?
If you want to see one of the biggest fake building (if not THE BIGGEST) you can take a look to the "Palacio de Aguas Corrientes" at Avenida Córdoba 1950 here in Buenos Aires Argentina. A huge water tank built in 1894 hidden behind a luxurious palace facade that occupies an entire block! Today is a museum, but the entire iron construction of the industrial era is still there, well preserved.
HAHAHA the IT crowd tune during the server farm one nice
Do I spy the IT Crowd theme song at 3:45? Excellent choice for pointing out a server farm in a fake building! (And hi from a retired goth again working in IT. Really appreciate your videos!)
“UA-cam decided to spam it to half the planet...” 🤣
sometimes, the youtube algorithm decides to do the right thing :)
Amazing! Yesterday your old video was recommended to me again, which was a sign that you would upload today a follow-up 🎉
That was a much needed chuckle here in the states!
2:37 Pixel art! A stork carrying a baby!
Your editing is wonderful!! Just as wonderful as your story telling!
Another fab video... it is testament to your excellent youtubiness that I avidly watch a video about fake buildings in a city I’ve not been to for 20 years!
Can you do a video on the amazing streak of the San Marino football team? XD
"Flanders, danger of death".
No truer words ever uttered in French :)
Nice "IT Crowd" musical quote!
Another excellent witty video. Love the bit about the former Swindon left-back. Greetings from the west of England.
I walked past two of those during my 3-hours "exercise" today. I am moderately shocked. Gasp. (I'm loving your Paris "confinement" video spree, pleeease keep them coming!)
Your title contains the word "fake" so will probably take off like a rocket.
And it starts with a number, which is youtube rocket fuel just on its own.
And don't forget about the thumbnail.
Five More FAKE Buildings In Paris - You Won't Believe What Happens Next!
It sadly misses the ever popular "top X smth"
It didn't, unfortunately.
Congrats on the viral vid, Tim! Hope this puts you in a situation where you can continue to produce content full time.
To be precise facade is a buildings "face", from Italian facciata, Piedmontese faciade, front of a building. The sense of deception appears in French, as applying a "false" front has been used for centuries to make a building appear more modern or grandiose than it is behind. Many commercial buildings in Australia and the Americas have such false fronts (even new ones), as you'll know from many westerns.
I swear every time Tim puts out a video, I want to see a The Tim Traveller / The Tim Tracker collab video. Well, maybe in 2021. Great video, Tim!
Fake buildings could be another great ongoing category for you, along with obscure railways, strange border anomalies and tiny mountains.
I love that the youtube algorithm brought me to the tim traveler. Good job robot.
Congratulations on the success sir! Thank you for the smiles friend.
LOL the theme to IT Crowd.
And here I thought I kept getting recommended the original video because I love your videos.
Hahaha the IT CROWD song behind the server farm! Love it!
I'm very happy the algorithm spammed half the planet with the first fake façade video as otherwise I wouldn't have found your amazing content!
The town I live in has a commercial property with a fake laundromat in it because it's actually being used as purely residential. Basically the worst kept secret, but I'm guessing nobody feels like it's worth prosecuting their cheating of zoning
"Keeping up Appearances" theme on Accordion. The level of puns in that choice wants me to fly across the world and hit you.
good to see you back. stay safe!
This is quickly becoming my favorite channel....keep going Tim, et merci a vous.
I loved the "IT Crowd" cameo tune :)
The best part of your videos is always the delightful humour. Thank you for that, and for creating a little travel escape for me and all your viewers.
Nice use of the IT Crowd theme 👍
Tim thank you again for a wonderful video. I hope you're staying safe and healthy, and not going stir crazy with lockdown. Your videos have been a welcome moment of sunshine for many of us in this troubled year.
Great vid. It’s more of the history and how old the buildings are and why they are hiding them, is what sparks interest most.
I just re-watched the previous video last night thinking "when is Tim gonna show the rest?"
Guess I got my answer
I live in Paris and I'm so glad to see an english-speaking UA-camr making videos about its secrets. You even made me discover things about my own city ! Thank you so much for your work.
I randomly had the last fake video pop up in my feed. I have now watched about 30 of Tim's videos, very entertaining!
This has "how not to be seen"-monty python vibes. Love it :)
I always love your videos! These were a great relief during the lockdown!
At least they're trying, bless 'em. Love the 'Keeping up Appearances' intro music......how apropos!
I love the IT Crowd music hiding in there!
Great Tim, absolutely well deserved success. My only sadness is that when you inspire my holidays, you then make them more expensive 😂
Haha! I didn't realise I needed another facade video either! Thanks! Salutations from astonishingly wet and chilly Ireland! ☘️☮️🤘🏽🤠👍🏽☮️☘️
Loving the Tube moquette facemask - @vickiexplores would be proud!
Tim really know how to make the best of a situation
Even more interesting than the first part! Thanks!
Awesome, you used The IT Crowd theme song during the server farm.
Nice video Tim, nice to see you´r keeping bussy :)
I see you are keeping up facade appearances. Well done.
Entertaining and educational as always in a Tim way
Yay. I've been waiting for this. Found your channel thru the last one
Loved this one of my favourite cities hope to be back in 2022 well done again Tim
I burst out laughing when you said « Global Service Provider »
i watch this one 1 minute after you publish already 24 views....nice one
That was fun. You just make it interesting, congrats on going viral. Also - I can so very much relate to videos started and then finished months later after the next lockdown. I filmed half an Amelie locations video in Summer. I guess I will not be wearing the same thing when I finally film the rest of the video
3:48 I wonder what that translates to in English.
"*swearing*, guess we'll throw the towel now/give up here."
Tim! That is a *snazzy* face mask!! Especially with that hat and scarf combo 😂
I'm pretty sure it's a TFL seat moquette pattern mask
Not sure if this is the first time you used that intro or just the first I've heard it. I love the Boy&Bear song but this is fine work - keeping up appearances I believe? :D
I think you're amazing. Thanks for the videos!
Love the video Tim! 😃 love that you’re still able to generate content despite the crappy times! 👍
lovely video as always!
Thanks Tim. I love your videos and your sense of humour (see how I spelled that correctly). Anyway, I.m sure it hasn't been easy to make these videos under the current situation. Looking forward to more -- videos not bad situations.
You are such a beautiful man. Hope you don’t mind me being so forward. 😍
Great video! Les Batignolles is the north Western area of Paris :)
Loving the TfL maquette face mask too :)
Great video walking in Paris city thank you for sharing ❤️👍
I need that accordion cover of Keeping Up Appearances
Nope, this one didn’t get the UA-cam spam treatment, apparently. But we the fans still enjoyed it! (Loved the GSP joke).
We have an automotive workshop converted to a server farm. Its at the end of an industrial street and regularly gets deliveries from very lost goods trucking companies. Luckily the businesses in the area have learned to check and the foot path is suitable for fork lift operations.