“No Swifties on a Dead Planet” is such a fantastic idea. Not even just to influence Taylor; mobilizing all those people on half-arsed climate action while making it feel like a celebration? Genius.
the switch from "compassionate evidence-based way to convince people to stop buying fast fashion" to "what if we made a humiliation kink but for productivity" is EXACTLY what I subscribed to this channel for
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My neighbours have a yellow car and dont drive it much. My window is essentially a livestream of school children shouting "yellow car" followed by "ow!". Can confirm it's funny everytime 😂
Weird fun idea: Book clubs but as a sewing class/club? Normal book club but as you talk about the book you also work on a skill and make something as a group. Could be a quilt, could be clothes, could be anything but it would make a sense of community and also build skills that not everyone might have. Bonus could be to donate the things made to homeless shelters or other local community outreach programs.
I was JUST thinking about this yesterday! I’m learning crochet and I thought it would be fun to have a sort of crochet book club where one person reads outloud while the others work on their stuff, and then when someone needs a break from a difficult pattern, they take on the reading.
@@probablyyeah2690 Absolutely! Bring on the crafting book clubs! Promote helpful life skills, community, and a sense of accomplishment! Heck, you could easily do this online too through zoom meetings. (though in person would be better IMO)
I started a book club and it's crazy easy, so don't think that it's super difficult. All you need to start a club is an idea, a time, and occasionally a place. Also virtual is an option.
There's knitting book clubs! I'm sure a sewing book club would work too (especially if hand sewing as machines can be loud and drown out conversation lol)
I had an idea literally this morning that I thought 'someone like Leena should steal this from me' - I think Climate-Conscious Influencer Consultancy should be a thing - providing digestable climate information to big influencers who maybe don't know where to start, along with some examples of implicit & explicit messaging (good and bad, e.g. conspicuous consumption is a bad, implicit message in the face of climate change, actively encouraging people to buy fewer new clothes is a good, explicit message) and maybe a roadmap towards more climate-conscious content? I have no idea how the backend of influencing work so who knows if this is actually a useful idea!
As a former owner of a yellow car who didn't know about this game I am both disappointment for past me and delighted I might have been the unknowing instigator.
I always thought a post-Christmas 'Quality Street Swap' was a good idea. Take the ones left in the bottom of your tin to a meeting place and swap them for your favourites that might be the dregs of someone else's tin. You'd get to meet new people and keep sweets out of landfill.
The bus lateness/cancellation ranking system? Genius. Immediate and real feedback. Walking tours for locals? Absolutely-why should tourists have all the fun when half the best parts of a city aren’t even in the guidebooks? I actually joined a local meet-up in my area and ended up organising loads of things-architectural tours, nature walks, all sorts. And people loved them. There’s such an appetite for learning about where you live beyond the surface-level stuff, but unless you actively organise it yourself, it’s not always available. I stopped after three years and recently checked in-none of it’s happening anymore. Yet when I was running the walks, I never had fewer than 20 people join, even with last-minute dropouts. It’d be great if things like this were a permanent fixture in communities. I love your reflection in Half-Assed Hope-giving things a chance. ❤
One of my favorite things I heard from leena was, “perfect is the enemy of the good” and along that vein is my mom’s “don’t worry the life police aren’t coming by today” which is her way of reminding me that no one is coming to my home while I’m at work to make sure I’ve cleaned up every corner of my house, or no one is going to lift my pant legs up to make sure my socks are matching. It always seems such a funny notion but also reminds me to ease in to living and not obsess over the little things. I don’t have to get the dishwasher sorted before I go to work, or the clean laundry can sit in folded or unfolded a little longer etc. Something about this video reminded me about that and felt the need to share. Something else is there should be health coaches services for all ages not just senior citizens. Peoples bodies and health changes with age and sometimes you need someone to turn to and be like but what do I do about this? I don’t mean diagnosing-I mean facility help, keeping up with appts and medicines etc. I feel like every primary should be able to offer to their patients. Healthy people don’t learn how to manage their health because there is no need and then when we get sick it’s like dropping into the middle of the healthcare ocean. I’ve worked in US healthcare for over a decade and so many people get lost in the system.
It took me such a long time to figure that out (not to obsess over the little things). It's not an excuse but I was always told when I was younger "people are looking at you. They won't like you if you don't have makeup on or your hair done right." (I wasn't a 'girly girl' though my mom really wanted me to be) and it took me ages to realize no one's really paying attention to what you think they are. They're all wrapped up in their phones or their own lives or whatever
As the new owner of a very bright yellow smart car, it brings me so much joy to think of how many punches I have the power to cause just by driving around 🤣
I went on a walking tour of a local cemetery one time! Learned about some important residents and events. Was super cool. Definitely think there should be more!!
I know they might not be available everywhere but "project management doms" do exist 😆 Words to look into are "high protocol" or "protocol" with regards to kink dynamics Might be outing myself a bit too much here lol
I've been reading a book about light pollution (Mörkermannifestet, i think the English translation is direct, the darkness manifesto) and it's really shocked me how much of an impact light has, and how any amount of reduction is so important. So, I've been thinking, since my street already occasionally throws street parties, maybe we could do a darkness party! Only a few candles allowed, enjoying the stars ... Of course how to get the street lights turned off will be a challenge but also the most important part!
No Swifties on a Dead Planet is so cute 😍 it reminds me me of the Nerdfighters fandom which was orginally just watching vlogs and reading books and now is extremely involved in raising substantive amounts of money for charity in regards education and health systems reform. I think fandoms (and the leaders) can turn to good quite easily 👍
I love the walking tour idea! I kiiiind of did this a few years ago. I live in Manchester and have been learning Spanish most of my life and noticed that every Sunday morning there would be a guy with a spanish flag umbrella and a walking tours sign camped outside the big library in the centre of town, so one day as I was passing I had a quick chat to him and joined the tour. It was a great challenge to see if I could keep up with a native speaker for that long, but because I knew the area and had a vague idea of the history he was teaching already, I managed it because any time I got lost I could use that prior knowledge to fill the gaps. I got pally with a Chilean guy who was also on his todd on the tour and had just moved to the UK so I was giving him the local tips and adding in bits I thought were interesting that the tour guide missed out. Cracking fun!
Beautiful dog owner: people driving by perving on my dog, toddlers chasing us. I mostly cross the road to avoid interaction because he does not love strangers back.
That used to happen all the time when we lived in the city. I once had some random guy at a bus stop across a 4-lane road start shouting at me when we were on a before bed walk to tell me my dog is gorgeous. Meanwhile, she was growling at him because he was shouting at me. The weird thing is that she’s not a showy breed like a labradoodle or something. She’s a black mouth cur with a (natural) bob tail. She is beautiful, but not in an attention grabbing from way the hell across the road in the dark way. People are truly odd.
an idea that came from somewhere else & is actually quite feasible, i think, is "the reading hour" -- i can set aside an hour on friday mornings, maybe get my friends involved, make tea, and just read/listen to a bit of whatever literature we want to read but are always putting off bc there are "more important" things. but i think taking that time to breathe & keep in touch with the written word matters to me (& also could be a lovely way to spend time in a space with friends), so i'm going to do that.
There are definitely walking tours for locals! Often they have cool themes. Like I went to a “horror” one where we looked at creepy places and also got to know more about the history of those, like what might’ve happened at an ancient asylum, why this tombstone is broken, etc. It was really interesting.
On the bus thing - some transport apps, like one called "transit", do collect this data from passengers who are riding the bus, and also do performance analysis from the live arrivals data, and they share it with the operators!
I work in town planning and I think people should get to comment on their new local plans by making artwork about how they feel about where they live and how their local government are dealing with the climate emergency. It would be more accessible for non-native English speakers and i think it would have a stronger emotional impact!
In Spain is very popular for the kids that if you see a yellow car you have to touch your earrings/ears and that's a sign that you will see the person you like soon 😂😂😂 it's stupid but fun!
As someone with an objectively adorable dog, I can confirm that is exactly every walk we take 🤣 We have had some of those walking tours for locals in my area, particularly around educating folks about new developments or plans, which is so great!
I have one of these. At our height/least busy time we watched 2 films a month. The only problem is some people think a film club is watching it together and then talking about it. Whereas mine is we all watch it independently and then invite people round for dinner and then discuss the film. Would definitely recommend.
@pippylunalove love the idea but can we make it more accessible to people with difficult finances? Like hosting at a home or online? I try to make rules that keep the barrier to entry low in my clubs. Like we have a rule in the Book Buddies Club (my book club) that the book has to be 2 years or older so you can get it at your local library.
"Creative Dom" reminds me of one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (Teddi) was an "accountability coach" and her job was to text people encouragement and push them to achieve their set goals
A friend got our lil group a walking tour/treasure hunt for Christmas and honestly it highlighted stuff about our city that we'd never noticed before! It even recommended an independent pub along the way. The riddle element added a lot of fun to all the walking about, and its all done on your phone so i highly recommend, even for city natives - believe its called "treasure hunt tours" and they do a bunch of places. I'm sure theres alternative companies that offer similar as well 😄
Protest idea: Have a roundtable with a pot of tea with your protesters while you all participate in darning, mending, knitting, and handsewing your own clothing in front of the fast fashion store front. Invite strangers to join in and have your pick-it signs say witty things like idk "who said you HAVE to buy a new one?" (I'm not good at witty sayings but you get it). No shouting and aggression just good vibes 🌷💐
I have teared up a couple of times for the bits you shared about your relationship with Craig. it's so encouraging to hear what sweet relationships there are out there!! :)
The issue I have picked is the erosion of digital media / the censorship of information,, I'm combating this by making "shitty zines to fight fashism" I am unshure how I'm going to share them probably through discord, if there's things you think need preserving even if in a shitty 6 segment manner let me know!
Coming to watch this after finishing my first listen-through of Half Arse Human! :D I greatly enjoyed it and it has given me some encouragement and ideas towards half-arseing things. I also enjoyed the recurring Curlywurly mentions :)
I kind of want to start mending afternoons where people of all skills can come and the experienced ppl can help the beginners, but you can also chat and keep each other company while you mend your clothes
Commenting at the beginning of the video before I forget. Love to see some woods and nice weather, especially since I'm ill in bed and can't really go out myself ❤️
related to walking tours: I once got to join a tour by one of the artists/ designers who invented the so-called "Metropolitain Trails Society." It's a 'school' for walking tours that don't follow given paths or sights, but natural and architectural topographies, conciously moving through unspectecular spaces. It's somewhat like a scavendger-hunt conducted by Keri Smith
but what actually gives me hope (within despair, lol) is how here in Germany, citizens built online platforms to better teach people the skills to organise and register protests and to share protest dates. Knowing that tenthousands of others also marsh against right-wing facism is helping too, hopefully 😮💨
I love all of your ideas and I'm very sorry to say that I drove a yellow car for a few years and despite being actively on the lookout... I didn't spot anyone punching anyone
Re the buses, there's an app called Transit that gives a score about the bus overall and also a timely score. I've only used it in the US and I don't know how it translates to Europe but I like it.
I think it's the same app in Canada. I also have grown to like it since it helps with planning a bussing trip, and keep up with any changes that happen from accidents and construction
me and my sister used to play the yellow car game but it was every time we saw a mini-cooper. But she's two and a half years older than me and I was too young to comprehend what a mini-cooper was as opposed to any other car. It didn't last long.
Fun fact: In Germany, there are two yellow car games, the other one is seeing beetle cars, and is called Käfer-Knuffer (beetle bop) ✨ I think it‘s the older version since it was there before VW restarted the Käfer line and now yellow cars are probably less frequent than beetles
I also have a silly little idea: I am dreaming of an app combining the Spotify feature where your friends can see what you‘re currently listening to, with something like airdrop or these covid apps that anonymously tracked contacts, so that when you‘re on the bus, you can see all the music and audiobooks currently playing around you, and you can make a game of matching songs to people or you can find new artists without relying on algorithms
This is where I come for my fix of quintessential Love Actually wholesome Englishness. I can't get that in Glasgow. 😂 Another uplifting little gem of a video. Thanks Lena.
We used to play the yellow car game, but it was to find Shell Oil stations while on road trips, since my dad had a Shell Oil card. We called it "Shell Bug", because the original game was to see VW bugs on a freeway.
I was inspired by your speech about hoping and giving things a go and despite being unimpressed by the concept of marriage (i barely know anyone whose parents are together!), was like "maybe I should marry my partner..." And then I remembered that it would cut off my benefits lol 😂/😭
The idea I’d love to do but can’t rn is a little free library Like a bird house or mail box of book for anyone to take swap request etc There’s a whole network of them in the us
The innocent drink big knit challenge is back and I’m having a great time knitting tiny hats for it! The only difference is Age UK get 30p extra per bobble hat sold 😂 I’m also doing the Knit Every Day in March for Alzheimers Research - knitting twiddle muffs to donate to hospitals. The selfish part is I want to get rid of as much of my stash as possible so I can buy more yarn for personal projects… My yarn is all so bitty that these charity knits will be perfect stash buster projects!
Communal Kitchens with connected communal food gardens. The food is prepared by locals for locals. It's a social space where you can get your dinner, lunch, and breakfast. There would have to be funding but by those who can afford it. If you can't afford it you instead pay with your time, working at the kitchens and gardens
The bus one makes me nervous, what if it makes bus drivers drive faster and less cautiously. Also would evil bosses lay them off for being late? We'll think of way to turn it into something positive 🎉 thanks for the rant leena!
I don't feel good about a rating system either. But what might be an improvement: my country is slowly making the switch to digital schedule clocks at each stop. So in addition to the printed timetable, you have a screen that shows you in real time how many more minutes you'll have to wait for each bus, including delays
Dear Leena you are such a good speaker and writing-Women. A beatiful wordmaker.❤ please could you do your book in german? As book or to hear. Maybe it would help to make the world. Because we also in the german speaking part of the world : we damage the climate and make fast fashion a big catastroph.
I've lived in my current home city for nearly 3 years and I would *love* a walking tour - I got to know my immediate local area reasonably well but as soon as you take me off the rail network I have no idea where anything is. Something like "this is where to get a bus that takes you such and such a place, where you'd go if you wanted X" would be an absolute boon. And my city is known for having a really rich history. What I like about your abacus idea, even if we didn't end up with exactly that, is that it doesn't rely on a tech solution that may not be accessible to a lot of the people who are trying to take that bus (or that forces people to install a million apps that do the same thing three slightly different ways but each bus network has their own).
@@natanbcpc In the Netherlands it is for yellow cars, ford ka and renault twingo. And it is a slap instead of a punch, ofcourse you can slap triple if it's a yellow twingo or yellow ford ka. Me and a friend used to add them up until we saw each other and just slap each other twenty times in a row. But that usually isn't allowed
in the netherlands one of the post delivery services is yellow which meant that my arm was constantly bruised every single day throughout primary and secondary school
I feel like the bus "on time" system has the potential to penalize kind drivers.... It would be important to make sure that bus drivers didn't get in trouble for spending an extra 5 minutes getting out the access ramp or giving someone directions. Or for not launching old people who haven't sat down yet. Probably building in a little extra time at each stop? Although that would slow down the travel time.... Hmmmmmm
I guess it depends on what scale your bus system is failing... Mine is "the bus is 5-10 minutes late, which is only a problem when I need to make a connection to another bus"
I honestly thought Yellow Car was something a friend had created (although we just call it out, no punching involved - that's punch buggy, which when I was a kid was seeing a Volkswagon Big) until I was on Jersey of all places and some kid was playing it on the bus (I live on Vancouver Island, just to give you an idea of how much I didn't expect it on Jersey).
Your mention of your book reminded me about a podcast episode that was just released by Srsly Wrong! It’s called “328 - The Half-Ass Episode” and it deals with the same notion of “okay” being enough, and I can really recommend that podcast in general :)
My town does occasional history tours of the blue signs of only women from the towns history. I need to do this tour. I want tours for people new to the area or people who want to make friends. Now I’m wondering if we could run wheelchair friendly tours of the local cities so people new could enjoy the best stops without spending fifteen years googling access.
What!? You can't see the number + direction on the front and if a bus/train runs late in the UK? In the NL you can see almost in real time where any bus or a train is and how many minutes it runs late on google maps or in the app of the bus/train company! You can even see how crowded they are with a score :O It's not 100% accurate all the time, but still pretty useful :D UK only has to copy and paste the system and it's there!
you can see the number and location, i think leena was saying that in addition to that, it should have a late score on the front of the bus! in my local area, we have an app for the buses to say if it’s on time, but a lot of them aren’t accurate/aren’t tracked in live time, so it just shows the scheduled time. very annoying
1 Bus: I started to walk to Uni (45 min walk) because to be able to get on time, I needed to take the 5min bus, 40mins earlier, because at the time that was "the right time" buses were so full they didn't stop. so.. waiting 40min before to then having to wait 40min to get the class started, or walk 45 min but get there on time.. 6 Dom: I would work way better if there was someone exited and waiting to see my work, than if someone will slap me if I don't get it done. So I would change that to, get someone asking you about it and feeling expectant about the finished result. I think that would totally motivate me to get it done faster and also better
I live in South Australia and the version of 'yellow car' I grew up with is called 'Punch Buggy' and you punch each other whenever you see a Volkswagon Beetle of any colour
Tbf, I think you're onto something with the No Swifites On A Dead Planet thing - there are loads of Swifty nights with impersonators around my way, there's gotta be a way to get this off the ground!
Would you consider making a video or a post about how to manage when a celebrity or parasocial bestie turns out to not be who they presented themselves as?
The bus thing is a great idea, where can I leave my feedback? Sincerely, a reluctant driver living in a small town with an unusable/non-existent public transport system 😅
The idea with buses - yes please. I'm Polish and although Polish public transport is far from perfect, goddamn it's so much better than here in England. I live in Liverpool and am always wondering - is it just Liverpool or are all English buses rubbish? They are late MORE OFTEN than they are on time. No point checking ths chedule - no bus is following the shcedule anyway, they come and go as they please.
Buses definitely need to be either reliable, or SO frequent that missing one is no big deal. In my city in Australia we have the "15 minute zone" where buses come every 15 minutes, which is... Frequent enough not to have a total panic if you miss the bus... Still can get you in trouble if you have to make a connection and miss your second bus
Did you get a new camera? The image quality is absolutely amazing...mind you that could just be because of there being sunshine in the UK for the first time in forever 😂
idk in america a lot of people take public busses to work or school and they have the bus number(not route but individual bus) and route and destination on them
“No Swifties on a Dead Planet” is such a fantastic idea. Not even just to influence Taylor; mobilizing all those people on half-arsed climate action while making it feel like a celebration? Genius.
the switch from "compassionate evidence-based way to convince people to stop buying fast fashion" to "what if we made a humiliation kink but for productivity" is EXACTLY what I subscribed to this channel for
My neighbours have a yellow car and dont drive it much. My window is essentially a livestream of school children shouting "yellow car" followed by "ow!". Can confirm it's funny everytime 😂
You should film it and put it on social media 😂😂😂😂😂 it would be awesome 😎💯😊
Weird fun idea: Book clubs but as a sewing class/club? Normal book club but as you talk about the book you also work on a skill and make something as a group. Could be a quilt, could be clothes, could be anything but it would make a sense of community and also build skills that not everyone might have. Bonus could be to donate the things made to homeless shelters or other local community outreach programs.
I was JUST thinking about this yesterday! I’m learning crochet and I thought it would be fun to have a sort of crochet book club where one person reads outloud while the others work on their stuff, and then when someone needs a break from a difficult pattern, they take on the reading.
@@probablyyeah2690 Absolutely! Bring on the crafting book clubs! Promote helpful life skills, community, and a sense of accomplishment! Heck, you could easily do this online too through zoom meetings. (though in person would be better IMO)
I started a book club and it's crazy easy, so don't think that it's super difficult. All you need to start a club is an idea, a time, and occasionally a place. Also virtual is an option.
There's knitting book clubs! I'm sure a sewing book club would work too (especially if hand sewing as machines can be loud and drown out conversation lol)
My library back home has something similar. I think that’s a great idea.
I had an idea literally this morning that I thought 'someone like Leena should steal this from me' - I think Climate-Conscious Influencer Consultancy should be a thing - providing digestable climate information to big influencers who maybe don't know where to start, along with some examples of implicit & explicit messaging (good and bad, e.g. conspicuous consumption is a bad, implicit message in the face of climate change, actively encouraging people to buy fewer new clothes is a good, explicit message) and maybe a roadmap towards more climate-conscious content? I have no idea how the backend of influencing work so who knows if this is actually a useful idea!
As a former owner of a yellow car who didn't know about this game I am both disappointment for past me and delighted I might have been the unknowing instigator.
Punch buggie game was what we played when you see a beetle car when i was a kid
@@Sammielynnh I'm a Canadian gen Xer and we played that as well
Current yellow car owner-I never knew!
I always thought a post-Christmas 'Quality Street Swap' was a good idea. Take the ones left in the bottom of your tin to a meeting place and swap them for your favourites that might be the dregs of someone else's tin. You'd get to meet new people and keep sweets out of landfill.
The bus lateness/cancellation ranking system? Genius. Immediate and real feedback.
Walking tours for locals? Absolutely-why should tourists have all the fun when half the best parts of a city aren’t even in the guidebooks? I actually joined a local meet-up in my area and ended up organising loads of things-architectural tours, nature walks, all sorts. And people loved them. There’s such an appetite for learning about where you live beyond the surface-level stuff, but unless you actively organise it yourself, it’s not always available. I stopped after three years and recently checked in-none of it’s happening anymore. Yet when I was running the walks, I never had fewer than 20 people join, even with last-minute dropouts. It’d be great if things like this were a permanent fixture in communities.
I love your reflection in Half-Assed Hope-giving things a chance. ❤
One of my favorite things I heard from leena was, “perfect is the enemy of the good” and along that vein is my mom’s “don’t worry the life police aren’t coming by today” which is her way of reminding me that no one is coming to my home while I’m at work to make sure I’ve cleaned up every corner of my house, or no one is going to lift my pant legs up to make sure my socks are matching.
It always seems such a funny notion but also reminds me to ease in to living and not obsess over the little things. I don’t have to get the dishwasher sorted before I go to work, or the clean laundry can sit in folded or unfolded a little longer etc.
Something about this video reminded me about that and felt the need to share.
Something else is there should be health coaches services for all ages not just senior citizens. Peoples bodies and health changes with age and sometimes you need someone to turn to and be like but what do I do about this? I don’t mean diagnosing-I mean facility help, keeping up with appts and medicines etc. I feel like every primary should be able to offer to their patients. Healthy people don’t learn how to manage their health because there is no need and then when we get sick it’s like dropping into the middle of the healthcare ocean. I’ve worked in US healthcare for over a decade and so many people get lost in the system.
It took me such a long time to figure that out (not to obsess over the little things). It's not an excuse but I was always told when I was younger "people are looking at you. They won't like you if you don't have makeup on or your hair done right." (I wasn't a 'girly girl' though my mom really wanted me to be) and it took me ages to realize no one's really paying attention to what you think they are. They're all wrapped up in their phones or their own lives or whatever
“Don’t worry the life police aren’t coming by today” I love that, thank you for sharing!
"Creative Dom" is a much better job title than Project Coordinator 😅 I kind of want to steal that! 🎉
clearly leena has never had asian parents, i don’t need any more aggressive motivators in my life lolll
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Have you heard the **** my inner critic comes out with? Clearly a natural talent for this I never recognised.
As the new owner of a very bright yellow smart car, it brings me so much joy to think of how many punches I have the power to cause just by driving around 🤣
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Excited that the UK has a variation of "punch buggy, no punch back" but it's for yellow cars instead of VW bugs.
I went on a walking tour of a local cemetery one time! Learned about some important residents and events. Was super cool. Definitely think there should be more!!
I know they might not be available everywhere but "project management doms" do exist 😆
Words to look into are "high protocol" or "protocol" with regards to kink dynamics
Might be outing myself a bit too much here lol
I love that you keep coming back to this video format and it was such a wholesome watch in these truly weird and overwhelming times!
I've been reading a book about light pollution (Mörkermannifestet, i think the English translation is direct, the darkness manifesto) and it's really shocked me how much of an impact light has, and how any amount of reduction is so important. So, I've been thinking, since my street already occasionally throws street parties, maybe we could do a darkness party! Only a few candles allowed, enjoying the stars ... Of course how to get the street lights turned off will be a challenge but also the most important part!
No Swifties on a Dead Planet is so cute 😍 it reminds me me of the Nerdfighters fandom which was orginally just watching vlogs and reading books and now is extremely involved in raising substantive amounts of money for charity in regards education and health systems reform. I think fandoms (and the leaders) can turn to good quite easily 👍
I love the walking tour idea! I kiiiind of did this a few years ago. I live in Manchester and have been learning Spanish most of my life and noticed that every Sunday morning there would be a guy with a spanish flag umbrella and a walking tours sign camped outside the big library in the centre of town, so one day as I was passing I had a quick chat to him and joined the tour. It was a great challenge to see if I could keep up with a native speaker for that long, but because I knew the area and had a vague idea of the history he was teaching already, I managed it because any time I got lost I could use that prior knowledge to fill the gaps. I got pally with a Chilean guy who was also on his todd on the tour and had just moved to the UK so I was giving him the local tips and adding in bits I thought were interesting that the tour guide missed out. Cracking fun!
Beautiful dog owner: people driving by perving on my dog, toddlers chasing us. I mostly cross the road to avoid interaction because he does not love strangers back.
That used to happen all the time when we lived in the city. I once had some random guy at a bus stop across a 4-lane road start shouting at me when we were on a before bed walk to tell me my dog is gorgeous. Meanwhile, she was growling at him because he was shouting at me.
The weird thing is that she’s not a showy breed like a labradoodle or something. She’s a black mouth cur with a (natural) bob tail. She is beautiful, but not in an attention grabbing from way the hell across the road in the dark way.
People are truly odd.
an idea that came from somewhere else & is actually quite feasible, i think, is "the reading hour" -- i can set aside an hour on friday mornings, maybe get my friends involved, make tea, and just read/listen to a bit of whatever literature we want to read but are always putting off bc there are "more important" things. but i think taking that time to breathe & keep in touch with the written word matters to me (& also could be a lovely way to spend time in a space with friends), so i'm going to do that.
There are definitely walking tours for locals! Often they have cool themes. Like I went to a “horror” one where we looked at creepy places and also got to know more about the history of those, like what might’ve happened at an ancient asylum, why this tombstone is broken, etc. It was really interesting.
They have a food-based one in my local town, where you visit restaurants and try their food. 🥰
On the bus thing - some transport apps, like one called "transit", do collect this data from passengers who are riding the bus, and also do performance analysis from the live arrivals data, and they share it with the operators!
I work in town planning and I think people should get to comment on their new local plans by making artwork about how they feel about where they live and how their local government are dealing with the climate emergency. It would be more accessible for non-native English speakers and i think it would have a stronger emotional impact!
In Spain is very popular for the kids that if you see a yellow car you have to touch your earrings/ears and that's a sign that you will see the person you like soon 😂😂😂 it's stupid but fun!
As someone with an objectively adorable dog, I can confirm that is exactly every walk we take 🤣
We have had some of those walking tours for locals in my area, particularly around educating folks about new developments or plans, which is so great!
We call it punch buggy in Canada and punch each other for all the beetle cars! Cute that we have all found a friendly way to punch each other lol 👍
Same in the US, though VW Beetles were not exactly rare so you could come out of a trip to the store pretty bruised. 😂
We do the same thing except we added call the color. We even play it on old TV shows.
Kathy B
Fun Idea 💡
Movie club: like a book club but you all watch and discuss a film together.
I have one of these. At our height/least busy time we watched 2 films a month. The only problem is some people think a film club is watching it together and then talking about it. Whereas mine is we all watch it independently and then invite people round for dinner and then discuss the film. Would definitely recommend.
@pippylunalove love the idea but can we make it more accessible to people with difficult finances? Like hosting at a home or online? I try to make rules that keep the barrier to entry low in my clubs. Like we have a rule in the Book Buddies Club (my book club) that the book has to be 2 years or older so you can get it at your local library.
"Creative Dom" reminds me of one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (Teddi) was an "accountability coach" and her job was to text people encouragement and push them to achieve their set goals
okay im obsessed with the eras tour club nights idea, i hate clubs but i would support this
They already exist in the UK! Though not climate change focused (yet)
CREATIVE DOM 😯 girl! 👄👄 I'm here for the creativity AND the dimming lol my mind is running wild
A friend got our lil group a walking tour/treasure hunt for Christmas and honestly it highlighted stuff about our city that we'd never noticed before! It even recommended an independent pub along the way. The riddle element added a lot of fun to all the walking about, and its all done on your phone so i highly recommend, even for city natives - believe its called "treasure hunt tours" and they do a bunch of places. I'm sure theres alternative companies that offer similar as well 😄
Protest idea: Have a roundtable with a pot of tea with your protesters while you all participate in darning, mending, knitting, and handsewing your own clothing in front of the fast fashion store front.
Invite strangers to join in and have your pick-it signs say witty things like idk "who said you HAVE to buy a new one?" (I'm not good at witty sayings but you get it).
No shouting and aggression just good vibes 🌷💐
After a long pause I'm finally able to rejoin the Gumption Club 🥰 Woop woop
I have teared up a couple of times for the bits you shared about your relationship with Craig. it's so encouraging to hear what sweet relationships there are out there!! :)
The issue I have picked is the erosion of digital media / the censorship of information,, I'm combating this by making "shitty zines to fight fashism" I am unshure how I'm going to share them probably through discord, if there's things you think need preserving even if in a shitty 6 segment manner let me know!
Coming to watch this after finishing my first listen-through of Half Arse Human! :D I greatly enjoyed it and it has given me some encouragement and ideas towards half-arseing things. I also enjoyed the recurring Curlywurly mentions :)
My friend has a yellow car and I may suggest this to her!
I kind of want to start mending afternoons where people of all skills can come and the experienced ppl can help the beginners, but you can also chat and keep each other company while you mend your clothes
Ahh you got me tearing up when you read that part of your book. Definitely needed that 🩷
Commenting at the beginning of the video before I forget. Love to see some woods and nice weather, especially since I'm ill in bed and can't really go out myself ❤️
in my hometown (in Italy) they actually do tours for locals!
related to walking tours: I once got to join a tour by one of the artists/ designers who invented the so-called "Metropolitain Trails Society." It's a 'school' for walking tours that don't follow given paths or sights, but natural and architectural topographies, conciously moving through unspectecular spaces. It's somewhat like a scavendger-hunt conducted by Keri Smith
but what actually gives me hope (within despair, lol) is how here in Germany, citizens built online platforms to better teach people the skills to organise and register protests and to share protest dates. Knowing that tenthousands of others also marsh against right-wing facism is helping too, hopefully 😮💨
@@marja2909 Wie heißt die Platform denn? Klingt spannend!! :)
@@catvalentine4317 würd ich auch gerne wissen!
demokrateam heißt die Plattform
@@marja2909 Danke! :)
NEIGHBORS' PUB QUIZ SO GOOD
I needed this today.
I love all of your ideas and I'm very sorry to say that I drove a yellow car for a few years and despite being actively on the lookout... I didn't spot anyone punching anyone
Re the buses, there's an app called Transit that gives a score about the bus overall and also a timely score. I've only used it in the US and I don't know how it translates to Europe but I like it.
I think it's the same app in Canada. I also have grown to like it since it helps with planning a bussing trip, and keep up with any changes that happen from accidents and construction
Nothing to do with the subject on hand but I loved hearing the birds in the background!!! Lovely!
Me too, it actually felt like I visited a forest for a moment as well 🙂
me and my sister used to play the yellow car game but it was every time we saw a mini-cooper. But she's two and a half years older than me and I was too young to comprehend what a mini-cooper was as opposed to any other car. It didn't last long.
The version i played, it was one punch for a yellow car and two punches for a yellow mini!
Lovely hearing you read the snippet of your book. I read it recently and loved it but it was extra special hearing you reading it!
Fun fact: In Germany, there are two yellow car games, the other one is seeing beetle cars, and is called Käfer-Knuffer (beetle bop) ✨ I think it‘s the older version since it was there before VW restarted the Käfer line and now yellow cars are probably less frequent than beetles
I also have a silly little idea: I am dreaming of an app combining the Spotify feature where your friends can see what you‘re currently listening to, with something like airdrop or these covid apps that anonymously tracked contacts, so that when you‘re on the bus, you can see all the music and audiobooks currently playing around you, and you can make a game of matching songs to people or you can find new artists without relying on algorithms
In Australia (or at least my little corner) it's Punch buggy! for beetles, and Spotto! for yellow cars
This is where I come for my fix of quintessential Love Actually wholesome Englishness. I can't get that in Glasgow. 😂 Another uplifting little gem of a video. Thanks Lena.
We used to play the yellow car game, but it was to find Shell Oil stations while on road trips, since my dad had a Shell Oil card. We called it "Shell Bug", because the original game was to see VW bugs on a freeway.
I was inspired by your speech about hoping and giving things a go and despite being unimpressed by the concept of marriage (i barely know anyone whose parents are together!), was like "maybe I should marry my partner..." And then I remembered that it would cut off my benefits lol 😂/😭
The idea I’d love to do but can’t rn is a little free library
Like a bird house or mail box of book for anyone to take swap request etc
There’s a whole network of them in the us
Ahhh monday lunch break at work with Leena 😊
The innocent drink big knit challenge is back and I’m having a great time knitting tiny hats for it! The only difference is Age UK get 30p extra per bobble hat sold 😂 I’m also doing the Knit Every Day in March for Alzheimers Research - knitting twiddle muffs to donate to hospitals.
The selfish part is I want to get rid of as much of my stash as possible so I can buy more yarn for personal projects… My yarn is all so bitty that these charity knits will be perfect stash buster projects!
Communal Kitchens with connected communal food gardens. The food is prepared by locals for locals. It's a social space where you can get your dinner, lunch, and breakfast. There would have to be funding but by those who can afford it. If you can't afford it you instead pay with your time, working at the kitchens and gardens
That chapter "half arsed hope" made me cry several times
I genuinely laughed out loud at creative domme omg it absolutely would work too
The bus one makes me nervous, what if it makes bus drivers drive faster and less cautiously. Also would evil bosses lay them off for being late? We'll think of way to turn it into something positive 🎉 thanks for the rant leena!
I don't feel good about a rating system either. But what might be an improvement: my country is slowly making the switch to digital schedule clocks at each stop. So in addition to the printed timetable, you have a screen that shows you in real time how many more minutes you'll have to wait for each bus, including delays
Thank you for this beautiful woods walk, which lifts my very stressed low spirts in this period of terrible news.
As an owner of a very beautiful dog, can confirm, everywhere we go, "oh my god look at that dog isn't he HaNDsOme!!"
Oh, that walking-tour-for-locals idea... 😢. I might've known that my town _had_ a local yarn shop for more than one year before they closed.
I've been really enjoying reading your book. Thank you for the excellent advice!
Dear Leena you are such a good speaker and writing-Women. A beatiful wordmaker.❤
please could you do your book in german? As book or to hear. Maybe it would help to make the world. Because we also in the german speaking part of the world : we damage the climate and make fast fashion a big catastroph.
I've lived in my current home city for nearly 3 years and I would *love* a walking tour - I got to know my immediate local area reasonably well but as soon as you take me off the rail network I have no idea where anything is. Something like "this is where to get a bus that takes you such and such a place, where you'd go if you wanted X" would be an absolute boon. And my city is known for having a really rich history.
What I like about your abacus idea, even if we didn't end up with exactly that, is that it doesn't rely on a tech solution that may not be accessible to a lot of the people who are trying to take that bus (or that forces people to install a million apps that do the same thing three slightly different ways but each bus network has their own).
3:22 lol, in the US it’s called punch bug, and it’s when you see a VW beatle
In Brazil, it's only for Blue Beatles, they're surprisingly more common than one would assume here
@@natanbcpc In the Netherlands it is for yellow cars, ford ka and renault twingo. And it is a slap instead of a punch, ofcourse you can slap triple if it's a yellow twingo or yellow ford ka. Me and a friend used to add them up until we saw each other and just slap each other twenty times in a row. But that usually isn't allowed
Or cruiser bruiser for PT cruisers!
Thank you, I needed that! ❤
Thx, for the ideas Lena! Widely smiled upon the creative dom.
Absolutly brilliant video! Thank you!
in the netherlands one of the post delivery services is yellow which meant that my arm was constantly bruised every single day throughout primary and secondary school
I feel like the bus "on time" system has the potential to penalize kind drivers.... It would be important to make sure that bus drivers didn't get in trouble for spending an extra 5 minutes getting out the access ramp or giving someone directions. Or for not launching old people who haven't sat down yet.
Probably building in a little extra time at each stop? Although that would slow down the travel time.... Hmmmmmm
I guess it depends on what scale your bus system is failing... Mine is "the bus is 5-10 minutes late, which is only a problem when I need to make a connection to another bus"
I honestly thought Yellow Car was something a friend had created (although we just call it out, no punching involved - that's punch buggy, which when I was a kid was seeing a Volkswagon Big) until I was on Jersey of all places and some kid was playing it on the bus (I live on Vancouver Island, just to give you an idea of how much I didn't expect it on Jersey).
Thank you so much for this video ❤
Your mention of your book reminded me about a podcast episode that was just released by Srsly Wrong! It’s called “328 - The Half-Ass Episode” and it deals with the same notion of “okay” being enough, and I can really recommend that podcast in general :)
I've been on a walking tour of my local park, started with some local history, and went around to specific trees, it was fascinating stuff! ^_^
Lena, you help me so much! Appreciate you x100
I can’t believe I just spelt ur name wrong
My town does occasional history tours of the blue signs of only women from the towns history. I need to do this tour. I want tours for people new to the area or people who want to make friends.
Now I’m wondering if we could run wheelchair friendly tours of the local cities so people new could enjoy the best stops without spending fifteen years googling access.
Love ur ideas + this outfit ❤
What!? You can't see the number + direction on the front and if a bus/train runs late in the UK? In the NL you can see almost in real time where any bus or a train is and how many minutes it runs late on google maps or in the app of the bus/train company! You can even see how crowded they are with a score :O It's not 100% accurate all the time, but still pretty useful :D UK only has to copy and paste the system and it's there!
you can see the number and location, i think leena was saying that in addition to that, it should have a late score on the front of the bus! in my local area, we have an app for the buses to say if it’s on time, but a lot of them aren’t accurate/aren’t tracked in live time, so it just shows the scheduled time. very annoying
thank you!! ✨️🎶🌱
LOL, in the US, the"yellow car" game is "slug bug" for old-fashioned VW Beetles
We called it punch buggy
1 Bus: I started to walk to Uni (45 min walk) because to be able to get on time, I needed to take the 5min bus, 40mins earlier, because at the time that was "the right time" buses were so full they didn't stop. so.. waiting 40min before to then having to wait 40min to get the class started, or walk 45 min but get there on time..
6 Dom: I would work way better if there was someone exited and waiting to see my work, than if someone will slap me if I don't get it done. So I would change that to, get someone asking you about it and feeling expectant about the finished result. I think that would totally motivate me to get it done faster and also better
Leena i have just bought a yellow car so will set up a dash cam and let you know 😂
Sign me up to the creative Dom! My life is one long procrastination.
I live in South Australia and the version of 'yellow car' I grew up with is called 'Punch Buggy' and you punch each other whenever you see a Volkswagon Beetle of any colour
Yellow Car is also a thing here in Switzerland. If I ever buy a car I will try to get it in yellow to facilitate that silly little game 😂
I am so for the walking tour thing, And pub trivia night I think.
Tbf, I think you're onto something with the No Swifites On A Dead Planet thing - there are loads of Swifty nights with impersonators around my way, there's gotta be a way to get this off the ground!
Would you consider making a video or a post about how to manage when a celebrity or parasocial bestie turns out to not be who they presented themselves as?
Idea 3: The American version of "Yellow Car" is "Punch Buggie" where you would punch the person next to you if you spotted a VW Beetle first
My kids say 'cheese on wheels' rather than yellow car.
An embarrassing amount of people use reusable coffee cups now. So I think we need to focus on the microplastics we are drinking with disposable cups!
The bus thing is a great idea, where can I leave my feedback? Sincerely, a reluctant driver living in a small town with an unusable/non-existent public transport system 😅
So...the yellow car game has only ever applied to yellow VW Bugs in my part of Canada: and it's called Yellow Punch Buggy.
The idea with buses - yes please. I'm Polish and although Polish public transport is far from perfect, goddamn it's so much better than here in England. I live in Liverpool and am always wondering - is it just Liverpool or are all English buses rubbish? They are late MORE OFTEN than they are on time. No point checking ths chedule - no bus is following the shcedule anyway, they come and go as they please.
Buses definitely need to be either reliable, or SO frequent that missing one is no big deal. In my city in Australia we have the "15 minute zone" where buses come every 15 minutes, which is... Frequent enough not to have a total panic if you miss the bus... Still can get you in trouble if you have to make a connection and miss your second bus
Today I learned the Brits have the equivalent of "punch buggy".
Did you get a new camera? The image quality is absolutely amazing...mind you that could just be because of there being sunshine in the UK for the first time in forever 😂
idk in america a lot of people take public busses to work or school and they have the bus number(not route but individual bus) and route and destination on them
It's based off the ideas of Jane Jacobs