Tornar means thunderstorm in Spanish. Root word is Tronar meaning to thunder. That is where we get the word tornado from. Bonus fact: Tourner, a very similar sounding word to Tornar means 'to turn' in French (but that's not where the English verb 'to turn' comes from though. It comes from a different French word via the Latin root word meaning lathe. We do get the word tourniquet from Tourner though. It comes from the Latin word Torquere, meaning to twist & turn... it shouldn't be surprising it's also where we get the word torture. @@columbus8myhw
greatest out of context lines from this so far are "the Technical Difficulties, live, from a strip club." "But I spent most of my time on the top of the Arc de Triomphe screaming at traffic." "Is it like a horse tornado with Renault Twingos?" "Canada's schlong hangs directly above the balls of Detroit." "now, on the fact emulsifier!" When is techdif getting their own radio 4 show honestly
"One of the 24 hour shows" Chris said, and Tom left it in in the edit, confident that he had erased from the internet all traces of his old student radio program
But with no Stephen Fry or Sandi... On that note, how delightful would it be if Tom could do a video with Stephen Fry (and Laurie) on his main channel!
@@r3apsr209 no, you're given two random things instead that you then either have to find or BS a connection between, as opposed to being given a group of things and trying to find the specific link between them.
@@nikkiofthevalley Wasn't there a game where you had to get from one Wikipedia article to another one in the least number of steps possible? (Can't remember what it was called though)
"Mark Twain"was what the leadsman would yell when there was two fathoms of water under the boat. That meant safe water for the Mississippi river boats.
Fun fact from a frenchman about the _Arc de Triomphe_ : The roundabout is incredibly scary even and especially to the French. Precisely because it is NOT a roundabout (casually a _rond-point_) in terms of road laws. While in a roundabout the vehicle inside the circle has the priority it is not the case here where it is the same rule as with any intersection (priority to the car coming on the right). And to make things worse, the _Arc de Triomphe_ doesn't even have lanes, you are free to drive as you please (in theory) as long as you are going around it the right way.
Fun French fact from a non-Frenchman - last I heard, they'd finally changed it over to Priorite A Gauche (forgive my unaccented keyboard)... at least officially, that is. Maybe more to prevent the hideous congestion that is characteristic of roundabouts where entering traffic has priorite... er, priority.... over what's already on the island (the more normal type may clog up a little, and have long tailbacks heading towards it, but it usually eventually unjams by itself as its default pattern is to _empty,_ rather than _fill up_ ), than for any kind of traffic safety reasons though. What with your capital now being under a 30km/h blanket and all, and there still being plenty of (at least rural) roads which implement the similar, plainly terrifying and inexplicable Priorite A Droite system... Whether most Parisiens have bothered paying any attention to the change, and whether safety and congestion may actually have been made worse by some drivers adhering to / assuming the new system and others blithely carrying on with the old, however, is another matter entirely.
Funnily enough, in Poland a roundabout works like a normal intersection by default (priority to the driver coming from the right, so entering the roundabout). You need a yield sign together with the roundabout sign for the drivers already on the roundabout to have priority. But almost all roundabouts have a yield sign, ones without it are extremely rare (but a few exist)
The Fact Emulsifier: two people are given topics in widely different fields- eg, one person talking about acid/base chemistry, and another talking about the French revolution- and you score points for every fact you can make within your field that relates to the other person's as well
So I started this thinking TTTM was better. Then realised the format is irrelevant. As many others have suggested it’s just you guys having a lark that I like to watch. Great work.
"The next answer is Canada" was a really fun line for all Finns because there was a recurring sketch in a sketch show (search "Kummelin musavisa") where they would show extremely stereotypical "music videos" and ask which country they are from. The team would always answer "Canada".
Gary: Mark Twain! Me: AHAHA classic Brannan, straight in there with the correct answer as usua- oh. He was guessing. I thought he would have known that. I knew. Excuse me a moment; the exhilarating rush of Having Actually Known About A Trivial Fact That Gary Brannan Didn't is going to my head.
I quite enjoyed the live audience version, but prefer the classic kitchen version, with or without color and audio work done on it. You guys riff better in the kitchen.
What I would really love would be to see some more Questionable, like Tom did in 2016 (with Jay Foreman, Sarah Breese and Will Seaward). I'm sure Matt, Gary and Chris would do great.
Well, if I had to make a list, 1. Gary Brannan 2. Gary Brannan 3. Gary Brannan 4. Gary Brannan 5. Gary Brannan 6. Gary Brannan Although I'm not sure about no. 5
The horses are carousing, or behaving in a lively and party-like manner. Thus, while archaic, the term carousel is just as accurate (if not more) as horse tornado. And has the benefit of a proper verb form that uses the same root word unlike tornadoes which whirl, gyrate, spin, or otherwise cycle around a central point.
What is it about this game show in particular that it always seems to be so chock-full of Britishisms that it's often well neigh indecipherable to the rest of the English speaking world? "Horse Tornado" was at least so bizarre that it had to be recognized as a completely bonkers expression on the show itself, but I think my favorite might have been the completely unremarked-upon "nodding donkeys", the most brilliant term imaginable for (I'm guessing) those huge oil field piston pumps?
I'm pretty sure this one got put on video at one of the Citation Needed live shows. ...I still like it, though. Especially the bit where they come up with other answers to the questions. "Brexit" indeed... (Also: Today I learned that Robin Hood's neighborhood had lots of oil.)
Oh it took me a couple passes to get it, but now I remember they were all called "The Such And Such Special"! That would be a good long running joke :-)
(13:25) "horse tornado" would be closer to what a Germanic language would call it. A dated Austrian term was "ring play", and the Dutch term is "round turning mill". So having a term like "horse ring" or "round turning horses" would make a good amount of sense.
From what i have read, Samuel Langhorne Clemens was a journalist in his younger days, and often traveled up and down the Mississippi river on those river boats with the big wheels, and it was during these travels that he heard the term; he liked it so much that he took it as his _Nom de Plume_ when he embarked on his literary carreer.
I seem to recall hearing that they used to try to make traffic controls for the Arc de Triomphe roundabout, and everything they tried just made it worse. Every driver figured they knew what everyone was doing because of their interpretation of the rules, so they went faster, and they all made mistakes. Thus, disaster ensued. The solution was to remove any form of controls and let the terror of the ensuing melee slow everyone down. Theory being, if nobody's confident that they can do anything safely, they'll be bloody careful about everything they do. Personally, I'd argue that the smart way to navigate Paris is to always take the side streets. There's always a way to avoid a specific intersection. It might take you 3 days to get across the city rather than an hour, but you'll actually be alive at the end of those 3 days. (Conversely, look around for a professional driver or something. I'm sure there's a couple of people there who've made a business of driving foreigners' cars through that intersection safely.)
"Theory being, if nobody's confident that they can do anything safely, they'll be bloody careful about everything they do." I've been to Paris, and that explains a lot.
Gary's Arc de Triomphe description is so spot-on. I was upstairs on an open-top double decker tour bus, and we stopped on Champs-Elysees, just before the roundabout, and the traffic was insane! Twelve entrances/exits, and no idea how many lanes, because they're not marked! No lane divider lines on the roundabout... We sat there for about 3 minutes & I just got video of the traffic, waiting for a crash that amazingly didn't happen.
"Mark twain" was a sounding term, used when finding depth with a "lead line." I've never heard of it being used for a speed log, which is what Tom seems to be describing for his "knot-i-ma-thing."
Mark Twain got his penname due to spending many years working on riverboats up and down the Mississippi River before becoming one of the great American novelists. He did have history with the term, it wasn't just "hah that sounds like a name"
For the sake of informing the other commenters here - the Mercator projection does *not* distort location/direction, it distorts area. Indeed, it distorts area *in order to* maintain direction-accuracy; it was created to help navigators, so it had to be!
I’m consistently loving all of these, these formats are great, though I’m also pretty sure by now that you could do basically any format and I’d still love it as long as it’s you four. Y’all are consistently hilarious. Keep it up, production value or not.
This video has three bits I keep thinking come from Citation Needed or the podcast - Chris Joel taking off his shirt and yelling "THAT'S the smell of a MAN", the "Canada" "I dunno, can you?" "You're not my da" bit, and Matt Gray saying a horse tornado is a bunch of horses tornading
I enjoy this, I also question this being a "new" format. Also, just saying I love the 4 of you in a kitchen, I also enjoy the libe audience, especially since they can get involved.
Weirdly today I also made a joke today that ended up referencing strippers stripping for coins and not notes, although it was "Ye Olde Strip Club" after my colleague mentioned designing the layout for a "gentleman's club" (didn't actually mean a strip club for those concerned) for a D&D-type game.
I liked the episode of the podcast where you used the Family edition of trivial pursuit. Maybe you could try this with some other editions? You can get a baby boomers one iirc.
Since I still listen to the old audio episodes to this day I am very much in favour of the revere trivia returning. Also on that note can I get confirmation that one of the other formats is or isnt SPEED DIBNAH
i love that Tom knows Matt's idiosyncrasies well enough to immediately translate "horse tornado" to "carousel"
It's a bunch of horses... tornading
@@Carbon2861996I'm fairly certain that just means "turning" in Spanish
@@columbus8myhwturning is "girando", so no.
@@wave1090 So what's "tornar"?
Tornar means thunderstorm in Spanish. Root word is Tronar meaning to thunder. That is where we get the word tornado from. Bonus fact: Tourner, a very similar sounding word to Tornar means 'to turn' in French (but that's not where the English verb 'to turn' comes from though. It comes from a different French word via the Latin root word meaning lathe. We do get the word tourniquet from Tourner though. It comes from the Latin word Torquere, meaning to twist & turn... it shouldn't be surprising it's also where we get the word torture. @@columbus8myhw
greatest out of context lines from this so far are
"the Technical Difficulties, live, from a strip club."
"But I spent most of my time on the top of the Arc de Triomphe screaming at traffic."
"Is it like a horse tornado with Renault Twingos?"
"Canada's schlong hangs directly above the balls of Detroit."
"now, on the fact emulsifier!"
When is techdif getting their own radio 4 show honestly
Radio 4 is a good solution for them actually!
I kind feel like "it's a Chumbawamba lumbar puncture" has to be in there too!
It'd be more of an emulsion than a solution. Or perhaps just a temporary admixture.
The use of the word emulsifier reminds me of the Channel 4 game show X-Fire
Didn't they used to do a radio show?
"I am never ever going in a multi-storey building with you," chris said, sat right next to the stairs in his own home
Presumably he didn't go in with him, he woke up there and Gary arrived by himself
@@AgentTasmania Gary has free access to Chris's home?
12:29
"One of the 24 hour shows" Chris said, and Tom left it in in the edit, confident that he had erased from the internet all traces of his old student radio program
Doing deleteMe's job before it even existed.
He had talked about it on the Park Bench I think
What program? He has done a lot of them
The audience is awesome, but just 4 dudes cracking up jokes like that is more than awesome.
Yeah!! Agreed
13:10 Nobody reacted to the accidental pun "That's been going around for a while." Yeah, Horse Tornadoes have been.
I don't think that pun was accidental, but I still appreciated it :)
i think gary answered "well it's a carousel"
This is like QI on a student's budget and I love it
Brilliant description.
It basically is, after all
But with three Alan Davis. Even better!
Well if I'm not mistaken they started this when they were in uni.
But with no Stephen Fry or Sandi...
On that note, how delightful would it be if Tom could do a video with Stephen Fry (and Laurie) on his main channel!
I'm calling every carousel a 'horse tornado' from now on.
Commando I used to call carousels “Magic roundabouts”
I think you meant to say you used to call _horse tornados_ "Magic roundabouts"
Some Person I've heard that term before. It isn't too common, but I've met people who called it that.
I've never heard the term before, but from now on carousel is only ever going to refer to the corner on the Nordschleife and Logan's Run.
My wife calls them bobby horses love the term horse tornado
Like Reverse Trivia. Technical Difficulties at a strip club would be reverse stripping. Pay them money to put more clothes on.
Pay Chris money to put his shirt back on.
Like Discworld orcs?
No, this is great, because by the end of it they'd be wearing something on the order of 20 shirts! That would be wonderful!
Clothes.... _literally_ made of money?
More like Nobby in Jingo.
Actually; that 'Fact Emulsifier' joke format might work: Given two facts, find something / someone that ties them together
Isn't that just only connect?
@@r3apsr209 no, you're given two random things instead that you then either have to find or BS a connection between, as opposed to being given a group of things and trying to find the specific link between them.
@@angusperson4222And to keep with the theme of other series, make it so it's two random Wikipedia articles.
@@nikkiofthevalley Wasn't there a game where you had to get from one Wikipedia article to another one in the least number of steps possible? (Can't remember what it was called though)
@@Marianopianosix degrees of (Kevin) Bacon
I love how nonchalantly Tom translates for Matt :D
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Tom had obviously heard Matt use that term before.
He also translates for us Americans
They've been friends for long enough that Tom is bilingual: English and Mattish.
@@edwardphilibin3151 crying
That's why they're best friends
As long as Gary keeps his intros I'm happy
That poor baby is just going to be crapping itself while Gary practices monologuing...
(Also, Gray: Congratulations on the kid!)
Timothy McLean
I believe the child turned three years in June.
vocalnerd "I'm riding a mongoose to the moon and yourrrrrre all invited!"
Ghuus McGregor
“Like a speedboat, only less wet.”
We need more quips about Noel Edmunds.
Tbh I prefer this video quality and 4way setup in the kitchen! It feels more personal than the UA-cam studio
Well maybe not the video quality, but I do like the kitchen better too
I like the studio more, because it gives it the profesional look the quality of the show deserves
Domen Bremec but then we start expecting it to always be excellent video quality and everyone moans if it's not quite excellent
"Don't shoot for the moon and miss"
Thomas Young But they've been "on the moon" already, they showed they can deal with it and "land the rocket"
"Mark Twain"was what the leadsman would yell when there was two fathoms of water under the boat. That meant safe water for the Mississippi river boats.
Which would be followed by "Shut up, Clements, that's not even your real name!"
What did the leadsman yell when there WASN'T enough water under the boat? "Samuel Taylor Coleridge," but by that point you're already aground.
Well its quicker than shouting "Samuel Langhorne Clemens", because inevitably people just point and go "Langhorne? WTF?" and everyone gets distracted.
Do we need to mention that Clemens worked on riverboats in his youth, or is it better to keep people wildly speculating?
Wildly speculating. There's more amusement there. ;-]
"What was constructed to separate England and Scotland?"
"Brexit!"
I cackled like a witch at that part! XD
I'm pretty sure I'll watch pretty much whatever you guys do together - experiment or high quality production.
180p and a constant buzzing noise? Sold.
I almost prefer the cardboard prototype style of production, it lends a certain je ne sais quoi to the whole endeavour.
I have watched everything they've produced. It's just to funny. Production quality isn't even a factor.
High quality or low quality!
These guys are good enough at their job there experiments *are* high quality production, let's be honest.
Fun fact from a frenchman about the _Arc de Triomphe_ : The roundabout is incredibly scary even and especially to the French. Precisely because it is NOT a roundabout (casually a _rond-point_) in terms of road laws. While in a roundabout the vehicle inside the circle has the priority it is not the case here where it is the same rule as with any intersection (priority to the car coming on the right).
And to make things worse, the _Arc de Triomphe_ doesn't even have lanes, you are free to drive as you please (in theory) as long as you are going around it the right way.
Corentin196 Oh dear God!
Fun French fact from a non-Frenchman - last I heard, they'd finally changed it over to Priorite A Gauche (forgive my unaccented keyboard)... at least officially, that is.
Maybe more to prevent the hideous congestion that is characteristic of roundabouts where entering traffic has priorite... er, priority.... over what's already on the island (the more normal type may clog up a little, and have long tailbacks heading towards it, but it usually eventually unjams by itself as its default pattern is to _empty,_ rather than _fill up_ ), than for any kind of traffic safety reasons though. What with your capital now being under a 30km/h blanket and all, and there still being plenty of (at least rural) roads which implement the similar, plainly terrifying and inexplicable Priorite A Droite system...
Whether most Parisiens have bothered paying any attention to the change, and whether safety and congestion may actually have been made worse by some drivers adhering to / assuming the new system and others blithely carrying on with the old, however, is another matter entirely.
Funnily enough, in Poland a roundabout works like a normal intersection by default (priority to the driver coming from the right, so entering the roundabout). You need a yield sign together with the roundabout sign for the drivers already on the roundabout to have priority. But almost all roundabouts have a yield sign, ones without it are extremely rare (but a few exist)
It's a horse
*_*Tornading*_*
Muhamad Iqbal
I’m not sure if that’s better or worse than a horse carousing.
Tornade: to spin around an external axis while moving up and down, specifically applies to horses or air. It's just basic English.
so a helicopter with a broken tail prop is a tornade machine
"To tornade" is now a verb. Who's going to call Webster's?
The Fact Emulsifier: two people are given topics in widely different fields- eg, one person talking about acid/base chemistry, and another talking about the French revolution- and you score points for every fact you can make within your field that relates to the other person's as well
4:38 "This isn't our normal format; I can't look it up"
And that was the moment of conception of Two of These People Are Lying
matt’s opening gag was criminally underrated, I think
i love the term 'horse tornado' for a carousel. think i'll call them that from now on
Don't forget Footgloves, Cereal Water, and of course the Roll Of Inches.
@@gwenynorisu6883 footgloves is the opposite of german, where you"d rather call the other thing handshoes
So I started this thinking TTTM was better. Then realised the format is irrelevant. As many others have suggested it’s just you guys having a lark that I like to watch. Great work.
I like this format better than the time machine one. This was funny!
Seconded.
I agree. Still not as funny as Citation needed, though.
I mean it should be funny they did this a lot
Because it has run for 33 episodes. It's proven.
35 now, with the bonus on the live show and this.
Reverse trivia was great to listen to! I used to listen to them when I was working alone on night shifts
AceRidesBikes its still what I listen to in the car as a break between audiobooks.
Lawrence Calablaster The best one is the Official Scientist special
Citation Needed Special was always my favorite
My favourite was the stevenage special
So after all of these how are you going to decide which one to go forward with?
Probably looking at which ones people seem to like the best. And/or which were the most fun to make.
Simple.... all of them, in the kitchen with the Go-Pros.
at once
Or the simplest. Y'know?
PLAY ALL THE GAMES!
I had the same reaction as Gary when I heard Matt say 'horse toronado'
Natasha S
It’s such a Matt Gray term.
5:41 Chris has had a remarkable character arc between this and the drag video.
Someone edit both of these videos with a smash cut in between!
I came looking for this comment xd
"The next answer is Canada" was a really fun line for all Finns because there was a recurring sketch in a sketch show (search "Kummelin musavisa") where they would show extremely stereotypical "music videos" and ask which country they are from. The team would always answer "Canada".
I feel like the fact emulsifier could be a segment of its own, like, what question blends the following two facts or vice versa
So like this but with 2+ cards?
Not necessarily cards, I'd assume Tom would prepare it like he does with citation needed
I was already thinking they missed an open goal of "Emulsified Facts", this sounds like the logical implementation of it. Bravo.
Gary: Mark Twain!
Me: AHAHA classic Brannan, straight in there with the correct answer as usua- oh. He was guessing. I thought he would have known that. I knew.
Excuse me a moment; the exhilarating rush of Having Actually Known About A Trivial Fact That Gary Brannan Didn't is going to my head.
therese294776 I was also pleased with myself. And the lads didn't know his real name either. Samuel Langhorn Clemens.
therese294776 because we have other authors in the UK other than mark twain
Well, Tom had by that stage all but given the answer away. He'd already said "mark", and "two" is a clue for "twain".
I quite enjoyed the live audience version, but prefer the classic kitchen version, with or without color and audio work done on it. You guys riff better in the kitchen.
What I would really love would be to see some more Questionable, like Tom did in 2016 (with Jay Foreman, Sarah Breese and Will Seaward). I'm sure Matt, Gary and Chris would do great.
"Horse tornado"
Reminds me of when I called my wrists "arm ankles"
(Of course, I was really tired at the time...)
arm knee
@@KusaneHexaku Those'd be elbows.
@@Kirkklan thanks i was actually sitting there for a good 5 minute thinking of the word
By day this is my knee. By night THE ELBOW OF MY LEG
I went the other way, with "leg wrists". Didn't work as well because people thought I was saying "leg rests".
I'd like to disagree. Gary Brannan is probably only my third favourite Gary Brannan.
I'd more dispute the bounciness of Matt Gray
who is your favorite Gary Brannan apart from Gary Brannan?
Well, if I had to make a list,
1. Gary Brannan
2. Gary Brannan
3. Gary Brannan
4. Gary Brannan
5. Gary Brannan
6. Gary Brannan
Although I'm not sure about no. 5
Asmodean Underscore Garry Brannan is a better Garry Brannan than Garry Brannan.
Personally, I’m quite curious if chris joel actually read books
06:40
Gary roaring with laughter in the background was my reaction to that anecdote
I love that Garry is on a friggin lawn chair
This was fantastic. I've actually really missed this format.
The horses are carousing, or behaving in a lively and party-like manner. Thus, while archaic, the term carousel is just as accurate (if not more) as horse tornado. And has the benefit of a proper verb form that uses the same root word unlike tornadoes which whirl, gyrate, spin, or otherwise cycle around a central point.
Mystery Biscuits! ... oh yeah.
You Called?!
Alan Hardman Honestly, reading it with just a period at the end makes it seem as if the ending is being said with a non-plussed inflection
I once had the Mystery Biscuits music stuck in my head for a few hours.
MYSTERY BISCUITS!!!!
Oh... Yeah...
What is it about this game show in particular that it always seems to be so chock-full of Britishisms that it's often well neigh indecipherable to the rest of the English speaking world? "Horse Tornado" was at least so bizarre that it had to be recognized as a completely bonkers expression on the show itself, but I think my favorite might have been the completely unremarked-upon "nodding donkeys", the most brilliant term imaginable for (I'm guessing) those huge oil field piston pumps?
Three years late, but nodding donkey is a term in America too
I'm pretty sure this one got put on video at one of the Citation Needed live shows.
...I still like it, though. Especially the bit where they come up with other answers to the questions. "Brexit" indeed...
(Also: Today I learned that Robin Hood's neighborhood had lots of oil.)
Just think, the Sherrif of Nottingham could have burned the forest down if he wanted to.
Like they say, return to old times. They did 33 audio episodes with this, they're on the TechDiff website and they're hilarious
@@TheDundeeBiscuitLuvU Gotta check them thanks.
This is perfect. This is best blend of old and new in my opinion. Please keep doing this.
Mark Twain was a Missisippi River pilot at the start of his writing career, thus took the name from the depth measurement.
"I am never, ever going in a multi-storey building with you"
He says, _currently_ in a multi-storey building with Gary.
I haven't laughed this much since the last season of Citation Needed
I guess they couldn't hear me yelling "Mark Twain!" from across the pond two years in the future.
This just proves that any format of technical difficulties is a win because you 4 are a win
The title should be "But This Time With Video Special" surely...
Yes!
Oh it took me a couple passes to get it, but now I remember they were all called "The Such And Such Special"! That would be a good long running joke :-)
We can just pretend it is
Tom: "thats a big spider"
Australians: "no"
The fact emulsifier, you get two versions of a story and have to figure out what parts are true.
(13:25) "horse tornado" would be closer to what a Germanic language would call it. A dated Austrian term was "ring play", and the Dutch term is "round turning mill". So having a term like "horse ring" or "round turning horses" would make a good amount of sense.
10:50 I live around Detroit, and my reaction to that was "no that's wrong," followed by "wait a second."
13:11 "That's been going around for a while" Brilliant pun went completely unnoticed.
From what i have read, Samuel Langhorne Clemens was a journalist in his younger days, and often traveled up and down the Mississippi river on those river boats with the big wheels, and it was during these travels that he heard the term; he liked it so much that he took it as his _Nom de Plume_ when he embarked on his literary carreer.
I love Reverse Trivia!
Please bring it back. It's the perfect playground for your incredible, twisted, hilarious humor.
YES. MORE OF THIS, PLEASE. I've listened to the podcasts so many times I've memorized them all, and I have often wished you'd make more.
i don't think the genius or the deadpan delivery of Matt's line "his seat's made of Mars, mine's made of Kit-Kat" get enough recognition
Canada is south of Detroit... which means that Journey's "city boy" is Canadian.
to be fair, I just want you guys in a room 24/7 livestreaming it. I just looove techdif rambling about everything and nothing at the same time
Cant wait for the outtakes. And yes woo hoo the biscuits are back. I wonder if tom whacks his arm on the table again.
Or on his glass.
I am really enjoying these experiments. Not for the formats themselves, but for the more laid back feel of four mates just having a good time.
I seem to recall hearing that they used to try to make traffic controls for the Arc de Triomphe roundabout, and everything they tried just made it worse. Every driver figured they knew what everyone was doing because of their interpretation of the rules, so they went faster, and they all made mistakes. Thus, disaster ensued.
The solution was to remove any form of controls and let the terror of the ensuing melee slow everyone down. Theory being, if nobody's confident that they can do anything safely, they'll be bloody careful about everything they do.
Personally, I'd argue that the smart way to navigate Paris is to always take the side streets. There's always a way to avoid a specific intersection. It might take you 3 days to get across the city rather than an hour, but you'll actually be alive at the end of those 3 days. (Conversely, look around for a professional driver or something. I'm sure there's a couple of people there who've made a business of driving foreigners' cars through that intersection safely.)
"Theory being, if nobody's confident that they can do anything safely, they'll be bloody careful about everything they do."
I've been to Paris, and that explains a lot.
Now I’m imagining a comic of “international relations,” where Canada is on top of America and Mexico is rocking the back door.
So sad that the 24 hour shows are so gone
I laughed so hard at Matt's north pole "oh sh*t, that's the point" comment that I inhaled my chocolate milk
Coming back to this, I'm a little bit disappointed that it wasn't "Built for leisure not for Speed, Gary Brannan" as a throwback to the audio episodes
Gary's Arc de Triomphe description is so spot-on. I was upstairs on an open-top double decker tour bus, and we stopped on Champs-Elysees, just before the roundabout, and the traffic was insane! Twelve entrances/exits, and no idea how many lanes, because they're not marked! No lane divider lines on the roundabout... We sat there for about 3 minutes & I just got video of the traffic, waiting for a crash that amazingly didn't happen.
Fact emulsifier: 2 facts with a very obscure connection, and they have to find the connection.
I love that your bringing this back in a video format. Honestly you four are so much fun to watch
"Mark twain" was a sounding term, used when finding depth with a "lead line." I've never heard of it being used for a speed log, which is what Tom seems to be describing for his "knot-i-ma-thing."
Dear god, I wish they called Carousels "Horse Tornadoes" when I was a kid. That sounds WAY more exciting.
Absolutely lost it at horse tornado being a carousel 😂😂😂
Mark Twain got his penname due to spending many years working on riverboats up and down the Mississippi River before becoming one of the great American novelists. He did have history with the term, it wasn't just "hah that sounds like a name"
YES. MORE OF THIS
I am dying. DYING. I also just watched 1x01 and my eyes aren't quite dry yet.
For the sake of informing the other commenters here -
the Mercator projection does *not* distort location/direction, it distorts area. Indeed, it distorts area *in order to* maintain direction-accuracy; it was created to help navigators, so it had to be!
Please please do more of these, I still listen to the podcasts every so often because they always reliably make me laugh
I like how Tom is so pale that he sort of blends into the background.
I've tried to cross the Arc de Triomphe roundabout before, and the police were randomly pulling over cars on it to add to the chaos.
I loved the Derrick pun. Highlight of the show.
I don't care what format you end up going with, so long as biscuits of mysterie are still awarded
I’m consistently loving all of these, these formats are great, though I’m also pretty sure by now that you could do basically any format and I’d still love it as long as it’s you four. Y’all are consistently hilarious. Keep it up, production value or not.
I'd never heard of horse tornado before and I absolutely love it now
So, what you're telling us is, if I understand you correctly, Garry is a father.
CONGRATULATIONS!
This might not be high quality production but it certainly is high quality entertainment.
Please bring this back. This was even better than Two of these People are Lying.
This video has three bits I keep thinking come from Citation Needed or the podcast - Chris Joel taking off his shirt and yelling "THAT'S the smell of a MAN", the "Canada" "I dunno, can you?" "You're not my da" bit, and Matt Gray saying a horse tornado is a bunch of horses tornading
This, just this. Bringing back the classics for the win!
I always enjoyed this format: I threw on some of your old videos and audios just to hear it again!
I enjoy this, I also question this being a "new" format. Also, just saying I love the 4 of you in a kitchen, I also enjoy the libe audience, especially since they can get involved.
Weirdly today I also made a joke today that ended up referencing strippers stripping for coins and not notes, although it was "Ye Olde Strip Club" after my colleague mentioned designing the layout for a "gentleman's club" (didn't actually mean a strip club for those concerned) for a D&D-type game.
I liked the episode of the podcast where you used the Family edition of trivial pursuit. Maybe you could try this with some other editions? You can get a baby boomers one iirc.
I think this solidly proves that the format is irrelevant to how hilarious y'all are
Thanks for this. With this video, i won't have to do my core workout tomorrow.
These videos never fail to make be cry laughing. I don't care what format you guys pursue, just don't get rid of your wonderful banter!
Mystery Biscuits to Chris for winning Mornington Crescent, surely!
Since I still listen to the old audio episodes to this day I am very much in favour of the revere trivia returning. Also on that note can I get confirmation that one of the other formats is or isnt SPEED DIBNAH
Ginga
Sod that, I want to see Keith Lemon’s Funhouse On The Moon.
Which reminds me that I still really want a Mystery Biscuits t-shirt xD
So far I think I prefer tabletop time machine but I'll watch literally anything you nutjobs make ❤️