"Teacher, am I ever going to use what we're learning today?" "Maybe, maybe not, but it will help you with general problem solving and maybe even critical thinking"
I once used the formula for circumference to work out how much material I needed for a dress we were making. Also I ended up studying biochemistry so mitochondria are still pretty important to me!
Our teachers didn't even bother, they just said "Nah you're not gonna need it, it's completely pointless for the most part, but it looks good to have it"
As an OG Blazer, I never wonder whats going on anymore with the Blaze, I just strap in for a wild ride with frequent trips to the weird land of Danny's backstory.
simon claims to have a somewhat newborn child... how many new channels has he started since that child was born? me thinks he is doing his best to avoid childcare... allegedly.
Hey! I checked out purchthemerch.co website. I want to wear your face across my chest, but I own 3 dogs and I'm a mechanic... so white isn't a smart choice of shirt for me. Any chance you can get some black hoodies with your face on them?
As a child I would often be told I had been sleep walking by my folks who found it a bit scary. I thought I had outgrown it, however while serving with the US Army back in the mid 1970's we were on a training mission out in the middle of the desert around Fort Bliss Texas. We had been in the field for nearly a week and I was running out of energy having failed to get any sleep for several nights since I was the NCO in charge of communications. So it was, I asked one of my friends if I could take a few hours in his tent, and climbed into a sleeping bag. I don't know how long I had been asleep, however when I awoke I regretted very much having taken off my boots and socks because I was out in the damn desert, all alone, my glasses were back in the tent and I can't see more then ten feet in front of me without them. Barefooted, and of course, our unit on light conservation, in total darkness of the desert night, I tried to find my way back to the camp. Suddenly I caught the sound of the generator that we used to power the camp, and walked, very carefully and slowly so as not to step on cactus, scorpions or rattlesnakes that lived in that area and crawled at night. At long last I found our command post and got one of my men to guide me back to the tent, where I quickly dressed and got my glasses. It was a long time before I trusted myself to sleep again in that lonely old desert, quite frightening to say the least, confusing to the max.
Idk he already has sooo many, certainly not enough but he will get more, channels that deal with general information. Maybe make a new channel called The Balze...I dig it
Bonus bonus fact: Although Simon claims that the scripts are written by Danny, and appears to be talking to him off camera, Danny is indeed just a figment of Simon's imagination; conjured deep within his subconscious to deal with the trauma of being in a room and talking to no one all day. Every day. Since the beginning of time.
@Walkin' Tall the vent in question being the single longest vent in the world, will be on an episode of megaprojects soon. Prague to the UK is allegedly long for a vent.
@@good_mourning i find it hard to believe that the Simon of YESTERDAY'S biographics, and TODAY'S blaze are one and the same... (keep your facial hair consistant if you're gonna try and sell a look)
About the class ditching, I happened to go to school with my sister, who was well known for ditching and being tardy. My school just sent a generic message of "your child was late or absent for one or more classes today". So I would ditch last class of the day and my mom would assume it was my sister being late for no reason again. Always have someone to throw under the bus.
When I was in college, I took a Western Civ. class that only met once a week. That "once" being at 8am on Wednesday and going until 11am. I am not a morning person and the drive to school was about 1 hour, so I basically fought to keep myself awake the entire time despite liking history. I'm usually an A/B student, but I had a VERY low C in that class simply because I kept dozing off. Fast-forward to the final and I find out while waiting for class to start that I had used the wrong study guide to... well, study. So I'm listening to the others and asking them for help and realize I know NOTHING that's going to be on this test. I am well and truly BONED. But we got some good news right before the test: our teacher's wife just had their first child! And usually, he gave out 1-10 dollar prizes during a pre-final quiz show to reward the students for listening and studying. But because of the baby, he didn't want to give out money this year and instead (despite how much he didn't want to) was going to hand out extra credit on the quiz. Just a few points though (equal to the dollar amount he'd usually give). And a lot of them I knew the answer to, but so did the others so I couldn't nab any of the extra points. The only things that could save my grade and they were going to the kids in the front row who the teacher could see the hands of the easiest. Last question comes around and the teacher's like, "Okay, I just want to say that I usually offer 100 dollars to anyone who can answer this. But in 8 years, no one's ever gotten it." So the other students pressure him that if he's so sure we'd never get it, to make the reward a perfect score on the test. After a few minutes, he caves and he shows us this picture. It looks like a badly made cage built out of broken popsicle sticks and he asks us what it is. Some people make guesses: birdcage, animal trap, sock dryer, etc. And the teacher says, "Three more guesses. I'll tell you it has to do with food." First guess is a beehive. Next guess is meat dehydrator. Last guess and no hands up are but something in my brain is like, "Well, last shot. It's gotta do with food in Europe sooo..." And I raised my hand. "A place to age cheese?" My teacher dropped his head. He did that a lot for me when I answered questions because while "normal Kristen" is fairly smart, "early morning Kristen" is an idiot and I basically only said stupid things in that class. I thought I had done that again until he announced to the class to congratulate me because I had just gotten a perfect score on my test. Ended that year with a B and I still think about that moment when I remember how stupidly lucky I am sometimes.
Just like we only use 10% of our turn signals, and 5% of that is from old people cruising down the road with the turn signal on while not making an actual turn. At least we facilitate 100% irony
The original study conclusion stated that we only use 10% of our brains at any one time. But you know Americans, nothing more boring than a complete and coherent sentence!
This is wild, dude. I always perceived Simon as an intellectual with a soft demeanor who made great mini-documentaries for UA-cam. Then I see this channel and Simon is vivacious and charismatic. I love it! Keep it up, Simon!
The only reason I know the phrase "bunking off" is IT Crowd. In North America we just say "skipping school" or class, but if we stop going altogether it's "dropping out."
When you were taking about people judging you’re intelligence based on how much lord of the rings you know, you COMPLETELY missed the opportunity to use his quote of “if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it’ll forever believe it is stupid”
I've watched enough SW at this point to know these things: 1. Cocaine is going to be involved in some way 2. Somebody goes to jail 3. Simon doesn't care what other people think
As a Civil Engineer who has run into too many architects who have forgotten that Water runs Downhill (and therefore into their building designs), "yes". That being said, Structural Engineers have to learn to use geometry to work out the forces to hold up an architectural design, though they tend to use programs that will do it for them. Civil Engineers have to work with Spiral Math, but usually spend time with programs that do it for them. Math.Is.Important.To.Our.Modern.Lifestyles.
@@grunchlk Bungalows aren't Imaginative enough for Architects I think. Also they tend to lead to a very low population density increasing the cost of Public Transport which generally requires high density to be really cheap. On top of that Civil Engineers design roads, earthworks and services not buildings.
There's a widely believed myth in Germany that 60 % (or more) of all literature on taxes in the world is written in german language. The implication is of course that taxes in Germany are more complicated than anywhere else. According to a study by an international consulting firm this is not actually true, but Germans do enjoy complaining.
The difference between the US and the rest of the world is that in the US, the IRS forces you to tell them all your tax information, which they already know, and you go to jail if you did it wrong. In other countries the tax authority doesn't bother with these games since they already know all the necessary information anyway.
I'm sure there's a conspiracy in the US to make taxes look like the most difficult and complex thing that exists, to get the people to dislike taxes more. I mean for example the practice of not listing taxes on price tags so you'll always get a surprise extra charge at checkout, and this forcing everyone to fill out endless pointless forms with information that the agency already has, for example.
Yes, I fear the true end result of AI will not be something sinister like Terminator or The Matrix, but more like Talkie the Toaster (Red Dwarf) a sentience left unfulfilled because everybody doesn't want to eat toast 24/7!
@frankos rooni At one time, fox hunting was not only legal, but considered a great sport among the wealthy and noble. Just because fox hunters are hated now doesn't mean they all were.
Well I mean if you want to go back further there's bear baiting, dog fights, cock fights, and basically all hunting. I guess less quintessentially British, though. Which is probably the point. /anyway
High School Class of 1990 : In the 80s, we used both "skipping" and "playing hooky" , but the later more in the context of for the entire school day. 3:27 Indeed you were far more likely to get in trouble by showing up five minutes late to "home room" at the beginning of the day than skipping any class; later they added five minutes to the first period and abolished "home room".
Regarding the education system: As a substitute teacher, I agree that a lot of what we teach now is kind of rubbish. We use an outdated Prussian model based on punishing students rather than rewarding them... however, what we teach does have a purpose: 1. Teach you how to learn, study & process information 2. Give you a well-rounded foundation of general knowledge to build on in the future (so you don’t become a flat earth nutjob) 3. Help you figure out your strengths and weaknesses. Fortunately the (rather posh) school system I work at has an emphasis on computer science and interactive learning. They have a 3D printer for goodness sakes!
Happy Birthday, Simon!!! He said he is 33 years old in this video, and has said he is 32 in recent videos, so I assume he had a birthday in the last few weeks.
The way I was taught to remember Soh Cah Toa was by remembering the saying "Some old hippie, caught another hippie, tripping on acid." Totally school appropriate 😂
That's weird, because I thought sohcahtoa _was_ the mnemonic device. Here are the puzzle pieces: Sine; Cosine; Tangent; Opposite; Adjacent; Hypotenuse. Enjoy!
“There’s no point in me working a second overtime shift on this pay cheque, I’ll just lose it to taxes”. Might be true in the short term - you make over the threshold on a single pay cheque and get bumped into a different tax bracket on that cheque. However, come the end of the year, your taxes are then assessed on your total income, and particularly if you were unemployed or under employed for part of the year, any extra tax you paid on those cheque’s where you got lots of hours, will be refunded to you. Try explaining this to some co-workers and you wonder how they passed the math requirements for the job.
The saying, relating to tax brackets, is "more is always more". A raised pay can't make you end up with less money in the end, even if you go over the limit into a different tax bracket.
A quote my teacher gave us before starting trigonometry: "There is only one job in the world that you need to know this for, and I have it." Despite the wording of that, he actually loved trigonometry and math in general.
I had a year 9 teacher who forgot a test and remembered it months after we past that section and he goes "well there's no point now as you've all probably forgotten it all" I didn't speak up but I thought, well if you know this complicated maths is just a waste of time and we will forget it after the section is done, what's the point? Why is maths even mandatory until year 11 when you're able to opt out? If I could go back in time I would have said that and said well this could be time I could be spending getting better at my art (most of the time I didn't even bother and just tagged in my school diary) i never even past maths since year 7 as it was just too complicated and I'm extremely bad with numbers, I even had one school report where the teacher said "I'm good at looking like I'm doing work but when I look over his shoulder he's just doing graffiti" I did plan on becoming a sign writer but ptsd got the better of me as well as other mental illness so I had to go on disability. I think it's amazing how much of a waste of time school is, like you'd think they would add stuff you need in life put in the curriculum, like learning to drive, or testing then focusing on your strengths, like I had a year 8 knowledge of history and geography in grade 5. they use to have trade schools here in Australia that only focused on trades like construction, woodwork metalwork n such, but they got rid of them, I've learned more just by UA-cam let alone the internet in general, but it was only after I started smoking weed that I got a thirst for knowledge and I had dropped out of school at the start of year 11 because it was too much work and I'm lazy, also dealing with a lot of mental issues plus having no friends at school except a few that just were using me and set me up to get robbed of 80 bucks worth of spray paint, couldn't go to the cops because I was committing a crime..
They stab it repeatedly inside its pen which it can't even move around in, making it angry but also weakening it, then they stab it with poisoned spears to wear it down more until it collapses from exhaustion.
I recall one news program keeping "score" one year ; I think it was the late 90s; giving the Bulls a point whenever a human was injured. That particular year, the Bulls ran out the score until the last day when the bulls were all killed.
When your kid comes home from school and asks you the classic question: When you were young, were the dinosaurs alive? I TELL THEM YES!!! Before you came,... dinosaurs walked down the street... it was crzy... We had to shoot them all in hunting parties on Telegraph Rd. They are all dead now.
PSA: Yall, there's a STDB t-shirt in the store that looks like a brewery logo and it's amazing. The tales of old say that if you wear it, you'll turn into an absolute LEGEND.
I actually do use trig in everyday life. Granted, that's because my field lies in the electrical grid, and trig (especially Pythagorean theorem) is the backbone of understanding and adjusting it. Does this look familiar? VA^2= W^2 + VARs^2 or, more commonly, c^2 = a^2 + b^2
I have never before felt the need to purchase a channel's merch, until today happened and I saw the new, beautiful merch modeled by ETA. But then my autocorrect sent me to perchthemerch.co, and I got Rick Rolled.
That space heater shouldn’t be working since it short circuited due to it cocaine overdose. You should call up Yoko ono to help fix it since she’s clearly a angel in human form.
"When was the last time you saw a cave??" Me, who works in a cave in an area with five other tourist caves and another cave in the back yard we just ignore: 👀💦
@@stuff4826 I would almost bet on the original commenter being German. I have also seen more racist comments on a Fucking Snapple lid jeez man take a chill pill
Skipping is skipping a class or day by just leaving, playing hookey is faking being sick to stay home. For me and my people at least. Ditching actually sounds old school to me interestingly. I graduated in 03 so it was late 90s that I learned my slang pretty much.
When I was in High School, I would ask my math teacher what practical uses each module had. I wasn't trying to be a smart ass, I just genuinely learn better when I have practical context. My year 1 teacher responded very positive to this and would give examples of the math being used in the real world. Then I had an absolute shit year 2 teacher who responded to my question by insulting me. I was an A student in math up until that 2nd year of High School. I just lost my motivation and became a C student in math.
@Skunk Ape You must have skipped over the part about the year two teacher being absolute shit, but we are all still very impressed by how you're very very very very very very smart. And handsome.
@Skunk Ape Ya, totally. A teacher who doesn't answer questions is totally going to be helpful for learning. The only people who did well in that class were people who go private tutors.
@Skunk Ape Oh boy, did you get some pretty little cords to wear when you graduated with honors from hog school? I retract anything I said that might have disagreed with you. LOOK OUT EVERYONE, HONORS GRAD OVER HERE. DID A COUPLE LANGUAGE COURSES EVEN, SO NO PARLE VOUS EL DEUTSCH IN HERR APE'S COUNTRY or git out. Yo I like the Boondock Saints 2 better than 1 how about you?
Space heater's first speaking role 😍 Won't be long til he's co-hosting 👀😂 Thank you Simon & Sam! watching his rise to fame is inspiration to us all 😂😁👌❤️
I never would have thought I'd ever have to say that to anyone, but... I tried watching the live action Flintstones movie with a girl once and a little bit into it she just angrily goes, "Nuh-Uh!! No.... No, that's not really what it was like, is it?", and I've never been the same since. Because it took way too much explaining to get her to not think it was supposed to be anything legitimate.
@@porknickel The perfect response would have been to explain that Jon Goodman is an immortal, and he wrote the story of the film based on his own experiences.
@@porknickel Without knowing you or the girl I'm gonna believe that she was comparing the movie to the cartoon and didn't approve of the discrepancies. I have to go with that. I just have to.
So on the taxes vs income thing- Here in the US, there are a lot of tiers for various benefits, to the point that many families wind up with a negative effective tax rate. However, I have gotten raises or changed to a job with higher pay that resulted in moving to the next tier. This, in the past, has actually caused a net negative effect on my overall income. It's never resulted in a smaller paycheck, but the loss of certain assistance programs has made for a smaller tax refund than expected.
There is also the matter of capital gains tax, which is taxed significantly lower than wages (if the asset has been held for over a year). If you earn ten million dollars as a salary, you’re taxed 35% for most of that, while a ten million dollar profit from selling stock (if purchased more than a year before the sale) is only taxed at 20%. Hence we have Warren Buffett paying a lower tax rate than his secretary.
At my first job I ended up making 8 an hour, and finally squeezed enough hours in to make 500 a check, but when I got my first raise by half a dollar, I got 600 a check but ended up making less than I did before due to being taxed differently
The welfare cliff keeps more people in poverty than anything else. It’s a terrible artificial incentive to not improve yourself and your lot in life. There used to be a great video explaining this, but that channel got nuked recently.
I actually did have a loss in my net income a couple years back when my pay was right at the border of 2 tax brackets. If i worked 1 hr of overtime and did 41 hrs instead of 40 i would take home $30 less on my paycheck with the overtime. So I stopped doing the overtime until i got my next raise and was in the higher bracket the whole time.
@@driv3r123456789 you guys you know thats not how income tax works right? you pay the same tax for each bracket. Make 100k? For the first 30k, you pay the same for everyone else making up to 30k. Then you pay the higher rate for the next 70k.
Losing it at ETA’s sass 😂 “Looking good ETA.” “I know. Watch this.” **cuphat** (Also, why is Simon’s heater Australian?) (And a fundamentalist Christian?) (Also, Simon hasn’t read the sticker telling you not to put clothes directly on the heater due to the risk of fire.)
I remember in 8th grade I would be a bit ahead of the classes especially math. But I was super against homework. Just couldn't get into it. Some teachers thought it would be a good idea to, as a punishment, seat me in the back of the room turned around. One day I decided to try to make a simple algorithm to estimate the amount of dots that were on the ceiling. Freaked out the other students because I was just staring up at the ceiling for a long time and they thought I had died. Funniest shit. Didn't make them less worried when they found out what I was actually doing. Also had a habit of using a rubber band to launch pencils into the ceiling. Probably made my count less accurate too.
2:17 Trig is used extensively in games development. Having already had an interest in making games at the time when they started teaching all that stuff I immediately saw the use and went on to apply it to 3 dimensional problems and by the end of class I had basically learned everything that I could from it... unfortunately I found out that that was going to be what we'd be covering for the next month or two and I was going to be very bored covering all the stuff I had already worked out would be possible. School really isn't a place for smart people, though it was a pretty good place for playing video games while waiting for everyone else to catch up ;)
1st day of geometry, teacher was explaining the groundwork upon which the entire year’s learning would be based. I raised my hand and asked “Does X ever NOT equal X?” Despite my genuinely innocent intent, he decided right then that I was a smartass troublemaker and placed me permanently on his shitlist. I feel you Danny. Solidarity, brother. (Edited: The glue WAS worth it though. Danny knows.)
I think the reason so many people feel like the math they are forced to learn is useless is because math courses never ask you to apply things creatively. As an engineering student, I often regretted how much math I had simply crammed for exams and then forgotten, because there is not a single thing I learned, from algebra to lin alg to calc to diff eqs, that I have not used. And it doesn't require an engineering degree to come up with creative ways to use math. It just takes an inquisitive mind.
In America we called skippin class "ditching". If you ditched while your parents were working, you could delete the message before you took off to make it look like you were on your way home from school.
Mmmmm but I kinda hope simon doesn't die in the inevitable blaze, if one will excuse the bad pun. I wonder the next vid will be shot on his phone in his kitchen ? lol
lady mopar For a prank, we could sneak into his office and redecorate with solo cups, pizza boxes and retired space heaters... VHS cassette cases... CD mobiles... 🤣
My brother-in-law, when he was a kid, mislaid his dad's hammer in a small copse of pine trees at the bottom of the garden. In his sleep that night he left his bed, went downstairs, unlocked the door and barefoot and only wearing his pyjamas walked across the muddy garden to the copse. He found the hammer, put it back in the shed and went back to bed. Mother-in-law found him still in soaking wet pyjamas in a very muddy bed the next morning and he had no memory of what had happened. The strange thing is he found that hammer in the middle of a rainy (no stars showing) night with no outside lights on and no street lights where they lived in a tiny hamlet.
Danny's haunted wine cellar story is just a desperate attempt to disassociate and convince himself he isn't just chained in a central European basement.
An excellent example of a fake fact! Einstein never said such nonsense. Look up some of the crazy stuff Tesla believed - nowhere near smartest man alive.
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"Teacher, am I ever going to use what we're learning today?"
"No, but the smart kids might."
"Teacher, am I ever going to use what we're learning today?"
"Maybe, maybe not, but it will help you with general problem solving and maybe even critical thinking"
I once used the formula for circumference to work out how much material I needed for a dress we were making. Also I ended up studying biochemistry so mitochondria are still pretty important to me!
Nah. I'm just a dumbass watchin' UA-cam.
Our teachers didn't even bother, they just said "Nah you're not gonna need it, it's completely pointless for the most part, but it looks good to have it"
Geek Freak Ah yes science...are you referring to the hard or soft sciences?
As an OG Blazer, I never wonder whats going on anymore with the Blaze, I just strap in for a wild ride with frequent trips to the weird land of Danny's backstory.
i think you have to strap ON for that...
@@cynicalminion either way, he's strapped in for the ride... Hahahaha
@@jr2904 And I'd still be less surprised by that than the next chapter of "Danny once..."
The OGs need an annual convention where zebra sex masks are compulsory
@@insideredgemma XD
Simon: I made this for business.
Me: Allegedly
simon claims to have a somewhat newborn child... how many new channels has he started since that child was born?
me thinks he is doing his best to avoid childcare... allegedly.
@@miou-miou-
Hope you don't get sued by Simon
Hey! I checked out purchthemerch.co website.
I want to wear your face across my chest, but I own 3 dogs and I'm a mechanic... so white isn't a smart choice of shirt for me. Any chance you can get some black hoodies with your face on them?
Allegedly.
@@lacyhannon8586 I dig that idea...I wanna put my face across some chests of the female persuasion.
Simon: "I know a lot stuff"
Also Simon: *puts clothing over an electric heater*
I'm so smart.
Also, is unaware of any famous English sportsmen even though there are a great number of them. David Beckham for eg.
@@cookeymonster83 is that the one that married Meghan markle?
@@moag2000 hes the rugby fella that does the conversions right ?
I realise the problem with that reading this comment
As a child I would often be told I had been sleep walking by my folks who found it a bit scary. I thought I had outgrown it, however while serving with the US Army back in the mid 1970's we were on a training mission out in the middle of the desert around Fort Bliss Texas. We had been in the field for nearly a week and I was running out of energy having failed to get any sleep for several nights since I was the NCO in charge of communications. So it was, I asked one of my friends if I could take a few hours in his tent, and climbed into a sleeping bag. I don't know how long I had been asleep, however when I awoke I regretted very much having taken off my boots and socks because I was out in the damn desert, all alone, my glasses were back in the tent and I can't see more then ten feet in front of me without them. Barefooted, and of course, our unit on light conservation, in total darkness of the desert night, I tried to find my way back to the camp. Suddenly I caught the sound of the generator that we used to power the camp, and walked, very carefully and slowly so as not to step on cactus, scorpions or rattlesnakes that lived in that area and crawled at night. At long last I found our command post and got one of my men to guide me back to the tent, where I quickly dressed and got my glasses. It was a long time before I trusted myself to sleep again in that lonely old desert, quite frightening to say the least, confusing to the max.
Good story!
I had to lie about my sleepwalking to get into the Navy
I'm totally ok with this channel just turning into "The Blaze" where you blaze anything and everything.
Unfortunately, the name "The Blaze" is already taken.
@@lmpeters the blazing blaze?
Yes, but just keep it as business Blaze to mess with the newbies lol
Idk he already has sooo many, certainly not enough but he will get more, channels that deal with general information. Maybe make a new channel called The Balze...I dig it
Except for rebranding the name would destroy his channel thank you UA-cam algorithm
Bonus bonus fact:
Although Simon claims that the scripts are written by Danny, and appears to be talking to him off camera, Danny is indeed just a figment of Simon's imagination; conjured deep within his subconscious to deal with the trauma of being in a room and talking to no one all day.
Every day.
Since the beginning of time.
Supposeably... lol
Pretty certain Sam is his keeper
Oh God, Danny is Simon's Tyler Durden!
Allegedly
@Walkin' Tall the vent in question being the single longest vent in the world, will be on an episode of megaprojects soon. Prague to the UK is allegedly long for a vent.
2017 Simon:
Fresh faced, bright eyes, a good wholesome boy.
2020 Simon:
Grizzled beard, abuses his employees, “Smash that dislike button!!”
Cocaine's one helluva drug.
I still find it hard to believe that Simon of 2017, and Simon of today, are one and the same 😂.
Legend. _Absolute_ LEGEND! 💋
Simon 2017is early Hitler. #illuminaticonfirmed #ITSAJOKE
@@good_mourning i find it hard to believe that the Simon of YESTERDAY'S biographics, and TODAY'S blaze are one and the same... (keep your facial hair consistant if you're gonna try and sell a look)
About the class ditching, I happened to go to school with my sister, who was well known for ditching and being tardy. My school just sent a generic message of "your child was late or absent for one or more classes today". So I would ditch last class of the day and my mom would assume it was my sister being late for no reason again.
Always have someone to throw under the bus.
When I was in college, I took a Western Civ. class that only met once a week. That "once" being at 8am on Wednesday and going until 11am. I am not a morning person and the drive to school was about 1 hour, so I basically fought to keep myself awake the entire time despite liking history. I'm usually an A/B student, but I had a VERY low C in that class simply because I kept dozing off.
Fast-forward to the final and I find out while waiting for class to start that I had used the wrong study guide to... well, study. So I'm listening to the others and asking them for help and realize I know NOTHING that's going to be on this test. I am well and truly BONED. But we got some good news right before the test: our teacher's wife just had their first child! And usually, he gave out 1-10 dollar prizes during a pre-final quiz show to reward the students for listening and studying. But because of the baby, he didn't want to give out money this year and instead (despite how much he didn't want to) was going to hand out extra credit on the quiz. Just a few points though (equal to the dollar amount he'd usually give). And a lot of them I knew the answer to, but so did the others so I couldn't nab any of the extra points. The only things that could save my grade and they were going to the kids in the front row who the teacher could see the hands of the easiest.
Last question comes around and the teacher's like, "Okay, I just want to say that I usually offer 100 dollars to anyone who can answer this. But in 8 years, no one's ever gotten it." So the other students pressure him that if he's so sure we'd never get it, to make the reward a perfect score on the test. After a few minutes, he caves and he shows us this picture. It looks like a badly made cage built out of broken popsicle sticks and he asks us what it is. Some people make guesses: birdcage, animal trap, sock dryer, etc. And the teacher says, "Three more guesses. I'll tell you it has to do with food." First guess is a beehive. Next guess is meat dehydrator. Last guess and no hands up are but something in my brain is like, "Well, last shot. It's gotta do with food in Europe sooo..." And I raised my hand. "A place to age cheese?"
My teacher dropped his head. He did that a lot for me when I answered questions because while "normal Kristen" is fairly smart, "early morning Kristen" is an idiot and I basically only said stupid things in that class. I thought I had done that again until he announced to the class to congratulate me because I had just gotten a perfect score on my test.
Ended that year with a B and I still think about that moment when I remember how stupidly lucky I am sometimes.
My favorite rebuttal of the "10% of our brain" idea is: "We're only using 33% of our traffic lights. Imagine if we could use 100%!"
Just like we only use 10% of our turn signals, and 5% of that is from old people cruising down the road with the turn signal on while not making an actual turn. At least we facilitate 100% irony
Imagine how much more work we could accomplish if we used 100% of our muscles all the time!
33 1/3 %
Practically speaking, all functional traffic lights are used 100%. It's called plugged to the system.
The original study conclusion stated that we only use 10% of our brains at any one time.
But you know Americans, nothing more boring than a complete and coherent sentence!
Let's be honest: Business Blaze has never been about business. Business Blaze is a show about memes that uses business as a framing device.
Well put.
Agreed. Let's say change Business to...Brainteaser Blaze?
sooo Brainteaser Blaze Blaze?
Mom, can we have Vsauce?
We have Vsauce at home.
...
Vsauce at home:
*points at Business Blaze channel*
This. *This is it.*
me: *screaming internally
Poundland Vsauce. I'm totally ok with it
*VSAUCE, SIMON HERE*
@@CocoForBird Simon should be honorary Vsauce4 20. Michael is much smarter in general tho
Cavemen: Goes to party, invents clubbing.
Badum tish 🤣🤣🤣
This is wild, dude. I always perceived Simon as an intellectual with a soft demeanor who made great mini-documentaries for UA-cam.
Then I see this channel and Simon is vivacious and charismatic. I love it! Keep it up, Simon!
Once a man in the Czech republic had a space heater. He was a legend. - random person wishing they hade a pause pod
LEGEND.
He is the man with the blaze
What are we Blazing on today, Simon?! Legend-ary!
Wait, ETA's a *dude*?😲
"Why did Einstein have such a slow start?"
"Well the answer is gonna be relative..." *weak drumsnare*
I've treated all his channels like a Netflix series lately. Binged like a quarantined squirrel.
I love all of Simon's 400 channels
wait i just got a notification about a new one
@@ladymopar2024 lmao
Try the podcasts he has, they’re great
I'm hate-binging
The only reason I know the phrase "bunking off" is IT Crowd. In North America we just say "skipping school" or class, but if we stop going altogether it's "dropping out."
We also say cutting school
We also say "playing hooky"
In Australia, at least where I’m from, we call it wagging. We would usually wag a lesson or two of maths!!
When you were taking about people judging you’re intelligence based on how much lord of the rings you know, you COMPLETELY missed the opportunity to use his quote of “if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it’ll forever believe it is stupid”
I've watched enough SW at this point to know these things:
1. Cocaine is going to be involved in some way
2. Somebody goes to jail
3. Simon doesn't care what other people think
He almost made it the whole way without cocaine. almost
...allegedly.
@@matthewvandevort9136 there is no possible way no cocaine was used
And Danny is BASED hahahah
How much cocaine do you think Simon does before one of these Blazes?
Can we get a Danny biography channel where it’s just Simon reading Danny life stories with Sam interrupting the flow with reaction memes?
I would watch that. The extra effort might kill Danny though, unless Simon increases his rations.
Simon: "I've never looked at a building and been like 'i need to know the hight of that right now.'"
Architecture Students: Am I a joke to you?
Simon: “Yes. You are.”
As a Civil Engineer who has run into too many architects who have forgotten that Water runs Downhill (and therefore into their building designs), "yes". That being said, Structural Engineers have to learn to use geometry to work out the forces to hold up an architectural design, though they tend to use programs that will do it for them. Civil Engineers have to work with Spiral Math, but usually spend time with programs that do it for them.
Math.Is.Important.To.Our.Modern.Lifestyles.
@@woolenthreads oh my god that is incredible
@@woolenthreads can't we just build Bungalows?
@@grunchlk Bungalows aren't Imaginative enough for Architects I think. Also they tend to lead to a very low population density increasing the cost of Public Transport which generally requires high density to be really cheap. On top of that Civil Engineers design roads, earthworks and services not buildings.
"We're in the viking era!"
"Oh, well that explains the laser raptor"
Kung Fury
Katana can help you.
"Taxes are not complex." The US tax system says "Hold my beer."
There's a widely believed myth in Germany that 60 % (or more) of all literature on taxes in the world is written in german language. The implication is of course that taxes in Germany are more complicated than anywhere else. According to a study by an international consulting firm this is not actually true, but Germans do enjoy complaining.
The difference between the US and the rest of the world is that in the US, the IRS forces you to tell them all your tax information, which they already know, and you go to jail if you did it wrong. In other countries the tax authority doesn't bother with these games since they already know all the necessary information anyway.
I'm sure there's a conspiracy in the US to make taxes look like the most difficult and complex thing that exists, to get the people to dislike taxes more. I mean for example the practice of not listing taxes on price tags so you'll always get a surprise extra charge at checkout, and this forcing everyone to fill out endless pointless forms with information that the agency already has, for example.
Heater: “What is my purpose?”
Simon: “You wear shirts”
Rick and Morty _is_ a funny show.
ETA: " *O H M Y G O D* "
It's a stupid bit. Too bad it doesn't even have the selling point if so dumb it's funny, and is just stupid.
am i the only one that read that in the appropriate voices?
Yes, I fear the true end result of AI will not be something sinister like Terminator or The Matrix, but more like Talkie the Toaster (Red Dwarf) a sentience left unfulfilled because everybody doesn't want to eat toast 24/7!
"we don't have a British equivalent to bull fighting"
You have fox hunting, Simon. Though I wouldn't expect a peasant like you to remember that. 🧐
My exact thoughts.
@frankos rooni At one time, fox hunting was not only legal, but considered a great sport among the wealthy and noble. Just because fox hunters are hated now doesn't mean they all were.
David ...it was banned aa long time ago.......and nobody held hunters up as heroes!
Also bear baiting
Well I mean if you want to go back further there's bear baiting, dog fights, cock fights, and basically all hunting. I guess less quintessentially British, though. Which is probably the point. /anyway
We in the US just "ditched" or "skipped" school or classes.
Also my grandparents called it "playing hooky"
That's what we did in Canada too. I forgot about the "playin' hooky"...it was my parents not me who did that anyway.
High School Class of 1990 : In the 80s, we used both "skipping" and "playing hooky" , but the later more in the context of for the entire school day.
3:27 Indeed you were far more likely to get in trouble by showing up five minutes late to "home room" at the beginning of the day than skipping any class; later they added five minutes to the first period and abolished "home room".
@@jonnunn4196 Lol class of 1987
I cut class.
Cant do that anymore, shitty computer roll calls mean once you dont go and your parents get a phone call
Regarding the education system:
As a substitute teacher, I agree that a lot of what we teach now is kind of rubbish. We use an outdated Prussian model based on punishing students rather than rewarding them... however, what we teach does have a purpose:
1. Teach you how to learn, study & process information
2. Give you a well-rounded foundation of general knowledge to build on in the future (so you don’t become a flat earth nutjob)
3. Help you figure out your strengths and weaknesses.
Fortunately the (rather posh) school system I work at has an emphasis on computer science and interactive learning. They have a 3D printer for goodness sakes!
Facts that are true:
Simon cannot actually whistle
I heard he is the best Whistler
The baldest anyway
Fact 2: His mother is also the subject in a very famous painting.
@@pazma1
...... What ?!?!
Business Blaze: idiot and genius all at once. With Simon on vocals, Danny on wood pulp and Sam as ETA
this needs more likes
Bruh can't wait till the dude in the Comments counts all the memes
wetyuip He is a noble public servant
@@pogthegrea he got free merchandise. He better does his job or he'll end up in the basement with Danny 😂
You mean Brian the accountant
This whole channel is a meme...
Happy Birthday, Simon!!!
He said he is 33 years old in this video, and has said he is 32 in recent videos, so I assume he had a birthday in the last few weeks.
My birthday was in May, but thanks :) !
@@brainblaze6526 was it the 11th
@@aliejoe5622 Lemme guess thats your birthday
@@sweeflyboy yeah
May 15th.
*raises hand*
"Simon, when are we going to use any of this in our daily lives?"
Paleo: Older or ancient. Lithic: relating to stone --> Paleolithic: Ancient Stone
Monolithic --> Single stone, e.g. an Egyptian or Roman obelisk
so can I refer to gravel as polylithic?
The way I was taught to remember Soh Cah Toa was by remembering the saying "Some old hippie, caught another hippie, tripping on acid." Totally school appropriate 😂
That's weird, because I thought sohcahtoa _was_ the mnemonic device. Here are the puzzle pieces: Sine; Cosine; Tangent; Opposite; Adjacent; Hypotenuse.
Enjoy!
I will now FINALLY remember both the mnemonic & the trig. Well, perhaps not the trig... :-)
Simon can we get a shirt that’s just one of Danny’s long winded hour long scripts?
like... sewn around you like a MUMMY?? or like, danny's vocal pattern on a "motion detector?"
or a shirt that has a script or few printed on it. If you'd actually read it, it'd make sense.
How can this channel be such a dumpster fire, yet I still learn a lot from it?
I guess that's Business Blaze!
“There’s no point in me working a second overtime shift on this pay cheque, I’ll just lose it to taxes”. Might be true in the short term - you make over the threshold on a single pay cheque and get bumped into a different tax bracket on that cheque. However, come the end of the year, your taxes are then assessed on your total income, and particularly if you were unemployed or under employed for part of the year, any extra tax you paid on those cheque’s where you got lots of hours, will be refunded to you.
Try explaining this to some co-workers and you wonder how they passed the math requirements for the job.
The saying, relating to tax brackets, is "more is always more". A raised pay can't make you end up with less money in the end, even if you go over the limit into a different tax bracket.
There are actually people who are able to use 100% of their brain at the same time.
Those people are called epileptics and need help when they do so.
There are also people who actually only use 10% of their brain.
Those people are called Trump Supporters and need loads of help too.
Simon's beard next big megaproject.
A quote my teacher gave us before starting trigonometry: "There is only one job in the world that you need to know this for, and I have it." Despite the wording of that, he actually loved trigonometry and math in general.
I have two trade tickets and use maths often daily. Like calculating the tip to leave a crappy waitress who likely failed math.
I had a year 9 teacher who forgot a test and remembered it months after we past that section and he goes "well there's no point now as you've all probably forgotten it all" I didn't speak up but I thought, well if you know this complicated maths is just a waste of time and we will forget it after the section is done, what's the point? Why is maths even mandatory until year 11 when you're able to opt out?
If I could go back in time I would have said that and said well this could be time I could be spending getting better at my art (most of the time I didn't even bother and just tagged in my school diary) i never even past maths since year 7 as it was just too complicated and I'm extremely bad with numbers, I even had one school report where the teacher said "I'm good at looking like I'm doing work but when I look over his shoulder he's just doing graffiti" I did plan on becoming a sign writer but ptsd got the better of me as well as other mental illness so I had to go on disability.
I think it's amazing how much of a waste of time school is, like you'd think they would add stuff you need in life put in the curriculum, like learning to drive, or testing then focusing on your strengths, like I had a year 8 knowledge of history and geography in grade 5.
they use to have trade schools here in Australia that only focused on trades like construction, woodwork metalwork n such, but they got rid of them, I've learned more just by UA-cam let alone the internet in general, but it was only after I started smoking weed that I got a thirst for knowledge and I had dropped out of school at the start of year 11 because it was too much work and I'm lazy, also dealing with a lot of mental issues plus having no friends at school except a few that just were using me and set me up to get robbed of 80 bucks worth of spray paint, couldn't go to the cops because I was committing a crime..
Bullfighting is not “fair game” if it was, the bull would win 50% of the time.
They stab it repeatedly inside its pen which it can't even move around in, making it angry but also weakening it, then they stab it with poisoned spears to wear it down more until it collapses from exhaustion.
I recall one news program keeping "score" one year ; I think it was the late 90s; giving the Bulls a point whenever a human was injured. That particular year, the Bulls ran out the score until the last day when the bulls were all killed.
Jon Nunn
What does “the bulls ran out the score” mean?
The only comfort I have with this horrible one sided “sport” is that occasionally the bull actually gets to gore his killer, and kill him.
Fair doesn't always mean equal.
If we could clone Simon enough times to staff all our schools with only Simons I believe our education problems would be forever solved.
When your kid comes home from school and asks you the classic question: When you were young, were the dinosaurs alive? I TELL THEM YES!!! Before you came,... dinosaurs walked down the street... it was crzy... We had to shoot them all in hunting parties on Telegraph Rd. They are all dead now.
Tell them, "yeah, they were everywhere, but they never did their homework and ended up dying from drug addiction "
Never have I ever been so emotionally attached to a space heater... I'm smashing that dislike button..
Simon: Danny, where's my new script? What have you been doing?
Danny: *hurriedly closes TIFO tabs and pulls up pants* Uhh, I've been doing research.
Allegedly
PSA: Yall, there's a STDB t-shirt in the store that looks like a brewery logo and it's amazing. The tales of old say that if you wear it, you'll turn into an absolute LEGEND.
"Allegedly..." 'said as I sip from a red solo cup.'
DragonSword THREE WOLF CUP!
I actually do use trig in everyday life. Granted, that's because my field lies in the electrical grid, and trig (especially Pythagorean theorem) is the backbone of understanding and adjusting it.
Does this look familiar?
VA^2= W^2 + VARs^2
or, more commonly,
c^2 = a^2 + b^2
I'm a map maker, so I also have to do trig (all be it with extremely helpful benefit of computer calculations)
Fabrication Engineer and yeah use trig every day
4:40 - Chapter 1 - Cavemen lived in caves
8:25 - Chapter 2 - 10% of our brain
11:30 - Chapter 3 - Great wall of china from space
13:50 - Chapter 4 - Sleepwalker
16:10 - Chapter 5 - Einstein failed maths
20:05 - Chapter 6 - Bulls hate red
22:20 - Chapter 7 - More income, more taxes
26:30 - Bonus 1 - Goldfish memory
26:45 - Bonus 2 - Human & dinosaurs have coexisted
I love how Simon yells "spoiler alert!" after saying the spoiler.
I have never before felt the need to purchase a channel's merch, until today happened and I saw the new, beautiful merch modeled by ETA.
But then my autocorrect sent me to perchthemerch.co, and I got Rick Rolled.
Legendary. Rickrolled by autocorrect 😂
Absolutely perfect
ETA won’t give you up, either.
That space heater shouldn’t be working since it short circuited due to it cocaine overdose. You should call up Yoko ono to help fix it since she’s clearly a angel in human form.
I got a rain hemmhorage from this hahaha
martin sheen's cuter. no (oh, who am i kidding?) offense to yoko...
6:11 There's always a cave in every Star Trek episode whenever the plot requires one.
"When was the last time you saw a cave??"
Me, who works in a cave in an area with five other tourist caves and another cave in the back yard we just ignore: 👀💦
I wish I had such a good relationship with my space heater...
I am curious if Simon would be a good German...*abuses his heater*.....question answered
Isn't it more German to add questionable fuel to their heaters? The fuel that looks pretty emaciated.
Joonha Shcal Nein Nein Nein !!!
@@louisbrokatzky520 nah, youre not a racist pos at all...
@@stuff4826 I would almost bet on the original commenter being German. I have also seen more racist comments on a Fucking Snapple lid jeez man take a chill pill
skizzik121 You are right
our parents called it "playing hookey"; we called it "skipping" or "ditching" 😅
80's Bristol it was "Knocking off" 😂
Same. We also called it sluffing or sloughing (not quite sure how to spell the word.)
Skipping is skipping a class or day by just leaving, playing hookey is faking being sick to stay home. For me and my people at least. Ditching actually sounds old school to me interestingly. I graduated in 03 so it was late 90s that I learned my slang pretty much.
Same! (In Canada)
@@no_nameyouknow cutting class or ditching class was not going to school for me.
Me: "Will I ever use this in the real world?" Teacher: "Well probably not you, but the smarter kids will"
@Chris Mine yeah well it's an old joke....
Student: “When are we ever going to use this?” Teacher: “You won’t.”
Simon’s heater seems to be more intuitive and interactive than his Siri.
When I was in High School, I would ask my math teacher what practical uses each module had. I wasn't trying to be a smart ass, I just genuinely learn better when I have practical context. My year 1 teacher responded very positive to this and would give examples of the math being used in the real world. Then I had an absolute shit year 2 teacher who responded to my question by insulting me. I was an A student in math up until that 2nd year of High School. I just lost my motivation and became a C student in math.
@Skunk Ape You must have skipped over the part about the year two teacher being absolute shit, but we are all still very impressed by how you're very very very very very very smart. And handsome.
@Skunk Ape
Ya, totally. A teacher who doesn't answer questions is totally going to be helpful for learning. The only people who did well in that class were people who go private tutors.
Self motivation goes a long way in life. Don't let garbage teachers define you.
@Skunk Ape begone edgelord
@Skunk Ape Oh boy, did you get some pretty little cords to wear when you graduated with honors from hog school? I retract anything I said that might have disagreed with you. LOOK OUT EVERYONE, HONORS GRAD OVER HERE. DID A COUPLE LANGUAGE COURSES EVEN, SO NO PARLE VOUS EL DEUTSCH IN HERR APE'S COUNTRY or git out. Yo I like the Boondock Saints 2 better than 1 how about you?
Space heater's first speaking role 😍
Won't be long til he's co-hosting 👀😂
Thank you Simon & Sam! watching his rise to fame is inspiration to us all 😂😁👌❤️
Yeah, eat sh*t, Danny.
"I'm a 33 year old man"
OH MY GAWD, I'M OLDER THAN SIMON!
And yet you have a transformer as a profile picture.
@@SamS-uv2ql Nope
I thought he was older, late 30s maybe.
I am 1:17 into this video and already cracking up. Simon is demented!
In the US some of us call skipping school, playing hooky
Presumably, from context, the others call it skipping. Skipping at least makes sense; Where did, "bunking off" come from? "Uncertain origins." Cool.
Yeah, "playing hooky". At least as weird as "bunking off". For once the Brits don't have us beat in weird slang.
Mainly we skipped, sometimes we hookied, occasionally we ditched. In all cases, usually trigonometry ;-)
I just tell them, "The Flintstones wasn't a documentary."
"but the Jetsons IS a prophecy"
I never would have thought I'd ever have to say that to anyone, but... I tried watching the live action Flintstones movie with a girl once and a little bit into it she just angrily goes, "Nuh-Uh!! No.... No, that's not really what it was like, is it?", and I've never been the same since. Because it took way too much explaining to get her to not think it was supposed to be anything legitimate.
@@porknickel The perfect response would have been to explain that Jon Goodman is an immortal, and he wrote the story of the film based on his own experiences.
@@arkworthy8594 Yes, we'll definitely have flying cars in the far distant future year of 2002.
@@porknickel Without knowing you or the girl I'm gonna believe that she was comparing the movie to the cartoon and didn't approve of the discrepancies. I have to go with that. I just have to.
So on the taxes vs income thing-
Here in the US, there are a lot of tiers for various benefits, to the point that many families wind up with a negative effective tax rate. However, I have gotten raises or changed to a job with higher pay that resulted in moving to the next tier. This, in the past, has actually caused a net negative effect on my overall income. It's never resulted in a smaller paycheck, but the loss of certain assistance programs has made for a smaller tax refund than expected.
There is also the matter of capital gains tax, which is taxed significantly lower than wages (if the asset has been held for over a year). If you earn ten million dollars as a salary, you’re taxed 35% for most of that, while a ten million dollar profit from selling stock (if purchased more than a year before the sale) is only taxed at 20%. Hence we have Warren Buffett paying a lower tax rate than his secretary.
At my first job I ended up making 8 an hour, and finally squeezed enough hours in to make 500 a check, but when I got my first raise by half a dollar, I got 600 a check but ended up making less than I did before due to being taxed differently
The welfare cliff keeps more people in poverty than anything else. It’s a terrible artificial incentive to not improve yourself and your lot in life. There used to be a great video explaining this, but that channel got nuked recently.
I actually did have a loss in my net income a couple years back when my pay was right at the border of 2 tax brackets. If i worked 1 hr of overtime and did 41 hrs instead of 40 i would take home $30 less on my paycheck with the overtime. So I stopped doing the overtime until i got my next raise and was in the higher bracket the whole time.
@@driv3r123456789 you guys you know thats not how income tax works right? you pay the same tax for each bracket. Make 100k? For the first 30k, you pay the same for everyone else making up to 30k. Then you pay the higher rate for the next 70k.
The memes on this video are on point! 1st “The Room” and 2nd “Dark”. Well done!
Sam the meme legend delivers!
Business Blaze
Sam is a legend
Losing it at ETA’s sass 😂
“Looking good ETA.”
“I know. Watch this.”
**cuphat**
(Also, why is Simon’s heater Australian?)
(And a fundamentalist Christian?)
(Also, Simon hasn’t read the sticker telling you not to put clothes directly on the heater due to the risk of fire.)
I really love finding all the random solo cups all over the set. It's like I get to listen to Simon rant while playing Eye Spy at the same time.
Business Blaze: *Uses the clip from The Room*
Me: My life is complete. I can die happy now.
Danny didn't credit Sam he must be salty about his last escape atempt
Things Simon has never said to Danny: "I'm sorry I put you in the basement"
Duude
You are awesome
I literally love this comment
In Australia skipping school or class is called “wagging”
I remember in 8th grade I would be a bit ahead of the classes especially math. But I was super against homework. Just couldn't get into it. Some teachers thought it would be a good idea to, as a punishment, seat me in the back of the room turned around. One day I decided to try to make a simple algorithm to estimate the amount of dots that were on the ceiling. Freaked out the other students because I was just staring up at the ceiling for a long time and they thought I had died. Funniest shit. Didn't make them less worried when they found out what I was actually doing. Also had a habit of using a rubber band to launch pencils into the ceiling. Probably made my count less accurate too.
The cast of this show is expanding at the rate of Simon's sadistic tendencies.
At least poor ETA is allowed to come up from the basement.
He can't be trusted to be alone.
I got arrested for truancy and was sent to a Boy’s Home as well,Danny! I turned out...er... I turned out...
2:17 Trig is used extensively in games development. Having already had an interest in making games at the time when they started teaching all that stuff I immediately saw the use and went on to apply it to 3 dimensional problems and by the end of class I had basically learned everything that I could from it... unfortunately I found out that that was going to be what we'd be covering for the next month or two and I was going to be very bored covering all the stuff I had already worked out would be possible. School really isn't a place for smart people, though it was a pretty good place for playing video games while waiting for everyone else to catch up ;)
1st day of geometry, teacher was explaining the groundwork upon which the entire year’s learning would be based. I raised my hand and asked “Does X ever NOT equal X?” Despite my genuinely innocent intent, he decided right then that I was a smartass troublemaker and placed me permanently on his shitlist.
I feel you Danny. Solidarity, brother. (Edited: The glue WAS worth it though. Danny knows.)
Loving the new ‘dislike’ t-shirts. But where’s Danny’s
‘Please help escape from the basement’?
Love how the heater is now a cast character. I blame Danny.
Most things /are/ Danny's fault, to be fair
"Welcome to Trigonometry 101, where Inquiring minds are shut down."
I think the reason so many people feel like the math they are forced to learn is useless is because math courses never ask you to apply things creatively. As an engineering student, I often regretted how much math I had simply crammed for exams and then forgotten, because there is not a single thing I learned, from algebra to lin alg to calc to diff eqs, that I have not used. And it doesn't require an engineering degree to come up with creative ways to use math. It just takes an inquisitive mind.
In America we called skippin class "ditching". If you ditched while your parents were working, you could delete the message before you took off to make it look like you were on your way home from school.
The title should be: “Facts that everybody knows are false, but thinks everyone else believes are true”
True this.
1:11 as of 603 views this video has exactly 4 dislikes, well played, Simon.
I’m very disappointed that with a title like this that Danny didn’t just start listing completely non-controversial facts
Did you smash the dislike button?
@@Lufefe i did
"In the first place, God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards." - Mark Twain
"Will I ever use this?"
"You won't, but some of the smart kids will"
Ultimately they won't either.
Just pretending that you learn universal knowledge in math class.
Time to Blaze!! Space Heater is looking pretty snappy in his murch!
Mmmmm but I kinda hope simon doesn't die in the inevitable blaze, if one will excuse the bad pun. I wonder the next vid will be shot on his phone in his kitchen ? lol
@@mordokch I was thinking the same thing, and looking at Solo Cup on the lamp in the background
lady mopar For a prank, we could sneak into his office and redecorate with solo cups, pizza boxes and retired space heaters... VHS cassette cases... CD mobiles... 🤣
@@ArmchairDeity well I've always wanted to go to Czech Republic this would be ideal I'm in :-)
lady mopar me too... my family is from an up-country village 12 miles from the Polish border!
If I were a math teacher and a student asked “will I ever use this in real life,” I’d answer “you won’t, but one of the smart kids might.”
Good way to make sure the kid doesn't learn it.
Yeah, if a teacher said that to be, I'd just be like "cool, I'm gonna totally mentally check out of this then"
"And I won't have any friends."
Wait, Simon, you had friends in the first place?
No.
Good point. I have nothing to loose.
@@brainblaze6526 we are your friends now?
Trigonometry is super useful for what I do. I'm a Metrologist. Study of measurement. I measure things.
My brother-in-law, when he was a kid, mislaid his dad's hammer in a small copse of pine trees at the bottom of the garden. In his sleep that night he left his bed, went downstairs, unlocked the door and barefoot and only wearing his pyjamas walked across the muddy garden to the copse. He found the hammer, put it back in the shed and went back to bed. Mother-in-law found him still in soaking wet pyjamas in a very muddy bed the next morning and he had no memory of what had happened. The strange thing is he found that hammer in the middle of a rainy (no stars showing) night with no outside lights on and no street lights where they lived in a tiny hamlet.
Danny's haunted wine cellar story is just a desperate attempt to disassociate and convince himself he isn't just chained in a central European basement.
Hostel 4 starring Danny.
FINALLY got the shirt we've been begging for.
Edit: Professor Elemental?! How can I like a video twice?
Dislike it, then like it
I have a cave in my back yard. Seriously, an actual cave. It's also the last place I would take shelter...it's full of snakes!
They beat you to it.
If you discover fire, you'll have a chance of driving away most of the snakes.
Einstein was once asked "how does it 3to be the smartest man in the world?" His response was "I don't know ask Nikola Tesla".
An excellent example of a fake fact! Einstein never said such nonsense. Look up some of the crazy stuff Tesla believed - nowhere near smartest man alive.
Me: wants to purch the merch
Simon: *rickroll time*