Youtube Recommendations

[Norgy]

I've always liked the Scottish accent and how they're almost Norway vs Sweden in their loathing of their bigger neighbour.

This is gold.

[Josquius]

 
I miss proper football.

He's been plenty on the History Hit main channel previously - has he left them or is it a spin off?

no clue. I suspect it popped up in my recs as he did an episode with David Mitchell ranking kings.

[crazy canuck]

He's been plenty on the History Hit main channel previously - has he left them or is it a spin off?

He is the history hit founder

[HVC]

Finally a laudable use for AI

[Norgy]

My eyes. Fuck you, HVC.

[HVC]

My eyes. Fuck you, HVC.

I enjoyed it

[Norgy]

I promise you one tiny wedgie if I am ever in Canada. Fair?

[The Brain]

A nice short description of Göran Kropp's Everest expedition. I remember seeing on the local TV news when he set out.

[Threviel]

Once listened to him talking about it, he travelled around as a motivational speaker. The dude was very special.I liked that he had two pairs of underwear, he figured that he could turn them inside out and use them 4 times and thus he saved some 200 grams of weight.

[Josquius]

Once listened to him talking about it, he travelled around as a motivational speaker. The dude was very special.I liked that he had two pairs of underwear, he figured that he could turn them inside out and use them 4 times and thus he saved some 200 grams of weight.

If you really must, a worthy plan for a week of wear under normal circumstances....
But when you're as active as he is.... 

[Threviel]

I imagine that they're all disgusting and filthy all the time, the climbers.

One exercise routine, that I've been thinking of now and then, that he had in preparation was to set the alarm clock randomly. If it rang at 3 he ran 3 km with three tires behind, if at 7 then 7 km with 7 tires which sounds absurd now that I write it out.

Of course, I listened to him in '97 or '98, so my memory might play some tricks with me.

[The Brain]

If you want to see a Swedish church move, slowly, then you're in luck.

[Syt]

Ralph Raths of the German Panzermuseum commenting on the trailer for Der Tiger, addressing some of the online criticisms and providing some additional background.

Youtubes auto-generated English closed captions are serviceable, with a few blunders (understands Das Boot as Das Brot and translating it to bread, or hearing Vollbart as Vollbad - tbf, they sound the same in casual conversation - and translating full bath instead of full beard), but good enough to understand his points.

[Syt]

Going down a random rabbit hole I came across this 1986 song from Spitting Image:

 

[Intro: P. W. Botha]
My fellow South Africans, I feel it is time for me to tell you the facts as they really are
1. Bananas are marsupials
2. Cars run on gravy
3. Salmon live in trees and eat pencils
4. Reform in South Africa is on the way

[Verse 1]
I've travelled this old world of ours from Barnsley to Peru
I've had sunstroke in the arctic and a swim in Timbuktu
I've seen unicorns in Burma and a yeti in Nepal
And I've danced with ten-foot pygmies in a Montezuma hall
I've met the king of China and the working Yorkshire miner
But I've never met a nice South African

[Chorus]
No, he's never met a nice South African
And that's not bloody surprising, man
'Cause we're a bunch of arrogant bastards
Who hate black people

[Verse 2]
I once got served in Woolies aften less than four week's wait
I had lunch with Rowan Atkinson when he paid and wasn't late
I know a public swimming bath where they don't piss in the pool
I know a guy who got a job straight after leaving school
I've met a normal merman, and a fairly modest German
But I've never met a nice South African

[Chorus]
No, he's never met a nice South African
And that's not bloody surprising, man
'Cause we're a bunch of talentless murderers
Who smell like baboons

[Verse 3]
I've had a close encounter of the 22nd kind
That's when an alien spaceship (pop) disappears up your behind
I've got directory enquiries after less than forty rings
I've even heard a decent song by Paul McCartney's Wings
I've seen a flying pig in a quite convincing wig
But I've never met a nice South African

[Chorus]
No, he's never met a nice South African
And that's not bloody surprising, man
'Cause we're a bunch of ignorant loudmouths
With no sense of humour

[Verse 4]
I've met the Loch Ness monster and he looks like Fred Astaire
At the BBC in London he's the chief commissionaire
I know a place in Glasgow which is rife with daffodillies
I met a man in Kathmandu who claimed to have two willies
I've had a nice pot noodle, but I've never had a poodle
And I've never met a nice South African

I'm not going to share it with our South African colleagues.

[Admiral Yi]

Animals jumping on trampolines.